Nobody wants to pay to download ads, just like nobody wants to pay to download Wired magazine's 500 megabyte iPad edition (which is what happens when you cancel flash support and leave everyone scrambling).
Wrong. Alcohol in moderate quantities is a stimulant, not a depressant. By selectively depressing certain brain functions (inhibitions) it allows other areas to act that would normally be suppressed. Thus the overall effect is a moderate stimulant.
At the same time, it increases dilation of the fine blood vessels, giving rise to the "flushed face", etc., as well as a higher heart rate.
And since one or two drinks a day is better for your heart than no drinks a day, being alive is certainly more stimulating than being dead.
Just tell him that they're recommending duct tape to prevent mobile linux fragmentation - he obviously only reads the headlines while trying to get a first post:-)
And it eliminates the need to defrag (I know, linux doesn't need defragging:-) - just add a new layer of tape every month.
And if you want, Monica Lewinsky is now offering a line of Duct Tape Nobile Phone Defragmentation Skins - because you never know where someone's going to stick their phone...
It means that more tax dollars are wasted on the trials, even then the cost of the trials outweigh any benefit to be gained by avoiding licensing costs
It means that the acquisition price is lower over time because of increased competition, and that there is less likelihood of corruption. It's the corruption aspect that was specifically cited in the law that set out the tendering process.
finding Linux support people that are cheap (like windows support people) is next to impossible
You get what you pay for. You need fewer linux boxes to provide the same services as Windows, and the linux boxes (and bsd boxes - let's not forget them!!!) are easier to administer because the os is more robust, and you don't have to click through 20 dialogs and edit a stupid registry to change something, and then have to do it over again the next time the machine boots.
So they won the right to submit, that only means that the RFP's will include WHQOL (sic) standards.
RFPs can't include WHQL standards when specifying software
linux supports most Windows hardware better than Windows does
When it comes to maintenance, linux is cheaper, because you save on boxes, electricity, space, licensing, lost time due to viruses, and you need fewer staff to maintain them.
Quebec will never separate. If you start with that as both a premise AND a goal, then it's all good. As a premise, because it removes the fear of "what if Quebec separates", and as a goal because there are times that Quebec, like any other province, has a grievance that has to be addressed rather than just ignored.
On the PQ - They've actually come a long way. Rene Levesque said it best, that perhaps Canada was a "beau risque" - a good risk. They're also willing to work with people who disagree with them on separatism. They needed a poll clerk to represent them at one polling station, a PQ friend suggested my name, because he knew I would do the job impartially. I caught one guy that the Liberal representative tried to talk me out of challenging, and it turned out to be an attempted voter fraud. The system works only when people of good will help make it work.
Would I ever run for them? If they asked, and if they understood that I would not support Quebec separation except under the most extraordinary conditions - such as if Canada were to pass a law barring education in French, or started jailing 13-year-olds in adult facilities, or banned immigration, or something equally crazy. I can work with people I disagree with.
But I'd rather run for the Greens:-)
I like what Gilles Duceppe said about the fed's move to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 16. "We don't like putting children in jail." Jail doesn't work for adults, how is it expected to work for kids?
They're strong on regional development, provincial rights (for all provinces, not just Quebec), the environment, and unlike what the Bourassa Liberals tried, the Parti Quebecois has always made English services available everywhere, not just "where numbers warrant."
Yes, there are some jerks, some people who are ideologues, but most french-canadians are damn nice people. Just that, like anyone, when they feel threatened, they get defensive. They're not ignorant. They're not "frogs".
It's the provincial Liberal governments that have taken the anglo vote for granted, pissed on us, and tried to pass laws against us to woo anti-english votes. This started with Bill 22, not Bill 101. Bourassa opened the door to the whole language issue, trying to stay in power past his best before date.
If you're a politician, give me a reason to vote *for* you, don't just keep screaming that "a vote for them is blah blah blah". I'm not buying it. I'll park my vote with the opposition until you start talking about positive things for a change.
Actually, the BIG breakthrough in computer design was by LynnConway. This is all the more remarkable considering the issues she had to overcome in her personal life.
Or the blogger could have posted a small quote (1 paragraph) and a link to the rest of the article. The blogger, if they're running their own site, could also include a complete copy of the article in a searchable database. but NOT show the cached copy - only use it for searches so that when a person gets a "hit", they are still directed to the original source.
