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it would be a major violation of Federal laws, including The Constitution

And since when has that been a problem?

With specific reference to ammendments IV, V and VI.

Quick, I need to tell the world, I read about a terrorist bombing being plotted by a religious zealot and his sidekick.

They plan to bomb a friendly nations news network:
http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.html?id=ad7 cfaad-fac8-4734-9f5a-c68019ac98bc

How do we stop this insane religious fundamentalism?!

We over here in good old Europe knew that climate change was "manmade" for about some decades. really, in the begining of the 90ties I heard the disscusion about climate change on TV.
Wow! The climate never changes on its own? Quite impotent nature is.

Funny, this is posted as some "breaking news" here, because in Europe it is a "consensus".

That still doesn't make you correct.

Oh, and it is really tragic, that in the US of A, which is with 25% by far the worlds biggest "producer" of CO2, the climate change is seen as a myth.

The worlds biggest "producer" of CO2? I suppose there are no natural CO2 emitters in the world. Here's just a few to ponder:

http://www.canada.com/national/features/fires/stor y.html?id=e91e44d4-2462-49f2-b03a-6c211cd1c50a

http://www.cfl.scf.rncan.gc.ca/ecosys/disturb/fire _e.asphttp://www.cfl.scf.rncan.gc.ca/ecosys/distur b/fire_e.asp>

http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/20 02/cocarbon.html

BTW, the climate is constantly changing and probably always will.

Thanks for killing the planet, enjoy your SUV - as long as it is still possible. Thanks for killing the planet, enjoy your SUV - as long as it is still possible.

Ahh, yes. Just some more of the obligatory US bashing. Somehow, I really doubt that you are any friend of the US or the Americas especially since you can't seem to separate the two. Hint: the USA is part of North America. Canada is also a part of North America. Then you have all the central and South American countries who probably don't like getting lumped in with the USA. All of us (note the lower case letters) are Americans.

Sorry for posting as an AC, but I've already modded on this story.

From another article:

[Steven Page] said he believes if someone purchases a CD or a download, then they should have the right to copy the music to cassette for their car, to CD for their home stereo, or to their iPod.

"I think largely the paranoia about people sharing music is a construct of the music business trying to find a way for itself to stay relevant."

BNL didn't always feel that way. In 2000, the band sent out fake songs over the Internet to thwart downloaders. Instead of getting BNL music, people who illegally obtained the songs discovered pitches from the band to purchase their latest recording.

However, that last paragraph isn't exactly accurate. What you could download was the whole song, but into it was spliced (and not mixed, so it was easily undone) several of the band members encouraging people to go out and buy the album. One segment was an outgoing answering machine message...

And in 2003 they put instrumental versions of most of the songs on their then-current album on the P2P networks. Not that encouraging karaoke is that great a thing to do, though...

but closed minds.

That this is turning off music buyers is a growing story. It also points to their envisioned future.

If they want to be selling music they need to get their act together. Both Sony and EMI's stupid DRM fail to work with the leading portable music player, the IPod. Get it yet? Even if this shit had "worked" and not actually hosed the user's system, it would still be a "broken" CD because it does not do what customers want it to - transfer to a portable music player.

I suppose they can grunt and say, "What's the problem? Jus go use deh Itunes or WMP." Well, well, well where does that leave brick and mortar retailers? Out of luck, that's where. Nothing new there. Given their policy of RIAA only or no RIAA at all and other crappy anti-competitive practices of old, they have always hated retailers because they have an inherent loyalty to the actual music fan.

Oh yeah, they hate their artists too and I would not buy stock in any of them. That means they hate everyone.

On the other hand, wireless costs are significantly higher in Canada than the US. Things vary by country, it seems. What a concept!

Seems from the news that Smurf Village has been bombed and will feature in a UNICEF ad in Belgium next week.

it was probably done by president gargamel...

And American communist mentality with softwood lumber, wheat, "Mad-Cow" [1] and others, well, then the Americans are right?

There is a subsidy for milk in Canada, yes. There is also one for milk in the US! Furthermore, Canada did not allow canadian cows to be given the growth hormones that US cows are fed which ends up in the milk. This also causes the price per liter to be higher on our side of the border.

[1] - Mad Cow problems are quite ammusing considering that the Canadian and American cows eat the same shit for quite a while now. The US system is virtually the same as Canadian and that was done years ago to allow more shipment of cows to the meat packers in the states because Canada doesn't have enough of them. But the US ranchers wanted more demend for their beef and I guess they got it. Too bad that now Canada is building more sloughterhouses which means two things,

    1. less jobs in US, more in Canada on the meat processing
    2. Canada becomes a competitor to the US for beef exports.

