They're probably using some geographical/economic profiling. MAFIAA boss: We're sure those poor folks in that part of town won't be able to afford any legal council better than Lionel Hutz but may have a few hundred or thousand in savings. Send in the SETTLEMENT SUPPORT CENTER!!!...but that gated community with names like C.M.Burns and Quimby and Fat Tony sounds like trouble, better stay away from them.
When's the last time we heard about someone with a six figure income being sued?
According to tv.com Descent(pt1) was first aired 6/21/93 and All Good Things... 5/23/94. And how many other episodes had poker scenes with green visors and then how many takes were needed to film them all? And everyone of them has a chance of having its own duplicate prop. Uh-oh, looks like the cat that played Spot used that one for a scratching post, we're going to need a new Timmy, err...visor. How many websites are devoted to finding discrepancies in TV shows? In this cut Data is wearing his correct LtCmdr rank but in that cut of the same scene he is only wearing LtJG rank.
Christie's error was naming(episode) names without being able to prove that the item being auctioned was used in all they listed.
I can't think of a good reason for anyone doing this, but if someone were to fill their shiny new 160GB iPod in less than a month, from the iTunes Store, they would find them self being banned from Comcast for downloading content they PAID for? Who let someone use "Clarifies" in this context? And what's with trying to measure usage in 'songs'? Are they in MAFIAA's pocket too? Of course everyone is always downloading songs from Kazaa and MediaSentry torrents.
It would probably easier to pick a number and setup a page where everyone can check their monthly usage, my college IT dept did this so it can't be that difficult, unless it's not profitable enough for them.
So how long until all the 'science content' is done and they can go for some of the fun pictures, some historical and some fun - the crash and burn kind(if Mars had enough O2 for that). It would be nice to see how the Viking landers are holding up after 30+ years of sitting on Mars and maybe hit reboot button and recharge the batteries. And can't forget about some nice hi-res close ups of the wreckage of the Beagle 2, and maybe the polar lander if there's time.
Now for the Mars challenge: Build a rover/go kart to drive around the planet(best time wins) and since it's not on Earth there's no need to worry about any speed limits or anyone complaining about how your killing off the local wild life. And if you happen to discover some local wild life then there just might the Nobel prize in attempted chemistry in it for you. If they all pay the same does it really matter what it's called?
I wonder how easy it is to freeze someone else's credit. If we happen to be in the market to some property in the same area and both make an offer for the same one and I know that you are going to need a loan to buy what would it take for me to put a freeze on your credit and leave you unable to unfreeze it? Or I identity theft you then freeze your credit. Plenty of room for abuse either way.
Or 'get a Mac' as a second PC to claim it's your only computer since we know kazaa and a bunch of those other evil p2p apps don't run on an Apple, unless it's Mac hardware with Windows. Or get a used laptop and a larger hdd, paying cash for both so you might be able to try to deny even owning it. Then change the mac addr to match your primary PC so any network traffic from it will appear to come from your main and clean PC. Clean as in free of anything the MAFIAA may consider to the 'infringing' material. Or if you want to pass it off as a backup use full disk encryption with a hidden partition and store it on one of those fancy fire and water resistant safes and tell the judge that you're a little concerned about backups and security. But for the cost of doing all that you can get a few dozen used CDs and movies from amazon.com(new&used for...) or ebay and probably many other places. Even with as much as the MAFIAA may not like it, buying used media is still legal. You'll probably get into some kind of trouble if you tell the court you only have one computer and it turns out you had a second hidden somewhere. An examination of windows logs can probably determine that an external drive was used and the presence of p2p software on the computer will probably be enough for the MAFIAA to cry WITCH!!! or was that 'pirate' but you could claim that it belonged to someone else.
Now that's an idea, I only borrowed it from the internets because your service I'm paying you more than enought for didn't work, if your ISP is also your cable tv provider. Which seems to happen often with the Sci-Fi channel. The neither of the new Stargates recorded properly and I set their great [I]Explorer[.exe] box to record both showings, got less than 2 for 4 that day. I noticed the Sci-Fi channel signal dropping to the quality of a heavily scratched DVD during every showing of BSG. You could see most of the show but with all the skips and artifacts it was no where good enough to record for use on my PC and ipod. Maybe someone wants to encourage you to buy it off itunes tomorrow. Now why would I want to wait until tomorrow and pay another $2, or however much they're charging, when I should be able to record/convert it myself with all the services I'm already paying for and have it done in under 30min after the show ends and not have to wait until tomorrow.
