Coincidentally, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Newfoundland, Quebec, and Ontario are the only jurisdictions in the country which aren't under the sole jurisdiction of the RCMP....
Seems like a not insignifcant portion of the country's police force does not have this oversight...
Nah, trust me, move as soon as you can, it's not nearly as bad as it seems here. We certainly don't like Harper & the conservative government - but the level of crazy in the conservatives here doesn't even come close to a Bachman / Santorum level.
Yes, actually, it does. Ours are just as crazy, if you actually talk to some of the grunts running in local elections.
There have been numerous conservative scandals in the news in the last year or so, but I've still yet to hear a fellow Canuck say "That's it! I'm sick of this country - I'm moving to America!"
I have heard them say "fuck it, I'm moving to Australia", though.
Obviously you haven't lived in a province where then NDP has ran the show before. They have knack for running things into the ground and getting shown the curb rather unceremoniously. The PCs in Alberta going to find out how that feels in a few weeks.
Ontario was the only province where they fucked things up, and that NDP leader was Bob Rae.... guess who he's running with now.
Spending money on education and health care end up costing the economy much less in the long term than cutting them... the cons would rather mortgage the future for a short term gain than actually fix anything.
It's in the Constitution actually. Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 reads in part "for any Speech or Debate in either House, they[Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place."
That's an exemption from libel/slander suits, not an exemption from being held accountable for their actions.
Tell me that next time you're arrested for crossing a perfectly ordinary road (even with zero traffic on it), or "failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign", or any of a thousand and one ridiculous notions of what adults shouldn't be allowed to do.
The US is really no better or worse than Europe. The biggest problem with the US is that they DON'T REALISE THIS.
The only time somebody gets arrested for doing a rolling stop at a stop sign is if they give the cop a hard time. In fact, unless the cop has a pebble in his boot or is otherwise in a grumpy mood, usually you get off with a warning. Context is everything of course... if there's traffic, it's not only illegal to not come to a complete stop, it's stupid. You're more likely to get a ticket. But if you're on an empty road, and the road you're crossing is empty, you're unlikely to get a ticket for it.
The US does have its fair share of stupid laws, though... is it still illegal to chew bubble gum on a Sunday in Texas?
As a tablet or smartphone UI, actually it's pretty good. I still prefer Android, but I can understand why people would like Metro. A lot of the texting, e-mail, etc. widgets that people use on Android would not be necessary on Metro, because of the way it presents the tile for an app. (basically, no icons, everything is a widget).
As a desktop UI, you have to ask what the hell they were smoking. Something designed for touchscreen input on a 4" device does *not* scale to a 24" screen with a keyboard/mouse. While it's usable, it would be very counter-productive to anybody who's comfortable with the mouse, because they would have to scroll through pages of tiles to find the one they want. I don't think it's going to be the unmitigated disaster that everybody says it's going to be, but I do think that "how to turn Metro off" will replace porn as the number 1 Google search for a while after it launches.
I was going to moderate, but that's the second time you've posted flat-out wrong information on this thread...
The Google Nexus carries the Google name, because Google commissioned it, and set specific guidelines for how it's to be used/sold. It was manufactured by Samsung, and most of the profit goes to Samsung for it, but there are certain rules governing how that particular phone can be sold, and those are set by Google.
For one, the Nexus can't be sold with a network lock. It's sold as a "reference" device, and is unlocked to any network. For two, it is not allowed to have any manufacturer-specific branding, and is sold with a stock unmodified Android.
There's other differences, but those are the big ones.
AT&T says they'll unlock iPhones that are no longer under contract, to customers who are in good standing. Yes, your iPhone is either out of contract, or you may have upgraded to a newer iPhone. Either way, the 3GS is most likely eligible to unlock
If you don't owe them anything, your account is in good standing, regardless of whether you're still paying them a monthly tithe.
You're the one who bought a phone they say explicitly that they "can't" unlock. Everything else they sell, they will happily unlock for you, for a small fee (that's usually greater than just going to gsmliberty.net or a similar site and buying an unlock code).
