Was it really that simple? Why the story title "Hidden Images at Mac.com" like this was a scoop?
I'm never submitting a story again (oh no), given what's accepted and I've had rejected. "An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff, and prints the chaff." (atrtributed to Adlai Stevenson, but I think it's older; editors have been around at least as long as politicians)
Uh-oh, I sense an editor coming with "off topic" points. Which would merely prove my point, nyah.:)
At least with actuarial tables you don't have this illusion of choice.
Even though I've had only two claims in 14 years with State Farm, they won't write me a new policy.
Get some quotes from other companies like that one with the gecko, and then give State Farm (if you still want them) what the industry calls a "last look." Capitalism in action. I sympathize -- I can't stand our agent but have been sluggish moving our business.
I studied these plans, too, until selecting on that seemed more-or-less like what we needed. I know some enjoy the probability analysis and projection involved in picking the best deal, but I don't. And of course many of the plans seem calculated to lure you into paying too much for less than you expect.
What I'd like to know is whether there is a secret plan to rule all plans? Is there some published business school game theory logic to the design of these things? Are they arrived at with the same guesswork that we use to choose the plan? Obviously there are a few hard numbers in the actual cost of carrying the calls plus overhead, but beyond that what marketing (il)logic takes over?
If we had that information as consumers, think of valuable insight.
The only rules I know offhand are (1) people like prices ending in.95; (2) people (certainly Americans) hate being nickled-and-dimed to death, preferring even flat rate plans that cost more; and (3) the merchant wants to tempt you to overconsume even for a small incremental profit (i.e., get you to buy a large soda for just 20 more even though you wanted a small).
Did you mean puritanical or draconian?:) Yeah, it makes sense to *reasonably* protect your copyrights... and to reasonably wink at 'em when there's nothing else you can do. I've had the thought that if [optimistic] anyone ever wanted to play in my universe [/optimistic] it'd be easier just to lay out the rules up front -- most fans are pretty good about it if they know what's allowed and the rules aren't too onerous.
You know, your prose obviously mimics my previous posts, and as such is a derivative work under U.S. copyright law and the Berne Convention. I demand that you cease and desist all posting activity until you develop some original ideas.;-) (let's hope no one trademarks the smiley)
*blink* Rent?? wonder where would carry it that doesn't 1) need a subscription (I'm not a movie watcher, and a sub would be wasted; besides, the rural mail carrier is too blasted unreliable) or 2) make me immediately do the 40 mile r/t to return it to the nearest vid rental outfit (I only trek to town 2x-3x a month).
Get Netflix bubba, sounds like you need it. Start here. You can cancel as soon as you're culturally literate.
If you have a TV (that glowing box thing) the reruns are of course inevitable. I felt very silly after spending a couple of years fastidiously recording Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, only to realize that the show was becoming terribly popular and that I would forever be swamped in reruns. And I still have those damn tapes.
Seriously, Farscape is a fun show, but not the be-all and end-all. I don't like TV a whole lot, and this is one of the few shows in years I'll actually make time to catch, so of course they cancel it. I am intrigue dthat there might be even the slightest chance of fan pressure changing the verdict -- it would be a minor reverse of our feeling, as viewers, that we just don't matter except as consumer sheep.
And Netflix is great for someone who like me never gets stuff back on time (I'd rather pay more than pay late fees) and has kids who insist Animated Whatever has to stay for a month. They have a Mr. Stingy 2-disk plan IIRC for $15/month.
Of course copyright violations can not be stopped (barring some sort of really nuclear DRM), but the rights holders don't have to be puritanical. They do need to do a reasonable amount of policing to protect the value of their property.
Another doc I stumbled across on copyright and the internet was written by the DOJ IP division.
I've never seen Farscape.:(
It starts soon on the SciFi channel, the last (for now) 11 episodes. You can also rent seasons 1&2. A word of caution, it takes a little while to come up to speed; the show is not newbie friendly. You know, like gin.:)
These Save Farscape people made an admirable effort to understand and describe the law on derivative works, specifically fan sites. Note that they point out ripoffs like "Ratscape" are also derivative works, odd as it seems.