agreed, it seems very difficult to cheaply prove that you are innocent, everyone's guilty in the eyes of the MAFIAA RIAA: points and yells "WITCH" multiple times at the top of their lungs not yet accused of anything defendant: no I'm not RIAA: yes you are, media sentry(or whoever their bounty hunters are these days) said you are not yet accused of anything defendant: well, they're wrong followed by lot of "yes you are" "no I'm not"
While at college I heard that lots of file was sharing going on, but never saw it happening myself and am unable to even guess at how much really happened. These RIAA 'lawsuits' are nothing more than a witch hunt, there is no real proof that the person they think did the file sharing really did, or did not do the file sharing, especially since they havn't realized that IP!=specific person. And they can't even produce a mac address, as if just about every router doesn't have a clone mac address option along with plenty of software to do the same locally. Some of those who are doing something wrong and are really trying to not get caught will have their regular nic for their usual online activities and a second, possibly purchased second hand and paid with cash for everything else. If the university's network has dhcp of mac, it's easy enough to get the mac of a neighbor. The only evidence I'd accept is a video, not a picture since there's not way to tell what program that perso sitting in front of the PC was really doing when yhe picture was taken. Various law enforcement agencies have found evidence in pictures and text posted to myspace, perhaps the MAFIAA should have their IP bounty hunters shift to reviewing clips of college parties on youtube to see if they can find anyone using some file sharing app to download the party sound track. If not that then there's always the chance of an error in copying an IP or a low quality screen capture or smeared ink on a printout, is that a 0 or a 6 or an 8? And the 5 or 7 minutes differance between the ISP's clock and the RIAA's clock and/or the RIAA's failure to idenitfy AM/PM and time zone and date will result in either the right person of a half dozen wrong persons given how quickly IPs can change hands over a day.
While it is far funnier to say "Dude, must be the Dell" When I think 130 year old farmhouse, good quality modern wiring is not one of the things that comes to mind. It could have easily been an overloaded circuit. Not to be confused with faulty wiring, the original wiring was probaby not designed for today's power hungry applicances. I wonder if any of the outlets had grounding plugs or if was the house full of 3-prong adapters and daisy chained light duty extension cords running around the house from the single outlet originally installed in the kitchen for the single refrigerator. Even if the wiring was not have been that bad, with a home that old there's always the chance of something getting overloaded.
I guess I'm slighlty more lucky to not have "many glitches in the program streams as when I record it myself." Either way we're going to pay for it, we just have to pick the way that works for us. That is unless you're one of those "I don't watch TV" people. If you build your own box for mythtv you pay a hundred up front and it works off thew cost with each recording. If you buy from iTunes at $1.99 per show you pay nothing up front but you pay as you go. And risk loosing all your paid-for content if you have to reinstall more that three times, or more if it's changed since the last time I looked. I pay the cable company a few $$ more a month for a DVR with the ability to record two shows at once, one output goes to the TV the other to my PC. I dont' mind having to fast forward through the commercials which also allows me to record each between commercials block, a little more labor intensive but easier for cutting out the commercials. End result being a non-DRMed 720x480 mpeg2, no HDTV yet so this is good enough for now, that I can convert to mpeg4/m4v for my ipod and DivX for a 640x3XX 350mb file for my DivX capable DVD player(using RWs to save disks). This being my power saving option, if all I want to do is watch recorded tv, why tv-out for up to 185w for my PC when the dvd player will do it for 12w. Also good for games an tv.
But there are still so many who fail to keep work out of the rest of their lives or the rest of their lives out of their work laptop. The article's author freely admints that her laptop was purchased by not her, possibly an employer. If it's not yours it's, well, not yours and anything no matter how personal you put on it is not yours. Unless you have some written agreement allowing all data stored on it to be your personal property, think lease, you don't own what's on it either. I've made it a point to NOT have a work laptop, or e-leash as it should be called as you may be expected to take it home and put in some late night or weekend unpaid time. If you have to have carry some personal data around with you, and/or don't happen to have a secure server at home, encrypt(and hidden file) it and stick it on the non-music/video area or notes folder of an ipod. They're far more common than linux running laptops and probably far less likely to create draw unwanted attention.
airport/boarder/other security guard/storm trooper: what's that? you: my ipod guard: turn it on you: ok guard: looks good, these are not the droids we're looking for, move along
Or it may remain unnoticed and unquestioned in your pocket
The articles don't provide enough data. Was it her personal computer or a PC assigned to the classroom? If it was her first day as the substitute teacher with that class I can see how she would not be familiar with any problems it had, since it happened in 2004 I'm going with comet cursor and gator. She reported it, good idea, continuing to use it in a way the students could see it, bad idea. If it's school owned hardware the administration should be held fully responsible. It's up to them to realize problems and hire a compitent tech support/IT dept. If they didn't it should be their fault, the blame should not to be passed on the the person who encountered the problem and did report it. As for why she didn't pull the plug or turn off the monitor, as with must common PC users she probably assumed that hitting the 'X' would simply close the pop-up, not close and generate another dozen or two. And the ones they claimed she hit a link for, there's always the boxes with the fake 'x' below the real one. You'd think they've never heard of java script, no wait, they probably havn't.
