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The Hypocrisy of Religious Privilege in Public Institutions
The SFU Human Rights Office recently sent out an email message dedicated to the accommodation of religious "holy days". The contents are based on British Columbia's Human Rights Act, which, much like the Charter of Rights, embeds religious accommodation in the legislative and social framework.
Crackerphilia
While it seems everything is being monopolized these days with Microsoft, Apple, MPAA, RIAA, and your local ISPs, etc…the bigotry industry remains a largely competitive market. Apparently some Christians are not content with a Muslim monopoly on bigotry, and a certain sect decided to have their own ridiculously insignificant subject of disproportionate whining, except this time it's a cracker instead of line drawings.
What happened? Some guy decided to smuggle a cracker from the ceremony, and now he's getting death threats. From Fox (Full Article):
Toonophobia
Came across an interesting cartoon while doing research for a paper:
Some additional information at the source
http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000783.html.
IEC Candidacy? what??
Earlier today I was linked to The Peak's report on IEC appointments, in which I was briefly mentioned:
Shen gave a less compelling presentation. “Seeing as one day I want to be a lawyer and a judge, I am very capable of being impartial,” said Shen. The Board decided not to ratify him.
I wasn't planning on discussing the precursors to my application (and I don't like talking about myself), but this seems like an invitation to do so.
SFUNET-SECURE
SFUNET-SECURE is a recently deployed network that supports 802.11a/b/g protocols as well as full WPA2/AES encryption. It also requires an 802.1x EAP/TTLS client for authentication rather than a web portal. While an initial setup process is required, users are encouraged to use SFUNET-SECURE where possible.
Actually it's not all that recent, since SFU Surrey's setup instructions are already out of date. This is the revised instructions for Windows.
Windows Vista Setup
- Download and install the latest SecureW2 EAP Suite. This is needed to authenticate to the network.