Someone had an orgy at their wedding? Cool.
But there's no need to talk about it: word will get around (and the pictures are probably on megaupload or similar).
How about Perl or ReXX instead of Powershell? What would slashdotters see as their advantages and disadvantages compared to Powershell?
There is likely to be a reasonable selection of earlier work available in both, even for Windows.
You can blame a home owner for not putting a good lock on their door but the person that breaks in should still go to jail.
Blaming the victim is just lame.
You can blame a home owner for not having firearms under lock and key, and the law is likely to do so. It is the burglar who breaks in and steals them who is completely guilty of the theft. And whoever subsequently uses the stolen firearms is also guilty of a crime. But the burgled gun owner owner is guilty of negligence in failing to adequately secure items which could harm others, and would face consequent punishment in many jurisdictions.
Maybe announce each time that they are being buried in an unmarked grave wrapped in bacon? That might cut down on the religious fanatics.
I doubt if they're too concerned with what happens to the body, if they think they'll be cavorting with houris in some infantile paradise.
Interestingly, Abbottabad is about 50km from Islamabad (capital of Pakistan), and 50km from the line of control between India and Pakistan in Jammu & Kashmir, but is almost 200km from the border with Afghanistan. It's about 140km from the closest point in the FATAs and a little further to north Waziristan. Most of the action in Pakistan up to now has been in the FATAs.
You have an 8 year old laptop that supports 1920x1200 huh?
You have lost all credibility.
You seem to have lost the ability or inclination to check facts.
The laptop is a Sony VAIO VGN-A117S and its 17" 1920x1200 display was one of the primary reasons we chose that particular model. It may have been the first on the market with that native resolution on its LCD, and we were probably among the first to get one. It has a 1.7GHz Pentium-M with Radeon 9600 graphics (the sticker says 9700, but diagnostics say it's a 9600), maximum 1GB RAM and a huge 80GB disk, which was the largest available. They stopped selling that model in late 2004, as far as I recall, when it was replaced by the A217, then later the A317, and so forth. At some point they changed to using "B" instead of "A" in the designation, but kept that excellent 1920x1200 resolution.
It's fashionable to dislike Sony and disparage their products here on Slashdot. However, this line of laptops is one they got mostly right. Alas, they no longer make any laptops with displays taller than 1080 pixels, which affirms their current status as pariahs in my opinion.
How would you propose adding RAM to a maxed-out system?
The laptop I'm typing this from has 1GB of RAM. This is the maximum it supports; it cannot take more. Incidentally, the laptop is over 8 years old and runs fine, even the battery is still OK. It's a Celeron system currently running Lubuntu 10.04, since the LXDE desktop is leaner than Gnome or KDE (some unnecessary services are disabled also). I rely on Opera as the primary browser, and usually don't need a swap file even with a good number of tabs open in Opera, and some other applications running (right now: Inkscape, Gimp, Thunderbird, Pidgin, and a few lxterminal/bash/pcmanfm windows).
[warning: rant] This laptop has not been replaced partly because modern laptops with equivalent displays (1920x1200) are priced outrageously. I see no reason to downgrade to a 1920x1080 shortscreen, but object to the notion of paying double the money to keep the extra 120 rows of pixels. [apologies for rant]
I'm almost as worried about the "chromatograohy" mentioned on the box. If the morons can't even spell relevant technical words correctly on the box, there is little hope for clarity in the instructions within.
If there cant be a happy medium where I get to keep my privacy, and the developers get fair compensation, then I'm not interested. I'm not the only one either, more and more people are not interested.
Have you tried Privacy Blocker? It claims to be able to strip code for certain accesses from apps. I have not tried it, so don't know whether they're just blowing foam or not.
Mind posting your country, ISP, plan, monthly rate? Its good to spread the love as much as the hate, and while we often hear about the ones that are terrible you never hear about decent/fair ISPs and plans. Of course, maybe that just means they aren't out there but I'd like not to believe it:)
Finland. DNAinternet/mediakoti. Euro 65/month, including IP TV with basic channels and a package of pay channels. It supposedly includes a telephone service over IP as well, but we never tried it as we all have cellphones.
Those don't do anything. MACs can be found by outsiders not connected to your network despite how encrypted the network is. Hidden SSIDs aren't anything either. The same tools that will display the MACs will also show all hidden SSIDs within range.
Sure, they block the average user, but anyone who wants to get in will have no trouble at all.