Not dogs, hot dogs or sausage. Which could be made out of dog or even bunny. Along with all the less wanted chemical preservatives they are a decent source of animal fat and protien did help the US through the great depression without that many people starving to death. It appears that North Korea's problem, other than the economic embargo encouraged by their great and wise head of state, is the lack of decent land to raise crops and livestock. So they need a animal with a good size, weight to meat ration, food eaten vs meat produced and doesn't need much graising room. KFC chicken is the first that comes to mind, but after thinking of my sister's pet bunny, they may also work. They do have some coast, perhaps some kind of seafood/rice/bunny sausage with a side of potato product, mashed or scalloped or even some freedom fries.
I'd go with- Homer: No TV and no beer make Homer something something Marge" Go crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do
Nothing beats a real live person being there. Yes, they have to be alive because driods and robot maids don't exist yet. With the chance of power and/or internet going down a remote monitoring system is a bit risky. Always the chance of a sensor or camera going down or a pipe breaking or a racoon breaking in in a blind spot. Try renting or ask you neighbors to look after the place, but people may lose patience after a while. Also depends on how long you're planning on keeping it and what you want to do with it. Renting as a source or year round income is nice, also resulting in someone being there all year with the heat on reducing the risk or pipes freezing and breaking. They'll also let you know if a bear or deer or wild turkey breaks in a trashes the place. And if they own a gun and catch it you may end up with a new wall ornament.
If you're looking for a summer house that you're going to use at most two monthsa year, can't help there. If you're going to take all your stuff with you, maybe let a local church or charity group use it for retreats or something, and maybe look for some kind of tax credit, and you'll know someone is there every once in a while. But not as often as renting. Is it near any college? If you still want to use it as a summer place offer a 9 or 11 month lease and you get move back in for a fews months. May not be such a good idea to let college kids know their landlord is a couple hundred miles away.
"The downloading WAS free - you didn't pay for Kazaa or a monthly subscription to use it." - or maybe they did
I'm too lazy to look this up but wasn't there a paid version kazaa at one time?(counts 12&19 claim kazaa was sold) And someone who paid for it got sued by the record cartel, maybe the 90yr old grandmother or the 14yr old girl. Part of their defence was they thought it was legal because they paid for kazaa and thought that since they were paying for it they could download all they wanted, like one of those unlimited access for a monthly fee ones that I've never used. This doesn't say that the primary named plaintiff paid for it but it's very possible that others did, esp since they do not know the exact size of the class.
Tagging someone with an RF device to cause trouble, reminds me of an olde HS prank.
Sometime when I was there in the late 90s they decided to RFID tags or whatever tye were called bacl then in the library books so no one would walk out with a book without checking it out, same as everyother library I've been to. Except the tags were just placed between the pages and could be easily removed and transfered. Combine that with freshmen having class in the library computer lab and being required to leave their bags unattended in the main room. So one day someother students, never bother to find out who did it, pulled the tags out of a couple books and put the tags in some poor freshman's bag and his books and in his coat and anything else he had. I walked in while he was still being searched.
ah, that olde saying, "everything before 'but' is a lie" We didn't want all the data collected to be posted to a public server, but... If that happens it's only a matter of time before some "leak" happens.(AOL) It was intended for research purposes only, but...
ISP: we really wanted to stay in business, but the storage requirements needed to comply with the No Child Porn Left Behind Act was too costly.(even I think that sounds really bad) or The Crusade on Kiddy Porn. And what happens when suspected sites on not hosted in the US? Go after the site users but that doesn't stop the dealers. And can't get the UN to do anything about it because the french would veto it.
If you want to iTap a suspected kiddy porn person online activities that's what warrants are for. If the RIAA can hire someone to look for their warez and make a lawsuit out of it, even if it's only a civil case, then some gov't agency can get a name&address just as easily WITHOUT having the ISPs record everything.
I got my degree from some big public university which had been(and still is) cutting lots of full-time jobs. So you have several hundred underpaid part-time lecturers and teaching/graduate assistants and they're expected to do a good job with that lousey compensation. Of course not.
