First, this is nothing new. THe PCI-DSS makes an identical requirement.
Basically, can't store PIN, CVV2, or CVV values. This means that for recurring bills, you can *only* use AVS which isn't so sensitive (basically street number (not name) and zip code.
In an ideal world, this would be done via the authorization code (tied to the merchant account!) rather than the credit card number, but not all processing gateways support this yet.
Having tried (and failed) to teach myself spherical trig, I would definitely suggest the community college approach.
Spherical trig is really fascinating because it is the basis of all navigational systems. Unfortunately things don't work on a sphere quite the same way as they do on a plane (for example, one set of fairly simple triangles are equilateral triangles with three right angles), so things can get fairly complex.
Of course nowadays everyone lets their GPS do all the spherical trig, but the same principles are still behind the whole thing.
First, I have tried to use OOo for creating manuscripts. It worked OK. I wasn't too happy with it, but it handled the task about as well as Word.
I later converted the manuscripts to LaTeX, which does a *much* better job in this regard. And if you can't stomach Vim, there is always LyX (which is *very good* at manuscript creation).
Word processors are almost always the wrong approach to manuscript creation. Word and OOo, when used properly, are tolerable in this regard, but do not provide the flxibility that a real typesetting environment provides. Heck, proper HTML + CSS probably does better than Word or OOo in many of these cases....
Note that there is a *lot* of totally unmaintainable crap out there under open source licenses (I will admit to a few earlier projects which fall under that category-- I waked away from them for that reason). If you think your code may be bad, I can pretty much guarantee I have released worse code than you a number of years ago:-)
Note that, in a form of poetic justice, I am not thrown into a system where I am working on refactoring and rewriting someone else's total f%$#ing unmaintainable mess (and it is even worse than anything I ever wrote). If you want a taste of how *bad* open source code can be, SQL-Ledger floats to the top of my list.
However, the big issue is that, if you are not there to guide the community, the code won't go anywhere. You are better to advertise it specifically, get other people involved, and then announce it to the world.
When my father-in-law passed away, we had to take a flight the day after we heard the news. My wife is from Indonesia, and it was about a 30-hour plane trip to get there. Adding 72 hours to this would simply be unacceptable as it would likely have caused us to miss the funeral (in Indonesia, it is custom to have an open casket memorial lasting for up to 3-4 days and then bury the body-- this starts almost immediately after the body has been embalmed).
I agree that this isn't necessarily good either. THe Russian mafia has had ties with spammers for a long time. It sounds to me like a simple case of an organized crime syndicate defending their turf.
"Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act" signed into law by Clinton in 1998. Some law experts have pointed to attempts to use this act to punish acts of pure speech, such as United States v. Al-Hussayen (2004). In that case, the prosecution alleged that merely providing a hyperlink and advocacy of the policies of Hamas constituted material support/expert advice under that 1998 law.
Also see the European Parliament's report on ECHELON, from July of 2001. Note that the investigation that lead to the report began in the year 2000.
The tools of this "war on terror" were being deployed well in advance of 9/11. If we are to give the government the benefit of the doubt, one would suggest it started with the 1993 bombings of US embessies, and a genuine fear that it would escallate. To be more cynical, one might think that it is about certain government agecies trying to maintain their own value after the fall of Communism. Human nature being what it is, both positions are probably true at the same time.
If you do some research, you will see that a lot of these programs had been ramped up considerably under Clinton (including both extraordinary rendition, and the attacks on free speech). There was also an increasing amount of information that Eschelon was underway at that time. Unfortunately this is not a matter of who is in office, but rather who is informing whoever is in office.
This means: career military top brass, it means career intelligence services (CIA, NSA, etc), and to a lesser extent it means private think tanks.
If you are declaring bankrupcy and cannot afford to even pay $700 to your debts over a period of 2-3 months, your creditors aren't going to get any money from you anyway, and so there really isn't anything they can do.
Even when I was at my poorest (making about $700/month as income), it would have been possible with some effort to save up that much money over maybe 5 months if I was careful. Of course that also meant that if I had been seriously in debt, my creditors wouldn't have been able to collect. What are they going to do anyway? If I had more expenses, then the creditors would have been screwed either way.
Wht is not declaring bankrupcy going to do for creditors anyway? If there isn't money enough to declare bankrupcy, what are they going to collect?
Sure, that may cover some cases, but a settlement can occur after the finding of facts. Look at what has recently happened with Vonage and RIM. Hence my original wording.
Either the settlement occurs before the finding of fact, in which case there is no collateral estoppel based on court findings, or the courts actually issue a finding of fact and those facts which are decided as a necessary part of the case are now estopped from further review outside of change of circumstance. IANAL, though.
