That may be the case, but it's also not the point. If anyone was denied the ability to vote by someone acting maliciously, that's a big deal regardless of the outcome. All the more so if it was a coordinated effort by a group of people.
Not to nitpick, but if you tell someone from Newfoundland they're from a maritime province you might be in for a smack. Better off using the term "Atlantic Provinces".
Well, this all sounds a bit overkill for childrearing, but as a 26 year old university student who knows exactly nothing about raising children as a single parent, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
At any rate, all of the internet scheduling/cutting off can quite happily be done by any router running DD-WRT. Pick up an old Linksys WRT54G somewhere and you'll be fine. Set it up to use OpenDNS to filter any bad sites.
Scheduling of Virus Scanning is obviously a no-brainer as any virus scanner worth its salt will quite happily do that automatically. It's probably blaspheme around here, but for those friends with windows machines that I've had to help fix, I've actually had good luck with Microsoft's own free scanner.
As far as the hardware monitoring/log emailing, maybe just drink a beer on the porch and relax instead. Too much worry is bad for your health.
It has nothing to do with Hulu not wanting to figure out an advertising strategy for countries outside of the United States. Hulu is a business, and if there is money to be made then they will do their best to make it.
The issue is that the networks who produce these shows enter into contracts with the networks who air those shows in foreign countries. So for example, here in Canada, CTV airs a lot of american network television shows, and in buying those shows they stipulate that they have the exclusive rights to make money off of those shows in Canada. So unless CTV and Global and the other Canadian stations enter into a partnership with Hulu, or come up with something similar themselves, then we Canadians are SOL.
This argument gets used a lot, especially with regard to the discrepancy between the U.S. and Canada. I'm not saying its wrong, but I've also never seen convincing evidence that its as big an issue as people make it out to be.
The thing is, taken on the whole, Canada certainly does have a staggeringly small population density, but it's not like we're all evenly distributed up here. According to National Geographic, 75% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border, and in 2006, 80% of us lived in urban areas.
Having driven across most of Canada, including about as far north as one can drive, I can assure you that the telecom companies out here aren't spending a whole lot of money to provide service to the huge swaths of empty land. Driving from Ontario to Alberta results in nearly two full days without cell phone reception... at least the last time I did that drive (2007).
And believe me, in Canada we would kill for cell phone pricing on par with the U.S. Hell, even just two year contracts would be a treat....
My old university bookstore was one of the first places to get one of these machines, and the sales pitch was that it would be cheaper to get some textbooks from the machine than off of the shelf.
I left before I got a chance to see if that was the case, but people were excited about it.
Interestingly enough, when the queen came to visit Canada a few years ago, protocol dictated that the Canadian Government send a plane to pick her up and bring her here. I don't know if that is just a Canadian thing, or if it's a commonwealth country thing, but there it is.
Here in Canada it is common for the press to purchase tickets on the Department of Defense plane that the Prime Minister uses to travel internationally, saving them the trouble of trying to make commercial arrangements fit with a usually tight schedule. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this happens in the states as well.
In Canada that means probably another 40 or so passengers; I'm sure there would be even more media along for a trip with the President.
For sure, but watching the video linked in the summary closely, it looks like it goes *below* the clouds but I can't actually see it go through them, which could be a trick of perspective.
We have one GSM Carrier and two CDMA carriers. All three carriers have a habit of locking customers into three year contracts with outrageous early cancellation fees (in the case of telus the ECF can be close to $800) and its not only possible, but quite easy to rack up data chages in the multiple thousands of dollars. Especially since, at least with my carrier Rogers, there is no way to tell how much data you have used in a month before you get your bill and they won't give you hardcaps.
We finally got mobile number portability about a year ago, but the carriers just took that as an excuse to jack up the early cancellation fees. And don't even get me started on handset locks. Unlike carriers in the U.S., rogers will under no circumstances give you the information required to unlock your phone from their network.
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To be fair, it was an opposition political party who chose the off-shore IT, not the Government. Not sure that makes it any better though.
That may be the case, but it's also not the point. If anyone was denied the ability to vote by someone acting maliciously, that's a big deal regardless of the outcome. All the more so if it was a coordinated effort by a group of people.
Actually, netflix is coming to canada with only the streaming service: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20010936-17.html
Not to nitpick, but if you tell someone from Newfoundland they're from a maritime province you might be in for a smack. Better off using the term "Atlantic Provinces".
