The entire story is given by this in-depth interview with Ladar himself. http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/125
I highly recommend this if you are interested. He also explains that he was personally cited in the warrants, so even if Lavabit gos away, Ladar himself is still liable to give up the info.
I bought this right here for my kiddo when he was around 14 months.
It has different sections, based on what you want the kid to do. So for example, you can enter the "Keyboard" activities section, and the adult would drive the mouse and control the activity while the kid would be able to mash the keyboard and make things happen on the screen. To give you a taste of what it's like, imagine hearing the song "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and each key press causes a star to appear on the screen.
My kid loved it. And it's PC & Mac! (Sorry no Linux, I did spend five minutes trying to get it to work in WINE and gave up.)
I was never on the site, and after years of people asking me “Are you on Facebook?” or “I’ll send you the pictures on Facebook” and other such things, I decided that I should create an account, just to say I have one.
Additionally, I’ve had people try to find me on the site repeatedly. Since I have a complicated name, people usually spell it wrong and try to find me a couple of times.
So I decided that I’d create an account that would just say “Yes, you found me.”
I didn’t want to use any features at all.
So here’s what I wanted to do.
- Create a public page with my real name on it.
- Prevent anyone from adding anything to that page.
- I didn’t want any email updates, status updates, wall pictures or anything else. In fact, don’t email me anything at all. Don’t change my page at all.
- I wanted to automatically reject all “friend” requests. (I’m not going to use the site, remember.)
I found so many settings in so many different places, that I decided that this was not easy to do. (Even if it is possible, which I’m not convinced about. Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on this.)
So I decided that it just wasn’t worth the PITA to even try to set this up. So I’m still Facebook free.
In this short experience, it seemed to me that Facebook has such poor privacy settings and UI that it’s doubtful that a novice can even set it the way he or she wants. I think it’s an open question if this is on purpose or by design.
since the "hurdle" set up by Human Cattle department requires a minimum of four years.
In most large corporations, (and I speak from extensive experience here), these requirements are set by the line managers in the actual departments themselves. The Recruiting people generally look for whatever the line managers ask for.
There are always exceptions, but I've found in the majority of the companies where I've worked, every time I've had to hire, they (Recruitment) ask me (line manager) what I want to see. The job descriptions are also written by line managers in most cases as well.
It figures that in this hideous thread with a jillion partisans beating up each other, I find an **actually informative** post that is hate-free, and I got no mod points. Blearg!
I actually watched the C-SPAN hearings on replay last Saturday (stop looking at me) and they didn't use such a simple technique as an embedded gif in an HTML mail.
This neatly gets around people with email clients that block loading of remote images, or even people who don't allow html mail. (How many people actually have Acrobat Reader blocked from internet access? Damn few I would think.)
You know that if you are running a Windows PC on the same network, you can use your Windows PC to offload your TiVo programs, and transfer them back when you want to watch them. You drive this right from the TiVo remote.
This is built-in functionality, no hacking or modding required.
So your PC harddrive can be an extension of your TiVo HD. I haven't tried wireless, but on my wired network I get great transfer speeds.
Explain please why it's Tivo's fault you bought a Mac.
Well, here's the dilemma. TiVo had fully supported Macs for a long time. And suddenly when the Tivo2Go feature came out, TiVo just didn't release a Mac version. And they didn't say much of anything about it.
There was no announcement that they are dropping Mac support, there was... nothing. So the Mac users who were previously supported think that they are owed either of these:
1. TiVo should simply announce that no Mac support will be given henceforth.
2. At least some kind of update on Mac support. Maybe not even a release date, but at least an announcement that they are working on it.
Now maybe I'm misunderstanding your post and you're trying to snark on Macs or whatever, and that's fine. I just want to make it clear that this isn't just Mac users clamoring for support out of the blue.
You are omitting one very important concept from your analysis.
If someone could get all the shows they were interested in on ITMS, they could drop cable or satellite. TiVo already broke me of watching live TV. Everything I do is on TiVo now.
Depending on where one lives and the line-up they have, that would save maybe $1000 per year in cable/satellite bills.
I'm not saying it's a no-brainer, but it would be appealing to some people to drop cable/sat and go with all ITMS.
There is no contract that requires you to keep paying for it, and there is no early termination fee.
You are in error. Please see the TiVo terms of service and scroll down to item number 8.
I have quoted the relevant portion for you below. (Caps are in the source, not my own addition.)
