You dispute under the FCRA. If they don't remove disputed information without validating it, or they continue to provide false info, you sue for an easy win, provided you properly documented it.
No, Pi is not a formula. Pi is the name given to a certain irrational number, it's a quantity not a formula.
There are various formulas that lead to Pi.
And even as numerical techniques are used to find Pi to increasing levels of accuracy there is a very strong expectation in the community that no pattern of the individual digits exists.
Just because we don't know of a pattern to the digits in Pi, or simple mathematical relation to get digits X to Y doesn't necessarily mean there is none. However:)
You can do even better than that... you can request that they send you your complete phone records for a certain month.
As long as your line is a metered line (you pay per call sent or received, not flat-rate unlimited calling or unlimited call receiving), they should provide these billing details to you.
Might want to re-think turning an easy FDCPA win on your part into a wreckless negligence charge against you + Wrongful Death suit win on their family's party....
Discussing your affairs with your family/boss, and going to your house without permission would be violations of the FDCPA privacy rules.
Then you keep them on the line as long as possible, tell them "please hold", set them on hold, and forget about them for a few hours, so they will waste as many international calling minutes as possible.
Oh, yes, and add their phone number to your call blocking list, so they can't call you anymore.
Or just say "I'm not paying" and hang up abruptly, as soon as they call you.
If they call back, "Calls from your organization are harassment, don't call me again" [CLICK]
Maybe, assuming the EULA is even valid.
I for one reject the EULA and just install anyways.
The software is certainly legal to possess and use, I purchased it. No act of using the software can ever be copyright infringement or piracy, no matter what a EULA says.
Nothing magical about software makes a valid EULA required to legally use software.
Also, generally once you've bought and paid for an item new conditions cannot be imposed on you, unless you agreed to them at the time of sale.
I've never bought a software package and had the retailer present me with a contract to sign, and I don't expect UK retailers to start for MS software... (I would be very surprised if they did).
Also, since this software would have been bought while travelling to the UK, both parties were in the UK, the US doesn't have jurisdiction over the "contract" anyways if one ever existed, a US court doesn't have jurisdiction.
So... Microsoft would have to somehow convince me to travel back to the UK to be able to pursue any action
You can totally scramble the traceroute by sending fake ICMP TTL exceeded messages.
And you don't necessarily need your local ISP to provide anything; you just need to find someone in the UK willing to tunnel and NAT your traffic for you or provide a VPN/GRE tunnel service.
[Much like the type of tunnels commonly used to allow you to implement IPv6, even if your ISP is still only v4.]
Or for (that matter) a proxy server; where you intentionally force all traffic to MS to go over the proxy, so your IP appears to be that of whoever's handing you the tunnel/proxy.
There are lots of for-fee/for-free proxies out there, including an application called TOR (The Onion Router), and open proxies.
Not necessarily, happens all the time, making it indistinguishable from ordinary internet routing. And the "obscure" private routers would not even have to show up in the traceroute output.
Not only can the private end routers be made to insert things into the traceroute, they can hide their own existence, as long as the ISP doesn't insert a dead giveaway into the trace.
Also, i'm sure (for the right price) you can get your ISP to drop off you off in Europe and possibly even assign UK IP space to your LAN that exists in the US. Admittedly, getting this type of custom network design would be risky and probably be a lot more expensive than paying full US price for Windows 7 licenses.
Unlike trademarks, patents do not expire unless enforced.
What? Patents will expire at the designated date whether you enforce them or not, they are for limited times.
Trademark rights are considered abandoned if not properly enforced.
Patents always expire exactly on the expiration date, unless found invalid by the USPTO (upon re-examination), or ruled invalid by a court in the interim.
I can think of a few reasons he might not want to go after the guy directly.
(1) He might not have any money. It's useless to sue a penniless victim, you can't enforce the judgement; it doesn't encourage Verizon to fire him; it doesn't encourage Verizon to weed out employees like him (which they apparently aren't doing, as they didn't fire him).
(2) Maybe Verizon management had some role in it. For example, perhaps Verizon treated their employee in a way that caused him to be stressed out, the person had a very bad day, his boss was putting a lot of undue pressure on him for one reason or another, treating the employee like crap; the customer asking to see his ID was the last straw.
(3) Possibly the customer is afraid of retaliation should he sue him directly, the customer might find the frazzled employee knocking on the door a couple days after filing suit, waiting to finish the job...
Almost all companies perform some type of background check.
The extent varies between two extremes on a scale of 1 to 10:
(1) Just look at their resume [possiby], interview them, [optionally] call a reference are two.
UP TO
(10) Pulls credit reports from all major CRAs, pull CheXsystems, Certegy, Acxiom, ChoicePoint, Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Veromi, ZabaSearch, CIA Data, DocuSearch, Integrascan, and others, Extensive search of public records. Company employees scour records, and go in person to public records department of every city you've ever lived in, and look for records. Also look up records of your neighbors, and sets up interviews of your past neighbors to figure out who your other friends are, and other details about you. Sends men in black to all your friends for further interviews; asks all your teachers in grade school, high school, and college professors about you, sends agents to talk to your doctors and get copies of all your medical records. Compiles all information into an employee dossier, to be used for ultimately deciding whether to hire you or not.
