Comment: Re:This wouldn't be a big deal except (Score 1) 560
During the trial run, I was under the impression that it was restricted to 18+ users only, but that that will be changed after it finally goes public.
Comment: Re:No Privacy == No Security (Score 1) 214
The U.S. has separate wires too, known as the SIPRNet.
[...]Its complete architecture will be achieved by constructing a new worldwide backbone router system.[...]
Comment: Re:I gotta hand it to them. (Score 1) 157
The short story Double-Take by Winston K. Marks covers the concept, although in there it was in a theatre as an evolution of 3D movies, where one viewer could watch a movie from the male lead's perspective, and the other from the female lead's perspective.
The story was written in 1953. Is that prior art enough? You can check here a bit over half-way down for the story.
Comment: Re:Cat5 (Score 1) 399
Wouldn't it require that and running another cable? or having a switch on each end?
Comment: Re:Penny (Score 1) 301
You can get onto Netflix to browse by trying to log in once, and letting it tell you PSN is under maintenance, but it won't let you actually watch anything without logging on to PSN.
Comment: Re:they may want to remote admin it aka WSUS / AV (Score 1) 1307
Or a BSD server, like in the OP...
Comment: Other good sites (Score 1) 3
I've also been using NISA and Tepco's site.
And this earthquake monitoring site.
Comment: Re:How (Score 1) 11
How does that work? I haven't gotten mod points since some time in early 2003, despite regular visits...
Comment: Re:Not hard to track down (Score 1) 203
I purchase MS points a few times a week, and I have a feeling I'm not alone. I don't see how that would help narrow down the evil doers.
In 160MSP increments?
Internet Downloading Costs To Rise In Canada 433
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from the all-that-hockey-streaming-gets-expensive dept.
An anonymous reader writes "According to CBC News, 'Surfing and downloading from the internet is about to get more expensive for many Canadians as internet companies Shaw and Primus have announced plans to impose new fees and caps on internet usage. Over the past year, the CRTC, Canada's communication regulator, let Bell and Rogers start charging extra for customers who download a lot of data. ... Primus and Shaw have said they will begin passing on higher fees to their customers beginning Feb. 1. Primus, for example, rents bandwidth on Bell's networks and said Bell is inflating the costs for everyone, including them. 'It's an economic disincentive for internet use,' said Matt Stein, vice-president of network services for Primus. 'It's not meant to recover costs. In fact these charges that Bell has levied are many, many, many times what it costs to actually deliver it.'"