Yes, politicians should talk with executives of major companies because such companies shape our future at least as much as the government does so there should be a dialog there. *But* they should also equally talk to people who *truly* represent many citizens, union leaders, city school board members, Boy Scout troup leaders, SciFi fan club presidents, etc. regardless of contributions. You can claim those people do not truly represent their constituents (a charge often levied at union leaders) but that's an accusation of them being bad representatives, a charge which must be made on a case by case basis. Company executives, *by definition*, represent the company, not the company's employees; the two are symbiotic but independent and often have opposing goals. Even publicly traded company executives don't necesarily represent their stock holders but that's, in part, another example of being a bad representative.
And the issue here is the amount of access someone has being directly tied to how much money they give a politician. That is a bribe and even when politicians tell themselves they won't do anything in particular in return for the money, there will always be an undue amount of influence. There is also the opportunity cost of politicians not spending their time with constituents and others who deserve the time more.
Natalie Portman is your *2nd choice* after Ellen Feiss? Time to put Mr. Bong down now, young man, you've had enough. Why don't you go into the bathroom and make a "donation" to Mr. Sock?
Gamma radiation, although it passes through many feet of air and well into tissue, is not as damaging because it is not ionizing. However, high exposures have significant impacts.
I think it's also interesting that you have no liability if the number is stolen but not the card. Many credit card companies have been touting that as a feature of their service when in reality it's the law!
I use my debit card as a credit card because my bank instituted a 25 cent per transaction charge for whenever I use my card and PIN, including when I withdraw money from their ATM machines!
Yeah, when I read, "You can call me spam queen, I don't really care. As long as I'm not breaking any laws, you don't have to love me or like what I do for a living" I thought "she must be too ugly to be a stripper." Then I scrolled down.... GAH! The link to the article should have had a warning on it, like a goatse.cx link.
Looking at the graph categorizing the different types of spam, I can't even say what most of the spam I receive is about, about 50% is in a foreign language, almost always Korean.
I like the idea of combatting spam by sending back bogus bounce messages so the spammer thinks your address is invalid. It's not a complete solution but it could help get one's address out of some of the databases. Anyone know of software to do that? I'm interested in a perl script to pipe messages through for one account and either an Outlook extension or something which would work with IMAP for the other account.
Re:No, you can't get MTV a la cart, read it again.
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This stuff varies between TW regions but around Rochester, NY AOL/TW advertises that you can choose different ISPs. I use RoadRunner so naturally it's on my cable bill and I don't know how the other ISPs handle the billing or who doles out the IPs. The other ISPs *do* handle the technical support so I'd say that's a strong argument for them being your ISP. Handing out IPs is one thing ISPs do but it's not the only thing.
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In Rochester, NY it's $44.95 for RoadRunner only or $39.95 with a Standard cable package (not the really cheap cable package which only has broadcast channels plus public access).
Last year they also had everyone trade in their analog cable boxes for digital cable boxes (no change in fees related to that). Having a digital cable box doesn't mean you have their "digital cable" service, only that you *can* get digital services. If you have the Standard service, some of the channels are digital (you can tell by the MPEG artifacts). This page lists the available channels and what category they're in. I have Standard plus the HBO pack, which is a Digital Premium item.
AOL/TW's cable business is kind of run like a franchise so there can be substantial differences between regions when it comes to prices, channels and services both for cable and RoadRunner.
I think you're right, the iPod would not stand up to contact sports (wife making contact with the ground). These things definitely seem like a step up from the Sony device. I didn't see one on the Duex but the MuVo has a little loop so you can tie it to your coat zipper or something.
I was wondering the same thing about Mac compatibility. I think these USB flash key devices would use Apple's generic USB mass storage driver, just like a USB hard drive. They're probably FAT32 formatted but so what?
And guess what I just found you can do? You can highlight tracks in iTunes, drag them on to a folder (or drive icon) and Finder will *copy* them into the folder! At least it does in OS X (10.2). I bet it works in OS 9 too though. What an excellent way of loading it up, just make a playlist (or a smart playlist which picks 3 hours worth of random songs) and drag them in! Sure, it's only at USB speeds but 128MB still shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
What a shitty job, going through such logs. I can see some of the appeal, not for copyright nonsense but criminal acts like threatening people or vandalizing computer systems.
What if the student claims they forgot to logoff a public computer and it must have been someone who sat down after them?
Is it a public or private university? If private, they can do pretty much whatever they want. A public university could lose a court battle over something like this, depending on how much snooping was done. It may also depend on the state and what privacy-related laws it has. Actually, they probably wouldn't lose a case now, not with paranoia in this country up by an order of magnatude.
