I wonder how many smaller cities have already done this?
In Canada it's common, the problem that we find up here though is the LED street lights don't generate enough heat to keep the cover clear in the winter. Causing severely reduced visibility during heavy snowfalls. This of course is leading to heating units being installed to melt the snow off, so there's enough light to make it safe. And it pretty much negates any energy savings. My hometown messed around with a few test areas on major streets for two winters, and then switched back to pressurized bulbs. Especially after those stretches of road became known for accidents.
Doesn't Teksavvy use PPPoE over Bell's lines? What's to stop them from implementing MPPE and encrypting their customer content? (a google search indicates that this question came up in 2007.)
They use PPPoE but use their own server for handling authorization. What's stopping them from implementing MPPE? Probably Bell.
Yeah that's not true at all, people just can't be bothered to search. The city where I live in, in Ontario has ~35k people, I have 57 ISP's to choose from, the next nearest town has ~8k people, they have 70 ISP's to chose from. If I choose a major city like London, or K-W you can easily see 80-140 ISP's. The only places where Bell, Rogers, Telus, etc are a monopoly are in subdivisions where they're installing and forcing people into a contract term when they buy a new house. www.canadianisp.ca is a godsend.
we don't sell our customer data to anybody... I'm looking into what this is but it has nothing to do with us or our customers.
Official answer:
The underlying AUPs of the incumbents apply to the connections used to provide TekSavvy' services. This is so the incumbents can control network abuse and stop unlawful conduct relating to the use of the connection.
The incumbents retail terms of service however, that apply to their own end users, do not apply to the customers of TekSavvy.
The incumbents do not have the right to breach the privacy of retail customers of TekSavvy.
Actually Bell / Rogers has 24 hours to fix it once it's gone up from the ISP and they usually do quicker than that.
Actually according to the TPIA agreements that most of the other ISP's have it's 48 hours, in fact it got so bad not all that long ago that the delays for repairs from Tek to Rogers were in the 7 day range. CNOC has recently filed with the CRTC to fix the TPIA issues and issues to repair, as well as long ticket repair delays. And this is happening across the spectrum, not just with Tek, or Velcom, or Start, but everyone DSL and cable, and getting screwed over.
If you're Canadian, you should write a letter to the CRTC. Information on it can be found here.
Myself, I've been with Tek back in Ontario for 3 years. I had one two day outage thanks to rogers breaking the routing tables, while doing a node update. Tek gave me the two days back discounted, I'm out in Alberta until December doing a deployment for a small town and the only thing I can get here is LTE for internet, because Telus refuses to upgrade the number of ports available. As a fun point, that's been on-going for 4 years, if you move in this city--you can't move your DSL with you either.
You mean that the console maker chose to set the certification costs at a prohibitive level. Besides, Nintendo rejected The Binding of Isaac due to its subject matter.
That too, in otherwords they're happier with a specific monoculture of games. As for Nintendo rejecting it due to subject matter, well...we all know that there's a rating system that exists for it. Not that it really stops people or anything. This was of course the same Nintendo that allowed you to see a gory pile of goo in the friday the 13th games.
Greedy gamers are killing PC games through the escalated levels theft of PC games.
Odd that there's just as rampant levels of such on consoles, but that's not killing them. And in turn, odd that several indie developers have found out that piracy not only pulled their backside out of the fire, but made the game profitable. But let's not forget either that there's plenty of games that were on the console, which were ported over to the PC and put up on Steam, and one days worth of sales covered an entire year.
Yep...it's them pirates. Never mind that there's hundreds of good games and titles that don't get put into publication because the publishers don't want to take risks anymore, unlike the days of the 90's and early '00's.
Nobody wants a device to be bigger than it has to be. Stop pretending they do.
Really? Can you tell us how to cram a 4Ghz+cpu, as well as a GPU crammed with 1.9-3.6m transistors and keeping it cool, while at the same time being able to multitask without losing focus on the original object into a small device.
