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  1. Re:Start your own provider? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? · · Score: 2

    "We watch Netflix in our household in lieu of cable"

    One of the reasons for data caps. They are affraid mor people would cancel their TV service.

  2. Land of the free on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    Glad I live in Canada, hold on, someone's knocking on my door...

  3. Re:minus 40 degrees Celsius != (minus 40 Fahrenhei on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 0

    I live in Montreal, so -40 ain't that cold :p

  4. Re:minus 40 degrees Celsius != (minus 40 Fahrenhei on Japanese Ice Wall To Stop Reactor Leaks · · Score: 1

    ??? It DOES

  5. Bad idea on This Satellite Could Be Beaming Solar Power Down From Space By 2025 · · Score: 2

    Last time I did something similar in Simcity, my city got attacked by aliens...

  6. Re:Great... on The CIA Is Closing the Office That Declassifies Historical Documents · · Score: 1

    Probably not, or if those reports ever come out, all the interesting stuff (AKA who did it) will be blanked out...

  7. Re:Shades of Blake's 7 on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    *I don't know, the Army of Light uniforms on Babylon 5 seemed to work just fine.*
    *Now, I wouldn't mind seeing them return to something similar to The Wrath of Khan uniforms (so much detail!) but lets wait until we see them before we criticize.*

    Those are the best sci-fi uniforms...

  8. Re: Why? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    And the title talks about not flying during Ramadan

  9. Great... on The CIA Is Closing the Office That Declassifies Historical Documents · · Score: 3

    Guess we'll never know who really killed Kennedy and Monroe

  10. Re:Free speech on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 0

    Yes it is.

  11. Re:The streams have to be restricted on Should Cops Wear Google Glass? · · Score: 1

    You forgot NSA

  12. Re:Snow Mobile on Canadian Military Developing Stealth Snowmobile · · Score: 2

    Easier than breeding stealth horses...

  13. Re:If it's real... on First Laptop With Full-Sized Solar Panels Will Run On Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Pornsites will probably still be available :)

  14. Re:Government efficiency on We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' · · Score: 1

    I don't know for the US, but in Canada (Montreal) we have at least two ISPs in any region (Telco and Cableco). But since they also own TV stations and Media, they aren't really pushing for bandwidth and/or higher caps. (Bell & Videotron). I don't mind the speed, altough I'd like it to be faster, but the caps are preventing people from using alternate sources for shows and movies (ie: Netflix). They're not really competing on either speed, quota or price. Either on tv, cellular, internet access or even phone service. Why should they? it's not like they have real competition. Kinda like the oil companies.

  15. Good on Jail Time For Price-Fixing Car Parts · · Score: 1

    Now, what about Oil companies, Telcos and similar crooks.

  16. Re:Isn't all of it ridiculously aggressive now? on Mozilla Unveils 'Aggressive' Firefox OS Schedule: Quarterly Feature Releases · · Score: 3, Funny

    Firefox ME won't be so stable.

  17. Re:Try unsubscribing on Strict New Anti-Spam Regulations In Canada · · Score: 2

    The difference is nobody sends you unwanted garbage bags

  18. Re:How is TV "gotten for free"? on Hulu Not For Sale, Time Warner May Join · · Score: 1

    No, but with a HDhomerun and some PVR software such as MythTV, it's only a minimal fee. Or a one-time investment for a Channel Master DVR.

  19. I don't think *everything* is captured, the storage requirements would be insane.

  20. Re:The real question is... on Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President · · Score: 1

    You mean like Telcos, Cablecos, Oil companies, Banks, and such?

  21. Re:This Is Considered News?? on Why Protesters In Cairo Use Laser Pointers · · Score: 1

    So, like choosing between Lieberals and Cons in Canada?

  22. Re:Why Not Regular Printers? on RepRap Morgan Receives $20,000 Gada Prize For Simplifying 3D-Printer · · Score: 1

    What's even more ironic is that inexpensive monitors only have VGA. they would be even less expensive if they had DVI (or HDMI) since they could skip the A/D part. But they want you to buy the more expensive ones for digital inputs.

  23. Re:Plex on Roku on Boxee Sold To Samsung · · Score: 1

    Why not? With hardware encoding an old A64 won't even be breaking a sweat recording two shows while watching something else. haven't tried HD since I don't own an HDhomerun yet.

  24. Re:Now taking bets... on French Gov't Runs Vast Electronic Spying Operation of Its Own · · Score: 1

    Canada and every first-world country.

  25. Kinect? on Steve Ballmer Replaces Don Mattrick As Xbox One Chief · · Score: 1

    Does that mean it will now detect chair throwing?