Don't bitch about it, when you have a choice with Telus to buy something that they *will* unlock.
That was in 1962, if I remember correctly. I think the machine was about 5 years old. The next year the university got an IBM 1620, with alphanumeric I/O and 20,000 digits of actual core memory. Change was relentlessly fast in those days, too. THe big difference is that every few years we got qualitative, not just quantitative change.
We do still get qualitative change in computing today, just that for *most* of what people actually do with computers, they're fast enough that the human is the limiting factor. For anything where human input isn't a factor (think large number crunching operations), there is still a noticeable difference from generation to generation.
Case in point... I do a fairly large amount of video encoding (DVD rips, and other stuff). I use 64-bit software, with a 64-bit operating system. I have recently upgraded from a first generation i7 to a second generation i5. I did go from 4GB to 16GB of RAM, but the actual usage when doing the transcode operation has remained stable, around 1.2GB in use (there's no swapping happening on either system), and the actual type of memory used is the same (speed and bus). That said, the transcode opertation from the original mpeg2 DVD rip to h.264 has gone from about 20 minutes for a 42-minute TV episode to 6 minutes for the same 42-minute TV episode, all else being equal. The difference... I went from a quad core/ht i7 (8 processes at 1.6GHz) to a quad core i5, overclocked (4 processes at 4.7GHz). I went from a top end processor 1 generation old to a current generation midrange processor, and saw a *huge* improvement in performance for a number-crunching heavy operation. now... I am pushing less than double the number of operations per second (8x1.6 = 12.8, 4x4.7 = 18.8), but there is more than a double improvement in real world performance. This is down to improvements in the architecture of the processor, and how it handles the operations.
That being said, my Facebook page doesn't load any faster than it did with the i7 (or on my celeron-based laptop for that matter), and my ability to type is still the limiting factor in how quickly I can use a word processor. If you're not doing heavy number crunching, there is almost no reason to upgrade your computer today (power consumption is an argument that can be made, but the difference is rarely enough to make up for the cost of buying a computer).
I'm supposed to be motivated by a mention on a sharepoint site?
Actually, yeah. Think of it this way: by sharing the idea publicly, there's opportunity to improve it. Just because it's not being developed now does not mean that there's no chance of it being developed tomorrow.
This is true for some stuff. But, are you interested in watching the Super Bowl from three years ago?
You do realize that the Super Bowl can be watched live, for free, with rabbit ears hooked up to your TV? Since you claim to have a 60" TV, I would be extremely surprised if it didn't have an ATSC tuner, and couldn't do 1080p (though most OTA HD is 1080i.).
I'm in Canada, and I can pick up NBC and Fox in HD, from a tower in upstate New York (I also get PBS, from Watertown). I have a hard time believing you wouldn't be able to do that yourself.
Anyway, it's only a few minutes in a one hour episode so, it's worth BUFFERING.... BUFFERING... 30 seconds of watchable video BUFFERING...
You also need a better Internet provider. I have no problem watching streaming video on my 12meg DSL connection. I'm able to watch HD video from the station sites of just about everything I actually watch.
Seriously... a bit late, no? A lot of this flies directly in the face of stuff that Slashdot has been saying for years... comment reporting for abuse? Does this mean that abusive comments can be removed? That kinda defeats the point of the kind of discussion that Slashdot has been built on....
Thorium reactors can be built, and in fact have been built for testing. They just don't seem to be catching on at a large scale for some reason... I honestly don't know why, people who get paid more than me have looked at the numbers and decided that Uranium-fuelled reactors are better economy.
As to the video linked, he lost me when he used "atmosphere" as a unit of measurement. I know that it actually is a standard unit of measurement, but it's a completely arbitrary unit of measurement, based on an environmental measurement that isn't even consistent everywhere in the world.
