They cannot enter your house unless the electrical meter is located inside your house.
The power company owns everything up to the meter, beyond that it belongs to the owners. They are permitted to enter your property lines to service up till that point (including checking the meter).
The stupid part however is that large scale urban growers generally steal power, there have been instances where some have tapped directly into the grid lines and bypass the meter. This will usually result in the power company noticing something amiss when the total amount of billed power for the residents is far less then the amount of power that had been supplied to the area.
These people are usually candidates for darwin awards as there are no safeguards in place (assuming they did not explode when they tried to steal the power in the first place...
It doesn't, no matter what they say (but you may have to force the issue in a court of law...)
Changing the OS and software only voids your support with Dell, changing the OS does not, if your screen explodes, (yes I know there are ways drivers can foul up hardware, but its rare), that has little to do with the OS, and in dells case, when you send your laptop in for warranty service, you take out your hard drive before sending it in. Thats what I did. There is no way for them to know what OS your running at that point.
The encryption in use is better then what most of the banks are using, hell, better then most of the online tax preparing sites, so the information itself is secure.
As for the other complaints form other users, the information being requested is no different then the info you are required to fill out while on the flight to the US.
Seriously... its people like you that give everyone else a bad name... if you have something constructive to add (yes his address and such might be useful for a reasonable campaign, if it is indeed the correct address and your not just an asshat trying to fuck with someone else...) great, but then you wish arson on the guy, it makes anything you just said totally invalid,.
The leads us back to a story earlier about the attempts to broadcast the RIAA trial coming up (ongoing??). I do not remember the details, but the basics is that the RIAA claims that they want to educate consumers, while at the same time a group of lawyers for the defendants wants to broadcast the trial and the RIAA is trying to stop them. The defendants lawyers are claiming that broadcasting the trial would be education on the legalities of downloading music...
Remote monitoring of your students will run afoul of privacy laws, school furnished equipment or not.
When used during school hours, on school network resources, then you are permitted to monitor them to a point. Monitoring them at the local system level is a bad idea, it would be better to monitor the students at the network level.
While the OP is providing the equipment, if they are permitting the equipment to be taken home, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, it is up to the parents, not the school system to make sure the student is using it for its intended purpose.
There is nothing wrong with chat networks, there is nothing wrong with games, there is nothing wrong with social networks... except during school hours when the students should be working on school related activities.
I could go on, but I think the point is made, and honestly, while I applaud the school systems efforts to provide a laptop for everyone.. I believe its a waste of money that could be better used elsewhere. Computers are also a distraction in my opinion to the students, school should have a technology class, but in general, books should be used in classes, reading and writing are core skills that seem to be getting lost in the US. There is no need to a computer in the classroom at all times...
Movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars and massages would be taxed under Paterson's proposal. It also extends sales taxes to cable and satellite TV services and removes the tax exemption for clothes costing less than $110...reinstating the sales tax on clothing and shoes will drive people to New Jersey, where they will also gas up their cars and pick up their wine, spirits and soda because the prices are less due to lower taxes.
Seriously.. taxing clothes under $110..... First off, I think they should tax the hell out of anyone who wants to spend $100 or more per item (obviously some larger items can be excluded) but don't tax the guy spending $20 on a pair of jeans from walmart. Tax those who can afford the 100+ pair of jeans...
And as for TV.. well, I know its not a necessity, but it does keep people occupied, and we are already unfee fee'd to death there, adding another tax, well then they better start making the cable/sat companies remove some of those unfee's that they have been milking for years.....
Or even better, the gov should make those unfee fee's actual gov taxers and use that money, the telco's/cable/sat/cell providers are not actually using the money for anything that they are supposed to (that $1 charge for number portability that was supposed to be temporary and go away after they recouped their costs to implement the infrastructure.... has long long since been done, and now the money is basically profit...)..
I never knew about this series... I may actually have to get it (or atleast rent it).. I am curious now.. I imagine it will be horrendous... but hey its just TV.. maybe a bad TV series night and make a drinking game out of it...
This sends the message to the rest of the world that the US may not pay its debt to them if they do something the US does not like.... That would be a bad precedent, as we would soon find ourselves very isolated when it comes to finance and commerce...
Will change its crappy policies once the Android app store, and hell, even the blackberry app like store becomes more popular, and developers just stop making apps for the iphone because all the red tape and apples tendency to yank anything actually useful.
The markup on the iphone is not huge or ridiculous (okay maybe the markup is compared to manufacturing costs...) But still, look at the cost of many unlocked phones, my old basic sony ericcson z600 which was a basic flip candy bar style phone cost me almost $400, my imate jam cost me almost $600.