So a bunch of departments went and made generic exams and paper assignments that were reused for years. And the obvious happend, some students noticed and resold their old assignments. Then they went into damage control and required the leaving of the exam question sheet in the room, used to be able to take it home, and nothing was returned, only grades posted which was so much fun when you did any grade appealing/challenging. You had to go to the dept records room or some proctor's office and be supervised as you reviewed your exam/paper and the grading. I tired a CS major until some non-english speaking TA lost/got lazy and didn't turn in grades from the 2nd mid-term to the end. And with no assignments returned thanks to the obsession with cheating there were no records to appeal.
So I got my BA in history, you might think lots of writing, but exams only. Every student is not very good at writing papers and exams which is why I say they're a very bad idea. What is needed are well rounded exams, that kind that can be assembled 15min before they're given, no chance for an advance copy to be leaked. If a paper can be assigned on a topic a better exam can be made. And you can ensure lots of it is on what was said during lecture and only someone who was there and took a few notes would remember.
My minor was Political 'Science' just to see how messed up politics really is. During my last two years or so use use of turnitin.com was required. I objected on the grounds of not knowing what happens with MY WORK once it's turned in. If the school decides to not return work is gets destroyed after a couple months, with those electronic paper checking sites papers may be added to their database, without the expressed written concent of you or major league baseball. And they were lazy enough to use it for GRADING as well and checking for 'cheating'.
Please note: an incorrect, not missing just wrong, citation is NOT cheating and should be only 2-3 points off. The prefered method of citing with and example should be part of the assignment which is to be given in writing.
YES! more RIAA bashing... "does not have evidence that they may have been erased, there was a precedent where someone got the book thrown at them after using a drive wiper"
Hopefully this will not make having secure file deletion software file "illegal" according to the RIAA, no, wait it probably is already. After converting my TV recording with my legally purchased DivX encoder I use Eraser to remove the no longer needed files; first recording w/ commercials and with commercials removed. I have no need to keep several GB sitting around.
Norton AntiVirus also a file wipe utility, but that doesn't make everyone uses has it a music "pirate" (ARRRG!) But I prefer Eraser for the convenience of being able to right click and 'Erase'
Until someone tries it to get a better deal in the divorce settlement and the guy sues the state and wins and the list never gets used. Great potential for abuse, but that's why we have judges. I may be able to almost agree with allowing the state attorney general to add to the list, but not county prosecutors, and all additions should all require the approval of the state supreme court( at least two justices), none of those elected local judges, as if appointed local judges can be much worse. Yes, I'm thinking of all those "corrupt" local officals from TV. Punish those found guilty by jury, fine, punish the accused not found guilty if it even went to trial, don't even think about it.
YES! another conspiracy involving Sony "exploding" Dells and Apples using batteries many by Sony, when's the last time you heard about an "exploding" VAIO? or even heard of someone using a VAIO. One could claim it's some anti-competition plotting to scare people away from Dells and Macs. And Homeland Security scaring people away from the Lenovo. Something about the Windows flag going from red, green, blue and yellow to red, red, red and red. With Dell, Apple and Lenovo out of the way all people will have to choose from is "a genuine Sorny" and something good like an ASUS. Forget the tinfoil hat I want my armored fireproof pants if I'm using one of those.
Was the time/date of death before of after the time the cartel claims he "pirated" their crap*? If he died prior to their "timestamp" or whatever it is they claim to have that one might call evidence then it could not have been him. I stopped paying attenting to the RIAA 'news' for a while, have they demonstrated how they obtain their information yet or are we still guessing they pick an IP address out of a hat and claim the defendant is "distributing" at least one "song" on the complete list of all the crap they've ever produced? *it may not all be crap, just most if not all the recent stuff
I hope they at least remove USPS/UPS/FedEx/etc tracking numbers before releasing the stored search data. Not much else gives away someone's location better than a tracking number reporting a package was delivered in SPRINGFIELD, KY at 1pm on 13/13/95.
I picked up the Samsung ML-1740 600dpi(it's the newer model now, 1200dpi) last summer for around $35 after rebate(s) and a netgear printserver for around $5 after rebate(s). The nice thing about the 1740 is the USB and parallel interface(cables not included). If you're willing to wait a couple weeks you'll probably be able to find one for under 80 or even 50 after rebates, just send them return receipt req so 'they' can't deny receiving it. try dealsea.com
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They're probably using some geographical/economic profiling. ...but that gated community with names like C.M.Burns and Quimby and Fat Tony sounds like trouble, better stay away from them.
