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You might find this interesting... it poses an ethical question assuming self driving cars will be able to analyse an accident scenario and decide among various outcomes.. down to including insurance costs etc.

http://www.metronews.ca/news/v...

The article above is informative but if you prefer, skip to the trailer for the "game" ( it was presented at Sundance ):
https://vimeo.com/150956968

Nice flamebait. First of all, there are no Feminazi's

No? You should let them know this. They exist, some of them are such shitty people that they've made it to meme status like big red there.

That derogatory term is mostly used by male chauvinists who want to enforce old fashioned gender -roles-. There are feminists, and they hold various ideas about equality.

You mean like the feminists out there that push that women should have nice cushy jobs in offices because "equality" while they don't push them into the nice shitty jobs where you're likely to be killed? You know, fishing, mining and so on. Or those nice shitty well paying jobs that are simply shitty jobs?

Strange that I remember the big feminist push in the late 80's and early 90's to drive men out of teaching here in the west too(fyi it's now so bad in parts of western countries that men make up less then 8% of teaching staff). They were the original source of the "men are rapists and not safe with children" bit. Then there's the "teach men not to rape" bullshit to boot. But we'll just gloss over the 20-40% rate of women(varies by sexual preference) who are rapists, or that they get much lighter sentence. Usually 1/3 of the sentence of what a man would, even against a minor. What? You didn't know that there were female pedophile rapists? Not even touching stuff like the rape and murders committed by Bernardo and Homolka. FYI she was the instigator in those 30+ cases, and was the one picking the victims.

no feminist ever said that men and woman were created biologically identical.

You should pay more attention to the bullshit being pushed. You can even find it from the flappy headed ideology books that they push these days. There's even a huge bunch of bullshit by feminists trying to drive sexual dimorphism as "sexist." Yeah, google that one and weep at the attempts to destroy science.

Canada (1.95% of the percent of global greenhouse emissions) is supposed to ratify the agreement later this week. With the liberals having the majority of seats, this should easily pass. Not enough to bring it to 55%, though.

Canada has a long way to go to cache up to Europe, but London only got 24 hour subways service starting literately 2 weeks ago.

Ottawa's O-Train LRT is 15 years old and another line is under construction and Canada's top 5 cities are a lot smaller then the United State's top 5.

Here is the press release from the University of Victoria:
www.communications.uvic.ca/releases/tip.php?date=23052016

and here are some sources that discuss the paper without quite as much in the way of scare words and hype:
www.reportingclimatescience.com/2016/05/23/unmitigated-emissions/
www.metronews.ca/news/vancouver/2016/05/23/uvic-researcher-models-worst-case-climate-change.html

Weird. Works for me. Here's the link:
http://www.metronews.ca/news/t...

Give it a few years, it won't work, it will have cost too much, and will be found to have massive security holes which can't be fixed without spending huge sums of money.

Well, you're probably pretty close. This is what happened in Toronto.

One somewhat recent example:

http://metronews.ca/news/ottaw...

There are some people who feel that you have a right to speak on an issue only if they agree with what you are saying and will attempt to silence your speech if they do not.

I understand why you would doubt me, but here you go. Mind you, it's mostly because they are doing a ton of overtime, but really I don't want my drivers doing too much overtime, as there's only so many hours you can safely drive in a week.

Some still do. IIRC Prius used to, but has switched. But this article says (2010) that Toyota uses Ni-Cd for hybrids, Li Ion for pure electrics. According to a quote in this article,

Geoffrey May, a UK based consultant to the battery industry, is more sceptical. 'More than 95 per cent of hybrid electric vehicles on the road today use nickel metal hydride batteries and that is not going to change any time soon because the main manufacturers of HEVs have invested huge amounts of money in production facilities. It is a technology that works and it is safe: there have been no reported incidents of battery fires with nickel metal hydride as have happened with lithium ion.'

Also, mining and refining lithium (or any material) has its environmental costs. Then there's this:

“The Metal Mining Effluent Regulations do not specifically regulate all of the individual substances of concern that might be released from the mining or processing of rare earth elements and lithium,” says the report.

The regulations “were not specifically designed to manage the environmental aspects of these mining processes.”

And this

Around the turn of this century, China began to separate the mixed salts of Tsaidam Basin lake beds on a large-scale. Separating naturally crystallised sodium, potassium, magnesium and lithium salts requires heavy-duty toxic solvents (such as isobutanol and chloroform), known to cause cancer. Since the Qinghai authorities were keen to industrialise their province – known for its poverty, remoteness and cold climate – land-use controls and environmental regulations were not a priority. From the provincial capital Xining, spreading out to the famous Kumbum Monastery, industrial plants took up land, pouring effluents into nearby streams. Potash and magnesium plants were built and expanded in Gormo, Xining and along the connecting railway line.

