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  1. Re:Hasn't worked in the UK on "Phone In One Hand, Ticket In the Other" · · Score: 3, Informative

    [quote] But there's so few Police on patrol the law just isn't being enforced. [/quote]
    That shouldn't be a surprise, despite what people think about police being everywhere. The average cop has a service per person of somewhere between 400:1 to 2200:1, you don't get solid enforcement like that. But anytime there's economic problems the first areas to get cuts are Fire/EMS/Police.

  2. Re:The difference is quality on No Linking To Japanese Newspaper Without Permission · · Score: 1

    I give up posting while jet lagged too. Ugh 12hr time shifts kick you in the face...what a mess that post is.

  3. Re:The difference is quality on No Linking To Japanese Newspaper Without Permission · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nikkei is by and far better then most NA papers. But saying that there's little to no petty crime isn't being true, there's plenty of it. The old centralist code is going poof, as by seen by the current generation of college and grade-schoolers. Want a heavy dose of honor-bound-things that people abide by Korea is where it's at. Everything else is turn your eye away from it, break the rules there's ways around it. Petty crime for the most part I agree, but I figure it has to do with the police not taking too kind a turn at people committing the crimes. The Japanese judicial system is very harsh on people who break the laws.

  4. Yeah good luck with that... on No Linking To Japanese Newspaper Without Permission · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll just keep reading other english/japanese dailies like MDN which have better content. Or any of the local papers which you can google out, not to mention actual commentary about what's going on. I think the last time I read Nikkei related was in 2001.

  5. Re:From their website ... on Pumping Sunlight Into Homes · · Score: 1

    They're just trying to make learning by osmosis a reality.

  6. Re:Not just the Supreme Court... on Landmark Canadian Hyperlink Case Goes To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Glad to see there's yet another Canadian who doesn't understand how our court system works. You'll note the sarcasm there. Believing that having non-tech-savvy judges is the reason behind this is being naive. Having a dissenting judge doesn't make a case invalid for the SCC either. It means that on some technical or rule of law argument there was a judge disagreeing with what the other two said(this happens a lot). In order to further clarify this disagreement and standardize the RoL it goes to the SCC.

    It's always enjoyable to head down to my local appeals court to watch a case for the day(since I live in Ontario, I get the pick of the busiest courts in Canada), and seeing the arguments over "yes" in what context for 4 hours. Welcome to appeals courts.

  7. Re:Just thinking.... on Indian Census To Collect Fingerprints, Photos · · Score: 1

    Quite difficult. Many countries require that you be charged with criminal offence(read: high-level crime which jail is the end result) of some kind before your fingerprints be taken in any form, or recorded in any database for any purpose. In my small neck of the woods, fingerprinting for anything else is considered a violation of the law.

    Even then, your fingerprints can be removed from the database if you're cleared of the charges.

  8. Re:Hmm....... on AMD Readies "Lottery-Core" CPUs · · Score: 5, Funny

    No no. Seems completely legit to me.

  9. Odd... on The End of the Road For Texting Truckers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I remember when truck drivers aimed for 1 million miles with no accidents, usually because it ended with a nice pretty statue, name in most of the large trucking magazines and a nice wad of cash. Well that was before the semi-licenced idiots got on the road. Carry on...carry on.

  10. Re:They should more to a more civilized country on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 1

    Yeah just imagine if a plumbers work was untouchable even if it started leaking all over the place and washed out a basement wall. Entertainment ensues!

  11. Re:They should more to a more civilized country on IsoHunt Told To Pull Torrent Files Offline · · Score: 1

    Because I believe my work can benefit society after I've developed it, been paid for it--for a reasonable amount of time. And others can build upon the existing source, improving the overall quality and perhaps find other uses for what I've done.

  12. Re:Call me conservative on Canadian Libraries Want $300,000 To Buy Games · · Score: 1

    We won't call you "conservative," we'll just call you short-sighted and ill-informed.

    How about I call you a budget burner instead? Toronto is so far, and deep in debt they should be spending money elsewhere until the budget is balanced. This isn't to say that the average person living in Toronto pays some of the most exorbitant taxes around either. Of course Toronto being the liberal-spending-cesspool that it is, wouldn't hear any of that as it sinks further down the path to bankruptcy.

  13. Re:Why is everyone picking on Toyota? on Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Yes because we all know that EMI fields don't do anything when interacting with non-shielded wiring. And if you have that fancy piece of paper from the government saying you can legally work on cars you'd know that cars do suddenly die.

