Comment what? (Score 1) 112
So, it was an ultrasonic weapon that use intermodulation as a targeting mechanism. Suggesting that this just happened by accident at US embassy is ridiculous at best.
If the OP explanation was probable, it would also occur randomly at other location. We haven't heard about that so far.
Comment Re: Maybe (Score 1) 117
Just try it. How hard could it be?
Comment Palace (Score 1) 83
Who's palace is this?
Comment Re:How can there be? (Score 1) 622
Having an unlimited plan is more than being able to download an unlimited number of byte. It is about no having to worry about how much data you spent. That alone has value regardless what amount of data you consume.
Comment Re:monopolies and utilities (Score 1) 137
Telecommunication is of federal jurisdiction. Quebec province is blatantly abusing its power.
Comment speed (Score 1) 396
I get about 20 ms on a 6 Mbps ADSL link.
Comment Re:Sorry to be pedantic (Score 1) 314
Comment Evil Monopoly (Score 4, Insightful) 314
Apple is becoming an evil empire!
Comment Re:That story is an ad for a health-degrading prod (Score 1) 4
Yeah, but the brand make it tastes better.
It has been repetitively proven that when you repackage a product in a "lower brand" package, people will rate the taste lower even if it's exactly the same product!
Comment Re:This problem is quite common. (Score 5, Insightful) 312
Yep, It happens all the time everywhere.
What I find most troubling about this is that most company don't recognize the problem or are not even aware of it? I think the mentality that "anyone can be replaced so we don't have to create incentive to retain them" is going a bit too far.
Because the real problem is in fact employee turnover.
Comment Re:shit product (Score 1) 303
It's great that Microsoft is starting to support Python!
Comment Re:Yay! (Score 1) 175
it seems like their dns server are getting slashdotted!
Comment Re:Got it (Score 1) 381
the unit in the second paragraph are cents (0.01$).
Comment Re:Got it (Score 2) 381
With the new proposed rates, Bell would be charging reseller 18.20$/month just to get a ADSL line to a customers. This is about the same as before. What changes is that they now charge for the data going through the pipe. They couldn't charge 2$/month to lease a copper line because it cost much more than that to maintains! In fact, the most expensive thing an ISP has to do is to run copper wire to every house, and pay for the nice tech that plug you in when you rent their service.
Actually, data is pretty cheap to move around. You can get rate at 4/GB in large datacenter to move data anywhere in the world. Bell will be making a large profit with their 112.5/GB overcharge. Plus, Bell don't even have to move your data to the Internet, they only have to get it to your reseller which have to provide Internet connectivity. I don't believe it cost them more than 1/GB to move data to the reseller which is often local.