Bottom line: At this point the environmental impact of lithium mining and processing (especially at the new higher volumes to be expected) is not well understood, and apparently not yet subject to sufficient mitigation. We just don't yet know. But my point remains - over time, all these externalities will be applied to every one of these resources, to approximately the same extent, and as such their actual cost will reflect those externalities, to approximately the same extent. That is, if we go about this sanely - a dubious prospect! :D

They're pushing for the same DNA collection upon arrest in Canada. The police are making the usual vague promises about "violent crimes only" and "destruction if innocent" and sadly none of the journalists have pointed out that such a law will give incentive for the cops to "suspect" and arrest all ethnic minorities as soon as a violent crime is committed. And now I'm afraid they'll say "well USA's doing it so we it must be a Good Thing."

Funny enough the police can collect DNA samples already by obtaining a search warrant, a practice that has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is fair enough, but apparently these thugs, I mean cops, don't like the idea of being overseen by judges.

If you're in Canada, please make some noise about this and point out unwarranted DNA collection is just as bad as embryonic stem cell research because it provides the wrong incentives for arrests.

Yes, you're right, it costs 1.6 cents per penny.

citation: metro news

No, that is not right. Your own source specifies that 1.6 cents is the MANUFACTURING cost, not the price of the metal in the penny.

If the metal in the penny was worth more than the penny people would be melting them down, as they did with gold coins. Clearly that is not happening.

Are we really looking at a 5 to one devaluation of the money, where a Nickel will buy what a penny did? Think what that will do to pensioners. EVIL CANADA, THINK OF THE SIDE EFFECTS. DO NOT DO THAT

Yes, you're right, it costs 1.6 cents per penny.

citation: metro news

No, that is not right. Your own source specifies that 1.6 cents is the MANUFACTURING cost, not the price of the metal in the penny.

If the metal in the penny was worth more than the penny people would be melting them down, as they did with gold coins. Clearly that is not happening.

Yes, you're right, it costs 1.6 cents per penny.

citation: metro news

Vic has been part of some rather amusing drama as of late. Apparently, the "family values" man was divorced after knocking up his parliamentary assistant, as disclosed on a Twitter account with handle 'Vikileaks' who had access to the divorce proceedings. A local Ottawa newspaper then sent a twitter message with a honeypot link to Vikileaks in an attempt try to ascertain the IP address behind this account, and it led back to a Canadian parliament IP address. The Conservatives are now accusing the NDP of a smear campaign. I notice that Wikipedia has been sanitized since last night to remove any mention of Vikileaks.

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/canada/article/1101662--toews-and-twitter-tit-for-tat-turns-tawdry

http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/15/vikileaks-attacks-vic-toews-on-twitter/

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/world/article/725360--assange-complains-he-s-victim-of-leaks--page0

Hypocrisy goes both ways, it seems.

Though I do sincerely doubt that the study has anything to do with Wikileaks at all. Especially considering that none of the sites that they looked at were involved in the Wikileaks thing, and are, instead, other sites that have been DDoS'd in the last year. As another poster pointed out, the best link that can be drawn is merely one of publicity: people know that DDoS exist thanks to the actions of Anonymous, but that's about it.

Don't let reality get in the way of your fanatical devotion to Wikileaks' infallible and unassailable moral high ground, however. It's rather quaint.

(and no, I don't think that Wikileaks has actually broken any laws, or that Assange should be thrown in jail. I'm just sick of hearing from people who don't seem to understand that the world isn't black and white. the world is full of grey area, and both sides of that debate have made some bad choices.)

I know we like to THINK people arent that stupid, unfortunately..... http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/canada/article/655600--gps-directions-strand-ontario-woman-in-swamp

how about this for airport security: stop blowing up brown people and start working with countries other than china, canada, and mexico to ensure we're better global citizens...

Yeah tell the swedish cartoonist or the Dutch cartoonist Kurt Westergaard who get death threats for drawing political cartoons how they need to be better global citizens.... You cannot appease terrorists.

How about profiling some of those "brown people" coming from countries on the watch list instead of insisting parents remove leg braces from their 4 year-old?

We know which countries the vast majority of the people coming after us are either from or traveling to for training, but we are so damn politically correct we let the real terrorists board planes.

