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  1. Re:Still takes forever to "Rebuild the Font Cache" on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    I filed a bug report along with a working and corrupted cache back in hmm 0.95 or 0.92 I think it was, which was due to a crash. Never saw anything come from it. So, it doesn't matter too much to me.

    The work around option does work though.

  2. Re:Privacy law disagrees on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 1

    Privacy laws in Canada dictate that a service provider or business have you sign a document granting permission to use your data, and explaining how your data is going to be used, and usually verifying that they will not give away nor sell your data to third parties. ...

    True, but they can not sign away your rights to abuse this data by handing it away to third parties(exactly who these are) and without notifying you, or in a way, shape or form that infringes on the charter or the rule of law. Which is exactly what this does. This is covered under the privacy act and case law.

  3. Re:Still takes forever to "Rebuild the Font Cache" on VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac · · Score: 1

    Nah sometimes during a crash, it'll freak out and corrupt your existing font cache. In which case it'll spend about 6 years rebuilding it. Well maybe not 6 years, at least 4 years anyway.

  4. Re:xkcd on Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome · · Score: 1

    It works, and works well. My SSID login is 27 characters and I can remember it without a problem. My secondary password after I use my RSA token? Usually 3 tries before I remember because we have a password policy of upper/lower case mixed with alpha-numerics, which must be between 8 and 30 characters in length. We change these every 18 days.

    Brain...hurts...especially for someone with very poor short and medium term memory problems. Of course it's an automatic disciplinary issue if you write any of this down. Yeah gonna go over here and just keep epic face palming over it. One of these days, they'll figure it out.

  5. Re:Privacy law disagrees on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you're in Canada, you should have demanded your money back. They have no right to give your information away, or force you to sign it away like that. It's a violation of the privacy act. Hell, if you are canadian and are in Canada, and this happened I'd consider filing a complaint to the privacy commissioner over it anyway.

  6. Re:Change Universities on Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency · · Score: 1

    Considering it costs over $1k/mo in London and Toronto in just living not food expenses? Yes, $30 is expensive. Food is a bit of a different story depending, by the time you left the university to get lunch and came to head back, the afternoon might be over.

  7. Re:Some background on Canadians #TellVicEverything In Response To Bill C-30 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Skipped your basic politics courses in highscoo...oh wait they don't teach that in Canada anymore do they.. NDP are far left. Liberals are left. Many of the conservatives policies fall centreish or even left of centre even though they a 'right wing' party in politics in Canada. They align more closely to the democrats than to republicans, or even bush 'neo-cons'. Liberals align more closely to the lunatic fringe of the democrats. The NDP more closely to the american greens.

  8. Re:Some background on Canadians #TellVicEverything In Response To Bill C-30 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Considering the Conservatives are the equivalent of democrats in the US, wouldn't you say he's closer to Teddy Kennedy? Even "right wing" politics in Canada is still far to the left of American.

  9. Re:Perhaps the police could use this on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    To look for criminals, or people who have a high probability of committing criminal acts.

    Police in Canada have been doing this for over 30 years, works fairly well.

  10. Re:Baby stuff on How Companies Learn Your Secrets · · Score: 0

    What a wonderful, mature, high-minded reason to bring a child into the world...

    I'm guessing you didn't grow up in a family, or in a family where family is actually considered important. Especially one where there's a lot of little brothers or sisters in it.

  11. Re:Prejudiced the prosecution on Are UK Police Hacking File-Sharers' Computers? · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure there's been rebellions over that type of stuff. But my history might be a bit rusty....

  12. Re:Prejudiced the prosecution on Are UK Police Hacking File-Sharers' Computers? · · Score: 1

    I shoulda visited the site a few hundred dozen, times. In Canada, downloading music is legal. Damn I love the levy, I really do. But you've got a very good point, not only did they ruin the chain of evidence, but they've ensured that there will never, ever be a fair trial what so ever.

    Personally for him? I'd sue them into the ground for defamation of character and libel. They've already lost as it stands, as they can't use anything they've already claimed as evidence.

  13. Re:Study in texas.... on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 1

    Ah good old daily kos. About as reliable as media matters.

  14. Re:Humanity should be ashamed by 'Fracking' on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 1

    So you're saying that hydraulically fracturing the ground around oil and pumping in proprietary chemical mixtures, in addition to the natural leeching, can't increase the methane and chemical pollutants in your drinking water over time?