Yes, this is more work, but if you use geeklog, you can do that by disabling the "Links" menu in the configuration. Your links database is still searchable, but only the title plus a small quote is shown in the results, and when the user clicks on it, they are sent to the originating site.
This is fair to everyone. The originating site gets all the full page views, as well as additional traffic.
Since 1957, you Space Nutters have had FIVE decades to show us these "benefits". Besides stoking the imagination of dreamers and deluded petulant children like GameboyRMH, there's precious little it has accomplished. Does it make clothes? Food? Materials?
Look at that thing that's attached to your keyboard and mouse. The computer. The impetus for it's development was space. ICBMs can't fly in the atmosphere - they go into space. The little computers in your car that do everything from running the engine to your mp3 player? An offshoot. The ceramics that make the light turbines possible? Ditto. Better methods to monitor patients? Better ways to test materials? Better ways to model materials?
The space race did three things
it gave us a different "war" instead of fighting each other on the ground - a race in space.
it gave us a different way to look at ourselves and our planet. That picture from the moon's surface makes it different. We're all in it together.
it forced us to miniaturize, harden, and perfect computers and electronics for harsh environments. Your home computer gets the benefits. Transistors are now much cheaper than even staples.
We are so pissed off at Charest. I've voted PQ in several elections (and I'm one of the few people who led public protests against both bill 101 and meech lake and got bomb threats and police harassment over it way back when. My federalist credentials are better than the sheeples who did nothing, or left, or refused to learn french - wtf is up with that? You live in Quebec, show a bit of respect for your neighbors, learn some french, tabernak).
Funny thing - my sister, who can't hold a conversation in french if her life depended on it, voted PQ too - we're all sick and tired of the fear-mongering "don't vote for them it will destroy Canada" bullshit.
Canada is about workable compromises. You can't ask the other person to understand your side if you won't try to understand theirs.
Wrong. The government is required by law to consider all functional equivalents. The government's own studies show that linux is as good as, and often better, than Windows.
By specifying Windows Vista, MS-Office, and Visio, rather than "products that provide the following functionality...", they broke the law. Then they tried to cover it up, Worse, they claimed it was a "software upgrade" when it in fact included the purchase of new computers as well.
To quote from the judgment Savoir-Faire Linux included this request when they became aware of the intended purchase: Page 8: "L'article 12.4 impose une 'recherche serieuse et documentee', pourriez-vous nous faire parvenir cette documentation?"
Translated, it means "Article 12.4 requires that an in-depth, documented study be done, can you send a copy of the study to me?" There was no study done before deciding what to buy, and the government tried to cover up that they didn't follow the law.
The government, under threat of legal action, agreed to meet with Beraud, but refused to give the specifications, nor the study that was requied to be done (because neither existed).
Beraud then offered [56] an outside expert to help them do the study that they were required to do by law anyway (and hadn't done) during the procurement process.
Now check out para. 84: (page 19) "A l'audience, le procureur de Microsoft souleve " - Mr. Softie didn't sell the software directly. I was bought through Compugen. But Mr. Softie knew that losing here would mean opening the doors to losing more $$$ later.
Para 150 (page 29), quoting para 116 of Judge Silcoff in Alstrom "... the court notes that the study, to be in conformity with the law, must not only be in depth but also documented. If th STM (the city transit commission) wants to use an exception provided by law (to this requirement), they must document their research and conclusions.. before making their decision."
This is the law for all procurements exceeding $25,000.00 (para 152, page 29).
Para 153 (page 30) shows that there was no study done - quite the contrary.
Para 156 (page 31) - back in 2005 the Regie had put out a policy saying that when it came time to renew software in 2006-2007, open-source would be considered.
The smoking gun: para 157: (my translation) "I'd like an expert on open source software from CGI to comment on the following reply that we have made to a promoter of linux/openoffice. Are these valid arguments? What are the weak points that the promoter will attack and how will he do it?"
In other words, "We didn't do the study required by law, and we want to cover our asses - tell us where we fucked up."
It blew up in their face: para 160 (page 32) : "I believed that the objective was to compare the two solutions. Instead, it's a request to confirm that Linux-OO is no good. That would be a bit paradoxical for (us) to make such a statement when we are publicly stating the exact opposite ourselves."
Pares 198 ff (page 38) the court completely rejects the government's arguments.
