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Comment Re:Submitter doesn't know his own rights (Score 2) 289

However, section 1 does set limits on the rights granted in other sections.

http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/Const/page-15.html#h-40

Rights and freedoms in Canada

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

This is why hate speech and obscenity laws are enforceable.

Comment Re:Selling points (Score 1) 271

Today's T series have pathetic screen resolution, and plastic roll cages :-(

I've got a T510, which had a Mg roll cage and a 1920x1080 screen (which was fine three years ago, and unfortunately still about the best you can hope for).

Compare how they announced the changes to the T410 and T510 series:

These are still black, rectangular ThinkPads that stand for traditional ThinkPad values like rock solid durability, long-term stability, and great keyboards. I consider this a good thing.

Hell, they changed they key layout in 2009, affecting three keys and wrote a blog post to defend it, actually citing some usage data. Nowadays they redesign the keyboard and indicate it was based on user feedback from people who were not thinkpad users.

I'm not sure why they've decided to turn the Thinkpads into expensive Ideapads, but.. Wait, that's probably why.

I suppose I'll just have to stretch my T510 as far as it will go.

Comment Re:Babylon 5 (Score 1) 409

You might also want to check out the "Lost Fleet" series by Jack Campbell. I enjoyed it more than Harrington, but I'll admit that I'm only on the third book of the Harrington series.

The space combat seemed more "realistic" (hah, I know). Ships having shields aside, weapons were entirely computer controlled, as the window for contact was fractions of a second as ships passed, then possibly hours as they repositioned for another run. Fleets carried mobile refineries for ore processing for both repairs and to replenish weapon stocks, etc.

Comment Re:2 days later (Score 1) 168

I sent out my wedding invitations on Monday night via Canada post (which means they were actually collected Tuesday). Most seem to have arrived Friday (I was visiting family and asked). Granted, these were all within Ontario. I'd expect another day or two for my family in BC to receive theirs.

Not bad for $0.61.

Comment Re:Do you really? (Score 1) 647

Fedora 17 will be the first distro resolving the two separate UI issue. It was annoying, and now it has been fixed.

Mints fancy new UI is based on gnome-shell itself.

The news you're referring to (Mints growing popularity) is reportedly at the expense of Ubuntu. Ubuntu doesn't use gnome-shell.

Comment Re:I Must Be Missing Something Here (Score 1) 332

I fail to see what mistake he made. Perhaps they just have DNS point at new servers? Perhaps they route their existing public IP space to the new datacenter (assuming those IPs were ubisoft and not isp-provided)? Perhaps they have a cache or load balancer layer that they simply redirect at the new servers, but which is not moved at the same time?

I think "DNS or whatever" is fine.

Comment Re:Foolproof my arse! (Score 1) 208

My wife's mac has used time machine since it came out. I actually bought an airport extreme w/ time capsule support (which sucks -- there is no web ui, so I had to borrow her mac to configure it). Every six months or so time capsule would stop working for some reason. Only solution I could find was to turn it off, blow away all backups on the airport extreme's attached disk, and reconnect.

I got fed up with the airport one day and installed netatalk on my server home. It's been working for well over a year now with no problems. So obviously since my experience is directly applicable to everybody, we can infer that this generic router plus external USB disk will actually be more reliable than apple's solution.

Comment Re:7.0? Really? (Score 1) 292

The core bits of chrome are open source (Look at the chromium project, of which i am a user). Chrome itself also has some proprietary bits (updater, crash reporter, flash & pdf support built-in, etc).

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