MAFIAA boss: We're sure those poor folks in that part of town won't be able to afford any legal council better than Lionel Hutz but may have a few hundred or thousand in savings. Send in the SETTLEMENT SUPPORT CENTER!!!
When's the last time we heard about someone with a six figure income being sued?
According to tv.com Descent(pt1) was first aired 6/21/93 and All Good Things... 5/23/94.
And how many other episodes had poker scenes with green visors and then how many takes were needed to film them all? And everyone of them has a chance of having its own duplicate prop.
Uh-oh, looks like the cat that played Spot used that one for a scratching post, we're going to need a new Timmy, err...visor.
How many websites are devoted to finding discrepancies in TV shows? In this cut Data is wearing his correct LtCmdr rank but in that cut of the same scene he is only wearing LtJG rank.
Christie's error was naming(episode) names without being able to prove that the item being auctioned was used in all they listed.
I can't think of a good reason for anyone doing this, but if someone were to fill their shiny new 160GB iPod in less than a month, from the iTunes Store, they would find them self being banned from Comcast for downloading content they PAID for?
Who let someone use "Clarifies" in this context? And what's with trying to measure usage in 'songs'? Are they in MAFIAA's pocket too? Of course everyone is always downloading songs from Kazaa and MediaSentry torrents.
It would probably easier to pick a number and setup a page where everyone can check their monthly usage, my college IT dept did this so it can't be that difficult, unless it's not profitable enough for them.
Now if you really want to turn something off all you have to do is pull the plug and/or take out the battery...oh wait, it's an iPhone.
So how long until all the 'science content' is done and they can go for some of the fun pictures, some historical and some fun - the crash and burn kind(if Mars had enough O2 for that). It would be nice to see how the Viking landers are holding up after 30+ years of sitting on Mars and maybe hit reboot button and recharge the batteries. And can't forget about some nice hi-res close ups of the wreckage of the Beagle 2, and maybe the polar lander if there's time.
Now for the Mars challenge: Build a rover/go kart to drive around the planet(best time wins) and since it's not on Earth there's no need to worry about any speed limits or anyone complaining about how your killing off the local wild life. And if you happen to discover some local wild life then there just might the Nobel prize in attempted chemistry in it for you. If they all pay the same does it really matter what it's called?
I wonder how easy it is to freeze someone else's credit.
If we happen to be in the market to some property in the same area and both make an offer for the same one and I know that you are going to need a loan to buy what would it take for me to put a freeze on your credit and leave you unable to unfreeze it?
Or I identity theft you then freeze your credit. Plenty of room for abuse either way.
Or 'get a Mac' as a second PC to claim it's your only computer since we know kazaa and a bunch of those other evil p2p apps don't run on an Apple, unless it's Mac hardware with Windows. Or get a used laptop and a larger hdd, paying cash for both so you might be able to try to deny even owning it. Then change the mac addr to match your primary PC so any network traffic from it will appear to come from your main and clean PC. Clean as in free of anything the MAFIAA may consider to the 'infringing' material. Or if you want to pass it off as a backup use full disk encryption with a hidden partition and store it on one of those fancy fire and water resistant safes and tell the judge that you're a little concerned about backups and security. But for the cost of doing all that you can get a few dozen used CDs and movies from amazon.com(new&used for...) or ebay and probably many other places. Even with as much as the MAFIAA may not like it, buying used media is still legal.
You'll probably get into some kind of trouble if you tell the court you only have one computer and it turns out you had a second hidden somewhere. An examination of windows logs can probably determine that an external drive was used and the presence of p2p software on the computer will probably be enough for the MAFIAA to cry WITCH!!! or was that 'pirate' but you could claim that it belonged to someone else.
Now that's an idea, I only borrowed it from the internets because your service I'm paying you more than enought for didn't work, if your ISP is also your cable tv provider. Which seems to happen often with the Sci-Fi channel. The neither of the new Stargates recorded properly and I set their great [I]Explorer[.exe] box to record both showings, got less than 2 for 4 that day. I noticed the Sci-Fi channel signal dropping to the quality of a heavily scratched DVD during every showing of BSG. You could see most of the show but with all the skips and artifacts it was no where good enough to record for use on my PC and ipod. Maybe someone wants to encourage you to buy it off itunes tomorrow. Now why would I want to wait until tomorrow and pay another $2, or however much they're charging, when I should be able to record/convert it myself with all the services I'm already paying for and have it done in under 30min after the show ends and not have to wait until tomorrow.