Having "one of those locked down bios" sorry I mean boards with UEFI, and being able to load 'nix, bsd and windows without a problem, I'm guess mine is broken. I will say though, being able to mess around with the UEFI inside windows itself is damned nice. I haven't found anything 'nix wise that will allow the same support, but if someone knows something I'd be interested in it.
Do you think your sister's location might count as an outlier - too small, too remote, unable to attract a doctor or doctors. You see, you didn't reveal your location but the 7 hr drive for your sister is a hint.
No, there's a specialist 2 hours away, funny enough I'm out here now and it's where most people do their grocery shopping. And while I'm remote, I do have broadband, among other services--the real problem is there aren't enough GP's or even specialists to go around in the province due to the massive influx of people in the last 5 years with the oil boom. Just not accepting any patients, he referred her to the other one 7 hours away because they were accepting patients. In Canada, "remote" is actually remote compared to the US. And by that definition, it's usually a 3 hour ride by Cessna or by rail--which is owned by the federal government because it's considered a "vital lifelink."
Long waits? When was the last time you went to visit your doctor in the US? I'm lucky if I can see him this week.
Same with the emergency room - unless you are bleeding all over the place chances are you'll be waiting for a couple hours.
My one scrape with socialized medicine was in Canada where they fixed a broken arm - put it in a cast. I don't remember waiting at all in the emergency room and to this day I haven't been billed.
Well let me reply since I'm from Canada, the last time I needed a doctor visit, it was a 3 week wait. My sister in Alberta has to wait for a doctor to come to her town. Once per month, from another city 6 hours away. When I goto see my neurologist, I get appointments for either 1 month or 3 months depending. If I have to cancel, it's a min. of 35 days for the next. I have to travel 1.4 hours to see her, there's no one closer. My sister drives 7 hours to go see her diabetic specialist. Once every 3 months.
If I goto the emergency room, and it's serious I'm in right away...most of the time. If not, I'll be waiting. Oh and for some people, the emergency room is their family doctor in Canada. When I had testicular torsion I was in, in a flash. When I got a metal sliver in my eye, it was a 9 hour wait.
And generally if you're "visiting" you don't get billed unless it's expensive. A broken arm isn't considered much of anything to bill, or didn't use to be. But in Ontario, you're likely to be billed now since we've had decades of Americans coming across the border and using our healthcare.
Except that the LUA system that blizzard uses already allows people with disabilities to play easily. In fact, there's no shortage of mods that make it easy to play for those who are colour blind, or can only use one arm. And not forgetting that you can buy no shortage of mice, or keyboards that are fully programmable to do everything you want.
There's no way that an automated gameplay element would stand on the ADA.
Sooooo, you think there is no cowardice in having such a policy?
Nope. Want to know where the policy came from? I'll give you the answer, and those are people who have a fear of any police action--and the anti-gun movement across north america who wanted police actions restrained in life-or-death large scale situations. And while that's indeed CYA in some cases, it's not cowardice. Go read the officer reports from the mass shootings where they were required to wait on the ground, then get back to me. Ignoring said policies are generally terms for automatic arrest of the officer breaking them, and in some cases they're automatic felonies or criminal violations(canadian version of a felony).
One think I noticed in the past US school-shootings was how long it took for the police to get to the shooters. I can only attribute this to fundamental cowardice.
It wasn't fundamental cowardice, that would be the simple answer. Rather it used to be the policy of all police dept's and services in the US and Canada to "respond, wait, and enter only on the higher up's authorization." If you don't know this, and many don't...besides there being some type of police act, each dept/service also has required policies which you're required to adhere to as a member of said organization. It isn't uniform, it's unique to each one.
This has changed since Columbine though, it's "arrive on site, and subdue at any cost." Something else to realize is that in some, your SWAT/ETR teams are also frontline officers in a lot of places. That means that some are on duty, some are off. And some of those that are on duty, may have a very large patrol area. The ETR where I live has 5 constables, but their patrol area is just shy of 700sq/km daily.
The contractors were too busy designing all of the "Due to the government shutdown, this website is closed" websites for all of the other government sites, so they didn't have enough time to work on the launch of the new site.
