R rated material is permitted (no money shots etc...), and in many locations the police choose not to raid - but it is in fact illegal to sell.
We have friends in the BDSM community who are advocates for changes in the current OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) ratings system. While at the same time the legislation states that a reasonable adult should be able to view what ever they want - they then get really fuzzy about what they consider a reasonable adult would want to see.... The inference is that if you want to see this kind of stuff - you are being unreasonable.
According to the article this device is MICR (special toner for printing magnetic readable pages) capable. At a guess this device is setup to run statement and/or mass cheque printing - for example tax returns or dividends statements.
If you read the OP, you would see that I was commenting on when we were performing data recovery operations. It is normal procedure to open random files after a data recovery to ensure that the data is intact. We wuld report this on the service report when returning the unit.
When doing data recovery you pay lots of attention to the directory structure of the data repositories, as you want to ensure you have got it all. It was common to find 'invisible' folders 'hidden' on the drives. These typically contained porn. We recovered the data - just as we recovered all the other data. And put the 'invisible' directory on the desktop as 'visible'.
They get the data back and they can find it simply - which can be important if we have had to sort fragmented data in the recovery process.
The example refered to later about kidde-porn the owner of te machine had set those images as his screen save NOT US. The machine (as noted in the post) was in for hardware repairs and te SS triggered while in the workshop. There was no attempt by the staff to look for it. Kiddie Porn is illegal.
In Victoria is is illegal to sell X-rated material or own more than 50 X-rated titles Note it is not illegal to BUY X-rated material.. Kiddie porn is always illegal to possess or distribute.
The only places in Australia where you may legally sell X-rated materials are in the two territories; i.e. Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (where our nation's capital is located).
We only encountered kiddie porn once - the guy was using images for his screen saver, it was pretty vile. We had a discussion with our manager regarding do we report it to the police or not. In the end we did, but we were concerned that if it got out that we reported our customers to the authorities for illegal activities that we would lose a large chunk of our customers: it would be a rare machine that did not have some pirated software or porn on it somewhere.
NB: Victoria, Australia actually has limits on the amount of porn you may legally possess before it is considered no longer 'personal use'. Seriously. I'm not joking.
"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.
I grew up in a bushfire zone in Australia. My parent's house was within 1 house block of the fireline in the Ash Wednesday bushfires in'83, my sister, mother and myself were sitting on the beach 3 blocks from our house as the fire rolled down the hill. My father refused to leave the house, and the reason the fire only got to within one house of our was that he was on the roof with a garden hose watering everything he could reach.
Due to a sudden and catastrophic change in wind direction, we were given only minutes notice to evacuate, with a police car driving block by block telling everying one to get to the beach RIGHT NOW. Prior to that the advice had been keep the main road clear for emergency services to get further down the coast where the problems were.
It is impossible to comprehend the destruction natural disasters can cause unless you've lived through one, and each and every disaster is unique in it's path and level of destruction.
People do not want to believe that they should abandon their homes to the elements (or the lesser elements of our society), and hope that their presence may avert a worse disaster. Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't but you never know until it hits.
Not so sure about the kiddie porn side of things, but when I used to do Mac repairs, I used to make a point of leaving the 'hidden' directory of porn visible on the desktop after a data recovery. Normally hidden by making the directory 'invisible' in the finder, easily located by simply looking at folder sizes and drilling down until you reach a folder which contains both 5Gb of data but only 500Mb visible data.:)
$250 for some good ideas may not be a rip off. I'm a business process consultant for a large multi-national, my daily chargeout rate is $1,750. That means it's worth a little more than an hour of my time.
Mid combat I got a message that my Wavebird had failed and please connect a new controller. The fact that it knew I was using a wavebird convinced me. Then there was the white flash just after I died....
I had limbs drop off at random. One one occasion playing late at night is sounded like someone was ringing the doorbell. Another time the rain effect (played connected up to a surround sound system) made me go check if a storm had started outside.
People make hiring decisions on broad generalisations al the time. First impressions make a huge difference in how you respond to people.
From personal experience, I know that while at university I had blonde hair briefly, during that period I noticed that men in particular (but often women) were far more likely to treat me in a patronising manner. I did however got more offers of free drinks in the pub.
Similarly, when I wear my glasses, people speak to me in a more serious manner than when I don't.
Both experiences are the result of commonly accepted stereotypes - blonde=dumb, glasses=smart
As someone who is also under-tall and overweight, I also get assumptions that I am lazy and eat too much, and yet the poeple I work with comment on how little I eat when we have lunch together.
Different is just different, IQ tests are notorious for being biased in their outcomes. If we value differences it doesn't matter, some skill sets work better in some roles.
