I'd imagine Canadian Dollars. $130/.65 = 200, so it's approximatly accurate.
If it's an exchange rate then you're paying the equivalent price in you local currency. If the price is truly higher it's not due to the exchange rate, but rather some other factor.
Somebody doesn't understand currency. In Canada we get paid the same number of dollars as somebody doing the same job in the states. We pay roughly the same amount for (non-imported) products as you do in the US (For instance, at Pizza Hut in Bismark, ND, a 12" is ~$14. In Saskatoon SK, a 12" is also ~$14). For all purposes except dealing with somebody outside our respective countries, $1US ~= $1CAD. So it really would be like you paying $200 for your the product.
Haven't you ever wondered why some things are cheaper in other countries while others are more expensive?
Why is the American robotics association meeting in Alberta? That simply strikes me as odd, unless it's a continental thing, and the Canadians comprimised on its name:)
I live in a place where we never get snow and ice. I didn't intend my point to be taken so literally. I was arguing against increasing the frequency of the driving test (except for old people). You can make the driving test as hard as you want it, in my opinion, it's far too easy anyway.
Okay, I see your point. But in all honesty, people forget how to drive in snow and ice, even if they've lived here for their entire lives. Statistically, 30% of all accidents in my city happen on the first day of snowfall in winter, usually the first part of November. My accident involving an SUV broadsiding me was because the other driver was going too fast to successfully turn right like they had intended, and instead changed their course to be going directly at me.
Their tires were not moving at all. They'd locked their brakes. Mistake 1. Their wheels were pointing to their right, mistake 2. They were going too fast for road conditions, mistake 3.
I feel that refresher courses in stuff like that would be of a huge benefit to this province, especially to the (Crown) insurance monopoly who could lower rates due to lower frequency of accidents.
Also, our province has a reputation for being "so flat you can see on Friday whos coming on Saturday". My city has a river valley, and a few freeway onramps and the like. These are not fun places to be driving because people don't know how to handle hills in a standard. Often, you can measure the distance people roll in metres, not just centimetres:).. which is why I also support teaching people how to drive standard, and having a restriction on your licence which is automatically applied if you don't take your test in a standard.
It seems to me, upon casual inspection, that the current Apple iBook designs cost less than other laptop computers. If anyone has recommendations for a laptop to run Linux, please post a reply.
Everything in my iBook, with the exception of the modem, works flawlessly... even the function buttons like volume. I know you can set up video mirroring through the VGA port, but I haven't done it. You can also start Linux off a firewire drive with its root filesystem on the aformentioned firewire drive.
I've never bought a PC where I liked the mouse supplied with it so I always end up replacing it (usually with an M$ mouse of some sort).
I've become a fan of Logitech's basic optical wheel mouse. It's cheap and it works well, and it's USB. MS mice are arguably nicer, but they also cost at least $30 more than my mouse. I also like the logitech mouseman traveller for my iBook.
Your current mouse is an USB mouse ? Fine. Then unplug it, plug it into your Mac, and Presto ! You're set up to go with as much mouse buttons as you like. MS even supplies utilities for their mice and keyboards for MacOS.
Which is, oddly enough, the only difference between MS' "Mac certified" and "Windows certified" USB hardware at CompuSmart. The Mac model comes with both Mac and windows drivers, while the Windows version comes only with Windows drivers. The windows version is $10 less than the Mac version, and it works just fine (as a non-fancy keyboard with the windows key mapped to hte apple key)on the mac until you download the mac drivers from their website.
What good is that going to do? If a 16 year old passed a driving test at 16, he or she can repass it at 21. With the exception of really old people, most accidents are usually caused by carelessness, not lack of skills.
Have you ever driven on snow and/or ice? If somebody can't do it, they shouldn't be driving here. Ideally, everybody would take their test in the winter, or on some simulated winter conditions.
Your mention of SK means, I presume, Saskatchewan, suggesting that Canada is your home. Canadian insurance laws seem quite different from American insurance laws.