(2) Decide what application level software will do what you need
(3) Use whatever platform (2) runs on
I will also add Define what you mean. My first thought on reading TFS was that he was asking what the best remote control software was, for him trying to access multiple clients. He could mean that, or he could mean what other people are assuming: how best to communicate with the people he does business with. Two very different applications, with two very different answers: for the first, some variant of NX, PC Anywhere, etc., would do the trick. I like NX, because it works on everything and is pretty fast. It's also dead easy to set up... downside: it's one of the most expensive options for commercial use. For the second way to read the question, you basically just need a good multiprotocol IM client and working e-mail. If you want, add text messaging or BBM to the list. If a customer urgently needs to speak with you, they can always pick up the phone, too.
And like you, I wouldn't suggest risking your income. If you need to use Windows to do your job, then buy a Windows box. Use it for work, and install Linux on a separate system (or even a multiboot) for personal use.
Really, the on demand streaming market favors this type of programming too. Instead of having to fill 24 hours a day with crap so that anytime someone turns on a TV they will have ads to watch, streaming requires you to offer something compelling to get people to watch it but you don't necessarily have to generate as much content since the guy watching at 2AM can watch the same thing that someone else watched at 7:30. It won't mean that crap goes away (since some people seemingly like crap) but I think the changing metric of competition will influence the kind of content that gets produced. Instead of competing to win a time slot, shows will have to compete to win a chunk of each viewer's limited screen-time.
Yup, which is why I advocate a combination of the two... I have an OTA antenna so that I can catch the nightly news, and if I have somebody over wanting to watch hockey or something, I can tune into that. And I have a Netflix account, where I get most of the content I actually watch. That, and streaming directly from the website... my favourite show is not available on Netflix, but I can go to the station's website and stream on demand for free, so it is essentially the same thing. And actually, I don't mind having ads in the Internet stream, because they only show 1 ad between acts, not 30. I'm guessing that's because they know it's a view, unlike broadcast, so they can command a higher price for ads.
Too many audio dropouts and freeze frame issues, even on the broadcast side. So I use analog cable, because analog OTA isn't available anymore. I can still shake my head in dismay every time the audio cuts out or the video freezes because I know it's a broadcast side deficiency.
With a half-decent antenna (actually, a bi-pole made from a coat hangar), I don't have any problems with dropouts on OTA ATSC content. It works quite well, actually. Maybe you're either in a dead spot, or have a shitty antenna. Or maybe you just didn't bother to point the antenna in the right direction. It makes a big difference, having the plane of the antenna perpendicular to the direction of the wave.
The victim of an assault pointed at her photo and said she committed the assault. That is why she was arrested. Going in for the interview merely set the time and place that the arrest would occur. If she declined the interview, they would have come to her home or workplace and taken her to the police station. Arrests occur upon serious suspicion, not upon establishment of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The only way to avoid arrest is to lower the level of suspicion. Silence does not reduce the suspicion. Having your statement come from your attorney does not reduce the suspicion any more than if it came directly from you. If she went to her attorney and said I have a couple of text messages and an alibi from a boyfriend the attorney would have probably said "you are going to need more than that, lets go get some affidavits from other people who attended the art opening art opening before we talk to the police". Such is the value of an attorney.
This. It's also worth pointing out that in Canada, there's no such thing as a 5th Amendment. The closest we have is section 11c of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/charter/page-1.html ) which says you can't be compelled to bear witness against yourself.
She should definitely sue the city for legal expenses... this definitely sounds like they violated her Section 9 right not to be arbitrarily detained. The police developed tunnel vision, and ignored her alibi. They basically discounted her testimony on the word of somebody who had been drinking and could not have had the best recollection of the sequence of events. When they drop the charges, it's not a judgement in her favour, which means she has to do more than file a motion asking for reimbursement for expenses.
Also, despite what some people are saying, she's not an unknown within the art community. I have heard of her, and don't even live in Toronto. (though to be fair, I'm the kind of person who would rather go to a vernissage than a sporting event).
It uses UDP:631 for the auto detect, but CUPS only accepts connections on TCP:631, if I recall correctly. That may be a configuration in CUPS itself.:)
That being said, you can always configure it with a login script.:)
IPP printers don't work like that on Windows, though.
