Mozilla is all about the bling, and usability is a secondary consideration.

Check out this usability bug about resizing the add bookmark dialog. 30 votes, 88 comments, 17 duplicate bugs filed, and still no one has done anything about it.

This fancy new "add bookmark" dialog also broke a pile of screen readers and other accessibility software (although this has mostly been fixed now, AFAIK).

[quote]I still am quite happy with almost a decade old machines[/quote]

Really? A decade? That's sub-1Ghz. That's two years prior to the release of Windows XP. What modern software are you going to run on a machine that old? At least DirectX was out then, so there exists some software from that era that will run on modern computers (although likely not Vista).

Well, my third-party ISPs bit-torrent traffic is being throttled by Bell.

Thanks for the fixed link. :P

You've pretty much described the Sony 505, although it's around $300 (although assumedly it will come down when the new 600 is released).

What you're paying for with the e-ink readers is the very-nice-screen, which looks like a printed page. If you're willing to suffer reading from an LCD screen, then check out the eBookwise reader, which is again pretty much exactly what you're describing. Although, very weird proprietary file formats.

Or at least, it is compared to the Kindle. Sony will read PDF files and EPUB files. (EPUB is an open standard; an EPUB file is really a zip file, containing a few XML documents that describe where everything is, and then either XHTML or DAISY/DTBook content).

It's VERY easy to copy content to the Sony readers (shows up like a USB hard drive, or copy content to an SD card and insert). There's no remote-kill like the Kindle.

If you're worried about finding DRM free content, check out Baen's Webscriptions or Fictionwise (look for the "multiformat" books; all DRM free).

Finally, if you REALLY don't want to go with Sony, there are lots of other good readers out there, some of which run Linux, and give you source for the software.

If you're using TekSavvy, then you're using TS's DNS servers, so your query goes to TS's DNS server which should respond with NXDOMAIN. You aren't even contacting the Bell DNS, so there's no opportunity for them to interfere.

It's possible, since Bell controls the last mile, that they could intercept NXDOMAIN results going to your machine and replace them using DPI, but I can't see how they'd get away with that without being in violation of CRTC rules about changing the meaning of communication. And, at least for me on Primus, this doesn't seem to be the case (yet).

Do people have a right to access the Internet? Because that right, if it exists, is not enshrined in the first amendment.

Many argue it should be a right; how effective can you be in this modern world without access to the wealth of information the Internet puts at your fingertips? If this is a right, does this mean the government has a responsibility to ensure access is available? There are plenty of northern communities where access is not available in Canada. There are many public access points in most larger Canadian cities, but these access points often close at 5:00pm, which makes them practically impossible to use for many people.

Do people have a right to publish software, and a right to mathematics? You'd think that, since software is just text written in an obscure language and mathematics are just ideas you ought to be able to express in English, freedom of speech should cover it. However in the US, it is illegal to publish software which would circumvent a digital lock, thanks to the DMCA. Some would argue the DMCA is unconstitutional in this regard, however the DMCA has been around for a long time. If this right were explicit, would that be the case?

There are also many places in software consumer rights where the US and Canada fail epically; if I buy a piece of software in Canada and it doesn't work, that's tough, I can't return it. Why is that? (Although perhaps the right to return software is a bit outside the scope of a constitution).

Assuming all movies are 100 minutes long, and you sleep 8 hours a night, then 200 movies means you're spending about 70% of your awake time, or over 11 hours a day, watching movies.

But yes, I agree with your basic point; many of the people who pirate the movie and watch it are likely to simply not watch the movie if the option of piracy is removed. Claiming people that don't watch the movie represent some kind of loss is a little strange.

BT is selling "unlimited" Internet service to its customers. If BT can't deliver the service it has promised to provide, then BT has no one to blame but itself.

I was thinking along those lines, actually. Given they have "inertial dampeners" which stop the crew from turning into chunky salsa every time the ship goes to warp, then they could use some variant thereof to steal all the inertia from a jumper.

But, it's fun to complain. :)

Uh... no. If that were true, the ship would fall too. So would all the TV satellites currently in orbit, which are stationary relative to the surface of the earth (this is why your TV satellite dish doesn't have to move to track the satellite), and have no propulsion systems to keep them up there.

If the drill were not moving relative to the Earth itself, then yes; it would fall at 1g towards the Earth (barring external gravitational sources, like the sun). But, if the drill were not moving relative to the Earth, the drill would be moving very quickly relative to the surface of the Earth, since the surface of the Earth is moving at around 1700km/h due to the Earth's spin. The drill would be cutting a big trench in the Earth instead of drilling a hole.

Oh, don't get me wrong, I very much enjoyed the movie. It was a lot of fun, and I'd recommend it to anyone (except my friend-who-suffers-from-motion-sickness). I'm hoping they make it into another series.

But, to claim it was largely free of science errors? No.

I'm with you on that one.

When Kirk and Pike were in the bar, on earth, there was camera shake. The Earth certainly wasn't shaking too much. My friend-who-suffers-from-motion-sickness had to leave the theater long before they made it into space.

It makes me want to write a piece of software that goes through a movie and lines up all the frames.