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Canada's Internet Among Best, Report Says 186

silentbrad writes "Canadians enjoy among the fastest, most widely available and least expensive broadband Internet in the developed world, says a report released Thursday. The report, based on the results of 52 million speed tests of broadband users across the G7 countries and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) membership, was produced by Montreal-based consulting firm Lemay Yates Associates Inc. on behalf of Rogers Communications Inc., the country's largest broadband service provider. It disputes the OECD's own report, published in July, that ranked Canada's high-speed Internet offerings significantly below those of other countries. The report comes days after the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission revealed a sharp jump in the number of complaints it has received regarding Internet traffic-management practices, or 'throttling' in recent months." And it's about to get a little better — reader ForgedArtificer points out that Rogers has promised to end all throttling over their network by the end of the year.

Comment Well, these ought to be interesting pictures... (Score 5, Informative) 272

*clicks on article* ...Hmm, ok, no pictures here.
*googles it* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2090556/Life-Venus-Russian-scientist-claims-seen-scorpion-probe-photographs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml.
Yea... I'm no astrocryptozoologist, but that doesn't look like life to me.

Comment "The Oven" (Score 1) 890

I recall a tasteless network that some acquaintances my mine used to have called "The oven". All of the computers on this network had to have Jewish names.

Yea, a holocaust joke. Hilarious.

Anyway, as tasteless as it was, it seems pretty ridiculous that those guys were guilty of a crime.

Comment Wait... (Score 0) 380

Is everyone honestly that upset that a scientist who specialized in the trigger mechanism for nuclear weapons working for a nation led by a holocaust denier was assassinated?

Moral cowardice. That's all this is. Nobody wants to imagine what could happen if Iran nukes Israel, so they're focusing in on something comprehensibly small. Killing this man may delay the development of a nuclear weapon by Iran, which may in tern save millions of lives.

I will not lose a moment of sleep if all of Iran's nuclear scientists are murdered. The alternative is worse.

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