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we could have something similar for laptops. it was a mistake, IMHO, to associate the term RFID with this, though. as far as privacy is concerned, i think this idea will leak out less information about where i have been using this mobile device than the cellular phone i'm carrying. my cellphone broadcasts my location everywhere i go via a "Location Update".

* lon3st4r *

Actually it is happening here. The Chinese have flooded Western countries with industrial spies, informants, and worse. They use the hordes of legitimate Chinese immigrants and visitors as a smoke screen. They do more than steal secrets, they also intimidate groups/people they consider subversives who might otherwise get the idea they are out of reach. Paranoid fantasies? Even the incredibly pussified Canadian Government is getting concerned:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20060414/china_espionage_060414/20060414/

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20060420/china_espionage_060420/20060420/

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/15 /spies050615.html

Actually it is happening here. The Chinese have flooded Western countries with industrial spies, informants, and worse. They use the hordes of legitimate Chinese immigrants and visitors as a smoke screen. They do more than steal secrets, they also intimidate groups/people they consider subversives who might otherwise get the idea they are out of reach. Paranoid fantasies? Even the incredibly pussified Canadian Government is getting concerned:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20060414/china_espionage_060414/20060414/

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20060420/china_espionage_060420/20060420/

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/06/15 /spies050615.html

Tamiflu won't work. The H5N1 virus can mutate into a form unaffected by Tamiflu. In Vietnam four out of eight avian flu patients who were given the medication died despite the treatment.

(CTV NEWS) http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20051221/tamiflu_drug_051221/20051221

Many top experts are advising to prepare for the worst. The US gov. is urging people to store food that could last for three months. In the UK mass graves are being planed openly. Forget Tamiflu:

(BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4869224.stm

Alex Joel recalls being unable to tell the good guys from the bad as both armed soldiers and civilians alike would order his family out of their car to search it.

This is an ironic statement since he could he be talking about either Guatemala or Iraq.
Article with search pictures

Lots of games now are going the route of criminal activity, not just this game or the GTA series. Look at Need for Speed Underground or Need For Speed Most Wanted, it's all about illegal street racing which can be just as bad

Oh, and coincidentally, they found a copy of Need for Speed next to the driver in one of the 2 cars that was racing:

Police investigating the accident found a copy of the video game Need for Speed in one of the cars. The game involves street racing, drag racing and pursuit racing, where players attempt to evade police.

Investigators found a copy of the video game Need For Speed in one of the cars. The game involves street racing, drag racing and pursuit racing, where players attempt to evade police.

The discovery prompted police to point out the difference between the digital world, and reality.

"A game is a game," Toronto Police's Det. Paul Lobsinger told CTV Toronto. "And when you get behind the wheel of a car it's not a game anymore. And when something tragic happens in a huge crash with a lot of smoke, there is no reset button. You can't start over with a new car and a new life."

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20060125/street_race_060125/20060125/

Its pretty silly to blame a video game; if they had a copy of Spyro the Dragon or Grand Theft Auto and the news hit the media this hard I'm sure they would have blamed those games as well..

Similar with the ballot box. It's hard to change the number of ballots in a given ballot box. So what? What's important is that this box full of paper was filled by voters, and not the one I've got hidden in the back of my black Cadillac with the heavily tinted windows.

Compare and Contrast (go down a few paras).

If you've read the links, you know what ended up happening. Even if you haven't, I'm sure you can guess.

So you'll pardon me if I'm a little skeptical of the worth of gun-control legislation, although my opinion that Canada has a spectacularly incompetent criminal justice system no doubt colours my views.

Suffice to say that just like the "Democrats" aren't the US's party about Democracy and the "Republicans" aren't all about a Republic the Canadian "Liberal" party isn't necessarily a species of the overly-broad term "Liberal". Indeed the term "Liberal" doesn't even match up terribly well between the two countries, and not with Canada being invariably the more 'liberal' of the two meanings.

My advice is if you're truly interested in getting a non-US view of the US & the world then consider spending a week or so watching the news from any Canadian (or other) network. CBC is quite good, it's peer CTV is also. After a week or two of viewing you'll start to become aware of the subtly different assumptions made, notice the implicit values are different, the sub-texts & code words don't match up to your US ones. It's also tremendously edifying to compare & contrast the same stories from both sides of the border, what leads the news and what doesn't, what points are expounded upon, etc.

Or perhaps you havn't been paying attention?

A quote:

Dr. Andrew Johnson, an infectious diseases specialist, said he left Canada six years ago to pursue his career in the U.S.

