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Submission + - Unlocked Phones For Canadians (www.cbc.ca) 1

Submitted by SJrX
SJrX writes: The CBC is reporting that the Federal NDP party has tabled a bill requiring all cellphone companies to provide unlocked cellphones, from the article: "The bill proposes three rules: cellphone carriers would be required to notify customers at the point of purchase whether a phone is locked to work only on their network; they would have to remove such a lock free of charge at any point after the conclusion of the customer's service contract; and they would have to remove it if the customer does not enter into a contract within six months of buying the device up front." The fact that there is a minority government currently should help this bills chances of getting passed.
Canada

Submission + - Canadian Copyright Law unveiled (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by SJrX
SJrX writes: The new proposed copyright law was unveiled in montreal today, according to the CBC. While codify practices such as time and format shifting, the law would also require a notice and notice system, as well as prevent users from circumventing DRM.
Handhelds

Submission + - Apple's War On Flash Continues with iPad ReadyList (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by suraj.sun
suraj.sun writes: Apple's War On Flash Continues with its iPad Ready Website List

Worried that if you buy an iPad your favorite sites won't work because of the lack of Flash? Don't worry about it, please! Look, here are 12 sites that work! Seriously guys no Flash is no big deal! ( http://gizmodo.com/5504402/how-the-ipad-is-already-reshaping-the-internet-without-flash )

Apple iPad ready : http://www.apple.com/ipad/ready-for-ipad/

Gizmodo : http://gizmodo.com/5507361/apples-war-on-flash-continues-with-its-ipad-ready-website-list

Submission + - Singh wins at appeal (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by pajamapaati
pajamapaati writes: Science writer Simon Singh has won a lengthy and expensive round in a legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association stemming from his description of Chiropractors' claims to treat conditions such as childhood colic as 'bogus'. The legal ruling has important implications for science writers in the UK, and possibly worldwide since UK laws encourage 'libel tourism' where well-heeled interests outside the UK can use British laws to attack or stifle their critics, even where neither party has any connection with the country.

Comment Switched to Dvorak (Score 1) 425

by SJrX (#31394276) Attached to: Correcting Poor Typing Technique?
I switched to Dvorak because of wrist pain about 6 or 7 years ago. I too was a touch typist, and didn't use homerow at all, etc... With Dvorak though I did it properly and now use homerow on Dvorak. It wasn't an easy switch, I wasn't working or in school at the time, so it was easy for me to afford the slowdown it took and used an old version of Mavis Beacon to do it. You need some time to use only Dvorak before you go back and forth between the layouts. Before I switched to Dvorak I was at about 90 WPM and it took me about a month to get up to 60 WPM in Dvorak. Later I got the same speed but never ever went past my QWERTY speed. I can still type QWERTY at a fast speed, but it's hard because sometimes the brain switches.
Privacy

Submission + - What to do about previous user's data

Submitted by SJrX
SJrX writes: I sent my netbook in for servicing as my hard disk was dying and it was still under warranty. The 'new' hard disk, wouldn't boot the first few times and made sounds no hard drive should, however after that it booted fine. I noticed a curious discovery while installing Ubuntu on it, that the other partition, had about 26 G of data on it. I had been blessed with the first two seasons of Star Trek Enterprise among other things, clearly from the previous owner, nothing inheriently sensitive. Now thankfully I wiped my data before sending it in, but I'm not sure what the best way to bring this up with them is? The hard drive will probably go back for RMA since it's broken, but beyond that, I suspect mentioning it to the Level 1 staff, will simply be a noop? The other question is, how often does this really occur? I could understand perhaps a full disk scan may find something, but the partition (which is standard on these models) hadn't even been quick formatted. I guess the data here isn't sensitive, but I don't think they really checked that before giving it to me.

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