For the vast majority of companies, it's approximately a 5. If they don't perform basic due dilligence and background checks, they are exposing themselves to potential liability, not just their customers suing them, but the possibility of the employee ripping them off, or doing something illegal that causes great damage to the company's reputation, or results in direct financial losses.
Verizon can fire based on the customer's complaint without the burden of making a determination whether a court of law would find the employee guilty or not.
In fact, at times, someone might commit a crime, but there not be strong enough evidence to convict and send to jail; the evidenciary standards for conviction are very high, behind a shadow of a reasonable doubt.
However, the burden of evidence to shows a person almost certainly committed the crime is much less.
Verizon has a duty to ensure they don't harm their customers, and part of that includes screening and continuously monitoring employees that interact with customers, especially ones that do so without management on site to monitor them.
If they had any reasonable cause to believe an employee might pose a danger to a customer, and they did not perform properly to mitigate or warn the customer of the danger, then they may have been guilty of negligence.
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You dispute under the FCRA. If they don't remove disputed information without validating it, or they continue to provide false info, you sue for an easy win, provided you properly documented it.
No, Pi is not a formula. Pi is the name given to a certain irrational number, it's a quantity not a formula.
There are various formulas that lead to Pi.
And even as numerical techniques are used to find Pi to increasing levels of accuracy there is a very strong expectation in the community that no pattern of the individual digits exists.
^3\.[[:digit:]]+$
Just because we don't know of a pattern to the digits in Pi, or simple mathematical relation to get digits X to Y doesn't necessarily mean there is none. However :)
<Person> Computer, calculate pi to an indefinite number of decimal digits.
<Computer> Ok, done.
<Person> Wow, that was fast.
<Person> Computer, e-mail me the previous computed value.
<Computer> Ok, this will take a long time, please wait. ETA: indefinite. Next status report in: 6 months.
Should be no problem, you can report the ACH transaction as unauthorized, and direct your bank to refuse further ACH transactions from paypal.
Bank should reverse the transaction and hit Paypal with a phat $50 fee.
Some CUs are like that, others are not.
You can do even better than that... you can request that they send you your complete phone records for a certain month.
As long as your line is a metered line (you pay per call sent or received, not flat-rate unlimited calling or unlimited call receiving), they should provide these billing details to you.
When they return that, you can retain it as evidence that they refused to sign for it.
And you can send a second letter with delivery confirmation.
Refusing mail doesn't impune them.
Might want to re-think turning an easy FDCPA win on your part into a wreckless negligence charge against you + Wrongful Death suit win on their family's party....
Discussing your affairs with your family/boss, and going to your house without permission would be violations of the FDCPA privacy rules.
Then you keep them on the line as long as possible, tell them "please hold", set them on hold, and forget about them for a few hours, so they will waste as many international calling minutes as possible.
Oh, yes, and add their phone number to your call blocking list, so they can't call you anymore.
Or just say "I'm not paying" and hang up abruptly, as soon as they call you.
If they call back, "Calls from your organization are harassment, don't call me again" [CLICK]
It's annoying, but they should stop eventually.
Start recording the conversations, as long as they say the standard "this call may be recorded for quality assurance purposes".
Send them a letter by certified mail stating it is inconvenient call, please direct all communications in writing.
Get an attorney on the case. If they start harrassing you, they will run afoul of the Fair Debt Collection Practices act.
Dispute any false entries they make on your credit report, again there are online articles that discuss this.
Notify them in writing of the disputed nature of the debt. If they persist, sue them under the FCRA.
They will be on the hook for a significant penalty for persisting in reporting false information to the CRAs under your SSN.
Maybe, assuming the EULA is even valid. I for one reject the EULA and just install anyways.
The software is certainly legal to possess and use, I purchased it. No act of using the software can ever be copyright infringement or piracy, no matter what a EULA says.
Nothing magical about software makes a valid EULA required to legally use software.
Also, generally once you've bought and paid for an item new conditions cannot be imposed on you, unless you agreed to them at the time of sale.
I've never bought a software package and had the retailer present me with a contract to sign, and I don't expect UK retailers to start for MS software... (I would be very surprised if they did).
Also, since this software would have been bought while travelling to the UK, both parties were in the UK, the US doesn't have jurisdiction over the "contract" anyways if one ever existed, a US court doesn't have jurisdiction.
So... Microsoft would have to somehow convince me to travel back to the UK to be able to pursue any action
Maybe the hard drive is SSD write-optimized flash with a high sequential IO rate. I think the actual latency depends on the distance...
If it's 50 miles, it doesn't matter how many cyclers you have, it's going to take a while.
