This is how we do it in Saskatchewan. Permanent CST (Central Standard Time). And that's how we like it.

We also have tempurature ranges from -45ÂC to +45ÂC,and 9 months of winter, 3 months of potholes. :-)

Every heard of hands free devices? Usually its implemented via Bluetooth.

I'm my car I can press a button on the wheel, say "Call Wife Mobile" and it will call my wifes mobile phone. Never seeing or touching my phone.

I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. We ridiculously harsh penalties when it comes to "distracted driving" (their words). I haven't heard of any province or state that has banned using your phone through a hands free device.

The claim that using a cellphone while driving is dangerous stems completely from the action of taking your hand(s) off the wheel, and eyes off the road. This is exactly what bluetooth hands free systems are designed for, and exactly why they are including it in more and more vehicles.

If you're curious, I drive a 2012 Kia Sorento EX V6 AWD Luxury Edition... Bought it last July for about $22K (Canadian) with less than 50,000km on it.

Considering Verizon owns(?) Redbox Instant, why wouldn't they throttle Netflix?

Search the text for /sarcasm or #sarcasm.

Done. Where's my paycheque?

Pretty good deal you got. Was that $450 in USD, CAD, or some other currency? $450 USD back in November would have been closer to the $495 Canadian. Plus everything in Canada is usually more expensive due to levies and such.

Regardless those specs at $500 Canadian would be pretty good. I don't regret my purchase. I like the 15.6" screen, the touchpad sucks but I use a wireless mouse when its more convenient.

According to `cat /proc/cpuinfo` its an AMD A6-4455M w/ Radeon HD 7500G.

The HP model # on the bottom is Envy 6-1040ca.

In Nov/2012 I bought an HP 15.6" AMD based laptop (notebook?) with 8GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB HDD, USB3, Win7 Home Premium, and Beats Audio for $399.00 Canadian. This was retail price.

Upon purchase, I wiped and installed Funtoo Linux, and have since replaced the HDD with an SSD. It does everything I need it to do. I regularly get 4.5 hours battery life of continuous use. Runs a tad warm but I don't use it on my lap so its fine.

My point is, this is android based notebook is limited as a general purpose machine, and costs more than I paid for mine a year and a half ago.

I do understand is had a touchscreen, larger battery and built in flash based memory, and that can drive costs uo a bit, but in terms of general usefulness I don't think it will fly.

So its like StumbleUpon?

Don't we already have a few dozen clones of that? What's the benefit other than explicitly giving Google (and advertisers) your bookmark data?

I personally don't see the value in this. Even as an advertiser I don't see the value in it.

Honestly it sounds more like it wasn't a mistake, and something malicious if the server reformatted itself. To, you know, cover your tracks.

Could always hit up a sports bar? You don't /have/ to drink so it could be free. If you are there with friends, volunteer to be thr dedicated driver and you may get free soda and/or coffee.

We switched to just Netflix+UnblockUS about a year ago. OTA is pretty much useless around here (Saskatchewan, Canada).

Still paying $90/mo for internet, though. To be fair its 100Mbps, which is mostly for the higher bandwidth limit.

Depending on the situation, RAM and SSD makes a huge difference. I personally upgraded to an SSD before deciding to upgrade the rest of my system.

Cost was the biggest factor, drop $200 now and I can still use it when I upgrade the rest. No compatability issues.

My old system was an AMD Athlon X2 5200, 6GB DDR2 RAM. Just upgraded to an AMD FX-8320 w/ 8GB DDR3 back in December(2013).

One thing the USA has is cheap Virtual Private Servers. I've seen them as low as $25/year. That plus a little bit of time to read up on setting up OpenVPN or a SOCKS proxy would be worth it.

Not only could you tunnel Hulu, you could tunnel many other services. Maybe store some encrypted backups of important data if you really need to justify the cost.

localhost ~ # modprobe dafuq

I personally use Telegram (https://telegram.org/), and have for quite some time now. I like it for various reasons. Mainly its open source, and multi-client.

What I /don't/ like about plain jane SMS is I can't sit back at my desk and message people back who message me. I have to completely break my submersion into my computer, pick up my phone, and type on a tiny (virtual) keyboard. Drives me absolutely insane.