"At the time it was really just the opportunity to perform research," he told CTV News.

Now with two children of his own, Johnson has returned to live in Calgary.

"Canada is a great place to raise children and has a good education system," he said. "We don't have quite the same problems like violence and hand guns."

Not that it'd matter much to you "Hate Canada First" types.

The reason that they are cheap here is because otherwise the 20 year patent protections which Canadian government granted to them under the condition of price controls would be removed. Followed by Canada's generic drug makers becoming the suppliers of drugs to 90% of USA. But you knew that, didn't you?

Funny. Doctors weren't scare in Canada until there was universal health care coverage and their fees were fixed by the government. We know not of this "scarce resources" problem, at least when applied to doctors, in the U.S. If you'd stop taxing your "scarce resources" away, perhaps they'd not be so scarce.

Let me explain to you how this works: some doctors (and many other professionals) are supremely greedy sons of bitches. Luckily for them, there is one place on Earth that is insane enough to allow them to control access to medical care for all of its citizens. In that place, called the USA, they can make fortunes completely out of proportion with their services to society. The result of such a thing is that many US citizens have no medical care, most only partial and the doctors get supremely rich. Not to mention other middle-men such as the insurance companies. That is chiefly because medical care is not an element of a free market and not even of capitalism per se. Patients do not qualify as Adam Smith's "educated consumers" as in many cases they arrive in the hospital unconscious and thus unable to "shop" for medical services. Not to mention the lack of knowledge required to even do such "shopping". So, consequently, by being direct neighbours to complete insanity, it is only natural that some unscrupulous medical professionals would leave to hope to get rich quick in such an environment. Luckily, most are sane and understand their role in society. And they dont leave. Many older doctors are actually coming back, having tasted the way things work in the US. That is the long answer to your "scarcity" of doctors. The short answer is: you are an idiot. Do not let reality interfere with your engaging in the oldest pursuit of man: trying to morally justify your own selfish greed.

It's funny how scarcity is a self-fulfilling prophesy of socialist societies.

Only temporarily, when they are neighbours to insane houses of cards built on pure greed. If they can make it to the next "depression" there is smooth sailing afterwards, at least for a few decades, until the memories wane and the greedmongers overtake the discourse again amidst the affluence. Rinse, repeat.

America: Dont like it? we'll dump white phosphorus on your ass, and the asses of your children.

World: UM wasnt the point of going in to iraq to eradicate sadams chemical weapons?

America: White phosphorus isnt a chemical weapon. Its a chemical, that is also a weapon. See the difference?

*Nuke goes off in some part of the states*

World: /smile

The BMI is depreceated and is basically useless in determining health risks from obesity.

If you want to know if you're fat, put a measuring tape around your waist. If it's a big number, you're probably fat.

(Which most people agree on these days, which is why the waist-to-hip ratio is becoming the preferred method of determining health risks from obesity.)

Officials were forced to shut down the southern city of Lyon's subway system after a firebomb exploded in a station late Tuesday. No one was hurt.

The Nice-Matin newspaper's office in Grasse in the southeast Alpes-Maritimes region was set ablaze.

Youths threw gasoline bombs at police who responded with tear gas in the southern city of Toulouse, where Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was visiting, according to a television report.

Vandals set 11 cars ablaze and rammed a burning car into a primary school in the southern city of Toulouse, damaging its entrance, police said. Another school was set on fire in the eastern city of Belfort.

In one of the most dramatic incidents, police were fired on by rioters. Ten officers were wounded in the confrontation, two of them seriously, when police clashed with about 200 youths who were hurling stones and other projectiles in Grigny, south of Paris.

I didn't say you said that I said he said that.. your making the same mistake of thinking it's your machines and privacy they want.

Up here spammers and other people who want to download things they don't want to be busted for have taken up wardriving. It's a common problem.

Canada's CTV News has made their complete daily broadcast available on the web for well over a year.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20051011/wiretapping_051011/20051011?hub=TopStor ies

It will be interesting to see how it all plays out in the public debate forum over "our nation's safety and security," or privacy.

When the northern ice caps melt then the cold water starts to cool the ocean, and there would be fewer hurricanes. That is what the environmentalists told us all during the 80's and 90's. How come we have had the terrible hurricanes this year and last... Why is it happening if the ice caps are melting? How about explaining Antarctica's glaciers getting larger? http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1806

They also said we created the hole in the ozone; however in 2004 the hole in the ozone was recorded as getting smaller by up to 20%. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/20041002/Antarctic_ozone041001?s_name=&no_ads=

Take a few hours and read about how much crap volcanoes spew into the environment (e.g. sulfur dioxide). Do some Google searches on how many erupt each year... compare that with our fossil burning. The environmentalists have always been pretty disappointed with the results. Don't forget to include the ocean volcanoes when you do it.

