Matthew Coutts of the National Post reports, “Rogers Communications recently announced it will charge additional fees to customers who heavily download files such as movies and music. Those charges range as high as $5 per gigabyte transferred, depending on the users monthly subscription. One downloadable 90-minute movie can be as large as 1.3 gigabytes.”

For your information, your ISP does not own the Internet. No one owns the Internet, and no single person or organization controls it. There are, however, organizations that oversee and standardize what’s happening on the Internet and assign Internet Protocol addresses and domain names. The Internet Engineering Task Force, ICANN, InterNIC and the Internet Architecture Board are among these organizations.

ISP companies like Bell and Rogers charge a fee for the use of their servers that have access to the Internet, that’s all. They do not own the Internet. It’s certainly not Rogers Communication or Bell that have a right to charge fees to download content on the Internet. It would be similar to fraud because they would charge for something they do not own. Furthermore, they do not own the copyright of any digital or text content that is downloaded by their customers. They do not own the network through which it is downloaded.

“Increased congestion is affecting the networks of Internet carriers across North America,” said Bell spokesperson Jason Laszlo. “Like other carriers, we’re seeking to better balance the Internet traffic during the peak usage period so that all of the customers using the network receive the optimum level or service that they deserve and rightly demand.”

Dear Mr. Laszlo, Bell has no authority to manage increased congestion over something it does not own, in this case the Internet. I strongly suspect that what Bell and Rogers are trying to achieve here, is to increase the profitability of their business by charging money for something they do not own; In this case the internet and its content.

Read all about it on the National Post: CRTC urged to probe ‘discriminatory’ Internet traffic shaping

Boingboing has an interesting post titled Internet Bill Of Rights Kick Ass

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Martha Stewart’s favorite laptop may not be as safe as she thinks. The MacBook Air was hacked in 2 minutes by some hacker at this year CanSecWest conference in Vancouver.

“While Microsoft’s Windows OS has along been slammed as the hackers dream, it was a MacBook Air that broke down first under the hands of hackers at this year’s CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, B.C., according to TippingPoint, the contest’s sponsor. ” [ChannelWeb]

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After discussing the Apple MacBook Air, there are other portable computers “laptops” “we could be talking about, namely, the Osborne 1 and the TRS-80 Model 4P. The Osborne 1 was the word’s first self-contained portable personal computer. Many of the design decisions and innovations first seen in the Osborne 1 are still being used today some 25-plus years later. We could not resist taking a look inside this piece of computing history.” link

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Expert say: Cybernetic implants to become a reality in 2029.

The nanoprobes are fictional technological devices from the Star Trek TV series, most commonly used by the race known as the Borg. These nanoprobes are microscopic machines that inhabit a Borg’s body, bloodstream, and many cybernetic implants and might become a reality in 2029 according to Ray Kurzweil U. S leading inventor and engineer.

Kurzweil believes that machines and humans will eventually merge through devices implanted in the body to boost intelligence and health just like the borgs in Star Trek. [BBC]

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