Canadians are a pretty tech-literate lot when it comes to entertainment. If Bell gets what they want, I would expect to see significant push-back in the form of increased VPN use. Then Bell will be back trying to get VPN's outlawed.
Bell might want to watch out. In some respects, it could almost be considered a monopoly. Certainly it is a scumbag of a company, and it is heartily detested by a huge number of Canadians. If I were in government, I would be very careful indeed about what I gave them, and what the consequences might be.
A lot of people who have mentioned it are getting down-modded for "Off Topic". A cynic might suspect the Lords and Masters here don't want to talk about it, and they don't want anybody else talking about it either.
Are you sure he cares? There was a time when the visionaries who were willing to spend their life savings to change the world came from the United States.
Lately, it looks more and more like America is becoming a nation of bean-counters, ignorant hillbillies and risk-averse security addicts.
Angry? ROFL! I'm sitting up here north of a border far too long to fence, and our only worry is how many Americans are crossing over to seek asylum and decent health care.
I've got the popcorn out and I'm watching real Americans trying to fight back against the slobbering, racist morons of the alt-right. It's like a hockey game...I'm pulling for one side, but if it loses, I just shrug, open another beer, and wait to welcome more American friends into the greatest country in the world. Up here in the Great White North, we're doing just fine, thanks! For example, ROSS Intelligence is opening a major R&D centre in Toronto. More are on the way, too.
One thing I don't quite understand: the woman you hate so much got far more votes than the clown in the White House, yet she lost. Please explain again how you live in "the greatest democracy in the world"? (snicker)
It's looking like at least some decent Americans have grown tired of serving as hosts for Red State parasites. Welcome, my friends! Breathe deep again in the new Land of the Free! By the way, we've got the only leader in history to go into a boxing ring (for charity) and face a heavily-favoured neo-conservative with MMA training. The PM beath the living crap out of him.
"So why are we giving [personal data] away for nothing more than ostensibly free email, better movie recommendations, and more accurate search results?
Simple. Most of us are sheep...too lazy and/or too stupid to care about the value of what we're giving away for nothing. Not all of the sheeple are technologically incompetent, either. Far too often you hear "Oh, privacy is so yesterday" arguments from those who insist they have nothing to hide, so they don't care if they're tracked and commoditized every moment of their lives. Those people are actually the biggest problem, because they help move the yardsticks and make people like me, who actually DO care about privacy, to jump through all kinds of hoops in an effort to preserve something that should be the default option. And if any of them are connected with me in any way, the EULA's they sign so blithely often give tech companies permission to go after any data of mine that may be residing on their machines. My email address and phone number, for example.
I can't help but notice the number of clearly fake comments on this page, all trying to either blame Clinton and Obama or deliver that old, "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along." message.
Back then, you could actually find literate, well-informed conservatives who would defend their views or change them according to the facts. These days, most conservatives are a pack of proudly-ignorant morons who desperately hate anybody smarter than them (which encompasses most of the population), and who dismiss proved facts that refute their noxious views.
Excellent point. It seems to me both Powerpoint and Prezzy have stayed pretty much the same for quite a while now. I'm not sure whether that's because they are pretty much doing their job properly, or because nobody's really interested in developing them further.
I would think that if the latter situation is true, then the Open Source application would be more likely to see further development when there's no really compelling business case to be made to invest resources in such a project.
An office suite program is integral to the efficient functioning of just about any business. So now, predictably, Microsoft is using its newest version of Office to leverage other applications into accepting more and more of its programs. Identify what "Teams" does that "Skype for Business" doesn't (especially with respect to how much of your business will reside on Microsoft servers after the change), and that is the amount by which Microsoft has increased its hold on your company. I have no idea what those differences might be, but I have little doubt they exist.
Companies that opted for Libre Office are starting to look smarter and smarter, while those that took the easy route and "upgraded" to Win 10 and Office 365 ("All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us") are probably going to regret their choice sooner or later.
So the first reports of AIDS started coming in a bit over 30 years ago. Ever since it was identified, and linked strongly with homosexual males, we've heard one preacher, imam and rabbi after another tell us how AIDS is a punishment from god visited upon a segment of humanity that richly deserves to die.
Well, I guess we've got some bad news for god. In just two generations...less time than a lot of the punishments god metes out (remember "even unto the third generation"?), we've pretty much got AIDS under control, maybe even cured.
So two possibilities: either god doesn't really care all that much about a mutual dick-sucking every now and again, or maybe...just maybe...god doesn't exist.
Either way, it's all good for rational people. I'll be waiting with bated breath to hear Pat Robertson explain how just a few people working for much less than a human lifetime managed to take this god-mandated death sentence for gays and turn it into a non-issue.
I can't help but wonder what the next failure of religion will be when it attempts to contradict science.
I'll take your comment as serious rather than just nasty.
There would indeed be issues surrounding an artificial device that looked and acted like a sexually active baby. There are companies today making lifelike sex dolls. As far as I'm aware, they have voluntarily refrained from making something like that, whether it would be legal or not in a particular country. In Canada, such a device would be illegal. In the US, I'm not sure what the law is with respect to "underage" cartoons or dolls.
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You know, if I was Russia, I'd actually be pushing for China investigations to keep people from looking into all my dirty laundry...
Fixed that for you!
...if your unsuccessfully-suppressed squeak-farts make a sound like Sssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeery.
Instead of "Echo", they could have called it "E-Spot".
Thanks for saving me the trouble. ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuGGNsE3_8Y
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!
Canadians are a pretty tech-literate lot when it comes to entertainment. If Bell gets what they want, I would expect to see significant push-back in the form of increased VPN use. Then Bell will be back trying to get VPN's outlawed.
