When Salon.com paywalled they didn't deny free access to the entire website. They just make it quite annoying to access for the people who didn't pay. Salon.com is still around and occasionally interesting. Especially when they can get Camille Paglia to do a column. They seem to have a lot of people on staff that do little more than come up with new ways to annoy their web site viewers. But they were the first people to tell me about MP3 files twelve years ago, so I'm eternally grateful to them for that.

      The worst paywalls are the video clips that make you wait through a 30 second to one minute commercial before they will show what you clicked on. I just jump out of these situations because I hate commercials and I have seen too many already in my life.

      The ugliest website that I have ever seen is Asia Times (www.atimes.com). Good content is buried somewhere deep in all this mess. Ebay is getting to be quite ugly too, as is Yahoo!. I'm switching my main e-main address to Google mail so that I don't have to wait for all the schmaltz useless photos on Yahoo that clog my dial-up bandwidth.

...and solved it with Panasonic Toughbooks. I did SONAR research systems for a half a decade, and we always had problems with not just sand and dirt from the remote locations we were in, but often saltwater spray as well. Panasonic Toughbooks were the only laptops that stood up to everything we did, and never failed. Yes, they're expensive, but they're worth it, especially when you're paying $2500 per day for a research vessel and your laptop dies when you're 4 days out into the ocean. That's a $20,000 (there and back) failure.

Intel uses IPMI, which tends to not have quite as many management hooks into higher level functions as ASF. There are still plenty of things that can go horribly, horribly wrong with a bad IPMI implementation...but they're more likely to be exploitable because of something on the system side than something on the NIC side.

Yeah, the idea that someone is making 2/3 of their normal salary under unemployment gives you two mathematical possibilities: either unemployment payouts are high or the person's original salary was low. It's most likely the latter. I think unemployment is usually only a couple hundred a week, so it means the teacher in question probably wasn't making much more than $30k. Hardly rolling in it.

If you think about it, it's all the more reason why that person probably needs the unemployment. In most places, it's not easy to save much money for a rainy day when you're making $30k.

It's kind of like when people complain about some statistic like "The 10% of people who make the most money pay 50% of the taxes in this country." If true, that leaves 2 mathematical possibilities: either we're placing heavy taxes on the richest people in this country, or the richest 10% are making *way* more money than the rest of us. It's most likely the latter.

They needed 60 votes not 67 votes. And that was to overturn a filibuster. For the reconciliation stuff, they only needed 51 votes.

all you really need to do is build an installation USB stick and archive your deb files (for example) on it, and put /home and maybe /etc on a SDHC card. Anything important is kept on that card and backed up to another USB stick periodically. When the machine fails, you boot the machine off the installer and install the archives. When the card fails, you restore to a new one from the USB key (but you can use the USB key in the interim if you don't have a new SDHC card handy. Do you feel lucky?) If you create users in the same order each time (especially if they are few) then you don't need /etc very badly.

Our site http://1place.com.au/ is blocked which on has our work or intellectual property generally (e.g. art events, design, patents, copyright, latest trade mark disputes, great marketing podcasts...) .... However, the bare buttocks at the opera house as photographed by Spencer Tunick has no problems getting passed the great wall: http://thespencertunickexperience.org/2010-03_Sydney/Sydney_The_Base_2010.htm I was surprised. We were informed by a Chinese resident that: "Nudity is no probelm. It is subversive activity [of IP protection] such as your website that is blocked."

True, the recording of time can be easy enough. However I wouldn't be surprised if in this case the system requirements have been moving to include all kinds of higher level management functions.

You can't charge for the Web. The experience that most users get sucks. They are in IE on a PC and it sucks. There are too many other sources that also suck to bother paying, with very rare exception.

They should be making non-Web content to charge for. For example, iPad apps, or eBooks, and so on. And advertise that on your Web site.

Think of a Sunday newspaper with a magazine in it. Make the newspaper free (Web), charge a low price for the magazine (eBook). Make the part you pay for downloadable and rich in photos and videos and audio. Make the Web compete with that.

The reason HBO worked was it was something née and different from free ad-supported TV. They didn't try to take NBC to a paid model.

Yes, who do they think they are. Those prefixes only meant powers of ten for nearly two centuries before computers came along. I think you'd find your precious dictionary reference would reflect that as late as the 70's or 80's.

Just why do you think that you are so important that you can redefine a centuries old standard?

megasquirt is just fuel (spark too, for MS2) - so you'd still need a cable for the throttle.

unless you use megasquirt, and bang up your own $2 microcontroller for the pedal. I can't see it being that big of a deal.

You're saying this "mom" doesn't understand or really need high end photo editing software. And she also can't afford to spend much on it.

So why should Adobe lower the price for her? She doesn't have the money or need the software. She's a lousy prospect.

So who cares if she goes out and pirates their software? That does not represent a lost sale. Adobe was never gonna have her business to begin with.

You don't "market" a product to everybody. Or if you hate the word "marketing" we can say this: you dont' create and sell a product and hope literally everybody and their brother will buy a copy for one dollar apiece. Different products appeal to different people. Photoshop is high end software programmed for people who need it and can afford to pay for it. People who aren't in the "market" for such a product because they don't understand it and can't afford it are a waste of adobe's time. Trying to appeal to them AND to the high end at the same time would result in software that is middling, and pleases no one. Adobe knows their audience, knows what it can afford, and knows how to please them.

Nothing to do with which college you went to. It's just about figuring out where the money is and not wasting your time with everyone else.

No, I think it was a deliberate attempt to mislead. Best Buy already offers installation services on devices they sell, and by Best Buys response pretty much states that is exactly what this, just under a different name. 3d TV's are new, but TV's in general are not. Honestly any idiot can install a TV and home theater in a box and more people are realizing this and as such Best Buy is probably worrying that they are going to have a harder and harder time selling the essentially free money installation services. So they rename an existing service to make it sound like they are doing something special, that a trained professional is required for, that is essential for the enjoyment of the TV.

EAS supports the enforcement of policies (device MUST have password, device MUST be encrypted). IMAP does not.

Also, many phones do not support IMAP/TLS, but support EAS over HTTPS. Using unencrypted IMAP for your corporate mail seems like a very bad idea, no matter how you put it.

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Catherine: Not recently, Clark. He read that squirrels were high in cholesterol.