There's a lot of redundancy in the comments for this article but here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned.
Yes, that PDF was documentation for OS X 10.1. In 10.1 the clients had to connect to an OS X 10.1 Server to authenticate centrally. The 10.1 Server acted as a gateway which connected to Active Directory. No gateway, no authentication.
OS X 10.2 is not supposed to require and OS X Server for AD authentication, it's supposed to be able to talk to AD by itself. I think this is due to the addition of LDAPv3. Previous I think OS X only had LDAPv2.
I haven't had a chance to try it but I've had a look at the documentation. It *may* be possible to follow the instructions for configuring the AD and for configuring the client with only a minor modification. Instead of putting in the address of an OS X Server (one of the steps), you would put in the address of an Active Directory Domain Controller.
However other people have posted that they haven't been able to get it to work, even with the assistance of Apple engineers. Not good.
Yes, their treatment of OEMs was some of the clearest examples of bad behavior and wasn't related to confusing technical details so it's been easy for non-technical people to deal with it. I think there's little "weasel room" in this section and it should have a positive outcome for the public and specfically for people interested in the promotion of alternate OS's like Linux.
I'm disappointed that there's not more interoperability requirements and those that are there have lots of weasel room (security, DRM, 3rd party code, etc.).
I'm not reading closely but is there anything here to address the unfair advantage the different divisions have over competitors because of their insider knowledge of the OS? I'm thinking specifically of Office and Exchange. That was something the break-up ideas would have addressed (but not something that I thought was necessarily a good idea or even relevant to the specific charges).
I don't know about its status now but MAPI used to be a part of the OS. Windows 95 and Windows 98 (in a legacy capacity) included MAPI as an option for use with Schedule+ (calendaring program which was the predecessor to Outlook's calendaring component) which was bundled with the operating system.
I don't know if these agreements only deal with currently shipping versions of Windows or not. Even if they had to open up MAPI from back then, there have probably been updates since then that would break compatibility.
They're trying to give themselves cover against their opponents. An opponent tries to say "They want the U.S. government to to pay for research so little yellow people on the other side of the Earth can look at pornography!" The bill sponsors reply, "Not at all! In part (e) we specifically state that this is not what this research it for." Of course the fact is the intent of censorship is irrelevant to the methods of circumvention but you don't want to get into that, especially when the U.S. itself promotes such censorship internally.
I don't see how this would be an example of the U.S. flexing its muscles. Any country could do such research but the U.S. is practically the only one which is interested in actions.
You don't know what a regressive tax is. Thanks to j-beda for briefly explaining it. (you can often count on TidBITS regulars for reasonable explanations). That knowledge makes your post moot, except the jabs about "weird morals" and your assumptions about college students.
I'm long past being an undergrad. You might have noticed that people *work* at universities too. Well, some of us use email accounts at work.
Is it any surprise that there's a high sales tax and no income tax in one of the least educated states in the country? Sales taxes are regressive, a greater percentage of poor people's income goes to such taxes than rich people. There are a lot more poor people than rich people so someone is doing a good job of making them think that the state tax system is "fair."
Because you're reading this site, odds are you're better off than most and should be paying proportionally more than most.
It's never too early to start working on your manager to get bowling shirts for everyone in your group. Tell him it would be a morale booster, that it would be good for team building. Tell him that's what the boss did at your last job (leave out the part about your last job being at a bowling alley).
I don't think that comment is even true. I'm pretty sure when I set up my parent's Gateway this summer auto-updates was on. Also, when SP3 for Win2k is installed, it installs auto-update and enables it by default.
I don't have it in front of my but I think the options are along the lines of: don't check, don't check if there's no 'net connection active, check but don't download, check and download but don't intall, and check, download, install (j00 0\/\/nz m3!) Okay, I think I made up a couple of those options.
I don't even use the Control Panel to stop it, I go straight to the Services and Disable it, at least until I set up my own SUS server. Then I'll probably switch to the "do it all" option 'cause I'll still be in control of what gets installed (as much as you can be with a Microsoft product).
"I can't disagree with this one, and I certainly think the ADA should butt out of private business. "
Right on! Next thing you know, they'll be telling restaurants they have to let darkies sit in the Whites Only section.
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ADA requires reasonable accomodations. The only reason they're unreasonable for many people is because it puts on them the tremendous burden of thinking about others.