Hardly. More along the lines they hired a company with a poor reputation, that other governments had already experienced. See the "eHealth" scandal.
I've slept on the floor next to the toilet. And I still don't want the shot.
Then you're either stupid, or insane. Not sure which, I spent 7 days on a cot 8 ft away from my bathroom. I was so weak for the first 3 days that I couldn't get to the bathroom without help. By the 4th day, I could just walk, sort of. I fainted twice, trying to walk that 8 feet. On the 5th day I was only fainting 50% of the time. It took me nearly a month to recover from it.
I should probably add, now that I think on it. My parents Volkswagen from the 70's had a shorter warranty than hard drives do. 1 year, or 12,000KM, and that was right from the showroom floor.
People trust the *idea* of self driving cars from tech companies over those from automakers
Some people may be too old to have missed the massive screw-over that NA automakers pulled during the 70's with the "they'll buy what we'll tell them to buy." And the same with the Japanese/Korean automakers in the 90's. Or the European in the 70's 80's and 90's. The reason why this makes sense is because plenty of people do remember that, and as well those who may not have...have parents who do.
But it does work that way. You should pay attention to exactly how much money those countries with "brutal regimes" pay various terrorist groups/handlers/etc to target Israel. And not to mention the arab press. If your view held true, then it would be difficult to explain Libya which is now being over run by terrorist groups.
Really? It appears that fascism has indeed come in a form, but it's in the form of "cultural diversity, and political correctness gone amok." Or haven't you noticed the chilling effects that both of those have had on your first amendment? Having been born, lived in Canada and several other places in the world. It's pretty easy to notice this. It might be wrapped in an american flag, but it sure isn't carrying a cross.
Slashdot Mirror
They tried that in Greece, how's that economy doing these days anyway?
I wonder how many smaller cities have already done this?
In Canada it's common, the problem that we find up here though is the LED street lights don't generate enough heat to keep the cover clear in the winter. Causing severely reduced visibility during heavy snowfalls. This of course is leading to heating units being installed to melt the snow off, so there's enough light to make it safe. And it pretty much negates any energy savings. My hometown messed around with a few test areas on major streets for two winters, and then switched back to pressurized bulbs. Especially after those stretches of road became known for accidents.
How about nowhere? Okay. T0E population ~4500, 10 ISP's.
Doesn't Teksavvy use PPPoE over Bell's lines? What's to stop them from implementing MPPE and encrypting their customer content? (a google search indicates that this question came up in 2007.)
They use PPPoE but use their own server for handling authorization. What's stopping them from implementing MPPE? Probably Bell.
Bell are a monopoly in all the small markets.
Yeah that's not true at all, people just can't be bothered to search. The city where I live in, in Ontario has ~35k people, I have 57 ISP's to choose from, the next nearest town has ~8k people, they have 70 ISP's to chose from. If I choose a major city like London, or K-W you can easily see 80-140 ISP's. The only places where Bell, Rogers, Telus, etc are a monopoly are in subdivisions where they're installing and forcing people into a contract term when they buy a new house. www.canadianisp.ca is a godsend.
From Marc of TSI.
we don't sell our customer data to anybody... I'm looking into what this is but it has nothing to do with us or our customers.
Official answer:
The underlying AUPs of the incumbents apply to the connections used to provide TekSavvy' services. This is so the incumbents can control network abuse and stop unlawful conduct relating to the use of the connection.
The incumbents retail terms of service however, that apply to their own end users, do not apply to the customers of TekSavvy.
The incumbents do not have the right to breach the privacy of retail customers of TekSavvy.
Actually Bell / Rogers has 24 hours to fix it once it's gone up from the ISP and they usually do quicker than that.
Actually according to the TPIA agreements that most of the other ISP's have it's 48 hours, in fact it got so bad not all that long ago that the delays for repairs from Tek to Rogers were in the 7 day range. CNOC has recently filed with the CRTC to fix the TPIA issues and issues to repair, as well as long ticket repair delays. And this is happening across the spectrum, not just with Tek, or Velcom, or Start, but everyone DSL and cable, and getting screwed over.