They do in Vista and 7. Turn the printer on, go to add network printer, have it search for printers, and there they are. No need to tell Windows anything at all, if the printers are on the same subnet as the PC. Install it, and it automatically connects on login.
And you *can* have any good quality network-connected printer join a Windows domain. Getting it set up to print to the right printer with roaming profiles is a question for your autoconfiguration script, not the printer.
IIRC from reading the forums and bugreports, samba has accumulated plenty of printing regressions since 3.2 or so, and nothing was ever done about them. It's been quite long since one could use, say, driver for HP LaserJet 8000/8100 directly via samba, without using a local printer port:(
It's also been a long time since I've seen a network-connected printer that didn't have an IPP server built in.
Come to it, it's actually been a long while since I've seen anybody try to use SAMBA to host a print server. Just use CUPS or some other IPP server if you don't have a printer with built-in print capability.
"forensic hair analysis" is actually possible.... you can usually get a DNA sample from the hair as long as the root is intact. Even if you can't get a DNA sample, you can do a chemical analysis (mass spec) on the hair itself and compare it against a known sample to determine if it's from the same person. (traces of what you eat, any drugs you consume, etc. will find their way into your hair and fingernails, which will affect the chemical breakdown of the hair... this is why a hair test can be used to determine if you consume illegal drugs). If the test is accurate enough, it can be used to determine your identity as accurately as a fingerprint or DNA test, but the mass spec does require that the hair be roughly the same age... if you get your hair cut before the "known" sample is taken (or the "unknown" sample is too old and your hair has had time to grow out), it won't match up (which would be why it's never used).
The CSI version where they put a hair under a microscope and take a picture which they put side by side against the killer's, and say "there's your guy!" is complete bullshit, however.
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Coincidentally, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Newfoundland, Quebec, and Ontario are the only jurisdictions in the country which aren't under the sole jurisdiction of the RCMP....
Seems like a not insignifcant portion of the country's police force does not have this oversight...
Nah, trust me, move as soon as you can, it's not nearly as bad as it seems here. We certainly don't like Harper & the conservative government - but the level of crazy in the conservatives here doesn't even come close to a Bachman / Santorum level.
Yes, actually, it does. Ours are just as crazy, if you actually talk to some of the grunts running in local elections.
There have been numerous conservative scandals in the news in the last year or so, but I've still yet to hear a fellow Canuck say "That's it! I'm sick of this country - I'm moving to America!"
I have heard them say "fuck it, I'm moving to Australia", though.
Obviously you haven't lived in a province where then NDP has ran the show before. They have knack for running things into the ground and getting shown the curb rather unceremoniously. The PCs in Alberta going to find out how that feels in a few weeks.
Ontario was the only province where they fucked things up, and that NDP leader was Bob Rae.... guess who he's running with now.
Spending money on education and health care end up costing the economy much less in the long term than cutting them... the cons would rather mortgage the future for a short term gain than actually fix anything.
It's in the Constitution actually. Article 1, Section 6, Clause 1 reads in part "for any Speech or Debate in either House, they[Senators and Representatives] shall not be questioned in any other Place."
That's an exemption from libel/slander suits, not an exemption from being held accountable for their actions.
Tell me that next time you're arrested for crossing a perfectly ordinary road (even with zero traffic on it), or "failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign", or any of a thousand and one ridiculous notions of what adults shouldn't be allowed to do.
The US is really no better or worse than Europe. The biggest problem with the US is that they DON'T REALISE THIS.
The only time somebody gets arrested for doing a rolling stop at a stop sign is if they give the cop a hard time. In fact, unless the cop has a pebble in his boot or is otherwise in a grumpy mood, usually you get off with a warning. Context is everything of course... if there's traffic, it's not only illegal to not come to a complete stop, it's stupid. You're more likely to get a ticket. But if you're on an empty road, and the road you're crossing is empty, you're unlikely to get a ticket for it.
The US does have its fair share of stupid laws, though... is it still illegal to chew bubble gum on a Sunday in Texas?