A nice plain-English effort, conscientious, and intelligently defensive of them. I can't vouch for every thing it says except for SAVE FARSCAPE damn it.:)
One clear effect of the Web will be to really put fair use through its paces, and to determine new meanings within it.
OS X is a little awkward on this navigation point for me; the "favorites" folder list just doesn't fo it somehow. In OS 9 and earlier, not only was the functionality simpler (at least I wasn't confused) but there were 3rd party hacks galore to make those open/save dialogs behave however you wanted.
Every app should maintain its own recent docs list, and maybe try to sense which are the most important docs to you. "Yeah, boss, I know right where you left that."
I am slightly sympathetic to Lindh, who is young and thought he was fighting for his principles. I don't know whether he realized he was an American citizen when Americans attacked the Taliban, or whether he intended to make war on the United States, etc. If he did, he made war on me, too, regardless of his nationality. He did make enough damaging admissions that I am convinced of his guilt, if not his guilty heart. I certainly wasn't with the conservative crowd jumping up and down yelling treason (which he was not charged with).
Then there's that whole "unlawful combatant" thing I still don't understand.
A funny wrinkle in American constitutional law -- from early on, we established the rule that we don't strip people of citizenship (almost) regardless of what they do, unless they renounce it. There is no exile.
However, his intent to renounce can be inferred from his participation in a foreign army, if that's what the Taliban is -- this inference is what the state dept. writing on the passport probably refers to. a brief article So you can renounce it, but it's very hard to lose it. Lindh apparently hasn't lost it, and perhaps does not want to, and so will still be a citizen in and after prison. Some have subsequently suggested this should change, though it would be difficult to apply to him as an ex post facto punishment.
Millions of us do vote, and almost exactly half of those who voted did not choose this President, nor were they apathetic about their choice.
Voting is technically irrational, that is, the benefits do not outweigh the trouble of doing it. But as the last election demonstrated, sometimes it's a good thing to be irrational. (OK, Florida sort of showed that your vote does AND doesn't count, but do show up.:)
BTW, an easy way to get involved is to simply donate some money to one of the many orgainzations that worry about watching gov't 24/7, or merely doing good things where gov't does not. They won't think you're apathetic.
Russian puppets - forgot the name Babushkas. If you want some, there's always Google.
Um, I'm pretty sure babushka is Russian for an old woman or grandmother, or a statute of same. (Or I see in the dictionary, a head scarf. This is sort of like aloha.)
If the gov't wants security checks, and in some cases that's reasonable (remember all the military work MIT has done, most famously during WWII), that should get them on EVERYONE. Stop this xenophobic insult now.
Aside from the philosophical problem with accused foreign citizens mindlessly, need we remind the NSA of all the wonderful homegrown dangers we have managed to grow in the U.S., from Timothy McVeigh (& Nichols) to the Unabomber to the Columbine shooters to John Walker Lindh to this DC sniper bastard Muhammed, and that's just the last ten years. And and those are just the killers; don't forget double agents Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Philip Hanssen (FBI). Even if you are sympathetic to some of these, consider the rest.
My argument is that if you're going to be paranoid, do be equal opportunity about it out of respect for logic and fair play. Look in your own backyard.
Who came up with the idea of "folders" anyway? Not hierarchical trees, but the metaphor.
The biggest problem with folders is no one wants to be a file clerk and weed, sort, and file their docs. The act of socking away a doc should as mindless as possible, not because (all) users are mindless but because they have better things to do, and shouldn't spend a minute adding keywords to every doc they might never see again.
You know how it is -- you're searching and coming up with junk, and want to yell at the computer, do what I meant, not what I said! This would be one of my first pics for AI on a personal computer.
I agree folders doesn't cut it, though as a metaphor for explaining the tree it's not bad. The problem is the tree.
