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Blogger Who Revealed GOP Leader's KKK Ties Had Home Internet Lines Cut
Re:Censorship? (418 comments)
Ah, those were the days. I also remember posting stuff to Usenet with my real name and WORK email address.
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Re:Censorship? (418 comments)
Ah, those were the days. I also remember posting stuff to Usenet with my real name and WORK email address.
Re:It only takes one ... (381 comments)
That's my fear too. I live in a small town in Appalachia with dirt-poor but stubborn^H^H^H^H^H^Hproud conservative folk. When they get sick, they just don't go into the hospital. They ride it out at home. They have no health insurance and won't even sign up for it if they can because -- Obamacare. They *may* go to the free clinic in town that's open Tuesdays from 1-3pm. They live in remote areas down dead-end gravel roads that lead to the side of a mountain that other locals know you don't drive down if you have no business going down. If Ebola comes to visit it'll wipe out my mountain town.
Didn't deserve to die... (450 comments)
OK let's get this out of the way...
He didn't deserve to die for stealing the pills...
For a small shop, maybe (409 comments)
For a small shop that it's not feasible to hire their own IT shop, I think it's viable. Other than that, no.
I was a very early advocate of moving stuff into the cloud and a very early victim of getting screwed by it. Before the cloud I could spend countless sleepless hours pacing around dealing with things like praying that a SAN spins back up after an extended site power failure with a backup generator fault failure or dealing with irate users on a Christmas morning wondering why I scheduled an email migration to happen that required email to be down for 24 hours. But at least it was my fault and I was in control.
After moving to the cloud I had things like extended service outages where I had irate users and I could do nothing but sit around and look stupid and helpless saying "the vendor is working on it" and not know even if anyone was actually doing anything besides refreshing the ticket system and occasionally posting a ticket update begging for a status update.
Re:Never again (143 comments)
Yeah, I was just going to say I wonder how many April 1st's will go by before this one is retired.
Re:Chip and Signature, not Chip and PIN (210 comments)
At least it takes a grad student.
Magnetic swipes can be cloned by anyone. Heck, you can easily buy a cloning card to do it.
Chip and Signature, not Chip and PIN (210 comments)
Most US cards being issued with a chip are Chip and Signature, not Chip and PIN -- because banks have trained Americans to think PIN means debit so banks fear applying a PIN to a credit card would confuse people.
I have one of these Chip and Signature cards and on my last trip to UK it was a real PITA, especially at self-checkouts. Like at ASDA there was a signature signing pad but I had to wait for a clerk to come over to give me the pen and then she checked my signature real closely. Same thing at the duty free at the airport. The self-checking stopped and alerted the clerk to come over to check my signature. Then at other stores the clerk couldn't find a pen, or was surprised when paper spit out and had to ask a manager what was going on.
(I had one clerk hand me the slip to sign, checked my signature, then put the signed slip into the bag with the receipt! If I was an "arse" I probably could have disputed the charge and gotten away with it because they couldn't produce a signed slip)
At the ASDA (far away from where tourists usually go) the clerk remarked it's been years since she saw someone have to sign for a charge. I apologized, said I was an American, and that our banks think we are too stupid to remember a PIN. She got a good chuckle out of that...
Re:The actual website (164 comments)
Not really shocking. In the permissions you give it:
and your friends' status updates and photos.
So if one of your friends gave them permission, then they can grab the photos that way.
So yeah, what you share put to your friends can be given away by them.
Opinion: Facebook shouldn't allow an app to gain access to friend's data like this unless that data is marked public.
Re:The actual website (164 comments)
Watch Dogs Digital Shadow will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, News Feed, relationships, birthday, work history, status updates, education history, groups, hometown, interests, current city, photos, religious and political views, follows and followers, personal description and likes and your friends' status updates and photos.
So basically you give them access to all of your data, and then they tell you all about you.
What a shock.
Re:Not in june, only after september (97 comments)
I do believe Turkey blocks on individual IMEI. At least that was what I was warned of before I went for a visit. It happens after a few weeks so tourists are probably fine. Reference: http://www.turkeytravelplanner...
Re:Tourists (97 comments)
Your international phone with roaming would still go through their towers and potentially be blocked.
Re:We need to stop big tax dodgers useing loop hol (300 comments)
We can assume they paid their taxes when they received their paychecks. Why should their heirs pay them again?
For the same reason why when I pay my plumber out of money I have that was already taxed, he has to pay taxes on it as well.
Money is usually taxed when it changes hands. Now I'll admit in case of estates it's not really practical because there are so many ways to get around it, and it also makes stupid situations happen, like if a parent wants to help an adult child pay for an expense they have, they are limited to the ~$14,000 a year gift limit without the kid being taxed as well.
So I admit it's a stupid law, but saying it's already been taxed is not a good argument against it in my opinion.
Re: Troll (451 comments)
I retired at 53 from technology. I still do work part-time but don't need to. The key was to live well below my means for those years. Like I could have bought any kind of car I wanted but took public transit for 20 of my working years and my wife and I just had one car.
Re:"Is This News"? (206 comments)
Yes, I know, after the copper wire hits a switch of some kind, it probably gets routed over IP anyway, but at least with copper wire to your house, you almost always have a dial tone, hence 911.
I held onto my copper POTS line for years because of that. But it kept going out and I kept calling in for service. One time my wife called me and said the Verizon guy wanted to get into the basement. I was like "NO. THEY ONLY NEED TO FIX IT AT THE BOX OUTSIDE." She said he insisted he had to get in, so I had her put him on the cell phone with me and he said he had an order to install FIOS.
Of course I never signed up for FIOS so they had to requeue my service call. After a year of it going down about once a month, they finally won. I disconnected my POTS line and got a $12/month Vonage plan.
Re:Turn off iMessages ? (179 comments)
No. Their imessage chat bubble turns green to let them know their message will go out as a text and not an iMessage -- but it will work.
Re:Ici on parle everything (506 comments)
It is obvious that the society and culture are going to change over time, why fight it?
I wonder how Americans would feel if/when Spanish becomes the dominant language. It's already happening in some parts of the country.
Re:Higher potency? (294 comments)
Damn, that doesn't sound like much fun. Sorry you had to go through that.
Re:Higher potency? (294 comments)
Thanks for the warning. I don't take it often enough to probably hit that. The ibuprofen dose is only 200mg, which is one OTC pill.
I pretty much take maybe 1 or 2 a week at most as needed, but they keep me out of the hospital or urgent care place so it's worth it.
(Annoys me that pain pills are hard to get for people who really need them because some people abuse them...)
Re:Higher potency? (294 comments)
I take Vicoprofen (for migraine pain). It's mixed with Ibuprofen instead of Tylenol. It still makes me sick all day after taking it. No idea why people abuse it.
For me it comes down to a choice between being in horrible agony all day or having no pain but stuck in bed feeling dizzy and like shit all day. I'll take that over the pain.
Now there may be some anti-nausea I can take to counteract some of the negative affects, but I haven't asked my doctor about that because the effects now ensure I won't abuse it and I don't want to know otherwise I guess.
Re:i trust nothing (631 comments)
Yeah, and that makes sense. And that can be leveraged by smarter folk. Problem is, there's a lot of folk who buy into the world is ending tomorrow, buy gold now, constantly -- especially those who hate the current President. They are preyed upon by companies who sell gold. My point is, it's not always a safe investment, it's an asset for a larger portfolio that one has to be smart about, like any other asset in a portfolio.
Unfortunately many people aren't.
When they came up, for whatever reason, the BIOS on one of them lost its time and came up as year 2003. It was quickly noticed, fixed, and rebooted with correct time. All was well, or at least I thought.
Our four ADs are across two sites with a replication path resembling a box...
a1 <----> b1
/\ . . . ./\
| . . . . . |
\/ . . . . \/
a2 <----> b2
Site a and b are connected via a wan link and are in different AD "sites."