You can totally scramble the traceroute by sending fake ICMP TTL exceeded messages.
And you don't necessarily need your local ISP to provide anything; you just need to find someone in the UK willing to tunnel and NAT your traffic for you or provide a VPN/GRE tunnel service. [Much like the type of tunnels commonly used to allow you to implement IPv6, even if your ISP is still only v4.]
Or for (that matter) a proxy server; where you intentionally force all traffic to MS to go over the proxy, so your IP appears to be that of whoever's handing you the tunnel/proxy.
There are lots of for-fee/for-free proxies out there, including an application called TOR (The Onion Router), and open proxies.
Maybe. If you can suggest how to reliably ensure the total latency of the link stays below below 100ms and the jitter does not exceed 10ms/s.
So, people who reside in the UK, but periodically take long business trips to the US are screwed?
If they have a restriction like that, it sounds like a pretty crippled version of Windows. Maybe it's really just worth half as much.
What's next? Charging Windows users every time they change their IP address?
Charging Windows users to enable their OS to connect to WiFi?
Not necessarily, happens all the time, making it indistinguishable from ordinary internet routing. And the "obscure" private routers would not even have to show up in the traceroute output.
Not only can the private end routers be made to insert things into the traceroute, they can hide their own existence, as long as the ISP doesn't insert a dead giveaway into the trace.
Also, i'm sure (for the right price) you can get your ISP to drop off you off in Europe and possibly even assign UK IP space to your LAN that exists in the US. Admittedly, getting this type of custom network design would be risky and probably be a lot more expensive than paying full US price for Windows 7 licenses.
You're probably forgetting how easy it is to spoof additional hops in a traceroute (very).
Falsely injecting a few well-known European router IPs at the start and end of the traceroute is pretty trivial.
Unlike trademarks, patents do not expire unless enforced.
What? Patents will expire at the designated date whether you enforce them or not, they are for limited times.
Trademark rights are considered abandoned if not properly enforced.
Patents always expire exactly on the expiration date, unless found invalid by the USPTO (upon re-examination), or ruled invalid by a court in the interim.
Unless Intel has a surprise coming very quickly, without TCPA/Palladium, there's no chip on standard PC hardware that is region locked, however.
If there was, no problem... just import your hardware too; you're going to need new hardware to run Windows 7, which is very resource hungry.
Or use older hardware that doesn't have the new region locking.
That's no problem... I use 10.255.x.x IP addresses. These are clearly European.
I can think of a few reasons he might not want to go after the guy directly.
(1) He might not have any money. It's useless to sue a penniless victim, you can't enforce the judgement; it doesn't encourage Verizon to fire him; it doesn't encourage Verizon to weed out employees like him (which they apparently aren't doing, as they didn't fire him).
(2) Maybe Verizon management had some role in it. For example, perhaps Verizon treated their employee in a way that caused him to be stressed out, the person had a very bad day, his boss was putting a lot of undue pressure on him for one reason or another, treating the employee like crap; the customer asking to see his ID was the last straw.
(3) Possibly the customer is afraid of retaliation should he sue him directly, the customer might find the frazzled employee knocking on the door a couple days after filing suit, waiting to finish the job...
Almost all companies perform some type of background check.
The extent varies between two extremes on a scale of 1 to 10:
(1) Just look at their resume [possiby], interview them, [optionally] call a reference are two.
UP TO
(10) Pulls credit reports from all major CRAs, pull CheXsystems, Certegy, Acxiom, ChoicePoint, Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Veromi, ZabaSearch, CIA Data, DocuSearch, Integrascan, and others, Extensive search of public records. Company employees scour records, and go in person to public records department of every city you've ever lived in, and look for records. Also look up records of your neighbors, and sets up interviews of your past neighbors to figure out who your other friends are, and other details about you. Sends men in black to all your friends for further interviews; asks all your teachers in grade school, high school, and college professors about you, sends agents to talk to your doctors and get copies of all your medical records. Compiles all information into an employee dossier, to be used for ultimately deciding whether to hire you or not.
For the vast majority of companies, it's approximately a 5. If they don't perform basic due dilligence and background checks, they are exposing themselves to potential liability, not just their customers suing them, but the possibility of the employee ripping them off, or doing something illegal that causes great damage to the company's reputation, or results in direct financial losses.
Verizon can fire based on the customer's complaint without the burden of making a determination whether a court of law would find the employee guilty or not.
In fact, at times, someone might commit a crime, but there not be strong enough evidence to convict and send to jail; the evidenciary standards for conviction are very high, behind a shadow of a reasonable doubt.
However, the burden of evidence to shows a person almost certainly committed the crime is much less.
Verizon has a duty to ensure they don't harm their customers, and part of that includes screening and continuously monitoring employees that interact with customers, especially ones that do so without management on site to monitor them.
If they had any reasonable cause to believe an employee might pose a danger to a customer, and they did not perform properly to mitigate or warn the customer of the danger, then they may have been guilty of negligence.