So you're saying it's "just" a more extreme version of something that's already illegal? And this strengthens your case how, counselor?:P
It basically comes down to enforceability plus a cost-benefit analysis. There have been many attacks on fanfic, lots of nasty letters, and even some litigation. Look at chillingeffects.org. And... yes I've seen the "slash" stuff... unfortunately.:)
They'd probably say it would dilute the trademark (i.e., not up to production values, and too much quantity even for the people who brought us 5 star trek shows).:(
Yep. Part of me wants to find some compassion for the guy, that he was just doing something foolish -- all of us have for example sent personal emails or "surfed" on company time -- but offensiveness and the glass office raised it to the level of potential liability for the company. Also, I don't know enough details about this guy's record, attitude, reformability, etc. Perhaps he could have done some penance. But they were entirely within their rights, and probably were right, to terminate.
I've never had to fire anyone and hope never to do so, but if it had to be done I wouldn't delay....
Judging from the box office, Nemesis is perhaps a movie best not to be associated with. Maybe you can get a cameo on Enterprise as your great-grandfather or something?:)
Seriously, Wil, your mistreatment looms as one of the biggest negatives I can think of relative to "the franchise." Amid all that Star Trek dreaminess, it's easy to forget show biz is a lot more like The Player than Risa. Gratuitous.
Nice post. I just hope they don't end up on some lawyers' dart board....
Forgive me for saying you were beginning to sound like one of those Apple ads.:) You know:
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I suspect they're fried six ways from Sunday, to use the legal jargon. I was watching and counting rip-offs for amusement. Mind you, I think they did an excellent job recreating the original. Gene would be pleased. Truly difficult would be to count the novelties.
Humorless greedbag Paramount, on the other hand... 6 years ago they threatened a few dozen fan sites to drop their image and.wav collections in order to increase traffic to their for-profit official Trek site. (I assume they backed off?)
The rule is that derivative works are part of the original copyright. Some things like parodies are fiar use exceptions. Critically, the work need not mimic the original to nonetheless be derivative, rather it need only evoke the original in style or appearance or whatever. Here, the sight of the ship -- with music -- was more than enough. Even the door-slide effect sounds the same.
One of the tests is "substitution" -- could the new work displace demand for the original in the marketplace, or reduce the market for derivatives (such as by saturation)? Here, sure; they've basically produced a low-budget sequel, not that the original was high-budget.
Then there's trademark.... They could go to town here.
Disclaimer: I think the work is really cool, but wish they had applied their talents to either getting permission or coming up with new material. In case the lawyers come, I suggest the producers begin making their own Klingon® weaponry.
I planned to sneer at your puny weather, pitted against my Minuteman III's nestled in hardened silos (and I'm sure emergency power has occurred to them!)... but check this NMD idea:
Plasmoids involve hurling clouds of energized atomic nuclei and electrons into the path of incoming warheads. There was also the idea of the HEL/CPB combo. A laser ionizes a channel in the atmosphere for the charged beam to travel along to the target. However, charged beams bend and are thus useless. One last idea was based on the Advanced Test Accelerator research at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. They had created a form of artificial lightning from pulses of electrons, which may have had SDI applications if it could be made to fire thousands of miles precisely instead of several feet randomly.
Decisive, however, should be the 30-minute ICBM delivery anywhere in the globe; problematic only if you have no fixed base of operations (but even Al Queda has places it cares about).
Your attempts to intercept will be overwhelmed by superior numbers and $1.95 countermeasures. And just try to stop my SLBM's! And stealth bombers! And Ryder trucks! Ha ha ha!
If you come to/. for your science, you're not doing much better.:)
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Second, I would like to know if I have any legal recourse against unsolicited email hogging my bandwidth. Could I stockpile a years worth and send the spammers a bill for the used bandwidth?
It's been tried. But don't wait a week to try to find them; they tend to, um, move a lot. A prosecutor I talked to said they needed three PI's and several months to corner one who started a new corporation every week.
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Was it really that simple? Why the story title "Hidden Images at Mac.com" like this was a scoop?
:)
I'm never submitting a story again (oh no), given what's accepted and I've had rejected. "An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff, and prints the chaff." (atrtributed to Adlai Stevenson, but I think it's older; editors have been around at least as long as politicians)
Uh-oh, I sense an editor coming with "off topic" points. Which would merely prove my point, nyah.
