No, a classical American response would be to point out that if you own a DVD burner, you already have a more-powerful laser than many of the banned devices.
But then I guess that's the difference between a country of free people who had to earn that freedom by force, versus a country full of quavering subjects who've been taught, as a culture, that they're not to be trusted.
Yeah, which explains why it took an American to use a seemingly innocent material like ammonium nitrate fertilizer to kill 170 people in Oklahoma City.
Give me a break - you can make all of the bullshit Revolutionary analogies you want, the fact is if a US single pilot were blinded by a DVD-homebrew-laser we'd all be forced to get permits for our DVD burners. For fucks sake, every air traveler in the country has to remove their shoes because one wacko thought he could put a bomb in his loafers.
Guess I'm bored enough to reply to an AC (likely an employee of one of these companies?)...
The problem is not with providing the information, it's convincing "law enforcement" to USE that information. Which makes me think it's as I said before - it all depends on the workload of the authorities you talk to. Guess you just have to hope the next guy who scams you lives in a low crime area... (yeah, right)
The problem is, even if you figure out exactly where your laptop is, you then have to convince the police to help you get it back. That's where things really break down.
A friend of mine was scammed on Yahoo auctions a few years back by someone who pretended to sell golf clubs, took a cashier's check via mail, then never sent the clubs. Yahoo was useless, of course, so he got the email addresses of a bunch of other bidders, and found EIGHT people who had been scammed by this person (he was claiming "the winner backed out, so I'll offer it to you"). He tracked down the address of the scammer in L.A., then tried giving all of this information to the LAPD, LA FBI office, and US Post Office. All of them basically blew him off... the FBI said this was intrastate (from San Francisco to Los Angeles) so they weren't interested. The LAPD just said it was unlikely to ever be a priority enough to investigate, and the USPS said the dollar value was so low based on their investigative resources that they just can't bother (mental note: when you get swindled, make sure it's for as much money as possible!) Even better, when my friend got frustrated at the LAPD and said "well, I know his address, should I just go there myself and deal with it?" they told him that he would be responsible for any altercation that ensued...
Anyway, you can have all the tracking systems you want on a laptop, the problem it may be impossible to find authorities worth helping you get it back. Who knows, maybe these laptop recovery services know how to grease the wheels, in which case that in itself is a reason to consider them... but it seems like appropriate security/encryption, homeowners insurance, and regular backups are the best way to deal with personal computer theft...
That's how it ended up, but it couldn't have happened that way unless A could see ahead in time:)
What really happened was:
A makes a claim that was false B writes about that claim and uses A as a reference A (being Wikipedia) is modified to use B as the reference for the original made-up claim
So now it appears that the supposedly reliable and fact-checked "news" article was the source, and Wikipedia just citing facts. Fun!
I think one reply already gave the genreal idea, but was fairly wordy/roundabout... so, to summarize:
In the US an interstate sale legally occurs in the seller's state (unless the seller has a "presence" in the buyer's state). US states are Constitutionally not allowed to create laws regulating interstate commerce, so for example if someone in New York buys something from a company in California, the state of New York can't force the California company to collect sales tax.
To answer your question - the burden of tax payment definitely resides with the buyer if the buyer's state is the one imposing the tax. This is not new, in fact - many states' tax forms already have provisions for Internet purchases into the state... it's just that no one actually fills those out:)
Oh, and varsity: in American high school and college sports programs, the Varsity team for a sport is the best team, which represents the school in competition with other schools. So if you're not very good at football, you might still be able to play on the Junior Varsity team, but probably not for the the Varsity team. Teacher is claiming that AB-Test-Takers = Varsity CS Team.
Exactly - I was going to summarize:
"No, it's not like telling the varsity coach it's the last year you have a varsity team - it' like telling the coach it's the last year you have a JUNIOR varsity team."
