It’s time to call a spade a spade. The Real Estate Council of BC talks about the responsibility of real estate agents here. Scanning down the page there is a section dedicated to ‘fiduciary duty’. This term sound big but it’s pretty simple. Lawyers have it, too. They have to look out for the best interests of their clients and…
Category: Freedom and Privacy
Apple: Always the Ubuntu Wannabe
Today after reading an article about how the fruit company plans to introduce continuity as an innovation, I just chuckled to myself. Again, the fruit folks are sitting there watching all the innovation going on in Ubuntu and scrambling to try to take the ideas, recode them on their own locked down proprietary systems, and implement them for profit. As…
Google forced by Europe to remove search results?
All I can say is ‘beware’ if this European ruling against Google gains traction. All of the pain mentioned in this BBC article will become real including, but not limited to: censored information like China abuse of power by those with money to fight in court (ie. a company with a lot of money could have the whistle blowing work…
Scammy Moves by Financial Institutions
For now I’m going to spare my ‘financial institution’ the bad press they deserve. I’m going to remove their name from this and I’m going to give them about six months to one year to see how they treat me as a prime borrower. If they goof up any major (or minor) thing I’m going to come back to this…
Un-social Media your Blog Comments, Man.
You may notice in my post that you are reading now, that you can post your comments below. It doesn’t matter who you are, you can try. I don’t actually expect anyone to post (this isn’t the 90’s anymore), and I still have the choice of approving it or not, but I don’t restrict you. There is nothing more frustrating…
Are Payday Loan Businesses Evil?
I have been looking into the payday loan business. It intrigues me both as an entrepreneur but even more so on the ethics side. There is a serious stigma associated with payday loan businesses that they are evil and help to ruin lives. This is a broadcast about our local city Burnaby showing the same thing: that we must unite…
What to Say and What Not to Say
Over the last few years it has been interesting to learn just how little we all know about law, and more specifically, freedom of speech. 2013 and 2014, if I could summarize, would be for me ‘The Legal Years’. My circumstances forced me to get out of the boat, shun my fear of law and lawyers and start to learn…
Kakao Talk Privacy Problems
I was always too busy to try to research why something about Kakao Talk bothered me. The first time I put it on my mobile device I was mesmerized by the way it, without any involvement of my own, loaded a contact list of people I knew who were using it, or not. I was mesmerized until I thought about…
How to Formally and Politey Kill Your LinkedIn Account
Concerned about your privacy and security? Looked up ‘privacy violations LinkedIn’ in a search engine and not feeling so good? Maybe it’s time to delete your account, but you want to make sure that at least your contacts can reach you elsewhere. Here is a step by step about how to say bye-bye in the most courteous way. Compose your…
Ubuntu Touch Poised to Enter Market with New Smart Phone Partner
It is not often that one can be slightly ahead of a major change or curve. I like to document these moments in a blog post. Bit Coin was my last one. People thought I was crazy to accept Bit Coin at my coffee shop and just a few months (not years) afterwards people were coming back and asking, “how…