Still think we are causing global warning? Remember the Ice Age? Scientists are starting to dispute whether or not an asteroid caused it. Where were we with our wicked cars then? We all know that Solar activity had been written off as crap until recently when the numbers were just to obvious... the environmentalists account for it now by saying that ONLY 10-30% of the warning is being caused by the sun.

I just wish you guys would preface all your "we are killing the earth" talk with, hey we really don't know, but we THINK "we are killing the earth". I certainly will ay I don't know for sure, but the evidence isn't cut and dry in your favor. The media is, but not the facts. Just some food for though. I know I'm going to get slammed for this post, the same way I do when I defend MS, but hey what can ya do?

A better example is a factual one. The case of Robert Kearns, and the intermittent windshield wiper. They give some details here, in his death notification: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1109378985145_41?hub=SciTech

He filed the patent for his idea, and all of the automakers failed to pay him for it, then started to install it on their cars. He won against Ford and Chrysler, then strangely had the case dismissed against GM, and all the foreign auto-makers, with none of them being forced to stop using his IP.

Since when does America control the Internet?

"Manitoba is the "Slurpee Capital" of the world for the fifth year in a row (2003)!"

Make that six. :)

Not gonna happen.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1126539690860_121948890

The christofundies can play hide-and-go-f***-themselves too. No special treatment.

You really need to keep up with the times, troll.

You wouldn't happen to be refering to the CIBC/Genuity lawsuit? To recap, The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is suing Genuity capital, a new company started by former bank employees. CIBC says the employees used their BlackBerrys to improperly recruit their colleagues while still working at the bank.

Read more here. Here or Here.

Investment bankers; here's a link.

For what it's worth, I think the relocated "town" after the 1993 flood you are referring to was Valmeyer, Illinois. As I recall the population of that town was under 1,000... That would mean it's a little smaller than the BIG easy (I'm guessing about a half a million people). However, as I recall, FEMA refused to give money to people to rebuild at the old site, so they decided to move...

I guess it seems a bit severe to relocate an entire CITY, but you never know. It's not the cheapest thing to do, but it might be the most reasonable thing to do, but call it whatever you want, there's always gonna be a market for a bunch of people living at the mouth of the mighty mississippi...

Yeah, venice has got that flooding thing licked... not... I doubt any type of construction project in the gulf would stop a storm surge. About the only thing that people think would stop a storm surge is a huge tidal marsh area. The tidal marsh area that could have helped buffer the area is receding probably because all the levies that have been built to prevent flooding and the dredging. Hard to imagine a technological solution to this problem...

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.

There was a case of a guy downloading child pron in Toronto by driving around at night and finding open WiFi networks (You know the ones.... Their SSID's are Linksys and Default). Apparently when he was caught, he was naked from the waist down looking at explicit images. (Ooh. Bad image)

I point this out as I used to work for a VAR that sold WiFi products to businesses who would just order the products and throw them up onto their network rather than pay us to come in and properly install and secure the environment (which was usually Windows based). When this happened and I pointed it out to them that this could be them (or something worse might happen, such as the cops knocking on your door because they traced the downloads to their net connection), they changed their tune in a hurry and let us secure the networks.

Places like Best Buy should hand this article out to their customers. That would reduce the problem in a hurry.

Yes.

Have a look at this

Actually, The Netherlands has been attacked, in the form of targeted murders such as the infamous Theo Van Gogh murder: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1121169704676_117/?hub=TopStories

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1118693467517_114102667

This one is about a kid that got convicted of plotting to blow up his high school.

I don't have all the details of the evidence presented in court, nor do I know exactly what was said in court. but a bomb experts stated that the materials found could have been used to make bombs, but also for more innocent uses such as model rockets.

Guess what? He and his father launch model rockets all the time!! How could this NOT have created a reasonable doubt within the jury???

The answer is simple: People can be made to believe any lie, either because they want to believe it's true, or because they are AFRAID it's true - Terry Goodkind

How far must this paranoia go? How much will be lost before people realize that are very essence as humans are being destroyed from within? Our individuality is what makes us human? Why is conformity sought after so much? Why compliance? Do they want us to be BORG or something?

http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/sto ry/CTVNews/1119107850615_136?hub=topstories

Looks like Terri Schiavo couldn't have recovered from her injuries; in fact she couldn't even see.

