Personally, I wouldn't mind living near a wind farm; however, I've seen all the feedback from people who actually live near them, and it tends to be negative.
They really aren't much like windmills; partly because there are so m any turbines.
You do realize that you're proving their point, right? THIS is why they want the 100 mile zone; so that if they suspect something fishy, they don't have to catch you at the border, but can follow up after the fact. Thus, they don't catch you smuggling beer across the border via boat/dirt road; they just gather the reports that you make regular trips, and then visit your home shortly after one of those trips should have occurred... and confiscate any Canadian beer they find on suspicion of smuggling (as you haven't declared it at the border).
Good for Yandex that they are "taking forth place", but the truth is that they might as well not exist. Anyone who have a website with 10k+ daily visitors will confirm that absoltely nobody is visiting with a referer string from Yandex or Bing. Nobody. They might as well not exist. Another side to this is that Yandex and Bing and other worthless things like 360spider and JikeSpider and Sogou all waste a whole lot of bandwidth, way more bandwidth than users account for on smaller sites. All this bandwidth and CPU wasted on spiders and absolutely no results to show for it (except spam-bots from China and Russia). It's tempting just to put -j DROP on Yandex and Bing and the trest of them. I don't do it, but I am very tempted.
People don't tend to visit sites from Yandex because they don't have to... Yandex provides the information from the site in-line. People who search on Yandex spend less time clicking through web pages, because the infomation they want shows up immediately (at least for answers to common questions like "where can I buy the cheapest X").
Of course, this means that site owners may want to drop yandex bots for other reasons....
When you loot toward the future, and gas is getting scarce how stupid will this look in retrospect?
Nice insightful typo:)
I think I'll adopt the phrase "future looters" to describe such practices from now on (wasting sidestream resources because it's not currently cost beneficial to preserve them while using others).
Not sure about your definition of "perfect"... (probably something that will never be possible to attain anywhere, anytime). I'm also not sure if you're trolling (in which case, "I has been trolled"), but, we do have good sustainable options... wind, solar and geothermal are all sustainable and emit no greenhouse gasses during operation and only small amounts depending on how they are manufactured.
Sources for this?
Solar: not only does current solar technology require batteries to normalize the power, which are very energy inefficient, both the panels and the batteries have large manufacturing costs in terms of both energy consumed and resources (rare metals etc, which also have large energy costs in production, as well as environmental impact). We need a LOT more investigation on this one before we can claim actual overall benefit using this method.
Geothermal: If we're taking energy from the earth's core and expending it into space, we're going to have some massive scaling problems. Useful in specific applied circumstances, but needs more study as to the effects when scaled up.
Wind: at the current energy draw, wind is a good contender; it doesn't affect our gas envelope all that much, generates power, and is fairly efficient to maintain the hardware. Combined with wave-powered generators, this could be the solution (but needs more study). Unfortunately, nobody wants to live near a wind farm. I guess it's a good alternative to not having electricity whenever you want it though.
When it comes right down to it, we have 2 sources of energy: stored energy and external energy. Solar, wind and wave all depend on external (solar) energy, which is a good thing. Everything else has a much shorter shelf-life (but is still useful, just like batteries are useful alongside solar/wind/wave).
it's a little like selling guns as murder weapons - it doesn't fly well in any country.
Not really, as murder is illegal everywhere. It'd be more like selling whiskey as something to get you drunk -- this shouldn't be an issue in the US, but you're going to have problems with the courts in, say, Saudi Arabia.
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...or their staffs knew half as much about technology as the average teenager.
Whoever wrote the bill knows exactly what the intent of all this monitoring and exchange of data is for. And those people did another masterful job of training these elected buffoons to spout crap like "it's only ones and zeros" to divert attention from that intent.
Maybe someone should ask Rogers exactly what an alphabetic character looks like when it is transmitted across the internet. (My guess is that he doesn't care unless he's getting a campaign contribution as a reward for knowing that.)
Or, we can ask Rogers where he stands on the Abortion debate. After all, all lifeforms are just made up of electrons, protons and neutrons.
Draw parallels between this debate and something there'd be a political mess about if he made the same arguments, and you'll see things change quickly.
Also, the country is important in time zones because some locations do DST differently than others (or don't do it at all). So you don't just need to know your longitude, you need to know what the local rules are for shifting time (as well as the local rules for displaying it, as previously mentioned).