Send a letter like the following to the royal Candian mint:
Dear sir;
My business sells services based on open source software internationally. Open source is a revolutionary means of developing software which has grown greatly in the past decade. I am sure you have heard of Linux, Apache, and other open source programs.
One of the distinguising features of open source is that you do not have to pay for license fees. That is right, Nobody has to pay even ONE CENT for the right to install and use the software. That is right-- you can make your pennies go further by not having to pay ONE CENT for license fees!
Please feel free to contact us so we can discuss what we can do for you. We will be sending this sales letter out to every governmental office (including every courthouse) across Canada.
"One Cent" being on the currency. 2 cents not. Hence they should start registering "my-two-cents.ca" and the like, and change their demand from one cent per dolar to two cents per dollar.....
IANAL, but in that case, it seems like a lawsuit alleging tortuous interference and asking for a declaratory judgement on the patent matters would be a good move. Such a lawsuit would be unusually expensive (possibly millions of dollars in legal fees), so we as a community would have to organize behind it.
IANAL, but I don't think that collateral estoppel applies to cases where the settlement occurs before the finding of fact.
You would still have the settlement to look to as an agreement of fact, but anyone who admits to anything incriminating in such a settlement is either scared or stupid.
A second option would be to sue Microsoft *and* seek a declaratory judgement on the patent infringement issue. This would force Microsoft to show their patents or be unable to use them against Linux later. I would think that Ballmer's statements would suggest that there is an actual actionable controversy here.
The ideal situation is where every PC vendor must sell the operating system as a paid option for the PC. This helps people decide if they really want to pay for it, and doesn't force many people to pay for software they are going to rip out anyway. Selling a bare PC with both Windows and Linux on separate media is bad for the consumer, bad for the OEM (more tech support calls, etc), and so forth.
For service plan, most require a multi-year contract which really takes competition out of the equation. Only for a while. The question is do you want the carriers to care if *you* pay them or care if the advertisers pay them? That is the question.
Maybe the gphone will be good in opening up competition, but I won't go for ad-supported cell service.
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First, this is nothing new. THe PCI-DSS makes an identical requirement.
Basically, can't store PIN, CVV2, or CVV values. This means that for recurring bills, you can *only* use AVS which isn't so sensitive (basically street number (not name) and zip code.
In an ideal world, this would be done via the authorization code (tied to the merchant account!) rather than the credit card number, but not all processing gateways support this yet.
Having tried (and failed) to teach myself spherical trig, I would definitely suggest the community college approach.
Spherical trig is really fascinating because it is the basis of all navigational systems. Unfortunately things don't work on a sphere quite the same way as they do on a plane (for example, one set of fairly simple triangles are equilateral triangles with three right angles), so things can get fairly complex.
Of course nowadays everyone lets their GPS do all the spherical trig, but the same principles are still behind the whole thing.
First, I have tried to use OOo for creating manuscripts. It worked OK. I wasn't too happy with it, but it handled the task about as well as Word.
I later converted the manuscripts to LaTeX, which does a *much* better job in this regard. And if you can't stomach Vim, there is always LyX (which is *very good* at manuscript creation).
Word processors are almost always the wrong approach to manuscript creation. Word and OOo, when used properly, are tolerable in this regard, but do not provide the flxibility that a real typesetting environment provides. Heck, proper HTML + CSS probably does better than Word or OOo in many of these cases....
Note that there is a *lot* of totally unmaintainable crap out there under open source licenses (I will admit to a few earlier projects which fall under that category-- I waked away from them for that reason). If you think your code may be bad, I can pretty much guarantee I have released worse code than you a number of years ago :-)
Note that, in a form of poetic justice, I am not thrown into a system where I am working on refactoring and rewriting someone else's total f%$#ing unmaintainable mess (and it is even worse than anything I ever wrote). If you want a taste of how *bad* open source code can be, SQL-Ledger floats to the top of my list.
However, the big issue is that, if you are not there to guide the community, the code won't go anywhere. You are better to advertise it specifically, get other people involved, and then announce it to the world.
When my father-in-law passed away, we had to take a flight the day after we heard the news. My wife is from Indonesia, and it was about a 30-hour plane trip to get there. Adding 72 hours to this would simply be unacceptable as it would likely have caused us to miss the funeral (in Indonesia, it is custom to have an open casket memorial lasting for up to 3-4 days and then bury the body-- this starts almost immediately after the body has been embalmed).
Seems like time to write to Congress.
I agree that this isn't necessarily good either. THe Russian mafia has had ties with spammers for a long time. It sounds to me like a simple case of an organized crime syndicate defending their turf.
"Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act" signed into law by Clinton in 1998. Some law experts have pointed to attempts to use this act to punish acts of pure speech, such as United States v. Al-Hussayen (2004). In that case, the prosecution alleged that merely providing a hyperlink and advocacy of the policies of Hamas constituted material support/expert advice under that 1998 law.