In the long term, the US loses for hurting the Canadian beef industry. And it was hurt because we relied on the US meat packer plants!

US subsitizes their farmers hell of a lot more than Canada => US has much more communist farming practices. If you want proof, search Google for numbers and you'll find out Canada doesn't have the money to pay equal susities like the commie US and Western Europe.

In fact, I think it was 3 days ago - as the Vikings were crushed by a group called The Bengals.

Or just bring in the rat catchers who haven't done much work in 10 years from India ...

Link

According to this story a guy had a one-terabyte hard drive loaded with child pornography. If he'd had a smaller drive, he could have backed it up and scrubbed it before sending it for repair, ha!

Asking for British, Canadian, and Mexican forces to lend a hand is a good idea as well.

Canada is ready to help, and the offer has been officially made. The Prime Minister was on the phone with Bush, and offered "whatever you need".
Now we're waiting to be asked to help out.
And we're trying to help minimise the side effects on the rest of us, as well.

"Research In Motion Ltd.'s stock shot up 6% yesterday on speculation the BlackBerry maker will announce a licensing deal with Intel Corp. today that will allow the computer chip giant to use technology found in RIM's popular e-mail device.

Intel has apparently agreed to use RIM's battery-saving technology in a new generation of chips based on a nascent wireless tech standard called WiMax and RIM may also start using Intel chips in the BlackBerry, published reports indicated."

Personally, I don't see this causing any huge problems. Several places don't observe DST at all and there are no significant economic impacts.

The biggest problem will be in devices that were designed for use in North America that have DST hard coded into them (in cases where DST is used at all). The only options are to either have DST in the device go off at the wrong time, or else not have the DST feature enabled at all, and have to manually reset it twice a year. I predict that this will cause _FAR_ more problems than any alleged economic gains that they expect to get from this change.

http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/ story.html?id=8c884bfe-1dd6-40f5-92eb-e99f4d891aa3

It is interesting to see this post, as tomorrow is the one year anniversary of a local political scandal involving the Google usenet archive, a popular Canadian political blogger, and a young hopeful running for office in the Province of Alberta's legislature. Essentially, the blogger, a certain National Post collumnist Colby Cosh, posted a link to anti-semetic comments that a New Democratic Party candidate, Malcolm Azania, made in a newsgroup 10 years previously. In the end, Azania came in third in his riding.

Not only that, but because the microelectronics could eventually be made out of molecules, some computer parts could be biodegradable since molecules can be broken down into small bits.
http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/new s/story.html?id=2fe32839-9b70-4908-967b-5c6610e2ff 2a

In fact, come to think of it, you stopped at comment #666. What could it all mean??

It means nothing, the number is now 616

As opposed to the well paid bias of any other nation-state and it's corporate favorites? Please.

The point I was making is that it's a technical comittee - politics shouldn't be involved in order for the best decisions to be made. The ideal outcome would be a level playing field where the company/person with the best tech would win out - not those who have skewed the decisions to benefit thier cronies.

The American Left has failed miserably.

So has the Canadian Left - I'm north of the border - but again, that has nothing to do with the best technology.

People on comittees like this should be selected for thier ability to turn off thier emotions and work out the best solution to the problem at hand. How it's implemented is up to the market.

Soko

Also, given the latest sponsorship scandal (biggest scandal in Canadian politics in the last 10, maybe 20 years) the opposition parties will be looking for publically popular positions to use to 'gang up' on the ruling party.

And the Heritage Minister is tied into that fiasco -- her chief of staff, John Welch, was named in the Brault testimony, and has temporarily stepped down.

I don't think she, or anyone in the Liberal party, is going to have the time of day for anything other than trying to save their thieving, corrupt necks from electoral oblivion for the next six months or so. Copyright reform could very likely get shoved onto a back burner.

Now, the law we're getting is far less lopsided than the one the Heritage Committee proposed. Unfortunately, private copying, the CD media levy and how it works with the anticircumvention measures is not being addressed. Curiously enough, despite this big push to get this adopted, they seemingly "forgot" about the CPCC and the levy.

Oh, and did you know that the CPCC squandered nearly $4 million dollars in 2003 of levy money, making their overhead for that year is nearly 15%. Or how about the fact, they've only distributed half of the money they've collected between 2003 and 1999. Hell, they didn't even bother to start paying the money out until 2003.

I love it when Slashbots just start spouting off stuff about which thy have absolutely no clue. Where to begin....

Then terrorists started coming in through Canada because it was so easy.

