yeah I do that a lot- if there is a bunch of crap on a dvd that I buy I just re-author it without the extras and stupid ads and store it right next to the original dvd- that way I can just watch the movie if I want without all of the stuff (and it usually fits on a 4.75)and if I want to watch the extras I just use the regular dvd-
he should not step down, but he should not be able to preside over a case that is over his head- the problem is that we have legislators and judges and politicians and police officers that do not understand the laws that they are making or the laws that they are enforcing (and btw I am a geek that works in the legal industry)the fact of the matter is that having a judge like this is a waste of taxpayers money since the trial if it ends in favor of the prosecution should by all means be able to be overturned and revisited- making everyone waste time and $- and if this was a criminal case the reparations for time served will have to be rendered if the person served time awaiting trial and has the ability to sue the courts(at least in the US- I don't know about the UK). there needs to be a better pairing of the legal system in terms of science and technology where only those qualified can rule or legislate on the subject because we that prepare the cases HAVE to be qualified.
I get my beans from an old man that roast his own for a cafe that he owns about a block from me once a week(the best beans I have ever had darkest french roast I have had- near black beans very fresh and moist with oils) I grind them myself (extremely fine grind- approx a turkish grind) and use a drip cone for a single 20 oz cup with water that is not less than boiling (heated back to boiling between pours). takes about 15-20 minutes in the morning, makes for very strong flavorful coffee.
first let me state my occupation: I do metadata extraction and decryption of e-mails and decypher raw server dumps of corporate e-mail servers for clients involved in civil litigation as well as accounting and creating databases of the e-mails and native files from custodians' personal computers. A bit of forensics and a bit of litigation work.
Being familiar with this- so long as the e-mails were using an exchange server (I have seen examples they were outlook e-mails) it is impossible for any of these e-mails to go missing unless their server had no backup system or the backup system was DOD compliant wiped (3X assembly overwrite) regularly which would be really stupid since just to clean the backups the backup system would have to go down for days at a time to DOD wipe them, in fact it is pretty standard for most e-mail systems to have incrimental backups to either tape or removable storage in case of a server crash. If the ppl in the gov't weren't so techno-dumb they would know this- or even if they have read the federal standards on electronic discovery they would know that in ANY court case you can request all non-privileged electronic materials (they would go to a company like ours for third party review to remove confidentiality and establish custody) for the case- they cannot refuse these.
I have to say that years ago I wrote a little vb app as a joke for april fools day that said that it was deleting windows froze up your pc and showed a fake bluescreen of death until the user did a ctrl+Q (it didn't tell you that though) and dropped it on the desktop of 5 ppl at work (at a place that I was doing IT)- the app was called "virus.worm.exe" all 5 of them tried to open the file when they saw it there and called me to fix their pc's.
so I have to say that I am surprised so few clicked through the link.
seriously a waste of time and $- though I have to say- nearly every light has a purpose- when something is on, the light is on when it is off- the light is off it is an easy concept- if you want the light off- don't keep the device on or get used to it
where in the bill of rights or the constitution does it say that all citizens have the "right to be free of terrorism" and doesn't that make the south guilty of violating civil rights... if you followed a little thing called the US civil war. Terrorism is a tactic- it is an adjective, not a noun.
In this country we do not have the right to be free of terrorism or any other violent act- we should act on our best accord to prevent and prepare for events such as this whenever possible so long as this prevention falls within the bounds of the constitution and bill of rights.
there is no war on terror.
a war on terror cannot be won.
terror is not a people or an ideology or a country.
terror is a tactic.
oh yeah btw: troop is plural I hate that one too- EG: 5 troops were killed in iraq - makes no sense
don't the board of directors hold something like 66% of the shares though? that means that holding a vote is a moot point because the 2 people that hold the majority of the votes and no matter what a shareholder says, they will just do what they want
I agree that just giving a laptop won't help- but computer access as key- when I was a kid we had a pilot program when I was in the 6th grade where we were all put in a computer lab once a week and were taught to program in logo and basic, afterwards I went to crappy inner city schools and never touched a machine- the thing is that as an adult that 1 year of training really drilled the logic into me and when I got back on a machine 7 years or so later when I was 18-19 yrs old I really understood in a gut level what was going on in the machines and picking programming up was a breeze. If I would've had deeper instruction- who knows where I would have been or how much of a head start I would've had. The fact of the matter is that what we had was someone coming in who knew what they were doing and sat and taught us the basics on up of what to do.
