I figure that's what a fan page is for, but...

Some people never got around to making those, and use their friends pages for those. And then butt up against the upper friends limit.

I have only friended celebs who I (a) like, and (b) know someone I know.

So, I got Colin. I need to be more FB slutty, obviously!

I HAVE friended a bunch of my old students. I figure they are all graduated now, and I love keeping in touch with them. I'm very aware that FB is completely public, even with the "privacy" options, and it's a great way to keep in touch with all kinds of people.

I just don't understand how people can think it is not a public forum.

Calling all amych: what's your reaction this this? (Not the jalibreaking, the academic drm-disabling stuff) [link]

what's your reaction this this?

That it's going to make my life a whole hell of a lot easier: in the past, I've granted a lot of clipping requests, or agreed to train people to do it themselves, and then had to say after the fact, "oh, but we can't do it with *this* particular DVD even though it's fair use". I wish they'd gone all the way to "all educational use" -- there were related petitions for K12 and student educational uses (the latter was granted only for film students) -- but it's a big improvement over the version from the previous comment period, which was weirdly limited to film and media faculty only.

(I'm not sure if you knew it, but an academic copyright "known radical" of our acquaintance wrote one of the several petitions to expand access to all faculty.) (And of course the OTW was heavily involved in the remix vidding ruling.)

What's the legal definition of "film student"?

What's the legal definition of "film student"?

The ruling just says "Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students". I'd be really surprised if it ever actually got interpreted by a court, but I suspect that in practice it'll be treated as "students doing coursework for film/video/media studies classes" rather than something like "you must be enrolled in a capital-F Film School and no other kind."

(It'll also be fairly easy to use the non-commercial remix exception for work in other kinds of classes, so the restriction isn't really much. But it's a matter of wonky ranty educational philosophy for me that audio and visual media should be treated like print, which isn't treated differently depending on whether it's a literature class or not; it's generally recognized that reading applies to all disciplines.)

So, are there not many 1TB harddrives available for the MacBook Pro? Is this a good one? [link]

The 1 TB drives are pretty new in laptop size. I don't believe Seagate is making one yet which is what I'm waiting for to use in my machines.

Now that I've upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard (er...a few months ago), I'm getting around to setting up Time Machine. I'm backing up to an external HD that's plugged into my Airport Extreme base station. I've downloaded TimeMachineEditor to change the backup interval, because doing it hourly is crazy. Anyone have any other useful Time Machine suggestions?

-- allow computer owners to bypass the need for external security devices called dongles if the dongle no longer works and cannot be replaced.

All praise LOC, LOC is wise.