I guess Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist was wrong with his truly professional diagnosis from a bit of video that he saw that she could see visual stimulus. An honest mistake no doubt.

I'm sure, like the Republican memo said, the case wasn't just treated as a "great political issue" but Mr. Frist and Mr. DeLay and all those involved truly cared.

Hello Mr. Siksay,

I am writing you to discuss a great threat to freedom and culture in
our country today. There is legislation being put before the house next
week, see(
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1118271756635_30/?hub=CTVNewsAt11 )
. legislation that if passed, would curtail the rights and freedoms we have
to disseminate culture in a not for profit way. What I am talking about is
File Sharing. File sharing promotes the free exchange of art - in its many
forms - and thus serves to enhance our culture. Art is not meant to be
locked up in a vault with only a privileged few being able to view it. Art
is made to contribute to the social fabric that weaves to and fro and which
binds our country together.

I _urge_ you to vote against this legislation - and any such
legislation to come down the pipe in the future. To not do so would be
furthering the erosion of our collective culture that copyright was put in
place to prevent! The media cartels have twisted the true meaning of
copyright into a creators rights issue. This was not the original intention
of copyright. This is not about protecting the creators rights, this is
about societal betterment. It was meant to encourage social development.

I fear that this poorly written email does not do the cause justice
so I have included several links to people who are more wordy than I. In
closing, I would like you to consider what it would be like to have
masterpieces, say all of Monet's flowers, or Beethoven's moonlight sonata,
owned by a corporation whom you would have to pay for the right to enjoy.
That my friend is where this legislation is meant to take us.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ - Ottawa law professors comments
http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200011/0671319744___ 1.htm - A short story
that is on topic

Regards,
--Name Ommited--

If any religious group decides to control a news source don't you think that they might be doing it to get yet another outlet for self-promotion?

I hate to bite, but was "retarded islamic" really called for?

Also, religious group, as opposed to corporate media? CNN, ABC,CTV, or Fox? Are these not in the business of self promotion?

>Canada is fairly decent about pot.

ELL OH ELL

Fortunatly, these days we don't suffer from crazy religious groups getting political power and subverting scien... well, ok, we DO, but at least we don't get burned alive as part of it no more... that's a kind of progress.

All sorts of religious nuts refuse immunizations. There are the islam-o-nuts in Nigeria, the Dutch Reformed, and many, many more.

VOIP should still have a lot of room to move on prices, even though you can currently get VOIP for $10/month with 500 minutes from Comwave.net.
To compare apple to apples, Shaw's $55 service is Vonage's $40 or Comwave's $30.
So we already have healthy competition.
Unless you set the minimum to something less than $10, how will this new regulation benefit Canadians if you force companies to raise that price?

Pigs get slaughter, whores get...
Telus is a legal monopoly owning all Yellow pages advertising and if not for competition to the east it would own all Canadian telecom.

"The phone companies told the CRTC last fall during VoIP hearings that more competition and less regulation would be good for consumers and the industry"
Your going to tell me that telephone companies want competition? Come on off it!
The only option to Telus is a reconnect service costing $80/month.
That's more like the competition they are seeking.
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There needs to be regulation all right:
[warning you are entering a rant area]

Time to slaughter the pigs and make some room for the little guy, but before this can happen the Canadian political landscape needs a major facelift. Heck we still do everything in the name of "The Crown - Queen of England".
You have to go no further than Adrian Clarkson, (the Queen's rep.) who has a law that she can't be audited for all that wasted money.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1076676942066_12/
How ridiculous is that? Lets see something like that fly south of the border.

Trouble with this proposal is that it stinks of skulduggery.
Politics, thanks to the Sponsorship Scandal and many other boondoggles are not trustworthy here in Canada.
Big companies will continue to marionette our government with their sneaky sleazeball tactics.
Meanwhile the Media, owned by the later, will continue to spoon feed the passive, apathetic public with tidings of good joy.
Oh and lets not forget that this bureaucracy comes at a price!
Time to raise taxes from 50% to 60? How many more ways can we tax a dollar?

Until our government becomes an entity of sincere interest for the benefits of its people, with a system of promoting true leaders into the voting arena, will I believe that there is any good to come of said regulation.

I thought I was safe from most of this stuff up here:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1115386370756_110795570/?hub=TopStories

Ont. rubella outbreak described as 'God's will'

The outbreak started at the town's Rehoboth Christian School. Many students there belong to a religious denomination that doesn't endorse or objects to vaccinations.