No, giving the kids a laptop and saying "go look up hippos on wikipedia" is not going to improve their education, and teachers need to know what the hell they are doing to instruct students on the computer otherwise you are putting the cart before the horse, but if we do want to have competitive adults in the future- we need to grow them when they are kids or we will have a bunch of people in business as we have to deal with now who are bogging IT with problems like, "I deleted the shortcut to Excel on the desktop- how do I get it back?" or "all I did was run this nimda32.exe what is wrong with my machine?"(I actually had someone ask me that once)
I am an artist, musician and animator. I have worked doing these as well as teaching at a university and as application programmer over the last 15 years. I am in favor of file sharing- it makes sense on the individual scale- but not to those on the corporate scale, but those of us who don't own a multi-million (or billion)dollar corporation that depends on "speculative funds" and projected earnings to gain investment dollars, we see a leg up on distribution and grass roots support for our endeavors.
my point being... buying an apple is buying 1 machine- built with 1 spec- when apple went intel I had a slew of jobs-freak friends that went crazy saying that a change in architecture was insane and that it was ruining apple whereas both windows and linux builds have had to deal with hardware compatibility for years with varying degrees of success but for the better part on the positive end- If apple are such "innovators" it wouldn't be a far cry to use another x86 compatible chip and maybe, just maybe it would force them out of the proprietary hell that is Macintosh- though in the end they would probably discontinue any support for AMD and yet again keep themselves in proprietary hell.
personally I have never been a huge fan of AMD chips so either way it doesn't matter, consumerwise- AMDs would just go off the market for non-mac users.
oh no, does that mean that you would have *gasp* more than one kind of motherboard supporting apple- it would be the power pc fiasco all over again with people building and modding macs with regularity- oh my god then apple couldn't control it's users anymore.
the AMD merger is a bad idea though- you might end up with iProcess or some stupid name for the new CPUs- and they would magnetically stick to the motherboard or look like an egg or some other retarded thing like that.
actually a better way of doing it would be to create pressure turbines from the weight of the car - like the dynamo squeeze lights- the weight of the cars traveling on a road would definitely be free power since the force is generated by gravity (normal force) and not a force moving against it- using gravity is like using solar power- it is something that is always there
speaking as an independent recording artist people need to stop stealing money from artists doing what they love... by people I mean the RIAA- the fact of the matter is that if I put something out as an independent release on my own- or through a non- affiliated label NO person or organization has the right to claim any hands on that material except those holding the rights- (either me or the non-affiliated label).
the way that I see it is that if bobby-X in bum-fuck-nowhere can't get my music due to either unavailability or lack of funds downloads my music OR listens to it on internet radio- fine- it is promotion, it is good for me- I don't hold my music ransom.
The fact of the matter is that I get a lot of internet radio airplay and the RIAA has no right to take that away- they may have made a pact to own some artists- but they do not own me or music in general and I would like to keep it that way.
the funny thing is that the universities are going about this all the wrong way- politically they can totally swing this-
A. don't keep logs
B. get sued
C. get press attention
D. get pro bono representation
E. blame the current administration and the RIAA/MPAA for "damaging" the university with bloated copyright rulings as hindering higher education
F. find a candidate that will support your position and create a soapbox and support him while courting national press
G. once there is a sympathetic ear in the legislature propose funding for tech advancement funding for your university
if there is one thing that you can learn from the bush administration it is that blaming people goes a long way, no matter how bad they act limping and crying a little seems to get people's ear- if a university could pull this off they would gain national attention attracting more students and gain funding to support those students as well as being able to expand the computer science department which would make them a "model school for the future"
no- actually recently I downloaded ubuntu over bittorrent with a pretty decent speed recently (20 min or so)at home on a 3mbps line vs. the 3 hrs it took over a t3 at work that only me and 4 other ppl use due to the flooding on their server
you obviously don't work in the business world- w/o the ability to hook to an exchange server and view OLE embedded docs the iphone is completely useless for business use- esp. in a secure environment where you cannot allow a web interface for document transfer- such as the legal field in which I work
"since there's the likelihood that the contract the wireless point owner signs with their ISP may actually prohibit any sort of sharing, period"
actually this may be in new contracts- but there was a court case over this a little while ago here that sbc lost over the "wi-fi project" where people were combining their bandwidth and sharing it over an area.