agreed, it seems very difficult to cheaply prove that you are innocent, everyone's guilty in the eyes of the MAFIAA
RIAA: points and yells "WITCH" multiple times at the top of their lungs
not yet accused of anything defendant: no I'm not
RIAA: yes you are, media sentry(or whoever their bounty hunters are these days) said you are
not yet accused of anything defendant: well, they're wrong
followed by lot of "yes you are" "no I'm not"
While at college I heard that lots of file was sharing going on, but never saw it happening myself and am unable to even guess at how much really happened. These RIAA 'lawsuits' are nothing more than a witch hunt, there is no real proof that the person they think did the file sharing really did, or did not do the file sharing, especially since they havn't realized that IP!=specific person. And they can't even produce a mac address, as if just about every router doesn't have a clone mac address option along with plenty of software to do the same locally. Some of those who are doing something wrong and are really trying to not get caught will have their regular nic for their usual online activities and a second, possibly purchased second hand and paid with cash for everything else. If the university's network has dhcp of mac, it's easy enough to get the mac of a neighbor. The only evidence I'd accept is a video, not a picture since there's not way to tell what program that perso sitting in front of the PC was really doing when yhe picture was taken. Various law enforcement agencies have found evidence in pictures and text posted to myspace, perhaps the MAFIAA should have their IP bounty hunters shift to reviewing clips of college parties on youtube to see if they can find anyone using some file sharing app to download the party sound track. If not that then there's always the chance of an error in copying an IP or a low quality screen capture or smeared ink on a printout, is that a 0 or a 6 or an 8? And the 5 or 7 minutes differance between the ISP's clock and the RIAA's clock and/or the RIAA's failure to idenitfy AM/PM and time zone and date will result in either the right person of a half dozen wrong persons given how quickly IPs can change hands over a day.
While it is far funnier to say "Dude, must be the Dell"
When I think 130 year old farmhouse, good quality modern wiring is not one of the things that comes to mind. It could have easily been an overloaded circuit. Not to be confused with faulty wiring, the original wiring was probaby not designed for today's power hungry applicances. I wonder if any of the outlets had grounding plugs or if was the house full of 3-prong adapters and daisy chained light duty extension cords running around the house from the single outlet originally installed in the kitchen for the single refrigerator. Even if the wiring was not have been that bad, with a home that old there's always the chance of something getting overloaded.
I guess I'm slighlty more lucky to not have "many glitches in the program streams as when I record it myself."
Either way we're going to pay for it, we just have to pick the way that works for us. That is unless you're one of those "I don't watch TV" people. If you build your own box for mythtv you pay a hundred up front and it works off thew cost with each recording. If you buy from iTunes at $1.99 per show you pay nothing up front but you pay as you go. And risk loosing all your paid-for content if you have to reinstall more that three times, or more if it's changed since the last time I looked. I pay the cable company a few $$ more a month for a DVR with the ability to record two shows at once, one output goes to the TV the other to my PC. I dont' mind having to fast forward through the commercials which also allows me to record each between commercials block, a little more labor intensive but easier for cutting out the commercials. End result being a non-DRMed 720x480 mpeg2, no HDTV yet so this is good enough for now, that I can convert to mpeg4/m4v for my ipod and DivX for a 640x3XX 350mb file for my DivX capable DVD player(using RWs to save disks). This being my power saving option, if all I want to do is watch recorded tv, why tv-out for up to 185w for my PC when the dvd player will do it for 12w. Also good for games an tv.
But there are still so many who fail to keep work out of the rest of their lives or the rest of their lives out of their work laptop. The article's author freely admints that her laptop was purchased by not her, possibly an employer. If it's not yours it's, well, not yours and anything no matter how personal you put on it is not yours. Unless you have some written agreement allowing all data stored on it to be your personal property, think lease, you don't own what's on it either. I've made it a point to NOT have a work laptop, or e-leash as it should be called as you may be expected to take it home and put in some late night or weekend unpaid time.
If you have to have carry some personal data around with you, and/or don't happen to have a secure server at home, encrypt(and hidden file) it and stick it on the non-music/video area or notes folder of an ipod. They're far more common than linux running laptops and probably far less likely to create draw unwanted attention.
airport/boarder/other security guard/storm trooper: what's that?
you: my ipod
guard: turn it on
you: ok
guard: looks good, these are not the droids we're looking for, move along
Or it may remain unnoticed and unquestioned in your pocket
The articles don't provide enough data.
Was it her personal computer or a PC assigned to the classroom?
If it was her first day as the substitute teacher with that class I can see how she would not be familiar with any problems it had, since it happened in 2004 I'm going with comet cursor and gator.