Good call. SK=Saskatchewan. Anyway, Saskatchewan is a bit of an oddity in North America. The insurance is provided by the Crown, and they're the only insurance provider. In Alberta, you must have PLD (Public Liability & Damage) insurance, and all else is optional. They do the age, gender, colour of car bit to determine rates. A friend of mine there is 21 with a perfect driving record, and his 16 year old sister's insurance costs 1/2 what his does.
I'm anxious for next summer to come around so I reach the three-year point when the collision on my record -- my fault -- comes off. The settlement was for $10,000, and my rates got boosted by about $450 a year, meaning that they get $1350 for me costing them $10K, not to mention whatever other incidental costs are there. Of course, I've been paying my insurance company between $1200 and $2100 a year, depending on what I've been driving, whether I have a collision on my record, and my age group, so I guess it's fair. But I have no moving violations, and the two accidents have been relatively minor. I'm an odd exception to the rule.
Certainly true. Here (in SK), when you get into an accident, the courts stay out of it. SGI (not the graphics company) determines who's at fault and audjusts their licence insurance accordingly. The stuff on the vehicle is just for when there is no driver, like a hit and run on your parked car or other weird circumstances, like a metior hits your car whilt stopped at a red light:).
If you take away a farmer's right to drive, you're taken away his work. They have no choice but to drive. They need to be able to get to work, they need to get to a store for basic necessities. It is a need.
The only people who think you can get around just fine without a car are the ones who've never lived outside a city.
(and probably about 3/4 of our VEHICLES would be taken off the road too for mechanical problems)
Funny you should mention that. In Saskatchewan, Canada, our government just went on a checking car for mechanical problems spree. Nearly everybody I know who drives a car older than 1990 got a ticket and some got their cars taken to a mechanic to be fixed an inspected.
Some had SGI (the motor vehicle registrar here) say "we'll register it again when it's passed an inspection".
I have an 86 Ford Ranger in nearly perfect condition. I did not get a ticket, even though I spent a lot of time in those bays waiting for the cop to tell me my car was fine:)
It works both ways. I don't think any age is better or worse than any other, but I am in favour of everybody taking a road test every 5 years in order to keep your licence. 16, 21, 26, 31, etc... that will force everybody to keep their driving reasonably good.
Open your newspaper up some time. You'll find that there are more accidents involving teenagers than you think. When mommy and daddy stop paying for the insurance you may discover this as well. Especially if you're unfortunate enough to purchase the same model of car that parents give to their irresponsible teenagers when they turn 16; your insurance rates will take your breath away.
I opened my newspaper up this morning... accident involving 33 year old female. Alchohol was a factor. Statistically there are fewer accidents by 16-21 year olds here than by 35+. The most being between 25-35.
BTW, my "mommy and daddy" don't pay my insurance. I pay the $513/year for the car and the $25/year for my licence. Unlike some places, our insurance here varies only on driving record (licence goes up by $25 every bad thing you do, car never goes up) which is the way is should be.
I've been driving for thirty years with no moving violations but have had two accidents: both caused by teenagers. (Rear-ended at a red stop light by a seventeen year old doing 40 and broadsided a sixteen year old who didn't look for oncoming traffic and pulled right out into traffic from a stop sign.)
I've had three accidents. One caused by a 40 year old woman in her minivan. She read-ended me at a stop light because she managed to get her SK drivers licence without knowing how to drive in winter. Another one was by a 17 year old kid broadsiding me with his mommy's SUV, and the last one was by a 50 year old German immigrant who rear ended me with his BMW. Accidents caused by me: 0.
The most irritating thing is people who drive in 2 lanes at one time at 3/4 the speed limit and stop at every light. All people who do that are 60+ people with Farm plates. You never see city people doing that.
That said, I'm interested to find out which part of the Criminal Code specifically makes installing mod chips, and presumably other circumvention devices, a felony offense.
The article suggests he was convicted of a summary offence. BTW, there are no felony offences, they're called indictable.
But anyway.. C-42 sections 342.1, 342.2 and 430 are the parts you're looking for.