Unfortunately, I suspect the markup on those phones was pretty high as well, buying the Nokia 9000 series communicator smartphone, that was around $800 direct from nokias website.
Phones are expensive when you buy them aftermarket and unlocked. Whether that cost has been artificially inflated based on colusion between manufacturers or not is another story.
I have a dell Vostro that is affected, and the warranty ran out at the end of last month.. The BIOS update only changed the way the fans run. Previously they would run at whatever speed was needed at the time to cool the laptop, now, they run at full speed regardless. To me, that is not much of a fix, my laptop still runs incredibly hot, to the point I suspect it will fail soon.
I am hoping for a recall, but I doubt that will happen, it is the only true way to resolve the problem, but it would be costly, and I am guessing that the cost to replace all the faulty units would exceed the bad press and the cost to replace those few units that certain people will make a huge stink about and get replaced, the rest of the people will probably just go out and purchase a new laptop.... Thats my guess anyways.
voluntarily, is because they are trying to head off government regulation of private data.
But people are right, it will probably be buried inside the TOS, which makes for an interesting dilemma, since requiring explicit permission to use the data would allow you to say yes or no without affecting your service, but if you say no to the TOS because the clause is in there, you can be denied service....
They have alot of liquid cooling stuff, which I am not sure the OP is interested in, but there is where I picked up my power supply and case for my SLI rig.
I disagree slightly, while yes their should be a legalese version which is the default, the EULA is an end user license agreement, not a end user lawyer agreement.
It is there specifically for the end user to understand his and her rights with regards to the software the user purchased. Unless software manufacturers expect us all to retain lawyers to purchase our software and products for us, the EULA should be in plain, easily readable to any high school student English (that last bit brings up other issues on the quality of the education system but thats an argument for another day)
I am going to disagree with you on this, and I am by no means an apple fanboi. OSX, I actually like it, its polished, and works well (atleast on my dell laptop), but on the other hand their hardware is way over priced and I would never buy an apple computer.
I personally am from a freebsd/openbsd environment, I in general do not like MS products, but I will tell you that I have had pocketpc phones up till I picked up my iphone (last week, no line, no wait.. while I like the product, I was not willing to stand in line to buy it, for that matter I will never wait in a line to buy anything, I will wait till a later date to make a purchase of an item that is in high demand at the initial stages).
Yes the apple fanbois are annoying, and your probably right that they kept the company afloat during its leaner times, but the products they release are not all crap. Their policy of silencing the critics though, and pulling posts complaining about products is just plain stupid and lame in my opinion as well.
I guess what it comes down to, Apple is good at form and design, and testing seems to come as an after though. While I can blame them for using a shitty chipset in the iphone, my experience with ATT would have lead me to believe that if I was an apple engineer that the phone is fine and ATT just sucks. I am not sure if they tested the phone in other countries, but I bet if they had, they would have caught onto the problem much earlier and resolved it.
To be fair.. red light cameras are not unreasonable. Well thats not completely true, they are not unreasonable when they are used as safety devices, which is what the original design was for. However it is unreasonable to use traffic safety devices as a means of revenue generation, which they do all over the world.
No, its not, its ATT protecting its revenue stream b y charging an insane (I believe it is $80 per month for the laptop connect plans), at which point ATT does not care whether or not you use a pc express card or a phone or usb dongle to use your laptop.
It has nothing to do with being lazy, if it was a cross country rider.. then sure its being lazy, but for downhill runs (we are talking 10+ miles of all downhill, it would not be possible to ride a 40 pound + bike up those trails, and even more of a factor is the terrain of a downhill or free ride run, which has drops of up to 10f, or maybe more, large rocks, ramps for jumps and such, these are 1 way trails, and riding up them would be time consuming and dangerous to other riders coming down at a high rate of speed.
Oh, and as for getting attached to what they want.. for something thats maybe a few hundred USD to a few thousand, looks may be immaterial, but when you start hitting the 10k+ mark, you want everything to be the way you want it....
I like the look of the FX35, I happen to not like the looks of almost all station weapons, except for the occasional one... say the s4 avante by Audi.. but that has a giant V8 and is also $50k and up:)
No Therapy needed, and oddly enough, in general, I do not find most SUV's attractive at all, which is why we never considered any of those, I really do not like giant boxy shapes, that goes for minivans and cars too, I like flowing curves, and some creature comforts in the car... well okay I am a geek and I like the geeky things in cars...:)
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They cannot enter your house unless the electrical meter is located inside your house.
The power company owns everything up to the meter, beyond that it belongs to the owners. They are permitted to enter your property lines to service up till that point (including checking the meter).