  14. Re:Why is everyone picking on Toyota? on Do Car Safety Problems Come From Outer Space? · · Score: 1

    Wiring on fly-by-wire on planes are double or triple weave shielded. They aren't on Toyota's, they're just plastic coated wires.

  15. Re:I can think of a couple reasons why developers. on Are Consoles Holding Back PC Gaming? · · Score: 1

    Last time I looked at a bunch of trackers for number of seeders and leechers, consoles where were piracy was at these days.

  16. Re:Why not tax what costs the most in infrastructu on 10% Tax On Custom Software, $100M Tax Cut For Microsoft · · Score: 1

    You might not realize this but everything you've listed is already taxed into the ground. Why do you think commodity prices keep going up, hint, it's not just because of fuel.

  17. Re:Pepper spray is torturous. on Indian Military Hopes to Weaponize the Searing "Ghost Pepper" · · Score: 1

    Amazing but you're an idiot. CS = Tear gas. OC = Pepper spray. CS is a disabling agent, OC is a defence agent. If you don't even know the difference before you post, don't bother.

  18. Re:Pepper spray is torturous. on Indian Military Hopes to Weaponize the Searing "Ghost Pepper" · · Score: 1

    I was at our local police college not too long ago. I thought that the pepper spray was deliciously spicy and that was about it, plenty of other people like myself who aren't effected by it either. My sinus is completely messed up which makes using it on me, useless.

  19. Re:APC UPS's on Server Room Smells Can Be an Early Warning · · Score: 1

    All batteries cook when they're at their end of life. Doesn't matter who/what/where, because the system is being told that it's either insufficient charge/capacity/etc, and it goes into a full charge cycle. Which means rather then a normal discharge/charge cycle, you're always in a 105-115% charge. Happens with cars/motorcycles/trucks/etc as well. Had a buddy with a sealed battery(inside the car vented out), that went. The battery ruptured leaking acid through the inside storage panel. Very unpleasant as we had to pull the inside panel out of the car(basicially the entire back passenger side, and clean both the plastic and metal.

  20. Re:Okay... on Canada's Top Court Quashes Child Porn Warrant · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mens rea = Guilty mind. Meaning you intended to commit the act, thought it through and did it.
    Actus reus = Guilty act. The objective action, i.e. downloading something/driving through people/etc.

    In Canada, for most criminal offences you need both to be proven in order to have the proof that the crime was committed. There's some exceptions to this but without spending a few weeks explaining it there's no point. Having only one but not the other leads to other legal avenues. In this case(without reading the entire SCC judgment, mine is still in the mail unfortunately), it sounds like the crown couldn't prove by the existence of cached data that the individual had the mental intent(mens rae) to commit the crime. However, a crime was committed(the action).

    That's the extremely short version of it.

    The entire judgment can be read here: http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/2010/2010scc8/2010scc8.html

  21. Re:Careful about unwanted updates being included.. on Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1 · · Score: 1

    It's already been broken, no big deal. Soon as MS pushed it out the door, people were already working on breaking it. A quick hunt on your favorite search engine will turn up results. Some 'fixes' to get rid of the MS crapware require other things however.

  22. Re:HUD on GM Working On Interactive Windshields · · Score: 1

    GM and other manufactures have had plenty of cars with HUD's in them for years. I owned a '88 Cadillac Alante with a HUD on it. I'll say, I only sold the car because in 2005 someone offered me $29k for the car. I paid $19k for it, very nice car a bit high on maintenance but still very nice. This system that GM is talking about is wholly different then a normal HUD.

    My biggest complaint with the HUD system at the time, is that with some glare conditions it was difficult to see.

  23. Re:Private members' bill is going nowhere on MP3 Player Tax Proposed In Canada · · Score: 1

    You might have forgotten that the Liberals love taxes and screwing people over. Or were you out of the country for the 12yrs that Darth Jean was in power?

  24. Re:"antivax" people on Court Rules Against Vaccine-Autism Claims Again · · Score: 1

    I had chickenpox as a kid, during the outbreak in the late 80's here in Ontario. If there was a way back then I could have avoided getting it I would have jumped on it. My grandmother has shingles, it's a tolerable condition. But as a kid? It was torture, you wanted to claw your skin out from the pain, itching and irritation.

    I'd as much love a vaccine against TB, but I don't see that happening for awhile. But the Hep shots are nice now too.

  25. Re:What? on Texas Approves Conservative Curriculum · · Score: 1

    ... when was the last time the queen had any influence in Canadian affairs?

    When we got the constitution(charter) and she gave 'royal ascent' putting it into law as the highest law of the land. Fully and effectively abolishing any former ties to the UK in any influential form. The last time previous to that was when we got rid of the privy council.