A few days later, it's noticed that site b isn't getting replicated data from a. Some playing around reveals that b can replicate to a but not visa-versa.
Doing a "repadmin
Google searches on this indicate problems with machine account password, a duplicate machine name, or even dynamic dns problems. I note that if a DC at site b just accesses \\a1.domain.name\c$ it gives the same error, but not if done via \\a1\c$ or \\ipaddr\c$ so that makes me believe it's not an auth issue but a name resolution issue.
So much time is spent checking DNS, the guid version of each dns machine's name, comparing the guid on each box to see if it's identical, etc, etc...
ok, all works there, so time to think about the machine acct password. Find references and kb articles saying how to use "netdom resetpwd" where each article details the steps like purging the kerb ticket list at different places. Arrggh...
Since b can't talk to a, try resetting the password on b boxes. No go. Then try an a box, still no go. Was missing a vital step that took digging through usenet posts to find and which isn't clear from the microsoft tech docs.
Syntax for the netdom resetpwd command is:
netdom resetpwd
/s:servername /userd:domainadmin /passwordd:*
So the key to making it work was doing this on each box on site a and specifying the server as its replication partner in site b to inject a good password record there.
After that was done, credentials worked again and replication started happening again.
The steps required to do this include purging the ticket list and starting and stoping the kdc service.
net stop kdc
klist purge
netdom resetpwd/s:b1.domain.name /userd:domain\admin /passwordd:*
net start kdc
I'm hoping this gets indexed into google and helps someone else out with this problem someday.
My wife's entry is up there.
The entire 9/11 event had a very deep impact on my wife, and I believe working on this memorial helped her out a lot. She, and three of her students (she teaches architecture) worked on the model for much of last summer. It cost us a good chunk of change for their salaries, but they got some good experience out of it and seemed to enjoy it.
Anyway, I'm quite proud of the ole girl, even if she didn't win!
I had never done something like that before, so heading into the court's clerk office and figuring out what to ask for, the procedures for getting copies, examining various dockets (learned a new word!) on the case, etc, was fun.
Equal fun was getting to read it before most everyone else of course, then OCRing it and getting it posted.
I sent it to groklaw site and they posted it for commentary. I was going to post it on my own site, but it's best served from there. It's great to read the commentary on the board from various paralegals and law students. Interesting stuff!
First of all, let me say how useless AAA is for trip planning for this tipe of trip. The AAA person wanted me to use the Interestate. When I said I wanted backroads, she drew a pink line down US 1 to the Baltimore Beltway. I explained I wanted to go north of Baltimore, then around west of DC. She basically just connected dots on the map and not a good path either. And despite me saying I wanted to use the Ferry, she said "Oh, you don't want to do that," and drew me a route that went down US 15 over the Potomac.
Well, forget that, so I tried Mapquest. That took a lot of fiddling around, even with plotting various intermediate points so it too wouldn't force me down the turnpike. Mapquest will send you way out of your way to get some interstate miles in.
So I had to plot several subtrips...
Summary of my outbound routing (5 hours)
Summary of return trip (4 hours, 10 minutes, southern leg different)
Interesting tidbits:
Left Newark, DE heading west on SR 273 towards Conowingo Dam. A bit of a boring road that hasn't change much in the 30 years I've been going down it except for one neat thing. Just after Rising Sun at 276 there is a new roundabout! This must have been a new installation within past year. It would be the first of three that I saw during my trip.
Joined up with US 1 and head across the (toll free) Conowingo Dam towards Hickory. At Hickory, headed west on MD 23. The next hour or so was the most difficult, navigation wise. Idea was to head west towards Westminster, then southwest on MD 27. But getting to Westminster is not easy.
Took MD 23 towards Jarrettsville. An interesting curiosity. I don't think Maryland cares much for multiplexed routes. Something I concluded on this leg of the trip and saw other examples as I went. When MD 23 hit MD 165 in Jarretsville, it should multiplex with 165 north for about a mile, then continue west from there. Dog leg or zigzag if you will. But at the T junction, instead of pointing right for MD 23, it had a "TO 23" sign with a right arrow. As I head north to Jarretsville, I saw another sign that said "Junction 23". I turned left there. On the return trip through this area however, when I hit 165 from 23, there was no corresponding "TO 23" pointing south. No signs whatsoever. Had I not known from the prior day's trip in opposite direction, I would have continue straight at that interesection.
Looking at a map later, I saw that that road that continue straight is called Jarretsville Road and continues to US 1, pretty much paralleling 23 which was south of it. At one time Jarretsville Road must have been MD 23 and that's why the discontinuous segments of MD 23 happened. They should really sign it better.
But enough of Jarettsville. Continued west on MD 23 for about 3 miles, then turned left on MD 138. Except for the first mile or so, it's a fairly narrow road, speed limits around 30 to 40. It snakes around until Hereford where I had to go north for about 1/10 mile on 45, then left on 137. Life would have been simpler had 137 and 138 been given the same route number, but that would have meant having a multiplex for 1/10 a mile on 45, so I guess we can't have that. Sigh...
Continued west on 137 until it dead ended on a road with no indication of what direction 137 took. From the map I had, it seemed like 137 continued to Hampstead, but that was not the case. There *was* a sign that said "TO MD 30" pointing left. I took that and eventually after a couple of turns that thankfully also said "to MD 30" found my second roundabout at MD 88. A 1/2 mile further was was Hanover Pike, which I went north on for about 1/2 mile, then west on MS 482 until I reached "Mexico."
At Mexico I piked up MD 27. Finally, roughest part done. I took MD 27 south to Damascus. The route from Damascus to White's Ferry isn't very straightforward. ie, not an easy set of signed routes. I branched off onto Oak Road, then Kingstead Road, Burnt Hill Road, north on MD 355 for about 1/2 mile, then west on Comus Road (under I-270) to -- Comus! The plan at that point was to turn left on MD 109, but the bridge was out, and scheduled to be reopened on 8/26. Sigh, few days too early. So I continued west and found the entrance to Sugarloaf Mountain Park. Nice.
Heading south towards MD 28, then followed MD 28 towards Beallsville, down W Hunter Road, Wasche Road, then right on White's Ferry Road.
White's Ferry had a nice queue of cars waiting for it that backed up outside their property limits. I didn't think I'd make it on to the next Ferry, but when it pulled up, there was plenty of room for everyone. A short ride across for $2.00 (m/c fare) and I was in Virginia!
White's Ferry Road dumps out onto US 15 near Leesburg. South on that around Leesburg to VA 234 about 20 miles later. A short 6 mile drive down that road and bango, soon as I go under I-66, congestion, traffic, massive civilization. First mess I was in during the entire trip, and thankfully my destination.
For my return trip, I altered the southern leg of the route somewhat. I headed north towards Leesbug on US 15, but then went west on VA 7, then branched off to VA 9. then north on VA 287 towards Brunswick MD. A nice road, and the bridge over the Potomac offered nice views.
And lo and behold, soon as you enter Brunswick, yet another roundabout! I must be back in Maryland! Coming north out of Brunswich was a fairly decent climb with speed limit 30 MPH. I saw two police officers "camping" and running radar for the poor folks coming south down the hill.
I continued north on MD 79, then east on MD 180, which must have been the old US 340 route. Over I-70 (no junction) and onto US 15 north again, but not for long. Branched off onto MD 26 and took that until MD 27, then retraced my steps back using same route I went out on.
The trip down took me just shy of 5 hours, with about 30 minutes spent waiting or riding on the White's Ferry. The return trip was 4 hours and 10 minutes, and if I had just remained on US 15 instead of the scenic ride through Brunswick, I probably could have got it down to 4 hours.
