Something similar to your second example happened in my school's computer science/computer engineering department. Someone was refurbishing a computer lab, so they just piled all the old computers along a wall in a well-traveled area, and put up a sign that said 'free - please take'. Nobody actually carted off an entire PC, but all the parts inside were pretty much gone - most of them only had the case and the motherboard left.
I do a variation of 'step 1' and 'step 2'. My school provides personal web hosting space, so I've used it to put my portfolio of computer artwork and photography up, and I make sure my 'computer art' albums are pretty prominent on my Facebook page (which is set to very tight privacy standards anyway). All my whining and venting and stories of questionable exploits go on my personal blog, which is not under my real name, nor linked to anything using my real name.
In any case, google my real name, and you'll get mostly pages about a marine biologist, and if you add my hometown, a couple times I appeared in the local newspaper for such achievements as making 'swimmer of the month' on the YMCA swim team in middle school.
Not really, cause I think the entire fairy-princess wedding idea is sort of silly. My idea of a nice wedding involves minimal effort from me, and a dark-colored dress cause I don't look good in white, and I'll run away to city hall with my fiance if anyone tries to make me do anything more than pick out 2 or 3 songs and show up in my dress on the wedding day. But I agree, you do not want to be the person who screws up my wedding plans (or, more accurately, screws up my avoidance of making wedding plans).
The one thing nobody's suggested yet is other people who simply leave themselves logged on to public or shared computers - I've been on my sister's Facebook and IM, my dad's email and IM, and my roommate's facebook, IM, Google, Yahoo, email, and Youtube accounts from when her computer was broken and she asked to borrow mine, then left herself logged in (Of course, I only let them on the guest account, as my personal account has a password on it). Short of an April Fool's joke involving my sister's buddy icon, though, I didn't actually do anything, just looked around a bit...
I seem to remember the 'serial killers don't kill near their homes' thing being part of the plot in a Numb3rs episode a couple years back, but it wasn't in terms of bees. Granted, TV isn't an accurate representation of real life, but I don't think the writers came up with the idea entirely on their own.
"if girls don't want to study science them please, for the love of science, don't try to make them"
I totally agree with you. I'm a girl trying to get into a physics program and a forensic science program at my college (from the computer science department), but my three female roommates want to become a doctor, a lawyer, and a filmmaker. The girl who's studying law has no interest in math or science whatsoever, and the other two have some interest in it but more interest in their respective fields. And honestly, I don't see any problem with that. If girls are less interested in science than guys, I don't see a problem - they just have different interests. I mean, c'mon, where's the push to get guys into the fashion design program? "Oh, hey, you can tell the difference between peach and salmon - you're qualified!"
ANOTHER one? I liked the series a lot... but how may spin-offs and sequels is it possible to make from one movie? Or maybe I don't want to know the answer to that question...
I recently bought a Seagate FreeAgent drive to back up a few important files (which are also backed up on my flash drive and iPod) and provide more storage space for my music, movies, and games. I had to reformat it (and I deleted the prepackaged software cause it wouldn't have worked on my Mac anyways), but it's working just fine otherwise - definitely the best deal in the store. I had tried Western Digital, but their drive failed on me 6 months after it was bought, and a friend had a similar problem with hers. And I didn't find any stability issues either - but if you're really worried about that you can probably lay it on on its side.
Well, just type in "tv-links.co.uk" and then the name of the show you're looking for into google, and when the result pops up, click on "cached" and the pages appear to be functional (I can never get them to work on Safari in the first place).
http://stage6.divx.com/ is my personal favorite for shows that aren't currently airing or past seasons of current shows. Most major braodcast networks the current season's episodes on their websites, as well as recaps of previous seasons and a bunch of bonus stuff (NBC has been getting a bit into ARG's for Heroes if you're into that kind of stuff) and minimal commercials, and it tends to be up as promptly as any other content.
I watched Firefly for the first time on tv-links but my computer died in the middle of the ninth episode (Ariel) =( , and I also used it to watch Stargate SG-1 and check out other random interesting shows. About a week ago it stopped working properly so I switched over to stage6.
