It's pretty common at folk festivals and indie gigs that I've been to. And when you buy from the artist, you get a chance to talk to them about their music. That's added value right there.
Also, I've bought from a couple of the music (instrument) stores in who town sell their customers' CDs for a flat 1$ markup.(does that count for your survey?) They even have a CD jukebox set up with headphones loaded up with those same local CDs so you can "try before you buy"
Somewhere in Canadian tax law (don't ask me to look it up, I get a headache just reading the envelope the tax forms come in) it lists what transactions are exempt from tax. Generally it is a private person selling their own used property to another individual.
That is stuff that they bought for personal use, and are now selling to someone else is exempt. Not something that they bought with no intention of using, and then re-sold.
Our company has all our generators (and many other things) remotely controlled, and none of those systems are available to the public internet. We have it all captive on our own infrastructure.
The local power utility ( I know several of their techs who work on the telemetry gear) also has a remote control system which in entirely on their own infrastructure, and has no interconnection with any system that is accessible from a public network.
It may not be the absolutely cheapest way to do things, but it's also a lot more secure.
What's the cost of this sort of failure compared to doing it "right" in the first place?
One of my quests right now is to come up with at least a couple of cubic feet of lego for my little ones. The standard little blocks, not the sets that tell you what to build. I'm not wedded to Lego brand
I've been trawling thrift stores and have scored a couple of large lots of Lego (as well as Megablocks, K'nex...) for cheap. I also picked up a complete Mindstorms RCX kit for $9.99.
Cheap as in $5 for a bag weighing just over 8 pounds. A quick sloshing in soapy water, rinse, and air dry, and the kids have near unlimited play value for very little cash.
There is no inherent right to enter to a place of public performance and make an unauthorized recording, and *IT SAYS SO ON THE BACK OF YOUR TICKET*. So, by making such a recording, you are already breaching the contract you agreed to when you bought your ticket.
Right.
So if it's already against the law, why the hell do we need another law that does the same damn thing.
Let's stop making new laws until we can adequately enforce the ones we already have. There are existing laws already in place that would solve whatever problem the new laws seek to deal with if they were enforced.
I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I'm enjoying season 1 (missed most of it in first run, currently watching the DVDs). It's been a long time since a series can surprise me every episode with a plot twist that makes sense in context of the story (not just gratuitous messing with the audience).
I hope they can keep it fresh for the next season.
I really don't get that at all. What do these people think will happen if these kids run across some porn?
Indeed. Before the internet, we'd sneak a look at our dad's (or a friend's dad's/big brother's) stash of Playboys.
I'm pretty sure my childhood friends didn't suffer any psychological damage from it.
Explain the household "acceptable use policy"
Then have the household computer located in a public space in the house, not in an out of the way corner.
No one will have porn up on the monitor if it's likely that your mom (or little sister/brother/snitch) is guaranteed to walk by on a regular basis in the course of going about their normal life.
I have a friend who works for a cable ISP, and the word I get from him is that they look at usage stats, and take this sort of action on the users who stand out from the crowd.
Typically, the 20-30 users (I.E. the handful of people at the extreme outer edge of the bell curve) in any month who get a call to ask them to "cut back some on yer bandwidth" are pulling down 50-100 times what the "average" user is.
If that user is no longer one of the top bandwidth users, they won't hear from the ISP again.
Just because the hands on staff sees what's going on, doesn't mean the bureaucracy is listening to them.
And that's not a problem limited to the police department, is it?
You haven't met a lot of criminals, have you? As a group, they're not the sharpest pencils in the box.
That's not to say that they don't think they're "smarter than the cops".
Many are convinced that they can outsmart the cops, and thus have no fear of getting caught. And with the concern for getting caught conveniently out of their mind, there is also no concern over the punishment, "cause I ain't gonna get caught, so there is no punishment."
Getting it to close was simply a matter of right clicking on Firefox in the Task Bar and closing it down. It's certainly an annoyance, but it's not as bad as the article makes it seem to be. Anybody with a brain (which admittedly excludes about 60% of the population) can figure out how to close Firefox and thus the Java App.
In my experience the vast majority of windows users don't right click on anything, unless they have been specifically instructed to.
And they certainly don't intuitively know that they can right click on task bar icons to do anything, let alone close the app. For most regular users (no doubt the intended target of the sort of sleeze who would use this for advertising and other nefarious purposes)there is only one way to shut down an app, and that's the rex X in the top right corner.
It seems like I post this in every DVR thread.
From the TIVO website:
The TiVo service is currently not supported in Mexico or U.S. territories other than Puerto Rico. However, please continue to check the TiVo website for updates on service in other countries.
Note:
At this time, TiVo does not sell DVR boxes in Canada.
Tivo ain't better or easier than homebrew If I can't buy one here
Epileptic seizures are not generally life-threatening by themselves, except that they shut you down for a minute or so. So unless you're swimming or driving a car, it's not a big problem.
or in the middle of a panicked disoriented crowd...
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It's pretty common at folk festivals and indie gigs that I've been to. And when you buy from the artist, you get a chance to talk to them about their music. That's added value right there.
Also, I've bought from a couple of the music (instrument) stores in who town sell their customers' CDs for a flat 1$ markup.(does that count for your survey?)
They even have a CD jukebox set up with headphones loaded up with those same local CDs so you can "try before you buy"
Who would tell the difference from a regular rush hour?
And I'm well within my rights to continue to not buy one.
Proud member of the "I just wanna make a call" crowd.
