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  1. Re:Simcity 5 dumbed down the road and zoneing syst on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    Cities in Motion is sweet. I wish you could take that and blend it with SimCity 4000.

  2. Re:You've come to the right place. on Home Server On IPv6-only Internet Connection? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Buy a VPS. Create an open ended ssh tunnel commencing that opens a port on the VPS IP4 address. Use a utility like autossh to automatically maintain the ssh connection. Connect to port 80 on the VPS IP and get routed to your home web server.

  3. Re:Received one this morning. on Epsilon Breach Affects JPMorgan Chase, Capital One · · Score: 1

    Look at your provincial / state governments privacy acts. There are instances where this type of violation of privacy rights are statutory torts (legislation). If you're lucky, your province / state may not even require you to prove damages to file an action for violation of privacy. If you don't have that type of protection, I'm sure that there's a waiver of liability from BestBuy in your contract.

  4. Re:I'll bet ... on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 1

    Except we're too cheap to buy the products. Plus the Harper administration would rather put up blue "Economic Stimulus" billboards while paying hookers tons of cash than actually do anything that would stimulate the economy.

  5. It's called a SLAP lawsuit on After Online Defamation Suit, Dismissal of Malicious Prosecution Claim Upheld · · Score: 1

    Unless you're lucky and happen to live in a jurisdiction like Quebec, which has anti-SLAP ("baillon", or "Strategic Lawsuit Against Participation") legislation in place, you have no little or no recourse. In Quebec you could ask for 10 grand of lawyers fees up front from the corporation and you could ask to have to court throw out the defamation lawsuit prior to it going to court.

  6. because internet sucks in Canada on The New Data Center Capital of America · · Score: 1

    The Internet sucks in Canada, that's why. It's slow and expensive, just like our 20th century trains.

  7. I downloaded MoS cd's and it brough them business. on Anonymous Knocks Out Ministry of Sound Website · · Score: 1

    If I hadn't downloaded Ministry of Sound cd's off torrent sites, I never would have heard about the club. Last time I was in London I, and several friends, each dropped the 15£ cover and another 100£ or so each on drinks. I only went to the club because of the pirated music. I would go again next time I'm in town.

  8. OSX Snow Leopard upgrade may cause battery failure on Microsoft Looking Into Windows 7 Battery Failures · · Score: 1

    I've heard reports on the Apple community forum that those who upgraded to Snow Leopard had battery failure. However, it could very well be that the newer versions, 10.6 and also Windows 7, are just better at displaying battery failure status than the earlier versions.

  9. in japan... on Electric Bicycles Surging In Popularity · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Almost every Japanese senior citizen rides one of these... surprisingly fast. They're expensive too there, like $700 dollars. Also, they don't lock them up because generally in Japan people don't steal things.

  10. Re:I Second this on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    Staples Color Laser paper is awesome. It's thick and bright.

  11. Re:Good luck with that... on Japan Eyes Solar Station In Space · · Score: 1

    Rainy season is the most humid, and that is when there is the greatest energy use (AC). It's logical that they would want to get the solar panels above the clouds.

  12. Re:Elections on CRTC Issues Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 2, Funny

    You voted Conservative? Yes, it's your fault my Internet sucks, jerk.

  13. Re:Perhaps 3 orders of magnitude more power on Next-Gen Nuclear Power Plant Breaks Ground In China · · Score: 1

    Which just went back online this spring, after a few years of tests after the large offshore (but very close by) Chuetsu earthquake a couple years back.

  14. Re:This will solve which problem again? on Mexican Government To Document Cell Phone Use · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's because of the kidnapping crisis. Cell phones are used to negotiate ransoms. This will just likely push criminals to move to VOIP out on stolen wifi connections.

  15. Re:Japan Broadband = Dense population on The NYT Compares Broadband Upgrade Costs in US, Japan · · Score: 1

    That's a good point. I think I read once that somewhere in the neighbourhood of 40% of Americans live in rural areas. (compared with only 20% of Canadians for the sake of comparison)

  16. Re:Japan Broadband = Dense population on The NYT Compares Broadband Upgrade Costs in US, Japan · · Score: 1

    Japan's population is actually not that dense at all. Tokyo is roughly twice as dense as Toronto. Plus, 80% of people live in houses not "manshions" (appartments).

  17. Re:See also: The classic answer to computer proble on How To Prevent Being Hacked Via Backups? · · Score: 1

    Please elaborate, you've caught my eye.

    I think using an ecrypted jail is a very effective way to rapidly restore a lost server (a true backup) and is not inherantly insecure in anyway.

    However, I am curious how it is that a FreeBSD jail is insecure? Certainly the userland isolation can't hurt security?

  18. Re:See also: The classic answer to computer proble on How To Prevent Being Hacked Via Backups? · · Score: 1

    There's a cool way you can have backups that you can bring only very quickly with FreeBSD. You build a jailed environment, then just tarball, then encrypt the whole thing. Then host it in another country.) If your server fails, you simply bring another one online and load the same jail (userspace vm). You can automate database backups, and just make sure that they are encrypted, and sshtunnel>>ftpd to a secure firewalled location. Backup your VM whenever you make a software change, and backup the database and scripting files daily (or as needed). Encrypt whatever you need, and store the files in a location where they cannot be executed or accessed without secured access. The backups can be automated from the host system crontab, (ex: tar -czf $date-jailbackup.tar.gz /path/to/jail). Since the Jail has no access to the host system, and the secured backup server has no access to the host either, then it's relative secure.

  19. Re:Can somebody explain what it's all about? on Piracy Case Could Change Canadian Web Landscape · · Score: 1

    Nunavut is not a province. It's a federated territory with aboriginal self governanc

  20. Re:Film at 11... on High Tech Misery In China · · Score: 1

    Look at Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. The entire city (~50,000 persons) went on strike, until the RCMP (federal police) came and started patrolling the streets and shooting them with a machine gun.

  21. Solution: ban corporate/union donations on Pakistan YouTube Block Breaks the World · · Score: 1

    That's what we have done in Canada. Only individual donations are permitted, and there is a strict limit on how much can be received. Corporations and lobbyists need to be stripped of their power, demos cratos, not corporatism!

  22. Canadians are strong allies with Cuba on Fidel Castro Resigns · · Score: 1

    Canadian love to travel to Cuba precisely because there are no asshole American tourists there to deal with. I just hope they "Keep the Yanks OUT!" (Now I have travelled and met many very nice americans who are educated and are not douchebags, however, they, in my personal experience seem to be the minority)

  23. Re:$1 CDN = $1 USD on Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act · · Score: 1

    ahhh i see my bad, respect

  24. $1 CDN = $1 USD on Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act · · Score: 2

    I guess you forgot that Bush maimed the US economy and devalued its currency.

  25. BRIAN MULRONEY on Delays to Canadian DMCA Could Doom Act · · Score: 1

    "Mr. Mulroney can you show us how thick the brown envelope was?"