How long did this patent take to process? I had a local food delivery service doing exactly what this patent describes 12 years ago... and they weren't the first one in my area to do it (first one was around 16 years ago I think).
Add to that that Amazon doesn't even sell produce in my area, and what I get is... higher prices to cover patent licensing with no discernible gain to anyone (these other companies that came up with the same solution as Amazon are NOT competing with them in the local market -- and it can be proven that they arrived at the solution independently just by using the wayback machine).
If you look at the great evils in the world today you can pretty much name them the USA, China, and Russia. They're the nations who are wandering around the planet dicking with other nations' governments the most, selling the most military hardware and/or engaging in the most metanational corporate activity. We could argue all day over whether these nations are truly in competition or are really engaged in dividing the globe up between themselves in a way they see as equitable and it wouldn't change a damn thing for the average man on the street anywhere in the world, including within these nations.
The USA is projecting more power across the globe in the name of profit than any other nation, so naturally it should fall under the most scrutiny. And unfortunately, the more scrutiny you subject this government to, the more serious malfeasance you find. At some point you expect things to stop getting worse, but they don't; the system is rotten to the core. It might well look like the USA is being singled out, but perhaps the truth is that the USA is simply up to more misdeeds. The facts seem to support this hypothesis.
Actually, the USA, China and Russia are the international bullies, but there are a number of other nations heavily into the behind-the-scenes shenanigans -- including the UK, France, Germany, Israel and Iran. And then there's all the countries who are actively exploiting mechanisms they know they shouldn't be (Canada, Japan, Norway etc.) who are putting national profits above global profits and sustainability.
So really: the USA *IS* being singled out -- because it's the one whose dirty laundry can be rifled through the easiest, and where airing that laundry will have the most impact (do that in China, they'll just ignore you/vanish you -- do it in Russia and they'll kill you).
Common sense tells us that Google does not have eyeballs doing this -- but that's kind of how smear campaigns work. They take something that, analyzed critically, is often the case, but when framed inappropriately, has strong emotional connotations linking it to something we know is not true. See the post regarding 'Bill Gates can't stand eating cats with Ketchup!'
This technique is also the one used by psychologists for creating false memories in test subjects. While there are issues with Google's automated systems scanning supposedly private conversations (remember: if it's sent via unencrypted email, it's not private), I have bigger issues with companies using their sales and/or marketing arms to orchestrate insertion of false memories on a societal scale. Due to the fragility of the human mind, it should be illegal to pursue this marketing strategy (can't say illegal to insert false memories, as it happens accidentally all the time).
As I said, it'll cost you. ADSL isn't really designed for acting as a server, and using alternate methods over the ATM require you be close to a local hub. It's not really physically possible for you to run a commercial-grade server on Telus' consumer SDL. The bandwidth just isn't there. But if you want to pay commercial rates, they'll get you a nice fat pipe. Shaw is a bit more limited on this front, as they have more flexibility up front, but less iron behind the scenes -- meaning that they can't give you much better with a commercial solution than they do with the consumer one.
And why should bytes that don't even make it to my machine count towards my usage?
Because life's not always fair.
However, from TFA, it appears that a lot of the bytes that DO make it to your machine don't count towards your usage. I'm wondering if they're only tracking TCP....
If a foreign government agency had spent years gathering data, and was mining it for undisclosed (possibly nefarious) purposes, It would be known as a dangerous spy network, would be subjected to infiltration/corruption and possible attack.
Doesn't every government have an agency that does that?
What makes you think governments haven't infiltrated Facebook?
Infiltrated? Facebook happily cooperates with governments. No infiltration needed. Interestingly, that means that Facebook also has information on who all the governments think are interesting, and how they're related.
I have a thumbdrive that I keep on me most of the time with login info for about 250 fake accounts I log into from time to time on whatever device I'm near. Some of these accounts are friends with my real friends and some of which are only friends with 'each other'. A few of my friends also have fake accounts (though just one or two) so I think it'd be quite difficult to determine which accounts are real and which are fake. I don't really care about obfuscating my own tracks entirely, but I do hope that at some point in the future enough people create enough bs accounts to undermine the credibility of facebook's entire data set - effectively, if advertisers don't trust FB they won't pay as much for their services. That said, the number of pageviews isn't affected with this strategy so I'm probably wasting my time. It's still fun though.
