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I'm not sure how it works where you are.. but up here in Canada, my cable company (Mountaincable) offers a VoIP package for $25 cdn/month including services (call display, call waiting, voicemail). This is a VERY competitive price.

The thing is, with their system, your packets don't leave your provider's network at all! From their FAQ:

Q. Is this another 'Internet phone service'?
A. No. With Mountain's Digital Telephone your call will never go over the Internet. It is securely relayed over Mountain's state of the art fibre/coax network and directly transferred to the Public Telephone Network. This is a primary line service!

Should services like this be affected by net neutraility laws, even though they actually have nothing to do with the net? It's tough to say where to draw the line..

I'm not sure how it works where you are.. but up here in Canada, my cable company (Mountaincable) offers a VoIP package for $25 cdn/month including services (call display, call waiting, voicemail). This is a VERY competitive price.

The thing is, with their system, your packets don't leave your provider's network at all! From their FAQ:

Q. Is this another 'Internet phone service'?
A. No. With Mountain's Digital Telephone your call will never go over the Internet. It is securely relayed over Mountain's state of the art fibre/coax network and directly transferred to the Public Telephone Network. This is a primary line service!

Should services like this be affected by net neutraility laws, even though they actually have nothing to do with the net? It's tough to say where to draw the line..

Here is a screenshot of what happens to story pages sometimes... reloading fixes it. The above poster is right as well, it happens to the front page sometimes too.

PDF Conversion of powerpoint presentation

On my ISP's very fast webspace, but please post mirrors in case they decide to pull the plug.

The parent is only kinda accurate.. The Copyright Goon has not actually downloaded the music himself. He's hired a consultant to do it.

The judge in this case ruled, correctly, that there

a) wasn't a strong enough connection between IP address and a person's identity. Especially not 3-4 months after the fact (the CRIA did not give a reason for delaying).

b) they have not proven that ISPs are the only viable source for the informaion the CRIA is seeking,

c) they have not established that public interest (not corporate interest, nor profit interest, nor loss-of-profit interest) outweights the privacy violation.

For more information, Read the actual ruling..

Xazzon BT link .. it's on my cable ISP's webspace, so it should hold up. The tracker is another story..

I didn't get the other files in time, so I cannot torrent them.