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  1. Re:Discrimination in a Different Sense on Japan to Start Fingerprinting Foreign Travelers · · Score: 1

    Fingerprinting foreigners does not violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [un.org] if all foreigners are treated equally. In summary, the new Japanese law mandating the fingerprinting of foreigners is discriminatory and is unacceptable because the law exempts Korean refuseniks. FYI the American policy exempts Canadians from fingerprinting..

  2. Re:iDisk on The Top 10 Weirdest USB Drives Ever · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Setec Astronomy on Quantum Computing Regulation Already? · · Score: 1

    This would be Grover's Algorithm which you are talking about. It allows one to search an unsorted list in sqrt(N) time versus N for a classical computer. This can be extended to brute force an invertible function in sqrt(N) time as well.

  4. Engineer not Scientist on Deep Green - A Pool Playing Robot? · · Score: 1

    A small correction of the summary; I do believe he's an engineer, not a scientist. In fact, you'll see the URL is hosted off the electrical and computer engineering faculty site.

  5. Re:snap! on FreeBSD 5.3 on the Horizon · · Score: 1

    Definately not, I mean does tux compare to this?

  6. Re:canada anybody? on U.S. Supreme Court: Public Anonymity No Right · · Score: 1

    I do believe you are wrong.
    From this site:
    "In Canada, it is well established that we are not required to identify ourselves to police unless we are being arrested or we are carrying out a licensed activity such as driving. The right to anonymity with regard to the state is a crucial privacy right."
    Of course the information might be dated, after 9/11 the government has tried to introduce new laws to curb rights, mostly to satisfy the United States government.

  7. Re:"serving up new articles" on Zombie Webmonkey: Back From the Dead? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sorry for being offtopic, but I had no idea about the ads until you told me. Things like this wake me up to what I am and am not missing using Firefox and a few good extensions.

  8. Re:Mountains on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I do not know if this is the exact case. I tried the test as described with Yahoo. I copied the entire body of the gmail invite and send that to my yahoo account with any subject, and it gets marked as spam. I can delete up to one word in the email, and it does not get marked as spam. It seems Yahoo is specifically looking for the whole body of the Gmail invite..

  9. Re:I've never understood why sex is taboo in the U on U.S. Justice Department Prepares Assault on Pr0n · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually when he first became junior senator, he litteraly had friends annoint him with oil, like the old kings of Isreal.
    This guy is crazy, check it out

  10. Re:msblast on 75% of Network Connections Not From Browsers · · Score: 1

    Turn on the firewall before connecting?

  11. Re:Quick Primer on CRIA Prepares To Sue P2P Copyright Violators · · Score: 1

    Almost entirly correct.
    Music is subject to those provisions and thus the levy only goes to support music.
    You are not entitled to make copies of other copywrited works (movies, software, etc) in the same way. See here for info:

  12. Re:Pigeons Dropping Packets on Pigeons Faster than Internet · · Score: 1

    Just imagine a pigeon DDOS attack..

  13. Re:Welcome! on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    Of course, a government insurance bureaucracy would probably be even worse.

    As much as I don't like government bureaucracies, it turns out that having just one government bureaucracy is much more efficient then having several indepenent ones. A recent Harvard study found something along the lines of 30 cents of every healthcaredollar being spent on administration in the United States. Compared to 12 cents per dollar in Canada. I can't find the exact study , but I believe they reference it here

  14. Re:Get Off Me! on Music Industry Compared to Movie Industry · · Score: 1

    You can find more information here It seems that it hasnt been updated in a bit, but some good information.

  15. Re:Canada ... on iTunes: Don't Leave Home With Them · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered about this as well. You can legally make copies from original music in Canada (which pisses me off since I have to pay a music tax on CDs I buy to back up porn or whatever) so does that apply to MP3's from digital music services as well?

  16. Re:Contained? on SARS Contained · · Score: 1

    How widely spread it was? I work in a hospital in Toronto, and I was never afraid of catching SARS. It was always well contained, here anyways.

  17. Re:What would they rather have? on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    Now, unless they want to whip out their magic fairy-wand and produce energy out of thin air

    Isn't that what wind-mill do?