I can't speak for anyone else, but generally if I'm tired of seeing updates from someone I'm probably not too terribly interested in them seeing my updates either.

There are -- the addon CookieSafe is one (lets you block all by default, allow by domain, subdomain, etc for session or temporarily).

Running that side by side with NoScript and RequestPolicy makes for a very interesting browsing experience, though. Kinda like trying to open someone else's combo lock.

Oh, and it doesn't do anything for Flash LSOs or other tracking methods, of course.

RequestPolicy makes it a lot harder for them to play that game.

Of course, it also makes it a lot harder to actually load any particular site. Amazing how many places load stuff from a dozen different places.

Frankly, that's why I hate FedEx. They always seem to miss me. I think they drive by, see the driveway, and decide they don't want to try it because, hey, I can always drive an hour and a half during working hours to pick up my package! So convenient! Way more convenient than the driver actually carefully turning into the steep drive and turning around at the bottom, you know. Because doing anything other than blazing down at top speed, flinging the package at the garage door, and backing out at 90 mph into traffic is too hard for these people.

I think it depends on where you are; If they're using small shippers, some of us will be lucky enough to be out of range. Ironic that suddenly out in the boonies means you're more likely to get the better companies.

They're making you give up your Boy Scouts now?

Wow. Glad I just drive everywhere.

We exist.

(retires to her basement to play with her marble roller coaster)

Mostly it's useful to help keep your insurance company from saying "Theft? What theft?" and refusing to pay. Otherwise, you're right. Useless.

As an artist myself (and one who has be unable to use her right hand in the past and dealt with some* of the frustration your friend has), I'll suggest a couple things.

One is off-handed use of the tablet, if the non-dominant hand can still be used.

Another would be some sort of touch interface, especially if at least one fingertip of the dominant hand is still usable.

And the last would be honesty: no matter what you try, it's going to take time. He's had all his life to perfect his art with his dominant hand; it'll take a long time to train any other body part to do the same thing. Probably the best that can be hoped for is a tool that will allow him to take down his ideas in rough form so that they can be revisited after he's healed.

*I emphasize "some". It's possible to work through intense wrist and finger pain if you're desperate and inspired enough. Burns are a different story, and carry huge psychological weights as well.

Seriously? I was in a "good" school, and the damn Jr. High/High School kids were worse on furniture than the little guys. At least the little ones don't usually break stuff intentionally.

You may have something with the younger generation wanting their own thing. I've heard a number of people freak when their parents get a Facebook account. Who knows -- that could make the young 'uns jump ship.

I can confirm that you don't need to be out in the middle of nowhere. Fringes of a city of 50,000; 30 miles east from the largest city in the state and we get one, count it, one OTA channel. The switch to digital screwed us over; we used to get 6 with varying degrees of fuzz, but now we don't get a strong enough signal for five on them, and the sole channel we do get drops out or does the bit with the mixed-up blocks constantly. This is with the digital receiver and amp.

Many many many white cats are deaf, so it probably wasn't difficult to find natural subjects. But yeah, that sort of thing crosses a lot of minds when you see something like this. In this case, I doubt there were any scientists poking cats' eardrums out.

Which county?

If it's the one I'm in, I think that some of the latest pass/fails would start to make sense...

FCP isn't a DVD editor. Nothing comes close to it in non-linear video editing; certainly nothing FOSS. If something existed I'd marry it.