If you're Canadian, you should write a letter to the CRTC. Information on it can be found here.
Myself, I've been with Tek back in Ontario for 3 years. I had one two day outage thanks to rogers breaking the routing tables, while doing a node update. Tek gave me the two days back discounted, I'm out in Alberta until December doing a deployment for a small town and the only thing I can get here is LTE for internet, because Telus refuses to upgrade the number of ports available. As a fun point, that's been on-going for 4 years, if you move in this city--you can't move your DSL with you either.
You mean that the console maker chose to set the certification costs at a prohibitive level. Besides, Nintendo rejected The Binding of Isaac due to its subject matter.
That too, in otherwords they're happier with a specific monoculture of games. As for Nintendo rejecting it due to subject matter, well...we all know that there's a rating system that exists for it. Not that it really stops people or anything. This was of course the same Nintendo that allowed you to see a gory pile of goo in the friday the 13th games.
Or because the console maker didn't want to take risks. Consider Bob's Game for Nintendo DS and The Binding of Isaac for Nintendo 3DS.
You mean that the developer couldn't afford the certification costs to bring it to consoles.
Greedy gamers are killing PC games through the escalated levels theft of PC games.
Odd that there's just as rampant levels of such on consoles, but that's not killing them. And in turn, odd that several indie developers have found out that piracy not only pulled their backside out of the fire, but made the game profitable. But let's not forget either that there's plenty of games that were on the console, which were ported over to the PC and put up on Steam, and one days worth of sales covered an entire year.
Yep...it's them pirates. Never mind that there's hundreds of good games and titles that don't get put into publication because the publishers don't want to take risks anymore, unlike the days of the 90's and early '00's.
Nobody wants a device to be bigger than it has to be. Stop pretending they do.
Really? Can you tell us how to cram a 4Ghz+cpu, as well as a GPU crammed with 1.9-3.6m transistors and keeping it cool, while at the same time being able to multitask without losing focus on the original object into a small device.
(than the outrageous $60+ price tag of a new pc game)
I can't remember the last time I saw a PC game for $60, console games yes. In fact the average price for a PC game new is between $40-51.
Having "one of those locked down bios" sorry I mean boards with UEFI, and being able to load 'nix, bsd and windows without a problem, I'm guess mine is broken. I will say though, being able to mess around with the UEFI inside windows itself is damned nice. I haven't found anything 'nix wise that will allow the same support, but if someone knows something I'd be interested in it.
Do you think your sister's location might count as an outlier - too small, too remote, unable to attract a doctor or doctors. You see, you didn't reveal your location but the 7 hr drive for your sister is a hint.
No, there's a specialist 2 hours away, funny enough I'm out here now and it's where most people do their grocery shopping. And while I'm remote, I do have broadband, among other services--the real problem is there aren't enough GP's or even specialists to go around in the province due to the massive influx of people in the last 5 years with the oil boom. Just not accepting any patients, he referred her to the other one 7 hours away because they were accepting patients. In Canada, "remote" is actually remote compared to the US. And by that definition, it's usually a 3 hour ride by Cessna or by rail--which is owned by the federal government because it's considered a "vital lifelink."
Long waits? When was the last time you went to visit your doctor in the US? I'm lucky if I can see him this week.
Same with the emergency room - unless you are bleeding all over the place chances are you'll be waiting for a couple hours.
My one scrape with socialized medicine was in Canada where they fixed a broken arm - put it in a cast. I don't remember waiting at all in the emergency room and to this day I haven't been billed.
Well let me reply since I'm from Canada, the last time I needed a doctor visit, it was a 3 week wait. My sister in Alberta has to wait for a doctor to come to her town. Once per month, from another city 6 hours away. When I goto see my neurologist, I get appointments for either 1 month or 3 months depending. If I have to cancel, it's a min. of 35 days for the next. I have to travel 1.4 hours to see her, there's no one closer. My sister drives 7 hours to go see her diabetic specialist. Once every 3 months.
