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  1. Re:LOLWUT? on Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times · · Score: 1

    Doesn't work like that here. You'd only be able to subpoena for the mac of the specific device, not all devices.

    And if you commit a crime that isn't a crime, you're committing a violation not a crime.

  2. Re:LOLWUT? on Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times · · Score: 2

    The city is bound to the privacy act in this case. And in turn, they won't be able to subpoena the information related to the mac without showing that an actual crime was committed. That would be a fishing expedition in Canadian law. And both the Superior Court, and SCC would flush this down so fast that any Crown who tried it would still be reeling from the blow.

    I have to say though, having driven along all of these routes, especially Deerfoot Trail and Glenmore Trail, this is welcome and needed badly. With the mass influx of people the entire highway system there is a mess. It wasn't designed to take the massive influx of people in the last 5 years that they've seen. Last I heard, it was somewhere around 30-40% over capacity due to the boom because of the oil patch and mineral patch work.

  3. Re:Thanks Prez! on Ask Slashdot: Will You Shop Local Like President Obama, Or Online? · · Score: -1

    No, fifty full-time-equivalent employees is just short of a Wal-Mart-sized store.

    Really? Because I worked in a small manufacturing plant a decade ago, and we had 55 full time employees. That business cleared over $4m/year in gross. Then again, part-time is the new full time in this day and age. Hope you enjoy the new europification of employment. Where everyone is part-time.

  4. Re:Windows 8 is a fail on Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC. · · Score: 1

    That's nice but it sounds as if he wanted to shut it down. That doesn't seem like an extravagant desire, even if he doesn't "have to".

    Oddly enough, most of the people looking for "turn off the pc" buttons inside context menus are us older folks who've been using PC's for a long time and remember that the power button was a two way switch instead of a momentary contact. You'll find your average person is hitting the power button, either on the front of the case or on their laptop, the same as when they turn it on.

  5. Re:Wow, 3% = doom? on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: 0

    Pure bullshit. Obama was chosen by the US electorate because he has promised to increase taxes to, you know, bring in more revenue. He is quite willing to cut spending, though to a lesser degree than Republicans. The budget can be balanced by either cutting spending, increasing income or, most likely by a combination of the two (one can argue where the balance lies)

    Hardly bullshit. Obama was chosen because you've got 47m people getting free shit, and they like their free shit. We have the same problem in Canada, and Europe has the same problem. Don't be naive. He's unwilling to cut spending, unless his version of "cutting spending" is "the republicans will do exactly as their told." And that, isn't how a democracy works.

    Where are you based, anyway? How is your country managing? Got any good suggestions?

    Oh, my country is Canada. The only one to "avoid the global downturn and recession/depression."

  6. Re:Wow, 3% = doom? on US Scientific R&D Could Face Fiscal Cliff Doom · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, the US electorate just finished voting in President Santa Claus who's mandate was "give us more free stuff" you won't see that budget cut of 50%, if anything you'll be lucky to see 3% and if you see a 3% cut, you'll see attempted austerity measures much like what happened in Europe. Cut's by 3%, increase spending by 6-10%.

    Let's be realistic though. You guys are fucked, plain and simple and you're heading for a screaming doom much like Europe is unless you figure out that trying to spend your way out of debt is a bad idea. Well, look on the bright side, the feds haven't pulled what they have in the EU yet. And that is the ability to print 1T per member state several times, without permission of the member state at anytime. Now just think if they did that with each state. I'm sure they could pay off the debt by doing that though...I shouldn't give the feds any ideas on that. The 3% US holdings I have are already close to worthless now.

  7. Re:This is why WoW sucks now on Gameplay: the Missing Ingredient In Most Games · · Score: 1

    The only challenge raids have ever posed is finding enough people able to press buttons at the right time who aren't complete morons.

    Seems to be the true point today, they're forgiving because people cried that they couldn't experience the endgame content. Go back to the days of EQ or even WoW 5 to 7 years ago and that wasn't the case. Simply "pressing buttons at the right time" wasn't enough. It was more like herding cats.

  8. Re:What's the problem here? on Researchers Find Megaupload Shutdown Hurt Box Office Revenues · · Score: 1

    Shoddy research is shoddy research. No matter if you agree with the premise or not.