The linked article is pretty bad and the original story had the comments in question removed. I did a little Googling and the upshot is, it looks like some people made allegedly libelous comments, so the people they defamed are suing and the identities were ordered to be revealed by a judge. So, I don't really see how this is any different than a normal libel case in the US. Freedom of speech has never been an unlimited right. It ends when it infringes upon other individual rights and libel and slander laws are pretty common examples of this.

This is the most comprehensive article I found on the topic, but even it does not list any examples of the allegedly libelous comments.

Aren't they shooting themselves in the long term ?

Pretty well. Up here, SOCAN are trying to renegotiate higher performance fees to get a cut of expected higher revenues for Vancouver transit buskers during the Olympics. It may result in getting the busker program (and SOCAN's revenues from it) cancelled instead. Does it make sense to charge buskers making $50 a weekend a rate much closer to DJs making hundreds of dollars a night?

In this morning's free "Metro" newspaper we get in Toronto, there was an article about that. Guess what the title of the article was? And cover page mind you.

"Canadians don't mind Internet traffic cops: Poll"

Well, duh, Internet traffic cop is NOT the same as Internet traffic shaping. Now if they had asked questions like: "would you be affected if your ISP charges you more to access certain content or website?" then only an idiot would say "no". I guess it's all in the wording. If they had shown you this picture, what would you have said?
http://www.enigmacurry.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/net-neutrality-as-cable-company.jpg

The article went on to say that "54 per cent said they did not know whether traffic management affected them personally". So more than half had no idea and we use their opinion for legislation?

Full article on Metro Toronto (Flash)

AC

In Nova Scotia at least, wearing a mask during a crime gets you stiffer penalties.

I was in Florida last week and picked up the daily paper, and there was a major story on how your personality type can be identified by the way in which you sneeze! Yes, folks, this is apparently big-time news in the capital of Florida smack in the middle of the holiday season!

My city (Vancouver, BC) has recently been flooded by several free daily newspapers and tabloids. I ride the bus for a half hour to the big university in town, and everyone is reading these papers, including university students and profs.

I really think the future of newspapers is in giving them away for free on busy street corners like they're doing here (with people in branded aprons handing out the papers!). It obviously is working for these publications.

The interesting thing about these free daily papers is that, even though they are in colour and fairly professional, they don't have any more ads than your average newspaper or magazine.

How, in this era of "newspapers are dying!" can these daily papers not only exist, but thrive? They're obviously doing something right.

Better news would have been the 'face off' with Napoleon Dynamite.

Our government has already weighed in on the matter. (Last paragraph)

There is another article here about this initiative, worded slightly differently. One thing they mention is this:

By the end of this year, all Canada-U.S. border crossings will require that anyone travelling with a visa provide fingerprints and digital photographs as part of an anti-terrorism program, the American Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday.

I'm wondering if all that information is to be stored on the RFID chips. It certainly sounds like it, in which case this is just asking to be hacked for identity theft.

Also:

The use of biometrics -- already in place at 115 airports, 15 seaports and 50 U.S. land border crossings -- has so far blocked entry to 9,000 people, including 700 criminals, one of whom was posing as a Canadian trucker and was wanted in Germany for murder.

Sounds good at first. But wait: doesn't that mean that 8,300 non-criminals were denied entry? I'd be curious to know on what grounds they were turned back. Sounds a bit frightening to me.

But if the U.S. wants to become insular, fine with me. I'm not visiting again if I can help it.

(Out of curiousity, and not entirely related, what would happen if every country decided to stop all trade with the U.S. They are a net-importing economy, right?)

Terri died!

I'd like to point out that the story as posted edited out the attribution.

Editors: Please don't remove quotation marks where they are necessary because that effectively results in plagiarism. The words in quotes are not mine. They belong to the reporter.

Also, the reference to the interview with the Chairman of Satyam - an Indian outsourcer that has set up shop in Toronto - was removed. Knowing that Slashdotters often don't read the source articles, I included that detail as an incentive for people to read what the leader of a large outsourcing company has to say about this politicized business practice.

Original post follows:

Metro International newspapers Toronto edition reports that 'more Indian companies are opening back doors into the United States by setting up shop in Canada.' The issue of outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring has become a hot issue, with the 2004 presidential election less than a week away. Candidate John Kerry has said he will close the tax loophole that makes it advantageous to outsource call centers. The article includes an interview with Ramalinga Raju, chairman of Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India's fourth-largest computer services firm.

Yes, your broadband connection is valuable to a spammer or DDoS'er, but how valuable? According to this article you could rent a botnet of tens of thousands of computers for $100/hour. So one owned zombie by itself is worth maybe $.01/hour. Not very valuable compared stealing a presidential election. That could be done by tampering with as little as a few thousand votes in a swing state with many electoral votes.