Ah, but it will block intruders, including the script kiddies you refer to. First, the antenna is unidirectional, and points from a lower corner of the house to the opposite upper corner. The wireless-N field is usually undetectable outside the house near ground level - I've checked - and utterly undetectable outside our garden (which extends more than 20 meters from the house on all sides). So there is no network and no SSID to detect outside our garden. Second, there are only two MACs allowed to connect to the secured wireless, and they are rarely connected, so snooping for MACs would mostly fail even if a snooping device were smuggled inside the house. All other devices connect via the cat6 wires, and if they have wireless, it is disabled. Thirdly, the secure network uses WPA2 with a nontrivial AES key, so bypassing the MAC filter would be useless in any event.
And why would anyone spend the effort trying to crack our secure wireless-N when we make available a completely open wireless-G which is detectable for over a hundred meters in all directions? Unless they enter our garden and attach permanently-on snooping devices to the walls of our house, they would fail to get past the MAC filter, and even then they would not penetrate the wireless-N encryption anyway. So in our case, your warning is both wrong and wrong-headed. Didn't you ever learn that wireless networks can be secured against anything short of a police/military grade attack?
We have an old router which is plugged into a spare port on our optical switch (fiber to the home), and has an open wireless G for anyone to use, configured to assign DHCP addresses from 192.168.200.x where x is 175-200, and with SSID of "All Connections Logged". Our newer router is plugged into a different port on the optical switch and assigns DHCP addresses in the range 192.168.100.y where y is 100-125, and our home net is connected to this one by cat6 cables and encrypted wireless N (MAC filters, hidden SSID, long key, blah blah). Each of these routers has a different public IP address assigned by the ISP, and they both maintain logs of MAC addresses connecting to them, so we don't worry too much about misbehaving outsiders - there have been none so far.
FWIW, we have no usage caps on our 100Mbps fiber connection, so leaving a 54Mbps wireless-G open to passers-by does us no harm economically. In principle we could set it to 11Mbps Wireless-B, but we have never had a bandwidth hog connecting. Incidentally, our ISP gives us up to 8 public IPv4 addresses, of which we use 3-5: the IP-TV box uses the third, and work-related laptops sometimes use one or two more (via cat6 to another port on the optical switch).
And as soon as I find that password, I'm going to be right there behind you!
If you're really brave, you might even push the reset button on your router. That either clears the password or sets it to a default (with some other settings).
Our method is simple. We have an old router which is plugged into a spare port on our optical switch (fiber to the home), and has an open wireless G for anyone to use, configured to assign DHCP addresses from 192.168.200.x where x is 175-200. Our newer router is plugged into a different port on the optical switch and assigns DHCP addresses in the range 192.168.100.y where y is 100-125, and our home net is connected to this one by cat6 cables and encrypted wireless N. Each of these routers has a different public IP address assigned by the ISP, and they both maintain logs of MAC addresses connecting to them, so we don't worry too much about misbehaving outsiders - there have been none so far.
FWIW, we have no usage caps on our 100Mbps connection, so leaving a 54Mbps wireless open to passers-by does us no harm economically. Incidentally, our ISP gives us up to 8 public IPv4 addresses, of which we use 3-5: the IP-TV box uses the third, and work-related laptops sometimes use one or two more (via cat6 to another port on the optical switch).
In Physics at least, specialisation can lead to some very useful and broadly applicable findings. Granted, sometimes completely unexpectedly.
Indeed. In the Sciences and in Engineering, a PhD is the equivalent of a "driving license" for doing research. It does not guarantee you'll be good at it, but the odds are much better than for someone lacking the qualification. It signifies that you can plan and execute long and intellectually difficult tasks in a particular field, which may include discovery of new knowledge (experiments) as well as detailed physical and mathematical analysis. It shows that you're qualified for certain types of demanding job, which are not in particularly short supply. A PhD in physics or engineering was a prerequisite for my job and for several of my colleagues, and we're in industry, not in academia.
TFA failed to delineate the subject matter, lumping all PhDs together as if physical sciences, bioscience, and engineering suffered from the same lack of utility as the humanities or social sciences. It appears that TFA really just dealt with the humanities which tend to have limited economic applicability (PhD in Religion, or in History of art, or in Etruscan statuary). In some cases they amount to little more than an expensive hobby.