Relevant parts: -342.1 (b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system, -342.2 talks about the sale of devices that do the above (among other things)
mod chips intercept a function of a computer system (PS) by causing them not to perform the function of verifying the disc is authorized.
He sold a device, and is guilty under section 342.2.
Bullshit. Please give me one example of a carbon copy of a US law.
We do not have any equivalent of the DMCA. Though there is talk about getting one, we still do not and there is still a hope that parliament will not pass it.
Does anyone know where to get the briefs for this case?
CANLII is a good first place to look. All you need is the court in which he was convicted, and you can browse all court decisions. It also has a list of all courts in Canada. Guide to Ontario Courts would be another good place to look. The Law Society of Upper Canada might be of some help too.
Since Ontario is a backwards province whos justice system doesn't give over court briefs to Canlii, there must be a place in Ontario where one can get them. Maybe the Queen's Printer in Ontario?
In general, these are the limits in Canada unless otherwise marked (but IANAL, so please correct me):
- 15 km/h or less on semi-private roads
- 40 km/h or less in resdential zones
- 50 or 60 km/h or less on main streets (depends on the municipality)
- 80 km/h or less on country roads
- 90 km/h or less on all non-400 (or QEW) series highways/speed (unless marked)
- 100 km/h maximum on all 400 series / QEW highways.
Nope, defaults vary from province to province. Highway lws fall under provincial jurisdiction. In Saskatchewan the default limits are: --30 in school zones 0800-1700 September-June --40 in towns --50 in cities --80 on highways and Circle Drive --90 on Idylwyld Drive and some other major roads --100 on Ring Road, Louis Riel Trail, and the TC
Oh yea, in SK and MB, we know how to drive in the winter, so you'll see people going 80 on both Circle Drive and Ring Road in a blizzard:)(it's too slippery to go much faster than that). AB is a close second to us "eastern westerners".
In Alberta, it's the same except for 110 on Highways 1 (TC) and 2.
Feel free to correct me, any Albertans. And yes, ignorance of a speed limit IS an excuse here too.. I've personally gotten it passed a SK Provincial Judge who presided over one of my speeding tickets.
Except that mod chips are not illegal. You must demonstrate intent to run pirated games in order for them to be illegal. Just like a lockpick set. They're illegal if there is intent to use them to pick a lock that isn't yours.
Odds are not good. They had to demonstrate intent to use the chips to pirate. The fact that he was also being tried for piracy of the games provides the needed intent.
I have no idea what's authorized. It isn't clear in any statute that I can find and a search of CANLII didn't give me anything.
Pirated games + mod chips = 2 counts of copyright infringment. Pirated games = 1 count of copyright infringment mod chips = 0 counts of copyright infringment as there is no demonstratable intent.
Read the statute. It's available at The MOJ and the Criminal Code is quite easy to follow. It says that intent is necessicary in order to commit this crime. No intent to pirate == no crime.
How can it be unauthorized use of a computer, if it was his computer? Similarly, anyone who bought a chipped machine from him authorized that use (unless he didn't tell customers that they were chipped, but why would he do it that way?). I see nothing in this law that says you can't do whatever you want to a computer you own, since by definition you have authority over your own property.
See below, he caused a computer system (PS/2) to be used to commit an offence under paragraph a (obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service IE a program IE a PS/2 game). He was convicted and punished on summary conviction.
(c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Except maybe, that older Apache installations have bugs. The rest of your system should be good though, as long as you have recent versions of other network apps like OpenSSH on them too.
You don't need to update your OS to run the newest Apache, just #./configure && make && make install.
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199 what?
I'd imagine Canadian Dollars. $130/.65 = 200, so it's approximatly accurate.
If it's an exchange rate then you're paying the equivalent price in you local currency. If the price is truly higher it's not due to the exchange rate, but rather some other factor.