The judge agreed that the government had no right to do what it did.
This judgment was about the procurement process in this context, but it has far-reaching implications. It means that the government has to follow the rules that they laid down for public tenders, and not (1) try to subvert the process, and (2) lie about it afterwords. If you read one of the other articles on the french web page, you'll see that it's the Parti Quebecois that is trying to get the government to be more user-friendly with our data and our tax dollars, while Jean Charest' Liberals don't want to know shit
Then again, Jean Charest is such a lying fuck it's incredible. I remember talking to reporters and saying "people actually believe this guy?" and the response back was uniform "he says one thing to one group, another thing to another, but our editors just want to report what he's saying, not that he's lying half the time". We saw it with the whole demerger thing. Make a promise to do the right thing, then lie lie lie while you fuck everyone over.
Then again, what do you want from a former Mulroney Conservative. There are so many anglos in Montreal who vote PQ now in provincial elections because there's no way that they can trust him again.
Read the article in the original french. The judge made it quite clear that what the government did was illegal. Not just "illegal", but totally illegal, and that they tried to cover it up after-the-fact.
And F/LOSS is political. Using F/LOSS is as much a political statement as it is an economic statement - that it's our computers, our data, and we have a right to see the source, to use open formats, to modify it the way we want, and no private corporation should be able to lock us out.
It's always like that , and that's one reason why this decision is important - it means, at least in Quebec, that there's no more of this "it's just an upgrade" BS.
From what I read in the original french, the judge wasn't buying any of the gov't arguments. To paraphrase, if buying new computers with Vista on them is just an "upgrade", then everything becomes "just an upgrade" and there's no reason for ever calling for public tenders. (Those new police cars are "just an upgrade - no need for tenders").
The problem is that Windows boxes are a continuing cash cow because of their higher on-going support needs, so of course people are going to push Windows. They aren't tech-savvy, they just know how to push the boxes, maintain the anti-virus subscriptions, which icons to click to set up the network, and how to reformat.
Rogers was one of the guilty parties who started it.
There has been legislation at the provincial level in Quebec, Ontario, and now Manitoba that bans negative-option billing. In those provinces, Rogers has to do it differently. They can't just add the fee and let it ride. They have to get your explicit consent. Since they can't change the terms during the contract, they have to do it at renewal time. "Your contract is coming up for renewal. The new cost is an extra buck a month. If you wish to renew, blah blah blah".
That's a contract renewal, not a negative option billing. Your contract is over at that point. Renew it on the new terms or get cut off.
Even the very bottom of the fine print you posted pointed out that customers who refuse keep their existing contract terms until the contract is over. It's just boilerplate. Ignore it.
Rogers hasn't changed my terms in 10 years. Same plan, same price. When it comes up for renewal, the pattern is always the same - they offer phone upgrades, service upgrades, free phones, whatever... I already have unlimited incoming/outgoing between 6pm and 8am weekdays and all weekend, so last year they kept phoning me with different offers - I finally took free incoming calls 7 days a week.
This year? I already got the usual "get a free phone blah blah blah..." Not really interested. Smartphone? If it's an Evo 4g, for $200 on a 3-year plan, I'm interested, but aside from that, so what?
You can ignore their disclaimer. I do. They give me good service, I give them money. Neither side is going to rock the boat.
If they crawled the page without you first sending them the notification (step 1), you would be right - no contract.
However, sending them the notification is an offer to contract. They accept the terms under the contract by performing the specific actions laid out in the contract which can only be done on my site (so it's not like sending a contract that says 'if the sun rises tomorrow, you agree to pay me money.).
Would it hold up in court? If you took it to Delaware, probably. They side with trolls:-)
There's a reason "negative option" (aka opt-out) contracts have been banned for federally-regulated goods and services across Canada, and that the majority of Canadians also enjoy protection against it for all other goods and services - it's misleading to the point of fraud.
Under a consent agreement last year, Facebook only has 2 more months to get their act straight or get the plug pulled in Canada. People give a s*** about their privacy, and want it made simple. The default should be private.
Dear Yahoo. I have a new feature on my web site. If you crawl that page, you will have opted in to my new service, which basically is 'Yahoo owes me $10k a month personal charity';
Yahoo crawls page...