She reported it, good idea, continuing to use it in a way the students could see it, bad idea.
If it's school owned hardware the administration should be held fully responsible. It's up to them to realize problems and hire a compitent tech support/IT dept. If they didn't it should be their fault, the blame should not to be passed on the the person who encountered the problem and did report it.
As for why she didn't pull the plug or turn off the monitor, as with must common PC users she probably assumed that hitting the 'X' would simply close the pop-up, not close and generate another dozen or two. And the ones they claimed she hit a link for, there's always the boxes with the fake 'x' below the real one. You'd think they've never heard of java script, no wait, they probably havn't.
Not dogs, hot dogs or sausage. Which could be made out of dog or even bunny.
Along with all the less wanted chemical preservatives they are a decent source of animal fat and protien did help the US through the great depression without that many people starving to death.
It appears that North Korea's problem, other than the economic embargo encouraged by their great and wise head of state, is the lack of decent land to raise crops and livestock. So they need a animal with a good size, weight to meat ration, food eaten vs meat produced and doesn't need much graising room. KFC chicken is the first that comes to mind, but after thinking of my sister's pet bunny, they may also work. They do have some coast, perhaps some kind of seafood/rice/bunny sausage with a side of potato product, mashed or scalloped or even some freedom fries.
I'd go with-
Homer: No TV and no beer make Homer something something
Marge" Go crazy?
Homer: Don't mind if I do
Nothing beats a real live person being there. Yes, they have to be alive because driods and robot maids don't exist yet.
With the chance of power and/or internet going down a remote monitoring system is a bit risky.
Always the chance of a sensor or camera going down or a pipe breaking or a racoon breaking in in a blind spot.
Try renting or ask you neighbors to look after the place, but people may lose patience after a while. Also depends on how long you're planning on keeping it and what you want to do with it. Renting as a source or year round income is nice, also resulting in someone being there all year with the heat on reducing the risk or pipes freezing and breaking. They'll also let you know if a bear or deer or wild turkey breaks in a trashes the place. And if they own a gun and catch it you may end up with a new wall ornament.
If you're looking for a summer house that you're going to use at most two monthsa year, can't help there. If you're going to take all your stuff with you, maybe let a local church or charity group use it for retreats or something, and maybe look for some kind of tax credit, and you'll know someone is there every once in a while. But not as often as renting.
Is it near any college? If you still want to use it as a summer place offer a 9 or 11 month lease and you get move back in for a fews months. May not be such a good idea to let college kids know their landlord is a couple hundred miles away.
"The downloading WAS free - you didn't pay for Kazaa or a monthly subscription to use it." - or maybe they did
I'm too lazy to look this up but wasn't there a paid version kazaa at one time?(counts 12&19 claim kazaa was sold) And someone who paid for it got sued by the record cartel, maybe the 90yr old grandmother or the 14yr old girl. Part of their defence was they thought it was legal because they paid for kazaa and thought that since they were paying for it they could download all they wanted, like one of those unlimited access for a monthly fee ones that I've never used.
This doesn't say that the primary named plaintiff paid for it but it's very possible that others did, esp since they do not know the exact size of the class.
Tagging someone with an RF device to cause trouble, reminds me of an olde HS prank.
Sometime when I was there in the late 90s they decided to RFID tags or whatever tye were called bacl then in the library books so no one would walk out with a book without checking it out, same as everyother library I've been to. Except the tags were just placed between the pages and could be easily removed and transfered. Combine that with freshmen having class in the library computer lab and being required to leave their bags unattended in the main room. So one day someother students, never bother to find out who did it, pulled the tags out of a couple books and put the tags in some poor freshman's bag and his books and in his coat and anything else he had. I walked in while he was still being searched.
Nothing new here, move along.
ah, that olde saying, "everything before 'but' is a lie"
We didn't want all the data collected to be posted to a public server, but...
If that happens it's only a matter of time before some "leak" happens.(AOL)
It was intended for research purposes only, but...
ISP: we really wanted to stay in business, but the storage requirements needed to comply with the No Child Porn Left Behind Act was too costly.(even I think that sounds really bad) or The Crusade on Kiddy Porn. And what happens when suspected sites on not hosted in the US? Go after the site users but that doesn't stop the dealers. And can't get the UN to do anything about it because the french would veto it.
If you want to iTap a suspected kiddy porn person online activities that's what warrants are for. If the RIAA can hire someone to look for their warez and make a lawsuit out of it, even if it's only a civil case, then some gov't agency can get a name&address just as easily WITHOUT having the ISPs record everything.