The stupid part however is that large scale urban growers generally steal power, there have been instances where some have tapped directly into the grid lines and bypass the meter. This will usually result in the power company noticing something amiss when the total amount of billed power for the residents is far less then the amount of power that had been supplied to the area.
These people are usually candidates for darwin awards as there are no safeguards in place (assuming they did not explode when they tried to steal the power in the first place...
It doesn't, no matter what they say (but you may have to force the issue in a court of law...)
Changing the OS and software only voids your support with Dell, changing the OS does not, if your screen explodes, (yes I know there are ways drivers can foul up hardware, but its rare), that has little to do with the OS, and in dells case, when you send your laptop in for warranty service, you take out your hard drive before sending it in. Thats what I did. There is no way for them to know what OS your running at that point.
The encryption in use is better then what most of the banks are using, hell, better then most of the online tax preparing sites, so the information itself is secure.
As for the other complaints form other users, the information being requested is no different then the info you are required to fill out while on the flight to the US.
Seriously... its people like you that give everyone else a bad name... if you have something constructive to add (yes his address and such might be useful for a reasonable campaign, if it is indeed the correct address and your not just an asshat trying to fuck with someone else...) great, but then you wish arson on the guy, it makes anything you just said totally invalid,.
The leads us back to a story earlier about the attempts to broadcast the RIAA trial coming up (ongoing??). I do not remember the details, but the basics is that the RIAA claims that they want to educate consumers, while at the same time a group of lawyers for the defendants wants to broadcast the trial and the RIAA is trying to stop them. The defendants lawyers are claiming that broadcasting the trial would be education on the legalities of downloading music...
Sort of a catch 22 there...
Remote monitoring of your students will run afoul of privacy laws, school furnished equipment or not.
When used during school hours, on school network resources, then you are permitted to monitor them to a point. Monitoring them at the local system level is a bad idea, it would be better to monitor the students at the network level.
While the OP is providing the equipment, if they are permitting the equipment to be taken home, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, it is up to the parents, not the school system to make sure the student is using it for its intended purpose.
There is nothing wrong with chat networks, there is nothing wrong with games, there is nothing wrong with social networks... except during school hours when the students should be working on school related activities.
I could go on, but I think the point is made, and honestly, while I applaud the school systems efforts to provide a laptop for everyone.. I believe its a waste of money that could be better used elsewhere. Computers are also a distraction in my opinion to the students, school should have a technology class, but in general, books should be used in classes, reading and writing are core skills that seem to be getting lost in the US. There is no need to a computer in the classroom at all times...
Movie tickets, taxi rides, soda, beer, wine, cigars and massages would be taxed under Paterson's proposal. It also extends sales taxes to cable and satellite TV services and removes the tax exemption for clothes costing less than $110...reinstating the sales tax on clothing and shoes will drive people to New Jersey, where they will also gas up their cars and pick up their wine, spirits and soda because the prices are less due to lower taxes.
Seriously.. taxing clothes under $110..... First off, I think they should tax the hell out of anyone who wants to spend $100 or more per item (obviously some larger items can be excluded) but don't tax the guy spending $20 on a pair of jeans from walmart. Tax those who can afford the 100+ pair of jeans...
And as for TV.. well, I know its not a necessity, but it does keep people occupied, and we are already unfee fee'd to death there, adding another tax, well then they better start making the cable/sat companies remove some of those unfee's that they have been milking for years.....
Or even better, the gov should make those unfee fee's actual gov taxers and use that money, the telco's/cable/sat/cell providers are not actually using the money for anything that they are supposed to (that $1 charge for number portability that was supposed to be temporary and go away after they recouped their costs to implement the infrastructure.... has long long since been done, and now the money is basically profit...)..
I never knew about this series... I may actually have to get it (or atleast rent it).. I am curious now.. I imagine it will be horrendous... but hey its just TV.. maybe a bad TV series night and make a drinking game out of it...
because most of the attacks do not come directly from them, they come via proxies from infected systems the world wide....
This sends the message to the rest of the world that the US may not pay its debt to them if they do something the US does not like.... That would be a bad precedent, as we would soon find ourselves very isolated when it comes to finance and commerce...
Will change its crappy policies once the Android app store, and hell, even the blackberry app like store becomes more popular, and developers just stop making apps for the iphone because all the red tape and apples tendency to yank anything actually useful.
The markup on the iphone is not huge or ridiculous (okay maybe the markup is compared to manufacturing costs...) But still, look at the cost of many unlocked phones, my old basic sony ericcson z600 which was a basic flip candy bar style phone cost me almost $400, my imate jam cost me almost $600.