Actually according to the head of Interpol, you're full of it and then some. Oh and who's this commie, UN-loving, left wing tree-hugger Nobel guy anyway? Turns out he was "a former law professor at New York University and one-time chief law enforcement officer for the U.S. Treasury Department". He must not have a clue, EH? Of course, another post already mentioned that the 9/11 terrorists had US Immigration visas, but pay no attention to that.

How reliable do you think it is for someone at the border to have to check each and every ID to make sure it matches one of the 50 valid formats that we have?

Actually, quite. If you've ever worked as a Customs/Immigration officer (which I have), you would know that border guards have access to a handly little book that gives minute details and colour pictures of every federal, provincial, territorial, and state-issued ID from North America. So it really isn't that hard to spot a fake card in practice (just ask any 18-year old Michiganian trying to come and drink in Canada with a fake ID).

Oh, I really liked this one too:

Get a passport so we'll know you have a right to come back without further hassle

Can't speak about the US here, but in Commie Canada, all citizens have the right to enter the country as they wish(see paragraph 6.1). Let me repeat - it is ILLEGAL for a Canadian citizen to be detained while entering Canada, unless there is an outstanding warrant for their arrest or they are contravening the Customs Act in some manner.

Your comments leave me to believe you were flamebaiting, but I in case you weren't, I had to take a swing at it.

duh ... dot COM are american, .CA are Canadian,

actually, '.us' is for the United States and '.com' indicates nothing about geography.

http://www.canada.com

Here's another source.

I'm composing a letter to my MP right now. Unfortunately I doubt it'll make any difference :/

...robotics now. Here's a recent example.

If only that were true.

If only that weren't the case, I'd be able to buy my weed at 7-11 by now, instead of helping support the underground market. It's fucking rediculous that marijuana legalization continues to be debated while my only option is to purchase from people like this.

There have been ones headlines about Muslims, Germans, and such. CanWest Global often likes to bring such people to attention and the opposition Conservatives in parliament will of course then blame our immigration department. Sorry that I cannot provide any links at the moment as news story tends to fall off of the net and most of these chases I hear about from television.

Pray tell, oh enlightened one, about trade barriers.

Very well, lets talk about Iraq, and the oil embargo, and how the US ignores barriers whenever it feels like it. Or how America (and other countries, America isn't alone in this) backs such barriers only when it benefits corporations, not consumers or laborers.

You forgot the softwood lumber tariffs, which both the WTO and NAFTA have ruled are illegal. And the US is considering raising the duty!

If you run the FCC and you get a cartoon to censor itself spontaneously, on FOX of all places, that's how you know you've dealt some serious spankage.

Costco is nowhere near going out of business, and in fact, is beating the pants off Sam's Club, Wal-Mart's warehouse club chain. Costco had a pretty decent holiday season, too.

Here's an article from the Vancouver Sun with some additional details.

I'm not sure how the fines compare.

For crosswords, I usually stop at this site or buy a crossword book. TVlistings? Browseable, searchable for my area at canada.com - that even works better than a newspaper because you can search days in advance. (And it's free!) Editorials? Hah. Editorials = blogs, in my opinion. And the advertisements/classifieds have their (superior) web equivalents as well.

No, I honestly think that the newspaper is outdated. When I can afford a wireless handheld PC and WiMax or some other wide-area standard gets going, that means I will have all of this in expanded edition at my fingertips, without the hassle of papers, papercuts, and recycling.:-)

Having previously read the /. items about EA workers' experiences I get a very sour feeling reading this boosteristic Vancouver Sun item titled:

On Top Of The Export Game

that touts EA's contribution to the economy of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, where its corporate headquarters are located.

Sorry I am not logged in right now, but I forget my password and wanted to pass this along before I lost the link. Also in Canada here, Manitoba specifically, and as per a court ruling at the end of last week, companies can be sued for overtime wages. In other words, the Manitoba Labour Board is actually ENFORCING the laws if an individual comes to them with a legitimate grievance. Here is a link to the news story: http://www.canada.com/winnipeg/story.html?id=8d28b c2d-9765-4177-953b-c67d99499aba

To summarize: A woman worked for a company here in Manitoba (Nygard International) and worked tons of overtime work to make her deadlines. Her contract stated that she would be on salary and receive a fixed paycheque, however the Manitoba Labour Board stated that a statement such as that cannot be upheld in Manitoba with the labour laws, and that Nygard was responsible for compensation, to the tune of $10,000 - $11,000 Canadian.

