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  1. Now I feel bad... on Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore · · Score: 1

    I've been wandering in and out of the University Bookstore here wearing my thecannon.ca (a student-run textbook classifieds and other things site) shirt for days...I hope I don't get arrested...

  2. Re:No Piracy on HMV Canada Cuts Music CD Prices · · Score: 1

    Fun ones.

  3. Re:Plan for Them Both, Take Your Time & Pick O on Computer Science or Info Tech? · · Score: 1

    Canada also prominently uses secondary school as a term.

  4. How can I identify this? on Why Music Really Is Getting Louder · · Score: 1

    I'd like to find out what music in my collection is tainted by this loudness boosting. Is there a way I can find out using Audacity? Should I look for points in the wave where's it's forced straight by the digital boundaries?

  5. What government? on Retroactive Immunity Proposed for Telcos Who Share Private Data · · Score: 1

    What government is going to do this? The New World Order? Because I'm pretty sure the Technocracy wouldn't need to *ask* for such information...

  6. Re:Ah, Office - the Brazil of software on Show Office 2007 Who's the Boss · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure where turning off automatic URL changing is, but paste formatting is really where it's supposed to be in 2007:

    Office Button->Word Options->Advanced->Cut, copy and paste.

  7. And if you spent a second day in that class... on Price Optimization Software Big in Retail Business · · Score: 1

    you'd learn how to do price optimization yourself. This is nothing new - anyone with the right data and training can do this; the product simply makes it easier. Thank you for the astroturfing.

  8. Re:You ignore institutional Islamic intolerance on AT&T Says Spying Is Too Secret For Courts · · Score: 1

    Please stop talking about Canadian cultural events you obviously don't understand.

    (For reference: Due to Canada's cultural mosaic policy, as opposed to America's assimilationist policy, it's very unusual for someone to be asked to take off religious headgarb, and there was plenty of question as to whether the ban on hijab[s?] at the tournament was justified.)

  9. Re:as seen on... on New Details on Xerox Inkless Printer · · Score: 1

    I did an internship in an archives earlier this year.

    During a part of this, I spent about a month describing and cataloging incoming photographs. About one half of that was devoted to the one tenth of the photographs that were Polaroids. Why? Because they have such a minute lifespan that on an archives' terms, this was the last chance anyone would get to look at them possibly. So, I had to describe, in minute detail, each one.

    The question is: is this paper going to be like a Polaroid? Sure it's convenient, but I'll take a bit of a hassle to make sure my materials are still there when I or my estate's executor or my children need to get at them; that my relics will remain.

  10. Re:No, greed does. on Viral Marketing Breeding Cynicism · · Score: 1

    Tip: The target audience for lingerie is not the same audience as the one who will be distracted by it.

  11. Re:Here's a question for you.... on Why Does Skype Read the BIOS? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love that new first-person shooter! It thinks my three-year old bargain bin card is from the top of today's line! Never mind the five frames per second, my screenshots look great!

    *computer spurts and sparks, sending out a plume of smoke*

    Alternatively:

    "Daddy, why is the computer making a horrible screeching sound?"
    "Don't worry, Timmy, that's just it trying to write information beyond the bounds of the hard disk!"

  12. Re:You're defined by your subculture... on Personality Secrets in Your MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    I enjoy metal for two reasons.

    1) The energy in it is infectious: while I'm definitely more emotionally attached to my Sarah McLachlan or my Alanis Morisette, there's nothing like blasting a little Zyklon in the morning to get me going.

    2) Part of the reason I'm so easygoing is that I'm a subjectivist who doesn't think there's anything necessarily bad with the darker aspects of life or art: the woe in doom metal is sister to joy or beauty in ambient or trance, and they all deserve equal experience.

    Well, 3. There's simply some beautiful music amongst it.

    I'm not going to dispute your B, and I think my 2 probably answers your C.

  13. Re:You're defined by your subculture... on Personality Secrets in Your MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    I'm an easygoing English/Women's Studies major who can't get enough death metal in her diet. I'll take "What is the opposite of your example, Alex" for 400.

  14. Re:free speech? kiss it goodbye. on Canadian Phone Company Selling Porn · · Score: 3, Informative

    I applaud you for having no idea how the Canadian telecommunications field works. From a Canadian perspective, the idea of porn is a minor issue, and the media issue is a non-issue. It's a completely different game up here, bucko.

  15. Re:not to mention on OSDL's Review of Desktop Linux In 2006 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thank you! It drives me nuts when people talk about anything that goes wrong in the US as though their country were perfect. If you live in a country that doesn't have any downsides, let me know and I'll see about moving my family there.

    Cana-fuckin-da.

  16. Xenosaga IV! on Sequels We'd All Like To See · · Score: 1

    Seriously. I know it *just* ended, but half the ending was devoted to the devs going "sequel plz", and providing some very good hooks to justify it. I can't bear the last scene being the series' ending. It feels way too wrong.

  17. This is new? on Did Producer Timbaland Steal From the Demoscene? · · Score: 2, Interesting
  18. Re:WTF? on U.S. Bars Lab From Testing E-Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    What happens if you press 5F like they always tell you not to? Does the machine name you as the landslide winner?

  19. Re:XSIII on Slashdot's Games of the Year · · Score: 1

    I've got to agree. What elevates XSIII so far above is the sheer depth of its storytelling: there's enough material there that I'd feel confident measuring it according to the same criteria I use to examine novels.

  20. Making Time With The Watchmakers? on Making Time With the Watchmakers · · Score: 1

    You really want to make time with this?

  21. Re:They forgot... on The Importance of Game Length · · Score: 1

    KOTOR won't. BGII will, which contains everything good about KOTOR, except longer and even better. KOTOR was only "new" and "revolutionary" by virtue of being a Star Wars game. There's nothing there Bioware hasn't done before.

  22. Re:Great Firewall on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    Canada has a good track record on this sort of thing. Look at the War Measures Act: predates the PATRIOT act, is arguably even *worse*, and has no record of abuse due to careful monitoring.

  23. Re:Um, come again? on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea. Actually read about the blacklist in question. The RCMP fully know about the effect this is actually going to have as a deterrent, and it's limited to child porn, not hate speech. TFA doesn't really talk about the Canadian blacklist in question, instead using it as a soapbox.

  24. Re:Um, come again? on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    Luckily for us in Canada, our free speech laws were drafted after the rise of the workers' rights movement and our own problems with Communism (And we have a major political party [the NDP] descended from just that movement).

  25. Re:Expression should never be limited. on The Great Firewall of Canada · · Score: 1

    It might have something to do with the Taliban and other foreign political groups not being a protected group according to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It also helps that virtually no one, and certainly no politician, says "Slaughter All The Taliban" up here. There was lots of talk of punishment and justice, but nothing that counts as hate speech under Canadian law.