Somewhere in Canadian tax law (don't ask me to look it up, I get a headache just reading the envelope the tax forms come in) it lists what transactions are exempt from tax. Generally it is a private person selling their own used property to another individual.
That is stuff that they bought for personal use, and are now selling to someone else is exempt. Not something that they bought with no intention of using, and then re-sold.
Our company has all our generators (and many other things) remotely controlled, and none of those systems are available to the public internet. We have it all captive on our own infrastructure.
The local power utility ( I know several of their techs who work on the telemetry gear) also has a remote control system which in entirely on their own infrastructure, and has no interconnection with any system that is accessible from a public network.
It may not be the absolutely cheapest way to do things, but it's also a lot more secure.
What's the cost of this sort of failure compared to doing it "right" in the first place?
One of my quests right now is to come up with at least a couple of cubic feet of lego for my little ones. The standard little blocks, not the sets that tell you what to build. I'm not wedded to Lego brand
I've been trawling thrift stores and have scored a couple of large lots of Lego (as well as
Megablocks, K'nex...) for cheap. I also picked up a complete Mindstorms RCX kit for $9.99.
Cheap as in $5 for a bag weighing just over 8 pounds. A quick sloshing in soapy water, rinse, and air dry, and the kids have near unlimited play value for very little cash.
Or not fired, but replaced by someone willing to work for less money and made so miserable that quitting is the only option to retain your sanity.
There is no inherent right to enter to a place of public performance and make an unauthorized recording, and *IT SAYS SO ON THE BACK OF YOUR TICKET*. So, by making such a recording, you are already breaching the contract you agreed to when you bought your ticket.
Right.
So if it's already against the law, why the hell do we need another law that does the same damn thing.
Let's stop making new laws until we can adequately enforce the ones we already have. There are existing laws already in place that would solve whatever problem the new laws seek to deal with if they were enforced.
And Heroes.
I'm pleasantly surprised at how much I'm enjoying season 1 (missed most of it in first run, currently watching the DVDs). It's been a long time since a series can surprise me every episode with a plot twist that makes sense in context of the story (not just gratuitous messing with the audience).
I hope they can keep it fresh for the next season.
anyone else see the word 'boost' as 'steal' ?
Nope.
'round here the most common use of the word boost is in reference to jump starting a car, as in:
"Hey, can ya give me a boost, my battery is dead"
I really don't get that at all. What do these people think will happen if these kids run across some porn?
Indeed. Before the internet, we'd sneak a look at our dad's (or a friend's dad's/big brother's) stash of Playboys.
I'm pretty sure my childhood friends didn't suffer any psychological damage from it.
Explain the household "acceptable use policy"
Then have the household computer located in a public space in the house, not in an out of the way corner.
No one will have porn up on the monitor if it's likely that your mom (or little sister/brother/snitch) is guaranteed to walk by on a regular basis in the course of going about their normal life.
Marketing?
Guess you could always wrap your cable in tin-foil.
Or pull it thru metal conduit, like most commercial installations are done anyway.
Me too ... too.
Sheesh, this is starting to sound like a usenet thread...
Ahhh, so that's how they get the nukes in/out of Minot AFB.
They fly them over the ocean.
Clever.
I fire up my shortwave receiver and listen to WWV.
I have a friend who works for a cable ISP, and the word I get from him is that they look at usage stats, and take this sort of action on the users who stand out from the crowd.
Typically, the 20-30 users (I.E. the handful of people at the extreme outer edge of the bell curve) in any month who get a call to ask them to "cut back some on yer bandwidth" are pulling down 50-100 times what the "average" user is.
If that user is no longer one of the top bandwidth users, they won't hear from the ISP again.
Just because the hands on staff sees what's going on, doesn't mean the bureaucracy is listening to them.
And that's not a problem limited to the police department, is it?
How long till it catches on with the criminals?
You haven't met a lot of criminals, have you?
As a group, they're not the sharpest pencils in the box.
That's not to say that they don't think they're "smarter than the cops".
Many are convinced that they can outsmart the cops, and thus have no fear of getting caught.
And with the concern for getting caught conveniently out of their mind, there is also no concern over the punishment, "cause I ain't gonna get caught, so there is no punishment."
Getting it to close was simply a matter of right clicking on Firefox in the Task Bar and closing it down. It's certainly an annoyance, but it's not as bad as the article makes it seem to be. Anybody with a brain (which admittedly excludes about 60% of the population) can figure out how to close Firefox and thus the Java App.
In my experience the vast majority of windows users don't right click on anything, unless they have been specifically instructed to.
And they certainly don't intuitively know that they can right click on task bar icons to do anything, let alone close the app.
For most regular users (no doubt the intended target of the sort of sleeze who would use this for advertising and other nefarious purposes)there is only one way to shut down an app, and that's the rex X in the top right corner.
I'm surprised that someone actually took something said at a party (even by someone in such a high position) as official policy.
If he'd said it during a keynote speech, sure, but at a party?
Apparently an encrypted copy of my tax files makes me a suspect?
I can't see any judge believing that it's a bad idea to apply security to personal financial data.
From the TIVO website: The TiVo service is currently not supported in Mexico or U.S. territories other than Puerto Rico. However, please continue to check the TiVo website for updates on service in other countries.
Note: At this time, TiVo does not sell DVR boxes in Canada.
Tivo ain't better or easier than homebrew If I can't buy one here
Epileptic seizures are not generally life-threatening by themselves, except that they shut you down for a minute or so. So unless you're swimming or driving a car, it's not a big problem.
or in the middle of a panicked disoriented crowd...