At least with actuarial tables you don't have this illusion of choice.
Even though I've had only two claims in 14 years with State Farm, they won't write me a new policy.
Get some quotes from other companies like that one with the gecko, and then give State Farm (if you still want them) what the industry calls a "last look." Capitalism in action. I sympathize -- I can't stand our agent but have been sluggish moving our business.
I studied these plans, too, until selecting on that seemed more-or-less like what we needed. I know some enjoy the probability analysis and projection involved in picking the best deal, but I don't. And of course many of the plans seem calculated to lure you into paying too much for less than you expect.
.95; (2) people (certainly Americans) hate being nickled-and-dimed to death, preferring even flat rate plans that cost more; and (3) the merchant wants to tempt you to overconsume even for a small incremental profit (i.e., get you to buy a large soda for just 20 more even though you wanted a small).
What I'd like to know is whether there is a secret plan to rule all plans? Is there some published business school game theory logic to the design of these things? Are they arrived at with the same guesswork that we use to choose the plan? Obviously there are a few hard numbers in the actual cost of carrying the calls plus overhead, but beyond that what marketing (il)logic takes over?
If we had that information as consumers, think of valuable insight.
The only rules I know offhand are (1) people like prices ending in
Did you mean puritanical or draconian? :) Yeah, it makes sense to *reasonably* protect your copyrights... and to reasonably wink at 'em when there's nothing else you can do. I've had the thought that if [optimistic] anyone ever wanted to play in my universe [/optimistic] it'd be easier just to lay out the rules up front -- most fans are pretty good about it if they know what's allowed and the rules aren't too onerous.
;-) (let's hope no one trademarks the smiley)
:)
;-)
You know, your prose obviously mimics my previous posts, and as such is a derivative work under U.S. copyright law and the Berne Convention. I demand that you cease and desist all posting activity until you develop some original ideas.
*blink* Rent?? wonder where would carry it that doesn't 1) need a subscription (I'm not a movie watcher, and a sub would be wasted; besides, the rural mail carrier is too blasted unreliable) or 2) make me immediately do the 40 mile r/t to return it to the nearest vid rental outfit (I only trek to town 2x-3x a month).
Get Netflix bubba, sounds like you need it. Start here. You can cancel as soon as you're culturally literate.
If you have a TV (that glowing box thing) the reruns are of course inevitable. I felt very silly after spending a couple of years fastidiously recording Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, only to realize that the show was becoming terribly popular and that I would forever be swamped in reruns. And I still have those damn tapes.
Seriously, Farscape is a fun show, but not the be-all and end-all. I don't like TV a whole lot, and this is one of the few shows in years I'll actually make time to catch, so of course they cancel it. I am intrigue dthat there might be even the slightest chance of fan pressure changing the verdict -- it would be a minor reverse of our feeling, as viewers, that we just don't matter except as consumer sheep.
And Netflix is great for someone who like me never gets stuff back on time (I'd rather pay more than pay late fees) and has kids who insist Animated Whatever has to stay for a month. They have a Mr. Stingy 2-disk plan IIRC for $15/month.
And I'm a rum type myself
Rum is great -- for kids.
Of course copyright violations can not be stopped (barring some sort of really nuclear DRM), but the rights holders don't have to be puritanical. They do need to do a reasonable amount of policing to protect the value of their property.
:(
:)
Another doc I stumbled across on copyright and the internet was written by the DOJ IP division.
I've never seen Farscape.
It starts soon on the SciFi channel, the last (for now) 11 episodes. You can also rent seasons 1&2. A word of caution, it takes a little while to come up to speed; the show is not newbie friendly. You know, like gin.
These Save Farscape people made an admirable effort to understand and describe the law on derivative works, specifically fan sites. Note that they point out ripoffs like "Ratscape" are also derivative works, odd as it seems.
:)
A nice plain-English effort, conscientious, and intelligently defensive of them. I can't vouch for every thing it says except for SAVE FARSCAPE damn it.