I also liked the new Italian Job, not becuase it was a remake of the first one, but because it logically built on the story of the first one. According to interviews, they had always intended to make a sequal to the first one where the gold got stolen and they had to get it back again.
The story got updated to newer technology and audience cultral expectations (e.g. the Benny Hill stuff was no longer considered acceptable), but it kept key elements of the first one - such as the minis and the big brass balls of the heist in the first place.
My husband has severe sleep apnea. I t went undiagnosed for over 10 years (while they misdiagnosed him with bi-polar, depressions, epilespy, etc...), and they are still not sure if he has a side serving of narcolepsy. His has a 10 year deficiet on levels 3 and 4 deep sleep.
For someone like him, who suffers from short term memory problems, occasional sleep deprevation based hallucinations and major irritability issues, this could be a godsend. I will be forwarding copies of the article to him to take to his specialist.
I was once a passenger in an accident after the driver had been go-karting. He entered an intersection (roundabout) at too high a speed and lost contol going around the centre island.
We made it a rule that from then on, the guys had to run the lasermaze (same venue) after go-karting before they were allowed back onto main roads.
(Warning for visitors: WA has one of the most zealous state highway patrol forces in the nation. Just don't exceed 10 over the limit here.)
I've received a ticket for being 6km over the limit on the Princess Highway just outside of Geelong (Victoria) and on the only other instance of being booked had a cop knock 10km off the speed to only give me a ticket for doing 109 (i.e. 119) in a 100kph zone near Portsea.
Bizzarely, the second one I absolutely deserved, the first one, I was trying to match speed at one of those 'check your speed' points, where each time I had gone through previously I had registered low by 4-5 kph. *shrug*
However, I have switched many of my friends to Apple, making sure they knew how difficult it would be to unlearn what they already thought about computers. Most of them don't get very far in learning. That may be okay in a lot of cases, but if you are someone that has to be productive and you've learned to do things certain ways, switching is going to make Apple seem real inferior. Switching is not as easy as it appears.
Umm... there will always be people who decide something is too hard to learn - computers are complex, Macs are too difficult...
I 'switch' on a daily basis - Wintel @ work, MacOSX @ home. The biggest problem I have is remembering which set of keyboard shortcuts to use, and that my mouse at work doesn't have a scroll wheel.
Most basic activities on both platforms are done the same - deleted files go to the trash/recycle bin, files are kept in folders, you launch applications by clicking on them or an associated file, etc... The hardware is in essence the same. Are you sure YOU haven't convinced them it's too hard?
According to urban legend, this acronym meant 'Port Out, Starboard Home', referring to the optimal side of an ocean liner for cabin on an Atlantic Crossing from/to England.
Personally, I used to take a good old fashioned deck of cards. You could JUST fit 7 cards across the fold up desks in our lecture theatre, if you were tidy.
The single biggest problem with DyeSub printing is that the image is generally not stable. DyeSub is similar to thermal transfer - the ribbon with the dye is heated up, the dye becomes gasseous, is absorbed into the treated substrate (paper) to form an image. Trouble is, over time the dye evapourates. The image fades and is gone. Slightly different to the way inkjets fade (the dye discolours over time - but is still there). Laser is definately a more permanent image (melted onto the page).
For purposes of accurate colour proofing, DyeSub may only be accurate for a matter of days before the colour has shifted due to dye changes.
The presence or absence of 'gloss' will to a degree depend on whether you are using a single or multi pass colour laser. Multi-pass lasers lay down a layer of silion oil to prevent the already printed image from sticking to the fuser when it passes the next time. It will also depend on the paper stock - though toner itself has a tendancy to be fairly matt.
The colour accuracy will depend heavily on the colour calibration of the printer - with low end devices this is often a 'default' setting in the driver with little capacity to modify it. Getting postscript on board is expensive in either inkjets or lasers, but it will often give you a better quality output for vector based images. Colour management and resolution is 99% of the story for rastor images. Photos are rastor.
Inkjets have the advantage of being soluable inks at 1400dpi or better. Laser is opaque powerder at 600dpi typically. It's using the right device for the right job.
From memory it's called "Lucas Heights", IIRC I was taken on a field trip their as a child, my mother was a Nuclear Medicine Technologist (i.e. a kind of Radiologist who did MRI type imaging when it was a new field)
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R rated material is permitted (no money shots etc...), and in many locations the police choose not to raid - but it is in fact illegal to sell.
We have friends in the BDSM community who are advocates for changes in the current OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) ratings system. While at the same time the legislation states that a reasonable adult should be able to view what ever they want - they then get really fuzzy about what they consider a reasonable adult would want to see.... The inference is that if you want to see this kind of stuff - you are being unreasonable.