I got my degree from some big public university which had been(and still is) cutting lots of full-time jobs. So you have several hundred underpaid part-time lecturers and teaching/graduate assistants and they're expected to do a good job with that lousey compensation. Of course not.
So a bunch of departments went and made generic exams and paper assignments that were reused for years. And the obvious happend, some students noticed and resold their old assignments. Then they went into damage control and required the leaving of the exam question sheet in the room, used to be able to take it home, and nothing was returned, only grades posted which was so much fun when you did any grade appealing/challenging. You had to go to the dept records room or some proctor's office and be supervised as you reviewed your exam/paper and the grading. I tired a CS major until some non-english speaking TA lost/got lazy and didn't turn in grades from the 2nd mid-term to the end. And with no assignments returned thanks to the obsession with cheating there were no records to appeal.
So I got my BA in history, you might think lots of writing, but exams only. Every student is not very good at writing papers and exams which is why I say they're a very bad idea. What is needed are well rounded exams, that kind that can be assembled 15min before they're given, no chance for an advance copy to be leaked. If a paper can be assigned on a topic a better exam can be made. And you can ensure lots of it is on what was said during lecture and only someone who was there and took a few notes would remember.
My minor was Political 'Science' just to see how messed up politics really is. During my last two years or so use use of turnitin.com was required. I objected on the grounds of not knowing what happens with MY WORK once it's turned in. If the school decides to not return work is gets destroyed after a couple months, with those electronic paper checking sites papers may be added to their database, without the expressed written concent of you or major league baseball. And they were lazy enough to use it for GRADING as well and checking for 'cheating'.
Please note: an incorrect, not missing just wrong, citation is NOT cheating and should be only 2-3 points off. The prefered method of citing with and example should be part of the assignment which is to be given in writing.
YES! more RIAA bashing...
"does not have evidence that they may have been erased, there was a precedent where someone got the book thrown at them after using a drive wiper"
Hopefully this will not make having secure file deletion software file "illegal" according to the RIAA, no, wait it probably is already. After converting my TV recording with my legally purchased DivX encoder I use Eraser to remove the no longer needed files; first recording w/ commercials and with commercials removed. I have no need to keep several GB sitting around.
Norton AntiVirus also a file wipe utility, but that doesn't make everyone uses has it a music "pirate" (ARRRG!) But I prefer Eraser for the convenience of being able to right click and 'Erase'
Until someone tries it to get a better deal in the divorce settlement and the guy sues the state and wins and the list never gets used. Great potential for abuse, but that's why we have judges. I may be able to almost agree with allowing the state attorney general to add to the list, but not county prosecutors, and all additions should all require the approval of the state supreme court( at least two justices), none of those elected local judges, as if appointed local judges can be much worse. Yes, I'm thinking of all those "corrupt" local officals from TV.
Punish those found guilty by jury, fine, punish the accused not found guilty if it even went to trial, don't even think about it.
Recall Ohio's statehood!!!
YES! another conspiracy involving Sony
"exploding" Dells and Apples using batteries many by Sony, when's the last time you heard about an "exploding" VAIO? or even heard of someone using a VAIO. One could claim it's some anti-competition plotting to scare people away from Dells and Macs. And Homeland Security scaring people away from the Lenovo. Something about the Windows flag going from red, green, blue and yellow to red, red, red and red. With Dell, Apple and Lenovo out of the way all people will have to choose from is "a genuine Sorny" and something good like an ASUS. Forget the tinfoil hat I want my armored fireproof pants if I'm using one of those.
Was the time/date of death before of after the time the cartel claims he "pirated" their crap*?
If he died prior to their "timestamp" or whatever it is they claim to have that one might call evidence then it could not have been him. I stopped paying attenting to the RIAA 'news' for a while, have they demonstrated how they obtain their information yet or are we still guessing they pick an IP address out of a hat and claim the defendant is "distributing" at least one "song" on the complete list of all the crap they've ever produced?
*it may not all be crap, just most if not all the recent stuff
I hope they at least remove USPS/UPS/FedEx/etc tracking numbers before releasing the stored search data. Not much else gives away someone's location better than a tracking number reporting a package was delivered in SPRINGFIELD, KY at 1pm on 13/13/95.
I picked up the Samsung ML-1740 600dpi(it's the newer model now, 1200dpi) last summer for around $35 after rebate(s) and a netgear printserver for around $5 after rebate(s). The nice thing about the 1740 is the USB and parallel interface(cables not included). If you're willing to wait a couple weeks you'll probably be able to find one for under 80 or even 50 after rebates, just send them return receipt req so 'they' can't deny receiving it. try dealsea.com