Since a lot of people refer to the plates themselves as "tags", its not a big stretch to assume the "dealer tags" are the cardboard advertisements that would be sitting in the license-plate frame.
If you OWE money on your taxes there isn't a single good reason not to earn interest on it in your interest-bearing-account-of-choice up until the last possible day.
If you get a refund due, absolutely, file as soon as you can, but if you owe unto Caesar, then there's no reason to give it up any sooner than the last possible date.
I use www.anonymizer.com to go to the Yahoo account because I'm paranoid. Hell if anyone's going to get my IP (Internet address). Screw the Feds, they are lazy they won't trace me back that far.
Uh... subpoena Anonymizer for logs (by law they have to keep them) then timestamp the occurances...
The answer to that is to make a big stink about it. Claim you never got the "oops" letter and demand to know when they're going to ship the memory you paid for. When they refuse, order it at the current price, then dispute it with your credit card company.
That's what happened with UAL a month or so ago, and most of the credit card companies told their customers "pay the higher rate if you must, but call us immediately after you get the flight completed, and we'll chargeback the difference". UAL finally realized they were screwed, and "decided to honor the sales they made"... amazon will have to do the same thing.
I suggested this the last time this topic came up, and it remains the best solution in the market, and (even if the CIPA is shot down) you'll still have done a lot of good by making the library/school less dependent on the government tit.
Find a local ISP willing to donate the bandwidth. It won't be that hard, really. Most will either give them a free port or a significant discount. Find a local computer retailer who wants some good community will. (remember that the CIPA also mentions "hardware purchased with government funds", so if some government grant made the PC possible, they're equally boned). Work out a discount deal and install it. Put in Windows (yeah, you could use Linux, but in reality, Windows plug-in support, etc. etc., is much better, although the security aspects of Linux are not something to be shaken away lightly)... anyhow make whatever choice you want to on that front and just do it. You'll get a ton of thanks and good karma (real world karma, not/. karma) from people who are just as adamant about free-speech as anyone here.
And besides... occasionally, there's a really cute librarian you'll make the acquaintance of.. and she'll be indebted to you.:) just kidding
... not "should they go after Napster or should they go after the users".
If they want to sue their fans, let them.
The issue is that the criteria they're using is flawed, and they're making mistakes at best (suing people who are innocent) and committing perjury at worst.
If I have a filename "EnterSandman.mp3", is it:
1.) Metallica's Enter Sandman from the black album (copyright owner: Elektra Records)
2.) Metallica's Enter Sandman from a live concert which I recorded legally (Copyright owner: me)
3.) Metallica's Enter Sandman from a performance on the Grammy Awards (Copyright Owner: NARAS)
4.) Apocalyptica's Enter Sandman from their "Metallica by Four Cellos" CD (Copyright owner: Apocalyptica)
5.) A spoken word essay from someone saying how much they hate how Metallica sold out when they wrote pop metal (owner: that guy)
6.) a text file disguised as a Metallica MP3 (owner: the author)
7.) Britney Spears song to intentionally poison Metallica song-searches (Owner: britney spears)
If the file is anything other than #1, then whatever Metallica representative claimed copyright ownership in their affidavit (the DMCA notice is an affidavit) committed perjury, because they claimed to own the copyright on something they had no reason to believe they actually had the rights to.
Now this group may be able to act on behalf of the owners 1,4,7 and POSSIBLY 3 above, but the rest have all got nice counterclaims against copyright.net, possible sanctions, etc.
Simply culling lists looking for filenames and even looking for title info isn't enough. The copyright holder actually has to confirm that the file REALLY DOES contain their copyrighted work, or they're in a heap of trouble, and whenever someone goes after (n>100000) people, you have to know that nobody verified the copyright on each and every item.
Actually, participants in the IPO are NOT really affected by this.. the folks who are affected are those who DIDN'T get their stock @ $30.00 a share, but instead had to pay "through the nose" for it, allegedly, because CS/FB artificially inflated the price of the stock in the aftermarket.
OK, so I read the complaint. Here's my understanding of it (which surely some people will later refine/correct)
1.) the prospectus for LNUX claimed that Credit Suisse would get 'n' shares
2.) Credit Suisse actually procured 'n+x' shares.
3.) Credit Suisse then made backroom deals with big Credit Suisse customers to sell them the stock at "better than market, but still not IPO price", in exchange for increased commissions.
4.) This "forced inflation" of the price, caused others to have to pay higher-than-fair value for the stock.