Somebody doesn't understand currency. In Canada we get paid the same number of dollars as somebody doing the same job in the states. We pay roughly the same amount for (non-imported) products as you do in the US (For instance, at Pizza Hut in Bismark, ND, a 12" is ~$14. In Saskatoon SK, a 12" is also ~$14). For all purposes except dealing with somebody outside our respective countries, $1US ~= $1CAD. So it really would be like you paying $200 for your the product.
Haven't you ever wondered why some things are cheaper in other countries while others are more expensive?
Why is the American robotics association meeting in Alberta? That simply strikes me as odd, unless it's a continental thing, and the Canadians comprimised on its name :)
I live in a place where we never get snow and ice. I didn't intend my point to be taken so literally. I was arguing against increasing the frequency of the driving test (except for old people). You can make the driving test as hard as you want it, in my opinion, it's far too easy anyway.
:).. which is why I also support teaching people how to drive standard, and having a restriction on your licence which is automatically applied if you don't take your test in a standard.
Okay, I see your point. But in all honesty, people forget how to drive in snow and ice, even if they've lived here for their entire lives. Statistically, 30% of all accidents in my city happen on the first day of snowfall in winter, usually the first part of November. My accident involving an SUV broadsiding me was because the other driver was going too fast to successfully turn right like they had intended, and instead changed their course to be going directly at me.
Their tires were not moving at all. They'd locked their brakes. Mistake 1. Their wheels were pointing to their right, mistake 2. They were going too fast for road conditions, mistake 3.
I feel that refresher courses in stuff like that would be of a huge benefit to this province, especially to the (Crown) insurance monopoly who could lower rates due to lower frequency of accidents.
Also, our province has a reputation for being "so flat you can see on Friday whos coming on Saturday". My city has a river valley, and a few freeway onramps and the like. These are not fun places to be driving because people don't know how to handle hills in a standard. Often, you can measure the distance people roll in metres, not just centimetres
It seems to me, upon casual inspection, that the current Apple iBook designs cost less than other laptop computers. If anyone has recommendations for a laptop to run Linux, please post a reply.
Everything in my iBook, with the exception of the modem, works flawlessly... even the function buttons like volume. I know you can set up video mirroring through the VGA port, but I haven't done it. You can also start Linux off a firewire drive with its root filesystem on the aformentioned firewire drive.
I've never bought a PC where I liked the mouse supplied with it so I always end up replacing it (usually with an M$ mouse of some sort).
I've become a fan of Logitech's basic optical wheel mouse. It's cheap and it works well, and it's USB. MS mice are arguably nicer, but they also cost at least $30 more than my mouse. I also like the logitech mouseman traveller for my iBook.
Your current mouse is an USB mouse ? Fine. Then unplug it, plug it into your Mac, and Presto ! You're set up to go with as much mouse buttons as you like. MS even supplies utilities for their mice and keyboards for MacOS.
Which is, oddly enough, the only difference between MS' "Mac certified" and "Windows certified" USB hardware at CompuSmart. The Mac model comes with both Mac and windows drivers, while the Windows version comes only with Windows drivers. The windows version is $10 less than the Mac version, and it works just fine (as a non-fancy keyboard with the windows key mapped to hte apple key)on the mac until you download the mac drivers from their website.
Except that there is no such bill before the Commons or the Senate. Please, if I missed it, point me at the bill to which you are referring.
MuchMusic is not the most reliable source of news, you know.
What good is that going to do? If a 16 year old passed a driving test at 16, he or she can repass it at 21. With the exception of really old people, most accidents are usually caused by carelessness, not lack of skills.
Have you ever driven on snow and/or ice? If somebody can't do it, they shouldn't be driving here. Ideally, everybody would take their test in the winter, or on some simulated winter conditions.
Your mention of SK means, I presume, Saskatchewan, suggesting that Canada is your home. Canadian insurance laws seem quite different from American insurance laws.
:).
Good call. SK=Saskatchewan. Anyway, Saskatchewan is a bit of an oddity in North America. The insurance is provided by the Crown, and they're the only insurance provider. In Alberta, you must have PLD (Public Liability & Damage) insurance, and all else is optional. They do the age, gender, colour of car bit to determine rates. A friend of mine there is 21 with a perfect driving record, and his 16 year old sister's insurance costs 1/2 what his does.