WITH RESPECT TO ANY NEW TIVO SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION ACTIVATED ON OR AFTER SEPTEMBER 6, 2005, YOU AGREE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE TIVO SERVICE FOR NO LESS THAN 12 MONTHS (THE "SERVICE COMMITMENT"). IF YOU FAIL TO MEET THE SERVICE COMMITMENT BY CANCELLING YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE (OR IF TIVO TERMINATES YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE TIVO SERVICE DUE TO A BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT), YOU AGREE THAT TIVO MAY CHARGE YOU A $150 EARLY TERMINATION FEE, AND YOU AGREE TO PAY ANY SUCH EARLY TERMINATION FEE.
I don't want to get in the way of your tear, but I think NAFTA was very much a bipartisan effort.
The idea had been talked about long before Bush I was in office, he had some discussions about it. President Clinton signed the NAFTA deal on Dec 8, 1993. And I believe it was ratified by a Senate and House, both with Democratic majorities. (57-43 Dems in the Senate, and 258-176 Dems in the House) You can check which party was in government in recent history at this link.
IANAL either but I've had to live through discovery on a few occasions for work.
The question as to "if something is worthy evidence" really doesn't apply during "discovery". People can request all kinds of things and generally they seem to get their way if the things requested can even reasonably be material to the case.
If it's "good" or "authentic" is a question that happens at trial, not discovery.
That's why discovery is so freaking awful. It is time-consuming and dreadful, since there's such a wide latitude of stuff they can ask for.
I freely admit I haven't RTFA, but I read some excellent coverage of this story on wsj.com.
Apparently, Morgan Stanley came forward, said they had produced all the emails. (time passes) They find some more emails and turn them over. (time passes) The find a closet stuffed with backup tapes and turn them over. (Time passes) Morgan Stanley files a document certifying that they turned everything over. (Time passes) Morgan finds even more emails and turns them over. This causes the judge to get annoyed.
One of the earlier problems was that Morgan had built a database to house old emails and the first time they were told to turnover emails, a sysadmin who was not in a clueful state just searched the database without finding out how much had already been imported into the DB. (Turned out the DB had only had a small percentage of old emails put into it.)
My geekdom compels me to report that Decker was never in command of the 1701-A. The Enterprise from The Motion Picture was the same one as the the original series, NCC-1701. (It was just heavily overhauled/updated.)
Apparently Lucas is going with the whole concept that there can never be any more than two Sith at any given time -- a student and a master. And that as the student gets older, Sideous/Palpatine gets an up-and-coming Jedi to kill them off for him, becoming the new "student" in the process. This could put the whole duel in ROTJ in a new light.
Lucas says this straight up in the ROTJ commentary on the newly released DVD set.
Darth Vader was the "old & busted" while Luke was the "new hotness" and Palatine thought that Luke would be a much better apprentice than Vader. Especially since the emperor felt that Vader's reliance on his mechanical suit made him less useful than Luke would be.
Hold down shift while right clicking on the IE Icon.
Select "Run AS" on the menu.
Enter the details of your Admin account.
You will now have an IE window running under the admin account. You can browse files, launch programs, install things and do whatever you need to do as admin.
When you are done, close the IE window and the admin priveledges are gone. (Assuming that you were originally under a guest account)
I look forward to Reason magazine every month. They even had a/. article about them a few months back when they produced a personalized version of their magazine for every subscriber.
I also like Imprimis. It's a little strong in it's opinions but I enjoy the quality of the articles.
Quoting parent: I never quite understood why JMS in particular has this phobia about story ideas. Is he more paranoid than most, or is it the fact that he likes to interact with the fans more than your typical TV writer?
JMS loves to chat up with the fans. However this can be dangerous. A very popular B5 episode was almost not made because a fan made a comment in an unmoderated newsgroup that was close to the idea of the story.
Now the script for the linked episode was already in pre-production (IIRC) and it was clear that JMS didn't get the idea from the newsgroup, but the "suits" would not allow the episode to be produced . JMS had to find the actual human who made the usenet post and get him to sign a release saying it was ok to make the episode and he wouldn't sue.
You mention solicited scripts. Yes, you can submit scripts "on spec" in Hollywood, but there is an approved way to do this. You have to fill out forms and send it to the right people. You have to notify them and follow procedures.
Most production offices have special secretaries that open up unmarked mail and send it back unread if it contains a script that wasn't expected or doesn't contain the proper forms for a spec script. (My knowledge is a little old, I suspect since 9/11 they do something different about the mail.)
Anyways, the parent raised a good question. Yes, you can submit scripts on spec, but you need to do it the right way. Publically posting story ideas or sending them in emails to people on the creative side of the business is bad mojo.