Total mileage each way was around 165-175 miles compared to 130 miles using I-95, I-495, and I-66. When using the Interstate, I can do the trip in 2.5 hours, provided there are NO traffic slowdowns. On really bad congested days, it can take over four hours. Given the choice of interstate and congestion, or a beautiful country drive, I'd go for the scenic drive unless I was in a real hurry and felt like taking a chance on the Interstate route.
Since my sister now lives in Manassas, I'll be taking more trips. The
drive is longer, but far more pleasant, although I'm not sure how
pleasant it will be if I am doing that run over and over!
You could go a long way to making me happy if you just standardize the hotfix install programs to use the same command line arguments. I have to run a batch of these things after an install to automatically bring a desktop up-to-date.
The way it is now, it's ridiculous. Here's some actual examples:
/c:"javatrig.exe /exe_install /l /qq" /q:a /r:n
q307274 -u -n -z
vbs56nen/q /r:n
start/wait q318202 /q /c:"dahotfix /q /n"
start/wait vm-sfix3 /q /r:n
Why can't there be a standardize hotfix installer? Please.... If not, at least document the unattended install procedure in the kb article describing the hotfix. As it is now, I have to hunt all over to find it if one of the old methods doesn't work. Like look at that java vm update. My God, where did THAT come from?
Reproduced below....
I'm an IT manager, responsible for 2,000 desktops. I "switched" at home to iMac a few months ago (well, not quite switched, added one to my several at home). I love it -- a lot, but I can't see deploying them at work. Why? Well, for one thing, control. Corporate IT is all about homogonizing the work environment, remote management, consistency, standard operating environments, etc.
So, before I would consider advocating any sort of switch, I'd need a Mac to do the following. Note, they may or may not be possible, but the point is, I don't know. Apple is not reaching me if this stuff is possible.
Group Policies: Ability to classify groups of users and machines and then apply policies to them. A policy controls how the machine works. It can tighten control, change behavior or appearance of an app, dictate where files are saved, define file permissions, and even be used to deploy applications remotely.
RIS: Remote Install Service Boot a PC, hit F12 on the bios startup screen, authenitcate to the domain controller, and get a list of install images that can be used on that machine. Select one, walk away, come back an hour later, machine back up to your standard operating environment including all needed applications. No install choices or interaction needed. For those familiar with Ghost, it's not Ghost. Ghost is very limited, where you need a literal image of each install type. RIS allows variations, does all hardware detection, and stores the "image" as plain files on the server, allowing them to be edited or manipulated.
Roaming profiles: If a user logs on to any machine anywhere on the network, their desktop settings and stored files follow them from place to place. This behavior can even be modified as needed through group policies, so for example, if an employee logs into an informational kiosk at HR, it can not roam, but provide a locked-down consistent interface for that one purpose.
Remote control: One thing my support techs are in love with is XPs new remote assistance feature. It's built into the OS. A tech can request control of any user's desktop and watch them work (with the user's explicit permission and knowledge), and even take over control to help them with a problem. Again, who can do this and where can be controlled through group policies. I know there are remote desktop features on Macs, but they are extra cost options per machine. A big extra cost. We had been using VNC for remote control and remote desktop, but scrapped it when we deployed XP. Much better. Remote desktop for servers is a big plus too...
Scripting of administrative tasks: I can script just about anything in Windows through vbscript and interfacing with WMI and ADSI (computer management, directory management). I know apple has Applescript, but I have no idea how extensive and useful it is. (For the record, anyone who claims Windows environments are easier to manage than Unix environments is just plain wrong. Everytime I want to do something that seems simple, like get a listing of disk quotas, you have to jump through so many hoops in Windows by writing a damn vb program to do it instead of a simple unix command or two piped into whatever filter to get the data you need...)
Delegation of authority: Control how much a user or IT technician has control over. I can, for example, create an OU (organizational unit) for a separate part of the company and delegate control of it to their IT staff while still having oversight control of it. They can create and manage users and desktops within that OU but not outside that OU.
I can't stress how important it is for a business to be able to control their desktops. While you may consider this IT nazi behaviour, it's a necessary fact of business life. While Renezvous sounds all nice and happy, I can't have staff just installing hardware devices casually and making them available to everyone. For example, someone gets the bright idea of plugging in a wireless access point into the computer so they can use their laptop to get to the net from an adjoining conference room. How nice for them, and how nice for the intruder sitting in the parking lot with a high-gain directional wireless antennae running kismit to gain access inside my firewall.
So, with that, let's discuss what really sucks about the PC from my experience. The file system is horrible. While NTFS certainly is nice when it comes to fine tuning ACL lists, it's overall weakness is its inability to remove or replace a file that is open. What you say? Unix based file systems have this neat feature where you can have multiple hard links to a file. When you "remove" a file, it just removes a link. If the file goes down to zero links and processes still have the file open, the file remains accessible to them and the final link won't be removed until all processes accessing them go away. can't do that on NTFS. That is why on Unix you can replace system libraries and commands and not have to reboot (although you should stop/restart processes that use them if, for example, the library is a security related issue). On NTFS, Windows, if the file or DLL is in use, must throw it in a temporary area and set up a process so next time the machine reboots, the DLL is copied into place during the reboot. That's why the damn things have to be rebooted so often. Rebooting a server while people are using it is a real drag.
The GUI in windows is too darn wired into the OS meaning a problem with the GUI screws the computer. While the Mac is kind of similar, I can at least boot into single user mode if needed and fix a lot of stuff without having to resort to a re-install to fix.
Windows registry sucks, nuff said.
Most Windows applications just aren't "logo compliant." That means they don't follow the rules making all that happy stuff above possible and that demands kludges. For example, Adobe products just insist on being able to write crap to their program directory and "HKLM" registry (trust me, it's just wrong). Autodesk products are bad too. Their answer, just give your users administrative privileges on their PC. "Ah, no, how about we just use Publisher instead of Pagemaker instead?" These vendors don't package their installers as
Well, I've gone on far too long. I just don't think Apple cares. They have a niche market and are happy with it. If they want to get into business, they need to provide solutions and then get to IT managers and let them know they exist. Microsoft has all kinds of migration papers detailing, for example, how one can switch from Apache to IIS. Does Apple have anything like that geared to the Windows IT professional detailing how they can integrate Macs into a PC world and how they can effectively manage them en masse?
Aaron McGruder, the creator of Boondocks comic strip was keynote. Jello Biafra makes a repeat appearance as well as some other past favorites, such as the "former spy" Robert Steele, as well as some surprise guests such as former Talbin fighter, Aukai Collins.
This is my personal review of h2k2. There were so many things happening
at once that one person can't obviously see it all. This is based on what
I saw, experienced, felt, and my personal opinions. (This was submitted that Sunday night to
Keynote Speaker: Aaron MgGruder, author of Boondocks, spoke on Saturday. This was my favorite speaker and worth the price of admission. He was invited because he did a short sequence of strips covering the DeCss subject and, as Emmanuel Goldstein said, "the only person in popular media to get it right." Aaron was very articulate, intelligent, and of course, opinionated. What I liked most about him was his admitting that he does not know it all. He made fun of political experts who sit around and debate political topics based on what they are spoon fed by popular media. He says there is not much difference between us and people who live in censored countries except they KNOW they aren't getting the full story. We all think we are smart and know it all. His advice to people who love to rant about political topics, "Shut the hell up, you don't know anything."
McGruder thinks our society is falling apart and the only thing that can fix it is revolution. He has hope, but not much. He spoke about Bush's line that countries that hurt American are going to have to pay, which means we kill a bunch of their innocent civilians so they get to claim that we will then have to pay, where they kill a bunch of us. McGruder's soluti\ on is that people should just go kill the leaders of these nations. He then back-peddled (remembering the place was probably full of feds) and disclaimed that he wasn't advocating that anyone go out and shoot Bush (who he has no love for). He reminded us that if Bush was killed, we'd be left with Cheney, who is far far worse in his opinion. "If Cheney was President, Afghanistan and Iraq would be glass, and we may give the neighboring countries 30 minutes of warning to get away from the borders."