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Well I run my 17" crt at 16x12 so where does that leave me?;)
Walking around with a white cane and a can of pencils?;)
It's clear from a Google search "dell battery charger" that they've offered chargers for at least some models of Dell laptops. I gues you'd be helping yourself if you specified which Dell models you had.
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Yes, politicians should talk with executives of major companies because such companies shape our future at least as much as the government does so there should be a dialog there. *But* they should also equally talk to people who *truly* represent many citizens, union leaders, city school board members, Boy Scout troup leaders, SciFi fan club presidents, etc. regardless of contributions. You can claim those people do not truly represent their constituents (a charge often levied at union leaders) but that's an accusation of them being bad representatives, a charge which must be made on a case by case basis. Company executives, *by definition*, represent the company, not the company's employees; the two are symbiotic but independent and often have opposing goals. Even publicly traded company executives don't necesarily represent their stock holders but that's, in part, another example of being a bad representative.
And the issue here is the amount of access someone has being directly tied to how much money they give a politician. That is a bribe and even when politicians tell themselves they won't do anything in particular in return for the money, there will always be an undue amount of influence. There is also the opportunity cost of politicians not spending their time with constituents and others who deserve the time more.
Natalie Portman is your *2nd choice* after Ellen Feiss? Time to put Mr. Bong down now, young man, you've had enough. Why don't you go into the bathroom and make a "donation" to Mr. Sock?
Credit, ATM and Debit Cards: What to do if They're Lost or Stolen
I think it's also interesting that you have no liability if the number is stolen but not the card. Many credit card companies have been touting that as a feature of their service when in reality it's the law!
I use my debit card as a credit card because my bank instituted a 25 cent per transaction charge for whenever I use my card and PIN, including when I withdraw money from their ATM machines!
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Also, ASCIIMoviePlayer can play/show anything Quicktime can, including many graphics file formats and Flash.
BTW, if you run it over a remote ssh connection, the sound should not come out at the console since it's a separate session.
Yeah, when I read, "You can call me spam queen, I don't really care. As long as I'm not breaking any laws, you don't have to love me or like what I do for a living" I thought "she must be too ugly to be a stripper." Then I scrolled down.... GAH! The link to the article should have had a warning on it, like a goatse.cx link.
Looking at the graph categorizing the different types of spam, I can't even say what most of the spam I receive is about, about 50% is in a foreign language, almost always Korean.
I like the idea of combatting spam by sending back bogus bounce messages so the spammer thinks your address is invalid. It's not a complete solution but it could help get one's address out of some of the databases. Anyone know of software to do that? I'm interested in a perl script to pipe messages through for one account and either an Outlook extension or something which would work with IMAP for the other account.
neoprene sleeve?
This stuff varies between TW regions but around Rochester, NY AOL/TW advertises that you can choose different ISPs. I use RoadRunner so naturally it's on my cable bill and I don't know how the other ISPs handle the billing or who doles out the IPs. The other ISPs *do* handle the technical support so I'd say that's a strong argument for them being your ISP. Handing out IPs is one thing ISPs do but it's not the only thing.
Last year they also had everyone trade in their analog cable boxes for digital cable boxes (no change in fees related to that). Having a digital cable box doesn't mean you have their "digital cable" service, only that you *can* get digital services. If you have the Standard service, some of the channels are digital (you can tell by the MPEG artifacts). This page lists the available channels and what category they're in. I have Standard plus the HBO pack, which is a Digital Premium item.
AOL/TW's cable business is kind of run like a franchise so there can be substantial differences between regions when it comes to prices, channels and services both for cable and RoadRunner.
I think you're right, the iPod would not stand up to contact sports (wife making contact with the ground). These things definitely seem like a step up from the Sony device. I didn't see one on the Duex but the MuVo has a little loop so you can tie it to your coat zipper or something.
I was wondering the same thing about Mac compatibility. I think these USB flash key devices would use Apple's generic USB mass storage driver, just like a USB hard drive. They're probably FAT32 formatted but so what?
And guess what I just found you can do? You can highlight tracks in iTunes, drag them on to a folder (or drive icon) and Finder will *copy* them into the folder! At least it does in OS X (10.2). I bet it works in OS 9 too though. What an excellent way of loading it up, just make a playlist (or a smart playlist which picks 3 hours worth of random songs) and drag them in! Sure, it's only at USB speeds but 128MB still shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
What a shitty job, going through such logs. I can see some of the appeal, not for copyright nonsense but criminal acts like threatening people or vandalizing computer systems.
