Nom is French for name, so you could have johnsmith.nom and 5551212.tel as your personal domains. Of course, there would be a lot of other John Smith's who want the johnsmith.nom domain, so I think the.tel is a better idea.
On a related note, the US post office is creating a email address for every mail recipient in the US. it will consist of your 9-digit zip, followed by the last two digits of your street address or apartment number, and your first and last initial. So Bill Clinton's is bc20502000100@usps.gov
Interesting Coincidence that today is the day Taco chose to finally reset the karma of everyone over 50 back down to 50.
Maybe he is finally removing the cap, and is just making it fair by giving anyone previously held to the 50 cap a level playing field with those that had previously gotten past 50. Regardless of the reason, there is finally a point to clicking the 'No Score +1 Bonus box again.'
The cnet story is very poorly written, so I understand how it was interpretted by the original submittor, but Supreme Court ruling only confirmed the 9th Circuits ruling that SONY was not entitled to injunctive relief, therefor allowing the release of the Mac version of Virtual Game Station.
Here is today's ruling as report by the wire services. AP.
"The court, without comment Monday, let Connectix continue selling its Virtual Game Station until a lower court rules on Sony's claim of unfair competition."
Hmm, maybe I'll have to scale back the goal a little bit, but I still hope to see a majority of them. Even that will be a challenge, since they keep adding them each year.
ZDNET reported Friday that if you have a Synaptics touchpad on your notebook they will be letting you download a fully licensed copy of SilanisApproveIt software.
I think it is only available currently for Windows, but there is a developer toolkit version that supports C++ so maybe there is hope for porting at the API to other OS's.
The one draw back to the World Heritage site designation to me is personal. One of my life goals is to visit all of them, and putting one at such a remote location would make acheiving that goal MUCH more dificult.
As to the claim that it isn't part of the world, I find that legally (by Earth Law) it is. It is almost invariably described as "Earth's Moon". Under common law, after a certain period (usually 7 or 17 years) of being claimed by an individual, if the true owner doesn't come forward to claim it, ownership passes to the new claimant. With 500 years of claiming it as Earth's moon, and by planting a flag on it over 30 years ago, by Earth law it belongs to Earth. The US possibly could have staked a claim to at least the regions directly explored by Apollo, by treaty we have renounced the ability to stake such a claim.
NOTE: I am not a space lawyer, but I know someone that is, there is actaully a specialty in it now.
But this is not an Airboard! An airboard can be seen in Back to the Future part 2
Actually, an Australian comapny is marketing a personal hovercraft called the AirBoard. The inventor says he was originally inspired by BttF2. They are a bit pricey though, around $7,000 (I think that is Aussie dollars, but the web site its pretty vague.)
They can go 25 kph, but aren't marketed as street legal, so you're supposed to use them in your yard, or at the beach. However, since they don't have wheels, I don't think they can be classified as vehicles, and unless a cop has authority to arrest for illegally operating an aircraft, I bet you could take it on most public streets where it is safe to drive that slowly.
The website seems to marketing them as an alternative to go-karts for amusement rides.
I would've had them add me to the express article suggestion queue. (Which of course doesn't really exist. It wouldn't be fair to have class distinctions between SlashDot users. yeah right)
Can anyone explain Taco's thought process as to what is considered news and what isn't?
To me, this was news when the contest was ANNOUNCED, and people might have a chance to participate. Therefore I submitted this story but it was rejected.
Now the story is no longer news, it's just history.
NOTE TO MODERATORS: Go ahead and moderate me down, I'm so far over the 50 point cap that harldy matters anymore.
At least your strategy is not as extreme as the one proposed by this ZDNet article
"Here's what I want you to do: Run down to RadioShack
and look really excited when you ask for one of the
scanners. Go to lots of RadioShacks and do this. When
you are done, disable the devices by cutting the
cords and dump them into the trash so as to keep
someone else from ending up with one by mistake.
Gather the ones the magazines are sending out from
your friends and trash them, too.
This company is just too idiotic to make someone rich.
And together we can keep it from happening. Let's
make Digital:Convergence understand that not
considering privacy can really kill a business."
I think the best strategy is gather as many as you can, neuter them, then box them up and send them to China or India where I'm sure there are lots of aspiring entrepenuers who find lots of uses for them.
After the 500,000 units available at the U.S. launch date, Sony estimated it would be able to supply 100,000 units per week to the U.S. market.
. . . . . ..
The company anticipated shipping 1.3 million PlayStation2 units in North America through the winter holiday season. It said it would have 26 software titles available at launch time, rather than an originally expected 15 titles.
So, by Xmas, there will be just as many units as originally planned and nearly twice as many titles.
Is there any constitutional recourse against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
The Chief Justice, and all other federal judges, may be impeached by the House and tried by the Senate just like the President.