Jello Biafra: Jello was keynote at H2K in 2000 and returned this year to speak late Saturday night. He was well loved by most people there, based on the reactions I saw that night. I didn't like him. He reminded me of Rush Limbaugh except on the left side. Loads of rhetoric, wild claims, and positioning himself as an expert. He was supposed to speak for one hour, and then the film "Freedom Downtime" was to be shown. He rambled on for two and a half hours, then took his shoe off and asked for donations for his legal defense fund involving his former record label. People flocked up and stuffed it full of money as he started to spin records. At this point it was 12:30am and I gave up and went to my room and and got some sleep.
Robert Steele : Former spy, and backer of a concept called "Open Source Intelligence" where countries share intelligence information freely with each other and their citizens. His speech on Hacking National Intelligence was, to me, frightening. He claims that 9/11 involved a serious failure of our intelligence network and Washington is trying to white wash it all. He also claims that he has no doubt at all that New York City will be the target of another terrorist attack soon. "When foreigners think of the U.S. they think of New York City. It is the center of capitalism." He is an excellent speaker. I hope he returns next time.
During his talk, he introduced Aukai Collins who told us of his experiences fighting for bin Laden (during the 90s when we were paying bin Laden's salary and he allegedly was a good guy). When the embassy bombings started to occur, he went to the CIA and offered himself as an intelligence source. He worked for them and the FBI a few years and during that time was invited by bin Laden's runners to come work closely with him. When he bought this opportunity to get close to bin Laden to his superiors, they told him not to go. He feels we lost probably our only opportunity to get one of our guys close to bin Laden. He has written a book on this called My Jihad.
If this so far sounds like h2k2 was more politics than tech, I got the same impression. I skipped out on most of the DMCA updates and other legal updates. They were hosted by members of EFF and their lawyers. The small bits I saw sounded very informative and I applaud their works in these areas. Since I've kept up on all the news on these cases, I decided to skip these forums.
The best of the tech presentations was Fun with 802.11b hosted by Dragorn, Porkchop, and StAtic FuSIOn. (I sometimes hate silly handles). During the days before h2k2, they mapped out over 400 open wireless networks accessible from within three blocks of the hotel in midtown Manhattan. They demonstrated passive snoopers like kismet and showed us different directional high-gain antennas. Their recommendation for a good PCMCIA 802.11b card was Cisco's 352, which I of course didn't have. I ran out and bought an SMC card for my company laptop before the conference and had a tech load Linux on my laptop. I told him he could pick the distro of his choice, but unfortunately he picked the one I'm least familiar with, Slackware. I could not get the damn card working for the life of me. I wanted to scream.
A big disappointment was the Cult of the Dead Cow Extravaganza . It was to be held down on the lower level in the network room and broadcast up to the conference rooms on the 18th floor. Well, it didn't work. I was upstairs and they mucked with the equipment for an hour trying to get a a/v feed going. After all this time of wondering whether we should fight our way downstairs to watch it in person, we got an announcement. "Sorry, but we can't get it to work. Oh, by the way, they have already started downstairs."
Urge to kill. My friend and I wondered how they screwed this one up and traced the wires to a display table and behind a closed stairwell door. We looked at each other and said "Nooo". We popped into a neighboring stairwell as everyone fought for the elevators. We went down one floor then popped over to the stairwell that we saw the wires going down. Sure enough, they had run the wires down the open portion of the stairs so they were hanging by their own weight for a distance of about 22 floors (the hotel has 18 number floors, about 4 lettered floors like A, B, C, D, a mezzanine floor, and lobby floor). I'm not sure what the stress would be introduced by a cable hanging by its own weight for that kind of distance, but I bet the center copper core couldn't bear it and broke inside.
So we run downstairs and saw some talented but unwanted female singing about how great the CDC was. Then someone else got up and swung a black briefcase looking device around. Had no idea what it was because we couldn't understand squat in the back. Basically we said to hell with them all, and left.
So while the presentations were hit and miss, the overall best part of the conference were the attendees. Freaks, geeks, and misfits everywhere, all being good to each other, curious, intelligent, and sometimes a bit too paranoid. Of course it was mostly guys, but there were women as well as one person who had a male voice but noticable breasts and a feminine face and shape. Many other guys dressed up a bit too flamboyant for my tastes as well. My point being, everyone was accepted for who they are and all got along great together. I didn't meet a single person who I talked to who was rude, or unwilling to strike up a conversation. The network room had wired and wireless internet access and was open 24 hours a day and the source for some of the most fun at the conference. But by all means, the best part of h2k2 was the attendees and they are the reason why I will want to go again in the future.
Why replace it? Well, I'm in the process of converting a lot of old video tapes (including the entire series of Babylon 5) to VCDs since I hope they won't degrade as fast as video tape. Also a lot of family video tapes. My old DVD player would only play VCDs burned on CD-RWs which was a drag. The RP56 will use CD-Rs and also will play mp3 CDs although I hear it's kinda crappy (no id3 tag info displayed for example...)
No, I haven't hooked it up yet so I don't know for sure.
I read some good things about the RP56 and it's fairly cheap ($229 at Best Buy).
I cap the vids with a Hauppauge WinTV PVR. It was an impulse buy while in a store. NEVER IMPULSE BUY. I got the USB version and later found out they have a PCI version.
But it doesn't matter because it's absolute CRAP. Not the hardware, the software that it comes with. It takes forever to initialize, change channels, and the mpeg-2 files it produces seem wrong. They playback fine in its own player, but in WMP and other players depending on the codec a person has loaded, it often displays in an incorrect aspect ratio (like 480x640 instead of 640x480) and sometimes distorted. mpeg-1 caps seem fine, which is what I am using to burn VCDs but still, I wanted better mpeg-2 capability for some purposes.
I edit the caps with Cyberlink's PowerDirector. So far I am pretty happy with it. It allows editing of mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 streams without having to re-encode the entire stream. It can just remove or insert segments and just encode the changed places. That's pretty impressive when you consider an mpeg stream is not a non-compressed frame-based file. Ever try to edit a compressed file in place without re-compressing the entire thing?!
However, and I blame the Hauppauge crap software, when PowerDirector edits an mpeg-2 stream produced by the hauppauge, it often crashes. I am able to, if careful, load a hauppauge (stupid name btw) made mpeg-2, go into the cropping feature, "stretch" it to normal size, then convert it to mpeg-1, then edit THAT stream OK. But too much mucking with it causes a crash.
(To be fair, it might be the hardware that is crap and not the software since the device does mpeg encoding in hardware...)
But, to get back to original point, the wintv device has composite and audio line-in jacks so I can hook my VCR up to it and do caps fairly easy. That's pretty nice and it actually works fairly well considering it is a USB device. It's just the software it's bundled with is crap.
Oh, one more thing. When buying the box, the kid on the floor tried to push the $50 4-year warranty on me. I'm like, "What, you kidding, a year from now I'll be throwing this bitch out and getting one that can deal with DVD-Audio as well, so why would I need a longer warranty."
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Then, get this...
Why the hell can't they just re-release their products with all security patches and updates rolled into the distribution so it's done during the FIRST install?
"That's not very smart. It's like saying that it doesn't matter whether you buy a Toyota Camry or a Russian Lada, because you will eventually have to service it. Excuse me, but I'd rather own the Camry, thank you very much, because the probability of trouble is lower for the Camry. Of course I need to get both cars inspected regularly. The name of the game is risk management, and every manager has the responsibility to minimize risks. Using software of doubtful quality is irresponsible.