What if the student claims they forgot to logoff a public computer and it must have been someone who sat down after them?
Is it a public or private university? If private, they can do pretty much whatever they want. A public university could lose a court battle over something like this, depending on how much snooping was done. It may also depend on the state and what privacy-related laws it has. Actually, they probably wouldn't lose a case now, not with paranoia in this country up by an order of magnatude.
There's a lot of redundancy in the comments for this article but here's something I don't think anyone has mentioned.
Yes, that PDF was documentation for OS X 10.1. In 10.1 the clients had to connect to an OS X 10.1 Server to authenticate centrally. The 10.1 Server acted as a gateway which connected to Active Directory. No gateway, no authentication.
OS X 10.2 is not supposed to require and OS X Server for AD authentication, it's supposed to be able to talk to AD by itself. I think this is due to the addition of LDAPv3. Previous I think OS X only had LDAPv2.
I haven't had a chance to try it but I've had a look at the documentation. It *may* be possible to follow the instructions for configuring the AD and for configuring the client with only a minor modification. Instead of putting in the address of an OS X Server (one of the steps), you would put in the address of an Active Directory Domain Controller.
However other people have posted that they haven't been able to get it to work, even with the assistance of Apple engineers. Not good.
Yes, their treatment of OEMs was some of the clearest examples of bad behavior and wasn't related to confusing technical details so it's been easy for non-technical people to deal with it. I think there's little "weasel room" in this section and it should have a positive outcome for the public and specfically for people interested in the promotion of alternate OS's like Linux.
I'm disappointed that there's not more interoperability requirements and those that are there have lots of weasel room (security, DRM, 3rd party code, etc.).
I'm not reading closely but is there anything here to address the unfair advantage the different divisions have over competitors because of their insider knowledge of the OS? I'm thinking specifically of Office and Exchange. That was something the break-up ideas would have addressed (but not something that I thought was necessarily a good idea or even relevant to the specific charges).
I don't know about its status now but MAPI used to be a part of the OS. Windows 95 and Windows 98 (in a legacy capacity) included MAPI as an option for use with Schedule+ (calendaring program which was the predecessor to Outlook's calendaring component) which was bundled with the operating system.
I don't know if these agreements only deal with currently shipping versions of Windows or not. Even if they had to open up MAPI from back then, there have probably been updates since then that would break compatibility.
They're trying to give themselves cover against their opponents. An opponent tries to say "They want the U.S. government to to pay for research so little yellow people on the other side of the Earth can look at pornography!" The bill sponsors reply, "Not at all! In part (e) we specifically state that this is not what this research it for." Of course the fact is the intent of censorship is irrelevant to the methods of circumvention but you don't want to get into that, especially when the U.S. itself promotes such censorship internally.
I don't see how this would be an example of the U.S. flexing its muscles. Any country could do such research but the U.S. is practically the only one which is interested in actions.
You don't know what a regressive tax is. Thanks to j-beda for briefly explaining it. (you can often count on TidBITS regulars for reasonable explanations). That knowledge makes your post moot, except the jabs about "weird morals" and your assumptions about college students.
I'm long past being an undergrad. You might have noticed that people *work* at universities too. Well, some of us use email accounts at work.
Because you're reading this site, odds are you're better off than most and should be paying proportionally more than most.
Yes, that's FireWire. However they're probably 4pin vs. the 6pin ports the TiBook has. The difference? 6pin ports carry power, 4pin don't.
It's never too early to start working on your manager to get bowling shirts for everyone in your group. Tell him it would be a morale booster, that it would be good for team building. Tell him that's what the boss did at your last job (leave out the part about your last job being at a bowling alley).
I don't think that comment is even true. I'm pretty sure when I set up my parent's Gateway this summer auto-updates was on. Also, when SP3 for Win2k is installed, it installs auto-update and enables it by default.
I don't have it in front of my but I think the options are along the lines of: don't check, don't check if there's no 'net connection active, check but don't download, check and download but don't intall, and check, download, install (j00 0\/\/nz m3!) Okay, I think I made up a couple of those options.
I don't even use the Control Panel to stop it, I go straight to the Services and Disable it, at least until I set up my own SUS server. Then I'll probably switch to the "do it all" option 'cause I'll still be in control of what gets installed (as much as you can be with a Microsoft product).
Right on! Next thing you know, they'll be telling restaurants they have to let darkies sit in the Whites Only section. </sarcasm>
ADA requires reasonable accomodations. The only reason they're unreasonable for many people is because it puts on them the tremendous burden of thinking about others.
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