Having seen presentations by people infiltrating facebook with bots, and other presntations by FB security outlining what they do to detect fakes, I think graph analysis would sort out what you're doing pretty quickly.
A better idea would be to friend some people in India and pay them some small amount of money to involve you in all their activities (including photoshopped pics).
How is it "stomping on your privacy" to share data you have agreed to share? If people are naive enough to believe Facebook was setup solely for peoples' enjoyment, that's their own damn fault. If you share things online you're uncomfortable with other people knowing about that's your own problem. Expecting Facebook to make your privacy their business is silly.
To play the other devil's advocate... it's "stomping on your privacy" because most countries have privacy laws, and citizens expect Facebook to honor them.
OK: enough of the devil. It all comes down to the Insurance paradigm.
There are two types of insurance: comprehensive and named-damages. When using Facebook, most people assume they have comprehensive privacy protection -- meaning that their privacy is protected except in the ways they explicitly allow Facebook to use it. However, Facebook operates on a "named damages" model, where unless they say they're protecting your privacy in a certain defined area, they aren't. They get in trouble with governments every once in a while over this, and then add the appropriate legislated items to their privacy list, and continue to ignore it everywhere else.
In short, they've extended the insurance scam into the PII arena. Likely, it'll be as profitable for them as it is for insurance companies.
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Disable everything that it's possible to disable. Set to notify me by email of private messages, just in case. Disable ability to tag me in photos, post on my wall, etc, etc.
Put up a user photo on account that says "I DO NOT USE FB. SEND ME AN EMAIL AT >email addy".
Never touch Facebook again.
If you never touch Facebook again, you're in trouble. You see, they keep changing their privacy controls, and make everything opt-out by default (meaning when they change the controls, the privacy-detrimental "features" are enabled by default). As a result, unless you check in regularly and verify your privacy settings, you might be surprised at what is enabled right now (even if you disabled it in the past).
I just avoid facebook by having someone else with my name on there -- I can claim that anything on facebook is related to them, not me. Someone wants to create a fakebook page? Fine; it's demonstrably not me, as everyone knows I don't use facebook. Maybe it's the other guy. Since I can prove that I exist somewhere different from him and have an extremely different personality, anything that goes on Facebook is going to be assumed not to be me by default.
Of course, I'm sure if Slashdot pulled a graph analysis on me, all sorts of stuff would be revealed....
No, don't worry, you sound as stupid as everyone else who can't use a fucking dictionary.
You you rather that I had written my post in my own language or any of the other 5 languages I can speak?
You know, I think he would:)
That said, there's no issue with being a wordsmith erudite; the problem is, you failed to communicate the tone you were aiming for in English, and then used the fact that you knew that you did as an excuse instead of an apology. At that point, a lot of people will stop taking your seriously no matter what language you communicate in.
Als de maan vol is, schijnt zij overal....
None of it's (fully) about mental skill; it's about being aware of your own blind spots -- and being willing to admit and not trust them.
...and that's why people are pushing to cloud services.
However, you're going after the wrong ISPs. Who does your ISP get their service from? That's who you want to go to. If they won't bring that kind of service to your door, do co-location with a backup service. You own the server and are the point of contact for DMCA notices, but you get all the perks of a datacenter.
This raises a very valid point: once this spyware is on a system, it'll be trivial for malware authors to co-opt the malware to steal data for their own use. Not to mention, the temptation for PRIVATE GROUPS to misuse information lifted from private citizens in secret is huge.
Luckily, this goes against Canadian Privacy law in so many ways, I don't see how even the Conservative government could succeed in ramming this through.
Canadians might be polite when it comes to battling ignorance -- they get pretty rabid if you go after their privacy though.
You see, the 52 nuances of "sorry" have very specific meanings. The "Oh, sorry for not letting you in front of me in line" sorry translates to American as "you ignorant prick". However, it has the advantage that the recipient can't really take offense in a violent manner without looking like a real scumbag.
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Personally, I wouldn't mind living near a wind farm; however, I've seen all the feedback from people who actually live near them, and it tends to be negative.
They really aren't much like windmills; partly because there are so m any turbines.