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The entire story is given by this in-depth interview with Ladar himself. http://twit.tv/show/triangulation/125 I highly recommend this if you are interested. He also explains that he was personally cited in the warrants, so even if Lavabit gos away, Ladar himself is still liable to give up the info.
I bought this right here for my kiddo when he was around 14 months.
It has different sections, based on what you want the kid to do. So for example, you can enter the "Keyboard" activities section, and the adult would drive the mouse and control the activity while the kid would be able to mash the keyboard and make things happen on the screen. To give you a taste of what it's like, imagine hearing the song "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and each key press causes a star to appear on the screen.
My kid loved it. And it's PC & Mac! (Sorry no Linux, I did spend five minutes trying to get it to work in WINE and gave up.)
I have a different experience with Facebook.
I was never on the site, and after years of people asking me “Are you on Facebook?” or “I’ll send you the pictures on Facebook” and other such things, I decided that I should create an account, just to say I have one.
Additionally, I’ve had people try to find me on the site repeatedly. Since I have a complicated name, people usually spell it wrong and try to find me a couple of times.
So I decided that I’d create an account that would just say “Yes, you found me.”
I didn’t want to use any features at all.
So here’s what I wanted to do.
- Create a public page with my real name on it.
- Prevent anyone from adding anything to that page.
- I didn’t want any email updates, status updates, wall pictures or anything else. In fact, don’t email me anything at all. Don’t change my page at all.
- I wanted to automatically reject all “friend” requests. (I’m not going to use the site, remember.)
I found so many settings in so many different places, that I decided that this was not easy to do. (Even if it is possible, which I’m not convinced about. Please feel free to correct me if I’m wrong on this.)
So I decided that it just wasn’t worth the PITA to even try to set this up. So I’m still Facebook free.
In this short experience, it seemed to me that Facebook has such poor privacy settings and UI that it’s doubtful that a novice can even set it the way he or she wants. I think it’s an open question if this is on purpose or by design.
since the "hurdle" set up by Human Cattle department requires a minimum of four years.
In most large corporations, (and I speak from extensive experience here), these requirements are set by the line managers in the actual departments themselves. The Recruiting people generally look for whatever the line managers ask for.
There are always exceptions, but I've found in the majority of the companies where I've worked, every time I've had to hire, they (Recruitment) ask me (line manager) what I want to see. The job descriptions are also written by line managers in most cases as well.
It figures that in this hideous thread with a jillion partisans beating up each other, I find an **actually informative** post that is hate-free, and I got no mod points. Blearg!
I actually watched the C-SPAN hearings on replay last Saturday (stop looking at me) and they didn't use such a simple technique as an embedded gif in an HTML mail.
They used this company right here. The particular technology that they use is an embedded tracker in a PDF attachment that contains the text the victim wants to see.
This neatly gets around people with email clients that block loading of remote images, or even people who don't allow html mail. (How many people actually have Acrobat Reader blocked from internet access? Damn few I would think.)
You know that if you are running a Windows PC on the same network, you can use your Windows PC to offload your TiVo programs, and transfer them back when you want to watch them. You drive this right from the TiVo remote.
This is built-in functionality, no hacking or modding required.
So your PC harddrive can be an extension of your TiVo HD. I haven't tried wireless, but on my wired network I get great transfer speeds.
Well I know it's bad form to reply to your own posts, but I just found out that TiVo *finally* had something to say about Mac support!
It's coming in mid-2006. TiVoPony is an official TiVo guy.
Well, here's the dilemma. TiVo had fully supported Macs for a long time. And suddenly when the Tivo2Go feature came out, TiVo just didn't release a Mac version. And they didn't say much of anything about it.
There was no announcement that they are dropping Mac support, there was... nothing. So the Mac users who were previously supported think that they are owed either of these:
1. TiVo should simply announce that no Mac support will be given henceforth.
2. At least some kind of update on Mac support. Maybe not even a release date, but at least an announcement that they are working on it.
Now maybe I'm misunderstanding your post and you're trying to snark on Macs or whatever, and that's fine. I just want to make it clear that this isn't just Mac users clamoring for support out of the blue.
You are omitting one very important concept from your analysis.
If someone could get all the shows they were interested in on ITMS, they could drop cable or satellite. TiVo already broke me of watching live TV. Everything I do is on TiVo now.
Depending on where one lives and the line-up they have, that would save maybe $1000 per year in cable/satellite bills.
I'm not saying it's a no-brainer, but it would be appealing to some people to drop cable/sat and go with all ITMS.
Thanks for the response. I hope it goes well and I look forward to playing the result.
This is excellent news.
Civ IV is just about the only game I can't live without on my Mac.
