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It will be the pay people who will put it on and will progressively pay more and more for it." The IPL investment is Illyria's second in India, the company having bought 50 per cent of the Percept Talent Management business in May last year. Mr Connolly said Percept had no involvement in the IPL. Share this article What is this? .
BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic
Peter Eckersley could try out for the Navy SEALs of computer geekdom. He's what you might call a white-hat hacker, or a good hacker. The computer science Ph.D. candidate at the University of Melbourne works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Bay Area's internationally respected tech-rights nonprofit, and has biked over to my house this afternoon on his purple ten-speed to help me set an electronic trap. He speaks in an Australian accent, and shoulders a messenger bag holding a PC laptop armed to the keys with advanced Internet detection tools. I point him to my living room. First we tear up my entertainment center and disable its Internet security settings so he can get a clear view of the raw Net. Then Eckersley perches in my office chair and begins prepping. Below his black pinstripe slacks, a green 50-foot Ethernet cable snakes away from his PC like a lasso to my Comcast cable modem — the little black box I received when I became one of its 14 million high-speed Internet subscribers.
Zipping along in Quebec's Laurentians
And near the former Expo 67 VIP housing, Habitat 67, the river continuously churns a 20-foot-long surf. (For info on river surfing conditions, go to www.2imagine.net.)
Budget tip: Sleep in a yurt right by the water at Parc National de Plaisance. You have to bring your own linens, and there's a two-night minimum stay, but this is camping in high style. Yurts feature electric lights, propane stove and an electric fridge to keep the brews cold. They cost about $63 a night before taxes, but book early ( www.sepaq.com/plaisance).
Big splurge: Sample five wines during a six-course wine pairing dinner (about $125, depending on wine selected) at Bistro a Champlain, 75 Chemin Masson in Ste-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson (www.bistroacham plain.com). Housed in a former 1864 general store, the restaurant faces sparkling Lake Masson.
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