When I first saw that headline I thought maybe TiVo was considering creating a Linux Distro -- something that, on first blush, sounds weird. However, they do run Linux on their boxes; so, they might have the staff to handle such a thing. Maybe they should consider their own distro and bundle this potential new offering with it.
TiVo users are pretty tech savvy people, in my experience. It could actually find a market and put some profit into their sagging bottom line. They might even be able to do it on the cheap if they simply struck a deal with someone like SuSE to simply create a TiVo brand of their distro.
Michigan law, as stated in the FA, prohibits importing tobacco from out of state to circumvent the tax.
Does it set an ugly precidence? Not likely. I would doubt very much that their laws prohibit the importation of books. It is true that most states have moved to requiring that the consumer report and pay a 'Use Tax' for Mail-order/Internet goods; but, the reporting responsibility is purely on the consumer, and the state gains little from pursuing individual residence for what will likely be tiny amounts -- certainly nothing like $2,500.
Don't know how it works in Florida, or inter-jurisdictionally for that matter, but in New York, you can request that the County Sheriff where the business/person resides enforce the judgement. They will go, judgement in hand, and request payment. If payment is refused, they can seize assets to cover the settlement. (I believe they have this kind of sweeping authority because we're talking about small claims.)
If your state has County Sheriffs, I would start by talking to them once you have a small claims judgement in your favor and see what they advise.
Also, unless the refund guarantee specifies "Store Credit," I wouldn't even settle for $1700 in Store Credit. That's not a refund.
In the meantime you can get a list of some english blogs written by iranians over at http://blogsbyiranians.com/ it appears to be down at the moment since I suspect it's hosted at hoders server but there is always the google cache if you want to look at it right now.
I'm in the US and I can reach the site just fine. Sure you're not being blocked? I wouldn't be so sure about your "only a drill" assumption.
Also, it should be noted, that without outside help, the american revolution would have been a dismal failure. Totalitarian governments rarely collapse on their own.
I'm not necessarily advocating a US "liberation." I'm just saying that you should not delude yourself into believing you really have a choice in regards to your government. I live in the US, the self-proclaimed home of freedom of choice, and I'm starting to think I don't have any choice in my government anymore -- people capable of thinking for themselves are becoming outnumbered by religiously prodded cattle at the ballot box.
The scanner computer already has the pricing information in it, so the price that they are going to charge shows up on the register!
If the POS system is worth anything, it should show you their non-sale price for the item. Sale prices should be entered with start and stop dates at some level of the system. Since the item wouldn't be on sale the week before it comes out, you should only be seeing their regular price if the item has already been entered.
Depending on how they handle sale signage, you might be able to pick up the sale price the night before it goes on sale. Some retailers, like CVS, push the next week's sale prices out to the registers the evening before the sale so that they can put up the sale signs that evening before they close.
I would be pretty surprised to see sale prices on new items more than a few hours before they go on sale.
Also, as far as competitive pricing goes, retailers need to decide what their price will be for a new item well before it's released: They need it price for signage and advertising.
Check out www.diplom.org. There are many Diplomacy servers indexed there. Some have web interfaces for entering orders and the create maps as gifs and pdfs.
I'm not saying I agree with them. But, the OJ trial wasn't too long after the LA Riots and the press was predicting (Not Their Job, Dammit!) that a riot would follow a guilty verdict. Scared people do stupid things.
Just for fun, let me respond to both the parent and the grand parent together:
GrandParent:... we have law enforcement agents to spare...
Terrorists, who I assume are the people you think these law enforement people should be after, are nothing without funding. A great source of illegal revenue is copyright and trademark infringment. While these toys don't really fit the mold, (dvd's seem to be the rage for this) it is right up Homeland Securities alley and undoubtedly one of the reasons Customs became part of the department.
Parent: Ok wait just a minute. I am sick and tired of the left making that statement.
Unless something changes, I think it is only a matter of time before one of our ports is leveled in a Nuclear blast. We cannot simply declare we're doing all we can do or that it is impossible, because we aren't and it isn't. Here's a suggestion off the top of my head:
For the majority of containers coming into this country, we are the ultimate consumers of the product within. Our imports are other people's exports. You want an army of a million inspectors, place a small group of inspectors in each port that ships to the US and require the host country to staff their teams if they want to continue to export to the US. It won't be perfect, and the goods might cost a little more, but it'll be a lot better than not checking at all.
After crawling through the public interface to EIRS, I noticed this bit:
https://voteprotect.org/
Is it really necessary to encrypt the public side of this tool? Or any of it for that matter? You could be beating your CPU senseless for no good reason. Try just encrypting the sensitive stuff.
(The draft? Charlie Rangel (D) proposes it -- and they're still flogging the notion that it's Bush planning for a draft.)
Charles Rangel, an African-American Democrat, introduced a bill in the house to reinstate the draft to prove a point: Rich white guys are sending the poorest among us off to war.