    Properly done. No it won't. Incorrectly done, there's the chance it will. If you think the rock formations are the same all the way down, you're fooling yourself.

  15. Re:Study in texas.... on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 3, Informative

    Would that be the same docu-drama which conveniently committed the fact that 'burning tap water' had been an on-going issue for nearly a century?

  16. Re:Humanity should be ashamed by 'Fracking' on Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I live in one of the most geologically stable places on the planet. And we still have earthquakes here. It's called the Canadian shield. But hey, you know if you frack properly, you don't get any problems. And I'm sure you're also going on about that BS movie where people were lighting their taps on fire, but guess what, people were doing that before. Hell there's places around me where that's possible from naturally occurring methane in the water. Mostly well water, and you need to back pressure it in your well.

    Really though, next I'm sure you'll go on a rant about how the tar sands are evil. But gloss over the fact that oil has been leeching into the rivers in Canada for thousands of years. Hell, there's enough oil leeching naturally that people used to(and still do) patch their boats with it.

  17. Re:Despicable on School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes. Obviously conservatives are taking the kids word for it. Not the physical evidence, like the note, or demands to pay, or anything else.

    How the hell your post got to +5 boggles my mind.

  18. Re:Site that you've never heard of is shut down on JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style · · Score: 2

    A government should fear it's people, a people should not fear it's government. I'll let you figure out where that paraphrasing comes from.

  19. Re:Goddamn you, Tor on A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 · · Score: 1

    First it was supposed to be one book; then Tor realized they could go the Harry Pothead/Twitlight direction and 'enhance their revenue' by splitting it into three. OK, whatever.

    Well kinda. The problem is one book doesn't cover all the lose material. Unless you want to have another book to cover that, in which case you're still left with another book. The problem is, Jordan was a verbose writer. Even the publisher knew that. I believe during his initial writing contract he asked for two books. And they put in six, might have been four. But regardless, there's not much you can do when you're up to your asshole in material, unless you want to cut something out.

    Then all you're left with is angry fans, pissed off people, and all the rest. Then again, you could always deal with the "mass effect, effect" you know the last book which is so bad that it makes a big ol' bag of snot look good.

  20. Re:Thank you, Europe on Yet Another European Government Drops ACTA · · Score: 1

    Why do we have so many ignorant canadians who don't even understand our electorate system? Or even the reason why the conservatives got elected. I mean, it couldn't have anything to do with the fact that the liberals tried to overthrow the government three times. Failed, and the people said: "Enough with the fucking elections, we want some stability for a few years."

  21. Re:General Chinese labor conditions on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 1

    Well, the Europeans used to whip children to death sometimes as an example in american and canadian sweatshops to ensure that quotas were met. Let's not forget, union rules and union-breakers back not more than 100 years ago. Where people were lynched over it. So, for people to threaten mass-suicide? Sure.

  22. Re:Really? on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quite true. In fact, most people don't know that Europe started to mass-export their industry to North America in early 1800's, and literally built their society on the backs of children here. And they did so right up until the 1930's give or take a little bit. Though if you look further back, companies were exporting their industry as soon as people started landing here and started setting up shop. Hell, England was buying wagon wheels made in Canada, made by children, paid by levy in 1750.

    Though let's not forget, it was this flagrant abuse that forced us. To say enough was enough, and ensure there were working standards, end child slaveshops and all the rest too. Though it went on for a long time before anything changed.

  23. Re:Once again, the Koch Bros manning the funnel on Leaked Heartland Institute Documents Reveal Opposition To Science · · Score: 1

    Hell, greenpeace alone has an operating budget for agw of nealry $80m per year. And they use that money specifically for special interest groups. People are blind because they're partisan hacks.

  24. Really? on Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Probably no one these days. Either components, or parts are made in china in some form or another. Even down to the base layer PCB. Though it's getting even worse than that, China is getting too "expensive" to operate in. And they're moving out to other 3rd world countries.

  25. Re:US-Europe cultural difference ? on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    Doctors don't recommend that everyone get a flu shot. They recommend that everyone that is at risk of developing complications from the flu (ie old/young, has asthma) get the shot.

    Any good doctor also recommends this if you live, or work with people with weak or compromised immune systems. Being that I have a bunch of type 1 diabetics in my family. I regularly get the flu shot because, one of them getting it is just as likely to kill them, as it is to make them sick.