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Comment: Re:This will be great! (Score 2) 143

by DirtyCanuck (#34936188) Attached to: Canadian Firm Plans 78-Satellite Net Service

"Maybe the Canadian government should be requiring all phone companies to upgrade their switching stations to DSLAMs. 50k to 500k is a big jump, and is the difference between being able to watch hulu.com or not."

Actually Bell has a monopoly on the lines. Such a mandate was issued then rolled back in terms of definition of both coverage and required bandwidth.

I worked as an employee of Bell up until a week ago as I am switching jobs and where I live. We use a program Called Iris to determine availability of High Speed based on address. We would often figure situations where a next door neighbor had high speed available where next door they did not.
Same goes for cellular Coverage: http://www.bell.ca/shopping/PrsShpWls_Coverage.page

Look how things get patchy into the North. Even around North Bay a city of 60 000 plus people with a University extremely modern Hospital and other thriving industries.

Laptops (Which I sold) were often sold based on whether they had a 56kb modem in them, typically Toshiba facilitated this. Our USB Modems were sold out, always.

People in the North are far from poor. Some people I know own 1000's of acres worth millions but choose to live a modest life.

They can't justify paying bell THOUSANDS to have a line run to their property.

But they certainly can afford to pay a premium for an alternative to the tyranny of the monopoly.

Comment: Re:This will be great! (Score 4, Informative) 143

by DirtyCanuck (#34933852) Attached to: Canadian Firm Plans 78-Satellite Net Service

This is Canada bud, we have the most land per person with gaps in population not seen in most places in the world.

Even in Northern Ontario where cell service and broadband exists, there are still consistent areas that have access only to dial up.

I have seen customers first hand, who had no service while their neighbor across the road had High Speed Bell or Cogeco.

When we start to take into consideration people that can't even access dial up it becomes apparent that there is a glaring gap in equal access to internet up here in the proper North.

With Bell and Rogers running the show it becomes very evident that an ideal way to harness these customers is to offer some sort of over the air service not already in place.

Comment: Re:Because it's impossible to install from sources (Score 1) 159

by DirtyCanuck (#34216744) Attached to: Fedora Project Drops SQLNinja 'Hacker' Tool

I find that the natural ultimate Pentool Linux Distro is clearly Backtrack.

That said, often fedora and Ubuntu 10 will act a lot friendlier in a live cd (or usb) format.

Thus my pentest drive contains bootable versions of all 3. Looks like that might be changing.......

Comment: Re:But asbestos is fine! (Score 1) 168

by DirtyCanuck (#33921514) Attached to: Plastic Chemical BPA Declared Toxic In Canada

I think the reason for the BPA toxic classification stems from the Canadian governments agenda to use Maple Syrup as an alternative in plastic manufacturing.

I would expect similar measures put on the manufacturing of Asbestos following a solid breakthrough in the research and development of maplebestos.

Comment: Billy Mays here for another exciting product.... (Score 4, Funny) 625

by DirtyCanuck (#33758316) Attached to: Senate Votes To Turn Down Volume On TV Commercials

Hi Billy Mays here for the Commercial Kill.
Sick of commercials blaring and waking up your hooker in the middle of the night?
Using the power of the internet we can eliminate loud obnoxious commercials for your viewing pleasure.

Note: Commercials only removed from pirated material. Non Pirated material will be subject to EVEN LOUDER commercials that conveniently have the volume control disabled during duration.

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