According to this study, conducted by navy recruitment officers, the two main factors for entry into a volunteer military are low family income and veterans in the family. If you figure that most veterans were either drafted or volunteered for the other primary reason, you're stuck with low income being the primary factor.
While the idea of reinstating the draft isn't being taken seriously (even Mr Rangel voted against it,) that doesn't mean there isn't a defacto draft taking place. There is a backdoor draft in place. We no longer have an all-volunteer army if you consider that people are serving terms in excess of what they volunteered for originally.
If the military is resorting to a backdoor draft to keep from bleeding to death, how long before a front door draft is needed? If we want to keep waging full-scale occupations of foreign countries, we'll need more troops, and a draft will occur. Both Bush and Kerry have vowed to take out terrorists where they are. If you think we won't need more troops, you're fooling yourself.
I can agree with you on one facet of your statement. Beating on Bush is disingenious for planning a draft because the Democrats cannot be taking the war seriously if they aren't also considering it.
While I agree with what you've said, I feel the need to be logically pedantic here:
"There's no patch yet"
is not the same as
"There is a patch coming"
It is easy to assume that a patch will be forthcoming, but that is not always the case. It could be fundamentally broken -- IE security holes have been such a bugger to close because the application is fundamentally insecure.
I agree with you where the Supreme Court is concerned because there is only one of them.
The problem is with idealogues at the Appeals level. Organizations that have a problem with a federal law just shop around for an Appeals judge that agrees with them and get the law striken/suspended. They just need to find a case within the district the appealate judge oversees and push it to the appeals level. This so-called "venue shopping" makes the judicial system a farce.
That would be great as it's a well known product that is used by lots of people and desperately needs improving
If MS did open IE, would anyone but hackers care? I think we'd see exploits way faster than we saw patches. People are finding holes in IE fast enough without looking at the source code!
I know that OSS should be more secure (many eyes and all that) but the process shouldn't be:
Develop closed-source for years
Deliver something like a billiion copies
open the source
It's simply too late to open IE. Havoc would ensue.
Slashdot Mirror
Jeez! There's a lot of cool sounding options. Anyone know of an about:about:config?
This way, the patent office can continue to be a cash cow and have an incentive to protect our rights at the same time.
What happens when you go to your bank's website and get redirected to an identical-looking website that steals your information?
Jesus! I sure hope people aren't using a search engine to find their bank's website. The horror!
When I first saw that headline I thought maybe TiVo was considering creating a Linux Distro -- something that, on first blush, sounds weird. However, they do run Linux on their boxes; so, they might have the staff to handle such a thing. Maybe they should consider their own distro and bundle this potential new offering with it.
TiVo users are pretty tech savvy people, in my experience. It could actually find a market and put some profit into their sagging bottom line. They might even be able to do it on the cheap if they simply struck a deal with someone like SuSE to simply create a TiVo brand of their distro.
Buying ringtones is right up there with paying for pr0n in my book.
Personally, if I'm going to pay for pron, it's gonna be in my book.
Michigan law, as stated in the FA, prohibits importing tobacco from out of state to circumvent the tax.
Does it set an ugly precidence? Not likely. I would doubt very much that their laws prohibit the importation of books. It is true that most states have moved to requiring that the consumer report and pay a 'Use Tax' for Mail-order/Internet goods; but, the reporting responsibility is purely on the consumer, and the state gains little from pursuing individual residence for what will likely be tiny amounts -- certainly nothing like $2,500.
You could always link to Orbitz' competitors instead.
you have to convince them to pay you.
Don't know how it works in Florida, or inter-jurisdictionally for that matter, but in New York, you can request that the County Sheriff where the business/person resides enforce the judgement. They will go, judgement in hand, and request payment. If payment is refused, they can seize assets to cover the settlement. (I believe they have this kind of sweeping authority because we're talking about small claims.)
If your state has County Sheriffs, I would start by talking to them once you have a small claims judgement in your favor and see what they advise.
Also, unless the refund guarantee specifies "Store Credit," I wouldn't even settle for $1700 in Store Credit. That's not a refund.
Well, clearly I'm an idiot. I read over that list like three times and never saw it. I guess I'l have to go with Microwave Burritos then :)
Since no one else seems to have said it yet, I'm going to say Email.
Sure, it's been around for more than 25 years, but as others have pointed out, that wasn't the criteria.
Last I checked, it was still the top Internet application.
If #1 is not an Internet application, then my guess will be microwave burritos.
Try using a search engine without the Internet -- and, while you're at it, try using the Internet without either a 'cell phone' (#2) or computer (#3).
In the meantime you can get a list of some english blogs written by iranians over at http://blogsbyiranians.com/
it appears to be down at the moment since I suspect it's hosted at hoders server but there is always the google cache if you want to look at it right now.
I'm in the US and I can reach the site just fine. Sure you're not being blocked? I wouldn't be so sure about your "only a drill" assumption.
Also, it should be noted, that without outside help, the american revolution would have been a dismal failure. Totalitarian governments rarely collapse on their own.
