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Comment Ontario (canada) + alberta (Score 1) 435

Ontatio: The ROM (Royal Ontatrio Museum) -Toronto http://www.rom.on.ca/
The Science Center -Toronto http://www.ontariosciencecentre.ca/

Science North -Sudbury http://www2.sciencenorth.ca/

Alberta has The Royal Tyrell Museum of Palentolgy (which may still have day trips in to the bad lands to active dig sites where you get to help). http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/

Comment Re:Using the truth to bolster a lie (Score 1) 291

Ack no!

If you are downloading a distro, and at the same time you place a VoIP phone call, what do you do if the audio is all broken up? Do you pause the torrent client to get better phone service?

Yes, you pause the torrent - it's your bandwidth; you paid for it.

Now, put the torrent client in your neighbor's house ...

Yeah, they paid for their bandwidth. If the provider can't provide enough bandwidth for all their clients if their clients use all the bandwidth they've been sold. It's the provider at fault.

Get this through your heads: The ISP has sold you X bandwidth for Y price; they then arbitrarily change X to Z and charge you Y price.

It's basically the same as if a company says here give me 5 bucks a month and I'll bring 5 tulip bulbs a day. Then when 20 people sign up, instead of you getting 5 tulip bulbs a day you get 1 tulip bulb a day.

This is fuckwardery (which likely means good business practice or something).

Comment Further Info (Score 1) 1

Here's some more info:
"If you take a look at SMS usage, it's increasing at an exponential rate," Hamilton said from Toronto. "It's a texting world."
http://technology.canoe.ca/2009/05/05/9357091-cp.html

Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton called the move a "cash grab" ... [t]he announcement of the change to text messaging fees came the same day Rogers announced that both Rogers Wireless and Fido phones will be able to send and receive updates from online messaging service Twitter by SMS text message."
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/05/rogers-text.html

Communications

Submission + - Rogers To Charge For Incomming Text Messages 1

AlizarinCrimson writes: The Toronto Star is reporting that Rogers is going to start charging customers that do not subscribe to a text messaging plan for incoming text messages.

"Rogers Communications Inc. will begin charging wireless subscribers 15 cents for each incoming text message received on cellphones..."

Source: http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/629597

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