The prices vary greatly depending where you live.

Here in SK with Koodo, I'm paying $48/mo for Unlimited Nationwide Calling (and roaming, I can be in BC and call NS for not a penny more!), Unlimited North American SMS/MMS (Canada and US), and 5GB of Data per month.

I've yet to find a better deal anywhere else. I rarely go over 1GB data a month, so I don't have a use for "Unlimited" data.

This "study"'s PHP "vulnerability" was that if you pass USER INPUT to a function called "shell_exec", that there's a security flaw there.

Well DUH!

It's been proven time and time again that people who download "illegally" wouldn't actually pay for it in the first place, so you can't assign a dollar value to it.

This will depend on monthly bandwidth allotments, and, to a lesser extent, latency.

If you can't pull down 500GB a month at a reasonable cost, there will be no competition. End of story.

I have been using FF Beta on Android since it's been available. No issues here.

I don't think I've ever used Chrome on Android. Google already tracks all the apps I use, I don't need them tracking my web browsing history, too.

I get 3-5 days on a single charge of my phone.

It has a 4500mAh Li-Ion battery. On a light use day, I still have 98% or so battery when I go to bed. On a heavy use day, I'll burn through up to 15%.

Oh, and my phone was only $240, no contract, no financing. It's an LG X Power 2, known as LG X Charge in the US.

Looks fine with uBlock Origin.

I'd say it's a gimmick, if anything.

Truth is there are other/better/easier sources to generate entropy seeds from.

I'm curious what kind of algorithm they are using for this.

Traditional hashing will hash the entirety of the image. A simple work around of simply resizing or cropping the image before uploading will get around it.

Unless they mean fingerprinting. Fingerprinting != Hashing.

Perl was my first scripting language, and quickly moved to PHP as it's easier for web based development. This was in the late 90's. Now I've moved on to bigger, better languages, but there is a special place in my heart for Perl.

I love Perl because everyone hates it. Perl is now like 1/10th of my income, as I maintain some legacy applications for a few companies that I didn't build. They don't mind when I charge $100/hr (yes I'm aware I could probably charge more) to make changes or tweaks, because other developers just throw their hands up in the air and claim they need new software, which would cost a lot more. I understand there will come a day they will decide they need new software, but if they are happy with the service I provide, I will be the first place they come to get a quote to replace it.

In fact, a couple Perl projects have moved to new systems, some developed by me, and some off the shelf applications. Remember, best tool for the job and all that jazz.

Again, I love Perl. There are thousands of systems utilizing it, and the more people that hate it and refuse to use it means more money for me. :-)

Did I mention I'm not even 30 years old?

Ok so I just double checked and I was incorrect. The $200 plan I was thinking was for the Business plan.

For residential it is $139/mo, but only includes half the upload speed (30Mbps).

Still $50 more per month than TekSavvy, but again, it's true Fiber to the premesis.

Ok so I just double checked and I was incorrect. The $200 plan I was thinking was for the Business plan.

For residential it is $139/mo, but only includes half the upload speed (30Mbps).

Very informative post. I'm not familiar with Sasktel's topology. Perhaps it's something I could research.

Shaw (coax network) has plans up to 250Mbps. They have a promo on for 150Mbps down / 15Mbps with a 1TB monthly cap if you sign a 2 year contract. The first year is $50/mo, and the second year is $70/mo (from what I gather this is only available in SK, everywhere else pays $70/mo for both years).

The benefit of Sasktel is there is no monthly cap, it is a true fibre optic network with the optical cable run right into your home (no ethernet last mile crap). It is truely unlimited, though you need the business plan if you want to operate any kind of server for non-personal use. Their commercial plans are only like 10-15% more vs their residential plans.

I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. The entire population of the Province is about 1.1 Million.

We have a major telecom company that is owned by our Provincial Government.

About 10-12 years ago they started rolling out Fibre across the province. Starting with the 4 biggest communities. My city (of 35,000 people) was one of those 4 communities.

I've had ubiquitous access to fiber since 2010 or so in my city. Needless to say the consistent speed and reliability is amazing. From what I've heard from friends that work for the ISP, is that their customer support costs have gone down. Since it's more reliable, faster, and more stable, people have less to call and complain about.

The plans lack a bit. Fastest speed we can get is 260Mbps down / 60Mbps up. And it costs about $200/mo (Canadian Dollars)... but still a far cry from the old ADSL network that capped out at 25Mbps down/5Mbps up.