Here's some actual reports though:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/david-dodge/living-near-a-wind-farm_b_1910707.html
http://mywinddiary.blogspot.ca/
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-turbines-health.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/07/11/pol-cp-wind-turbines-health-canada-study.html
You do realize that you're proving their point, right? THIS is why they want the 100 mile zone; so that if they suspect something fishy, they don't have to catch you at the border, but can follow up after the fact. Thus, they don't catch you smuggling beer across the border via boat/dirt road; they just gather the reports that you make regular trips, and then visit your home shortly after one of those trips should have occurred... and confiscate any Canadian beer they find on suspicion of smuggling (as you haven't declared it at the border).
Good for Yandex that they are "taking forth place", but the truth is that they might as well not exist. Anyone who have a website with 10k+ daily visitors will confirm that absoltely nobody is visiting with a referer string from Yandex or Bing. Nobody. They might as well not exist. Another side to this is that Yandex and Bing and other worthless things like 360spider and JikeSpider and Sogou all waste a whole lot of bandwidth, way more bandwidth than users account for on smaller sites. All this bandwidth and CPU wasted on spiders and absolutely no results to show for it (except spam-bots from China and Russia). It's tempting just to put -j DROP on Yandex and Bing and the trest of them. I don't do it, but I am very tempted.
People don't tend to visit sites from Yandex because they don't have to... Yandex provides the information from the site in-line. People who search on Yandex spend less time clicking through web pages, because the infomation they want shows up immediately (at least for answers to common questions like "where can I buy the cheapest X").
Of course, this means that site owners may want to drop yandex bots for other reasons....
When you loot toward the future, and gas is getting scarce how stupid will this look in retrospect?
Nice insightful typo :)
I think I'll adopt the phrase "future looters" to describe such practices from now on (wasting sidestream resources because it's not currently cost beneficial to preserve them while using others).
Not sure about your definition of "perfect"... (probably something that will never be possible to attain anywhere, anytime).
I'm also not sure if you're trolling (in which case, "I has been trolled"), but, we do have good sustainable options... wind, solar and geothermal are all sustainable and emit no greenhouse gasses during operation and only small amounts depending on how they are manufactured.
Sources for this?
Solar: not only does current solar technology require batteries to normalize the power, which are very energy inefficient, both the panels and the batteries have large manufacturing costs in terms of both energy consumed and resources (rare metals etc, which also have large energy costs in production, as well as environmental impact). We need a LOT more investigation on this one before we can claim actual overall benefit using this method.
Geothermal: If we're taking energy from the earth's core and expending it into space, we're going to have some massive scaling problems. Useful in specific applied circumstances, but needs more study as to the effects when scaled up.
Wind: at the current energy draw, wind is a good contender; it doesn't affect our gas envelope all that much, generates power, and is fairly efficient to maintain the hardware. Combined with wave-powered generators, this could be the solution (but needs more study). Unfortunately, nobody wants to live near a wind farm. I guess it's a good alternative to not having electricity whenever you want it though.
When it comes right down to it, we have 2 sources of energy: stored energy and external energy. Solar, wind and wave all depend on external (solar) energy, which is a good thing. Everything else has a much shorter shelf-life (but is still useful, just like batteries are useful alongside solar/wind/wave).
it's a little like selling guns as murder weapons - it doesn't fly well in any country.
Not really, as murder is illegal everywhere. It'd be more like selling whiskey as something to get you drunk -- this shouldn't be an issue in the US, but you're going to have problems with the courts in, say, Saudi Arabia.
...or their staffs knew half as much about technology as the average teenager.
Whoever wrote the bill knows exactly what the intent of all this monitoring and exchange of data is for. And those people did another masterful job of training these elected buffoons to spout crap like "it's only ones and zeros" to divert attention from that intent.
Maybe someone should ask Rogers exactly what an alphabetic character looks like when it is transmitted across the internet. (My guess is that he doesn't care unless he's getting a campaign contribution as a reward for knowing that.)
Or, we can ask Rogers where he stands on the Abortion debate. After all, all lifeforms are just made up of electrons, protons and neutrons.
Draw parallels between this debate and something there'd be a political mess about if he made the same arguments, and you'll see things change quickly.
Hey Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger, can I borrow a few bucks? Come on, I know you've 'run in' to some money recently! ;)
...and hey; it's just 0's and 1's, right? I could use a few more 0's and 1's in my bank account too....
Also, the country is important in time zones because some locations do DST differently than others (or don't do it at all). So you don't just need to know your longitude, you need to know what the local rules are for shifting time (as well as the local rules for displaying it, as previously mentioned).
