Oh come on, you think Bell is charging $13/gb overage just to "keep us in line" and not to line their pockets? If they wanted to keep users in line, they'd throttle or contact the account owner and advise them of the issue/threaten fees. Instead they're skipping those steps and laughing all the way to the bank.

"Most of the rest of the world benefits from having far smaller distances to run service over!" I live in northern Canada and that is essentially the argument slapped about our faces whenever this issue comes up. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with Bell having no competition over landlines, due to a deal made in the past with an idiotic or arguably corrupt territorial government resulting in them owning the poles until 2012, if I recall correctly. Meanwhile they post record profits in a down economy.
Spectacular.

I take it you're not an emacs user, then?

I'm just going to submit that there is a certain expectation by the public that their government not behave in a manner best described as... fucking silly?

Does the maintainer of dpkg deserve support? Yes.
But this isn't a request to support him, it's about drumming up some cash to translate a book he wrote seven years ago.

It's a small shift,just a few millimeters. That's comparable to walking in light snow. A tad more work to be sure, but I can't see most people caring as they get to feel "Green". Also, in case you hadn't read the article they seem to space the tiles fairly widely, so walking around them is an option in light traffic at least.

Why are you spending $20 on a caddy for 160gig when a new 1tb is $70? At that point it sounds more like keeping old hardware around whether or not it's purposeful. I agree that it's not worth completely junking decent drives unless you're extremely paranoid, or have been using them to store pirated content That said with new replacements being so cheap I just can't justify the increased risk of failure if they're doing anything important. I trust the old hdds for my minecraft/mumble/irc server, but definitely not with my backups or the box I do my day to day work/play on.

Yeah and when I was a kid I bought Scotch Bonnet based hotsauce that came in a flask with similiar warning labels, effective marketing for masochists, heh. In the end it was nowhere near the pain of eating a fresh habanero, and while that was painful it certainly wasn't dangerous.

Just more proof Paladins are developer favorites. When was the last time you heard of a Sorcerer or Bard becoming the central figure of a globe spanning religion?

The world is full of assholes, and at best giving them the attention they crave makes you an idiot, at worst it paints a target on your back. Just... throwing that out there.

Oh god I was waiting for one of these guys to show up.
" We're all a part of the Earth Mother, man. I'm like connected to all life when I breathe So you see it's like the same thing all over man, We're all just breathin'. "

...No.

What did you think the fit of pissing and moaning over DRM was really going to affect their bottom line? It's a bit of bad PR they can hand wave as propaganda on the part of baby eaters, pirates and terrorists.
This may shock you, but Sony hasn't crumbled under the weight of the rants about boycotting them yet, either.
Punishing shitty companies is actually quite difficult, unfortunately.

Uh huh. And the computer illiterate aren't going to just run what they're told to as root? or call for sudo rm -rf?
Education is the solution, Securing the OS is important, but you'll never cross that last mile without completely locking up the system unless you can trust your users.

Interesting, Looks like the legal drones in both companies need a boot in the ass.
No mod points though, unfortunately.