well, it would make more sense to be Sol Cybernetics Corporation anyway

Not that it makes the concept any less parasitic its not QUITE that bad here.

Canada's current private copying levies are as follows: $0.24 per unit for Audio Cassette tape (40min or longer), and $0.29 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc. [1]

It uses a cereal link!

Odd for a lobbyist to say something like "bring exciting benefits to consumers that outweigh potential harms", which confirms they believe there is a potential for abuses. A statement like that practically begs for someone to ask what these benefits are exactly, that she was able to even make such a statement.

don't you mean "agetty off my lawn"?

Ahhh, Mercury.

Sweetest of the transition metals.

Honestly, this is ridiculous. I don't know if the submitter is some sort of apologist or just really lacking in the history of online gaming but online gaming and online game distribution has been around for about 25 years now give or take, and thats just one example. This would be about EXACTLY as old as the revered plastic grey box in question, give or take a couple if you were living in japan or not.

Different networks and system have been more secure than others this whole time, and the real question is "Why would some companies risk security in the name lower maintenance costs given the number of terrible consequences these days". The PSN outage and data leak raises questions about Sony and their decision making processes, not about the state of digital distribution and online gaming in general.

People talk about how bad the oligopoly in the US is in telecommunications, but it really does take the cake up here in Canada. Oddly, the number of choices is about the same per municipality but the indirect collusion for high pricing and poor quality of service is even worse. People have forgotten the large amount of subsidies that went to the expansion of broadband and cellular coverage and are now being squeezed for terrible service.

Bell and Rogers basically use the same playbook, Shaw is going the same route, and Telus is barely any better (although i must admit they are a little better since they rely on their consumer market a fair bit more than most). Any other provider in canada is reselling lines from one of these and so has been suffering from the same terms of service that they impose on their own accounts.

Sadly, the market in the main is willing to bear it and any time organized attempts at challenging the way things operate disappear with no real outcome. Several class actions came up against carriers between 2004 and 2007, and the only one i've seen succeed was one involving the billing of 911 access fees in the Northwest Territories (in areas that did not HAVE a 911 service). The Telco's are definitely right below the Canadian banking industry in terms of national influence and managing to get their way.

Femputer: Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot's Manputer's world?

Don't underestimate them, they hunt in packs!

The reporter uses the exact quotation of

in the article itself. The submitter merely latched onto it blindly.

As to your other point i entirely agree.

As far as I can see, all Boston College is doing is making sure people are aware that others using their wap can make them look responsible for any infringement as the owner of the wap. This basically reads as "secure your router from others" or as "don't say we didn't warn you if that defense fails", not as "don't use wireless routers at all".

i suppose journalism just isn't fun these days without ignoring context.

All they had to do was reverse the polarity!

It's so simple!

I got to admit, I laughed.

The problem with the word entitlement is it has been changed from a context-dependent neutral value word to being a negative-connotation value word regardless of context. Which rather sucks when trying to be precise about things without biasing the reader or listeners opinion due to word choice.

God damn it, society!