Also see the European Parliament's report on ECHELON, from July of 2001. Note that the investigation that lead to the report began in the year 2000.
The tools of this "war on terror" were being deployed well in advance of 9/11. If we are to give the government the benefit of the doubt, one would suggest it started with the 1993 bombings of US embessies, and a genuine fear that it would escallate. To be more cynical, one might think that it is about certain government agecies trying to maintain their own value after the fall of Communism. Human nature being what it is, both positions are probably true at the same time.
began on 2001-09-11?
If you do some research, you will see that a lot of these programs had been ramped up considerably under Clinton (including both extraordinary rendition, and the attacks on free speech). There was also an increasing amount of information that Eschelon was underway at that time. Unfortunately this is not a matter of who is in office, but rather who is informing whoever is in office.
This means: career military top brass, it means career intelligence services (CIA, NSA, etc), and to a lesser extent it means private think tanks.
As far as I could tell (the article wasn't really clear), the issue was that he wasn't allowed to make the argument at trial so he didn't.
I never said they didn't.
However, my point still remains....
If you are declaring bankrupcy and cannot afford to even pay $700 to your debts over a period of 2-3 months, your creditors aren't going to get any money from you anyway, and so there really isn't anything they can do.
Even when I was at my poorest (making about $700/month as income), it would have been possible with some effort to save up that much money over maybe 5 months if I was careful. Of course that also meant that if I had been seriously in debt, my creditors wouldn't have been able to collect. What are they going to do anyway? If I had more expenses, then the creditors would have been screwed either way.
Wht is not declaring bankrupcy going to do for creditors anyway? If there isn't money enough to declare bankrupcy, what are they going to collect?
Or is that Microsoft infringing on MY IP?
If you can't pay $700 by refusing to pay all your other debts for a little while, you and your creditors have bigger problems than your bankrupcy.
Either the settlement occurs before the finding of fact, in which case there is no collateral estoppel based on court findings, or the courts actually issue a finding of fact and those facts which are decided as a necessary part of the case are now estopped from further review outside of change of circumstance. IANAL, though.
Send a letter like the following to the royal Candian mint:
....
Dear sir;
My business sells services based on open source software internationally. Open source is a revolutionary means of developing software which has grown greatly in the past decade. I am sure you have heard of Linux, Apache, and other open source programs.
One of the distinguising features of open source is that you do not have to pay for license fees. That is right, Nobody has to pay even ONE CENT for the right to install and use the software. That is right-- you can make your pennies go further by not having to pay ONE CENT for license fees!
Please feel free to contact us so we can discuss what we can do for you. We will be sending this sales letter out to every governmental office (including every courthouse) across Canada.
Best Wishes,
Actually, I think the CAD is slightly ahead at the moment.
Got any LSd? Sure. Here is a five-pound note. YOu can get your LSd at the bank ;-)
"One Cent" being on the currency. 2 cents not. Hence they should start registering "my-two-cents.ca" and the like, and change their demand from one cent per dolar to two cents per dollar.....
IANAL, but in that case, it seems like a lawsuit alleging tortuous interference and asking for a declaratory judgement on the patent matters would be a good move. Such a lawsuit would be unusually expensive (possibly millions of dollars in legal fees), so we as a community would have to organize behind it.
IANAL, but I don't think that collateral estoppel applies to cases where the settlement occurs before the finding of fact.
You would still have the settlement to look to as an agreement of fact, but anyone who admits to anything incriminating in such a settlement is either scared or stupid.
A second option would be to sue Microsoft *and* seek a declaratory judgement on the patent infringement issue. This would force Microsoft to show their patents or be unable to use them against Linux later. I would think that Ballmer's statements would suggest that there is an actual actionable controversy here.
I was thinking "tortuous interferance," but IANAL.
Now, here are some interesting questions:
1) Can threatening people with unnamed patents for an extended time open up defenses of patent misuse? Prosecution latches?
2) Is Microsoft *afraid* to disclose their patents because the community might be able to put together sufficient evidence to invalidate them?
Sorry. I meant "offer."
I also agree that OEM licenses should not be tied to the case or the motherboard as they currently are.
points.
The ideal situation is where every PC vendor must sell the operating system as a paid option for the PC. This helps people decide if they really want to pay for it, and doesn't force many people to pay for software they are going to rip out anyway. Selling a bare PC with both Windows and Linux on separate media is bad for the consumer, bad for the OEM (more tech support calls, etc), and so forth.
Maybe the gphone will be good in opening up competition, but I won't go for ad-supported cell service.
To work with exchange, it would need to support task lists and appointements well too.
And then you are dealing with a groupware client, not just an email client.
Which is a good idea but hardly trivial.