Oh contraire - "regulations" are in fact so close to law that mere mortals can't tell the difference. Regulations correctly issued by government agencies have "the force and effect of law" until overturned by a court of legislated out existence by Congress. There are lots of people in jail today because they broke IRS "regulations". So for all practical purposes regulations issued by governmental agencies are law unless you can get a judge or congress to agree that they are unreasonable. This has happened but not too often and the risks are generally great!
Close but no cigar. It is a tax law. It is a tax on accumulated profits which are profits that are accumulated in excess of the reasonable needs of the business. This law is on the books to keep (generally)private companies from accumulating profits for the owners so they can sell the stock and pay tax at capital gains rates rather than distributing the money and having it taxed at ordinary income tax rates (approximately double the capital gains rates). See IRC sec. 531 to 536 and pertinent regs. This law makes directors distribute excess profit since if a public company were assessed this tax the directors would likely have personal liability for the amount of the tax as any fool should see the situation developing and distriute the money. But for this forum you were pretty close!
First of all you folks need to read the tax law. Neither myself nor anyone else in this forum has ever seen MS tax return as it is a 5 year felony for anyone other than the taxpayer to disclose tax return information they have received from the government. Moreover there are laws as to the way(s) to recognize income for tax purposes. If there is anyone that thinks that large companies don't pay any taxes then they simply don't know what they are talking about. Large corporations pay a great deal of taxes and the same laws that apply to them apply to you. I get really tired of people who can't even do their own tax return telling the world that large companies don't pay taxe. I should know I have written some the check for the (large)bank I used to work for!
because that is what it takes to cover the material. The problem with so called "short versions" is that judges then take that "short version" to be the originating party's interpretation of the "long version". The worst case I have ever seen in this area was at OpenSRS. When I was trying to sign up with them I got their agreement - spent two weeks going through the 50+ pages and the figured out that I could sign it. When I went to sign it it had been changed. Another two weeks and 50 pages later I was ready to sign it again. Again it had changed. By this time I was incensed. I called Tucows and complained - the idiot on the other end of the phone literally told me not to bother with the actual license but to read the company's explanation on their web site. This folks is foolhardy. I'm sure that Tucows paid big money to a good law firm to draw up that agreement, and then some administrator blows the whole thing by writing the agreement over so us mere mortals could read it. This has two problems - the first on as described above with the second being that Tucows couldn't hold me to anything in the explanation since I didn't sign the "explanation" but I could hold them to everything in the explanation as it is their interpretation of the contract that I signed.
I do agree that software licenses need to less complex. I also think that they need to be able to be printed so I can have a copy of what I signed. In most states I have knowledge about you are entitled to a copy of any contract that you sign. If I can't have a copy of the EULA that I signed can the company hold me to it? I would whole heartedly support plain English EULAs. And remember folks the purpose of the EULA is not to protect the consumer but to allow the software company to do anything the want. So are software companies going to change this? Not in my lifetime without a law that says they have to. Maybe we can use economic laws and not buy products where we can't understand the EULA!
In some states ISDN is extremely expensive. Here in Michigan my partner has an ISDN circuit in his house and stays connected 24x7 for days at a time. The bill $ 60.00 per month. Not cheap but not too expensive either. BTW that does not include the ISP account (since we own it). But remember that the ISDN circuit can replace your voice phone line too if you want it too so that may lower the additional money per month. Anyway LOL it's not too fun. I can also vouch for the latency as I am talking to someone who right now is looking at paying me a lot of money to get rid of the latency from their sat connection.
One problem with your analagy - when your buy a shirt you own it outright the seller retains no interest in the shirt. When you license software the manufacturer retains title to the software you simply are allowed to use it with their permission. A small but extremely important distinction.
In talking to a judge friend of mine you have several choices:
1. Tell the BSA to go to hell and hope they don't have probable cause to get a search warrant. If they get one they will come back with the police and then you will have a criminal problem - this is not a likely scenario for a public institution.
2. Let the BSA in and try to deal with them as best possible - however I would have my attorney do the talking to them - most attorneys don't scare too easily.
