Don't forget the West Coast Shaw and Telus duopoly.

There are agreements in place to not step over their bounds and go east. Of course they also collude on pricing and packages, so there is no real competition in their respective areas anyways.

The TSA are doing something! This is proof!

I like how the Gizmodo comments devolved into ganging up on someone's choice to post their penis online.

I'm glad something similar would never happen on Slashdot...

There is no shortage of douche-bags to fill his place.

Wikipedia says:

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. It is widely used to convert books and documents into electronic files, to computerize a record-keeping system in an office, or to publish the text on a website. OCR makes it possible to edit the text, search for a word or phrase, store it more compactly, display or print a copy free of scanning artifacts, and apply techniques such as machine translation, text-to-speech and text mining to it. OCR is a field of research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition

Does it seem with the wording of the cable that Canada is expected to fall into line with whatever the US would like?
There also seems to be a minor tone of irritation when 'the public' and 'Michael Geist' is mentioned.

Damn you pesky citizens of a sovereign nation, getting in the way of our plans for your country...


Seeing it explicitly laid out like that is just, well, disturbing.

Who wants to RTFA?

...or any part of the Middle East?

Time to update your sig.

I recently discovered the option on the last redesign that disabled all the rubbish. I LIKED having a functional "Back" button on my browser. If I quickly want to take a look at an article from two days ago, I would much rather click it and hit back, rather than opening up a new tab for it behind all the other tabs I opened for interesting articles. It is also nicer than clicking "Back" and then needing to skip the main page back two days because it bloody resets on me. What did the back button ever do to you? What did individual links for each day's posts and pages ever do to you? Why the hell does it need to default to the front page of slashdot.org everytime I click back? Now it's worse, because I have to scroll down and wait for this fucking Ajax shit to load after I click a button... Argh.

Microsoft's Kin?