As a tablet or smartphone UI, actually it's pretty good. I still prefer Android, but I can understand why people would like Metro. A lot of the texting, e-mail, etc. widgets that people use on Android would not be necessary on Metro, because of the way it presents the tile for an app. (basically, no icons, everything is a widget).
As a desktop UI, you have to ask what the hell they were smoking. Something designed for touchscreen input on a 4" device does *not* scale to a 24" screen with a keyboard/mouse. While it's usable, it would be very counter-productive to anybody who's comfortable with the mouse, because they would have to scroll through pages of tiles to find the one they want. I don't think it's going to be the unmitigated disaster that everybody says it's going to be, but I do think that "how to turn Metro off" will replace porn as the number 1 Google search for a while after it launches.
I was going to moderate, but that's the second time you've posted flat-out wrong information on this thread...
The Google Nexus carries the Google name, because Google commissioned it, and set specific guidelines for how it's to be used/sold. It was manufactured by Samsung, and most of the profit goes to Samsung for it, but there are certain rules governing how that particular phone can be sold, and those are set by Google.
For one, the Nexus can't be sold with a network lock. It's sold as a "reference" device, and is unlocked to any network.
For two, it is not allowed to have any manufacturer-specific branding, and is sold with a stock unmodified Android.
There's other differences, but those are the big ones.
AT&T says they'll unlock iPhones that are no longer under contract, to customers who are in good standing. Yes, your iPhone is either out of contract, or you may have upgraded to a newer iPhone. Either way, the 3GS is most likely eligible to unlock
If you don't owe them anything, your account is in good standing, regardless of whether you're still paying them a monthly tithe.
You're the one who bought a phone they say explicitly that they "can't" unlock. Everything else they sell, they will happily unlock for you, for a small fee (that's usually greater than just going to gsmliberty.net or a similar site and buying an unlock code).
Don't bitch about it, when you have a choice with Telus to buy something that they *will* unlock.
That was in 1962, if I remember correctly. I think the machine was about 5 years old. The next year the university got an IBM 1620, with alphanumeric I/O and 20,000 digits of actual core memory. Change was relentlessly fast in those days, too. THe big difference is that every few years we got qualitative, not just quantitative change.
We do still get qualitative change in computing today, just that for *most* of what people actually do with computers, they're fast enough that the human is the limiting factor. For anything where human input isn't a factor (think large number crunching operations), there is still a noticeable difference from generation to generation.
Case in point... I do a fairly large amount of video encoding (DVD rips, and other stuff). I use 64-bit software, with a 64-bit operating system. I have recently upgraded from a first generation i7 to a second generation i5. I did go from 4GB to 16GB of RAM, but the actual usage when doing the transcode operation has remained stable, around 1.2GB in use (there's no swapping happening on either system), and the actual type of memory used is the same (speed and bus). That said, the transcode opertation from the original mpeg2 DVD rip to h.264 has gone from about 20 minutes for a 42-minute TV episode to 6 minutes for the same 42-minute TV episode, all else being equal. The difference... I went from a quad core/ht i7 (8 processes at 1.6GHz) to a quad core i5, overclocked (4 processes at 4.7GHz). I went from a top end processor 1 generation old to a current generation midrange processor, and saw a *huge* improvement in performance for a number-crunching heavy operation. now... I am pushing less than double the number of operations per second (8x1.6 = 12.8, 4x4.7 = 18.8), but there is more than a double improvement in real world performance. This is down to improvements in the architecture of the processor, and how it handles the operations.
That being said, my Facebook page doesn't load any faster than it did with the i7 (or on my celeron-based laptop for that matter), and my ability to type is still the limiting factor in how quickly I can use a word processor. If you're not doing heavy number crunching, there is almost no reason to upgrade your computer today (power consumption is an argument that can be made, but the difference is rarely enough to make up for the cost of buying a computer).
I'm supposed to be motivated by a mention on a sharepoint site?