Not sure how it is around the rest of the US, but in my high school the Jr. Varsity team was where the kids from the sophomore team who didn't make the varsity team went to get some exercise. And in fact, many high schools are dropping JV teams for lack of funding, so it's a better analogy than the teacher thought!
To finish my rant: don't we have enough BAD professional programmers already? Do we need to encourage bad high school programmers?
I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the USA, most companies practice "at will" employment. Here, you have little (if any) recourse for being fired, excepting special cases related to race, sex, or disability.
That's the theory. But in practice... well, let me quote the attorney who taught the class I took on "the laws involved in hiring":
"California is an at-will state. That means the employer and employee can terminate employment at any time without cause, barring a few exceptions. In practice, those exceptions make up about 90% of the rule."
I'd disagree slightly with this. Just knowing how the game is played, odds of various bets and knowing the correct amount you can bet, playing 'right' and 'wrong'(best odds of any game in the house), paying attention to the play(especially after a few drinks, buxom waitresses), staying away from 'sucker' bets, etc., would all count as a certain degree of skill.
Ok, I have to agree "skill" was not the correct word - craps is actually my favorite casino game for most of the above reasons.
I just meant there is no real "extra effort" you can make to increase your odds beyond what the house explicitly offers. This may sound like an obvious statement, but after years of debating with a friend who claims he has a "strategy" for roulette...
Jackson cited the example of Paul Dixon, a psychology professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo who has been saying for more than a decade that experiments at Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator are in danger of touching off an artificial supernova
They are using a *psychologist's* arguments? Psychologist, physicist... I guess they can be hard to tell apart... if you are horribly dyslexic...
Which is why I've always felt that the process should pick the second lowest bid. It's trivial to shoot for the bottom... it's impossible to shoot for second from the bottom.
Since you in fact WERE pretty condescending, I will reply in turn: I am smarter than you are, and know more about these issues. Especially those that have happened to ME, on MY computer.
The default was NOT sensible (I DON'T want Quicktime to take over any formats, I just have to install it because as a framework, iTunes requires it). I disabled EVERY association (except a few Apple proprietary ones) both on install and in the Quicktime options menu, and it still screws up some types of streaming video, JPEGs, etc. So maybe you don't see it. Big f-ing deal, I do, and know 4-5 people who have seen it as well (sure, not EVERYONE, but that sample size is not an obscure corner case).
I eventually had to go directly to the registry to change the associations Quicktime was messing with - and of course every damn upgrade of iTunes changes them back, no matter what I choose.
I don't trust Apple installing ANY Windows software. I have yet to successfully install iTunes without the stupid mandatory Quicktime installation taking over most of my media file associations, no matter how hard I try to disable them. It even tries to display JPEGs in Quicktime instead of inline in IE. Apple obviously knows about this, because everyone I know who has tried this has had the same experience.
Fair, no. But when you are speaking about someone, it can have something to do with what is TRUE.
You can't just trash someone's repuatation if what you are saying is not true - that's libel. And the problem with anonymous comments is that there is no accountability for that libel.
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No, a classical American response would be to point out that if you own a DVD burner, you already have a more-powerful laser than many of the banned devices.
But then I guess that's the difference between a country of free people who had to earn that freedom by force, versus a country full of quavering subjects who've been taught, as a culture, that they're not to be trusted.
Yeah, which explains why it took an American to use a seemingly innocent material like ammonium nitrate fertilizer to kill 170 people in Oklahoma City.
Give me a break - you can make all of the bullshit Revolutionary analogies you want, the fact is if a US single pilot were blinded by a DVD-homebrew-laser we'd all be forced to get permits for our DVD burners. For fucks sake, every air traveler in the country has to remove their shoes because one wacko thought he could put a bomb in his loafers.
Guess I'm bored enough to reply to an AC (likely an employee of one of these companies?)...
The problem is not with providing the information, it's convincing "law enforcement" to USE that information. Which makes me think it's as I said before - it all depends on the workload of the authorities you talk to. Guess you just have to hope the next guy who scams you lives in a low crime area... (yeah, right)
The problem is, even if you figure out exactly where your laptop is, you then have to convince the police to help you get it back. That's where things really break down.