    Well then, it's above the quality of the work of the MPAA or the RIAA. We should accept this work as the gold standard.

  9. Re:" If you want to succeed..." on What Nobody Tells You About Being a Game Dev · · Score: 1

    " If you want to succeed, you'll likely have to sell out." I'm fine with that. What are the steps required to sell out? Count me in.

    Step one: Launch successful or semi-successful company(i.e. origin, bullfrog, maxis, bioware, etc)
    Step two: Create and sell a series of unique or gound breaking products
    Step three: Get semi-rich
    Step four: Become deluded when mega-conglomerate comes along and tells you, you'll retain your "artistic integrity and nothing will change" then sellout
    Step five: Leave the company after a string of failures because your new overlord has destroyed your once beautiful reputation

  10. Re:Apartheid on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is suppossed to. The problem is that men are in charge of the implementation and that's a common problem across the entire world. Regardless of the laws on the books, if the people interpreting them are not representative of the people they are applied to, the end result is going to be biased like health insurance paying for viagra but not birth control pills.

    Really? So I now have two people within a mere 40mins of each other, one saying it does. Another saying it doesn't. Odd. Oh, as for your idea that it does? I take it that you've read that good book, and the various legal documents surrounding sharia. Especially the parts where a women's testimony is worth less than a man's, where rape is the women's fault and so on.

    Don't be naive. It has nothing to do with "men who institute it." The entire system of sharia, is built around oppression, for the sake of oppression.

  11. Re:Apartheid on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 1

    The only idiot who has said Sharia law will elevate women above western standards is you.

    Better let most feminists know then, because they're the ones who say it. Along with a myriad of leftwing groups that support it based on the idea that any opposition is "racist" sorry but the only ones who support are the idiots, not me.

    I guess you haven't been paying attention to this for very long.

  12. Re:This will be reality in all countries... on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just ask France. France has entire districts run by Muslims that even the police are afraid to enter. In their own country.

    You're quite right, and is the list of them as they stand right now.

  13. Re:Apartheid on Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Won't happen, and remember this is in accordance with sharia law too. Which is supposed to elevate women above western standards, or so flappy headed groups keep telling us.

  14. Re:Great, can Gaza get one to protect it from Isra on Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel · · Score: 4, Informative

    even the UN school they bombed the last time.

    Yeah, and Israel provided a video. You might remember those "secondary explosions" showing that Hamas had been using it for an ammo dump. You know, in violation of international law, which various people love to scream about in regards to Israel but never about the Palestinians.

  15. Re:RFID is everywhere on Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order · · Score: 2

    Sorry, I won't "get used to it" perhaps you should get "used to the idea" that people don't want it.

  16. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1, Informative

    And if the Arabs hadn't used terrorism and forceful evictions of millions of Jews from their lands we wouldn't be at this point either. Or did you happen to forget about the pogoms in the middle east committed by them?

  17. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Well let's work backwards a bit. Palestinians in Israel have the right to vote already. So that's sure not the problem, so do Arabs there. Actually they have more rights, and equal rights that any Israeli do under the law. Now don't forget that most of those in the refugee camps, I use that term loosely are Jordanian and self-identified as such. Most were also kicked out for the attempted assassination of the entire royal family.

    They're effectively the bastard child of the entire middle east because of what they've done. But they're tolerated because they can do the dirty work of the arab countries in the region while keeping their hands mostly clean. That is...attacking Israel, and while they're attacking Israel, they're keeping the populations in their own countries(Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc) attention focused on other things instead of their own deplorable situation.

    The reality aside, Israel has attempted to break the cycle of violence. Note that they limited or completely stopped all attacks against Hamas several times. Their response was an upswing in rocket and mortar attacks. They pulled out, and ceded territory, the response was more attacks. It got so bad, that even Egypt agreed and imposed the blockade with Israel.

    I already mentioned in my other post that there are serious problems with the hate that the people there are taught. Both by funded UN schools, and the multigenerational jew hatred. And until that in itself changes, there won't be anything to happen either.