Bell might want to watch out. In some respects, it could almost be considered a monopoly. Certainly it is a scumbag of a company, and it is heartily detested by a huge number of Canadians. If I were in government, I would be very careful indeed about what I gave them, and what the consequences might be.
A lot of people who have mentioned it are getting down-modded for "Off Topic". A cynic might suspect the Lords and Masters here don't want to talk about it, and they don't want anybody else talking about it either.
If it were allowed, I'd mod you up myself for that!
"Is Slashdot done with the lengthy downtime...What is going on here?!?"
There's so many Trump supporters here now, they've had to slow things down to a crawl so they can keep up.
Are you sure he cares? There was a time when the visionaries who were willing to spend their life savings to change the world came from the United States.
Lately, it looks more and more like America is becoming a nation of bean-counters, ignorant hillbillies and risk-averse security addicts.
And that's not good for anybody.
Thank you, my friend, for saying it a lot better than I would have.
Nice straw man argument you have there. Better make sure it doesn't get wet and soggy.
Angry? ROFL! I'm sitting up here north of a border far too long to fence, and our only worry is how many Americans are crossing over to seek asylum and decent health care.
I've got the popcorn out and I'm watching real Americans trying to fight back against the slobbering, racist morons of the alt-right. It's like a hockey game...I'm pulling for one side, but if it loses, I just shrug, open another beer, and wait to welcome more American friends into the greatest country in the world. Up here in the Great White North, we're doing just fine, thanks! For example, ROSS Intelligence is opening a major R&D centre in Toronto. More are on the way, too.
One thing I don't quite understand: the woman you hate so much got far more votes than the clown in the White House, yet she lost. Please explain again how you live in "the greatest democracy in the world"? (snicker)
It's looking like at least some decent Americans have grown tired of serving as hosts for Red State parasites. Welcome, my friends! Breathe deep again in the new Land of the Free! By the way, we've got the only leader in history to go into a boxing ring (for charity) and face a heavily-favoured neo-conservative with MMA training. The PM beath the living crap out of him.
Yes. Anonymous Coward has been a member here forever.
I'm not American. I'm looking in from the outside, and Trump's lip prints are all over Putin's dick.
"So why are we giving [personal data] away for nothing more than ostensibly free email, better movie recommendations, and more accurate search results?
Simple. Most of us are sheep...too lazy and/or too stupid to care about the value of what we're giving away for nothing. Not all of the sheeple are technologically incompetent, either. Far too often you hear "Oh, privacy is so yesterday" arguments from those who insist they have nothing to hide, so they don't care if they're tracked and commoditized every moment of their lives. Those people are actually the biggest problem, because they help move the yardsticks and make people like me, who actually DO care about privacy, to jump through all kinds of hoops in an effort to preserve something that should be the default option. And if any of them are connected with me in any way, the EULA's they sign so blithely often give tech companies permission to go after any data of mine that may be residing on their machines. My email address and phone number, for example.
I can't help but notice the number of clearly fake comments on this page, all trying to either blame Clinton and Obama or deliver that old, "Nothing to see here, folks. Move along." message.
Back then, you could actually find literate, well-informed conservatives who would defend their views or change them according to the facts. These days, most conservatives are a pack of proudly-ignorant morons who desperately hate anybody smarter than them (which encompasses most of the population), and who dismiss proved facts that refute their noxious views.
Interesting. I never actually thought about the Reagan administration's silence on the matter. Your idea makes sense.
Excellent point. It seems to me both Powerpoint and Prezzy have stayed pretty much the same for quite a while now. I'm not sure whether that's because they are pretty much doing their job properly, or because nobody's really interested in developing them further.
I would think that if the latter situation is true, then the Open Source application would be more likely to see further development when there's no really compelling business case to be made to invest resources in such a project.
I bet a lot of people call you a condescending prick, and politely request that you fuck off and die.
Perhaps you should accept their well-meant advice.
An office suite program is integral to the efficient functioning of just about any business. So now, predictably, Microsoft is using its newest version of Office to leverage other applications into accepting more and more of its programs. Identify what "Teams" does that "Skype for Business" doesn't (especially with respect to how much of your business will reside on Microsoft servers after the change), and that is the amount by which Microsoft has increased its hold on your company. I have no idea what those differences might be, but I have little doubt they exist.
Companies that opted for Libre Office are starting to look smarter and smarter, while those that took the easy route and "upgraded" to Win 10 and Office 365 ("All Your Cloud Are Belong To Us") are probably going to regret their choice sooner or later.
I did not know Larry Shaw personally, and yet I am saddened by his passing. Is this irrational?
So the first reports of AIDS started coming in a bit over 30 years ago. Ever since it was identified, and linked strongly with homosexual males, we've heard one preacher, imam and rabbi after another tell us how AIDS is a punishment from god visited upon a segment of humanity that richly deserves to die.
Well, I guess we've got some bad news for god. In just two generations...less time than a lot of the punishments god metes out (remember "even unto the third generation"?), we've pretty much got AIDS under control, maybe even cured.
So two possibilities: either god doesn't really care all that much about a mutual dick-sucking every now and again, or maybe...just maybe...god doesn't exist.
Either way, it's all good for rational people. I'll be waiting with bated breath to hear Pat Robertson explain how just a few people working for much less than a human lifetime managed to take this god-mandated death sentence for gays and turn it into a non-issue.
I can't help but wonder what the next failure of religion will be when it attempts to contradict science.
I'll take your comment as serious rather than just nasty.
There would indeed be issues surrounding an artificial device that looked and acted like a sexually active baby. There are companies today making lifelike sex dolls. As far as I'm aware, they have voluntarily refrained from making something like that, whether it would be legal or not in a particular country. In Canada, such a device would be illegal. In the US, I'm not sure what the law is with respect to "underage" cartoons or dolls.