A friend of mine was scammed on Yahoo auctions a few years back by someone who pretended to sell golf clubs, took a cashier's check via mail, then never sent the clubs. Yahoo was useless, of course, so he got the email addresses of a bunch of other bidders, and found EIGHT people who had been scammed by this person (he was claiming "the winner backed out, so I'll offer it to you"). He tracked down the address of the scammer in L.A., then tried giving all of this information to the LAPD, LA FBI office, and US Post Office. All of them basically blew him off... the FBI said this was intrastate (from San Francisco to Los Angeles) so they weren't interested. The LAPD just said it was unlikely to ever be a priority enough to investigate, and the USPS said the dollar value was so low based on their investigative resources that they just can't bother (mental note: when you get swindled, make sure it's for as much money as possible!) Even better, when my friend got frustrated at the LAPD and said "well, I know his address, should I just go there myself and deal with it?" they told him that he would be responsible for any altercation that ensued...
Anyway, you can have all the tracking systems you want on a laptop, the problem it may be impossible to find authorities worth helping you get it back. Who knows, maybe these laptop recovery services know how to grease the wheels, in which case that in itself is a reason to consider them... but it seems like appropriate security/encryption, homeowners insurance, and regular backups are the best way to deal with personal computer theft...
...but doesn't mentioning Godwin's law negate it's effect?
Yeah, I hope it does if the original post was trying to use a Hitler analogy as a convincing argument...
That's how it ended up, but it couldn't have happened that way unless A could see ahead in time :)
What really happened was:
A makes a claim that was false
B writes about that claim and uses A as a reference
A (being Wikipedia) is modified to use B as the reference for the original made-up claim
So now it appears that the supposedly reliable and fact-checked "news" article was the source, and Wikipedia just citing facts. Fun!
Godwin's Law invoked!
IMHO, Dish should have licensed the Tivo technology and been done with it.
You don't know Echostar. Charlie Ergen would never license what he could get away with stealing...
I think one reply already gave the genreal idea, but was fairly wordy/roundabout... so, to summarize:
:)
In the US an interstate sale legally occurs in the seller's state (unless the seller has a "presence" in the buyer's state). US states are Constitutionally not allowed to create laws regulating interstate commerce, so for example if someone in New York buys something from a company in California, the state of New York can't force the California company to collect sales tax.
To answer your question - the burden of tax payment definitely resides with the buyer if the buyer's state is the one imposing the tax. This is not new, in fact - many states' tax forms already have provisions for Internet purchases into the state... it's just that no one actually fills those out
They chose a great comedian to deliver that line!
Or manslaughter charges to any city employee who knowingly manipulated a traffic light timing to unsafe values that resulted in a traffic death!
This shore is a good idea! (speaking littorally of course)
I'd mod you up if I could but the masses probably think you are fishing for mod points...
Oh, and varsity: in American high school and college sports programs, the Varsity team for a sport is the best team, which represents the school in competition with other schools. So if you're not very good at football, you might still be able to play on the Junior Varsity team, but probably not for the the Varsity team. Teacher is claiming that AB-Test-Takers = Varsity CS Team.
Exactly - I was going to summarize:
"No, it's not like telling the varsity coach it's the last year you have a varsity team - it' like telling the coach it's the last year you have a JUNIOR varsity team."
Not sure how it is around the rest of the US, but in my high school the Jr. Varsity team was where the kids from the sophomore team who didn't make the varsity team went to get some exercise. And in fact, many high schools are dropping JV teams for lack of funding, so it's a better analogy than the teacher thought!
To finish my rant: don't we have enough BAD professional programmers already? Do we need to encourage bad high school programmers?
I don't know how it works in the UK, but in the USA, most companies practice "at will" employment. Here, you have little (if any) recourse for being fired, excepting special cases related to race, sex, or disability.