Actually, yeah. Think of it this way: by sharing the idea publicly, there's opportunity to improve it. Just because it's not being developed now does not mean that there's no chance of it being developed tomorrow.
This is true for some stuff. But, are you interested in watching the Super Bowl from three years ago?
You do realize that the Super Bowl can be watched live, for free, with rabbit ears hooked up to your TV? Since you claim to have a 60" TV, I would be extremely surprised if it didn't have an ATSC tuner, and couldn't do 1080p (though most OTA HD is 1080i.).
I'm in Canada, and I can pick up NBC and Fox in HD, from a tower in upstate New York (I also get PBS, from Watertown). I have a hard time believing you wouldn't be able to do that yourself.
Anyway, it's only a few minutes in a one hour episode so, it's worth BUFFERING.... BUFFERING... 30 seconds of watchable video BUFFERING...
You also need a better Internet provider. I have no problem watching streaming video on my 12meg DSL connection. I'm able to watch HD video from the station sites of just about everything I actually watch.
Funny how A la carte works in the U.S. but for some reason can't work in Canada
A la carte does work in Canada. Both Videotron and Bell are doing it in Quebec. It doesn't seem to be hurting the channels at all.
And if it leads to the end of a channel that nobody watches, how is this a bad thing?
Seriously... a bit late, no? A lot of this flies directly in the face of stuff that Slashdot has been saying for years... comment reporting for abuse? Does this mean that abusive comments can be removed? That kinda defeats the point of the kind of discussion that Slashdot has been built on....
Thorium reactors can be built, and in fact have been built for testing. They just don't seem to be catching on at a large scale for some reason... I honestly don't know why, people who get paid more than me have looked at the numbers and decided that Uranium-fuelled reactors are better economy.
As to the video linked, he lost me when he used "atmosphere" as a unit of measurement. I know that it actually is a standard unit of measurement, but it's a completely arbitrary unit of measurement, based on an environmental measurement that isn't even consistent everywhere in the world.
(1) Decide what you're trying to do
(2) Decide what application level software will do what you need
(3) Use whatever platform (2) runs on
I will also add Define what you mean. My first thought on reading TFS was that he was asking what the best remote control software was, for him trying to access multiple clients. He could mean that, or he could mean what other people are assuming: how best to communicate with the people he does business with. Two very different applications, with two very different answers: for the first, some variant of NX, PC Anywhere, etc., would do the trick. I like NX, because it works on everything and is pretty fast. It's also dead easy to set up... downside: it's one of the most expensive options for commercial use. For the second way to read the question, you basically just need a good multiprotocol IM client and working e-mail. If you want, add text messaging or BBM to the list. If a customer urgently needs to speak with you, they can always pick up the phone, too.
And like you, I wouldn't suggest risking your income. If you need to use Windows to do your job, then buy a Windows box. Use it for work, and install Linux on a separate system (or even a multiboot) for personal use.
Really, the on demand streaming market favors this type of programming too. Instead of having to fill 24 hours a day with crap so that anytime someone turns on a TV they will have ads to watch, streaming requires you to offer something compelling to get people to watch it but you don't necessarily have to generate as much content since the guy watching at 2AM can watch the same thing that someone else watched at 7:30. It won't mean that crap goes away (since some people seemingly like crap) but I think the changing metric of competition will influence the kind of content that gets produced. Instead of competing to win a time slot, shows will have to compete to win a chunk of each viewer's limited screen-time.
Yup, which is why I advocate a combination of the two... I have an OTA antenna so that I can catch the nightly news, and if I have somebody over wanting to watch hockey or something, I can tune into that. And I have a Netflix account, where I get most of the content I actually watch. That, and streaming directly from the website... my favourite show is not available on Netflix, but I can go to the station's website and stream on demand for free, so it is essentially the same thing. And actually, I don't mind having ads in the Internet stream, because they only show 1 ad between acts, not 30. I'm guessing that's because they know it's a view, unlike broadcast, so they can command a higher price for ads.
