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Your linked-to post is quite right, and worth a repost. IANAL but used to just about everything but appear in court working in a small law office in Maryland about 15 years ago. I believe specifically what this guy needs after getting a subpoena for the John Doe's ID is a "writ of replevin" in which the court may order the Sheriff to seize the property after an ex-parte pre-trial show-cause hearing.
See:
http://www.courts.state.md.us/district/forms/civil /dccv04br.html - for specific MD instructions and http://www.courts.state.md.us/district/forms/civil /dccv04.pdf - the form.

If you are not in MD you may make a federal case out of it; the U.S. Marshals serve these writs, too. You might find that has drawbacks - you really need a lawyer's advice, not Slashdot's.

>>anagama (611277) Sunday August 20, @01:07AM (#15943034) wrote:
If the cops won't help, see the tort of conversion [wikipedia.org]. File a "john doe" civil suit. Once filed, your attorney would have subpoena power -- use it with Verizon to get the name, address, and phone number of the user associated with the IP. Verizon will have an entire department devoted to processing these types of requests -- you'll have no problem except figuring out what their number is. If you represent yourself, you may have to ask the court to issue the subpoena on your behalf. Once you have the identifier, amend your suit to name that party (probably keep the "john does" at least till you're certain you have all the people involved). Also check your states statutes, there may be something specifically related to your situation. The statutes are certainly available online free -- start at your state's homepage (somewhere burried of course).

Your linked-to post is quite right, and worth a repost. IANAL but used to just about everything but appear in court working in a small law office in Maryland about 15 years ago. I believe specifically what this guy needs after getting a subpoena for the John Doe's ID is a "writ of replevin" in which the court may order the Sheriff to seize the property after an ex-parte pre-trial show-cause hearing.
See:
http://www.courts.state.md.us/district/forms/civil /dccv04br.html - for specific MD instructions and http://www.courts.state.md.us/district/forms/civil /dccv04.pdf - the form.

If you are not in MD you may make a federal case out of it; the U.S. Marshals serve these writs, too. You might find that has drawbacks - you really need a lawyer's advice, not Slashdot's.

>>anagama (611277) Sunday August 20, @01:07AM (#15943034) wrote:
If the cops won't help, see the tort of conversion [wikipedia.org]. File a "john doe" civil suit. Once filed, your attorney would have subpoena power -- use it with Verizon to get the name, address, and phone number of the user associated with the IP. Verizon will have an entire department devoted to processing these types of requests -- you'll have no problem except figuring out what their number is. If you represent yourself, you may have to ask the court to issue the subpoena on your behalf. Once you have the identifier, amend your suit to name that party (probably keep the "john does" at least till you're certain you have all the people involved). Also check your states statutes, there may be something specifically related to your situation. The statutes are certainly available online free -- start at your state's homepage (somewhere burried of course).

Citizen cops would be an even worse idea... They would lack training and make different, even worse mistakes.

What, do you think modern police are highly trained? In Maryland the basic training is 21-weeks, 840 hours.

For comparison, this "esthetician" (skin care for spas) training program is 600 hours.

Army National Guard training is 9 weeks of Basic plus 5 to 16 weeks of AIT, 14 to 24 weeks total.

It's entirely reasonable that part-time "citizen cops" could undergo just as much training as current entry-level professional police.

In the DC/Baltimore region, there's WTOP on 103.5FM and 820AM for news traffic and weather (traffic is every 10mins on the 8's). Alternatively, if one must use a phone to check traffic status, several states have implemented the 511 phone number for checking traffic (in Virginia, this is useful for checking screw ups on the western side of the DC beltway; Maryland has yet to implement this, although their CHART system has an [autodetected] text-only mode for cell phone browsing).

What this feature would really be good for is on their main mapping service that could be checked before leaving to jump into some random traffic mess. Yahoo's maps beta system, while attempting to poorly mimic Google maps, has such a feature (and thus makes it somewhat of a useful service for the time being).

And of course, you'd need real-time information on accidents, weather variables and road closings to complete this model. I suspect we will have this information within the next 10-20 years as cell phones are tracked and we have real-time information about road conditions available centrally.

And of course, you'd need real-time information on accidents, weather variables and road closings to complete this model. I suspect we will have this information within the next 10-20 years as cell phones are tracked and we have real-time information about road conditions available centrally.

And of course, you'd need real-time information on accidents, weather variables and road closings to complete this model. I suspect we will have this information within the next 10-20 years as cell phones are tracked and we have real-time information about road conditions available centrally.