Well, this all sounds a bit overkill for childrearing, but as a 26 year old university student who knows exactly nothing about raising children as a single parent, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt.
At any rate, all of the internet scheduling/cutting off can quite happily be done by any router running DD-WRT. Pick up an old Linksys WRT54G somewhere and you'll be fine. Set it up to use OpenDNS to filter any bad sites.
Scheduling of Virus Scanning is obviously a no-brainer as any virus scanner worth its salt will quite happily do that automatically. It's probably blaspheme around here, but for those friends with windows machines that I've had to help fix, I've actually had good luck with Microsoft's own free scanner.
As far as the hardware monitoring/log emailing, maybe just drink a beer on the porch and relax instead. Too much worry is bad for your health.
well I do 99% of my surfing with my laptop trackpad, so I'm not sure how well this works, but maybe give it a shot...
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So help me god this thing better have multitasking
It has nothing to do with Hulu not wanting to figure out an advertising strategy for countries outside of the United States. Hulu is a business, and if there is money to be made then they will do their best to make it.
The issue is that the networks who produce these shows enter into contracts with the networks who air those shows in foreign countries. So for example, here in Canada, CTV airs a lot of american network television shows, and in buying those shows they stipulate that they have the exclusive rights to make money off of those shows in Canada. So unless CTV and Global and the other Canadian stations enter into a partnership with Hulu, or come up with something similar themselves, then we Canadians are SOL.
500 words is (was) the maximum length, not the minimum.
...Fortunately its a minority and the senate is still there to protect the interests of the people of Canada...
Only for a little while longer though, come January the Conservatives will no longer have a minority in the Senate.
This argument gets used a lot, especially with regard to the discrepancy between the U.S. and Canada. I'm not saying its wrong, but I've also never seen convincing evidence that its as big an issue as people make it out to be.
The thing is, taken on the whole, Canada certainly does have a staggeringly small population density, but it's not like we're all evenly distributed up here. According to National Geographic, 75% of Canadians live within 100 miles of the U.S. border, and in 2006, 80% of us lived in urban areas.
Having driven across most of Canada, including about as far north as one can drive, I can assure you that the telecom companies out here aren't spending a whole lot of money to provide service to the huge swaths of empty land. Driving from Ontario to Alberta results in nearly two full days without cell phone reception... at least the last time I did that drive (2007).
And believe me, in Canada we would kill for cell phone pricing on par with the U.S. Hell, even just two year contracts would be a treat....
Clouds are gay martians?
My old university bookstore was one of the first places to get one of these machines, and the sales pitch was that it would be cheaper to get some textbooks from the machine than off of the shelf.
I left before I got a chance to see if that was the case, but people were excited about it.
Interestingly enough, when the queen came to visit Canada a few years ago, protocol dictated that the Canadian Government send a plane to pick her up and bring her here. I don't know if that is just a Canadian thing, or if it's a commonwealth country thing, but there it is.
Here in Canada it is common for the press to purchase tickets on the Department of Defense plane that the Prime Minister uses to travel internationally, saving them the trouble of trying to make commercial arrangements fit with a usually tight schedule. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this happens in the states as well.
In Canada that means probably another 40 or so passengers; I'm sure there would be even more media along for a trip with the President.
For sure, but watching the video linked in the summary closely, it looks like it goes *below* the clouds but I can't actually see it go through them, which could be a trick of perspective.
Other videos might show differently of course.
Reading about it, it seems that it's a trick played by the curvature of the earth; the object looks a lot closer than it really is.
7200 Canadian football fields :)
Gah, you guys should try living in Canada.
We have one GSM Carrier and two CDMA carriers. All three carriers have a habit of locking customers into three year contracts with outrageous early cancellation fees (in the case of telus the ECF can be close to $800) and its not only possible, but quite easy to rack up data chages in the multiple thousands of dollars. Especially since, at least with my carrier Rogers, there is no way to tell how much data you have used in a month before you get your bill and they won't give you hardcaps.
We finally got mobile number portability about a year ago, but the carriers just took that as an excuse to jack up the early cancellation fees. And don't even get me started on handset locks. Unlike carriers in the U.S., rogers will under no circumstances give you the information required to unlock your phone from their network.