The plaintiffs appear to contend that the offering was illegal because (a) they lied on their prospectus (points 1 and 2 above), and (b) people paid artificially increased prices for the shares (points 3 and 4 above).
Basically. That's certainly not definitive legalese, but its how this untrained guy (who happens to enjoy reading/understanding court documents) would read it.
Indiana has laws similar to this. They have a law (or had at least, been several years for me since I've been there) that if you give notice, and your employer fires you in that interim, the employer was required to pay you for the duration of your notice. (e.g., if you give two weeks notice and they say "Go away!" they still have to pay you the two weeks).
Buddy of mine KNEW his employer has a policy of "never accept notice" so he gave them three months' notice, in writing, etc. etc., and eventually (after several days of wrangling and one call from an attorney) he got paid for watching Fred and Barney for 3 months because they were too stupid to know the law.;-)
I mentioned this several months ago on a different subject, but the answer is simple.
It outrages you, it outrages me. Do the right thing.
Find a local ISP willing to donate bandwidth to a non-profit organzation (tax deductible)... find a computer shop in your area willing to sell at or below cost to a non-profit. Buy the computer for the library/school, and install it such that it uses the donated internet access. Voila, you're not using public funds anymore, and the machine need not be filtered.
As much as I dislike the concept, if the school/library is going to suck off the government tit, they're going to get the flavor of milk the government is spewing. Give them good clean fresh milk.:)
Actually, ice isn't considered part of the planet's surface, I don't think..., so how I read it is that the salt-water-ocean IS on the surface, (above the geologic crust of the planet) but is covered by a crust of ice that is very very thick.
Is the princess/Leto storyline "Stale and predictable" because its poorly written or because you've read Dune and know that Leto has only one child, Paul, and lives with the Lady Jessica, so you "know" that something has to happen to both of them.
When reading prequels, it is REALLY important to remember that you are prescient. You KNOW how it turns out in the end. It's like reading the last chapter of a mystery novel. You've not going to encounter suspense on major plotlines like that -- its just not possible. What you ARE going to get is the background into "What made 'character' who he/she is?"
That's not to say there won't be suspense at all, simply that it will be in "the details"... the rules of war / swordmaster training plotline, etc. You know he's a Swordmaster, but its all the fine details of that process that are withheld and slowly spoonfed back out.
Overall I liked both, and can't wait for Dune: House Corrino to come out (next year is it?)
I like the idea of having a couple sites in "friendly" countries (HavenCo,.RU, etc.), who you can connect to and say "mirror www.news-site.com", and they do it. silently. They don't actually make the data AVAILABLE to anyone at that point. It requires an administrator of the League server to say, "hey, news-site.com is down, unleash the mirrored copy".
You don't have nearly the "copyright" issues at that point (e.g., news-site.com might not want you to be a public mirror while they're selling ad-space and trying to live, but when they're getting their ass kicked in court, they may not be nearly as inclined to go after you for preserving their livelihood and image), and you can basically keep the "mirroring" active for a certain period of time and then drop it. (e.g., if I put out an APB today to "mirror slashdot", but in 60 days slashdot is still around, drop the mirror, the crisis is over.") You do that to conserve resources. Obviously if the system has been told (as in the above example) that a site IS down, then it holds on to it for as long as necessary (forever potentially), where interested parties could then mirror it themselves.
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No, it could just be fan artwork. It could be any of a number of other things. If I scribble something that looks like it might be a Jedi, that doesn't give The Lord of Flannel Shirts free reign to kick a site's ass for posting it.
The DMCA would protect the site unless the copyright holder could show that THAT was their copyrighted work.
That's wherein the litmus test would pass or fail.:)
Interestingly enough, I'd refuse to take it down without proof of copyright ownership.
e.g., post it as "We don't think this is really Lucas' storyboards, but here you go."
Then when Lucasfilm lawyers swoop in, say, "prove it, show us documentation that THIS work, is copyrighted by you, and we'll happily take it down."
The interesting part there is that then you could CONFIRM the storyline by seeing what articles were taken down, which is a FAR greater coup for the rumor site than getting possibly-fictitious photoshop storyboards in the first case.
If every rumor site did that, Lucas would have to leave them alone for fear of revealing the plot by killing the sites that had the truth.
Not at all. (well, in my scenario I'm not, but in the scenario I'm suggesting HERE the person could be).
In the scenario with MY local library, I'm simply donating the funds specifically to cover the services the library is providing. Their blanket insurance policies or whatever will cover them. HR4577 simply mandates "publicly funded", and I'm eliminating that public funding.
