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  1. Re:Oh wow. on Bell Canada To Stop Internet Throttling · · Score: 1

    It couldn't have anything to do with the face that bell has been hemorrhaging customers for the last year and a half or anything could it? Especially since the incumbents can't lock out other providers from dslams anymore.

  2. Re:It's an Apple exploit. on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah. Easier to bash MS, this is /. after all. Critical thinking skills go out the Windows.

  3. Re:That wont stop them on In-Car Video Chat and 4G Streaming From OnStar · · Score: 1

    Well to point out most states have a loophole on the foglight/headlight thing where as long as the headlights are either a lower wattage, or are under the headlights instead of at or near-beam component level by at least 2ft they don't have to come under that rule under the regs.

  4. Could be a problem with this... on In-Car Video Chat and 4G Streaming From OnStar · · Score: 2

    In most places, video like this on the screen is illegal(whether it's videos, pictures, or anything else). Unless the vehicle is stopped, or is only used for backup purposes, and the vehicle is only going forward less than 10ft. Not sure how they're going to get around the law on this, but in most of Canada the vehicles couldn't be sold with the "feature" working as demonstrated.

  5. Re:Obituary on Kim Jong-Il Was an "Internet Expert" · · Score: 2

    You forgot the part where he shit rainbows, and powered all the cars of the world on unicorn farts.

  6. Re:Are yellows in Denver really short? on Denver Must Prove Red-Light Cameras Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    The issue is assholes entering the intersection to turn left when it isn't clear, people refusing to stop when the light does turn yellow, etc.

    Please remember in most places like Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba, actually most of Canada this is legal under traffic law. I think the exception is Quebec and New Brunswick. I'd have to re-read my traffic laws though, as it might have changed. Entering an intersection to make a left turn as long as it's not a red-left is 100% legal. This is called taking control of an intersection. People deliberately running a yellow or when it changes green for the other side and trying to cut the other car off, when a car is already in the intersection are breaking the law, because the car in the intersection making the left on a yellow, red, or green have full legal control of the intersection until they clear it.

  7. Re:Because it's hard for people to understand. on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 2

    True to a point, and it's really not hard to understand either. Most people understand websites should have "https" for banking and buying stuff. What's hard, is that you need something else on top of it to encrypt it usually, or a container, or another program. Where as everything else(skype, im, etc) and other end-to-end, which use ssl are seamless. If this was the case for email programs, or webmail, and the like which provided an easy to use repository for *insert key service*, where people could plug in info for their keys without having to remember something all the time, it would take off.

    Even plugin containers don't work very well, or you need to install them. Native support allows native adoption.

  8. Anyone else... on Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Remember back oh 12-13 years ago when drive manufactures did this? All drive warranties dropped from 5 years to 1 year. This went on for about a year, then got hit with a massive collusion suit. It drove Fujitsu right out of the market. I get the suspicion that this is the same thing, I do not think this has anything to do with debugging the lines, or anything else.

    I really expect the same thing to happen, it smells and feels exactly the same.

  9. Re:Not to mention totally legal on SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket · · Score: 1

    Really? I thought the US was built on something fundamentally different than revisionist history. But I guess if you stop at 1850 that's good enough.

  10. Re:My daughter was extremely upset as well. on Why Google Is Disabling Kids' Gmail Accounts · · Score: 1

    So perhaps you should explain to your daughter one of two things:
    1. Your resentment of someone verifying that you are you, and you have control over your kid
    2. US laws designed to protect the privacy of kids, and how they're hurting her. Perhaps you can go into how your own country's privacy laws work.

    Simple, in countries like Canada. The privacy act says that the individual is protected because the individual has the final say on their information, not the government, or a company. He has the right to be upset, he also has the right to be upset that a company 'wants' a copy of his passport.

    US laws are broken, plenty of other countries like your northern neighbors have found simple elegant solutions to these problems which don't require handing away personally identifiable information.

  11. Re:Accidental overdose? on The Painkiller That Saves Money But Costs Lives · · Score: 1

    I agree, they haven't been in serious pain. Back pushing 20 years ago I had testicular torsion. I'm pretty fucking sure that the railroad spike in the head, along with salt and lime juice would have been preferable. I know, because it took 3 shots of morphine to take the edge off the pain. And I asked for more, while the urologist was coming in, along with the surgeon. People hear the stories about bad injuries that make you curl up inside, and give you odd visions and weak knees, and you start to feel nauseous, and want to faint. Yeah that was one of those. I haven't experienced anything like it since, and I'm hurt myself a lot since then. Including taking large chunks of building materials to the skull, and having migraines bad enough to put me in the hospital.

    Since then I've fractured both my C2 and C3, lucky as hell I didn't ruin any nerves, though some pinch and cause unbelievable spasms, and uncontrollable pain and I take two different muscle relaxants for, along with 10mg of endocet every 2hrs as needed upto a max of 8 pills every 6 hours. Luckily that's it.

  12. Re:Kids are over-sheltered on Rare Earth Magnets Pose Threat To Children · · Score: 1

    Too true. And I've actually seen that happen here in Ontario(canada). Government is by far overreaching, and childrens aid(and it's various equivalents across north america) are full of people who think they know best because some kid got hurt, because the kid was doing something stupid therefor the parents are 100% at fault. Never mind that they'll turn a blind eye when parents are actually threatening their kids, then murder them. See the Shafia honor killings, where the CAS actually turned a blind eye.