That's the theory. But in practice... well, let me quote the attorney who taught the class I took on "the laws involved in hiring":
"California is an at-will state. That means the employer and employee can terminate employment at any time without cause, barring a few exceptions. In practice, those exceptions make up about 90% of the rule."
I'd disagree slightly with this. Just knowing how the game is played, odds of various bets and knowing the correct amount you can bet, playing 'right' and 'wrong'(best odds of any game in the house), paying attention to the play(especially after a few drinks, buxom waitresses), staying away from 'sucker' bets, etc., would all count as a certain degree of skill.
Ok, I have to agree "skill" was not the correct word - craps is actually my favorite casino game for most of the above reasons.
I just meant there is no real "extra effort" you can make to increase your odds beyond what the house explicitly offers. This may sound like an obvious statement, but after years of debating with a friend who claims he has a "strategy" for roulette...
Hmm, what does a 6/8 craps betting strategy have to do with counting cards?
;)
Craps is pure chance, and the only thing you can do is place bets with the least house advantage, there is no skill whatsoever.
Card counting is a way to use skill/knowledge to maximize your odds beyond random chance.
I guess I agree card counting is overrated, but your story doesn't back that up at all
Aha. I guess that's how they make it to the hozone.
Yeah, but to give the majority of /. users context... was that when AU$ was 0.75 US$ or the currently awful (for me anyway! ;) 0.92 US$...
Guess you should stop buying Macs, almost all of these are still thriving in other applications.
Serial 9 pin and 15 pin
Still ubiquitous in manufacturing and embedded engineering
CGA Video
Oh come on this was obsolete in 1985
VGA
Not at ALL.
ATA Keyboard
Using one right now. Keytronic Lifetime Series really means what it says...
DIP Switches
See comment on serial ports
Jumpers
See comment on DIP switches
Many Generations of Memory Slots
See comment on jumpers. Where that doesn't apply, big deal.
or Opera back in the IE 5/6 heydays.
Or Opera in the IE 7/8 heydays, for that matter...
Jackson cited the example of Paul Dixon, a psychology professor at the University of Hawaii at Hilo who has been saying for more than a decade that experiments at Fermilab's Tevatron accelerator are in danger of touching off an artificial supernova
They are using a *psychologist's* arguments? Psychologist, physicist... I guess they can be hard to tell apart... if you are horribly dyslexic...
Which is why I've always felt that the process should pick the second lowest bid. It's trivial to shoot for the bottom ... it's impossible to shoot for second from the bottom.
Unless there are only two bidders.
Since you in fact WERE pretty condescending, I will reply in turn: I am smarter than you are, and know more about these issues. Especially those that have happened to ME, on MY computer.
The default was NOT sensible (I DON'T want Quicktime to take over any formats, I just have to install it because as a framework, iTunes requires it). I disabled EVERY association (except a few Apple proprietary ones) both on install and in the Quicktime options menu, and it still screws up some types of streaming video, JPEGs, etc. So maybe you don't see it. Big f-ing deal, I do, and know 4-5 people who have seen it as well (sure, not EVERYONE, but that sample size is not an obscure corner case).
I eventually had to go directly to the registry to change the associations Quicktime was messing with - and of course every damn upgrade of iTunes changes them back, no matter what I choose.
"Trusted source"??
I don't trust Apple installing ANY Windows software. I have yet to successfully install iTunes without the stupid mandatory Quicktime installation taking over most of my media file associations, no matter how hard I try to disable them. It even tries to display JPEGs in Quicktime instead of inline in IE. Apple obviously knows about this, because everyone I know who has tried this has had the same experience.
Hah, that may be the best humor-to-character post in recent history.
Fair, no. But when you are speaking about someone, it can have something to do with what is TRUE.
You can't just trash someone's repuatation if what you are saying is not true - that's libel. And the problem with anonymous comments is that there is no accountability for that libel.