Handsome Rob

I'm guessing you're not a local, it's hard not to be familiar with Air India and the local Babbar Khalsa crowd, which Mr. Dosanjh is very much at odds with. Ripudaman Singh Malik is an admitted supporter and financier of Babbar Khalsa. Malik even supported Parmar's widow. It amazes me, after BK being put on the official terror list, that Khalsa credit union and schools are allowed to conitnue. Especially the latter recipient funds from the public purse. Under no circumstances would I believe that the Young campaign would actively associate with such fellows, but claiming to not know? The manner of incompetence displayed is unbelievable. Somebody ought to be fired.

They said much the same thing about personal computers 30 years ago. People learned. Enterprising tech companies started writing software like anti-virus applications that were easy to install and use. Look at how technology oriented the coming generations are. Smartphones are going through a remarkably similar maturing phase.

I entirely agree. But at this point, is it relevant any more? I'd say they learned there lesson; the leader had to quit, Hansen may be done, they stand to lose a lot more at the next election. Hopefully people have learned for next time. As far as the clean up goes, getting rid of the HST at this point just seems foolish. It won't punish the BC Liberals any more, it will punish the taxpayers. I fully intend to vote to retain it as well.

You don't know that. What they were able to extract and present, doesn't appear to use GPS. US Congress is asking questions now, should be interesting what comes out of it. Look what happened to google with WiFi usage for streetview, this is far worse. Hey, the bay. You ran a bay days sale Mar 18-21, and 35% more Iphone users showed up. Sounds like success. April 18-21, not so much. We'll measure your consumer base for a small fee of $XXX,XXX.XX

A smartphone is a personal computer. Heck my smartphone is far and away more capable than my 4 year old netbook. Android ships with a firewall built right into the linux kernel, iptables. Can be set up using a terminal if you know what you're doing, but lots of apps available to provide a GUI. Jailbroken Iphone firewall: http://isource.com/2009/11/05/firewall-ip-a-firewall-app-for-the-iphone/ Will it block OS connections? I don't know if it is that mature. Lack of multitasking kind of made the point moot. But it will mature. Blackberry I don't think it would be possible. Too integrated. The point is, if you want to take control of your device, you have to take all of it and move outside the walled garden.

Applications access the net through ports. Pop3 Email fetches mail through port 143. Remote Desktops work through port 3389. SMTP sends email through port 25. Think of them like channels on a television. Except there are thousands. Install a firewall, and you can block every one not in use, including OS data collection. Games with ads, block the internet connection and no more ads. Is it possible on a Bberry? Not sure I don't use one. Probably on a jailbroken spyPhone.

The mapping technology the folks wrote reverse-engineered the apple software. There is nothing to say that the actual data being read properly isn't a good deal more accurate. Imagine potential uses like police, wives with cheating husbands, marketing data for retailers.... Shouldn't Apple disclose the collection of such personal data? Why would they think not to?

Simple. Don't buy a Walled Garden spyPhone. Buy a capable smartphone, and put a firewall on it or use iptables. With the ports closed, nobody can take any information.

I quite agree, he's the only name that comes to my mind. Mind you, not terribly familiar with their reserves of future ex-leaders. Only other name that routinely come up is Rae, and I can't see them being that foolish.

I'm curious as to what would happen/what would prevent them from trying, a secret ballot when voting in the house? Leave the parties as status quo, but if you can't prove whom voted for what, you can't be whipped. MP's can be free to vote with there conscience. Seemingly not that radical of an idea, surely there must be a clear reason it hasn't been tried?

I think the opposite would be true here. If Harper managed to take 5 or 10 seats in lower Ontario, BC would probably stop him from continuing to a majority.

Was that necessary?

Surely they must realise how ridiculous he sounds "Rising up" against a government he supported on how many occasions? Or are they gambling that the average Canadian has no clue?

I didn't say any of that. I just posted it because it happened and might get picked up.

Bling.

Will it make national headlines? Teens claim to have been kicked out from local Tory rally

Getting close now. I suspect it will be Farnworth or Horgan. Horgan is probably the best guy for the job, Farnworth most likely to get elected if the NDP stand a chance which is still up in the air. Looking forward to Moe getting fired.

Was he pardoned? If so it's discrimination to say no on these grounds alone.

I read it as droning on and on about the same thing over and over again, as if the government shaped economic outcome with policy rather than just trying to nudge it in the right direction.....and Harper is the one I'd be most likely to vote for. Shrug.....it's all about perspective, it seems the country is by and large a little bit too stiff necked these days.

The only thing I wrote is the title of the thread, which you forgot to read. Try again.

I quite agree. -I don't think we ought to be throwing out harsh sentences for drug possession, shop lifting, etc. From criminology in 2002, this was the overwhelming majority of provincial 2 years less a day prisons. Don't know if this is still the case or the validity of that. -From what the headlines lead one to believe, our sentencing for aggravated assault, racketeering, drug production and smuggling, B&E, etc are a joke. The headlines can be misleading, so I won't park an opinion. -It goes without saying that some people should stay in prison. Carla Hamolka and co. I don't believe in 3 strikes, but I think when we hit 15 strikes or some such arbitrary number, it ought to be considered. I don't see why non-serious offenders shouldn't be able to earn perks in prison for working to build a better life. Even if it doesn't go past the prison walls, it's better than the alternative (IE watching lockdown on Nat Geo). I don't see our prisons quite like that, but we have quite literally nothing to lose and much to gain.

Have you given the Bowren circuit a go? It's wonderful.

OK, but you have to come to terms with the fact that 99% of our prison population is not Paul Bernardo/Carla Homolka/Robert Picton.

Political Debate... Moderator: Canadians are concerned about whether the CPP will have enough money to support them in their old age. What say you? Harper: What we, as Canadians, need to do is join together, set aside this kind of petty bickering and focus on the economy. The Conservative government's record is blah, blah, blah... Ignatieff: What these Canadians are really saying is that they have no confidence whatsoever in the current government. I mean, really, Mr. Harper is at this very moment breathing air that could have been breathed by a handicapped child. Would you vote for a person who would deliberately take air away from a handicapped child? Blah, blah, blah... Layton: Clearly what needs to be done is to tax the crap out of everybody in Canada that has money. And I am not worried about them packing up and moving offshore because if they do we will simply tax even more crap out of the losers that stay behind. Blah, blah, blah... Duceppe: We do not care about Canadian seniors unless they speak French. And we will support the NDP because when they tax corporations out of Canada we will attract them to the newly independent nation of Quebec with the lowest corporate tax rates in North America. Then we will make them speak French and blah, blah...blah... May: Cool... pretty colours... Canadian Public: AArghhh...!

Can you trust anything produced by Frank Graves any more than Nik Nanos?