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  1. Re:The best defense... on Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a bit sad when "Russia Today" is the preferred place to go when you are a whistleblower.

  2. Please tell me.... on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    Can someone please tell my why I'm hearing so much bitching and complaining about how expensive cable is and why i'm not hearing are these words, "I cancelled my cable TV."?

  3. Re:Prices will go up on Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps · · Score: 1

    That's what they did here in Canada.

  4. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    They make LPG tanks that are designed to either fit in the same space as a flat tank or even to fit in where a spare tire would normally go.

  5. Re:Hydrogen is indeed quite dangerous... on Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Fuel Cells Are 'So Bull@%!#' · · Score: 1

    It is still pressurized to about 250psi (if I remember correctly from my LPG pumping days).

  6. Re:Canadians: Complain to the Privacy Comissioner on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    Tell you what, we'll take our apathy and greed and environmental destruction and you can have Quebec.

  7. Re:Can't opt out of data collection? on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Teksavvy use PPPoE over Bell's lines? What's to stop them from implementing MPPE and encrypting their customer content? (a google search indicates that this question came up in 2007.)

  8. Re:The Land Of The Negative Option on Bell Canada To Collect User Data For Advertising · · Score: 1

    The BC Legislature actually passed a bill that prohibits negative option billing when that happened. It's probably still in effect.

  9. Re:...because there is a new threat? on TSA Airport Screenings Now Start Before You Arrive At the Airport · · Score: 1

    When you fly as much as the typical Global Entry/Nexus holder does, that isn't an "expense". It's a cost savings because of all the time you save by NOT being in a long line up.

  10. Re:Stallman would have something to say about this on Call Yourself a Hacker, Lose Your 4th Amendment Rights · · Score: 1

    The rumour mill has it that the ATC will be transferred to your RPAL in the near future so you won't need an ATC any longer.

  11. Re:OMG! NO DEGREE! WE WILL ALL DIE! on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, the degree is the only way to get your foot in the door. Alternatively, sometimes the degree is the only reason you're not out the door.

  12. Re:Personally on Most IT Workers Don't Have STEM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Math) Degrees · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm surprised by this. I was required to take an english course in college when getting my tech diploma. It's focus was on technical writing.

    Also, have you mentioned to the engineer in question that it's "specification" and not "speckification"?

  13. Re:So... on Communications Protocol Leaves Power Grid Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Except that open source... oh, I see what you did there....

  14. Re:Blame Canada on Square Debuts New Email Payment System · · Score: 1

    I won't use it. Sending secure banking information over insecure email doesn't really do it for me.

  15. Re:Who's responsible for the ads served on Some Bing Ads Redirecting To Malware · · Score: 1

    Those "1 weird trick" ads did push me to install dnsmasq on my laptop. I've configured dnsmasq to handle domain lookups for lots of ad serving hosts and domains and it returns 127.0.0.1 for those lookups which saves me from said ads.

  16. Re:Look past the article's version of the cast ... on New York Subpoenaed AirBnb For All NYC User Data · · Score: 1

    > Homes are not businesses. They are homes.

    I hope you don't work out of your home then. After all.....

  17. Re:Look past the article's version of the cast ... on New York Subpoenaed AirBnb For All NYC User Data · · Score: 1

    And yet.... requiring ID to vote is racist.

  18. Re:Court order on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to add that you have also copied DFATD (Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development) and the Minister in charge. I mean, if they want to make it an international incident, might as well get the ball rolling.

  19. Re:RCMP on Police Demand Summary Domain Takedown, Traffic Redirection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is the correct reply. Force them to work in the proper jurisdiction of action.

  20. Re:Officer dickhead is a dickhead. on Georgia Cop Issues 800 Tickets To Drivers Texting At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    "It's legal" - Judge Dredd.

  21. Re:Burden of enforcement on FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon · · Score: 1

    I've seen that happen where some economy pax dumps their cases in the overhead. I've also seen the flight attendants tell them to take them back with them or just remove them from the cabin and have them sky checked.

    I've also had one entitled woman remove someones bag because that was "her space" (even though it actually wasn't, but that's a different story).

  22. Re:We're Skipping Windows 8 and 8.1 on Majority of Enterprise Customers Finally 'Migrating Away From Windows XP' · · Score: 2

    I recommend the satellite technology industry. It's got to be THE most stagnant industry in tech these days. Satellite modems have finally heard of this wonderful thing called "Ethernet" and "Internet Protocol". Why, by 2100, they might have support for ipv6.

    To be fair, there's only so much you can do with satellite. It's hugely bandwidth limited and the latency kills a lot of applications. The only real innovations that I can think of is Carrier-in-Carrier aka Doubletalk and Vipersat. You can't count the implementation of Low Density Parity Check simply because the theory was written in the 60s and only now do we have the computing power to do it.

  23. Re:Toll roads on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 1

    And its collected every time you put gas in your car or perform the periodic registration of said vehicle.

  24. Re:Trending political procedures... on NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City · · Score: 1

    Same for the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges in the Greater Vancouver area (neither are in the city of Vancouver). No cash. They send a bill in the mail (or in my case, charge my card once monthly as they scan my RFID transponder and have a card on file for me).

  25. Re: Fight it if you want to. on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    Sorry, $140.