3.Tell the BSA that you are busy and to come back in a couple of weeks. In that couple of weeks clean up your act and let them in.
Personally I would tell them to go to hell and make them come back with the cops. Why? So they have to fight to get into every business. If they have to do this it will eventually stop them as it will become financially impossible for them to continue.
As a public institution you have a different problem than private businesses. You have a public relations problem. I'm sure that this is what the powers that be in the university are thinking about. My problem is that the BSA thinks that they are a peace agency (police agency) and they aren't. As far as I am concerned the best solution is to not deal with the software companies that support the BSA!
Bandwidth costs money. Please tell me how your local cable/DSL provider makes money selling.25 of a T-1 for $50/mo the going price in the market is about $500-550/mo plus loop. What the cable/DSL providers are playing is the old Standard Oil game - use your fat wallet to drive all the competition out of business then when you're the only one left standing you jerk the prices up. It't capitalism - I'm not saying that I like it it's just the way it is. If you really want to keep access cheap write your cogressman and congresswomen and bitch. Yes they do listen but it takes a lot of whining.
and should not be treated as such. The best argument I can make it that so long as I don't engage in criminal activity I should not have to put up with the inconvenience of being treated as one. In my (cursory)reading of the law it would seem that the only part of it that your activities would break is the part about public distribution. You could probably prevent this by using a DRM shceme on the replacement O/S. I might also bring up the price that folks like myself would pay to protect someone else's property that I will never steal (I know that I am an acronism here but I never have and probably never will use a compter to listen to music). Up until recently it was always the actions in this country that were outlawed not the tools. Even lock picks are not per se illegal they are only illegal if they are used as burgulary tools. Other such burgulary tools are hammers, crowbars, bricks and hammers - should we outlaw them too. What I would do is take the law and draw several analogies between old technology (remember that cars were high-tech 60 years ago) and todays technology. If this type of logic was applied to the automotive industry my entire garage today would be illegal. I think you get the point. Another thing that you might ask for is if there has been a study done of the cost to society to protect Hollywoods profits. This could be compelling argument if it is unbalanced enough. Best of luck.
First of all the biggest risk is from internal theft. This can be handled by keeping the box secure both physically and from the internal/external network.
Secondly the processor must get the data in a usable form thus it must be transmitted over the Internet as open text unless the processor has an encryption they want you to use. I solve this problem by sending the information to my card processor over dial-up lines. Yes it is slow, (1200 baud) but I can process 800 credit cards in about 45 minutes. The problem that I see for you is not the storage of the card info but the transmission over the Internet. You mignt want to look at ICVerify. This is piece of software that has been around for a long time and works fairly well. You can also process in real-time if you need to for sign-ups.
and then asks for the courts mercy because he is a orphan. Mr. Schwartz apparently knew what he was doing, knew it was illegal then did it anyway. Just like Mr. Schwartz I too can break into things (in my case houses). However you don't see me doing it for ANY reason without the owners permission. Why - BECAUSE IT'S WRONG AND ILLEGAL! Houses or compters - different things same idea. What Mr. Schwartz would like us to believe is that for some reason we should treat him differently than someone that breaks into our house. Keyboard or lockpicks - same idea different targets - same result if you get caught. I really don't feel sorry for you I think that the justice system worked magnificantly!
I have always changed accounting systems at a year-end. All you have to do is to get the ending balances from the previous year input them as starting balances and start posting. The problem comes in posting prior year adjusting entries. A couple of ways to do this are - Post adjusting entries to both systems or correct the opening entries after the year-end adjustments are made. Some accounting systems won't allow changing entries once they are made so play with the new system to see what can be done. Simply leave the old system installed for historical records.
but I don't know if they are available for newer ignitions - check Hot Rod, Car Craft or some other magazines. Another option would be to go to an aftermarket ignition etc - probably way too much work.