"just like people try to excuse stealing music with the "information wants to be free" line "
this is the line of thinking that I don't like- I think that copyright laws need to be way relaxed, and downloading music is not "stealing" because you are not depriving the artist of the product- only the potential sales figures that are completely theoretical, and have no basis in fact.... I mean with this line of thinking you could say that negative reviewing a product is "stealing" for the same reason- and before you get up in arms about the "what about the artist" argument I am a published independent label artist. I look at the downloads as promotion- and it tends to be effective promotion for independents like myself- esp. since fans buy the album after downloading it purely to support the artists- most esp. since as indie artists we don't bloat the album prices and get jacked by the major labels.
sorry- but we have NUMEROUS free WAPs everywhere in the city- and I am not talking about just for a business or a listed public access point- they are literally everywhere and the mayor wants to assure them everywhere where they are not- when you put your network in that mix w/no protection people are going to walk in it will happen- and if you leave your router open with no protection at all you are asking for it- rather than blaming someone who accesses it people should spend more time being proactive and educating people when they buy a wireless router
you obviously don't live in my neihborhood- there is a free open wireless access point here- but if I open my laptop and connect wirelessly there are about 20 unsecured networks that show upall named 2wireXXX some are actually left open by the surrounding businesses- one is the public library and one is a free access point- I don't know which is which- if the access point is open it is open. end of story. I won't ride the WEP ones even though I can crack it- but not protecting it isn't like leaving your door unlocked- it is like leaving your door open and putting out flyers that there is a party at your house and being pissed when you come home and ppl are kicking it on your couch. personally that is why I still run my network hardwired- it can be more of a pain in the ass sometimes but there is just 1 entry point in and out
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yeah I do that a lot- if there is a bunch of crap on a dvd that I buy I just re-author it without the extras and stupid ads and store it right next to the original dvd- that way I can just watch the movie if I want without all of the stuff (and it usually fits on a 4.75)and if I want to watch the extras I just use the regular dvd-
he should not step down, but he should not be able to preside over a case that is over his head- the problem is that we have legislators and judges and politicians and police officers that do not understand the laws that they are making or the laws that they are enforcing (and btw I am a geek that works in the legal industry)the fact of the matter is that having a judge like this is a waste of taxpayers money since the trial if it ends in favor of the prosecution should by all means be able to be overturned and revisited- making everyone waste time and $- and if this was a criminal case the reparations for time served will have to be rendered if the person served time awaiting trial and has the ability to sue the courts(at least in the US- I don't know about the UK). there needs to be a better pairing of the legal system in terms of science and technology where only those qualified can rule or legislate on the subject because we that prepare the cases HAVE to be qualified.
I get my beans from an old man that roast his own for a cafe that he owns about a block from me once a week(the best beans I have ever had darkest french roast I have had- near black beans very fresh and moist with oils) I grind them myself (extremely fine grind- approx a turkish grind) and use a drip cone for a single 20 oz cup with water that is not less than boiling (heated back to boiling between pours). takes about 15-20 minutes in the morning, makes for very strong flavorful coffee.
first let me state my occupation: I do metadata extraction and decryption of e-mails and decypher raw server dumps of corporate e-mail servers for clients involved in civil litigation as well as accounting and creating databases of the e-mails and native files from custodians' personal computers. A bit of forensics and a bit of litigation work. Being familiar with this- so long as the e-mails were using an exchange server (I have seen examples they were outlook e-mails) it is impossible for any of these e-mails to go missing unless their server had no backup system or the backup system was DOD compliant wiped (3X assembly overwrite) regularly which would be really stupid since just to clean the backups the backup system would have to go down for days at a time to DOD wipe them, in fact it is pretty standard for most e-mail systems to have incrimental backups to either tape or removable storage in case of a server crash. If the ppl in the gov't weren't so techno-dumb they would know this- or even if they have read the federal standards on electronic discovery they would know that in ANY court case you can request all non-privileged electronic materials (they would go to a company like ours for third party review to remove confidentiality and establish custody) for the case- they cannot refuse these.
