Comment: Re:Saves nothing, really. (Score 1) 307
I think the real problem is that paying $56 to have a mobile phone is "Not so bad" to you.
+ - Hackers steal owner data from Honda->
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ILuvSP writes "Honda Canada has informed thousands of its Honda and Acura customers that some of their personal information was stolen when its systems were hacked."
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Comment: Re:Application developers fault (Score 1) 178
Exactly! Saying that this is the developer's fault is a bit of a cop-out for Microsoft.
Comment: Amazon S3 + JungleDisk (Score 1) 467
Works great. Can be encrypted on the client so no one can access it. Including you if you lose your keys.
Rates are reasonable...usually a few dollars a month.
I backup all my photos, videos, documents, etc... this way.
Comment: Give the 13 year olds free realms... (Score 1) 238
While I agree that free realms do have broader appeal, why does that have to be the all we get?
I pay to play WoW because to me it is worth it...or used to be anyway. The game has become..well..in all honesty a joke. I have been playing since the day it came out.
Sure, make games that are free to play so that you can draw in the 13 year olds. But that shouldn't stop game developers from making games, that are subscription based that do have the separation that a lot of more mature players want.
Comment: World of Warcraft and p2p... (Score 5, Interesting) 674
This does not fair well for all the World of Warcraft players in Australia.
Blizzard "legally" uses p2p to distribute patches and such.
I guess only one question remains to be asked to all Australian WoW players...Can I have your stuff?
Sorry, it had to be said.
Comment: Re:Guck Foogle (Score 3, Interesting) 607
Google is a commercial enterprise... 'nuff sed.
To elaborate...Google is an advertising and marketing company!! Everything they do, is directed towards knowing the consumer. This EULA is genius...and so is this product (the browser). What better way is there of harvesting consumer information? Create a browser, say you have royalty-free license to everything that goes through said browser. This is a like striking gold for an advertising company. It is essentially spyware, only made by Google so it's good...right?
+ - Canada may tax legal music downloads 3
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FuriousBalancing
FuriousBalancing writes "MacNN reports:
Canadians may soon pay a small tax on every legal music store download, says a new measure (PDF) sanctioned by the Copyright Board of Canada. Requested by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the tax would apply at least 2.1 cents to every individual song download and 1.5 cents per track for complete albums. Subscription download and streaming services would themselves be charged between 5.7 and 6.8 percent of a user's monthly fees. Minimum fees would also apply for every larger download or subscription. The new tax would be retroactive to January 1st, 1996."
Canadians may soon pay a small tax on every legal music store download, says a new measure (PDF) sanctioned by the Copyright Board of Canada. Requested by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the tax would apply at least 2.1 cents to every individual song download and 1.5 cents per track for complete albums. Subscription download and streaming services would themselves be charged between 5.7 and 6.8 percent of a user's monthly fees. Minimum fees would also apply for every larger download or subscription. The new tax would be retroactive to January 1st, 1996."