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Oh contraire - "regulations" are in fact so close to law that mere mortals can't tell the difference. Regulations correctly issued by government agencies have "the force and effect of law" until overturned by a court of legislated out existence by Congress. There are lots of people in jail today because they broke IRS "regulations". So for all practical purposes regulations issued by governmental agencies are law unless you can get a judge or congress to agree that they are unreasonable. This has happened but not too often and the risks are generally great!
Close but no cigar. It is a tax law. It is a tax on accumulated profits which are profits that are accumulated in excess of the reasonable needs of the business. This law is on the books to keep (generally)private companies from accumulating profits for the owners so they can sell the stock and pay tax at capital gains rates rather than distributing the money and having it taxed at ordinary income tax rates (approximately double the capital gains rates). See IRC sec. 531 to 536 and pertinent regs. This law makes directors distribute excess profit since if a public company were assessed this tax the directors would likely have personal liability for the amount of the tax as any fool should see the situation developing and distriute the money. But for this forum you were pretty close!
First of all you folks need to read the tax law. Neither myself nor anyone else in this forum has ever seen MS tax return as it is a 5 year felony for anyone other than the taxpayer to disclose tax return information they have received from the government. Moreover there are laws as to the way(s) to recognize income for tax purposes. If there is anyone that thinks that large companies don't pay any taxes then they simply don't know what they are talking about. Large corporations pay a great deal of taxes and the same laws that apply to them apply to you. I get really tired of people who can't even do their own tax return telling the world that large companies don't pay taxe. I should know I have written some the check for the (large)bank I used to work for!
because that is what it takes to cover the material. The problem with so called "short versions" is that judges then take that "short version" to be the originating party's interpretation of the "long version". The worst case I have ever seen in this area was at OpenSRS. When I was trying to sign up with them I got their agreement - spent two weeks going through the 50+ pages and the figured out that I could sign it. When I went to sign it it had been changed. Another two weeks and 50 pages later I was ready to sign it again. Again it had changed. By this time I was incensed. I called Tucows and complained - the idiot on the other end of the phone literally told me not to bother with the actual license but to read the company's explanation on their web site. This folks is foolhardy. I'm sure that Tucows paid big money to a good law firm to draw up that agreement, and then some administrator blows the whole thing by writing the agreement over so us mere mortals could read it. This has two problems - the first on as described above with the second being that Tucows couldn't hold me to anything in the explanation since I didn't sign the "explanation" but I could hold them to everything in the explanation as it is their interpretation of the contract that I signed. I do agree that software licenses need to less complex. I also think that they need to be able to be printed so I can have a copy of what I signed. In most states I have knowledge about you are entitled to a copy of any contract that you sign. If I can't have a copy of the EULA that I signed can the company hold me to it? I would whole heartedly support plain English EULAs. And remember folks the purpose of the EULA is not to protect the consumer but to allow the software company to do anything the want. So are software companies going to change this? Not in my lifetime without a law that says they have to. Maybe we can use economic laws and not buy products where we can't understand the EULA!
In some states ISDN is extremely expensive. Here in Michigan my partner has an ISDN circuit in his house and stays connected 24x7 for days at a time. The bill $ 60.00 per month. Not cheap but not too expensive either. BTW that does not include the ISP account (since we own it). But remember that the ISDN circuit can replace your voice phone line too if you want it too so that may lower the additional money per month. Anyway LOL it's not too fun. I can also vouch for the latency as I am talking to someone who right now is looking at paying me a lot of money to get rid of the latency from their sat connection.
One problem with your analagy - when your buy a shirt you own it outright the seller retains no interest in the shirt. When you license software the manufacturer retains title to the software you simply are allowed to use it with their permission. A small but extremely important distinction.