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- The bloodiest, craziest, most Gaddafiest revolution of 2011 (so far) got a little closer to the end as the West's favorite dictator/basket case supposedly begged for a deal to let him and his family escape Libya alive. The rebel leadership thought about this for several seconds and then said, "Nah, dude." Let this be a lesson to dictators and despots around the world: Don't send military jet planes to bomb your own people just before asking them for a "deal." According to the Wall Street Journal, "The rebel-led governing council, based in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, rejected the invitation and said it wasn't sincere." Meanwhile, the Obama Administration is maybe thinking about sending NATO some memo or whatever, perhaps a text message. If Obama loves Ronald Reagan so much, you would think Obama might remember how the Reagan Administration bombed the hell out of Libya in 1986, just to show everybody. [Wall Street Journal]
- Remember how your fake-liberal boyfriend Barack Obama was going to close down the international torture-prisons the United States operates all over the world, starting with the evil-ass Gitmo? Ha ha, just kidding! The Obama Administration will start military tribunal kangaroo court torture executions at Guantanamo again, because why not? (It's "Political Reality," ha ha.) [BBC News]
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Beowoof Hanging this bastard would be too goo for him. I think we should let him fly out but shoot down his plane.
WunkRocker I'm thinking some Mussolini action is required here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mark-trickett/230335…
ArmoredBore Brutal, but some dark partition of my heart likes it
memzilla What, Khaddafi lost David Koch's cell phone number?
ManchuCandidate Jeebus Ken, what the hell are you doing up so early? I've been up since 4am EST thanks to this fucking chest cold I got this weekend and early morning coughing fits. What's your excuse?
As for Kadaffi duck, Mu… didn't you know that bombing them only pisses them off? I know it's contrary to the ramblings of Billy Mitchell, Bomber Harris, Curtiss LeMay and all the other sky blue boy propaganda of "winning from teh air" but here we are.
V572625694 Sure, but it worked great in Vietnam!
At least that what the Air Force says.
trampndirtdown B1 Bob says "it's a lie" hippy.
kittenbomb Bombing the hell out of your people is practically a reach around in Libya.
JoeHoya The rebels are offering a compromise: He's free to leave the country _after_ they hang him.
user-of-owls There ain't no asylum here,
King Solomon he never lived round here-
Come here a minute Go straight to hell, boy, do not pass GO, do not collect two hundred billion dollars.
weejee What with G'Daffy having a long time Clash with reality, one might suppose that he may have some t. gondii symptoms. Cats are the definitive hosts for toxoplasma gondii, and if anything G'Daffy thinks he's a cool cat. Does he roast them on his faux Bedouin camp fire? Just sayin'
Serolf_Divad Does this mean GaddahFEST is cancelled this year? I heard they already had Great White, The Alarm and System of a Down lined up to play At the Tripoli Metrodome.
(P.S. Manchu.. I'm at work by 6:30 every day… means I get to leave at 2:30 yaaaay!)
ManchuCandidate Oh you early risers. I get up at a more civilized hour of 7am and my work day usually starts before 8am (benefits of working from home.) Problem is that this chest cold has killed my sleep and I'm brain dead… which is not good for work… and I whine a lot.
Ken Layne 6:00 for me, usually, but I'm usually on the "good coast" so it's still too late to Win the Morning/Future/Winning In General.
cheaphits Maybe just send Great White with full pyrotechnics in the tent and problem solved.
Negropolis K.Daffy be trippin'. That is all on that.
BTW, if France wants a no-fly zone, I'd be happy to let them intiate and leader this with NATO with us in a support role, instead of waiting for the US to pull the damned trigger every.single.time. I'm tired of us doing the West's dirty work. Italy could do something diplomatic, unilaterally, since it broke Libya to begin with.
johnnyzhivago In American business this kind of deal is known as "a golden parachute"
cheaphits That's right and like in business it follows the "golden shower".
Negropolis In Soviet Russia, parachute goldens you!
Wait, wha?!
Come here a minute What's that in the photo? It's the bow again! NOBAMA!!!!!!!!
weejee Well Hopey has connections to Hawaii. Mehbe Barry could swing Kuhdaffy a nice hot spot on Kilauea.
Plowmon Let him move to NYC and see if he can't sell his Spring Collection of, um, gown robe things…
Barbara_i They should let him escape to Lockerbie.
Zvi_Bleindmeis "In Fashion, One Day You're In and the Next You're Out."
-H. Klum -
Maman Epic! I believe that I shall put the advice "Don't send military jet planes to bomb your own people just before asking them for a "deal." up there with "Don't get involved in a land war in Asia".
V572625694 More support for the "Gates is best SecDef evah" hypothesis. He speaks truth to power! His own power! It's meta, but it's good.
Somewhere, Caspar Weinberger is slapping his forehead and saying, "If I'd thought of this, I might not have needed a pardon from Reagan to escape prison time!"
HistoriCat Does it really rank up there with "never match wits with a Sicilian when death is on the line"?
Maman Pretty close…
CapeClod He must be running out of bullets.
Terry A couple of points:
– Qaddafi not only asked to leave the country unharmed but he also asked for immunity from prosecution for himself and his family. I suspect that second part really stuck in folks' craws. I do think that if the Qaddafi family is given safe passage, they should be required to live in southwest Scotland or northwestern England, say not far from Lockerbie.
– On Gitmo, the GOP'ers put a wee tidbit in the defense appropriation that prohibited any of the prisoners at Gitmo from being transferred to prisons/jails on US land. It makes it really hard to try them in civilian court in NYC or DC if you can't hold them on US soil. Personally, I think they should put them on a plane circling the Federal Courthouse in Alexandria, landing only for the times of day that the trial is in progress, then fly the guy around all night until it's time for court again. Get a plane with a bedroom and bathroom, be civilized, but try the guy in civilian court without putting them in a cell on US soil. Something like that. Call the frickin' GOP'ers' bluff.
starfanglednut I actually read somewhere that he not only wanted immunity, but a tidy sum of money as well.
V572625694 Does the term "immunity" include "additional private Beyonce concerts"? If so, it's a deal!
mumbly_joe In fairness, if Bizarro Bush were president, he'd have just said, "Unitary Executive/Commander in Chief here, screw you guys" and then used money from somewhere else instead. Or else made a credible promise to veto any defense appropriations that didn't include the funds, just like actual Bush promised to, and did, veto any defense appropriations that included a timeline to make our commitment in Iraq less open-ended, why doesn't anybody remember when that went down.
So, there was a path foward that would have still allowed him to honor his promises, and also the actual rule of law, if Obama had a pair.
BerkeleyBear But to follow one aspect of the rule of law, you have to continue a path that violates the fundamental scheme of government and would embolden the next ratfuck Republican to name himself (because let's face it even they won't elect Sarah or Shelly) Emperor Zurg and enslave us all in the name of galactic security. Not sure that's a trade off I'd be comfortable with.
mumbly_joe Then go with a credible veto threat. Nothing even remotely questionable about that route.
Let's be honest though- whatever Bams does while he's in office at this point, the next Republican is going to revert to the worst of Bush years and then keep going, but it's going to be because Democrats refused to hold them accountable for actual literal law-breaking, not because Obama used a signing statment once.
Moonbat What the Democrats do or don't do or haven't done is going to have absolutely jack shit to do with what the next Republican President does. What killed Nixon and McCarthy was their widespread, toxic unpopularity. Today's Republicans have mastered the art of not giving a shit about that, and being an aggressively toxic asshole appears to appeal to roughly half of the population, so the next Republican President is just going to cold do whateverthefuck he thinks he can get away with.
Given that harsh reality, of course, Hopey and the Democrats should Do The Right Thing. Of course, since most of the Democrats are scared shitless about being portrayed as "soft on terrorism" (news flash, boyos – it's gonna happen whatever you do, so just fucking own it), that's not gonna happen. Remember, Obama wanted to close down Guantanamo and couldn't get Congress to fund it when the Democrats controlled both houses.