Too many audio dropouts and freeze frame issues, even on the broadcast side. So I use analog cable, because analog OTA isn't available anymore. I can still shake my head in dismay every time the audio cuts out or the video freezes because I know it's a broadcast side deficiency.
With a half-decent antenna (actually, a bi-pole made from a coat hangar), I don't have any problems with dropouts on OTA ATSC content. It works quite well, actually. Maybe you're either in a dead spot, or have a shitty antenna. Or maybe you just didn't bother to point the antenna in the right direction. It makes a big difference, having the plane of the antenna perpendicular to the direction of the wave.
The victim of an assault pointed at her photo and said she committed the assault. That is why she was arrested. Going in for the interview merely set the time and place that the arrest would occur. If she declined the interview, they would have come to her home or workplace and taken her to the police station. Arrests occur upon serious suspicion, not upon establishment of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The only way to avoid arrest is to lower the level of suspicion. Silence does not reduce the suspicion. Having your statement come from your attorney does not reduce the suspicion any more than if it came directly from you. If she went to her attorney and said I have a couple of text messages and an alibi from a boyfriend the attorney would have probably said "you are going to need more than that, lets go get some affidavits from other people who attended the art opening art opening before we talk to the police". Such is the value of an attorney.
This. It's also worth pointing out that in Canada, there's no such thing as a 5th Amendment. The closest we have is section 11c of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms ( http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/charter/page-1.html ) which says you can't be compelled to bear witness against yourself.
She should definitely sue the city for legal expenses... this definitely sounds like they violated her Section 9 right not to be arbitrarily detained. The police developed tunnel vision, and ignored her alibi. They basically discounted her testimony on the word of somebody who had been drinking and could not have had the best recollection of the sequence of events. When they drop the charges, it's not a judgement in her favour, which means she has to do more than file a motion asking for reimbursement for expenses.
Also, despite what some people are saying, she's not an unknown within the art community. I have heard of her, and don't even live in Toronto. (though to be fair, I'm the kind of person who would rather go to a vernissage than a sporting event).
It uses UDP:631 for the auto detect, but CUPS only accepts connections on TCP:631, if I recall correctly. That may be a configuration in CUPS itself. :)
That being said, you can always configure it with a login script. :)
IPP printers don't work like that on Windows, though.
They do in Vista and 7. Turn the printer on, go to add network printer, have it search for printers, and there they are. No need to tell Windows anything at all, if the printers are on the same subnet as the PC. Install it, and it automatically connects on login.
And you *can* have any good quality network-connected printer join a Windows domain. Getting it set up to print to the right printer with roaming profiles is a question for your autoconfiguration script, not the printer.
IIRC from reading the forums and bugreports, samba has accumulated plenty of printing regressions since 3.2 or so, and nothing was ever done about them. It's been quite long since one could use, say, driver for HP LaserJet 8000/8100 directly via samba, without using a local printer port :(
It's also been a long time since I've seen a network-connected printer that didn't have an IPP server built in.
Come to it, it's actually been a long while since I've seen anybody try to use SAMBA to host a print server. Just use CUPS or some other IPP server if you don't have a printer with built-in print capability.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQCP85FngzE :)
They're the aviation equivalent of the bear patrol....
"forensic hair analysis" is actually possible.... you can usually get a DNA sample from the hair as long as the root is intact. Even if you can't get a DNA sample, you can do a chemical analysis (mass spec) on the hair itself and compare it against a known sample to determine if it's from the same person. (traces of what you eat, any drugs you consume, etc. will find their way into your hair and fingernails, which will affect the chemical breakdown of the hair... this is why a hair test can be used to determine if you consume illegal drugs). If the test is accurate enough, it can be used to determine your identity as accurately as a fingerprint or DNA test, but the mass spec does require that the hair be roughly the same age... if you get your hair cut before the "known" sample is taken (or the "unknown" sample is too old and your hair has had time to grow out), it won't match up (which would be why it's never used).
The CSI version where they put a hair under a microscope and take a picture which they put side by side against the killer's, and say "there's your guy!" is complete bullshit, however.