it seems like their dns server are getting slashdotted!

the unit in the second paragraph are cents (0.01$).

With the new proposed rates, Bell would be charging reseller 18.20$/month just to get a ADSL line to a customers. This is about the same as before. What changes is that they now charge for the data going through the pipe. They couldn't charge 2$/month to lease a copper line because it cost much more than that to maintains! In fact, the most expensive thing an ISP has to do is to run copper wire to every house, and pay for the nice tech that plug you in when you rent their service.

Actually, data is pretty cheap to move around. You can get rate at 4/GB in large datacenter to move data anywhere in the world. Bell will be making a large profit with their 112.5/GB overcharge. Plus, Bell don't even have to move your data to the Internet, they only have to get it to your reseller which have to provide Internet connectivity. I don't believe it cost them more than 1/GB to move data to the reseller which is often local.

What is the most impressive is that they managed to charge more for the same old 5Mbps ADSL service! + now they throttle P2P connection between 5PM and 2AM.

Clearly, this is an abused of their monopoly.

Please forget my ignorance. I'm canadian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada

So gold and money cure sickness. That's a news!

You might as well shutdown the computer...

If I was Microsoft, I would worry about corporate espionage.

Hundreds of iPhones walking around = hundreds of remotely activated microphone and camera at the R&D facility!

Dunning-Kruger effect :

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

To sum up,

1. publish
2. If someone shows interest, patent (you have 1 year after publication to do that)
3. ???
4. Power and money!

They are probably using GnuRadio, a software-defined radio software.

It's funny how companies talk about free-market and ask the government not to regulate their market when the economy is good. But then when the economy goes bad, they put their tails between theirs legs and they ask for government help.

This is no longer a free-market A government owned car compagny? It feels like communism.

yeah, that would be criminal too. This is the current state of affairs in your country. Time to wake up!

I can't wait to see this go in front of the CRTC.