One clear effect of the Web will be to really put fair use through its paces, and to determine new meanings within it.
Not to be an overzealous apple geek
;-)
There's no such thing.
OS X is a little awkward on this navigation point for me; the "favorites" folder list just doesn't fo it somehow. In OS 9 and earlier, not only was the functionality simpler (at least I wasn't confused) but there were 3rd party hacks galore to make those open/save dialogs behave however you wanted.
Every app should maintain its own recent docs list, and maybe try to sense which are the most important docs to you. "Yeah, boss, I know right where you left that."
Was this image linked somewhere? Is this snooping?
I'm not concerned -- I want to know how to do it!
All roads lead to PARC, huh? :) I figured.
I am slightly sympathetic to Lindh, who is young and thought he was fighting for his principles. I don't know whether he realized he was an American citizen when Americans attacked the Taliban, or whether he intended to make war on the United States, etc. If he did, he made war on me, too, regardless of his nationality. He did make enough damaging admissions that I am convinced of his guilt, if not his guilty heart. I certainly wasn't with the conservative crowd jumping up and down yelling treason (which he was not charged with).
Then there's that whole "unlawful combatant" thing I still don't understand.
A funny wrinkle in American constitutional law -- from early on, we established the rule that we don't strip people of citizenship (almost) regardless of what they do, unless they renounce it. There is no exile.
However, his intent to renounce can be inferred from his participation in a foreign army, if that's what the Taliban is -- this inference is what the state dept. writing on the passport probably refers to. a brief article So you can renounce it, but it's very hard to lose it. Lindh apparently hasn't lost it, and perhaps does not want to, and so will still be a citizen in and after prison. Some have subsequently suggested this should change, though it would be difficult to apply to him as an ex post facto punishment.
So you're saying you're apathetic about apathy?
:)
Millions of us do vote, and almost exactly half of those who voted did not choose this President, nor were they apathetic about their choice.
Voting is technically irrational, that is, the benefits do not outweigh the trouble of doing it. But as the last election demonstrated, sometimes it's a good thing to be irrational. (OK, Florida sort of showed that your vote does AND doesn't count, but do show up.
BTW, an easy way to get involved is to simply donate some money to one of the many orgainzations that worry about watching gov't 24/7, or merely doing good things where gov't does not. They won't think you're apathetic.
And even arguing here is political involvement...
Russian puppets - forgot the name
... sort of. :)
Babushkas. If you want some, there's always Google.
Um, I'm pretty sure babushka is Russian for an old woman or grandmother, or a statute of same. (Or I see in the dictionary, a head scarf. This is sort of like aloha.)
I think the poster refers to Ukrainian (or Russian) Nesting Dolls.
Well, you did ask
If the gov't wants security checks, and in some cases that's reasonable (remember all the military work MIT has done, most famously during WWII), that should get them on EVERYONE. Stop this xenophobic insult now.
Aside from the philosophical problem with accused foreign citizens mindlessly, need we remind the NSA of all the wonderful homegrown dangers we have managed to grow in the U.S., from Timothy McVeigh (& Nichols) to the Unabomber to the Columbine shooters to John Walker Lindh to this DC sniper bastard Muhammed, and that's just the last ten years. And and those are just the killers; don't forget double agents Aldrich Ames (CIA) and Robert Philip Hanssen (FBI). Even if you are sympathetic to some of these, consider the rest.
My argument is that if you're going to be paranoid, do be equal opportunity about it out of respect for logic and fair play. Look in your own backyard.
Who came up with the idea of "folders" anyway? Not hierarchical trees, but the metaphor.
The biggest problem with folders is no one wants to be a file clerk and weed, sort, and file their docs. The act of socking away a doc should as mindless as possible, not because (all) users are mindless but because they have better things to do, and shouldn't spend a minute adding keywords to every doc they might never see again.
You know how it is -- you're searching and coming up with junk, and want to yell at the computer, do what I meant, not what I said! This would be one of my first pics for AI on a personal computer.
I agree folders doesn't cut it, though as a metaphor for explaining the tree it's not bad. The problem is the tree.
