bignickel - Slashdot User

Comment Canadians should comment on this.. (Score 3, Interesting) 273

by bignickel on Friday April 20, 2007 @08:13AM (#18810259) Attached to: Canadian MP Calls For ISP Licenses, Content Blocks

Send an email to Joy Smith (the MP who introduced this half baked bill). Here's mine:

I would like to voice my objections to the "Clean Internet Bill" recently introduced by Ms Smith. This bill will be totally unenforceable as any traffic can and will be encrypted on the Internet. And an ISP licence? I thought one of the goals of this government was LESS bureaucracy. This would be yet another arbitrary and unenforceable regulation. Do I become an ISP for sharing a connection with other members of my household? Canada currently has a reputation as a leader in the high tech field, but this reputation will be eroded by such poorly thought out pieces of legislation as this.

Michael Dell Using Ubuntu Linux At Home 236

Posted by kdawson on Thursday April 19, 2007 @08:31AM from the hmmmm dept.

whoever57 sends us a link from the Dell site noting that Michael Dell is using Ubuntu Linux at home (7.04, Feisty Fawn) on a Precision M90 laptop loaded with Openoffice.org and Evolution. If one were betting on which distro Dell will eventually ship pre-installed, this factoid might be food for thought. Oh, and Micheal Dell's gaming system uses XP Media Center edition.

New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light 334

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday April 12, 2007 @10:57PM from the thousand-points-of-light dept.

GoSun wrote in with an article about new solar panels that opens, "Sunlight has never really caught fire as a power source, mostly because generating electricity with solar cells is more expensive and less efficient than some conventional sources. But a new solar panel unveiled this month by the Georgia Tech Research Institute hopes to brighten the future of the energy source." The new panels are able to produce sixty times the current of traditional models.

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