"The results of a rubella outbreak in southwestern Ontario are "God's will," a community leader said Friday, while health officials stressed the need for vaccinations.

There are now 90 cases of rubella, also known as German measles, in the town of Norwich in southwestern Ontario.

One of the cases involves a pregnant woman.

The outbreak started at the town's Rehoboth Christian School. Many students there belong to a religious denomination that doesn't endorse or objects to vaccinations. "

"Route Force (Vernon) runs North/South and does not intersect with either the airport or the Green Zone."

Problem with this is twofold: first, the US report states specifically that Route Vernon leads to an intersection with Route Irish essentially at the on-ramp to the Airport. Second, how to explain why Sgrena said they entered the Green Zone to get to the road - this is very clear in Klein's interview. If Sgrena is entirely wrong about this, then I might accept it, but there seems to be no reason to believe this. It also does not explain why the fact that they were on Route Vernon is almost completely ignored in the US report except to explain how they got to Route Irish - which is heavily emphasized in the report as being dangerous (as we know it is).

Vis-a-vis the car, as I indicated, I can't find the report I read. A Google search has found this FindLaw page which reports from the Associated Press the following:

Analysis of the gunfire damage to the vehicle is expected to provide crucial information about how close the soldiers were to the car and from what angle they fired. Photos of the car shown on Italian TV show its side windows shattered and bullet holes on the side of the vehicle.

Ah, I found it - this is the report I read:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1110405927318_105815127/?hub=World

Photos aired by RAI, state TV's main evening news program, showed the light grey Toyota Corolla that Calipari and Sgrena were riding in, which is still in Iraq in the hands of the U.S. military.

The body of the car appeared to have little or no damage on its left side and front, including the lights. A few bullet holes are visible on the right side _ near the wheel and the front door.

Inside, the seats appear to be covered in glass, although the photos of the interior are grainy. A bullet hole also is evident in the back seat on the left side, where Sgrena reportedly was sitting.

As to the wisdom of roadblocking, I wasn't referring to this specific case - I was referring to the fact that using checkpoints and roadblocks is a useless tactic against the resistance and has virtually no effect in the overall strategy against them.

I'm not too concerned about the santizing of the scene, but it certainly works in the US's favor. The Italian analysis of the vehicle won't really determine much other than the general direction the bullets came from relative to the car. I haven't seen the full Italian report on that since it's in Italian - I'm waiting for a translated version to show up on the Net.

My conclusion at this point is that the shooting was an accident at best and totally unnecessary at worst, and worse, that the exoneration of the troops involved will merely continue to cause problems for Iraqi civilians and others in the area. When the Pentagon becomes capable of admitting mistakes - and that is the real fundamental problem - things might change but I'm not holding my breath.

The cell phone companies in Canada are currently facing a massive class-action lawsuit over their "system access fees" which they've mislead the public into believing are governmental fees. I can't believe any US telephony company would be so stupid to try the same thing until this case is settled.

Check it out:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1099060839961_12/?hub=TopStories

As someone who lives 15 minutes away from the National Microbial Laboratory, I hope not.

BTW, I'm really surprised that this story didn't get more attention.

That we'll even be able to make it long enough to develop technology that will allow living on the moon feasible seems entirely optimistic, considering recent studies...

While Canadian media can't report on the details, an account of banned testimony has been published on a U.S. political weblog, and transcripts of the testimony are being circulated among Ottawa insiders.

When the number one TV News program in the country tells everyone where to go to get the details, the ban is pretty much toast from that point on. Anyone who thinks otherwise is probably being fed from a tube.

Chretien's lawyers tried to have the Gomery inquiry stopped.

Here's http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew s/1106682011080_102091211 one of MANY links.

You have no right to subvert the law in this case, and I sincerely hope you get charged for subverting a Justice's edict.

As for his "fair trial", that can still be done - I'm sure we can find a dozen people who've been living in caves the last 5 years.

You're right. Just wait for your kids to do all the getting sick for you.

Generally speaking, all of this boils down to one simple summary: Steve Jobs does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, and when he does, he makes you want it too, regardless of the reality of the situation.

That's hot.

There are some stories about opium in Macs so people like me will feel really good, but if the engineers at Apple could hide some opium in the computer and keeping dissipating out for 4 years continously, history channel should make this into Modern Marvels.

To be seriously, the reason some people claim the plastic Mac smells different from plastic Dell or whatever may be the Material Selection. Apple doesn't use Polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) or Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in its product, because of potential harm to people.