Bear in mind, though, that this was not all overtime pay. Some of this was for wages lost, since Nygard decided, when she left, to not pay her last paycheck, keep her holiday pay, etc (this is from an interview I saw on television with her and her attorney on Global TV last evening). Looks like the employees are finally getting some recognition at least!

Now what I want to discuss, is how come there aren't any IT-centric unions? IT folk tend to work long hours and we don't necessarily get paid for it either, as my former boss said, "it's expected that you put in 60-80 hours a week and get paid for 40".

You don't nescessarily need a union for that. Check what your local labo(u)r laws can do for you.

In Vancouver, we drink the tap water for the free Prozac

Like a tank of gasoline isn't anymore explosive than hydrogen?

Tell me about it. Just the other day, we had a major explosion at a propane plant just outside of Toronto. Scary stuff.

That's what fucking scares and alienates me in my own country. Tolerance in U.S.? Fuck no. From Canadian news One-fourth of Ohio voters identified themselves as born-again Christians and they backed Bush by a 3-to-1 margin....Bush was favoured among ...evangelical Christians who view him as a messenger from God in a titanic fight to quell terrorism and spread liberty around the world...

Why is it that America and the fucked Middle East are the fundamentalists and problem-causers, while the rest of the world has gotten over it? The middle ages are over, fellow Americans. Figure it out. (ps. my viewpoint: I'm 2nd-generation Turkish American, committed atheist: after seeing what fundamentalists (muslim and christian) are doing to both of my otherwise lovely countries.

Yes, the Canadians love their government-run healthcare so much that the private sector medcial centers are growing. I don't even like Rush Limbaugh so I'll use the actual Canadian news sources.

Canadians want 2-tier health: poll

British Columbia is looking to expand its use of private medical clinics

Private medical clinic opens in Montreal

Pettigrew open to discussing role of private MRI clinics

Even the Canadian medical pot users complain that "He doesn't need government-grown schwag that costs $150 Canadian per 30 grams"

I suppose you are going to aruge that Rush Limbaugh controls the Canadian media because they disagree with you? Do you own research, folks! Blindingly following Socialists is as danagerous than blindingly following the Republicans or Democrats.

Here's a version of the article with no registration required.

1. Rocket took off.
2. Rocket reached 300 meters (approx 1,000 ft) altitude.
3. Rocket EXPLODED.
4. Because of explosion, the parachute did not deploy (don't know why the article mentions this point, since you'd sort of figure that was the case since the rocket exploded! [see step 3])
5. Rocket fell to earth as smoldering rubble 60 meters (approx 200 ft) from the launch pad.

$20,000. Damn cheap. You're lucky to get a car for that much these days...I'd buy me a rocket instead any day! Although the running costs could be a bit high....

Your main point (and correction to the article is correct though - the rocket crashed during landing because the parachute malfunctioned. Lots of people will assume it exploded from the tone of the slashdot article. Which is not true - everything else seems to have been reasonably successful. The images (which I really wanted to see) seem slashdotted pretty badly. Here's a link to a small one in another story.

When I saw this gizmo originally on Tom's Hardware Defcon 12 review (posted on a /. article), I thought in deed it was clever but more so intriguing b/c it was slapped on to a rifle handle. I can just imagine bingo-ladies calling 911 when they see a bunch of lads driving around pointing this thing aimlessly out the window trying to snag a signal, if their team name "Bluedriving crew".

No doubt a solid way to get in trouble is to make something look like a weapon and walk around public with it, or to point one of them laser pointers at Bill Clinton at a next book signing (offtopic note: notice the stiff no-ass-grab-hug in that picture he has to do now).:P

It's NOT a given that Spaceship One will walk away with the X-prize. A lot of folks seem to think it is, but, those same folks thought shuttle flights were routine, uneventful, and safe. Flying into space is HARD. SS1 has a good chance at it, but this craft will be ready to give it a shot.

It would certainly go with the spririt of the X-Prize to see this true 'backyard' effort pull it out of the blue, and beat SS1 to the X-Prize finish line. Nothing against Rutan and his team, but, X-Prize was meant to spark the real backyard innovation. Da Vinci project is just that. I think it would be great to see them scoop the prize out from under the noses of the foks that spent 20 million to achieve the same goal.

You ain't seen nothin' yet!

CRTC orders that Al-Jazeera may broadcast in Canada, as long as they self-censor for abusive comments ("Hi Mom! Your pants are down!").

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

I have never heard of a person who has hacked a record labels servers and distributed rough tracks of an upcoming album

not a "hack" but the upcoming CD of U2 has dissapeared...

It is always a good day when you get paid to surf the internet.

Google search on "Soviet Video Games".... Hey, does this guy post on slashdot?