But when I clicked the link to Project Tuva, I was redirected in this order:
- Sorry, Silverlight for your browser is not supported, to see the list of supported browser click <link>. I clicked.
- Get Microsoft Silverlight - Click to install. I clicked.
- Moonlight for Linux, a free plug-in.
I realized that Miguel is an idiot a long time, but I didn't know Moonlight is officially supported by MS. And I still don't know why.
And were you then able to view the Feynman videos at Microsoft's Tuva site? No? Well, nobody is surprised. I tried and still got the "blah blah browser not supported" message (result with both Firefox and Chromium on 64bit Ubuntu).
An interesting game. It sounds like the only way to lose is not to play.
Many will lose simply because the number of popular game apps will be a tiny fraction of the number developed and marketed. The losers will include quite a few who invest time/effort/money in developing a game that gets bought by essentially nobody.
Right now, these mini-games have novelty value, but that might wear off, and the potential rewards for success will shrink if the punters don't play.
Of course, I'm not really in the "gamer" demographic. The last game I bought for a PC was Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, maybe 20 years ago, for about $40. Since then I've bought precisely three PlayStation games for the kids, costing a total of about $150. The number of app-style games I've purchased for our smartphones is exactly zero, and unlikely to change.
Driving drywall screws every 16" into a 48" wide sheet of drywall? Try doing that in metric!
Your example is perhaps even easier in metric. Drywall screws are driven every 40cm into a sheet 120cm wide. For walls with closer spacing of studs, drywall screws are driven every 30cm.
Been there, done that: built my own house, and a barn, and a large garage, and an observatory (with rotating dome), and a couple of storage structures. All with foundations for sub-arctic conditions. All using metric; it would have been slightly trickier using Imperial units. BTW, I'm one of those who was educated in both systems and have used both in engineering contexts at university level.
The interesting thing about this is that Liberia is comprised of US ex-pats; slaves who populated the country when "Back to Africa" was embraced by ex-slaves. It's really amazing to study this area of history. Even their flag is Red White and Blue. It's weird that they share the same addiction to imperial measurement also.
And its capital city Monrovia is named after the US President who championed returning freed slaves to Africa. Ironically, the freed slaves were generally of mixed race and set themselves up as the minority masters of a race-based social hierarchy, which only crumbled in the last few decades, and was followed by a succession of civil wars.
Some communities are able to get over signing copyright assignation forms, although it definitely creates some friction. Even the FSF has problems getting copyright assignation for GNU Emacs on occasion, and you have to be pretty paranoid if you are worried about the FSF misusing Emacs source code.
Copyright assignation might involve more than mere friction - actually, the mind boggles at the mechanisms which might be involved. Copyright assignment, on the other hand, is a fairly routine legal procedure.
The one that I would like to see more of; but is basically certain to not happen outside of pirate circles, is greater adoption of the dubiously standard; but quite convenient, intermediate format of MP4 video recorded on DVDs. All the cheapness of DVD production; but better quality than MPEG-2 for the same size. Some DVD players support it, and computers have no trouble; but it is totally informal.
This is something I'd like to see also. All of our movies have been ripped to mp4 format and put on a hard drive on the media server, but there is no room in the car for such an item. It would be nice to fit a few movies per DVD for the kids to watch on long car trips.
Which leads to the other two pluses for DVDs: (i) ripping a DVD is mindlessly easy nowadays, while ripping a BluRay still takes some effort, and (ii) region-free DVD players are the norm in most of the world, while I have not encountered a region-free BluRay player. We have a few DVDs which are region 0 (i.e. no region), a larger number which are region 1, but most are region 2. This is OK with a region-free DVD player, but wanting to view disks from different regions would mean buying multiple BluRay players.
That's outrageous. In Finland, we got an unlimited data plan for euro 3/month (at only 384kbps, but without caps etc.) as an add-on for my daughter's smartphone service. In principle, that could be up to 4 GB per day, but in practice she uses only a few GB per month.
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Someone had an orgy at their wedding? Cool.
But there's no need to talk about it: word will get around (and the pictures are probably on megaupload or similar).
How about Perl or ReXX instead of Powershell? What would slashdotters see as their advantages and disadvantages compared to Powershell?
There is likely to be a reasonable selection of earlier work available in both, even for Windows.
You can blame a home owner for not putting a good lock on their door but the person that breaks in should still go to jail. Blaming the victim is just lame.