If I goto the emergency room, and it's serious I'm in right away...most of the time. If not, I'll be waiting. Oh and for some people, the emergency room is their family doctor in Canada. When I had testicular torsion I was in, in a flash. When I got a metal sliver in my eye, it was a 9 hour wait.
And generally if you're "visiting" you don't get billed unless it's expensive. A broken arm isn't considered much of anything to bill, or didn't use to be. But in Ontario, you're likely to be billed now since we've had decades of Americans coming across the border and using our healthcare.
Except that the LUA system that blizzard uses already allows people with disabilities to play easily. In fact, there's no shortage of mods that make it easy to play for those who are colour blind, or can only use one arm. And not forgetting that you can buy no shortage of mice, or keyboards that are fully programmable to do everything you want.
There's no way that an automated gameplay element would stand on the ADA.
Sooooo, you think there is no cowardice in having such a policy?
Nope. Want to know where the policy came from? I'll give you the answer, and those are people who have a fear of any police action--and the anti-gun movement across north america who wanted police actions restrained in life-or-death large scale situations. And while that's indeed CYA in some cases, it's not cowardice. Go read the officer reports from the mass shootings where they were required to wait on the ground, then get back to me. Ignoring said policies are generally terms for automatic arrest of the officer breaking them, and in some cases they're automatic felonies or criminal violations(canadian version of a felony).
One think I noticed in the past US school-shootings was how long it took for the police to get to the shooters. I can only attribute this to fundamental cowardice.
It wasn't fundamental cowardice, that would be the simple answer. Rather it used to be the policy of all police dept's and services in the US and Canada to "respond, wait, and enter only on the higher up's authorization." If you don't know this, and many don't...besides there being some type of police act, each dept/service also has required policies which you're required to adhere to as a member of said organization. It isn't uniform, it's unique to each one.
This has changed since Columbine though, it's "arrive on site, and subdue at any cost." Something else to realize is that in some, your SWAT/ETR teams are also frontline officers in a lot of places. That means that some are on duty, some are off. And some of those that are on duty, may have a very large patrol area. The ETR where I live has 5 constables, but their patrol area is just shy of 700sq/km daily.
The contractors were too busy designing all of the "Due to the government shutdown, this website is closed" websites for all of the other government sites, so they didn't have enough time to work on the launch of the new site.
Hardly. More along the lines they hired a company with a poor reputation, that other governments had already experienced. See the "eHealth" scandal.
I've slept on the floor next to the toilet. And I still don't want the shot.
Then you're either stupid, or insane. Not sure which, I spent 7 days on a cot 8 ft away from my bathroom. I was so weak for the first 3 days that I couldn't get to the bathroom without help. By the 4th day, I could just walk, sort of. I fainted twice, trying to walk that 8 feet. On the 5th day I was only fainting 50% of the time. It took me nearly a month to recover from it.
I should probably add, now that I think on it. My parents Volkswagen from the 70's had a shorter warranty than hard drives do. 1 year, or 12,000KM, and that was right from the showroom floor.
People trust the *idea* of self driving cars from tech companies over those from automakers
Some people may be too old to have missed the massive screw-over that NA automakers pulled during the 70's with the "they'll buy what we'll tell them to buy." And the same with the Japanese/Korean automakers in the 90's. Or the European in the 70's 80's and 90's. The reason why this makes sense is because plenty of people do remember that, and as well those who may not have...have parents who do.
I don't think it works that way.
But it does work that way. You should pay attention to exactly how much money those countries with "brutal regimes" pay various terrorist groups/handlers/etc to target Israel. And not to mention the arab press. If your view held true, then it would be difficult to explain Libya which is now being over run by terrorist groups.
Uh, NOW? OP should be modded up.
Really? It appears that fascism has indeed come in a form, but it's in the form of "cultural diversity, and political correctness gone amok." Or haven't you noticed the chilling effects that both of those have had on your first amendment? Having been born, lived in Canada and several other places in the world. It's pretty easy to notice this. It might be wrapped in an american flag, but it sure isn't carrying a cross.
Dear mod troll:
Welcome to Canada.