Actually he was buying generics made in different places(China and India) and re-packaging them as made in Canada, they may have been tested(no paperwork was ever produced to say so as far as I know). He turned in his pharmacy license before he could be convicted of fraud, unethical behavior and malpractice. He was an idiot to be in the US, he knew there were open outstanding warrants for him in the US.

Actually the ruling says that Tucows as the register does not have to turn the domain name over to the person in Brazil, who demanded the domain(because the domain name is the same as his last name). The domain name was in use, and also hosted 14 active domain email addresses that did not have to be surrendered by the person that registered the name with Tucows. The court ruled that the domain name and the domain email have a "real value" which makes them equal to property(as in I can't demand you give me your car because my last name was ford).

If as the court has ruled that a domain anme is "property" that means as long as it is maintained, it requires a court order to seize it, and that a business with a domain name is entitled to all the rights and privileges or a "real" business(actual court orders to search or read domain email without holders permission, ect.) A very interesting judgement, I imagine this may go all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. In the area of property, ISPs would not be able to take your site down without a court order as long as your paying for hosting. Just as a business can't be evicted as long as it pays the rent, without a court order. You would be able to sue in court for loss of access due to outages, as if the landlord blocked a door to a store. Or if you are hosting your domain on your own equipment, a real court order would be required to block DNS records. I imagine this has huge implications to Intellectual Property rights, Copyright, and legal copying/file sharing under Canadian Law. I imagine the US and the EU are going to have an apoplectic fit once the lawyers start really discussing this.

When "local" news stops being a recap of AP wire stories, and when "commentary" stops being a mix of advertising and thinly veiled slander maybe I'll watch a "local" newscast. Most "local stations" or owned and operated by media conglomerates for the sole purpose of selling advertising space. Actual local news in TV always seems to open with a violent crime, followed by a car chase, followed by pre-weather then a commercial. Then it's part of the weather, sports, cute story, and then the weather recap. There is no "reporting" there is political spin, reporting the news stopped years ago and the public has finally caught on. Now the "local" stations are complaining that the "regional" stations are unfair competition. Well the "local" stations help create the short attention span of the public now they have to live with it.

Yeah, lets force the government to $upport "local news" that will fix the economy and everything.

Actually it will most likely be distributed like the tax on all recordable media is. That is to say; it is not distributed, the money is collected and then SOCAN gets to decide how much if any of the money a writer gets which is usually $0.00(no money goes to artists or performers). There appears to be no public records at all; of how much money is collected and how much, if any is given out.
"Some money" is given to the writers(who are members) as determined by SOCAN's in-house system. None of this money goes to any performers; neither those with label contracts or independent musicians. This is just SOCAN once again trying to squeeze money from consumers since they couldn't get the Canadian government to extort money from the ISPs on their behalf. And it's one small step from having a voluntary system to having a mandatory system.

Bell/Rogers figures that "everyone" is getting rich off of their infrastructure and since they can't seem to get "pay for play" legislated federally this is their end run around other companies. What Bell and Rogers fail to grasp, is that in the end; this will not increase their revenue an appreciable amount. Small companies will have to stop buying bandwidth to resell as they loose their source of income. And large companies are buying bandwidth at a fixed price already. And with the exception of Netflix most consumers won't approach the caps that are being talked about.

Personally I was going to reduce my bandwidth with Shaw until I moved and now I get "free" internet as part of my rent. I could even get by with just the "free wireless" offered at city buildings and coffee shops for most of my day to day surfing. I'm sure that some consumers will re-thinking their internet usage and will shift a lot of it to cellphones/tablets/wireless devices that already have data plans.

I played FFXI for years and enjoyed it. And I am enjoying playing FFXIV, the game is not flawless, what MMO is. It is still less that one month since the game was launched and all MMOs have been buggy at launch. From the reviews I have read it seems like all the reviewers are expecting FFXIV to be Warcraft and it is not(thankfully).

So lets go through the complaints:

No Auction House - Correct, this means the goldfarmers/gilsellers can't game the Auction House and create obscene levels of inflation that everyone complains about in MMOs. It would be nice if there was a signboard to list what you're selling but that wasn't in FFIX either, neither was the search function. However next update a search function for bazaars will be added.

Fatigue System - Did no one read any of the information on this game before they bought it? I knew about the fatigue system a good month before the open beta. The game is biased towards casual gamers not hard-core gamers this has never been a secret.

Interface -Bugs, big bugs -Developers say next months patch will have lots and lots of fixes.

Terrain is cookie cutter Yes the basic areas of the game have very similar terrain. Most of the zones in FFXI either large open areas or various twisty tunnels or corridors too.

Crafting - you either love it or hate it. Craft or don't craft it usually cheaper and faster to make what you need, or get your guild mates to craft for you. But the developers haev said that there will need to br crafters in the party at high level guild leves.

Server Lag -This is also a big problem -The Developers say that they are working on better load sharing on the servers. I have never played an MMO yet that did not have server load issues. Popular games have congested areas when lots of players are in the same area.

So in closing FFXIV may just not be the MMO you want to play. If you give FFXIV a few months I imagine it will get much better all around. I feel much better about paying for a 6 month sub to FFXIV at launch than I did about Age of Conan.
/BTW I ALT-TAB in FFXIV all the time. I run with Firefox, Winamp, Messenger, and Thunderbird up all the time. I have never had FFXIV lock-up or crash on me yet ALT-TABbing back and forth.