Yeah so we've known for some time that running a file sharing site for illegally redistributed content is bad news from a legal liability standpoint ... but I am still surprised by what kinds of activities in our modern age get you jail time.

Is the fundamental issue "loss of money"? Well, the executives of the big banks in the world -- men like Charles Prince (Citigroup), Angelo Mozilo (Countrywide - collapsed), Alan Schwartz (Bear Stearns - collapsed) -- have lost far more money. They have lost money for investors, customers, and more recently taxpayers and even your children and your children's children. The damage caused by the systems they were responsible for is far greater han any of these file sharing misdemeanors. This is like comparing an out of control leaf fire in someone's backyard to the carpet bombing of a city.

But what happens to investment bank executives who lost ridiculous sums (we're talking trillions) and ruined the lives of many? Probably nothing... hell, the previous Goldman Sachs CEO was put in charge of the US Treasury Department (Paulson) where he proceeded to redistribute public money to colleagues. Some may argue that men like Paulson, Greenspan, and Bernanke are committing acts of treason by taking money out of the national treasury and diverting it into the hands of the wealthiest elite, the top 1% of society.

But don't expect to see any of these men in jail any time soon. Because in this world, the people who commit the grandest acts of financial theft and destruction are rewarded with lavish salaries and pensions, while the jails are filled with pot smokers, shoplifters, and guys who run file sharing web sites.

In my experience this is not true, I also own .CA domains. I never provided a driver's license to CIRA. Also I did recently update an address in my WHOIS, it was relatively painless. True that you have to log in and confirm through CIRA but otherwise the system has worked fine for me... could be that these bad experiences mentioned are based on older (legacy) registrations, back when there was higher security for different tiers of .CA domains, such as provincial, then national level which required extra checks.

Maybe I'm alone in this, but I'd really like to REDUCE the volume range (not sure if 'dynamic range' is the right word) of most of the movies I watch. It's nice in the theaters to have so much range that you can literally hear a pin drop, then a minute later have a jumbo jet taking off over your head. However, I live in an apartment with a busy road outside, and with my surround sound system, the only way I can still hear the quiet bits of a movie while not waking the neighbors is by constantly adjusting the volume.

Most of the surround receivers these days have a "night mode" feature that does exactly this, compresses the dynamic range of the sound source. It's well worth a check to see if yours has a feature like this.

That feature is so poorly implemented - I don't know how anyone can use that well. If they implemented it as a 'second finger tap,' it would be viable, but as it is, you need three fingers to right click, and that's just awkward to do. (I tried it out, and found it pretty awkward to try and hit the button with my thumb while putting my index and middle finger on the pad. It's honestly quite a bit easier for me to just hit 'control' with my left pinky while clicking with my thumb or tapping with my index finger.) It should be that you hold one finger on the touchpad for positioning, and use the other finger to tap. I believe they use this chord to handle scrolling instead. :-/