I'm anxious for next summer to come around so I reach the three-year point when the collision on my record -- my fault -- comes off. The settlement was for $10,000, and my rates got boosted by about $450 a year, meaning that they get $1350 for me costing them $10K, not to mention whatever other incidental costs are there. Of course, I've been paying my insurance company between $1200 and $2100 a year, depending on what I've been driving, whether I have a collision on my record, and my age group, so I guess it's fair. But I have no moving violations, and the two accidents have been relatively minor. I'm an odd exception to the rule.
Certainly true. Here (in SK), when you get into an accident, the courts stay out of it. SGI (not the graphics company) determines who's at fault and audjusts their licence insurance accordingly. The stuff on the vehicle is just for when there is no driver, like a hit and run on your parked car or other weird circumstances, like a metior hits your car whilt stopped at a red light
If you take away a farmer's right to drive, you're taken away his work. They have no choice but to drive. They need to be able to get to work, they need to get to a store for basic necessities. It is a need.
The only people who think you can get around just fine without a car are the ones who've never lived outside a city.
(and probably about 3/4 of our VEHICLES would be taken off the road too for mechanical problems)
:)
Funny you should mention that. In Saskatchewan, Canada, our government just went on a checking car for mechanical problems spree. Nearly everybody I know who drives a car older than 1990 got a ticket and some got their cars taken to a mechanic to be fixed an inspected.
Some had SGI (the motor vehicle registrar here) say "we'll register it again when it's passed an inspection".
I have an 86 Ford Ranger in nearly perfect condition. I did not get a ticket, even though I spent a lot of time in those bays waiting for the cop to tell me my car was fine
Where I live we have hit and run and other such insurance on the vehicle (mandated), and moving insurance on the driver.
That is just such a load.
It works both ways. I don't think any age is better or worse than any other, but I am in favour of everybody taking a road test every 5 years in order to keep your licence. 16, 21, 26, 31, etc... that will force everybody to keep their driving reasonably good.
Open your newspaper up some time. You'll find that there are more accidents involving teenagers than you think. When mommy and daddy stop paying for the insurance you may discover this as well. Especially if you're unfortunate enough to purchase the same model of car that parents give to their irresponsible teenagers when they turn 16; your insurance rates will take your breath away.
I opened my newspaper up this morning... accident involving 33 year old female. Alchohol was a factor. Statistically there are fewer accidents by 16-21 year olds here than by 35+. The most being between 25-35.
BTW, my "mommy and daddy" don't pay my insurance. I pay the $513/year for the car and the $25/year for my licence. Unlike some places, our insurance here varies only on driving record (licence goes up by $25 every bad thing you do, car never goes up) which is the way is should be.
I've been driving for thirty years with no moving violations but have had two accidents: both caused by teenagers. (Rear-ended at a red stop light by a seventeen year old doing 40 and broadsided a sixteen year old who didn't look for oncoming traffic and pulled right out into traffic from a stop sign.)
I've had three accidents. One caused by a 40 year old woman in her minivan. She read-ended me at a stop light because she managed to get her SK drivers licence without knowing how to drive in winter. Another one was by a 17 year old kid broadsiding me with his mommy's SUV, and the last one was by a 50 year old German immigrant who rear ended me with his BMW. Accidents caused by me: 0.
The most irritating thing is people who drive in 2 lanes at one time at 3/4 the speed limit and stop at every light. All people who do that are 60+ people with Farm plates. You never see city people doing that.
That said, I'm interested to find out which part of the Criminal Code specifically makes installing mod chips, and presumably other circumvention devices, a felony offense.
The article suggests he was convicted of a summary offence. BTW, there are no felony offences, they're called indictable.
But anyway.. C-42 sections 342.1, 342.2 and 430 are the parts you're looking for.