Now in my solution to Michigan's problem, the answer is simply to require someone to sign some paperwork (usage agreement, etc., which limits/eliminates liability) before they use the system. If you're a minor, get a parent to sign for you.
The Michigan solution isn't as "neat and tidy" as the HR4577 solution. The HR4577 solution provides a drop-in replacement for the existing computer with no changes necessary, whereas the MI solution will require minors to get approval from their parent first. Personally, I'm not that opposed to the minor having to check with their parents. That's what parents are FOR, right?
Talk to your local library. Obviously, they're going to be in your court on it. They don't believe in censorship. It's like Library-Science-101 to them. "Don't do it, ever."
It all centers around the LIBRARY offering the internet service. That's very key.
Have the library specifically re-task their computers that are doing internet access to card-catalogs, office work, whatever. Then, YOU come in -- yes you, the concerned citizen -- YOU offer the computer, YOU offer the internet access, and just LOCATE it at the library. YOU are then offering the public service, not the library.
I had already spoken with my old smalltown local library (when HR4577 was on the agenda to mandate censorware for any library whose computer was purchased with public funds) and they were more than amenable to the idea of circumventing silly censorship statutes in such a manner. (I had told them that I would buy the computer and arrange for free internet access for them, if they agreed to retask the publicly-funded computer elsewhere). Luckily 4577 hasn't seen the light of day yet, so I've yet to have to pony up, but if the time comes, yeah, I'll do it, and so should you.
From FedEx's web site, it looks like they'll ship there, overnight. They don't seem to make any mention (that I could find) of restrictions on what city, etc., just that they will deliver to the Russian Federation, a 5-lb. package for about $180 or some such.
More expensive, but it seems like it'd work, and I'm almost certain FedEx paperwork has a checkbox for "charge duties to this account #" on it... setting up a Fedex account for personal use is easily achieved (I think I might actually have TWO of them *grin*)
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I don't think that's the case at all. There are lots of people working on Mac products. Are there as many as work on Windows? No, of course not.
Do I have one whit of programming ability to write it myself? Nope.
Would I write it, if I had the appropriate skills? Absolutely.
For some of us, it is less about freedom and more about [to quote ESR] programs which don't suck. In this case, PGP sucks less than GPG because it at least works on my platform.:)
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This has been mentioned elsewhere, but it bears repeating, since you're looking for what the "most common issues" are. (that's a note to moderators, that in a situation like this, "redundant" isn't a viable moderation).
I use Eudora for MacOS, and PGP integrates BEAUTIFULLY with it. So far, there's not even a GPG for MacOS, and I certainly doubt it'll have the nice integration with Eudora I currently enjoy.
And that's not to say that I don't want to use GPG -- I do. Near as I can tell from lurking on the -devel list, I can't even see that someone is TRYING to do anything on that front.
Until then, I'll suffer with my nice integration that PGP provides me.:(
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I work for a company that has taken that workspace environment and merged it with the "workspace ideals" you're describing. Nobody complains about silly "company time/property" issues, unless someone is being an idiot about it (making 500 photocopies or something).
Our cubes are actually bright purple and yellow, and while it may SOUND disgusting, it actually works fairly well, surprisingly enough.:)
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Since a lot of people refer to the plates themselves as "tags", its not a big stretch to assume the "dealer tags" are the cardboard advertisements that would be sitting in the license-plate frame.
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If you OWE money on your taxes there isn't a single good reason not to earn interest on it in your interest-bearing-account-of-choice up until the last possible day.
If you get a refund due, absolutely, file as soon as you can, but if you owe unto Caesar, then there's no reason to give it up any sooner than the last possible date.
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Uh... subpoena Anonymizer for logs (by law they have to keep them) then timestamp the occurances...
Specifically, what law requires you to keep logs?
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The answer to that is to make a big stink about it. Claim you never got the "oops" letter and demand to know when they're going to ship the memory you paid for. When they refuse, order it at the current price, then dispute it with your credit card company.
That's what happened with UAL a month or so ago, and most of the credit card companies told their customers "pay the higher rate if you must, but call us immediately after you get the flight completed, and we'll chargeback the difference". UAL finally realized they were screwed, and "decided to honor the sales they made"... amazon will have to do the same thing.
Find a local ISP willing to donate the bandwidth. It won't be that hard, really. Most will either give them a free port or a significant discount. Find a local computer retailer who wants some good community will. (remember that the CIPA also mentions "hardware purchased with government funds", so if some government grant made the PC possible, they're equally boned). Work out a discount deal and install it. Put in Windows (yeah, you could use Linux, but in reality, Windows plug-in support, etc. etc., is much better, although the security aspects of Linux are not something to be shaken away lightly)... anyhow make whatever choice you want to on that front and just do it. You'll get a ton of thanks and good karma (real world karma, not /. karma) from people who are just as adamant about free-speech as anyone here.