I have to say that years ago I wrote a little vb app as a joke for april fools day that said that it was deleting windows froze up your pc and showed a fake bluescreen of death until the user did a ctrl+Q (it didn't tell you that though) and dropped it on the desktop of 5 ppl at work (at a place that I was doing IT)- the app was called "virus.worm.exe" all 5 of them tried to open the file when they saw it there and called me to fix their pc's. so I have to say that I am surprised so few clicked through the link.
seriously a waste of time and $- though I have to say- nearly every light has a purpose- when something is on, the light is on when it is off- the light is off it is an easy concept- if you want the light off- don't keep the device on or get used to it
where in the bill of rights or the constitution does it say that all citizens have the "right to be free of terrorism" and doesn't that make the south guilty of violating civil rights... if you followed a little thing called the US civil war. Terrorism is a tactic- it is an adjective, not a noun. In this country we do not have the right to be free of terrorism or any other violent act- we should act on our best accord to prevent and prepare for events such as this whenever possible so long as this prevention falls within the bounds of the constitution and bill of rights. there is no war on terror. a war on terror cannot be won. terror is not a people or an ideology or a country. terror is a tactic. oh yeah btw: troop is plural I hate that one too- EG: 5 troops were killed in iraq - makes no sense
don't the board of directors hold something like 66% of the shares though? that means that holding a vote is a moot point because the 2 people that hold the majority of the votes and no matter what a shareholder says, they will just do what they want
haha I can just see the house with the badly painted wooden sign with the backwards letters "child mole-ester houze"....
I agree that just giving a laptop won't help- but computer access as key- when I was a kid we had a pilot program when I was in the 6th grade where we were all put in a computer lab once a week and were taught to program in logo and basic, afterwards I went to crappy inner city schools and never touched a machine- the thing is that as an adult that 1 year of training really drilled the logic into me and when I got back on a machine 7 years or so later when I was 18-19 yrs old I really understood in a gut level what was going on in the machines and picking programming up was a breeze. If I would've had deeper instruction- who knows where I would have been or how much of a head start I would've had. The fact of the matter is that what we had was someone coming in who knew what they were doing and sat and taught us the basics on up of what to do. No, giving the kids a laptop and saying "go look up hippos on wikipedia" is not going to improve their education, and teachers need to know what the hell they are doing to instruct students on the computer otherwise you are putting the cart before the horse, but if we do want to have competitive adults in the future- we need to grow them when they are kids or we will have a bunch of people in business as we have to deal with now who are bogging IT with problems like, "I deleted the shortcut to Excel on the desktop- how do I get it back?" or "all I did was run this nimda32.exe what is wrong with my machine?"(I actually had someone ask me that once)
I am an artist, musician and animator. I have worked doing these as well as teaching at a university and as application programmer over the last 15 years. I am in favor of file sharing- it makes sense on the individual scale- but not to those on the corporate scale, but those of us who don't own a multi-million (or billion)dollar corporation that depends on "speculative funds" and projected earnings to gain investment dollars, we see a leg up on distribution and grass roots support for our endeavors.
windows and linux are not motherboards- apple is apple AIO (motherboard, cpu, os) and no variance is tolerated-
my point being... buying an apple is buying 1 machine- built with 1 spec- when apple went intel I had a slew of jobs-freak friends that went crazy saying that a change in architecture was insane and that it was ruining apple whereas both windows and linux builds have had to deal with hardware compatibility for years with varying degrees of success but for the better part on the positive end- If apple are such "innovators" it wouldn't be a far cry to use another x86 compatible chip and maybe, just maybe it would force them out of the proprietary hell that is Macintosh- though in the end they would probably discontinue any support for AMD and yet again keep themselves in proprietary hell. personally I have never been a huge fan of AMD chips so either way it doesn't matter, consumerwise- AMDs would just go off the market for non-mac users.
oh no, does that mean that you would have *gasp* more than one kind of motherboard supporting apple- it would be the power pc fiasco all over again with people building and modding macs with regularity- oh my god then apple couldn't control it's users anymore. the AMD merger is a bad idea though- you might end up with iProcess or some stupid name for the new CPUs- and they would magnetically stick to the motherboard or look like an egg or some other retarded thing like that.
