Comment No worries (Score 1) 352
I haven't had a TV with rabbit ears since I was a kid.
Nowadays, I've got IPTV, which beats the pants off cable and doesn't require a converter box either.
Submission + - OCZ's Core Series SSD vs WD VelociRaptor (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: "Solid State Disks (SSDs) are all the rage as of late, as pricing continues a
downward trend. In addition, performance has continued to improve with SSDs as
the technology matures. Recently, announcements from major OEMs like Samsung
have promised fairly impressive offerings with read/write performance that would
rival most standard spinning disks and of course sub-1ms access times that
literally no standard rotational media can come close to. HotHardware took
a look at a fast, relatively cheap SSD, the OCZ Core Series 64GB, that retails
for around $200 and
put it up against the lightning fast WD
VelociRaptor to see what it was made of. The results are interesting to be
sure."
Submission + - Canada considering DMCA like restrictions
CokeJunky writes: According the The Toronto Star, the Canadian government has tabled the much discussed copyright law which includes penalties for possessing copyrighted material, and includes anti-circumvention provisions. While it explicitly allows you to transfer materials you own to a portable device you own, you are not allowed to circumvent anti-copying technology to do it.
At least in Canada, we currently have a minority government — to those non-Canadians here, that means that the ruling party can't pass a bill without help from at least one of the other major parties. I strongly recommend that you Canadians that oppose this write letters and send them by snail mail to your MP's and tell them about the problems with this law. Believe it or not, taking part in a democracy means more than just voting.