And of course, you'd need real-time information on accidents, weather variables and road closings to complete this model. I suspect we will have this information within the next 10-20 years as cell phones are tracked and we have real-time information about road conditions available centrally.

And of course, you'd need real-time information on accidents, weather variables and road closings to complete this model. I suspect we will have this information within the next 10-20 years as cell phones are tracked and we have real-time information about road conditions available centrally.

And of course, you'd need real-time information on accidents, weather variables and road closings to complete this model. I suspect we will have this information within the next 10-20 years as cell phones are tracked and we have real-time information about road conditions available centrally.

The text of the bill (1,2) also indicates that random manual recounts will be required to compare the computer tabulation with the paper record. The bill has the public support of the governor, but has not passed the senate.

The bill's main points:
* Requires paper trail
* Requires manual recounts of 5% of ballots, selected randomly.
* Prohibits use of a specific Diebold system in 2006.
* Requires use of a an 'optical scan system' (type unspecified) in 2006

The bill could still die in the senate. The last two points are
expensive and controversial; they were added as amendments before the
bill passed on Thursday. Those amendments also converted the bill to
an emergency measure, which requires 3/5 of each house to pass.

(1) Current status in the Maryland Senate: http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/billfile/hb0244.htm

(2) Text of bill: http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0244t.pd f

The text of the bill (1,2) also indicates that random manual recounts will be required to compare the computer tabulation with the paper record. The bill has the public support of the governor, but has not passed the senate.

The bill's main points:
* Requires paper trail
* Requires manual recounts of 5% of ballots, selected randomly.
* Prohibits use of a specific Diebold system in 2006.
* Requires use of a an 'optical scan system' (type unspecified) in 2006

The bill could still die in the senate. The last two points are
expensive and controversial; they were added as amendments before the
bill passed on Thursday. Those amendments also converted the bill to
an emergency measure, which requires 3/5 of each house to pass.

(1) Current status in the Maryland Senate: http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/billfile/hb0244.htm

(2) Text of bill: http://mlis.state.md.us/2006rs/bills/hb/hb0244t.pd f

Maryland also has a hearing today on SB 292, which would require "instant runoff" voting in Maryland ballots.

Well then this bill was the outlier (the exception to prove the rule?). The complete text of the bill is only 3 pages long. It does one thing:

"The State Administrator of Elections shall study, review, and evaluate independent verification systems, including at least one system that includes a voter-verified paper audit trail, for the voting system currently used in the State."

The bill then goes on to describe how the systems will be evaluated and by whom. The complete text is here.

You're probably in Howard or Baltimore counties - Howard has a permanent collection facility at the Alpha Ridge landfill. (Where I live out among the cows and chickens in Carroll County, they don't know what no 'lectronics is).

Maryland has a state-wide initiative with the dorky name eCycling

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> ... I'm quite certain that detainees are not considered unemployed in the US

I don't know either. But, if by "detainees" you mean the prison population then you're lucky if they're not counted. By and large the prison population is "employed" and including them would decrease the unemployment rate. Their earnings are low (minimum wage or sometimes less) and they usually have to pay taxes (and often things like room, board, and sometimes restitution). By law, most prisoner work programs are prohibited from competing with private industry.

Here's just one program: http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/sui/pie.htm

Other states have their own versions.

>Works from Montreal, Canada... Are we considered the 51st state? Can we vote? :)

Actually, due to the Help America Vote Act of 2002, you can vote!

The Republican challenger agreed to a televised debate (which was rigged; it was organized by the anti-Republican NAACP, staffed by all Democrat moderators, and disproportionately attended by a majority Democrat audience). The challenger was called a terrorist by his opponent and booed loudly by the audience on his every other answer.

Mainstream citizens saw the baseless attacks and unfair comparisons for themselves, and today, Challenger Bob Ehrlich is the governor of the state of Maryland.

Which proves once again how the Democrats are dragging themselves so far off-center that it doesn't make sense for mainstream America to try and keep sight of them. Democrats need to hit on real issues if they want any hope of toppling Bush.

up in Baltimore, we also have our own Key Bridge. The Francis Scott Key Bridge here crosses the Baltimore Harbor. What a coincidence.

I've never studies economics or sociology, so forgive me if I'm an ignorant fool, but its always seemed to me that as long as we are not experiancing large amounts of disease, drought or other reduction in the availability of natural resources, that economic slowdown is more a result of psycology than anything else.