You can blame a home owner for not having firearms under lock and key, and the law is likely to do so.
It is the burglar who breaks in and steals them who is completely guilty of the theft. And whoever subsequently uses the stolen firearms is also guilty of a crime. But the burgled gun owner owner is guilty of negligence in failing to adequately secure items which could harm others, and would face consequent punishment in many jurisdictions.
Joe Sixpack is not in a position to be knowledgeable about anything
Wrong! Joe sixpack knows plenty about beer...
...and quite likely about football and women.
Maybe announce each time that they are being buried in an unmarked grave wrapped in bacon? That might cut down on the religious fanatics.
I doubt if they're too concerned with what happens to the body, if they think they'll be cavorting with houris in some infantile paradise.
Interestingly, Abbottabad is about 50km from Islamabad (capital of Pakistan), and 50km from the line of control between India and Pakistan in Jammu & Kashmir, but is almost 200km from the border with Afghanistan. It's about 140km from the closest point in the FATAs and a little further to north Waziristan. Most of the action in Pakistan up to now has been in the FATAs.
You have an 8 year old laptop that supports 1920x1200 huh?
You have lost all credibility.
You seem to have lost the ability or inclination to check facts.
The laptop is a Sony VAIO VGN-A117S and its 17" 1920x1200 display was one of the primary reasons we chose that particular model. It may have been the first on the market with that native resolution on its LCD, and we were probably among the first to get one. It has a 1.7GHz Pentium-M with Radeon 9600 graphics (the sticker says 9700, but diagnostics say it's a 9600), maximum 1GB RAM and a huge 80GB disk, which was the largest available. They stopped selling that model in late 2004, as far as I recall, when it was replaced by the A217, then later the A317, and so forth. At some point they changed to using "B" instead of "A" in the designation, but kept that excellent 1920x1200 resolution.
It's fashionable to dislike Sony and disparage their products here on Slashdot. However, this line of laptops is one they got mostly right. Alas, they no longer make any laptops with displays taller than 1080 pixels, which affirms their current status as pariahs in my opinion.
How would you propose adding RAM to a maxed-out system?
The laptop I'm typing this from has 1GB of RAM. This is the maximum it supports; it cannot take more. Incidentally, the laptop is over 8 years old and runs fine, even the battery is still OK. It's a Celeron system currently running Lubuntu 10.04, since the LXDE desktop is leaner than Gnome or KDE (some unnecessary services are disabled also). I rely on Opera as the primary browser, and usually don't need a swap file even with a good number of tabs open in Opera, and some other applications running (right now: Inkscape, Gimp, Thunderbird, Pidgin, and a few lxterminal/bash/pcmanfm windows).
[warning: rant] This laptop has not been replaced partly because modern laptops with equivalent displays (1920x1200) are priced outrageously. I see no reason to downgrade to a 1920x1080 shortscreen, but object to the notion of paying double the money to keep the extra 120 rows of pixels. [apologies for rant]
I'm almost as worried about the "chromatograohy" mentioned on the box. If the morons can't even spell relevant technical words correctly on the box, there is little hope for clarity in the instructions within.
If there cant be a happy medium where I get to keep my privacy, and the developers get fair compensation, then I'm not interested. I'm not the only one either, more and more people are not interested.
Have you tried Privacy Blocker? It claims to be able to strip code for certain accesses from apps. I have not tried it, so don't know whether they're just blowing foam or not.
Mind posting your country, ISP, plan, monthly rate? Its good to spread the love as much as the hate, and while we often hear about the ones that are terrible you never hear about decent/fair ISPs and plans. Of course, maybe that just means they aren't out there but I'd like not to believe it :)
Finland. DNAinternet/mediakoti. Euro 65/month, including IP TV with basic channels and a package of pay channels. It supposedly includes a telephone service over IP as well, but we never tried it as we all have cellphones.
MAC filters, hidden SSID
Those don't do anything. MACs can be found by outsiders not connected to your network despite how encrypted the network is. Hidden SSIDs aren't anything either. The same tools that will display the MACs will also show all hidden SSIDs within range.
Sure, they block the average user, but anyone who wants to get in will have no trouble at all.
