I think its in Nunavut. the article mentions PEARL being on the 80th parallel - which is way up in Ellesmere island's neck of the woods. agreed, communication probably by satellite/radio - theres only a couple cell towers in Nunavut at the moment - owned by Lynx Mobility

For any Canadians reading today:

There are two petitions you should sign if you don't feel like this is right.

http://stopubb.ca/ - A petition to stop forced usage based billing.

and if you dont like the fact that the CRTC appears to bend to the will of the telcos without regard for the consumer, there is a petition to dissolve the CRTC here - http://dissolvethecrtc.ca/

GALACTUS APPROACHES!

and also, the 'fantastic 4: rise of the silver surfer' remastered-3d version is set to debut to the general populous in about 400,000 years.

thats the hipster / avant garde / indie in you speaking. now be a bit less objectively ignorant.

decent music can be decent music. plain. simple.

not everything pop-culture-radio-jocks squeeze out is shit.

"the unsuspecting reader may unconsciously consume a variety of advertisements through the written word. Perhaps through the use of Alliteration spelling out a brand. Or through the use of landmark phrases to connect a user to a previously addressed food or drink. The power of the written word is underestimated and is thus one of the greatest untapped marketing mediums known to exist"

Dan

you have Jinxed us sir! the Earth Quakes COMETH!

though people may just lean over to the passenger side to text.. :S

RFID confined to the drivers seat area, limiting the functions on any compliant phone.

seconded!

Hopefully by that time, Stephen Harper will no longer be prime minister, some other asshat will. And Canada will go back to its "peacekeeping" role. We're safe up here!

NRA PROPAGANDA!

err wait wrong parent!

NRA Propaganda..

NUKE! http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/nuke/

Perhaps they put some effort into the GUI to establish a brand image of sorts before the Open Source Community got their hands on it, wouldn't you? They got Paid because they had the initiative to start it, that's how it works.Also, the amount they got paid is kind of representative of the amount of demand out there for an alternative to Facebook - So

FTFY...

They announced they would release a semi-working version's code, and that's exactly what they did. Their "mission statement" has a large emphasis on security so i sincerely doubt they will allow another major release with a "Patched" backend. The open source community Is large enough and kind enough to contribute where they may have fallen short. If you want to get paid for helping, you may want to go start your own.