Comment Re:A machine... (Score 4, Funny) 517
We should ban violent videogames while we're at it. Look at all the mass shootings they have caused.
Can't tell if Jack Thompson or Anita Sarkeesian.
We should ban violent videogames while we're at it. Look at all the mass shootings they have caused.
Can't tell if Jack Thompson or Anita Sarkeesian.
Heck, if we were really open to coalition governments, maybe we would still have the Reform party.
We do. They just re-branded and absorbed the remains of the PC Party.
I'm guessing you're in Saskatchewan. I put my details into the calculator they have (which only asks for the vehicle make, model, year, and my safety rating) and it was over $200 cheaper than my insurance and plate registration in Ontario. Even with a 0 safety rating, it was about $50 cheaper. I also remember checking the rate in Saskatchewan back when I was a younger driver. It was close to $3000 cheaper then.
Because some of the employees were well known and who had proven track records with well loved games. It was a very early kickstarter so there were a lot of unknowns with the project and how it would work. I suspect there are a lot of backers who think it was a success because it helped revive interest in the genre and help other game companies learn from the mistakes.
If it was just Broken Age, I could see people giving them another shot, but when you combine that with the broken promises of Spacebase DF-9, I can't fathom trusting them to fulfill a Kickstarter or an Early Access game. With Spacebase DF-9 they took $400k in investor money from The Indie Fund, Humble Bundle, and a few others and made it back in two weeks. When sales slowed, they stopped development with a lot of promised features not finished. Sounds like a hell of a good deal for the investors, not so much for people who bought the game, trusting that an established developer would actually finish it.
funding a game from a known and reliable developer like Broken Age from Double Fine
Why would you trust Double Fine? Broken Age is the perfect example of a Kickstarter that was over-funded and still burned through its money. They split the game into two parts and sold the first part to fund development of the second part. Add that to the bullshit that happened with Spacebase DF-9 and you'd have to be nuts to trust Tim Schafer with anything.
I doubt Canada would extradite a Canadian citizen to the US. The response would probably be something like "are you fucking kidding me?".
Not for copyright infringement at least. They extradited Marc Emery for selling cannabis seeds through mail order to Americans though.
All of Bell's customers are now on usage based billing.
Not all. Some of us are still grandfathered in on unlimited plans.
Thankfully Bell has apparently dropped its push to go for metered billing...
Nope, they've just changed the name of it to Aggregated Volume Pricing (AVP). From Michael Geist's blog: "Bell obviously saw the writing on the wall and has come back with a plan that allows independent ISPs to purchase 1 TB of data for $200 with an overage charge of 29.5 cents per GB."
That's data that the ISP already pays for. Bell wants to double-dip.
If I were playing I would counter this by answering slightly before the end of the question.
You can't. The buzzer system will lock you out for a few seconds if you try. You can only buzz in once Alex finishes reading and a tech hits the button to allow buzzing in.
If BitTorrent never works then it is obvious that it is blocked. If you slow it down to something ridiculously measly, such as a few kb/s, and eventually disconnect at random intervals, it is much more annoying for the neighbor and hence funnier that way.
My ISP provides that service already. Thanks Bell Canada!
Canada DOES have relevant laws about piracy - they collect approximately 1% per blank cassette, CD, or DVD sold, put that money in a central fund, and use that fund to provide financial backing for artists. That's Canadian law. That's the solution they chose and exercised for the last ~30 years.
Not sure where you got the 1% number (it's much higher than 1%) and it only applies to blank media for music. According to the CPCC, the current levy is $0.29/CDR. That's $14.50 of the cost of a 50-pack. That's almost half the cost of the cheapest 50-pack at Futureshop.ca or 85% of the cost of the cheapest 50-pack at ncix.com.
Depending on inflation. Has there yet been a bank or currency which has lasted that long?
Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena was founded in 1472. So halfway there.
Um...I would disagree. Net Neutrality should (and, I believe, is generally accepted to) mean that my provider cannot screw with my traffic because it suits their interests to do so. What happens if they decide to throttle voip traffic due to 'network congestion', but the start of such throttling just happens to coincide with the launch of their own voip service? It has to be an open pipe, period.
Rogers introduced monthly caps and started throttling just after they introduced their Rogers Home Phone product. It's VOIP, but only uses Rogers' own network. Somehow I don't think this is a conincidence.
It's not questionable at all. Despite what CIRA has been lying about, it's perfectly legal to download music and movies in Canada.
Uploading is NOT legal.
Now paging the
The private copying rules only apply to music, not movies.
So Canada doesn't require that any DMCA complaints be filed under penalty of perjury, or any other mechanism to require them to be valid?
I'm very sorry for Canadians that they are vulnerable to harassment through this method. I suggest they consult with their government representatives on it.
They should also include the right to file a counter-notice, if it's not there already.
Frankly, I see that problem as one with the government, not one with your ISPs. Of course, my experience with most ISPs is that they ignore your average notice, and make an effort to avoid actually doing anything.
Canada does not have a notice-and-takedown system on the law books. Even the recent attempts to introduce a law like the DMCA in Canada did not include a notice-and-takedown system. There was a notice-and-notice system included in at least one of the proposed bills. Notice-and-notice would basically mean that the ISP forwards the email to the alleged offender.
There is no requirement for an ISP in Canada to immediately take down alleged infringing material. They may investigate on their own if they wish.
Truly simple systems... require infinite testing. -- Norman Augustine