God, this is fucking depressing.
mumbly_joe At least half my point was that contra Nixon and McCarthy, one of whom was shamed out of politics, the other of whom left town once it was clear the sheriff was on his trail, and both of whose names are presently synonymous with paranoid political thuggery, Bush has actually gotten away with it.
Bush will live a contented, wealthy retirement while he continues to try to spin his legacy of torture, aggressive war, and class warfare, and Cheney will die a free man, and both of those are things that Democrats could have done something about, as well as being things that tie directly to what future Republicans think they can get away with.
Moonbat Shaming McCarthy out of politics and (getting ready to be) impeaching Nixon were only possible because at the time Republicans could feel shame – Nixon only resigned after the leaders of his own party told him the jig was up. I suggest that Republicans no longer feel shame, and for that reason there was never any real possibility that Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, etc. would be held accountable for ass-raping Iraq, Afghanistan, and their own country.
Which doesn't necessarily mean the Democrats shouldn't have tried, but would the result "Cheney, Bush acquitted on war crimes charges" be any more of a discouragement to (say) President Huckabee's malfeasance than the current situation? I don't know.
And let's say they did do that. Hell, let's go crazy and say they were successful. What else would they have accomplished over the last two and a half years? My guess is: Nothing.
Which is why this all so fucking depressing. Lunatics and assholes run the show, and when they finally screw up enough to get called on it, they treat the good of the country as a hostage and walk off, free as bird.
Ruhe Amen.
Come here a minute That would be a good use for those stupidly expensive new "aerial refueling tanker aircraft".
imissopus It's a shit sandwich all the way around with Gitmo. The GOP and moderate to conservative Dems won't allow the administration to transfer prisoners to civilian courts. Other countries won't take them off our hands, except those that would treat them as heroes and martyrs, which of course would be a giant shitstorm with the American public. So they have just continued to sit in limbo with not even the possibility of a kangaroo court tribunal to bring their ordeals to an end one way or the other. This is probably the least bad solution, and even this sucks.
MildMidwesterner "Don't send military jet planes to bomb your own people just before asking them for a 'deal.'"
Usually one doesn't have to ask for a deal when one uses military jet planes. You're doing it wrong, Gaddafi.
freakishlywrong Somehow all this shit is good for John McCain, (Sunday shows), /bad for Obamar, (he's waffling!). How a "tyrant/Marxist/Kenyan maumau-er" is painted as weak has yet to be explained.
vulpes82 I actually like the way Obama is handling Libya. It isn't ALL ABOUT US, and just going in and bombing everything might just make things worse. If it were McCain, we'd be nuking Benghazi.
ifthethunderdontgetya Obama is handling Libya just like he's handling Wisconsin and (most) everything else: not doing jack unless some banksters or other powerful corporate types are the beneficiaries.
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Ramon_X I've discovered that if I close my eyes and listen to Gaddafi and then to Charlie Sheen, I can't tell them apart.
FlownOver Let him fly out on that experimental mini-shuttle thing. Because, synergy!
justkillmenow Gadaffy has some killer costumes. But he's not foolin' anyone with the dye job.
SorosBot What the fuck? I check Wonkette in the morning as usual, and not only has "morning in America" come super-early but there's two posts from late last night. There's no way to keep up with the comments with this!
V572625694 Somebody whose initials are KL (and I don't mean Kuala Lumpur) was up all night.
Ken Layne Not even! But Jack started posting at midnight, too, so it suddenly seemed like the BBC World Service Overnight Desk, Bush House, London. (Haha, doesn't take much, does it?) Anyway, we were just covering for Riley because he's off today.
Ruhe Totally! I feel like if I don't get in within the first thirty comments or so then no one but my few sad followers are going to read my stuff and that makes it like, Onanist Snark, you know? Which is just pointless. My only option then is to sneak in closer to the top by replying to commenters with suspiciously high P scores.
SorosBot When are the evil dictators going to learn? It's simple; if you want to get out of the revolution with your money and body intact, then give up and leave early rather than killing a whole bunch of people and beating more. Hell, you might even be able to keep a little bit of dignity that way.
V572625694 Tell it to Pinochet.
Mumbletypeg yeah… wasn't he paying attention when his peers were parlaying their coma exit strategy?
Ruhe I think the pressure to stay on far too long comes from those sycophants highest up the chain of command. They've thrown in with you and if you try to bolt too soon they might kill you themselves.
PubOption I didn't realize that there was any organized leadership to the revolt, so I'm not sure who Gaddafi could negotiate with.
Ken Layne He just types his request into the Wonkette tips box.
JackDempsey1 re: Gadaffi's outfit in the pic
How many draperies died to make it?-
KenLayIsAlive He dresses like Chris Lee's dream tranny.
OC_Surf_Serf Now, how secret could this rocket have been when even red orbit knew about it?
and Raygun's 80's Bombing of Libya…nice cover for the Contras while this country was looking at a shiny, exploding object.
Ken Layne To be fair (for some reason?), the secret isn't in the launch itself, but what the launch is for. (I'm going with "asking the space monsters for immunity and a ticket off Earth.")
genxr He's only asking for immunity, safe passage, and sovereign rule over a country to be named later.
forgracie After a few more sorties on the Libyan people, we are going to send a strongly worded letter. Yes sir…
trampndirtdown Compare Raygun's 80's bombing to Bush the Lesser's 00's handjob for oil.
mereoblivion But he's still "committed to the eventual closure of Guantanamo Bay." Attabay, Bammers! Any bay now.
BerkeleyBear Apparently Ronnie had almost as big a hardon for Q as W had for Saddam (he didn't actually make stuff up, but he did lean awful hard on a slender read to bomb the man). The fact that W made nice with this nut is yet further proof that the GOP has no guiding principles beyond whatever feels good, right now. Rather ironic in light of the how line about moral relativism the fundies have bashed the liberals with.
SaintRond If I were able, if I had enough money to buy whatever I wanted, I'd have a secret prison too where I'd rendition all the people who've offended me in some way and then I'd read up on everything I could about the Medieval Chinese justice system and implement it to the point where Gitmo would seem like a health spa somewhere.
That said, I think the President should close all the secret prisons.
BarackMyWorld I see Barry has fallen back on the "It's ok when I do it because I'm the one doing it" argument that he also used when rationalizing the USAPATRIOT Act. (See also: Romney, Mitt, i.e. healthcare; Gingrich, Newt, i.e. extramarital affairs; and Palin, Sarah, i.e. everything else).
arihaya maybe Gadhafi wish to retire in order to replace John Galliano as Dior's new designer-in-chief
GayInMaine Gaddafi – "Oh, this? Just a little something I saw in the window that I couldn't resist."
Moonbat Hopey's done a lot of good things, but his civil liberties record is in a dead heat with Mickey Kaus for the world championship of goat-blowing. Guh.
hagajim Maybe Barry will close Gitmo in 2020….oh, right – that wouldn't be Barry – but soneone else.
MinAgain What a shame. If only those people Qaddafi ordered his planes to bomb had thought to make a "deal" to get out of Libya alive.
Ruhe Barry's just decided that all Gitmo needs is an "Extreme Makeover: Torture Prison Edition".
He's got designers working on an all new "velvet-covered cement" aesthetic that will clearly demonstrate our commitment to both strength and Justice, just like Clarence the "fantasy package" Thomas does. -
DemmeFatale Mr. Fatale has an elegant solution for us.
He proposes putting all these wacked-out dictators in a depleted, slightly radioactive, precious metals mine, say in Western Australia. (A nod to Australia's past.)