What's wrong with hierachical systems anyway?
;-)
Well, they're pretty darn hard to spell, for one thing.
This is really just an extreme case of fanfiction
:P
... yes I've seen the "slash" stuff ... unfortunately. :)
So you're saying it's "just" a more extreme version of something that's already illegal? And this strengthens your case how, counselor?
It basically comes down to enforceability plus a cost-benefit analysis. There have been many attacks on fanfic, lots of nasty letters, and even some litigation. Look at chillingeffects.org. And
They'd probably say it would dilute the trademark (i.e., not up to production values, and too much quantity even for the people who brought us 5 star trek shows). :(
Yep. Part of me wants to find some compassion for the guy, that he was just doing something foolish -- all of us have for example sent personal emails or "surfed" on company time -- but offensiveness and the glass office raised it to the level of potential liability for the company. Also, I don't know enough details about this guy's record, attitude, reformability, etc. Perhaps he could have done some penance. But they were entirely within their rights, and probably were right, to terminate.
I've never had to fire anyone and hope never to do so, but if it had to be done I wouldn't delay....
Poor Wil.
:)
But did they invite you to the real premiere?
Judging from the box office, Nemesis is perhaps a movie best not to be associated with. Maybe you can get a cameo on Enterprise as your great-grandfather or something?
Seriously, Wil, your mistreatment looms as one of the biggest negatives I can think of relative to "the franchise." Amid all that Star Trek dreaminess, it's easy to forget show biz is a lot more like The Player than Risa. Gratuitous.
Nice post. I just hope they don't end up on some lawyers' dart board....
:) You know:
Forgive me for saying you were beginning to sound like one of those Apple ads.
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
The round pegs in the square holes.
The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules.
And they have no respect for the status quo.
You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them,
disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
They invent. They imagine. They heal.
They explore. They create. They inspire.
They push the human race forward.
Maybe they have to be crazy.
How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art?
Or sit in silence and hear a song that's never been written?
Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?
We make tools for these kinds of people.
While some see them as the crazy ones,
we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I suspect they're fried six ways from Sunday, to use the legal jargon. I was watching and counting rip-offs for amusement. Mind you, I think they did an excellent job recreating the original. Gene would be pleased. Truly difficult would be to count the novelties.
.wav collections in order to increase traffic to their for-profit official Trek site. (I assume they backed off?)
Humorless greedbag Paramount, on the other hand... 6 years ago they threatened a few dozen fan sites to drop their image and
The rule is that derivative works are part of the original copyright. Some things like parodies are fiar use exceptions. Critically, the work need not mimic the original to nonetheless be derivative, rather it need only evoke the original in style or appearance or whatever. Here, the sight of the ship -- with music -- was more than enough. Even the door-slide effect sounds the same.
One of the tests is "substitution" -- could the new work displace demand for the original in the marketplace, or reduce the market for derivatives (such as by saturation)? Here, sure; they've basically produced a low-budget sequel, not that the original was high-budget.
Then there's trademark.... They could go to town here.
Disclaimer: I think the work is really cool, but wish they had applied their talents to either getting permission or coming up with new material. In case the lawyers come, I suggest the producers begin making their own Klingon® weaponry.
Hey, they cancelled the original Star Trek, too. :)
Execs are terrified of original content. They know one fiasco could be a career-ender.
Decisive, however, should be the 30-minute ICBM delivery anywhere in the globe; problematic only if you have no fixed base of operations (but even Al Queda has places it cares about).
Your attempts to intercept will be overwhelmed by superior numbers and $1.95 countermeasures. And just try to stop my SLBM's! And stealth bombers! And Ryder trucks! Ha ha ha!
If you come to /. for your science, you're not doing much better. :)
Second, I would like to know if I have any legal recourse against unsolicited email hogging my bandwidth. Could I stockpile a years worth and send the spammers a bill for the used bandwidth?
It's been tried. But don't wait a week to try to find them; they tend to, um, move a lot. A prosecutor I talked to said they needed three PI's and several months to corner one who started a new corporation every week.