Unfortunately, I suspect the markup on those phones was pretty high as well, buying the Nokia 9000 series communicator smartphone, that was around $800 direct from nokias website.
Phones are expensive when you buy them aftermarket and unlocked. Whether that cost has been artificially inflated based on colusion between manufacturers or not is another story.
I have a dell Vostro that is affected, and the warranty ran out at the end of last month.. The BIOS update only changed the way the fans run. Previously they would run at whatever speed was needed at the time to cool the laptop, now, they run at full speed regardless. To me, that is not much of a fix, my laptop still runs incredibly hot, to the point I suspect it will fail soon.
I am hoping for a recall, but I doubt that will happen, it is the only true way to resolve the problem, but it would be costly, and I am guessing that the cost to replace all the faulty units would exceed the bad press and the cost to replace those few units that certain people will make a huge stink about and get replaced, the rest of the people will probably just go out and purchase a new laptop.... Thats my guess anyways.
voluntarily, is because they are trying to head off government regulation of private data.
But people are right, it will probably be buried inside the TOS, which makes for an interesting dilemma, since requiring explicit permission to use the data would allow you to say yes or no without affecting your service, but if you say no to the TOS because the clause is in there, you can be denied service....
They have alot of liquid cooling stuff, which I am not sure the OP is interested in, but there is where I picked up my power supply and case for my SLI rig.
And heat your house at the same time.....
I disagree slightly, while yes their should be a legalese version which is the default, the EULA is an end user license agreement, not a end user lawyer agreement.
It is there specifically for the end user to understand his and her rights with regards to the software the user purchased. Unless software manufacturers expect us all to retain lawyers to purchase our software and products for us, the EULA should be in plain, easily readable to any high school student English (that last bit brings up other issues on the quality of the education system but thats an argument for another day)
I am going to disagree with you on this, and I am by no means an apple fanboi.
OSX, I actually like it, its polished, and works well (atleast on my dell laptop), but on the other hand their hardware is way over priced and I would never buy an apple computer.
I personally am from a freebsd/openbsd environment, I in general do not like MS products, but I will tell you that I have had pocketpc phones up till I picked up my iphone (last week, no line, no wait.. while I like the product, I was not willing to stand in line to buy it, for that matter I will never wait in a line to buy anything, I will wait till a later date to make a purchase of an item that is in high demand at the initial stages).
Yes the apple fanbois are annoying, and your probably right that they kept the company afloat during its leaner times, but the products they release are not all crap. Their policy of silencing the critics though, and pulling posts complaining about products is just plain stupid and lame in my opinion as well.
I guess what it comes down to, Apple is good at form and design, and testing seems to come as an after though. While I can blame them for using a shitty chipset in the iphone, my experience with ATT would have lead me to believe that if I was an apple engineer that the phone is fine and ATT just sucks. I am not sure if they tested the phone in other countries, but I bet if they had, they would have caught onto the problem much earlier and resolved it.
To be fair.. red light cameras are not unreasonable. Well thats not completely true, they are not unreasonable when they are used as safety devices, which is what the original design was for. However it is unreasonable to use traffic safety devices as a means of revenue generation, which they do all over the world.
No, its not, its ATT protecting its revenue stream b y charging an insane (I believe it is $80 per month for the laptop connect plans), at which point ATT does not care whether or not you use a pc express card or a phone or usb dongle to use your laptop.
The guy that delivers my chinese food seems to be pretty computer savvy, he farms WoW gold on his time off :)
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Okay.. flame away
It has nothing to do with being lazy, if it was a cross country rider.. then sure its being lazy, but for downhill runs (we are talking 10+ miles of all downhill, it would not be possible to ride a 40 pound + bike up those trails, and even more of a factor is the terrain of a downhill or free ride run, which has drops of up to 10f, or maybe more, large rocks, ramps for jumps and such, these are 1 way trails, and riding up them would be time consuming and dangerous to other riders coming down at a high rate of speed.
Oh, and as for getting attached to what they want.. for something thats maybe a few hundred USD to a few thousand, looks may be immaterial, but when you start hitting the 10k+ mark, you want everything to be the way you want it....
I like the look of the FX35, I happen to not like the looks of almost all station weapons, except for the occasional one... say the s4 avante by Audi.. but that has a giant V8 and is also $50k and up :)
:)
No Therapy needed, and oddly enough, in general, I do not find most SUV's attractive at all, which is why we never considered any of those, I really do not like giant boxy shapes, that goes for minivans and cars too, I like flowing curves, and some creature comforts in the car... well okay I am a geek and I like the geeky things in cars...
I disagree, Verizon lost alot of customers to ATT for the iphone. Probably not as many as ATT had hoped for, but a good chunk non the less.