C-11 hasn't even been implemented yet and they're already shoving ads down my throat.

For those who aren't aware, C-11 is the "Online Streaming Act" that gives the CRTC, Canada's version of the FCC (except they regulate broadcast content).

When all is said and done foreign streamers will probably be forced to contribute 10% of their revenues to regulatory obligations, including contributing the Canadian Media Fund and to Canadian content (not the good stuff stuff like Canadian YouTubers, but bad stuff like Neon Rider). Guess who will end up paying? Consumers.

So the fact that Amazon is already doing this ahead of the regulatory calamity doesn't bode well not just for Canadians, but streamers around the world.

And, oh yeah, I'm cancelling Prime when it comes due in March and I refuse to pay for any streaming services or TV (unless I rent from somewhere that forces me to).

> but if you expect to move to an urban area and find a job and housing you're out of your mind.

Housing may be hard to come by, but not jobs.

My wife's an HR manager in Montreal looking to hire people on a manufacturing line (simple work that a high school grad could do) for over $20 an hour and she can't find any decent candidates.

Not sure if this is due to the COVID stimulus but it is ABSOLUTELY an employee's market right now.

Many companies have long term leases for expensive space that they can't cancel.

And everybody expects them not to use it?

BTW, my company has the opposite problem: too little office space. They've actually told employees who want to be in the office full time post COVID that they won't be able to.

It should be "many employees SAY they'll quit rather that give up working from home".

Tons of people make of threats they never carry out.

Remember all those actors who threatened to move to Canada in 2016 that somehow stayed in the US?

> Probably because Oracle is currently doing all they can to kill it.

You're kidding, right? Look at the massive improvements since JDK 6.

> With Oracle Java you have two choices on Windows - an open source, no serious licensing issues you have to manually install by copying files from a zip file, editing your environment variables, etc,

Chocolatey (GUI) lets you install and maintain multiple JDK versions on Windows.

It's easy to switch among versions either in the environment variables GUI or by CTRL-R'ing in PowerShell.

> as it happened, in the meantime java was sold to a bully company and has serious problems of its own, but i'm afraid not even they can extinguish java.

Oracle is obsessed with profits, and they have abandoned open source projects on the periphery of Java.

However, they have done an excellent job with the core JDK, a million times better than Sun did.

As ridiculous as it sounds, under C-10:

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/20...

Will it support 32 GB of RAM?

Yes, the chip is a technical marvel, but the limit of 16 GB has been an impediment for those who need to do heavy duty work such as run multiple VMs, dockers, IDEs, etc...

Oooops... thanks for pointing that out.

I don't see where I can edit the submission subject, otherwise I would have done it as soon as I saw your comment.

The article states that the Daily Mail was able to use "online advertising techniques" to "divert traffic away from Google".

This makes no sense. How can the Daily Mail divert advertising away from Google if Google is the search engine directing traffic to their site.

I'm sure there's a plausible explanation, but the article is too vague.

How am I supposed to run this thing and have 500 Chrome tabs open?

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy about the outcome but I'm even happier this long saga has come to an end.

BTW, I don't think Google is totally innocent in this long affair, but copyrighting APIs is a "cure" that is far worse than the disease.

3DS 2.0 (3D-Secure) is an online purchasing authentication protocol mandated by the EU. It's especially important for smaller merchants because it reverses the liability of contested transactions from the merchant bank to the customer bank because the customer has given explicit permission.

1.0 largely failed to get traction because users had to enter their passwords for every single transaction, leading to large scale abandonment of transactions.

2.0 address this through a mechanism called frictionless, which is made possible through device fingerprinting either on a desktop or mobile browser through JavaScript of a mobile app using some sort of API (not sure which one).

So is Apple planning to ban all forms of device fingerprinting? If so, this could cause problems for smaller merchants and complicate the EU-mandated rollout of 3DS 2.0.