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No real comment on the issue at hand, but I've been targeted by Vivint's door to door sales team on one occasion. It was a very pushy salesman that started to ask security related …

Instagram's argument is that the picture contained child pornography. The picture was of a topless toddler breast feeding, which (for anyone with kids) is a perfectly normal sight.…

Yes, they are getting "high". I'm not sure what your point is however. I've never understood the stigma associated with all mind-altering drugs, regardless the relative 'safety' of…

GitHub sources: https://github.com/cambecc/earth

Because it only takes one uneducated, misinformed customer service rep to cause a (small or big) security breach.

Exact same thing happened during protests in Canada. Government-hired people were caught trying to incite violence several times.

Absolutely agreed. I've had a job since I was 15, yet I spent all my money (and then some) well into my 20s. It was disposable money and I didn't appreciate budgeting (though I und…

I agree, I'm not sure what relevance the girl's weight had to the paragraph.

A local school recently voted to introduce iPads into schools. Immediately following the vote, there was a huge backlash from the parents about why the school thought it was a grea…

I'm glad you chose to publish the report, as even skimming it (will read thoroughly later) I found it really useful. It is great to see some real-world figures about what app maker…

I'm 31, so I'm about the same age .. I've heard of the book before, but didn't know much about it, and haven't read it until this year. It truly blew me away, almost from first pag…

The Count of Monte Cristo .. not sure why it took me all these years to read it, but it was one of the best books I've ever read.

I've tried rdio for a couple weeks (free trial), and have been very happy with it so far.

I spent a bit over a year working from home in my past. At first, I loved it. Then I found myself "at work" for longer every day. I reduced the amount I was getting out and sociali…

Ah yeah, I'm in Winnipeg. You guys are getting the nice weather this week, while we get around 0C :(

We have people here that bike year round, even though our temperatures dip well below 0C (we get -25 to -30C on a regular basis, with windchill being -35C to -40C). That is far mor…

I finally pushed myself to bike to work this year, and up until this week managed to make my way to work 4-5 times a week using the bike. Living a 10-15 minute bike ride away from …

It's been a while since I played with OSM data. OGR 1.10.0 supports OSM, and you can grab it from various sources (gdal.org or gisinternals.com/sdk/ if you want latest windows bina…

I think OGR (gdal.org) has an OSM driver that you can install optionally to go from OSM -> SHP. Problem is that SHP and OSM are not 100% compatible formats, so data massaging may b…

What kind of data are you looking for? Many governments provide data for their own country, with differing licenses (the Canadian ones I've used are commercial-friendly). There are…

I generally prefer the curlier kinds of maple, or walnut/cherry, but I have to commend you for an excellent execution of a project!

The Wood Whisperer was one of the major reasons I got into wood working, and his end-grain boards were the first project I ever made. Makes me miss spending time on those projects …

I was actually referring to the first part of my comment as a smart-ass remark. There is definitely something to be said about the process of using hand tools. I own a #4 and a #5,…

Both are hand planes, with #7 being a "jointing" plane. Smartass remark aside, I've successfully jointed with a table saw and a router, and planed with a drum sander.

Just over $0.07 in Manitoba .. which has gone up considerably (likely close to 50%) over the last 5-6 years! We use to have it great until they decided they need to build more dams…