Here's a working link to the Mitchell courthouse, sans magical Slashdot link space...

I thought that letting subscribers look into the "mysterious future" was supposed to help us not to have broken links.

Here's the fixed link.

Yes, in Maryland you get the best of everything. You get the Diebold 'AccuVote-TS' system AND gerrymandering (I think the 3rd district is my favorite).

Yes, in Maryland you get the best of everything. You get the Diebold 'AccuVote-TS' system AND gerrymandering (I think the 3rd district is my favorite).

There is a bill before the Maryland State House that would require a voter verifiable paper trail on all electronic voting machines in the state of maryland. The bill also calls for a random sampling of the paper ballots to ensure that the electronic count has not been tampered with. House Bill 53 was just read into the ways and means committee two weeks ago but with the release of the reports I hope there it can gain more support and pass the house.

Generic email address: sep@elections.state.md.us

other modes of contact are here.

Generic email address: sep@elections.state.md.us

other modes of contact are here.

That argument would work if taxes were payed in proportion to the government services that are rendered, but they're not.

Arguable. The rich benefit immensely from having a government around to keep the poor from barbecuing them ("eat the rich, the poor are tough and stringy").

The state creates and defends many artificial "property rights" - patents and trademarks, mineral rights, water rights - that obviously benefit those it designates as owners. Its reserve banking systems, chartering of corporations, and issuing of bonds, certainly benefit the well-off more than the poor.

National defense benefits only those with at least some means. If you're living in a cardboard box, it doesn't much matter if the Canadians invade and put us all under the rule of the Queen of England, or whatever wacky system those Canucks use. (And you'll notice the demographics of those who actually end up getting killed when the fighting starts.)

On the other hand, I would like to see more of a shift away from payroll taxes to usage taxes. It is less intrusive, and it makes economic sense to make people pay the true cost of their activities. Maybe raise the capital gains tax, make it progressive, issue use-tax vouchers to low-income families (sort of like how ).

Traffic info is available here The data is collected from sensors in the road and is updated every 5 minutes

Here's a good place to start: http://www.sos.state.md.us/sos/admin/pdf/overview. pdf

Whoops.. Radio just reported that anyone who has a license expiring today has a 1-day extension. Thanks, Bill.

The Governor of Maryland is a Republican. You know what that means: it's time for Slashdot to argue against code review of voting software.

First, public-key encryption is not an "easy algorithm" in any sense. It is much more computationally expensive than symmetric key encryption.

Funny you should say that.

I'm working a cash register these days, and we see these all the time. No fuss, no muss.

This sounds like the Coordinated Highways Action Response Team. It has an interactive map with colored arrows indicating the speed of traffic on both sides of the highway for a variety of roads in the DC/Baltimore area.

(But please don't Slashdot it, or I won't know if it's safe to leave for work!)

This is the first election that I will be voting in, and when I first started looking at all of the candidates I felt very overwhelmed. This got me to thinking about what the average voter must feel and how they decide to vote. 10 years ago, they must have relied soley on who the newspapers and who their party said to vote on, but now there are so many good resources on the net that with minimal research a voter can be very informed.

I spent about two hours looking over sites like the offical election site for my state and Young Voters which has a profile for each candidate, where they stand on their positions, and what other services they have been involved in.

Now the only thing holding people back from being an informed voter is lazyness, or blind devotion to party lines.

to kill the snakeheads in that Maryland pond.

How about working on a prototype of DMV EXPRESS?

Also, if anyone finds this fish please do not release - please KILL it (seriously).

Not only can these fish walk, you can clearly see from the pictures they can buy newspapers too. But do they taste better than American fish?

Not only can these fish walk, you can clearly see from the pictures they can buy newspapers too. But do they taste better than American fish?

There is absolutely nothing to worry about. It won't get very far on a dolar..

Yeah, I'll say it's scary. According to the pictures, that fish is carrying cold hard cash -- as well as a recent issue of The Sunday Capital. Could this be the world's first upwardly mobile aquatic lifeform?

the pic itself is a little hard to find, you can see this less-excitingly-dangerous-looking-than-blurb-leads -you-too-believe fish here.

Erm, that'd be "Queen Mary"land, not "Mary, Mother of God"land. Charles I's wife, not Joseph's.

Maryland

Some US states already have laws that do just the opposite. Namely, they prohibit insurers from making coverage decisions based on genetic test results. This, IMO is the correct approach. Maryland's statute is a good example.