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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”
– Stephan Hawking
Ain’t it the truth?
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Proposed EU ISP filtering and copyright extension shot down
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The EFF’s Danny O’Brien sent a heads-up to BoingBoing that, as of today, the Culture and Education Committee rejected all of the proposed filtering and copyright extension amendments. Clearly, they’re not going to let the ITRE or the European recording industry push them around, which is great news for Europeans.
MPAA admits to lying about college downloading
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The MPAA study that showed that students were responsible for 44 percent of film downloading? A big old lie. And now the MPAA has admitted it:
In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus.
The MPAA has used the study to pressure colleges to take tougher steps to prevent illegal file-sharing and to back legislation currently before the House of Representatives that would force them to do so.
But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told education groups a “human error” in that survey caused it to get the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.
Detroit Public Schools Book Depository
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This is a building where our deeply-troubled public school system once stored its supplies, and then one day apparently walked away from it all, allowing everything to go to waste. The interior has been ravaged by fires and the supplies that haven’t burned have been subjected to 20 years of Michigan weather. To walk around this building transcends the sort of typical ruin-fetishism and “sadness” some get from a beautiful abandoned building. This city’s school district is so impoverished that students are not allowed to take their textbooks home to do homework, and many of its administrators are so corrupt that every few months the newspapers have a field day with their scandals, sweetheart-deals, and expensive trips made at the expense of a population of children who can no longer rely on a public education to help lift them from the cycle of violence and poverty that has made Detroit the most dangerous city in America. To walk through this ruin, more than any other, I think, is to obliquely experience the real tragedy of this city; not some sentimental tragedy of brick and plaster, but one of people:
Hit me if you need me homie, I’ll be on my I-PHONE.
Apple to discuss FY08 results on Jan 22
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Apple is expected to post better-than-expected earnings based on strong Mac sales, newly-introduced iPods, and favorable commodity pricing during the quarter.
So I guess it really depends on what the word expected means, right? via
anyway, Apple did very well
Office 2008, 502, and you
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First things first: They’ve moved to Apple’s Package Maker (.pkg) installer files, good news for the enterprise rollouts? Well, unfortunately they’ve created all the packages to install most all of the files with the owner set to 502.
So let’s say, Mr. IT installs this on a user’s machine where the first user is the admin (501) and the standard user is Joes User (502), well, when after all’s installed, it will give Joe User (502) ownership of these folders and their installed contents:
/Library/Automator/ (if it doesn’t exist already)
/Library/Fonts/Microsoft
/Library/Application Support/Microsoft
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008Hmmm, that’s not good now is it? Because A) Joe User will find a way to screw it up and B) those are security holes IT does not want to have.
Amazing - they write software for a system that’s much more secure than their own, and they manage to screw that up. It’s as if Microsoft doesn’t want security. Do they get a kickback from all the anti-malware companies or something?
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He should come to California; here pedestrians have “priority” which causes many of them to just walk off the curb at crossings without looking to see what’s coming. There are several deaths from people stepping in front of buses in SF every year, assuming the fact that they have legal priority will somehow protect them from being flattened by something that weighs many times what they do, and is clad in metal.