In my country a-la-carte works like this: the price per channel scales depending on how many channels you buy, such that the total cost you pay is always at least equal to the cost of the traditional bundle packages. It's totally pointless. Also in my country, over the Internet broadcast licencing hasn't really been established (for the most part).
The result is that over the net tv is far cheaper, but in no way legal.
Agreed. My old Nokia may be "dumb" but it lasts the entire workweek (5 days...sometimes 6). Who want a phone that dies partway through the day? You would miss incoming calls.
Because technology evolves and eventually smartphones will last a whole week. When they reach that point, I'll know how to use them to their full extent. You however will be a while behind on that learning curve.
Also, for my lifestyle, battery life is of limited importance. I have inexpensive charging cradles at home, in my car, and at my office desk - and the routine to use these was not hard to develop.
(That's magnet with an "e", as per the subject line)
What this amounts to is a way out for the government any time something embarrassing is leaked through the likes of Wikileaks (or similar). The government can simply announce that a piece of leaked information was part of their disinformation campaign... the population can rest safely knowing that the offending "leaker" is being brought to justice (i.e scape goat is sent off to Gitmo), and that the information leaked is not actually true.
This campaign isn't to give the government power against the untrustworthy, it's to give the untrustworthy government more power over you.
The problem isn't with predictable low-speed conditions, it's with drivers accustomed to cars which drive themselves under low-speed conditions who are suddenly thrown into an unpredictable situation.
There should (one day) be "Accountability-Cams" which are legally required to be operated by police anywhere they are performing protest-related-duties. The devices must be supported by a portable "pole" mount at a certain height, and consist of an array of HD video cameras which record a 360deg panoramic video. The video and realtime GPS coordinates of each device must be live-streamed to a publicly accessible server. There are requirements for how many of these must be present and how they are distributed, to ensure that all activities (from police and protesters alike) are recorded from multiple vantage points.
If some legitimate service launches on a blocked IP and makes fantastic profits within the few countries that aren't blocking that IP, would there be a case for a massive lawsuit due to lost profits? IANAL.
Not at all geeky, and admittedly contributing to the shameful advertising nature of this story, but of all the grilling gadgets I've bought Grill Grates have hands down been the best investment:
The marketing seems more or less accurate, though I haven't personally done a controlled scientific comparison.
An update to the story:
Sonne has already announced plans to sue the Crown and Toronto Police
They're best known for DOS attacks, but Doyon claims in the interview that they do much more than this. For example, the article mentions gaining access to sensitive email databases. He claims they often don't even need to hack to obtain these, that they're being provided by people in governments/corporations.
Whether it's true or not, I don't know. All I'm saying is that the claim to power is based on more than website defacing that they're best known for.
When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy
