IANAL, but my understanding for tax filings is that your are providing proof of tax credit (not liability,) and when you are audited, they are putting the burden of proof on you to provide the proof that you are entitled to that tax credit through receipts for business/professional expenses capital improvements etc.
If they don't believe you've made no purchases out of state, how is that proved?
Demanding declaration purchases made out of state (I say declaring because that is what you must do at your point of entry to the US, not entering a new state) is illegal.
I don't think it would take to long for this to go to a federal court. Exactly how does New York legally enforce this when Amazon doesn't have a nexus in New York. Create an embargo at the state border demanding that UPS, FedEx, USPS and what ever other shipper dump any shipment from Amazon? Sounds to me like the Sith are involved.
Burst.com's patent -- at least according to Groklaw -- seems like it's definitely invalidated by prior art. According to this article, both Apple and Real (and possibly Microsoft) had their own versions of the same functionality, predating the patent by Burst.
I'm probably just really simplifiying the issue but it seems to me that something like Sony's anti skip technology in DiskMan's would be the prior-art for this going back to the early 90's (perhaps even the late 80's?)... fill up a circular fifo cache ram as the disk is read and play out of the fifo rather then directly from disk. When the disk skips (or flash back to now and the packet is lost or delayed) the queue keeps this from being noticed since system rereads the skipped area of the disk (or the server retransmits the packet and the client has enough cache to wait for the packet.) Again it seems obvios to me use a fifo queue on the client end... and I thought that RealAudio had already done this before Burst, Apple, or MS.
Uhm. Actually, the DoD has a mandate to be ipv6 compliant by June 2008. Not that this doesn't mean plenty of organizations within the DoD won't get waivers to extend that, but it is a target that is being shot for, as I understand it.
Yes, but in order for manufacturers to sell to the mil they have to get the equipment JITC and AI certified which will most likely include IP6 in the testing requirements. IMHO, I'm sure no business is going to risk having a contract contested if they don't either have IPv6 in their network capable equipment or at the very least a documented plan to get it into their product. So through the fear of lost business most manufacturers will put it in.
Seems like it comes full circle... since DARPA was really where IP origionally spawned out of..
Yes, but you should be able to provide proof that you are allocating resources (by that I mean R&D and not Corporate legal) to the development of such a product. A small company may only be able to afford little resources for allocation, but they are showing an effort of development. This is something that is shown when two companies contest the others patent when there is development around the same time the application is done. One has to proove through documentation that they were in development prior to the other.
okay, cool. Tnx for the info... my question is off topic from my original post, but let me pick your brain a little more... From what I heard the meathod that L3 has taken against Cogent is to just block some traffic. To be specific they are allowing the BGP packets through, but nothing else from/to Cogent.. so the connection still looks valid and traffic will still route through. If this is the case, it seems like a simple solution for Cogent is to pull the OC96 from their router to mark the connection as down and reroute traffic, but again, from what I've read it seems like L3 is blocking all cogent originating traffic, even traffic that has traveled via another tier-1 peer.... which the only way that would be beleivable is if RRTW is single homed via L3... not likely IMHO. So that being the case why not just pull the plug? I've heard this isn't the first time L3 has done this and if that is the case, could it just be a Cogent trying to do a stand off?
Well, I use rochester.rr.com for my ISP and 24 hours since I started to see some wierdness and I'm still seeing it now.... some names don't resolve and some that do resolve can't find the route to host... and man was iTunes slow at downloading music lastnight... I didn't catch this article 'till this morning but I was resetting the modem and all sorts of crap to get things to work right... this explains a whole bunch... I can't even get to my blog at home from my machine at work.. oh the humanity!
Back to point, it seems that TWRR will change their routing tables without notice and the end user gets stuck trying to figure out why their connection is dead... their standard responce, turn off your modem for 10 seconds and turn back on... seems like their should be a more automated way for them to push routing information or whatever it is that needs to be reconfigured on the end modem.
> When I was at school in the mid 90s, DVDs didn't > exists, maybe a quarter of students had a > computer, and nobody (at least in the dorms) had > a TV, VCR or game machine.
Don't forget that those in school in the mid 90's like you ( and I ) also grew up with an Atari-400 or a PC with Hurculies graphics adapter if we were lucky. Computers are not a novalty anymore and they are a requirement for most programs now, much like required texts for a class. ( And you can sell them back to the book store for the same loss.)
> As far as the downloads go, a physical CD > (original) is always worth more than any > download because of the quality gurantee and > the paper cover. The cover is the most > expensive part of the package to produce, and > it is a key reason why people still buy CDs > (and vinyl, for that matter). A physical CD > always costs more to produce than a download, > and adds significant value.
IMHO worth is not equivalent to cost. A cassette tape costs more to manufacture compared to a CD, but a CD sells for more because people are willing to pay more. I could care less about the cover art and case.. that's the first thing to go. I just put the disk in the 200 disk jukebox and forget about it (litterally, I can never find which slot it's in.) But that's not the core of the debat, CD's are worth more... that's a personal preference... I say that downloads are worth more, because you don't have to go to the music store. Okay sure you can go online and buy CD's but you still have to wait for them to be shipped to you. Downloads are near instant, and because of this have more value. My juke box CD-changer will (eventually) have less value then my myth player since I can just drop my downloaded music into place. People who buy vinyl are in there own little niches.. they are either the ones that claim they can hear above 24k and notice the loss of highs on a CD and therefor vinyl is better, or they use vynal for mixing, in either case, they also feel that it has more value then other formats.
> I've got a even cheaper and simpler idea: leave > your fridge door open and set a fan in front of > it.
I know a guy in college who did this... well sort of... he mounted his mini-fridge in the window so the coils would be outside, and sealed the edges with a couple of rolls of ductape... it didn't work considering this little 18 liter fridge trying to cool a dorm room, but it was entertaining to watch the assembly.
INAL, but if the company has a "nexus" (like a trade mark that is filed) in that state, then they are considered to be doing business in that state... and I'm sure if they state can convince a judge that the company is paying the state the sales tax it is supposed to be keeping, then I suppose they could be issued a subpoena for the records.
I know that this has come up before and I think it was Ohio vs Sears, and it went to the supreme court in favor of Ohio.
IMHO it seems like states are mixing the terms of a sales-tax, use-tax, and tarrif to what-ever gets them the most taxes legally.
This is actually the first time I read this FUD from SCO... I'm surprised that McBride didn't come out and say that the Copy-Lefts are just sinister and SCO upholds copyright laws since they are dextrous.. but I guess that would require him to have some knowledge of Latin... and considering this FUD, I don't think he's all that educated.
Dude, in Scarey Movie 3 they had like George Carlin (the dude was Rufus in Bill & Ted's totally bogus and totally excellent adventure) play the Architect dude... I was totally waiting for Alex Winter (Bill) to drop into the Architect's monitor room from a telephone booth... funny... imagine how different the matrix movies would be with Alex Winter playing Trinity.
Oh but it gets better. We finally got GSM in the states. Nice to see we are finally catching up with the rest of the world... to bad it's the same GSM protocol but a DIFFERENT frequency! How smart is that?
It get's even better, you know those cool micro smart cards that is in the back of your phone under the batt? You know the one you can just pull out and put into someone elses phone and keep your phonenumber, phonebook, and cell settings. Well we DON'T have that. All right! US Cell phones do it again!
Since I'm on a roll with my cell phone gripes... and I figure I'll be modded out of existance, let me tell you a little story. In the 1970's Motorola spent a crap load of money trying to take Radio Push-to-talk technology and turn it into what is now the modern cellphone. Today, there is a company (NexTel) that makes a crap load of money from people that want their modern cell phone turned back into that old Push-to-talk radio.
The NANP is fairly new and is an closed numbering system, meaning that all numbers dialed are the same no mater where the calling and called party are. This makes life easier since you don't have to know the specific trunk to access your friend in Sometown, USA.
Open numbering plans in Europe are carry over from mechanical based switching. For example the number you dial specifically selects a trunk to the destination - obviously if you are calling a number in Waterford, you would not use the same trunk from Dublin if you are calling from Cork. This means that your number would change slightly depending on where the calling party is calling from. This plan is much more simple for the CO since there is little need to store database information.
It get's a little more interesting with cell phones since you are talking about competitive carriers... but I think for the most part, EU cell phones use a closed system where the entire number up to and including the country code is required for dialing from a cell phone - making all numbers the same format.
As a side, I still find it strange that people use to dial NYC by dialing the operator and asking something like "I'ld like to call PEnnsylvania 6-4513 in Manhattan," then hang up and wait for the operator to call back when she has a successful set of trunks looped and set up between where ever and all the operators between.
My theory is that since MS/NBC/GE has WMP, and AOL/TW doesn't really have a media player they could use RP or QT.
Personally I wish they would use QT since I find RP to really a bother... everytime I want to download it they make it as unobvious as possible where to download the free player.
You are making an assumption that all CO's interconnect with SS7 or something that will transfer the calling number to the destination switch.. that's why you get "Unknown number" on your caller id sometimes... but I guess it's a safe assumption since they probably have a huge trunk of circuits..
Oh, and when you get "Private Number" the switch actually did get the number in the message, but there is a bit that says that it is private (and if there is a screw up in the message it will assume private)... so on their trunk of circuits and their pbx they could still see the private numbers with a simple configuration change.
Airline ticket? Where is she flying from that she simply could not take a train? That would have been much cheaper... unless you meant she bought the to the states before having her visa ready. Then I would say that's very silly since trans-atlantic airline tickets are expensive and you don't want to waste your money if you can't even get through passport control. -DG
My brother works for the EPA and their IT department is contracted out.. I can't remember who it is now but it was Lockheed Martin before.. they lost the contract and now it's another company... I would imagine the DoS does the same trying to find the lowest bidder... I would imagine that the company that lost the contract may take advantage of the fact that they have knowledge of the system and try to make the new contractor look bad....
Although, according to my brother, usually the loosing contractor lays off the un-needed employees, and the new contractor hires them back... but I would imagine there are a few that might not make the cut with the new company and would be a little disgruntled. -DG
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IANAL, but my understanding for tax filings is that your are providing proof of tax credit (not liability,) and when you are audited, they are putting the burden of proof on you to provide the proof that you are entitled to that tax credit through receipts for business/professional expenses capital improvements etc.
If they don't believe you've made no purchases out of state, how is that proved?
Demanding declaration purchases made out of state (I say declaring because that is what you must do at your point of entry to the US, not entering a new state) is illegal.
I don't think it would take to long for this to go to a federal court. Exactly how does New York legally enforce this when Amazon doesn't have a nexus in New York. Create an embargo at the state border demanding that UPS, FedEx, USPS and what ever other shipper dump any shipment from Amazon? Sounds to me like the Sith are involved.
Burst.com's patent -- at least according to Groklaw -- seems like it's definitely invalidated by prior art. According to this article, both Apple and Real (and possibly Microsoft) had their own versions of the same functionality, predating the patent by Burst.
I'm probably just really simplifiying the issue but it seems to me that something like Sony's anti skip technology in DiskMan's would be the prior-art for this going back to the early 90's (perhaps even the late 80's?)... fill up a circular fifo cache ram as the disk is read and play out of the fifo rather then directly from disk. When the disk skips (or flash back to now and the packet is lost or delayed) the queue keeps this from being noticed since system rereads the skipped area of the disk (or the server retransmits the packet and the client has enough cache to wait for the packet.) Again it seems obvios to me use a fifo queue on the client end... and I thought that RealAudio had already done this before Burst, Apple, or MS.
Seems like they have sacked the budget for bug-fixes for fines like this.
My favorite math quote..
"There are 10 types of people in this world - those who understand binary and those that don't."
Uhm. Actually, the DoD has a mandate to be ipv6 compliant by June 2008. Not that this doesn't mean plenty of organizations within the DoD won't get waivers to extend that, but it is a target that is being shot for, as I understand it.
Yes, but in order for manufacturers to sell to the mil they have to get the equipment JITC and AI certified which will most likely include IP6 in the testing requirements. IMHO, I'm sure no business is going to risk having a contract contested if they don't either have IPv6 in their network capable equipment or at the very least a documented plan to get it into their product. So through the fear of lost business most manufacturers will put it in.
Seems like it comes full circle... since DARPA was really where IP origionally spawned out of..
Yes, but you should be able to provide proof that you are allocating resources (by that I mean R&D and not Corporate legal) to the development of such a product. A small company may only be able to afford little resources for allocation, but they are showing an effort of development. This is something that is shown when two companies contest the others patent when there is development around the same time the application is done. One has to proove through documentation that they were in development prior to the other.
okay, cool. Tnx for the info... my question is off topic from my original post, but let me pick your brain a little more... From what I heard the meathod that L3 has taken against Cogent is to just block some traffic. To be specific they are allowing the BGP packets through, but nothing else from/to Cogent.. so the connection still looks valid and traffic will still route through. If this is the case, it seems like a simple solution for Cogent is to pull the OC96 from their router to mark the connection as down and reroute traffic, but again, from what I've read it seems like L3 is blocking all cogent originating traffic, even traffic that has traveled via another tier-1 peer.... which the only way that would be beleivable is if RRTW is single homed via L3... not likely IMHO. So that being the case why not just pull the plug? I've heard this isn't the first time L3 has done this and if that is the case, could it just be a Cogent trying to do a stand off?
Well, I use rochester.rr.com for my ISP and 24 hours since I started to see some wierdness and I'm still seeing it now.... some names don't resolve and some that do resolve can't find the route to host... and man was iTunes slow at downloading music lastnight... I didn't catch this article 'till this morning but I was resetting the modem and all sorts of crap to get things to work right... this explains a whole bunch... I can't even get to my blog at home from my machine at work.. oh the humanity!
Back to point, it seems that TWRR will change their routing tables without notice and the end user gets stuck trying to figure out why their connection is dead... their standard responce, turn off your modem for 10 seconds and turn back on... seems like their should be a more automated way for them to push routing information or whatever it is that needs to be reconfigured on the end modem.
> When I was at school in the mid 90s, DVDs didn't
> exists, maybe a quarter of students had a
> computer, and nobody (at least in the dorms) had
> a TV, VCR or game machine.
Don't forget that those in school in the mid 90's like you ( and I ) also grew up with an Atari-400 or a PC with Hurculies graphics adapter if we were lucky. Computers are not a novalty anymore and they are a requirement for most programs now, much like required texts for a class. ( And you can sell them back to the book store for the same loss.)
> As far as the downloads go, a physical CD
> (original) is always worth more than any
> download because of the quality gurantee and
> the paper cover. The cover is the most
> expensive part of the package to produce, and
> it is a key reason why people still buy CDs
> (and vinyl, for that matter). A physical CD
> always costs more to produce than a download,
> and adds significant value.
IMHO worth is not equivalent to cost. A cassette tape costs more to manufacture compared to a CD, but a CD sells for more because people are willing to pay more. I could care less about the cover art and case.. that's the first thing to go. I just put the disk in the 200 disk jukebox and forget about it (litterally, I can never find which slot it's in.)
But that's not the core of the debat, CD's are worth more... that's a personal preference... I say that downloads are worth more, because you don't have to go to the music store. Okay sure you can go online and buy CD's but you still have to wait for them to be shipped to you. Downloads are near instant, and because of this have more value. My juke box CD-changer will (eventually) have less value then my myth player since I can just drop my downloaded music into place. People who buy vinyl are in there own little niches.. they are either the ones that claim they can hear above 24k and notice the loss of highs on a CD and therefor vinyl is better, or they use vynal for mixing, in either case, they also feel that it has more value then other formats.
> I've got a even cheaper and simpler idea: leave
> your fridge door open and set a fan in front of
> it.
I know a guy in college who did this... well sort of... he mounted his mini-fridge in the window so the coils would be outside, and sealed the edges with a couple of rolls of ductape... it didn't work considering this little 18 liter fridge trying to cool a dorm room, but it was entertaining to watch the assembly.
My guess is that it has more to do with Europa laws and where EU citizen information is stored.
> or a carpenter is "forced" to work with wood?
No it's more like the carpenter is forced to work with balsa wood and tools made by Cheap-O-Tin-Tools because they own 90% of the market.
> GMail? Froogle?
Sell implies that you paid for it.
Until MS buys them out - why reinvent the wheel when you can just buy it and bang it into a triagle?
INAL, but if the company has a "nexus" (like a trade mark that is filed) in that state, then they are considered to be doing business in that state... and I'm sure if they state can convince a judge that the company is paying the state the sales tax it is supposed to be keeping, then I suppose they could be issued a subpoena for the records.
I know that this has come up before and I think it was Ohio vs Sears, and it went to the supreme court in favor of Ohio.
IMHO it seems like states are mixing the terms of a sales-tax, use-tax, and tarrif to what-ever gets them the most taxes legally.
This is actually the first time I read this FUD from SCO... I'm surprised that McBride didn't come out and say that the Copy-Lefts are just sinister and SCO upholds copyright laws since they are dextrous.. but I guess that would require him to have some knowledge of Latin... and considering this FUD, I don't think he's all that educated.
Dude, in Scarey Movie 3 they had like George Carlin (the dude was Rufus in Bill & Ted's totally bogus and totally excellent adventure) play the Architect dude... I was totally waiting for Alex Winter (Bill) to drop into the Architect's monitor room from a telephone booth... funny... imagine how different the matrix movies would be with Alex Winter playing Trinity.
Excellent!
Oh but it gets better. We finally got GSM in the states. Nice to see we are finally catching up with the rest of the world... to bad it's the same GSM protocol but a DIFFERENT frequency! How smart is that?
It get's even better, you know those cool micro smart cards that is in the back of your phone under the batt? You know the one you can just pull out and put into someone elses phone and keep your phonenumber, phonebook, and cell settings. Well we DON'T have that. All right! US Cell phones do it again!
Since I'm on a roll with my cell phone gripes... and I figure I'll be modded out of existance, let me tell you a little story. In the 1970's Motorola spent a crap load of money trying to take Radio Push-to-talk technology and turn it into what is now the modern cellphone. Today, there is a company (NexTel) that makes a crap load of money from people that want their modern cell phone turned back into that old Push-to-talk radio.
The NANP is fairly new and is an closed numbering system, meaning that all numbers dialed are the same no mater where the calling and called party are. This makes life easier since you don't have to know the specific trunk to access your friend in Sometown, USA.
Open numbering plans in Europe are carry over from mechanical based switching. For example the number you dial specifically selects a trunk to the destination - obviously if you are calling a number in Waterford, you would not use the same trunk from Dublin if you are calling from Cork. This means that your number would change slightly depending on where the calling party is calling from. This plan is much more simple for the CO since there is little need to store database information.
It get's a little more interesting with cell phones since you are talking about competitive carriers... but I think for the most part, EU cell phones use a closed system where the entire number up to and including the country code is required for dialing from a cell phone - making all numbers the same format.
As a side, I still find it strange that people use to dial NYC by dialing the operator and asking something like "I'ld like to call PEnnsylvania 6-4513 in Manhattan," then hang up and wait for the operator to call back when she has a successful set of trunks looped and set up between where ever and all the operators between.
My theory is that since MS/NBC/GE has WMP, and AOL/TW doesn't really have a media player they could use RP or QT.
Personally I wish they would use QT since I find RP to really a bother... everytime I want to download it they make it as unobvious as possible where to download the free player.
*67 only sets the private bit in the message for call handling.
6 611
see http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=79799&cid=704
You are making an assumption that all CO's interconnect with SS7 or something that will transfer the calling number to the destination switch.. that's why you get "Unknown number" on your caller id sometimes... but I guess it's a safe assumption since they probably have a huge trunk of circuits..
Oh, and when you get "Private Number" the switch actually did get the number in the message, but there is a bit that says that it is private (and if there is a screw up in the message it will assume private)... so on their trunk of circuits and their pbx they could still see the private numbers with a simple configuration change.
So do what I did and call from work...
Airline ticket? Where is she flying from that she simply could not take a train? That would have been much cheaper... unless you meant she bought the to the states before having her visa ready. Then I would say that's very silly since trans-atlantic airline tickets are expensive and you don't want to waste your money if you can't even get through passport control.
-DG
My brother works for the EPA and their IT department is contracted out.. I can't remember who it is now but it was Lockheed Martin before.. they lost the contract and now it's another company... I would imagine the DoS does the same trying to find the lowest bidder... I would imagine that the company that lost the contract may take advantage of the fact that they have knowledge of the system and try to make the new contractor look bad....
Although, according to my brother, usually the loosing contractor lays off the un-needed employees, and the new contractor hires them back... but I would imagine there are a few that might not make the cut with the new company and would be a little disgruntled.
-DG