actually a better way of doing it would be to create pressure turbines from the weight of the car - like the dynamo squeeze lights- the weight of the cars traveling on a road would definitely be free power since the force is generated by gravity (normal force) and not a force moving against it- using gravity is like using solar power- it is something that is always there
speaking as an independent recording artist people need to stop stealing money from artists doing what they love... by people I mean the RIAA- the fact of the matter is that if I put something out as an independent release on my own- or through a non- affiliated label NO person or organization has the right to claim any hands on that material except those holding the rights- (either me or the non-affiliated label). the way that I see it is that if bobby-X in bum-fuck-nowhere can't get my music due to either unavailability or lack of funds downloads my music OR listens to it on internet radio- fine- it is promotion, it is good for me- I don't hold my music ransom. The fact of the matter is that I get a lot of internet radio airplay and the RIAA has no right to take that away- they may have made a pact to own some artists- but they do not own me or music in general and I would like to keep it that way.
there's no way that anyone could know that I was looking @ animal porn or when http://www.beastialityrulez.com/cgi-bin/animalporn ?time=04242007_0500
the funny thing is that the universities are going about this all the wrong way- politically they can totally swing this- A. don't keep logs B. get sued C. get press attention D. get pro bono representation E. blame the current administration and the RIAA/MPAA for "damaging" the university with bloated copyright rulings as hindering higher education F. find a candidate that will support your position and create a soapbox and support him while courting national press G. once there is a sympathetic ear in the legislature propose funding for tech advancement funding for your university if there is one thing that you can learn from the bush administration it is that blaming people goes a long way, no matter how bad they act limping and crying a little seems to get people's ear- if a university could pull this off they would gain national attention attracting more students and gain funding to support those students as well as being able to expand the computer science department which would make them a "model school for the future"
no- actually recently I downloaded ubuntu over bittorrent with a pretty decent speed recently (20 min or so)at home on a 3mbps line vs. the 3 hrs it took over a t3 at work that only me and 4 other ppl use due to the flooding on their server
what if I am a musician and I have mp3 rips of my own music? mp3 is priviliged... it is personal data
you obviously don't work in the business world- w/o the ability to hook to an exchange server and view OLE embedded docs the iphone is completely useless for business use- esp. in a secure environment where you cannot allow a web interface for document transfer- such as the legal field in which I work
actually if it was up to date IE would block the popups....any underage kid would know that
"since there's the likelihood that the contract the wireless point owner signs with their ISP may actually prohibit any sort of sharing, period" actually this may be in new contracts- but there was a court case over this a little while ago here that sbc lost over the "wi-fi project" where people were combining their bandwidth and sharing it over an area. "just like people try to excuse stealing music with the "information wants to be free" line " this is the line of thinking that I don't like- I think that copyright laws need to be way relaxed, and downloading music is not "stealing" because you are not depriving the artist of the product- only the potential sales figures that are completely theoretical, and have no basis in fact.... I mean with this line of thinking you could say that negative reviewing a product is "stealing" for the same reason- and before you get up in arms about the "what about the artist" argument I am a published independent label artist. I look at the downloads as promotion- and it tends to be effective promotion for independents like myself- esp. since fans buy the album after downloading it purely to support the artists- most esp. since as indie artists we don't bloat the album prices and get jacked by the major labels.
sorry- but we have NUMEROUS free WAPs everywhere in the city- and I am not talking about just for a business or a listed public access point- they are literally everywhere and the mayor wants to assure them everywhere where they are not- when you put your network in that mix w/no protection people are going to walk in it will happen- and if you leave your router open with no protection at all you are asking for it- rather than blaming someone who accesses it people should spend more time being proactive and educating people when they buy a wireless router
you obviously don't live in my neihborhood- there is a free open wireless access point here- but if I open my laptop and connect wirelessly there are about 20 unsecured networks that show upall named 2wireXXX some are actually left open by the surrounding businesses- one is the public library and one is a free access point- I don't know which is which- if the access point is open it is open. end of story. I won't ride the WEP ones even though I can crack it- but not protecting it isn't like leaving your door unlocked- it is like leaving your door open and putting out flyers that there is a party at your house and being pissed when you come home and ppl are kicking it on your couch. personally that is why I still run my network hardwired- it can be more of a pain in the ass sometimes but there is just 1 entry point in and out