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A bandwidth-meter program I have installed on this PC tells me that in one hour I used 128MB of traffic having an ssh session open to do development on a web app, and load webpages relating to that app. That's an entire gigabyte of traffic within 8 hours. Face it: mere web traffic takes more transfer nowadays than it did in the days of yore. The 'main' page of facebook is half a megabyte of CSS, images, javascript and HTML. Eco-enthusiasts talk of power vampires.

It looks like tomorrow is 'DMCA Day' in Canada.

All of this nonsense is making me physically ill. Let's go over the symptoms:

• High levels of irony brought on by doublespeak[1]:
  

  Reports have also indicated that the two ministers will unveil the Copyright Act under the slogan "Made In Canada Copyright Reform" during a scheduled press conference.

Michael Geist picked up a story about how Industry Canada staff are systematically trying to edit Wikipedia pages, deleting criticism of the new 'Canadian DMCA'. I say 'systematically' because certain text was deleted multiple times after being restored, and the edits come from the same IP range. And it's limited to a few specific points: criticism *of* the proposed act, and the fact that nobody in Canada wants it: only the US Big Media conglomerates.

with the new and improved abusive search before you see the movie, as a consequence of New, Improved and Stupider laws passed by the Canadian government after having caved to the Americans. The movie industry can't even keep their FUD straight.

On top of:

• Sticky bathroom floors
• Overpriced food ($10 for a 6'' pizza!)
• Grainy/Blurry theatre screens