Dear Yahoo: Thank you for opting in to the 'Yahoo owes me $10k a month personal charity. Should you wish to cancel this service, you may opt out at any time by crawling this page (link to 'Yahoo owes me $100k a month personal charity' page). In addition, we have added the Jennifer Usher option. Unless you opt out, you agree to host feeding porkchop at least once a month,
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Nobody wants to pay to download ads, just like nobody wants to pay to download Wired magazine's 500 megabyte iPad edition (which is what happens when you cancel flash support and leave everyone scrambling).
Nice way to miss the physical effects I cited.
The heart speeds up. That is stimulation.
The heart slowing down would be a depressant.
The heart stopping would be depressing, but it won't last for long, you'll get over it :-)
See subject line.
After all, monkeys can already type out stuff that, to the untrained eye, is indistinguishable from perl, or a loss of carr#%^%^%(*_)*&)(*!
Yes. Next question?
Q: What's better than winning the Special Olympics?
A: Not being retarded.
Q: What's better than winning the Special Olympics twice?
A: ICE CREAM!
Wrong. Alcohol in moderate quantities is a stimulant, not a depressant. By selectively depressing certain brain functions (inhibitions) it allows other areas to act that would normally be suppressed. Thus the overall effect is a moderate stimulant.
At the same time, it increases dilation of the fine blood vessels, giving rise to the "flushed face", etc., as well as a higher heart rate.
And since one or two drinks a day is better for your heart than no drinks a day, being alive is certainly more stimulating than being dead.
Just tell him that they're recommending duct tape to prevent mobile linux fragmentation - he obviously only reads the headlines while trying to get a first post :-)
And it eliminates the need to defrag (I know, linux doesn't need defragging :-) - just add a new layer of tape every month.
And if you want, Monica Lewinsky is now offering a line of Duct Tape Nobile Phone Defragmentation Skins - because you never know where someone's going to stick their phone ...
It means that the acquisition price is lower over time because of increased competition, and that there is less likelihood of corruption. It's the corruption aspect that was specifically cited in the law that set out the tendering process.
You get what you pay for. You need fewer linux boxes to provide the same services as Windows, and the linux boxes (and bsd boxes - let's not forget them!!!) are easier to administer because the os is more robust, and you don't have to click through 20 dialogs and edit a stupid registry to change something, and then have to do it over again the next time the machine boots.
When it comes to maintenance, linux is cheaper, because you save on boxes, electricity, space, licensing, lost time due to viruses, and you need fewer staff to maintain them.
Quebec will never separate. If you start with that as both a premise AND a goal, then it's all good. As a premise, because it removes the fear of "what if Quebec separates", and as a goal because there are times that Quebec, like any other province, has a grievance that has to be addressed rather than just ignored.
On the PQ - They've actually come a long way. Rene Levesque said it best, that perhaps Canada was a "beau risque" - a good risk. They're also willing to work with people who disagree with them on separatism. They needed a poll clerk to represent them at one polling station, a PQ friend suggested my name, because he knew I would do the job impartially. I caught one guy that the Liberal representative tried to talk me out of challenging, and it turned out to be an attempted voter fraud. The system works only when people of good will help make it work.
Would I ever run for them? If they asked, and if they understood that I would not support Quebec separation except under the most extraordinary conditions - such as if Canada were to pass a law barring education in French, or started jailing 13-year-olds in adult facilities, or banned immigration, or something equally crazy. I can work with people I disagree with.
But I'd rather run for the Greens :-)
I like what Gilles Duceppe said about the fed's move to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 16. "We don't like putting children in jail." Jail doesn't work for adults, how is it expected to work for kids?
They're strong on regional development, provincial rights (for all provinces, not just Quebec), the environment, and unlike what the Bourassa Liberals tried, the Parti Quebecois has always made English services available everywhere, not just "where numbers warrant."
Yes, there are some jerks, some people who are ideologues, but most french-canadians are damn nice people. Just that, like anyone, when they feel threatened, they get defensive. They're not ignorant. They're not "frogs".
It's the provincial Liberal governments that have taken the anglo vote for granted, pissed on us, and tried to pass laws against us to woo anti-english votes. This started with Bill 22, not Bill 101. Bourassa opened the door to the whole language issue, trying to stay in power past his best before date.
If you're a politician, give me a reason to vote *for* you, don't just keep screaming that "a vote for them is blah blah blah". I'm not buying it. I'll park my vote with the opposition until you start talking about positive things for a change.