  18. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 0

    Sorry no, my comment isn't. Someone with an IQ under 60 doesn't make that choice. They have the choice forced on them. Usually because they're not worth keeping, or because the family has been paid for the glory of allah, or because they're so blindly indoctrinated that they wish to kill jews. That's the reality of it there. It doesn't help when the education system itself(paid and funded by the UN and inturn by taxpayers world wide), teaches the same thing. Or that kids get a daily dose of it too on their state run TV. And never forget that it's multigenerational.

    Remember, that they've been given autonomy, they've been given elections. Both of which they chose to install a terrorist loving entity. Remember which side walked away, it wasn't Israel. Remember which side decided that martyrdom and death to the jews above all was the preferable goal. Again that wasn't Israel. And between the two, which one gives full rights to all citizens, including the right to vehemently disagree without being executed in the streets and dragged behind a motorcycle. I'll give you a hint, it's not Israel.

  19. Re:Congratulations Israel on Israeli Infrastructure Proves Too Strong For Anonymous · · Score: 3, Informative

    You know, if the palestinians hadn't been sending suicide bombers, and putting snipers on hills/buildings the wall wouldn't exist at all. Notice how you don't hear about either one anymore except at checkpoints, where they try to sneak someone in, or they've strapped it to some poor retarded kid who could be easily manipulated. Luckily the half dozen times they tried they've managed to talk the kids out of blowing themselves up.

  20. Re:Yay! Democrats! on Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    And you still ended up with Stephen Harper. I find a lot to admire about Canada, but I have to say, as a practical matter your electoral system doesn't seem to produce any better results than ours does.

    Odd, he's been reelected three times as the PM, the last time with a majority government. Before that we had 3 PM's who were liberals who successfully ran the country into the ground the and resulted in the largest corruption scandal in canadian history. I'm not saying that everything the guy has done has been perfect, but considering the current world economy among other things, including his government pushing against the CRTC(including giving them a swift kick over trying to screw over TIPA--third party internet customers) and pushing for more trade agreements? This has been win-win for the vast majority of Canadians.

  21. Re:Too bad... on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Well let's say you condone their actions. Then this is the type of stuff you support. Oh and that's Hamas dragging a guy's body through the streets on the back of a motor cycle, and then there's the other stuff about the supposed "jewish collaborator" that they executed in the middle of the street.

    Yeah, good guys to support. If Israel's attacks are heavy handed(over 1200 missile attacks and less than 140 dead with direct targeting) vs the palestinians 12000+ missile attacks directly targeting civilians. You've got a screw loose.

  22. Re:Too bad... on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 1

    Maybe you could ask them not to launch rockets from playgrounds, next to hospitals, the front yards of homes, and mosques too. You know, the places where other "civilized" powers consider them off limits in all forms of war. Oh wait...that only counts if you're a western power, if you're anyone else it's okay. Along with child soldiers, and strapping bombs on to the mentally retarded and sending them off to be remotely blown up at check points.

  23. Re:Murder on Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What concentration camp? You mean the one with million dollar homes, and a 5-star hotel? Packed with full markets, and Iphone 5's, where the average person gets $60-80k USD in aid every year? Yeah...what a concentration camp. Imagine that, they even have their own and full sovereignty. And could import things as they saw fit, until they turned around and started shooting at Israel. Then both Israel AND Egypt closed the borders and imposed a blockade.

  24. Re:Yay! Democrats! on Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    In practice, the smaller the election gets, the easier for it to get bought.

    Really? From what I've seen over the last 15 years of American politics it doesn't seem to matter of large or small politics, because of the systems inherent bent on political campaign contributions. Up here in Canada we have the right idea that they're illegal, and as a point in Canada, the BNA(or Canada Act if you prefer) is a heavily leaning libertarian document. It heavily leans towards the provincial rights over those of the federal government.

  25. Re:Yay! Democrats! on Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants · · Score: 1

    Obama turned out out just as evil as Bush in a number of ways.

    I hope you're joking. Obama turned out worse than Bush, the difference between the two comes from the knowledge and people surrounding him. Sure people will argue that Iraq wasn't the smartest thing, or that it was wrong. Let's concede that point for the moment. And jump right into the financial stuff. There's no one who has even a basic understanding of economics who can say that "pumping currency" is a good idea. The only ones that do, are the type that believe you can spend yourself out of debt. Tell me again, at the personal level how well does that work? It doesn't. It doesn't work for governments either, ask Zimbabwe.