According to the article this device is MICR (special toner for printing magnetic readable pages) capable. At a guess this device is setup to run statement and/or mass cheque printing - for example tax returns or dividends statements.
If you read the OP, you would see that I was commenting on when we were performing data recovery operations. It is normal procedure to open random files after a data recovery to ensure that the data is intact. We wuld report this on the service report when returning the unit.
When doing data recovery you pay lots of attention to the directory structure of the data repositories, as you want to ensure you have got it all. It was common to find 'invisible' folders 'hidden' on the drives. These typically contained porn. We recovered the data - just as we recovered all the other data. And put the 'invisible' directory on the desktop as 'visible'.
They get the data back and they can find it simply - which can be important if we have had to sort fragmented data in the recovery process.
The example refered to later about kidde-porn the owner of te machine had set those images as his screen save NOT US. The machine (as noted in the post) was in for hardware repairs and te SS triggered while in the workshop. There was no attempt by the staff to look for it. Kiddie Porn is illegal.
In Victoria is is illegal to sell X-rated material or own more than 50 X-rated titles Note it is not illegal to BUY X-rated material.. Kiddie porn is always illegal to possess or distribute.
The only places in Australia where you may legally sell X-rated materials are in the two territories; i.e. Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory (where our nation's capital is located).
We only encountered kiddie porn once - the guy was using images for his screen saver, it was pretty vile. We had a discussion with our manager regarding do we report it to the police or not. In the end we did, but we were concerned that if it got out that we reported our customers to the authorities for illegal activities that we would lose a large chunk of our customers: it would be a rare machine that did not have some pirated software or porn on it somewhere.
NB: Victoria, Australia actually has limits on the amount of porn you may legally possess before it is considered no longer 'personal use'. Seriously. I'm not joking.
"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.
I grew up in a bushfire zone in Australia. My parent's house was within 1 house block of the fireline in the Ash Wednesday bushfires in'83, my sister, mother and myself were sitting on the beach 3 blocks from our house as the fire rolled down the hill. My father refused to leave the house, and the reason the fire only got to within one house of our was that he was on the roof with a garden hose watering everything he could reach.
Due to a sudden and catastrophic change in wind direction, we were given only minutes notice to evacuate, with a police car driving block by block telling everying one to get to the beach RIGHT NOW. Prior to that the advice had been keep the main road clear for emergency services to get further down the coast where the problems were.
It is impossible to comprehend the destruction natural disasters can cause unless you've lived through one, and each and every disaster is unique in it's path and level of destruction.
People do not want to believe that they should abandon their homes to the elements (or the lesser elements of our society), and hope that their presence may avert a worse disaster. Sometimes they can, sometimes they can't but you never know until it hits.
Not so sure about the kiddie porn side of things, but when I used to do Mac repairs, I used to make a point of leaving the 'hidden' directory of porn visible on the desktop after a data recovery. Normally hidden by making the directory 'invisible' in the finder, easily located by simply looking at folder sizes and drilling down until you reach a folder which contains both 5Gb of data but only 500Mb visible data. :)
Beyond Good & Evil rocked, and Jade was a great female heronie who didn't rely on a DD chest to get by.
$250 for some good ideas may not be a rip off. I'm a business process consultant for a large multi-national, my daily chargeout rate is $1,750. That means it's worth a little more than an hour of my time.
Mid combat I got a message that my Wavebird had failed and please connect a new controller. The fact that it knew I was using a wavebird convinced me. Then there was the white flash just after I died....
I had limbs drop off at random. One one occasion playing late at night is sounded like someone was ringing the doorbell. Another time the rain effect (played connected up to a surround sound system) made me go check if a storm had started outside.
The sanity system on this game rocked.
People make hiring decisions on broad generalisations al the time. First impressions make a huge difference in how you respond to people.
From personal experience, I know that while at university I had blonde hair briefly, during that period I noticed that men in particular (but often women) were far more likely to treat me in a patronising manner. I did however got more offers of free drinks in the pub.
Similarly, when I wear my glasses, people speak to me in a more serious manner than when I don't.
Both experiences are the result of commonly accepted stereotypes - blonde=dumb, glasses=smart
As someone who is also under-tall and overweight, I also get assumptions that I am lazy and eat too much, and yet the poeple I work with comment on how little I eat when we have lunch together.
Different is just different, IQ tests are notorious for being biased in their outcomes. If we value differences it doesn't matter, some skill sets work better in some roles.
At least this one does...