Actually, the BIG breakthrough in computer design was by Lynn Conway. This is all the more remarkable considering the issues she had to overcome in her personal life.
Or the blogger could have posted a small quote (1 paragraph) and a link to the rest of the article. The blogger, if they're running their own site, could also include a complete copy of the article in a searchable database. but NOT show the cached copy - only use it for searches so that when a person gets a "hit", they are still directed to the original source.
Yes, this is more work, but if you use geeklog, you can do that by disabling the "Links" menu in the configuration. Your links database is still searchable, but only the title plus a small quote is shown in the results, and when the user clicks on it, they are sent to the originating site.
This is fair to everyone. The originating site gets all the full page views, as well as additional traffic.
Look at that thing that's attached to your keyboard and mouse. The computer. The impetus for it's development was space. ICBMs can't fly in the atmosphere - they go into space. The little computers in your car that do everything from running the engine to your mp3 player? An offshoot. The ceramics that make the light turbines possible? Ditto. Better methods to monitor patients? Better ways to test materials? Better ways to model materials?
The space race did three things
And this is all in addition to the benefit of now being able to say: Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure!
It depends - the government should disassemble the code and see if the evil bit is set.
RTFA. These computers were plain-jane desktops running Office '97. Openoffice is completely able to read and write office97 documents.
So if you're in the Montreal region, send me an email. freebsd and linux aren't that hard to manage remotely.
I guess you don't live in the West Island.
We are so pissed off at Charest. I've voted PQ in several elections (and I'm one of the few people who led public protests against both bill 101 and meech lake and got bomb threats and police harassment over it way back when. My federalist credentials are better than the sheeples who did nothing, or left, or refused to learn french - wtf is up with that? You live in Quebec, show a bit of respect for your neighbors, learn some french, tabernak).
Funny thing - my sister, who can't hold a conversation in french if her life depended on it, voted PQ too - we're all sick and tired of the fear-mongering "don't vote for them it will destroy Canada" bullshit.
Canada is about workable compromises. You can't ask the other person to understand your side if you won't try to understand theirs.
Wrong. The government is required by law to consider all functional equivalents. The government's own studies show that linux is as good as, and often better, than Windows.
By specifying Windows Vista, MS-Office, and Visio, rather than "products that provide the following functionality ...", they broke the law. Then they tried to cover it up, Worse, they claimed it was a "software upgrade" when it in fact included the purchase of new computers as well.
To quote from the judgment Savoir-Faire Linux included this request when they became aware of the intended purchase: Page 8: "L'article 12.4 impose une 'recherche serieuse et documentee', pourriez-vous nous faire parvenir cette documentation?"
Translated, it means "Article 12.4 requires that an in-depth, documented study be done, can you send a copy of the study to me?" There was no study done before deciding what to buy, and the government tried to cover up that they didn't follow the law.
The government, under threat of legal action, agreed to meet with Beraud, but refused to give the specifications, nor the study that was requied to be done (because neither existed).
Beraud then offered [56] an outside expert to help them do the study that they were required to do by law anyway (and hadn't done) during the procurement process.
Now check out para. 84: (page 19) "A l'audience, le procureur de Microsoft souleve " - Mr. Softie didn't sell the software directly. I was bought through Compugen. But Mr. Softie knew that losing here would mean opening the doors to losing more $$$ later.
Para 150 (page 29), quoting para 116 of Judge Silcoff in Alstrom "... the court notes that the study, to be in conformity with the law, must not only be in depth but also documented. If th STM (the city transit commission) wants to use an exception provided by law (to this requirement), they must document their research and conclusions .. before making their decision."
This is the law for all procurements exceeding $25,000.00 (para 152, page 29).
Para 153 (page 30) shows that there was no study done - quite the contrary.
Para 156 (page 31) - back in 2005 the Regie had put out a policy saying that when it came time to renew software in 2006-2007, open-source would be considered.
The smoking gun: para 157: (my translation) "I'd like an expert on open source software from CGI to comment on the following reply that we have made to a promoter of linux/openoffice. Are these valid arguments? What are the weak points that the promoter will attack and how will he do it?"
In other words, "We didn't do the study required by law, and we want to cover our asses - tell us where we fucked up."