Ah, but it will block intruders, including the script kiddies you refer to. First, the antenna is unidirectional, and points from a lower corner of the house to the opposite upper corner. The wireless-N field is usually undetectable outside the house near ground level - I've checked - and utterly undetectable outside our garden (which extends more than 20 meters from the house on all sides). So there is no network and no SSID to detect outside our garden. Second, there are only two MACs allowed to connect to the secured wireless, and they are rarely connected, so snooping for MACs would mostly fail even if a snooping device were smuggled inside the house. All other devices connect via the cat6 wires, and if they have wireless, it is disabled. Thirdly, the secure network uses WPA2 with a nontrivial AES key, so bypassing the MAC filter would be useless in any event.
And why would anyone spend the effort trying to crack our secure wireless-N when we make available a completely open wireless-G which is detectable for over a hundred meters in all directions? Unless they enter our garden and attach permanently-on snooping devices to the walls of our house, they would fail to get past the MAC filter, and even then they would not penetrate the wireless-N encryption anyway. So in our case, your warning is both wrong and wrong-headed. Didn't you ever learn that wireless networks can be secured against anything short of a police/military grade attack?
Here's the way we do it
We have an old router which is plugged into a spare port on our optical switch (fiber to the home), and has an open wireless G for anyone to use, configured to assign DHCP addresses from 192.168.200.x where x is 175-200, and with SSID of "All Connections Logged". Our newer router is plugged into a different port on the optical switch and assigns DHCP addresses in the range 192.168.100.y where y is 100-125, and our home net is connected to this one by cat6 cables and encrypted wireless N (MAC filters, hidden SSID, long key, blah blah). Each of these routers has a different public IP address assigned by the ISP, and they both maintain logs of MAC addresses connecting to them, so we don't worry too much about misbehaving outsiders - there have been none so far.
FWIW, we have no usage caps on our 100Mbps fiber connection, so leaving a 54Mbps wireless-G open to passers-by does us no harm economically. In principle we could set it to 11Mbps Wireless-B, but we have never had a bandwidth hog connecting. Incidentally, our ISP gives us up to 8 public IPv4 addresses, of which we use 3-5: the IP-TV box uses the third, and work-related laptops sometimes use one or two more (via cat6 to another port on the optical switch).
And as soon as I find that password, I'm going to be right there behind you!
If you're really brave, you might even push the reset button on your router. That either clears the password or sets it to a default (with some other settings).
Our method is simple. We have an old router which is plugged into a spare port on our optical switch (fiber to the home), and has an open wireless G for anyone to use, configured to assign DHCP addresses from 192.168.200.x where x is 175-200. Our newer router is plugged into a different port on the optical switch and assigns DHCP addresses in the range 192.168.100.y where y is 100-125, and our home net is connected to this one by cat6 cables and encrypted wireless N. Each of these routers has a different public IP address assigned by the ISP, and they both maintain logs of MAC addresses connecting to them, so we don't worry too much about misbehaving outsiders - there have been none so far.
FWIW, we have no usage caps on our 100Mbps connection, so leaving a 54Mbps wireless open to passers-by does us no harm economically. Incidentally, our ISP gives us up to 8 public IPv4 addresses, of which we use 3-5: the IP-TV box uses the third, and work-related laptops sometimes use one or two more (via cat6 to another port on the optical switch).
What exactly does the european patent office have to do with a US patent suit?
Any relevant action by a foreign patent office must be promptly disclosed to the US PTO (37CFR 1.97, 1.98). In other words, it's required by law.
In Physics at least, specialisation can lead to some very useful and broadly applicable findings. Granted, sometimes completely unexpectedly.
Indeed. In the Sciences and in Engineering, a PhD is the equivalent of a "driving license" for doing research. It does not guarantee you'll be good at it, but the odds are much better than for someone lacking the qualification. It signifies that you can plan and execute long and intellectually difficult tasks in a particular field, which may include discovery of new knowledge (experiments) as well as detailed physical and mathematical analysis. It shows that you're qualified for certain types of demanding job, which are not in particularly short supply. A PhD in physics or engineering was a prerequisite for my job and for several of my colleagues, and we're in industry, not in academia.
TFA failed to delineate the subject matter, lumping all PhDs together as if physical sciences, bioscience, and engineering suffered from the same lack of utility as the humanities or social sciences. It appears that TFA really just dealt with the humanities which tend to have limited economic applicability (PhD in Religion, or in History of art, or in Etruscan statuary). In some cases they amount to little more than an expensive hobby.
Deckchairs most often stand in the rear part of the ship ... can they expect anything from behind??
They're in bed with Microsoft.