I agree with you - the violence in Halo isn't that much difference than the violence in, say, Star Wars Battlefront, which is rated T as well. The only major difference is an occasional mild swear word in Halo.
Also, what's the news in this? I remember going to dozens of church events where some kid randomly brought along an xbox and the latest version of Halo and persuaded one of the youth group leaders to hook it up to the video projector, and other huge (700-900 kids attending) inter-church events where a Halo tournament was one of the main attractions - heck, I was first introduced to the game at a church event - and I can't ever remember anyone's parents having a problem with it. This was despite the fact that the bad guys are religious zealots... though the Covenant echoes medieval European society as a whole far more closely than it resembles the church.
But how is playing Halo and shooting imaginary aliens with imaginary guns in church any worse than playing paintball and shooting your fellow youth group members with air guns and paint in church? It's just another fun violence-filled game I learned in youth group...
Quite honestly, this sounds a lot like a case I heard about a while ago about a girl in England named Lara Jade put her self-portrait up on the website deviantart.com and a porn company in Texas stole it to put on a DVD. The major differences are that the site Lara Jade posted the picture on specifies that the artists still hold the copyright for anything posted there, and the photo in question was a self-protrait so she definitely held all the rights.
Last year, a bunch of kids got letters from the RIAA demanding settlement, and they mostly just paid up cause they couldn't afford a lawyer. Anyways, now the RA's have to hand out little pamphlets about reasons not to illegally download (which mostly are 'your computer is gonna get a virus' and 'the RIAA will make you pay'). The disturbing thing is one particular anti-downloading flier mentioned that the letters sent the previous year were for alleged copyright violations.
Anyways, I have friends in IT who know how the people who download are caught at my school, so I can mostly avoid it. However, I'm too scared to torrent even legal material like open-source software, because I don't know if the people who give the info to the RIAA knows exactly what I'm torrenting, like an MMORPG (which wouldn't be within the RIAA's jurisdiction at all I believe) versus a huge collection of music, or if they do know what I'm torrenting, whether they would know that the specific MMORPG happened to be open-source and I do actually have the right to download and share that specific file to my heart's content.
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Something similar to your second example happened in my school's computer science/computer engineering department. Someone was refurbishing a computer lab, so they just piled all the old computers along a wall in a well-traveled area, and put up a sign that said 'free - please take'. Nobody actually carted off an entire PC, but all the parts inside were pretty much gone - most of them only had the case and the motherboard left.
I do a variation of 'step 1' and 'step 2'. My school provides personal web hosting space, so I've used it to put my portfolio of computer artwork and photography up, and I make sure my 'computer art' albums are pretty prominent on my Facebook page (which is set to very tight privacy standards anyway). All my whining and venting and stories of questionable exploits go on my personal blog, which is not under my real name, nor linked to anything using my real name. In any case, google my real name, and you'll get mostly pages about a marine biologist, and if you add my hometown, a couple times I appeared in the local newspaper for such achievements as making 'swimmer of the month' on the YMCA swim team in middle school.
Not really, cause I think the entire fairy-princess wedding idea is sort of silly. My idea of a nice wedding involves minimal effort from me, and a dark-colored dress cause I don't look good in white, and I'll run away to city hall with my fiance if anyone tries to make me do anything more than pick out 2 or 3 songs and show up in my dress on the wedding day. But I agree, you do not want to be the person who screws up my wedding plans (or, more accurately, screws up my avoidance of making wedding plans).
The one thing nobody's suggested yet is other people who simply leave themselves logged on to public or shared computers - I've been on my sister's Facebook and IM, my dad's email and IM, and my roommate's facebook, IM, Google, Yahoo, email, and Youtube accounts from when her computer was broken and she asked to borrow mine, then left herself logged in (Of course, I only let them on the guest account, as my personal account has a password on it). Short of an April Fool's joke involving my sister's buddy icon, though, I didn't actually do anything, just looked around a bit...
I seem to remember the 'serial killers don't kill near their homes' thing being part of the plot in a Numb3rs episode a couple years back, but it wasn't in terms of bees. Granted, TV isn't an accurate representation of real life, but I don't think the writers came up with the idea entirely on their own.