How long did this patent take to process? I had a local food delivery service doing exactly what this patent describes 12 years ago... and they weren't the first one in my area to do it (first one was around 16 years ago I think).
Add to that that Amazon doesn't even sell produce in my area, and what I get is...
higher prices to cover patent licensing with no discernible gain to anyone (these other companies that came up with the same solution as Amazon are NOT competing with them in the local market -- and it can be proven that they arrived at the solution independently just by using the wayback machine).
If you look at the great evils in the world today you can pretty much name them the USA, China, and Russia. They're the nations who are wandering around the planet dicking with other nations' governments the most, selling the most military hardware and/or engaging in the most metanational corporate activity. We could argue all day over whether these nations are truly in competition or are really engaged in dividing the globe up between themselves in a way they see as equitable and it wouldn't change a damn thing for the average man on the street anywhere in the world, including within these nations.
The USA is projecting more power across the globe in the name of profit than any other nation, so naturally it should fall under the most scrutiny. And unfortunately, the more scrutiny you subject this government to, the more serious malfeasance you find. At some point you expect things to stop getting worse, but they don't; the system is rotten to the core. It might well look like the USA is being singled out, but perhaps the truth is that the USA is simply up to more misdeeds. The facts seem to support this hypothesis.
Actually, the USA, China and Russia are the international bullies, but there are a number of other nations heavily into the behind-the-scenes shenanigans -- including the UK, France, Germany, Israel and Iran. And then there's all the countries who are actively exploiting mechanisms they know they shouldn't be (Canada, Japan, Norway etc.) who are putting national profits above global profits and sustainability.
So really: the USA *IS* being singled out -- because it's the one whose dirty laundry can be rifled through the easiest, and where airing that laundry will have the most impact (do that in China, they'll just ignore you/vanish you -- do it in Russia and they'll kill you).
Common sense tells us that Google does not have eyeballs doing this -- but that's kind of how smear campaigns work. They take something that, analyzed critically, is often the case, but when framed inappropriately, has strong emotional connotations linking it to something we know is not true. See the post regarding 'Bill Gates can't stand eating cats with Ketchup!'
This technique is also the one used by psychologists for creating false memories in test subjects. While there are issues with Google's automated systems scanning supposedly private conversations (remember: if it's sent via unencrypted email, it's not private), I have bigger issues with companies using their sales and/or marketing arms to orchestrate insertion of false memories on a societal scale. Due to the fragility of the human mind, it should be illegal to pursue this marketing strategy (can't say illegal to insert false memories, as it happens accidentally all the time).
As I said, it'll cost you. ADSL isn't really designed for acting as a server, and using alternate methods over the ATM require you be close to a local hub. It's not really physically possible for you to run a commercial-grade server on Telus' consumer SDL. The bandwidth just isn't there. But if you want to pay commercial rates, they'll get you a nice fat pipe. Shaw is a bit more limited on this front, as they have more flexibility up front, but less iron behind the scenes -- meaning that they can't give you much better with a commercial solution than they do with the consumer one.
And why should bytes that don't even make it to my machine count towards my usage?
Because life's not always fair.
However, from TFA, it appears that a lot of the bytes that DO make it to your machine don't count towards your usage. I'm wondering if they're only tracking TCP....
If a foreign government agency had spent years gathering data, and was mining it for undisclosed (possibly nefarious) purposes, It would be known as a dangerous spy network, would be subjected to infiltration/corruption and possible attack.
Doesn't every government have an agency that does that?
What makes you think governments haven't infiltrated Facebook?
Infiltrated? Facebook happily cooperates with governments. No infiltration needed. Interestingly, that means that Facebook also has information on who all the governments think are interesting, and how they're related.
I have a thumbdrive that I keep on me most of the time with login info for about 250 fake accounts I log into from time to time on whatever device I'm near. Some of these accounts are friends with my real friends and some of which are only friends with 'each other'. A few of my friends also have fake accounts (though just one or two) so I think it'd be quite difficult to determine which accounts are real and which are fake. I don't really care about obfuscating my own tracks entirely, but I do hope that at some point in the future enough people create enough bs accounts to undermine the credibility of facebook's entire data set - effectively, if advertisers don't trust FB they won't pay as much for their services. That said, the number of pageviews isn't affected with this strategy so I'm probably wasting my time. It's still fun though.
Having seen presentations by people infiltrating facebook with bots, and other presntations by FB security outlining what they do to detect fakes, I think graph analysis would sort out what you're doing pretty quickly.