And besides... occasionally, there's a really cute librarian you'll make the acquaintance of.. and she'll be indebted to you. :) just kidding
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... not "should they go after Napster or should they go after the users".
If they want to sue their fans, let them.
The issue is that the criteria they're using is flawed, and they're making mistakes at best (suing people who are innocent) and committing perjury at worst.
If I have a filename "EnterSandman.mp3", is it:
1.) Metallica's Enter Sandman from the black album (copyright owner: Elektra Records)
2.) Metallica's Enter Sandman from a live concert which I recorded legally (Copyright owner: me)
3.) Metallica's Enter Sandman from a performance on the Grammy Awards (Copyright Owner: NARAS)
4.) Apocalyptica's Enter Sandman from their "Metallica by Four Cellos" CD (Copyright owner: Apocalyptica)
5.) A spoken word essay from someone saying how much they hate how Metallica sold out when they wrote pop metal (owner: that guy)
6.) a text file disguised as a Metallica MP3 (owner: the author)
7.) Britney Spears song to intentionally poison Metallica song-searches (Owner: britney spears)
If the file is anything other than #1, then whatever Metallica representative claimed copyright ownership in their affidavit (the DMCA notice is an affidavit) committed perjury, because they claimed to own the copyright on something they had no reason to believe they actually had the rights to.
Now this group may be able to act on behalf of the owners 1,4,7 and POSSIBLY 3 above, but the rest have all got nice counterclaims against copyright.net, possible sanctions, etc.
Simply culling lists looking for filenames and even looking for title info isn't enough. The copyright holder actually has to confirm that the file REALLY DOES contain their copyrighted work, or they're in a heap of trouble, and whenever someone goes after (n>100000) people, you have to know that nobody verified the copyright on each and every item.
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that's the allegation, near as I can tell.
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OK, so I read the complaint. Here's my understanding of it (which surely some people will later refine/correct)
1.) the prospectus for LNUX claimed that Credit Suisse would get 'n' shares
2.) Credit Suisse actually procured 'n+x' shares.
3.) Credit Suisse then made backroom deals with big Credit Suisse customers to sell them the stock at "better than market, but still not IPO price", in exchange for increased commissions.
4.) This "forced inflation" of the price, caused others to have to pay higher-than-fair value for the stock.
The plaintiffs appear to contend that the offering was illegal because (a) they lied on their prospectus (points 1 and 2 above), and (b) people paid artificially increased prices for the shares (points 3 and 4 above).
Basically. That's certainly not definitive legalese, but its how this untrained guy (who happens to enjoy reading/understanding court documents) would read it.
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Buddy of mine KNEW his employer has a policy of "never accept notice" so he gave them three months' notice, in writing, etc. etc., and eventually (after several days of wrangling and one call from an attorney) he got paid for watching Fred and Barney for 3 months because they were too stupid to know the law. ;-)
That'll teach me to try and post intelligently when the Coke machine at the office is broken. ;-)
It outrages you, it outrages me. Do the right thing.
Find a local ISP willing to donate bandwidth to a non-profit organzation (tax deductible)... find a computer shop in your area willing to sell at or below cost to a non-profit. Buy the computer for the library/school, and install it such that it uses the donated internet access. Voila, you're not using public funds anymore, and the machine need not be filtered.
As much as I dislike the concept, if the school/library is going to suck off the government tit, they're going to get the flavor of milk the government is spewing. Give them good clean fresh milk. :)
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But, IANAP (I am not a planetologist *grin*)
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When reading prequels, it is REALLY important to remember that you are prescient. You KNOW how it turns out in the end. It's like reading the last chapter of a mystery novel. You've not going to encounter suspense on major plotlines like that -- its just not possible. What you ARE going to get is the background into "What made 'character' who he/she is?"
That's not to say there won't be suspense at all, simply that it will be in "the details"... the rules of war / swordmaster training plotline, etc. You know he's a Swordmaster, but its all the fine details of that process that are withheld and slowly spoonfed back out.
Overall I liked both, and can't wait for Dune: House Corrino to come out (next year is it?)