That usually progresses from a PMITA relationship into a KMITH[*] relationship, so they'll get it both ends.
[*] Kick me in the head
But when I clicked the link to Project Tuva, I was redirected in this order:
- Sorry, Silverlight for your browser is not supported, to see the list of supported browser click <link>. I clicked.
- Get Microsoft Silverlight - Click to install. I clicked.
- Moonlight for Linux, a free plug-in.
I realized that Miguel is an idiot a long time, but I didn't know Moonlight is officially supported by MS. And I still don't know why.
And were you then able to view the Feynman videos at Microsoft's Tuva site? No? Well, nobody is surprised. I tried and still got the "blah blah browser not supported" message (result with both Firefox and Chromium on 64bit Ubuntu).
An interesting game. It sounds like the only way to lose is not to play.
Many will lose simply because the number of popular game apps will be a tiny fraction of the number developed and marketed. The losers will include quite a few who invest time/effort/money in developing a game that gets bought by essentially nobody.
Right now, these mini-games have novelty value, but that might wear off, and the potential rewards for success will shrink if the punters don't play.
Of course, I'm not really in the "gamer" demographic. The last game I bought for a PC was Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, maybe 20 years ago, for about $40. Since then I've bought precisely three PlayStation games for the kids, costing a total of about $150. The number of app-style games I've purchased for our smartphones is exactly zero, and unlikely to change.
Driving drywall screws every 16" into a 48" wide sheet of drywall? Try doing that in metric!
Your example is perhaps even easier in metric. Drywall screws are driven every 40cm into a sheet 120cm wide. For walls with closer spacing of studs, drywall screws are driven every 30cm.
Been there, done that: built my own house, and a barn, and a large garage, and an observatory (with rotating dome), and a couple of storage structures. All with foundations for sub-arctic conditions. All using metric; it would have been slightly trickier using Imperial units. BTW, I'm one of those who was educated in both systems and have used both in engineering contexts at university level.
The interesting thing about this is that Liberia is comprised of US ex-pats; slaves who populated the country when "Back to Africa" was embraced by ex-slaves. It's really amazing to study this area of history. Even their flag is Red White and Blue. It's weird that they share the same addiction to imperial measurement also.
And its capital city Monrovia is named after the US President who championed returning freed slaves to Africa. Ironically, the freed slaves were generally of mixed race and set themselves up as the minority masters of a race-based social hierarchy, which only crumbled in the last few decades, and was followed by a succession of civil wars.
Some communities are able to get over signing copyright assignation forms, although it definitely creates some friction. Even the FSF has problems getting copyright assignation for GNU Emacs on occasion, and you have to be pretty paranoid if you are worried about the FSF misusing Emacs source code.
Copyright assignation might involve more than mere friction - actually, the mind boggles at the mechanisms which might be involved. Copyright assignment , on the other hand, is a fairly routine legal procedure.
You can basically stick a DVD drive in a badger and get its best possible picture out the other end.
I am intrigued by your proposal, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter!
The one that I would like to see more of; but is basically certain to not happen outside of pirate circles, is greater adoption of the dubiously standard; but quite convenient, intermediate format of MP4 video recorded on DVDs. All the cheapness of DVD production; but better quality than MPEG-2 for the same size. Some DVD players support it, and computers have no trouble; but it is totally informal.
This is something I'd like to see also. All of our movies have been ripped to mp4 format and put on a hard drive on the media server, but there is no room in the car for such an item. It would be nice to fit a few movies per DVD for the kids to watch on long car trips.
Which leads to the other two pluses for DVDs: (i) ripping a DVD is mindlessly easy nowadays, while ripping a BluRay still takes some effort, and (ii) region-free DVD players are the norm in most of the world, while I have not encountered a region-free BluRay player. We have a few DVDs which are region 0 (i.e. no region), a larger number which are region 1, but most are region 2. This is OK with a region-free DVD player, but wanting to view disks from different regions would mean buying multiple BluRay players.
Most interviews give their subject a list of the questions which they will be subject to before they meet in front of a camera.
For very small values of "most". Or, more accurately, very few.
Canada:
TELUS: $50/gb
Rogers: $30/gb
That's outrageous. In Finland, we got an unlimited data plan for euro 3/month (at only 384kbps, but without caps etc.) as an add-on for my daughter's smartphone service. In principle, that could be up to 4 GB per day, but in practice she uses only a few GB per month.