Slow (but steady) radiation poisoning seems a fitting end for these characters. -
donner_froh The U.S. would fly AWACS missions and other support operations while the French and British under the auspices of NATO do the bombing to take out the air defense facilities. That should ground everything in Libya.
If the rebels commit to a Nicolas Sarkozy Boulevard in downtown Tripoli it would seal the deal.
Redhead Are they filming any of those Harry Potter movies currently? Cause those sets seem like great camouflage for Ghaddafi…
friendlyskies The fake news keeps promising that Gaddafi will be moving here to Nicaragua, to become Daniel Ortega's personal stylist for the next round of giant election billboards. I hope G can come up with something special – long, flowy, climate-appropriate – in Sandinista pink!
NadePaulKuciGravMcKi why of course you can trust this fine media story
tessiee I call dibs on his wardrobe!
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Stephen Benson has worked previously in executive administrative positions at the New England Eye Institute, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, and Jackson & Company public relations. He has taught theatre classes and directed productions at the College of the Holy Cross, Tufts University, Middlesex Community College, and Wilkes University in Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in English and Theatre from Tufts University.
Email Stephen Benson / Tel: (617) 383-6751
Velda Shaby, Director of Digital Strategy
Velda Shaby is a seasoned software architect with years of experience developing websites as well as creating and evaluating strategies to provide digital solutions to the business community. Her previous experience includes 30+ years working with cutting-edge technology at Digital and Fidelity Investments. She has also devoted her energies to several Jewish communities in the Boston area and draws on these various experiences along with her passion for people and Jewish causes to focus on strategies for JWA's online presence. Velda has a BS in physics and an MS in math and teaches at Northeastern University's Digital Media Department.
Email Velda Shaby / Tel: (617) 383-6766
Patrick Dash, Web Developer
Patrick Dash brings his enthusiasm, technical knowledge, and passion for web development to JWA. Patrick studied English at Boston University, where he also discovered his interest in web design, building a new website for the Student Activities Office. He has since worked for various companies designing and maintaining websites, and spent several years working for a student financing company in many capacities, including Information Management. Patrick is excited to continue his career at JWA.
Email Patrick Dash / Tel: (617) 383-6761
Tara Metal, Director of Engagement and Social Media
Tara Metal combines her love of writing and editing with her passion for history and storytelling in her role as Director of Engagement and Social Media at the Jewish Women's Archive. Prior to joining JWA, Tara served as Marketing Coordinator at Harvard Book Store, where she began her professional life as a bookseller. Tara is also the editor of a local literary journal and an online art magazine. She earned her B.A. from Brandeis University in European Cultural Studies and Art History with minors in Women's and Gender Studies and English Literature.
Email Tara Metal / Tel: (617) 383-6756
Paula Sinclair, Director of Programs and Partnerships
Paula Sinclair began her professional life as a banker in NYC, but soon realized that she enjoyed writing about her portfolio of companies more than she liked financing them. She became a business journalist, writing about Latin America, business, and technology. Paula re-located to San Francisco in the late 1990s, just in time to write about technology and consult to companies during the boom years. In 2002, she moved to Boston with her family and became Director of Strategy and Communications for Writers' Express (now Amplify), overseeing all aspects of communications, fundraising and Board development. Most recently she ran Summer Ink, a writing and adventure camp for Boston-area adolescents for four years. Paula is on the Board of Summer Ink and Ramah Outdoor Adventure. She has a BA from Emory University and MA from Columbia University and speaks Hebrew and Spanish.
Email Paula Sinclair / Tel: (617) 383-6764
Etta King, Education Program Manager
Etta King weaves her passions for storytelling, teaching, and community building together in her role as JWA's Education Program Manager. A recent graduate of the Jewish Organizing Fellowship at JOIN for Justice, she also supports and nurtures JWA's National Educators Network. Etta earned a B.A. in Education Studies from Brandeis University and studied community development in the Washington Semester Program at American University. Before joining JWA, Etta taught at the Leslie Science and Nature Center in Ann Arbor, MI, as well as with Boston-Area Jewish Education Program (BJEP) in Waltham, MA, and co-directed an improvisational community theater company.
Email Etta King / Tel: (617) 383-6763
Lisa Feld, Web Content Editor
Lisa Feld has edited a wide range of websites and academic journals. She is excited to bring her deep sense of curiosity and love of language to her role as web content editor for the Jewish Women's Archive. She holds a BA in medieval studies from Bard College and an MFA in creative writing from Colorado State University. She is also a novelist, drawing her inspiration from history and folklore, stories of what was, what might have been, and what might yet be.
Email Lisa Feld / Tel: (617) 383-6753
Miriam Cantor-Stone, Education Program Assistant
Miriam B. Cantor-Stone graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2012 with a Bachelor's in Religion and Gender Studies while also working as a Tour Guide and Harriet Newhall Fellow for the Office of Admission. She is thrilled to bring together three of her passions—Judaism, women, and stories/history—in her work as the Education Assistant at JWA. Before joining the JWA Team as an intern in June 2013, she worked for Lilith Magazine and Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Museum in New York. When she's not working at JWA, she sings in Voices Rising (an all-female feminist chorus based in Boston), knits, cooks, and writes for the blog Jewschool.
Email Miriam Cantor-Stone / Tel: (617) 383-6762
Gail Twersky Reimer, Ph.D., Founding Director
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, Reimer began her professional career as a faculty member of Wellesley College shortly after receiving her PhD in English and American Literature from Rutgers University. In the early 1990's, while serving as Associate Director of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Reimer conceived and co-edited two anthologies of Jewish women's writings – Reading Ruth:Women Reclaim a Sacred Story and Beginning Anew: A Woman's Companion to the High Holy Days. This work led to the founding of the Jewish Women's Archive in 1995. Reimer's leadership of JWA has been acknowledged with numerous awards including being named by The Forward (2001) as one of the 50 most influential Jews of the year and by Womens e-news (2006) as one of its 21 Leaders for the 21st century, honored by Auburn Theological Seminary (2011) at its "Lives of Commitment" event, and awarded the Dr. Benjamin J. Shevach Memorial Award for distinguished achievement in Jewish educational leadership by Hebrew College (2011); the American Jewish Distinguished Service Award from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (2012) and the Lee Max Friedman award for distinguished service in the field of American Jewish History by the American Jewish Historical Society (2014).
How to cite this page
Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA Staff." (Viewed on January 30, 2015) <http://jwa.org/aboutjwa/whoweare>.


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Obviously, each layer of the t&g is supported by the others around it, in addition to being tightly held by the fasteners. Try starting at the top and ripping the top row off if you have to. Then pry each row off from the top edge. Maybe you can slip a recip saw under them and cut the nails. Know however that all this lumber is covered in lead paint. Protect yourself while doing this demo work. If you were using a contractor, he would be legally obliged to use the new EPA lead remediation procedures. These rules do not apply to DIY. I guess it might be safe enough to reuse it in a barn. |
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Sorry, Girls — There Are No Nice Guys
Here's the thing — on paper, I'm actually one of those Nice Guys you often hear and/or read about. I'm uncomfortable to the point of nausea at the idea of being a jerk to women in order to manipulate them into sleeping with me. I do everything in my power to make a girl I'm interested in comfortable and happy, and I refrain from any remotely creepy or suggestive behavior.
So, although I actually do qualify as one of the Nice Guys, there's a paradox — there's no such thing. Read more … Keep reading »
Daisy Picks Her Dude. And, Of Course, It's London.
