A private insurance company would have for sure spared no expense to recover this man's files...

No, ever.

A solar panel can only transform into electricity the amount of energy it receives from the sun. 100% efficiency would bring about a 1kW/m^2, unless you can make the sun spew more energy.

Believe me you don't want that to happen.

I'm also Canadian, from the wonderful province of Québec.

A couple of years ago, they did some kind of "super city elections". Pretty much every city and village of the province had elections held on the same day, most of them using an electronic voting system. It was, I think, the best type available : your ballot wasn't any different then the one we're used to, just white circles on a black background. The difference was that instead of putting it in a box, you'd put it in a scanner first and it would fall in a bin after that. Re-counting, if necessary was pretty straight forward.

It was, however, the last time I saw electronic voting used in the province. Because of electoral law, the electronic ballots were kept at the voting stations until they were closed, the scanners would then upload their results in batch onto the servers of the company that had been chosen to do the counting. It failed miserably, possibly because of the amount of data they had to process at once, most probably because they had a web facing interface where you could go and watch the results coming in live. Most ballot boxes had to be recounted by hand and the results had to be phoned in.

(I'm from Quebec)

I've heard of many barrels or trucks full of maple syrup having been stolen in the past couple of years. Considering it retails for around 7-8$ per 540ml can (50$ a galon) it's fairly easy to see why it's such a high profile target.

They still are but the 27" is in the same price range as the Apple. (Especially if you consider the purchase of the Dual-Link DVI Adaptor)

You can buy some cheap 27" displays shipped from Korea for about 350$ that use the same panel as Apple and Dell. The stands are crap but the display itself looks amazing.

You're OK with them storing every single one of your emails but not your phone number? I hope tinfoil hats are on sale these days.

If you're too scared of using the phone number auth, just use the Android or iPhone authenticator app. Setup is quick, it's not too invasive and it just works.

I was thinking along those lines. You may hate the Apple connector all you want, but it provides 1 thing that no other USB connectors can : a docking capability. You can PLUG any Android device in a standard micro or mini-usb cable, put you can't dock it easily. On the other hand, the 30 pin connector in a cradle is elegant, convenient and you have the advantage of never having to use a cable, just dock and forget.

Will this new 19 pin connector allow for the same ease of use? No idea. But it'd be stupid to use a connector that, as parent said, isn't a structural element.

The main difference is : I can't remotely kill my wallet if I lose it or if it gets stolen. Plus, there is no password on my wallet.

Let me get this straight. In your mind, being healthy is a choice?

What kind of stupid reasoning is that. As a Canadian, I'm really having a hard time with people who think healthcare should be a choice. You don't get to choose your ailments and so does your neighbour. The only thing you want when you are sick is to get cared for buy a good physician without stressing about how much it's going to cost you, there is no "choice" there.

You can exercise as much as you want, the lymphoma doesn't really care about that...

" If there's dancing, the fees double."

PLEASE PEOPLE, SIT DOWN!

Depends on who you're with. If you go with the big guys (Videotron, Bell) you're going to pay a lot of money for a slow connection and a crappy data cap. Go with a reseller (I'm with Electronic Box) and the price goes down and the caps go up. (Or even get unlimited)

Example : 30mbps down, 2mbps up / 250GB month = 50$, no contract

Isn't one of the mandate of the CBC to promote Canadian art and culture? The CBC does a lot more to promote quality Canadian content then any other broadcaster on that list.

"The only music that you can hear for free is when the birds sing." That guy has probably never been on the internet before... You know, the place where a bunch of bands are releasing their music for free because they love what they do?

Yet they still want to claim copyright infringement there?