I wonder how Aspyr is handling the porting in the face of the PowerPC/Intel issue. Universal binaries?
You are in error. Please see the TiVo terms of service and scroll down to item number 8.
I have quoted the relevant portion for you below. (Caps are in the source, not my own addition.)
I don't want to get in the way of your tear, but I think NAFTA was very much a bipartisan effort.
The idea had been talked about long before Bush I was in office, he had some discussions about it. President Clinton signed the NAFTA deal on Dec 8, 1993. And I believe it was ratified by a Senate and House, both with Democratic majorities. (57-43 Dems in the Senate, and 258-176 Dems in the House) You can check which party was in government in recent history at this link.
Cheers.
IANAL either but I've had to live through discovery on a few occasions for work.
The question as to "if something is worthy evidence" really doesn't apply during "discovery". People can request all kinds of things and generally they seem to get their way if the things requested can even reasonably be material to the case.
If it's "good" or "authentic" is a question that happens at trial, not discovery.
That's why discovery is so freaking awful. It is time-consuming and dreadful, since there's such a wide latitude of stuff they can ask for.
I freely admit I haven't RTFA, but I read some excellent coverage of this story on wsj.com.
Apparently, Morgan Stanley came forward, said they had produced all the emails. (time passes) They find some more emails and turn them over. (time passes) The find a closet stuffed with backup tapes and turn them over. (Time passes) Morgan Stanley files a document certifying that they turned everything over. (Time passes) Morgan finds even more emails and turns them over. This causes the judge to get annoyed.
One of the earlier problems was that Morgan had built a database to house old emails and the first time they were told to turnover emails, a sysadmin who was not in a clueful state just searched the database without finding out how much had already been imported into the DB. (Turned out the DB had only had a small percentage of old emails put into it.)
My geekdom compels me to report that Decker was never in command of the 1701-A. The Enterprise from The Motion Picture was the same one as the the original series, NCC-1701. (It was just heavily overhauled/updated.)
I'm going to forget that I posted this now.
That is so obviously his pr0n collection. Duh!
I just completed a Master's program and I found this book to be very helpful.
It will give you some idea of the politics and tactics used to get through a grad program.
Apparently Lucas is going with the whole concept that there can never be any more than two Sith at any given time -- a student and a master. And that as the student gets older, Sideous/Palpatine gets an up-and-coming Jedi to kill them off for him, becoming the new "student" in the process. This could put the whole duel in ROTJ in a new light.
Lucas says this straight up in the ROTJ commentary on the newly released DVD set.
Darth Vader was the "old & busted" while Luke was the "new hotness" and Palatine thought that Luke would be a much better apprentice than Vader. Especially since the emperor felt that Vader's reliance on his mechanical suit made him less useful than Luke would be.
Browse to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer.
Hold down shift while right clicking on the IE Icon.
Select "Run AS" on the menu.
Enter the details of your Admin account.
You will now have an IE window running under the admin account. You can browse files, launch programs, install things and do whatever you need to do as admin.
When you are done, close the IE window and the admin priveledges are gone. (Assuming that you were originally under a guest account)
It's not slang and it's the number one result on a Google search.
I look forward to Reason magazine every month. They even had a /. article about them a few months back when they produced a personalized version of their magazine for every subscriber.
I also like Imprimis. It's a little strong in it's opinions but I enjoy the quality of the articles.
Quoting parent: I never quite understood why JMS in particular has this phobia about story ideas. Is he more paranoid than most, or is it the fact that he likes to interact with the fans more than your typical TV writer?
JMS loves to chat up with the fans. However this can be dangerous. A very popular B5 episode was almost not made because a fan made a comment in an unmoderated newsgroup that was close to the idea of the story.
Now the script for the linked episode was already in pre-production (IIRC) and it was clear that JMS didn't get the idea from the newsgroup, but the "suits" would not allow the episode to be produced . JMS had to find the actual human who made the usenet post and get him to sign a release saying it was ok to make the episode and he wouldn't sue.
You mention solicited scripts. Yes, you can submit scripts "on spec" in Hollywood, but there is an approved way to do this. You have to fill out forms and send it to the right people. You have to notify them and follow procedures.
Most production offices have special secretaries that open up unmarked mail and send it back unread if it contains a script that wasn't expected or doesn't contain the proper forms for a spec script. (My knowledge is a little old, I suspect since 9/11 they do something different about the mail.)
Anyways, the parent raised a good question. Yes, you can submit scripts on spec, but you need to do it the right way. Publically posting story ideas or sending them in emails to people on the creative side of the business is bad mojo.