I'm not necessarily advocating a US "liberation." I'm just saying that you should not delude yourself into believing you really have a choice in regards to your government. I live in the US, the self-proclaimed home of freedom of choice, and I'm starting to think I don't have any choice in my government anymore -- people capable of thinking for themselves are becoming outnumbered by religiously prodded cattle at the ballot box.
The scanner computer already has the pricing information in it, so the price that they are going to charge shows up on the register!
If the POS system is worth anything, it should show you their non-sale price for the item. Sale prices should be entered with start and stop dates at some level of the system. Since the item wouldn't be on sale the week before it comes out, you should only be seeing their regular price if the item has already been entered.
Depending on how they handle sale signage, you might be able to pick up the sale price the night before it goes on sale. Some retailers, like CVS, push the next week's sale prices out to the registers the evening before the sale so that they can put up the sale signs that evening before they close.
I would be pretty surprised to see sale prices on new items more than a few hours before they go on sale.
Also, as far as competitive pricing goes, retailers need to decide what their price will be for a new item well before it's released: They need it price for signage and advertising.
January 19, 2038
Worst Birthday Ever!
At least I'll be 69 and living large on my Social Security by then.
Check out www.diplom.org. There are many Diplomacy servers indexed there. Some have web interfaces for entering orders and the create maps as gifs and pdfs.
I'm not saying I agree with them. But, the OJ trial wasn't too long after the LA Riots and the press was predicting (Not Their Job, Dammit!) that a riot would follow a guilty verdict. Scared people do stupid things.
I think the OJ jury decided that no justice for Ron and Nicole was better than another riot where many more innocent people would have died.
Just for fun, let me respond to both the parent and the grand parent together:
... we have law enforcement agents to spare ...
GrandParent:
Terrorists, who I assume are the people you think these law enforement people should be after, are nothing without funding. A great source of illegal revenue is copyright and trademark infringment. While these toys don't really fit the mold, (dvd's seem to be the rage for this) it is right up Homeland Securities alley and undoubtedly one of the reasons Customs became part of the department.
Parent: Ok wait just a minute. I am sick and tired of the left making that statement.
Unless something changes, I think it is only a matter of time before one of our ports is leveled in a Nuclear blast. We cannot simply declare we're doing all we can do or that it is impossible, because we aren't and it isn't. Here's a suggestion off the top of my head:
For the majority of containers coming into this country, we are the ultimate consumers of the product within. Our imports are other people's exports. You want an army of a million inspectors, place a small group of inspectors in each port that ships to the US and require the host country to staff their teams if they want to continue to export to the US. It won't be perfect, and the goods might cost a little more, but it'll be a lot better than not checking at all.
After crawling through the public interface to EIRS, I noticed this bit:
https://voteprotect.org/
Is it really necessary to encrypt the public side of this tool? Or any of it for that matter? You could be beating your CPU senseless for no good reason. Try just encrypting the sensitive stuff.
(The draft? Charlie Rangel (D) proposes it -- and they're still flogging the notion that it's Bush planning for a draft.)
Charles Rangel, an African-American Democrat, introduced a bill in the house to reinstate the draft to prove a point: Rich white guys are sending the poorest among us off to war.
According to this study, conducted by navy recruitment officers, the two main factors for entry into a volunteer military are low family income and veterans in the family. If you figure that most veterans were either drafted or volunteered for the other primary reason, you're stuck with low income being the primary factor.
While the idea of reinstating the draft isn't being taken seriously (even Mr Rangel voted against it,) that doesn't mean there isn't a defacto draft taking place. There is a backdoor draft in place. We no longer have an all-volunteer army if you consider that people are serving terms in excess of what they volunteered for originally.
If the military is resorting to a backdoor draft to keep from bleeding to death, how long before a front door draft is needed? If we want to keep waging full-scale occupations of foreign countries, we'll need more troops, and a draft will occur. Both Bush and Kerry have vowed to take out terrorists where they are. If you think we won't need more troops, you're fooling yourself.
I can agree with you on one facet of your statement. Beating on Bush is disingenious for planning a draft because the Democrats cannot be taking the war seriously if they aren't also considering it.
is not the same as
It is easy to assume that a patch will be forthcoming, but that is not always the case. It could be fundamentally broken -- IE security holes have been such a bugger to close because the application is fundamentally insecure.
They could make it free. You just have to pick it up.
I agree with you where the Supreme Court is concerned because there is only one of them.
The problem is with idealogues at the Appeals level. Organizations that have a problem with a federal law just shop around for an Appeals judge that agrees with them and get the law striken/suspended. They just need to find a case within the district the appealate judge oversees and push it to the appeals level. This so-called "venue shopping" makes the judicial system a farce.
Wasn't this covered in the movie sneakers? As I recall, it didn't work out too well for the mathematician involved.
If MS did open IE, would anyone but hackers care? I think we'd see exploits way faster than we saw patches. People are finding holes in IE fast enough without looking at the source code!
I know that OSS should be more secure (many eyes and all that) but the process shouldn't be:
It's simply too late to open IE. Havoc would ensue.