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  1. Bell/Rogers doing WiMax on Canadian ISP Co-Op Shows Upside of Line Sharing · · Score: 1

    Bell and Rogers are SLOWLY rolling out WiMax off their Cell towers. They're supposed to have most of the population in Canada covered in the next few years, though I highly doubt that, seeing as they're going to be trying to service areas that still have people stuck on 4-party lines, let alone having Cell towers in the area.

  2. Re:The Law on The Canadian Taxman Goes Browsing on eBay · · Score: 2, Informative

    at least businesses are required to self-assess and remit the PST when they buy from a non-local supplier

  3. Re:Cell? on What To Do When Broadband is Not An Option? · · Score: 1

    In Canada, they're rolling out WiMAX off cell towers.. bell will have a good percentage of Canada hooked up within the next couple years... but for some reason they're starting with the urban areas that already have good dsl/cable availability.

  4. Re:Governments have been doing this for years! on Kilogram Reference Losing Weight · · Score: 1

    Most governments had a clever idea to get around that problem though.

    I believe it was 1933 the US Gov't went off the gold standard.

  5. Re:Sorry, no colonies on Mars or the moon in 50 ye on The Next Fifty Years In Space · · Score: 1

    This one's an LT1, I wonder why turning it off and on without ever turnning the engine over will reset the light..

    As for the coolant sensor, it's on the side of the rad, it apparently gums up very easily, I have to order a new one and replace it.

  6. Frequency shifting on Pitch Perception Skewed By Modern Tuning · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My hearing aids frequency shift everything down to around 1000hz, the range I can actually somewhat hear in.

    The brain gradually learns what high pitch and low pitch is. With hearing aids, I can hear the 8khz band being tweaked on an equalizer, whereas without the hearing aids I can't tell the difference when the 1khz or higher is adjusted.

    With a cochlear implant, with time the brain learns to adjust and distinguish frequencies, but never has the same degree of sensitivity.

  7. Re:Sorry, no colonies on Mars or the moon in 50 ye on The Next Fifty Years In Space · · Score: 1

    Mine turns on the low oil light when i put the key to Run(haven't started it at this point) Turn the key off, turn it back on, the light goes out.

    If you idle long enough, the low coolant light comes on.

    Both fluids are just fine.. Bad sensors.

    Old cars go from where you have to pay attention to warning lights because something is broken, to where you have to ignore the warning lights because they're broken.

  8. Re:Prices were unreasonable on HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices · · Score: 1

    redflagdeals.com's forums are full of people doing that, some have saved 15k on a 40k car. you usually lose your warranty, but even allowing 5k for a GOOD bumper to bumper warranty, you come out ahead.

  9. Re:Prices were unreasonable on HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices · · Score: 1

    Cars seem to be the worst of it, you can save 10,000-15,000 on some cars for a few hours of paperwork and time.

  10. Bell Canada doesn't help at all on The US Rural Broadband Crisis · · Score: 1

    It's about 2700 a month to string a T1 to here in Southern Ontario.

    Bell/Rogers are rolling out WiMAX off cell towers though... in urban areas that are already well served by DSL/Cable.

  11. Re:File synchronization... If you must... on Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    he meant 250gb, but either way, it does a nice setup for duplicate files.. every file gets CRC'd or similar, and if it already has a duplicate, whether it's from a previous backup, or even a different server, it just hardlinks to that... so 30 windows pc's with similar setups would only take a few gig to have a years worth of backups

  12. Re:Kind of a related question on The Study of Physical Hacks at DefCon · · Score: 1

    if i have the t-tops out for some reason, i lock the door, setting the alarm, and then reach in and unlock the door, which leaves the alarm activated

    if someone comes up to it, they might try the door handle first, which will set off the alarm.

  13. Re:If they say so, I believe them on HP to Researchers, 'Our Printers Are Safe' · · Score: 1

    the JetDirect boxes in some of them save whatever you tell them.. I bought a printer off ebay that belonged to Ford Motor Company, even had the person's office number and name saved in it, along with the external facing IP still programmed.

  14. Won't miss the Linksys tech support on Cisco to Kill Linksys Brand Name · · Score: 1

    After being told to upgrade the firmware on a PoE injector that croaked and leaked shortly after being powered up, I can't say the name will be missed.

  15. Re:But... on Gigabyte N680SLI-DQ6 - A Mother Of A Motherboard · · Score: 1

    the Supermicro P4SCA is a p4 board with an ISA slot, though it's socket 478.. I don't know of any S775 boards with ISA.

    I use two of them, one is in a CMM setup, where it was going to cost $7000 for a PCI version of the ISA controller board.

    The other runs a Hayes Optima Synchronous modem, where finding a PCI version was going to be more expensive than the extra cost of the motherboard.

    The motherboard costs around 500 dollars a few years back, seems to be around 250 now.

  16. some of the all in one HP Laserjets to _avoid_ on Which All-in-One Inkjet Printer is Cheapest to Use? · · Score: 1

    HP Laserjet 3052
    HP Laserjet 3055
    HP Laserjet 3352
    HP Laserjet 3390

    Avoid these, as HP is saving a few pennies by putting 4 meg roms in, instead of 8's.. to make room they removed PCL5e support.. this makes printing off an AS/400 or with premade forms that rely on PCL5e rather difficult.

  17. Re:Strange.. on Games They'd Like Us To Forget · · Score: 1

    I must be the only one that loved that game, never had any issues with game play, you just learned to be careful coming out of the ponds.

  18. Re:Get more people to move out of the rural areas on US Falls to 24th Place For Broadband Penetration · · Score: 1

    It's happening already, Bell Canada and Rogers are rolling out WiMax to urban areas... kinda defeats the point.

  19. Re:Auto controls on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's a design "feature", so that if someone's standing beside your car on the other side, they can't get into the car when you unlock it.

  20. Re:PC Load Letter on What's the Worst Technical Feature You've Used? · · Score: 1

    I have a LJ4100n that has the 13.1 paper jam issue. Replaced the rollers, etc.. It even paper jams when there's no paper in it, some sensor is shot.

    It was cheaper to replace it with another one off ebay.

  21. Re:I RTFA yesterday when I saw it on the Firehose on Scientists Claim Major Leap in Engine Design · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For 500 something miles.

  22. Re:Cheapest would be cellphone + bluetooth mini KB on Text Messaging Device For the Hearing Impaired? · · Score: 1

    cochlear implants have been done for about 30 years, and still have many years left before it's even close to "real hearing"

  23. Re:Yes. on Text Messaging Device For the Hearing Impaired? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but that still doesn't guarantee the person will be able to understand the person on the phone.. People on phones are one of the hardest things for a hearing impaired person to understand.

  24. Re:Hazmat on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    I used to play with the mercury in my hearing aid batteries.. figured out how to push them in the right way to get the mercury to leak out.

  25. Re:Lets get this out of the way. on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    we replaced the 6 200W incadescent bulbs in the driveway with 42/45W CFL's, and it works quite nicely.. home depot sells them.