A better idea would be to friend some people in India and pay them some small amount of money to involve you in all their activities (including photoshopped pics).
How is it "stomping on your privacy" to share data you have agreed to share? If people are naive enough to believe Facebook was setup solely for peoples' enjoyment, that's their own damn fault. If you share things online you're uncomfortable with other people knowing about that's your own problem. Expecting Facebook to make your privacy their business is silly.
To play the other devil's advocate... it's "stomping on your privacy" because most countries have privacy laws, and citizens expect Facebook to honor them.
OK: enough of the devil. It all comes down to the Insurance paradigm.
There are two types of insurance: comprehensive and named-damages. When using Facebook, most people assume they have comprehensive privacy protection -- meaning that their privacy is protected except in the ways they explicitly allow Facebook to use it. However, Facebook operates on a "named damages" model, where unless they say they're protecting your privacy in a certain defined area, they aren't. They get in trouble with governments every once in a while over this, and then add the appropriate legislated items to their privacy list, and continue to ignore it everywhere else.
In short, they've extended the insurance scam into the PII arena. Likely, it'll be as profitable for them as it is for insurance companies.
Exactly.
My use of facebook is as follows:
Register account, to keep someone else from using my name (it happens, I've had internet stalkers for over a decade that have done things like register domains, show up at my door, etc).
Disable everything that it's possible to disable. Set to notify me by email of private messages, just in case. Disable ability to tag me in photos, post on my wall, etc, etc.
Put up a user photo on account that says "I DO NOT USE FB. SEND ME AN EMAIL AT >email addy".
Never touch Facebook again.
If you never touch Facebook again, you're in trouble. You see, they keep changing their privacy controls, and make everything opt-out by default (meaning when they change the controls, the privacy-detrimental "features" are enabled by default). As a result, unless you check in regularly and verify your privacy settings, you might be surprised at what is enabled right now (even if you disabled it in the past).
I just avoid facebook by having someone else with my name on there -- I can claim that anything on facebook is related to them, not me. Someone wants to create a fakebook page? Fine; it's demonstrably not me, as everyone knows I don't use facebook. Maybe it's the other guy. Since I can prove that I exist somewhere different from him and have an extremely different personality, anything that goes on Facebook is going to be assumed not to be me by default.
Of course, I'm sure if Slashdot pulled a graph analysis on me, all sorts of stuff would be revealed....
Eww... I saw what you did there xP
As your provider only exists in Alberta and BC, neither of which are US states, you've got different laws and different issues to deal with.
You can always switch providers -- although Telus is going to charge you a LOT of $$ to get decent server speeds.
Peer1 is upstream of both of them, but you're going to have to be in a major hub to get access to them.
Shaw's not too bad on upstream speeds though, as long as you aren't on a consumer account.
You you rather that I had written my post in my own language or any of the other 5 languages I can speak?
You know, I think he would :)
That said, there's no issue with being a wordsmith erudite; the problem is, you failed to communicate the tone you were aiming for in English, and then used the fact that you knew that you did as an excuse instead of an apology. At that point, a lot of people will stop taking your seriously no matter what language you communicate in.
Als de maan vol is, schijnt zij overal....
None of it's (fully) about mental skill; it's about being aware of your own blind spots -- and being willing to admit and not trust them.
sounds kind of like freenet... we all know where THAT went.
...and that's why people are pushing to cloud services.
However, you're going after the wrong ISPs. Who does your ISP get their service from? That's who you want to go to. If they won't bring that kind of service to your door, do co-location with a backup service. You own the server and are the point of contact for DMCA notices, but you get all the perks of a datacenter.
It's going to cost you though.
This raises a very valid point: once this spyware is on a system, it'll be trivial for malware authors to co-opt the malware to steal data for their own use. Not to mention, the temptation for PRIVATE GROUPS to misuse information lifted from private citizens in secret is huge.
Luckily, this goes against Canadian Privacy law in so many ways, I don't see how even the Conservative government could succeed in ramming this through.
Canadians might be polite when it comes to battling ignorance -- they get pretty rabid if you go after their privacy though.
You see, the 52 nuances of "sorry" have very specific meanings. The "Oh, sorry for not letting you in front of me in line" sorry translates to American as "you ignorant prick". However, it has the advantage that the recipient can't really take offense in a violent manner without looking like a real scumbag.