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You don't have nearly the "copyright" issues at that point (e.g., news-site.com might not want you to be a public mirror while they're selling ad-space and trying to live, but when they're getting their ass kicked in court, they may not be nearly as inclined to go after you for preserving their livelihood and image), and you can basically keep the "mirroring" active for a certain period of time and then drop it. (e.g., if I put out an APB today to "mirror slashdot", but in 60 days slashdot is still around, drop the mirror, the crisis is over.") You do that to conserve resources. Obviously if the system has been told (as in the above example) that a site IS down, then it holds on to it for as long as necessary (forever potentially), where interested parties could then mirror it themselves. D
The DMCA would protect the site unless the copyright holder could show that THAT was their copyrighted work.
That's wherein the litmus test would pass or fail. :)
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Interestingly enough, I'd refuse to take it down without proof of copyright ownership.
e.g., post it as "We don't think this is really Lucas' storyboards, but here you go."
Then when Lucasfilm lawyers swoop in, say, "prove it, show us documentation that THIS work, is copyrighted by you, and we'll happily take it down."
The interesting part there is that then you could CONFIRM the storyline by seeing what articles were taken down, which is a FAR greater coup for the rumor site than getting possibly-fictitious photoshop storyboards in the first case.
If every rumor site did that, Lucas would have to leave them alone for fear of revealing the plot by killing the sites that had the truth.
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BIND runs on Linux, it runs on Solaris, it runs on damn near every OS I've ever run across.
In the scenario with MY local library, I'm simply donating the funds specifically to cover the services the library is providing. Their blanket insurance policies or whatever will cover them. HR4577 simply mandates "publicly funded", and I'm eliminating that public funding.
Now in my solution to Michigan's problem, the answer is simply to require someone to sign some paperwork (usage agreement, etc., which limits/eliminates liability) before they use the system. If you're a minor, get a parent to sign for you.
The Michigan solution isn't as "neat and tidy" as the HR4577 solution. The HR4577 solution provides a drop-in replacement for the existing computer with no changes necessary, whereas the MI solution will require minors to get approval from their parent first. Personally, I'm not that opposed to the minor having to check with their parents. That's what parents are FOR, right?
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... using it as a coaster maybe. ;-)
It all centers around the LIBRARY offering the internet service. That's very key.
Have the library specifically re-task their computers that are doing internet access to card-catalogs, office work, whatever. Then, YOU come in -- yes you, the concerned citizen -- YOU offer the computer, YOU offer the internet access, and just LOCATE it at the library. YOU are then offering the public service, not the library.
I had already spoken with my old smalltown local library (when HR4577 was on the agenda to mandate censorware for any library whose computer was purchased with public funds) and they were more than amenable to the idea of circumventing silly censorship statutes in such a manner. (I had told them that I would buy the computer and arrange for free internet access for them, if they agreed to retask the publicly-funded computer elsewhere). Luckily 4577 hasn't seen the light of day yet, so I've yet to have to pony up, but if the time comes, yeah, I'll do it, and so should you.
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From FedEx's web site, it looks like they'll ship there, overnight. They don't seem to make any mention (that I could find) of restrictions on what city, etc., just that they will deliver to the Russian Federation, a 5-lb. package for about $180 or some such.
More expensive, but it seems like it'd work, and I'm almost certain FedEx paperwork has a checkbox for "charge duties to this account #" on it... setting up a Fedex account for personal use is easily achieved (I think I might actually have TWO of them *grin*)
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Do I have one whit of programming ability to write it myself? Nope.
Would I write it, if I had the appropriate skills? Absolutely.
For some of us, it is less about freedom and more about [to quote ESR] programs which don't suck. In this case, PGP sucks less than GPG because it at least works on my platform. :)
This has been mentioned elsewhere, but it bears repeating, since you're looking for what the "most common issues" are. (that's a note to moderators, that in a situation like this, "redundant" isn't a viable moderation). I use Eudora for MacOS, and PGP integrates BEAUTIFULLY with it. So far, there's not even a GPG for MacOS, and I certainly doubt it'll have the nice integration with Eudora I currently enjoy. And that's not to say that I don't want to use GPG -- I do. Near as I can tell from lurking on the -devel list, I can't even see that someone is TRYING to do anything on that front. Until then, I'll suffer with my nice integration that PGP provides me. :(
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No, I don't work for Intel. ;-)
I work for a company that has taken that workspace environment and merged it with the "workspace ideals" you're describing. Nobody complains about silly "company time/property" issues, unless someone is being an idiot about it (making 500 photocopies or something).
Our cubes are actually bright purple and yellow, and while it may SOUND disgusting, it actually works fairly well, surprisingly enough. :)