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Comment Re:Its justified price (Score 1) 536

Tuesday nights or weekend matinees are just $4.25 here. $6.25 for regular priced showings :) Oh, and that's in Canadian dollars, too. Screw paying $12 at Cineplex when local competition blows them away.

Comment Re:I swear to you (Score 1) 200

I'm pretty sure they also buy all Nokia's broken phones for their customers since the last two phones I got and unlocked with a stock firmware turned into crashing pieces of shit.

So you hack the phone and then it starts crashing? Maybe it's because the software you load is buggy?

Comment Re:Just add to the EULA... (Score 2, Informative) 140

Once you register your domain with GoDaddy (or any other registrar), you'll get an email from CIRA asking you to accept their registration agreement and define what kind of Canadian you are (ie. a person, a corporation, a political party, Her Majesty the Queen, etc.). If you do not agree to the agreement or you don't complete this step, your registration is canceled.

Comment Re:Keeping your information private on Facebook... (Score 1) 140

Yes, I google my real name every now and then. Who doesn't? :)

Well if you tell Google your real name, and Google saves searches for future data mining, not to mention they have ads on many, many sites which they can track as well, I'd say it wouldn't be too complicated for them to figure out what kind of sites you frequent. Further data mining may be able to identify who you are based on URLs that ads are loaded from.

How much do you trust Google?

Comment Re:Just add to the EULA... (Score 2, Informative) 140

A. Create a new holding company in a different country (say USA or somewhere with desirable local laws) - transfer said .ca domain to new holding company. B. Change the main page to "This Site no longer exists. Try going to whatevermysiteis.COM" C. Tell offending government to go pound sand.

CIRA won't allow said holding company to take ownership of the domain unless said holding company has a Canadian presence. With .ca domains, they can't be under the control of anyone who isn't operating within Canada, for the most part.

Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 4, Informative) 198

I'll support this decision when the laws concerning kids change.

Here are two dangerous scenarios, both of which take place in an age-restricted venue.

#1) You go home with the cute girl. You don't worry about this person's age since the legal age of the venue is 18 (Quebec), 19 (rest of Canada), or 21 (USA). Well, turns out you were wrong, and now you're a branded sex offender for life. Your only recourse is to sue the bar to oblivion for not doing its job filtering out the kids, forcing the bar to start being more strict, including scanning IDs.

In Canada feel free to have sex with any girl who's over 16. But you'll be thrown in jail if you take photos. For photos, you've got to wait until she's 19. But sex, no problem at 16! Oh and they just moved that up from 14 a couple of years ago...

Comment Re:Liability (Score 2, Informative) 198

So it has nothing to do with trying to enforce drinking ages. Instead it is just more "paper's please" government tracking of citizens.

I am sure that will make everyone there feel even better about being branded cattle...

Nope, that all came after the Privacy Commissioner did his investigation. Originally the police were all about this how it would help them track down gangs and the clubs were all about how this would help them fend off repeat trouble makers.

Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft security group makes 'worst jobs' list (computerworld.com.au)

Stony Stevenson writes: What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine's 2007 list of the absolute worst jobs in science.

From the article: The MSRC ranked near the middle as the sixth-worst job in this year's list, published in the July issue of the magazine. "We did rate the Microsoft security researcher as less-bad than the people who prepare the carcasses for dissection in biology laboratories," Moyer said.

Moyer didn't have to think long when asked whether he'd rather have the number 10-ranked whale research job. "Whale feces or working at Microsoft? I would probably be the whale feces researcher," he said. "Salt air and whale flatulence; what could go wrong?"

Portables (Games)

Submission + - PSP downgrader released for latest v3.5 firmware (maxconsole.net)

Anonymous Coward writes: "Team Noobz has released PSP downgrader for v3.50 firmware which includes a port of the homebrew enabler for firmware v3.50 and automatically detects all known PSP motherboards and conducts the approrpriate steps to ensure a safe downgrade. That means even the very latest PSP versions are software hackable — homebrew for all!"
Security

Submission + - Mind Games: Psychology Study on Cyber Criminals (net-security.org)

Ivan_Simic writes: In the study titled "Mind Games," the primary author, Dr. James Blascovich, Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, offers analysis of multiple common scam emails and provides surprising insights into how cyber criminals use fear, greed and lust to methodically steal personal and proprietary financial information.
Space

Submission + - SpaceX to make second launch attempt today.

Anonymous Coward writes: "SpaceX is set to launch the second demonstration flight of the Falcon 1 at 4pm California time (11pm GMT) today. The webcast will start at T-60 minutes (I assume more than hour before launch due to built in holds).

In the first attempt a year ago this month, the vehicle was destroyed 34 seconds into flight (burning fuel leak). Odd that all pictures and press releases of that launch seem to have dissapeared from the site. Only two videos of the initial liftof, and a small bit in the company Q&A, remain."
Caldera

Submission + - Best Example of SCO's Absurd Claims

UnknowingFool writes: "Groklaw has posted IBM's explanation of SCO's claims about control of derivatives. For those who haven't been paying attention, SCO claims that IBM had no right to put their original code like JFS and RCU into Linux because IBM had access to and used SysV code, methods, and concepts in AIX and Dynix. For SCO, all of Dynix and AIX are derivatives and thus under the control of SCO regardless of who actually wrote the code. IBM's addendum illustrates that if the court accepts that argument, then SCO could claim that they own all internet devices like Blackberry's and satellites because TCP/IP (while developed independently by BSD) was included at one time in the past with AT&T Unix code."

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