I also liked the new Italian Job, not becuase it was a remake of the first one, but because it logically built on the story of the first one. According to interviews, they had always intended to make a sequal to the first one where the gold got stolen and they had to get it back again.
The story got updated to newer technology and audience cultral expectations (e.g. the Benny Hill stuff was no longer considered acceptable), but it kept key elements of the first one - such as the minis and the big brass balls of the heist in the first place.
8 out of 10 Great White Pointers agree, Zombies taste better with braiiiiiiins...
Optus are #2, that's why they try harder - I suppose that explains the 4 hours outage we had the other night mid WoW instance run.. *sigh*
My husband has severe sleep apnea. I t went undiagnosed for over 10 years (while they misdiagnosed him with bi-polar, depressions, epilespy, etc...), and they are still not sure if he has a side serving of narcolepsy. His has a 10 year deficiet on levels 3 and 4 deep sleep.
For someone like him, who suffers from short term memory problems, occasional sleep deprevation based hallucinations and major irritability issues, this could be a godsend. I will be forwarding copies of the article to him to take to his specialist.
I was once a passenger in an accident after the driver had been go-karting. He entered an intersection (roundabout) at too high a speed and lost contol going around the centre island.
We made it a rule that from then on, the guys had to run the lasermaze (same venue) after go-karting before they were allowed back onto main roads.
(Warning for visitors: WA has one of the most zealous state highway patrol forces in the nation. Just don't exceed 10 over the limit here.)
I've received a ticket for being 6km over the limit on the Princess Highway just outside of Geelong (Victoria) and on the only other instance of being booked had a cop knock 10km off the speed to only give me a ticket for doing 109 (i.e. 119) in a 100kph zone near Portsea.
Bizzarely, the second one I absolutely deserved, the first one, I was trying to match speed at one of those 'check your speed' points, where each time I had gone through previously I had registered low by 4-5 kph. *shrug*
However, I have switched many of my friends to Apple, making sure they knew how difficult it would be to unlearn what they already thought about computers. Most of them don't get very far in learning. That may be okay in a lot of cases, but if you are someone that has to be productive and you've learned to do things certain ways, switching is going to make Apple seem real inferior. Switching is not as easy as it appears.
Umm... there will always be people who decide something is too hard to learn - computers are complex, Macs are too difficult...
I 'switch' on a daily basis - Wintel @ work, MacOSX @ home. The biggest problem I have is remembering which set of keyboard shortcuts to use, and that my mouse at work doesn't have a scroll wheel.
Most basic activities on both platforms are done the same - deleted files go to the trash/recycle bin, files are kept in folders, you launch applications by clicking on them or an associated file, etc... The hardware is in essence the same. Are you sure YOU haven't convinced them it's too hard?
It's POSH[1] to show up to school in a Porsche?
According to urban legend, this acronym meant 'Port Out, Starboard Home', referring to the optimal side of an ocean liner for cabin on an Atlantic Crossing from/to England.
Personally, I used to take a good old fashioned deck of cards. You could JUST fit 7 cards across the fold up desks in our lecture theatre, if you were tidy.
The single biggest problem with DyeSub printing is that the image is generally not stable. DyeSub is similar to thermal transfer - the ribbon with the dye is heated up, the dye becomes gasseous, is absorbed into the treated substrate (paper) to form an image. Trouble is, over time the dye evapourates. The image fades and is gone. Slightly different to the way inkjets fade (the dye discolours over time - but is still there). Laser is definately a more permanent image (melted onto the page).
For purposes of accurate colour proofing, DyeSub may only be accurate for a matter of days before the colour has shifted due to dye changes.
The presence or absence of 'gloss' will to a degree depend on whether you are using a single or multi pass colour laser. Multi-pass lasers lay down a layer of silion oil to prevent the already printed image from sticking to the fuser when it passes the next time. It will also depend on the paper stock - though toner itself has a tendancy to be fairly matt.
The colour accuracy will depend heavily on the colour calibration of the printer - with low end devices this is often a 'default' setting in the driver with little capacity to modify it. Getting postscript on board is expensive in either inkjets or lasers, but it will often give you a better quality output for vector based images. Colour management and resolution is 99% of the story for rastor images. Photos are rastor.
Inkjets have the advantage of being soluable inks at 1400dpi or better. Laser is opaque powerder at 600dpi typically. It's using the right device for the right job.
for a moment there I thought you were going to mention Richard Pearse.
From memory it's called "Lucas Heights", IIRC I was taken on a field trip their as a child, my mother was a Nuclear Medicine Technologist (i.e. a kind of Radiologist who did MRI type imaging when it was a new field)