It blew up in their face: para 160 (page 32) : "I believed that the objective was to compare the two solutions. Instead, it's a request to confirm that Linux-OO is no good. That would be a bit paradoxical for (us) to make such a statement when we are publicly stating the exact opposite ourselves."
Pares 198 ff (page 38) the court completely rejects the government's arguments.
The judge agreed that the government had no right to do what it did.
Then again, Jean Charest is such a lying fuck it's incredible. I remember talking to reporters and saying "people actually believe this guy?" and the response back was uniform "he says one thing to one group, another thing to another, but our editors just want to report what he's saying, not that he's lying half the time". We saw it with the whole demerger thing. Make a promise to do the right thing, then lie lie lie while you fuck everyone over.
Then again, what do you want from a former Mulroney Conservative. There are so many anglos in Montreal who vote PQ now in provincial elections because there's no way that they can trust him again.
Read the article in the original french. The judge made it quite clear that what the government did was illegal. Not just "illegal", but totally illegal, and that they tried to cover it up after-the-fact.
And F/LOSS is political. Using F/LOSS is as much a political statement as it is an economic statement - that it's our computers, our data, and we have a right to see the source, to use open formats, to modify it the way we want, and no private corporation should be able to lock us out.
It's always like that , and that's one reason why this decision is important - it means, at least in Quebec, that there's no more of this "it's just an upgrade" BS.
From what I read in the original french, the judge wasn't buying any of the gov't arguments. To paraphrase, if buying new computers with Vista on them is just an "upgrade", then everything becomes "just an upgrade" and there's no reason for ever calling for public tenders. (Those new police cars are "just an upgrade - no need for tenders").
The problem is that Windows boxes are a continuing cash cow because of their higher on-going support needs, so of course people are going to push Windows. They aren't tech-savvy, they just know how to push the boxes, maintain the anti-virus subscriptions, which icons to click to set up the network, and how to reformat.
Rogers was one of the guilty parties who started it.
There has been legislation at the provincial level in Quebec, Ontario, and now Manitoba that bans negative-option billing. In those provinces, Rogers has to do it differently. They can't just add the fee and let it ride. They have to get your explicit consent. Since they can't change the terms during the contract, they have to do it at renewal time. "Your contract is coming up for renewal. The new cost is an extra buck a month. If you wish to renew, blah blah blah".
That's a contract renewal, not a negative option billing. Your contract is over at that point. Renew it on the new terms or get cut off.
Even the very bottom of the fine print you posted pointed out that customers who refuse keep their existing contract terms until the contract is over. It's just boilerplate. Ignore it.
You've forgotten all those dumb blonde putting liquid paper on the screen jokes, haven't you?
Want to bet you could convince 'her' to use use a magic marker ... so you don't lose your work when the battery dies ...?
Rogers hasn't changed my terms in 10 years. Same plan, same price. When it comes up for renewal, the pattern is always the same - they offer phone upgrades, service upgrades, free phones, whatever ... I already have unlimited incoming/outgoing between 6pm and 8am weekdays and all weekend, so last year they kept phoning me with different offers - I finally took free incoming calls 7 days a week.
This year? I already got the usual "get a free phone blah blah blah ..." Not really interested. Smartphone? If it's an Evo 4g, for $200 on a 3-year plan, I'm interested, but aside from that, so what?
You can ignore their disclaimer. I do. They give me good service, I give them money. Neither side is going to rock the boat.
If they crawled the page without you first sending them the notification (step 1), you would be right - no contract.
However, sending them the notification is an offer to contract. They accept the terms under the contract by performing the specific actions laid out in the contract which can only be done on my site (so it's not like sending a contract that says 'if the sun rises tomorrow, you agree to pay me money.).
Would it hold up in court? If you took it to Delaware, probably. They side with trolls :-)
There's a reason "negative option" (aka opt-out) contracts have been banned for federally-regulated goods and services across Canada, and that the majority of Canadians also enjoy protection against it for all other goods and services - it's misleading to the point of fraud.
Under a consent agreement last year, Facebook only has 2 more months to get their act straight or get the plug pulled in Canada. People give a s*** about their privacy, and want it made simple. The default should be private.
See how having to opt out is the worst part?
What is your favorite search engine
[X] I mis-trust them all equally, you insensitive clod!
They're like Soviet Russia, while you're searching them, they're researching YOU!