In talking to a judge friend of mine you have several choices: 1. Tell the BSA to go to hell and hope they don't have probable cause to get a search warrant. If they get one they will come back with the police and then you will have a criminal problem - this is not a likely scenario for a public institution. 2. Let the BSA in and try to deal with them as best possible - however I would have my attorney do the talking to them - most attorneys don't scare too easily. 3.Tell the BSA that you are busy and to come back in a couple of weeks. In that couple of weeks clean up your act and let them in. Personally I would tell them to go to hell and make them come back with the cops. Why? So they have to fight to get into every business. If they have to do this it will eventually stop them as it will become financially impossible for them to continue. As a public institution you have a different problem than private businesses. You have a public relations problem. I'm sure that this is what the powers that be in the university are thinking about. My problem is that the BSA thinks that they are a peace agency (police agency) and they aren't. As far as I am concerned the best solution is to not deal with the software companies that support the BSA!
Bandwidth costs money. Please tell me how your local cable/DSL provider makes money selling .25 of a T-1 for $50/mo the going price in the market is about $500-550/mo plus loop. What the cable/DSL providers are playing is the old Standard Oil game - use your fat wallet to drive all the competition out of business then when you're the only one left standing you jerk the prices up. It't capitalism - I'm not saying that I like it it's just the way it is. If you really want to keep access cheap write your cogressman and congresswomen and bitch. Yes they do listen but it takes a lot of whining.
and should not be treated as such. The best argument I can make it that so long as I don't engage in criminal activity I should not have to put up with the inconvenience of being treated as one. In my (cursory)reading of the law it would seem that the only part of it that your activities would break is the part about public distribution. You could probably prevent this by using a DRM shceme on the replacement O/S. I might also bring up the price that folks like myself would pay to protect someone else's property that I will never steal (I know that I am an acronism here but I never have and probably never will use a compter to listen to music). Up until recently it was always the actions in this country that were outlawed not the tools. Even lock picks are not per se illegal they are only illegal if they are used as burgulary tools. Other such burgulary tools are hammers, crowbars, bricks and hammers - should we outlaw them too. What I would do is take the law and draw several analogies between old technology (remember that cars were high-tech 60 years ago) and todays technology. If this type of logic was applied to the automotive industry my entire garage today would be illegal. I think you get the point. Another thing that you might ask for is if there has been a study done of the cost to society to protect Hollywoods profits. This could be compelling argument if it is unbalanced enough. Best of luck.
Actually ICVerify is currently owned by First Data Merchant Services. See icverify.com.
First of all the biggest risk is from internal theft. This can be handled by keeping the box secure both physically and from the internal/external network. Secondly the processor must get the data in a usable form thus it must be transmitted over the Internet as open text unless the processor has an encryption they want you to use. I solve this problem by sending the information to my card processor over dial-up lines. Yes it is slow, (1200 baud) but I can process 800 credit cards in about 45 minutes. The problem that I see for you is not the storage of the card info but the transmission over the Internet. You mignt want to look at ICVerify. This is piece of software that has been around for a long time and works fairly well. You can also process in real-time if you need to for sign-ups.
and then asks for the courts mercy because he is a orphan. Mr. Schwartz apparently knew what he was doing, knew it was illegal then did it anyway. Just like Mr. Schwartz I too can break into things (in my case houses). However you don't see me doing it for ANY reason without the owners permission. Why - BECAUSE IT'S WRONG AND ILLEGAL! Houses or compters - different things same idea. What Mr. Schwartz would like us to believe is that for some reason we should treat him differently than someone that breaks into our house. Keyboard or lockpicks - same idea different targets - same result if you get caught. I really don't feel sorry for you I think that the justice system worked magnificantly!
I have always changed accounting systems at a year-end. All you have to do is to get the ending balances from the previous year input them as starting balances and start posting. The problem comes in posting prior year adjusting entries. A couple of ways to do this are - Post adjusting entries to both systems or correct the opening entries after the year-end adjustments are made. Some accounting systems won't allow changing entries once they are made so play with the new system to see what can be done. Simply leave the old system installed for historical records.
Ask your insurance agent about reasonable precautions - you may not be covered if there is no sign of forced entry.
but I don't know if they are available for newer ignitions - check Hot Rod, Car Craft or some other magazines. Another option would be to go to an aftermarket ignition etc - probably way too much work.
Why do you think that tow trucks have dollies! Cars that have their wheels turned can in fact be towed it's just a little harder!