While most of you were drooling over "True Blood" last night, I had much more important things to attend to. Namely, the season finale of "Daisy Of Love." What went down wasn't a shocker to anyone who'd been watching the season, which took trashy reality dating shows to a whole new glorious low. In the end, even when given the choice of the mega-hot, super-sweet, and totally amusing Flex, Daisy chose London, the homeless 30-year-old rocker from Brooklyn with perma-eyeliner and maybe a girlfriend. Yep, she chose the guy who passed out drunk in a hallway the first night of the series and left midway through because he couldn't take it, only to eventually come back, with his mohawk between his legs. These two had a gravitational pull towards each other, even though they're obviously a trainwreck-about-to-happen. The show's host Ricky Rachtman seemed totally surprised by Daisy's choice. But I, on the other hand, was not. Keep reading »
The Top 10 Hottest Bad Boy Names
A new study published in The Social Science Quarterly completely backs up Johnny Cash's story in "A Boy Named Sue." As it turns out, calling your baby boy something uncommon, unpopular, or feminine will most definitely "increase the tendency toward juvenile delinquency." There's a greater chance he'll wind up in the slammer … or playing "Indiana Jones" like Shia LaBeouf.
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SexReally Tries (& Fails) To Explain Why Nice Guys Finish Last
The second SexReally podcast by anti-hookup crusader Laura Sessions Stepp is online, this time looking into the subject of "Why Nice Guys Finish Last."
Jorge from NYC told Sessions Stepp that he "stopped being nice" because he wasn't getting any girls and added, "I know guys who are a**holes because they think that's the only approach to get women." Brittany, a student at George Washington University, gushed over bad boy "confidence" and "swagger" and dished about a relationship she had with a guy who "made [her] feel lower in some way" and wasn't "gainfully employed legally." I guess we women just don't know what's good for us!
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If nothing else, the train wreck that is young "Indiana Jones" star Shia LaBeouf has been refreshing for its candor.
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Halo 3
Halo 3 is probably the best graphically AND over-all ass kicking. Everyone knows that the ending to Halo 2 was the gayest thing ever! But Halo 3 picks up when the Master Chief was on the Forerunners ship heading towards Earth. In the beginning You jump off the ship and land in the rain forest! Now in Halo 2 what happened to the commander of the Cairo? Did he die? Did he have a heart attack? Get owned by a meteor? What the hell! But back to the game over all its good.
I like the Forge mode when you can rebuild your favorite online maps. You become the fagget oracle but its worth it. In the campaign you and the Arbirter kick the ass of the Covenant. Many of levels are on Earth, only a few on Halo itself. There are skulls you have to collect. I'd tell you but i don't feel like click and pasting. The weapons are basically the same but there are some cool new vehicles. The hornet ( sort of a marine banshee) kick ass.
All the characters are the same. Arbirter, Miranda Keys, Sergent Johnson, Master Cheif, the flood, Cortana, the marines, the Covenant, Gravemind, and others. The gayest part about the flood is that they are all over the place, but it seems that there are more than ever. These new flood can become these huge Hunter-like creators, Drone- like things that can shoot some kind of needles at you, and brute form flood. Most of all the characters die because the ring is activated( if you beat it on legendary you get this gay ending movie) but before that everyone except the main characters die. (some secondary characters live)
The crappy parts of the game are when Cortana interrupts the moment. She appears from nowhere telling you gay information. Of course you go and save her. (in High Charity) There are tons of flood and only flood. The other gay thing is that there are about the same mission levels as Halo: Combat Evolved, but the missions in Halo 3 have a point actually. Well i'm done my hand kills bad.


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Norton Online Backup 2.0
Simple, Web-based, tabbed interface. Up to five computers can share one account. Works with Macs. Shares stored files via e-mail. Backs up open files. Saves multiple file versions for 90 days. Lets you search backed-up content.
- Cons No on-demand backup for a single file or folder. No "live" file watching for instant backup. No Windows Explorer right-click integration.
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With this release, Norton has brought its online backup service's features into the mainstream. Support for multiple PCs, including Macs, in one account and a slick Web-based user interface make this a Norton Online Backup 2.0 a real contender.
Symantec's first attempt at Norton Online Backup earlier this year lacked many capabilities we expect from an online backup service, capabilities provided by competitors Mozy, Carbonite, and SOS: open-file backup, version saving, and search of backup storage. Norton did have a slick Web-based interface and let you back up files from up to five PCs, however. In addition to addressing many of the deficits in this newest release, Norton Online Backup 2.0 ($49.99 per year for 25GB of storage space), Symantec has also added tabs to the interface, simplified setup, and added Macintosh support.
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CompareA 30-day free trial with 5GB of storage lets you test the service; if you opt in and you need more space, it's available for an additional cost. (Norton 360 users get a limited version of the online backup service with their account: They can restore or download backed-up files, but can't manage backups online.) Major competitors offer what they call "unlimited" storage, Mozy for $59.40 per year (with 2GB accounts free) and Carbonite for $54.95. SOS is the priciest, at $49.95 for 15GB. Norton's policy is reasonable, as uploading more than 25GB gets unwieldy, and for your most important documents and media, it's probably sufficient.
The key improvements in Version 2 are a Mac OS version, file-version saving for up to 90 days (in case you mistakenly change a backed-up file), search, open-file backup, and storage management, with the ability to purge files from your backup list. The service can also now handle mapped network and local drives, including temporary USB key drives. But perhaps of greatest interest is that the service will now let you share access to specified files or folders backed up online. Since the data's already in the cloud, why not let users securely share it from any Internet connection?
Norton Online Backup can be installed on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 systems, as well as Macs running Mac OS X. Ubuntu support is expected in March 2010, according to Symantec. You need to create a Norton account, and then you download a small local client software program (5MB on the PC, 10MB for the Mac) and install it. A wizard makes this easy. You have to allow the installed program access through your firewall for the service to work. After this, Norton automatically backs up your contacts, Internet Favorites, pictures, financial files, and Office documents.
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If you want to take a little more charge over what's backed up and when, you can manage Norton Online Backup through most Web browsers. Internet Explorer 6.0 and later, Firefox 2.0 and later, and Safari 3.0 and later are all officially supported; Google Chrome and Opera 9 and later will also work.
The home screen of the Web interface shows all your backed-up computers, with options to back up immediately, change settings, and restoreyou can perform these actions for any PC in your account, wherever it may be. The new tabbed Settings screen uses a very intuitive "What" and "When" paradigm for your online backup set and schedule. The first, as you might expect, you choose what you want to back up.
The What page makes it very simple to include files commonly chosen for backupfinancial records, Word documents, photos and music, and so on. You can also specify file extensions, and specific files or folders. Hovering the mouse over a question mark to display pop-up help text. Clicking the "Calculate Next Backup" link shows whether your online space is sufficient for what you've selected to be backed up. And a "thermometer" element shows your current storage usage and limit. SOS shows you whether the data will fit as you select it, and also lets you choose files to back up with a right-click in Windows Explorerthat's a handy level of integration not present in Norton's product.
On the "When" tab you can choose the frequency of your backup uploads: daily; weekly; monthly; or automatic, which backs up your selected files while the computer isn't being used. The Manual option only creates a backup when you specifically choose Backup Now from the software's system tray icon (or the Mac's top-right system menu bar). Unfortunately, you can't specify a folder to be watched and immediately backed up whenever its contents change, and you can't specify time intervals smaller than one daythese features are available in SOS Online Backup, which also lets you increase the frequency to hourly.
With Norton Online Backup 2.0, the service can now back up open files, which is crucial for preserving data like your Outlook e-mail. I'm glad to see Symantec got onboard with this feature that's been available in the other major services for a while. Another great advanced capability is supporting mapped network and local drivesincluding those omnipresent USB drives (or even plugged-in camera media). Advanced users can still create include and exclude rules using wildcards, but most users probably won't want to bother with these.
The final tab of the Settings page is the nondescript "Other." Here you can choose how much of your Internet access bandwidth you want to allocate to the service, as well as your alert and update options. Alerts will be popped up if your disk space goes too low or if there's an update for the program available.Next: Restoring, Downloading, and Sharing
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