Relevant parts:
-342.1 (b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system,
-342.2 talks about the sale of devices that do the above (among other things)
mod chips intercept a function of a computer system (PS) by causing them not to perform the function of verifying the disc is authorized.
He sold a device, and is guilty under section 342.2.
Bullshit. Please give me one example of a carbon copy of a US law.
We do not have any equivalent of the DMCA. Though there is talk about getting one, we still do not and there is still a hope that parliament will not pass it.
Does anyone know where to get the briefs for this case?
CANLII is a good first place to look. All you need is the court in which he was convicted, and you can browse all court decisions. It also has a list of all courts in Canada. Guide to Ontario Courts would be another good place to look. The Law Society of Upper Canada might be of some help too.
Since Ontario is a backwards province whos justice system doesn't give over court briefs to Canlii, there must be a place in Ontario where one can get them. Maybe the Queen's Printer in Ontario?
Nope. But there is a possibility.
The law they got him under was circumventing copyright controls with the intent of copyright infringment, which is illegal.
Just breaking it with no intent is not good enough to get a criminal charge.
In general, these are the limits in Canada unless otherwise marked (but IANAL, so please correct me):
:)(it's too slippery to go much faster than that). AB is a close second to us "eastern westerners".
- 15 km/h or less on semi-private roads
- 40 km/h or less in resdential zones
- 50 or 60 km/h or less on main streets (depends on the municipality)
- 80 km/h or less on country roads
- 90 km/h or less on all non-400 (or QEW) series highways/speed (unless marked)
- 100 km/h maximum on all 400 series / QEW highways.
Nope, defaults vary from province to province. Highway lws fall under provincial jurisdiction. In Saskatchewan the default limits are:
--30 in school zones 0800-1700 September-June
--40 in towns
--50 in cities
--80 on highways and Circle Drive
--90 on Idylwyld Drive and some other major roads
--100 on Ring Road, Louis Riel Trail, and the TC
Oh yea, in SK and MB, we know how to drive in the winter, so you'll see people going 80 on both Circle Drive and Ring Road in a blizzard
In Alberta, it's the same except for 110 on Highways 1 (TC) and 2.
Feel free to correct me, any Albertans. And yes, ignorance of a speed limit IS an excuse here too.. I've personally gotten it passed a SK Provincial Judge who presided over one of my speeding tickets.
What are QEW highways?
Except that mod chips are not illegal. You must demonstrate intent to run pirated games in order for them to be illegal. Just like a lockpick set. They're illegal if there is intent to use them to pick a lock that isn't yours.
Odds are not good. They had to demonstrate intent to use the chips to pirate. The fact that he was also being tried for piracy of the games provides the needed intent.
I have no idea what's authorized. It isn't clear in any statute that I can find and a search of CANLII didn't give me anything.
To summarise:
Pirated games + mod chips = 2 counts of copyright infringment.
Pirated games = 1 count of copyright infringment
mod chips = 0 counts of copyright infringment as there is no demonstratable intent.
Read the statute. It's available at The MOJ and the Criminal Code is quite easy to follow. It says that intent is necessicary in order to commit this crime. No intent to pirate == no crime.
Yes it's legal to use your mod chips.
How can it be unauthorized use of a computer, if it was his computer? Similarly, anyone who bought a chipped machine from him authorized that use (unless he didn't tell customers that they were chipped, but why would he do it that way?). I see nothing in this law that says you can't do whatever you want to a computer you own, since by definition you have authority over your own property.
See below, he caused a computer system (PS/2) to be used to commit an offence under paragraph a (obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service IE a program IE a PS/2 game). He was convicted and punished on summary conviction.
(c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
I have no reason to update it.
Except maybe, that older Apache installations have bugs. The rest of your system should be good though, as long as you have recent versions of other network apps like OpenSSH on them too.
You don't need to update your OS to run the newest Apache, just #./configure && make && make install.
You could just use Darwin, which IS free and DOES come with X11.
Darwin is pretty good, but it has its problems. Hopefully they're fixed now, I haven't used pure Darwin in a while.