Baby Toy is a small app that just has some pictures of animals, musical instruments or robots and it makes sound / vibrates when one of them is touched. It has an option to lock into the app until some specific combination is pushed so it's very hard to get out of it.

Kid Mode is a shell that provides some apps that are age appropriate. We got a cheap white label tablet (7") and put it on it. It's pretty good and can wrap around other kid apps so that they can't get out of the kid mode / app easily.

We've mainly used both on planes and places where it gets hard to bring lots of toys. I do agree with the comments about sleep and melatonin production, whenever she used our phones / tablets near her sleep time it was harder to get her to sleep. We're now more careful about that.

Escalating is probably not going to help, and in most likeliness will hurt your career at that company.

1. This could be an opportunity for you to climb the ladder so to speak, even becoming one of the chiefs. At some point you'll need to angle things to become chiefs-of-chiefs between the other chiefs and your PM. However make sure the project can succeed with the setup, otherwise you'll get the blame.

2. You could also try to stay an indian, but that might mean you get canned with the rest of the team if the project goes wrong.

3. Transfer to another department if possible.

That's why everyone has their own...

There are some standards / practices that are very important when it comes to making secure code. They avoid basic mistakes and so on. There should also be some minimal enforcement in terms of how to indent which always help to reread the code. Peer review for anything complex is also a good practice.

As for camel case, or hungarian notation, I feel that they are mainly a waste of time in the best of case. Being pedantic about code isn't going to help anyone or any project, in fact it might make a lot of talented people leave the company.

The big ISPs all have interest in the fight as their parent companies tend to own producers of content (Quebecor and Videotron, Shaw and Global, Bell and CTV, etc). They also are distributors of media (cable, satellite and IPTV).

With some collusion it would be quite easy to have the big media target a smallish ISP (teksavvy being one of the biggest small players) to test the waters, set some legal precedants and see how the market reacts.

From what I remember reading ADS-B is also going to be used where there is no RADAR coverage, over the oceans etc.

It will also be used to communicate to other aircrafts the position of an aircraft, this could be another major source of problems with spoofing communications.

When SSO started appearing more and more browsers starting having the feature of saving the passwords into the browser, or some external program to manage it.

I don't trust most SSO, esp facebook as I don't want to end up with a bunch of crap on my wall that website decide to post...

I currently work at Manwin and we are looking for mathematicians to help optimise ad revenue. http://manwinjobs.com/ for more, it would probably be in the Montreal office.

Recently a consumer interest show in Quebec did a report on private cord banks.
One of the big sticking point is that the window of actual usefulness is relatively short as there is only a small quantity of stem cells available, and usually once someone is over 50kg there is not enough stem cells for treatment.

Here is the link in french
http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/la_facture/2011-2012/Reportage.asp?idDoc=208988

There is an 8 year warranty on the pack.

As for the cost of electricity, too much data is missing, but it would be less then 350$ in any case

Well let's do more math. I'm driving an Altima, that costed about 29k new.

40k - 29k = 11k for gasoline.
I'm spending about 60$ per week on gasoline, so that comes out to 3120$ per year.
I always lease for 4 years ( I just don't have the time to always fix the car ) so that comes to 12480$ overall.
The average price I pay for gas is probably around 1.28$/liter. The prices in QC tend to follow a sin wave of +/- 10c on a graph, trending up or down. Not only that, but the supply for Montreal comes from the Brent barrel, which tends to be more expensive then regular oil.

Most of my commute is (return) well within the 35 miles EV range, and from what I understand the heating is electric.

This is before the subsidy in QC for the Volt (not sure how much, but afaik it's in the 5 to 7k range).

So in my case it would make sense to switch to a Volt or even a LEAF once the lease on my current car finishes.

One of the problem with the Prius in Montreal is that you need heating 6 months in a year. Last I heard, the heater was still powered through the gas engine which means that I'm using fuel most of time. Also having to use gas to go about 30kph is retarded.

There is a lot of copyright management companies out there that do the work for the *AA. There is no provided way to validate a specific takedown. Say you run a site like MegaUpload and you receive a takedown notice from a gmail account. Could you really beleive in the email as being done in good faith? What about all those companies that don't even take the time to publish SPF records.

As reported by MegaUpload, 70% of fortune 500 companies had accounts linked to them. How would you sort out what is infringing from what isn't? It could happen that works in progress and final works get distributed internally that way.

What about remixes?

As for just having a bunch of regexes, Hotfile lawsuits against Warner show how it can fail (see: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/09/hotfile-turns-tables-accusing-warner-brothers-of-dmca-abuse.ars )

There is also the the matter of volume. In the indictment, it says that Carpathia (a hosting provided) provided 25PB to megaupload. This would be a lot of files to verify. And even then you could make a lot of false positive and a lot of false negative. It is not specified how much data capacity was at Leaseweb, however the amount of servers was similar.

As for deleting the files, the DMCA doesn't require that. It says:

"(iii) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material;"

Removing the link in question would disable access to the material, which is what MegaUpload did.