  13. Re:The money quote on Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored · · Score: 1

    "In every cooler we tested, the pump noise was actually louder than the fans when the CPU was idling."

    Apparently they didn't test the Corsair H50, the pump is quiet, very quiet once the coolant gets going. The fan on the other hand sounds like a jet taking off all the damn time. The sealed unit coolers have gotten better without a doubt in the last couple of revisions, the H60 was much quieter, the h70 was much cooler the H80 had more function and better cooling and was even quieter, and so on. Same followed with the Antec series, though to point out they're both made by the same company Asetek I believe.

    This isn't to mention the warranty either. Both Antec and Corsair have been covering CPU's, GPU's(some people like me use their watercoolers on their videocards too, on their products if the watercoolers fail. I had a H80 fail and it took my 560ti with it, corsair covered it and sent a check along with a replacement unit. EVGA sent a replacement card even though I was fully upfront with what I was doing. You know, for that these guys(EVGA and Corsair) have a lifetime customer for that, it was an aftermarket mod but they covered it anyway. The money if anyone is wondering went to the foodbank.

    If you're short on cash and looking for a way to make your system quieter that with a set of whirly birds, these things can really help but they do have some serious limitations. You need to calculate exactly how much heat you're going to have to dissipate. But as it stands, if you have the money to drop on custom blocks, tanks and a pump it's still the better way to go. Besides at the $200/block price that some of these places charge, it's almost cheaper to get the dimensions yourself go find a CNC op at some metal shop and have them mill and smooth out a slop of copper for you.

  14. Re:Time to move on, perhaps? on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    I guess my grandmother who runs 3d games mostly puzzles and all that and uses steam doesn't apply? Oh wait...

  15. Re:can you imagine gaming on a PC that's half a de on Aging Consoles Find New Life As Video Streamers · · Score: 1

    Yes I can, because I do. Plus, thus far, all major games have a minimum requirement of DirectX 9 which shipped in 2002.

    That's why consoles are a blight on game design. We're talking about a 9 year old software standard.

  16. Re:My question is.... on New Standard For Issuance of SSL/TLS Certificates · · Score: 1

    There should be one, the question is who to trust to do it? Because I sure the hell can't think of any off the top of my head. The UN? US? EU or European countries? Asian or Middle eastern? China? Canada? Australia? African nations? Fuck no. I don't trust any of them with that level of authority. I think the best option will probably be to go with high level registrars to sit down and hammer out a governing body agreement, but to have the entire group draw from the lottery who heads the body every year. And no body can hold the head more than once every 3 years.

  17. Re:Want! on The Most Dangerous Toys of 2011 · · Score: 2

    Pretty sure I've still got parts of my old childhood chemistry set floating around somewhere, including some old childhood microscope set from the 50's. I know there was some interesting stuff in both of those. Yep, long gone is the era of unique and neat stuff.

  18. Simple on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Tech Gear From Smash-and-Grab Theft? · · Score: 2

    I don't leave it in my car. And when I leave it in my work vehicle, it's locked in a floor safe because it's work related and the company paid for it.

  19. Re:Time to move on, perhaps? on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 1

    Any hardware made in the last 4 years is x64 capable. So that leaves it right down to the OS, and what another person said already. That the current 32bit build should be maintained as is, and a new solid 64branch should be where the main resources are going.

  20. Re:Better double check who you pick on Time's Person of the Year Is "The Protester" · · Score: 1

    Well person of the year is about as useful as the nobel peace prize. Both of which have been handing once good to prestigious awards to idiots, fools, tinpot dictators, and murderous tyrants with the blood of millions on their hands.

  21. Re:Time to move on, perhaps? on Firefox Too Big To Link On 32-bit Windows · · Score: 2

    That's 90% of your users. Though steam says that nearly 45% of their users are using a 64bit OS, and it's increasing at a rate of 1% a month.

  22. Re:Easy to do on Google Donating $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery · · Score: 2

    The problem is when the government doesn't enforce the laws, or doesn't break the cycle creating a systemic problem. You can almost bet that there's a serious flaw with the crown per local policy that the law not be enforced. Personally if I lived there, I'd be up in arms over it. The fact that people aren't, is simple moral decay.

  23. Re:{Shudder} on Internet Explorer Users Have Low Risk Intelligence · · Score: 1

    NPR is a mediocre channel that's even less transparent about it's biases than other channels. The fact that you round out with adhoms, and the belief in someone being illiterate because they can see this, simply tells me that you're a partisan hack, and happily live in a world where you don't question what you're watching or listening to.

  24. Re:Dear Harper on Canada First Nation To Pull Out of Kyoto Accord · · Score: 1

    Canada has northern air bases. And don't worry if you're still getting your news that tells you russia is buddies with canada, it's not. Besides, paranoia is an irrational fear. Russia trying to claim canadian territory is a rational fear, they've been trying it for the last 50 years, and have jumped up hard in the last 10 years especially since there have been good discoveries of oil there.

  25. Re:It should be illegal..... on 24-Year-Old Asks Facebook For His Data, Gets 1,200 PDFs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Indeed. In europe and canada an individual has final say on their personal information. And if it's deleted the company must delete any backup or cached data relating to that person too.