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Comment Re:Who needs an iOS GMail app? (Score 1) 90

I love how Android allows me to keep my personal GMail and my work Exchange account in different apps, I assume that this is meant to do the same thing on iOS. That way by just looking at the little "unread" number hovering over the app I can tell whether those unread emails are personal or professional: right now I have no way of making this differentiation.

Comment Re:Yup (Score 1) 257

While I'm glad they are expanding the Canadian library, I think back to when Netflix first launched in Canada, and the line they gave to the news outlets was "We know the library isn't as big as in the states, but it's a licensing issue. As we get more customers, we'll add more content. So pay us now, even if our service isn't great, and we'll improve it!".

Now I'm not as big on the free market as a lot of people, but telling people to pay for a sub-par service so you can afford to improve it is a laughable argument to me. If you want to support their business model, go ahead, but I need more content before I'll pay for it.

Comment Re:SuperGenPass (Score 1) 278

I just looked into SuperGenPass, and there are two things that scare me:
1) If any site that you use SGP on is compromised with an XSS attack and you're using the bookmarklet, they can harvest your _master_ password.
2) This post, from a seemingly intelligent cryptographic researcher stating that the basis of the math behind SGP isn't sound: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554224/is-the-bookmarklet-password-generator-from-supergenpass-com-safe-to-use.

Comment Just make sure the carrier supports the phone (Score 2, Informative) 445

I just hope the people buying these phones do the research. In Canada, Rogers (one of the big three cell providers here) has said that they're not going to provide an upgrade for the HTC Magic (literally the same phone as the myTouch3G) to Android 1.6 - they think 1.5 provides a "good user experience" and so they're not going to bother. Just how do you think all these people buying new phones are going to feel when they get it home and discover a bunch of the bells and whistles they've been promised don't work? And there are already apps out there that require 1.6. That's one big difference between Android phones and the iPhone - Rogers is supporting the iPhone.

Source: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/12/19/rogers-htc-dream-and-magic-to-be-deprived-of-donut/ (as well as the HTC website)

Comment Re:Format shifting (Score 1) 346

It's the re-selling that's the problem, and the profit inherent in it. And again, I'm referring to moral problem, not legal problem. Legally I think each are illegal, which is another matter altogether. But morally, I think doing anything you want with a product after you buy it (without eating into a company's profits) is legit, but re-selling their product in a way they don't intend, and making a profit from it, that's much sketchier.

Comment Re:Format shifting (Score 1) 346

The core difference is between you buying a CD and putting it on your iPod when the record label says you can't, and someone else selling you an iPod with that CD on it, along with a copy of the CD. One is morally home and personal use, the other is business, and an attempt at a profit. To me, that's the big difference.
Privacy

Submission + - Facebook to change privacy policy (www.cbc.ca)

Retardical_Sam writes: Facebook has agreed to make changes to protect users' personal information on the social networking site, including the way data is accessed by third-party developers, Canada's privacy commissioner said Thursday. Canadian officials have been negotiating with Facebook since the Office of the Privacy Commissioner released a report a month ago that argued the social network breaches Canadian privacy law. Facebook agreed to make changes dealing with third-party applications like quizzes and games, deactivation of accounts, the personal identification of non-users and accounts of users who die.

Comment Re:Why wearable? (Score 1) 234

Ok, I see your point, but there still should be a distinction between wearing the control mechanism and wearing the actual transportation device. So while in this case, the control mechanism and the device are essentially one and the same, that's not true in all cases. I suppose your wording could still imply that, it just depends on how it's read.
Games

Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals 96

GamePolitics has a list of ten of the most well known gaming scandals to hit the games industry. Starting back in 1993 with the senate hearings on Night Trap (a game that arguably led to today's ESRB), the list catalogs some things that the companies responsible would probably just as soon forget. "Hot Coffee (2005) - needs no introduction. Cheeky Rockstar programmers left hidden sex animations (accidentally or otherwise) buried in the PS2 code of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Modders made sure they didn't stay buried for long. Rockstar's denials only made things worse. And then Hillary got involved ..." At the post's close they call for additional nominations, as it's definitely not an exhaustive list. They left off the ESRB's decision to re-rate Oblivion , for example. What 'scandalous' gaming events can you see rating with this topics?

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