"if girls don't want to study science them please, for the love of science, don't try to make them" I totally agree with you. I'm a girl trying to get into a physics program and a forensic science program at my college (from the computer science department), but my three female roommates want to become a doctor, a lawyer, and a filmmaker. The girl who's studying law has no interest in math or science whatsoever, and the other two have some interest in it but more interest in their respective fields. And honestly, I don't see any problem with that. If girls are less interested in science than guys, I don't see a problem - they just have different interests. I mean, c'mon, where's the push to get guys into the fashion design program? "Oh, hey, you can tell the difference between peach and salmon - you're qualified!"
ANOTHER one? I liked the series a lot... but how may spin-offs and sequels is it possible to make from one movie? Or maybe I don't want to know the answer to that question...
I recently bought a Seagate FreeAgent drive to back up a few important files (which are also backed up on my flash drive and iPod) and provide more storage space for my music, movies, and games. I had to reformat it (and I deleted the prepackaged software cause it wouldn't have worked on my Mac anyways), but it's working just fine otherwise - definitely the best deal in the store. I had tried Western Digital, but their drive failed on me 6 months after it was bought, and a friend had a similar problem with hers. And I didn't find any stability issues either - but if you're really worried about that you can probably lay it on on its side.
Well, just type in "tv-links.co.uk" and then the name of the show you're looking for into google, and when the result pops up, click on "cached" and the pages appear to be functional (I can never get them to work on Safari in the first place).
http://stage6.divx.com/ is my personal favorite for shows that aren't currently airing or past seasons of current shows. Most major braodcast networks the current season's episodes on their websites, as well as recaps of previous seasons and a bunch of bonus stuff (NBC has been getting a bit into ARG's for Heroes if you're into that kind of stuff) and minimal commercials, and it tends to be up as promptly as any other content. I watched Firefly for the first time on tv-links but my computer died in the middle of the ninth episode (Ariel) =( , and I also used it to watch Stargate SG-1 and check out other random interesting shows. About a week ago it stopped working properly so I switched over to stage6.
I know, it was ridiculously bogged down on wednesday when I tried it, it worked better a few days later.
I agree with you - the violence in Halo isn't that much difference than the violence in, say, Star Wars Battlefront, which is rated T as well. The only major difference is an occasional mild swear word in Halo. Also, what's the news in this? I remember going to dozens of church events where some kid randomly brought along an xbox and the latest version of Halo and persuaded one of the youth group leaders to hook it up to the video projector, and other huge (700-900 kids attending) inter-church events where a Halo tournament was one of the main attractions - heck, I was first introduced to the game at a church event - and I can't ever remember anyone's parents having a problem with it. This was despite the fact that the bad guys are religious zealots... though the Covenant echoes medieval European society as a whole far more closely than it resembles the church. But how is playing Halo and shooting imaginary aliens with imaginary guns in church any worse than playing paintball and shooting your fellow youth group members with air guns and paint in church? It's just another fun violence-filled game I learned in youth group...
Quite honestly, this sounds a lot like a case I heard about a while ago about a girl in England named Lara Jade put her self-portrait up on the website deviantart.com and a porn company in Texas stole it to put on a DVD. The major differences are that the site Lara Jade posted the picture on specifies that the artists still hold the copyright for anything posted there, and the photo in question was a self-protrait so she definitely held all the rights.
Last year, a bunch of kids got letters from the RIAA demanding settlement, and they mostly just paid up cause they couldn't afford a lawyer. Anyways, now the RA's have to hand out little pamphlets about reasons not to illegally download (which mostly are 'your computer is gonna get a virus' and 'the RIAA will make you pay'). The disturbing thing is one particular anti-downloading flier mentioned that the letters sent the previous year were for alleged copyright violations. Anyways, I have friends in IT who know how the people who download are caught at my school, so I can mostly avoid it. However, I'm too scared to torrent even legal material like open-source software, because I don't know if the people who give the info to the RIAA knows exactly what I'm torrenting, like an MMORPG (which wouldn't be within the RIAA's jurisdiction at all I believe) versus a huge collection of music, or if they do know what I'm torrenting, whether they would know that the specific MMORPG happened to be open-source and I do actually have the right to download and share that specific file to my heart's content.