If the President can be impeached for failing to volunteer incriminating personal information when he was never asked a straight forward question as to what physical activities actually took place between him and another consenting adult, then certainly a Chief Justice who apparently violates the Judicial Ethics Laws in the US Code should be subject to at least a further investigation.
Think of all the Supreme Court nominees who were rejected because they didn't understand the tax witholding laws for their nannies. If this was on a court nominee's record, there is no way they would be approved for the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court Justices, must hold themselves to the highest standards of ethical conduct, both in fact and in appearance, if nothing else, there is certainly the appearance of a conflict here and he should have recused himself.
This decision preserves 200 or so years of judicial protocol where the SC is the *last* court of appeals, in which they hear only cases that merit there attention.
Actually, prior to passage of the Expediting Act (see below), the Supreme ourt was tasked with directly hearing all federal anti-trust cases.
CITE 15 USC Sec. 29 01/26/98
EXPCITE TITLE 15 - COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 1 - MONOPOLIES AND COMBINATIONS IN RESTRAINT OF TRADE
TEXT Sec. 29. Appeals
(a) Court of appeals; review by Supreme Court
Except as otherwise expressly provided by this section, in every
civil action brought in any district court of the United States
under the Act entitled ''An Act to protect trade and commerce
against unlawful restraints and monopolies'', approved July 2,
1890, or any other Acts having like purpose that have been or
hereafter may be enacted, in which the United States is the
complainant and equitable relief is sought, any appeal from a final
judgement entered in any such action shall be taken to the court of
appeals pursuant to sections 1291 and 2107 of title 28. Any appeal
from an interlocutory order entered in any such action shall be
taken to the court of appeals pursuant to sections 1292(a)(1) and
2107 of title 28 but not otherwise. Any judgment entered by the
court of appeals in any such action shall be subject to review by
the Supreme Court upon a writ of certiorari as provided in section
1254(1) of title 28. (b) Direct appeals to Supreme Court
An appeal from a final judgment pursuant to subsection (a) of
this section shall lie directly to the Supreme Court, if, upon
application of a party filed within fifteen days of the filing of a
notice of appeal, the district judge who adjudicated the case
enters an order stating that immediate consideration of the appeal
by the Supreme Court is of general public importance in the
administration of justice. Such order shall be filed within thirty
days after the filing of a notice of appeal. When such an order is
filed, the appeal and any cross appeal shall be docketed in the
time and manner prescribed by the rules of the Supreme Court. The
Supreme Court shall thereupon either (1) dispose of the appeal and
any cross appeal in the same manner as any other direct appeal
authorized by law, or (2) in its discretion, deny the direct appeal
and remand the case to the court of appeals, which shall then have
jurisdiction to hear and determine the same as if the appeal and
any cross appeal therein had been docketed in the court of appeals
in the first instance pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.
SOURCE (Feb. 11, 1903, ch. 544, Sec. 2, 32 Stat. 823; Mar. 3, 1911, ch.
231, Sec. 291, 36 Stat. 1167; June 9, 1944, ch. 239, 58 Stat. 272;
June 25, 1948, ch. 646, Sec. 17, 62 Stat. 989; Dec. 21, 1974, Pub.
L. 93-528, Sec. 5, 88 Stat. 1709.)
NOTES REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Act entitled ''An Act to protect trade and commerce against
unlawful restraints and monopolies'', approved July 2, 1890,
referred to in subsec. (a), is known as the Sherman Act, and is
classified to sections 1 to 7 of this title.
CODIFICATION
Section was previously set out in both this section and in
section 45 of former Title 49, Transportation.
AMENDMENTS
1974 - Pub. L. 93-528 substituted provisions for appeals to the
court of appeals from civil actions in district courts where
equitable relief is sought, review by the Supreme Court of
judgments of courts of appeals, and for direct appeals to the
Supreme Court of cases involving general public importance, for
provisions that appeals from final judgments of district courts lie
to the Supreme Court only.
1948 - Act June 25, 1948, amended section generally to strike out
provisions relating to time for appeal, procedure, etc. See
sections 2101 and 2109 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial
Procedure.
1944 - Act June 9, 1944, provided for certification of case to
circuit court of appeals when there was no quorum of Justices of
the Supreme Court qualified to participate in the consideration of
the case and for designation of circuit judges in the event of
disqualification from hearing the case.
CHANGE OF NAME
Act Mar. 3, 1911, which transferred the powers and duties of the
circuit courts to the district courts, substituted ''district
court'' for ''circuit court''.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1974 AMENDMENT
Section 7 of Pub. L. 93-528 provided that: ''The amendment made
by section 5 of this Act (amending this section) shall not apply to
an action in which a notice of appeal to the Supreme Court has been
filed on or before the fifteenth day following the date of
enactment of this Act (Dec. 21, 1974). Appeal in any such action
shall be taken pursuant to the provisions of section 2 of the Act
of February 11, 1903 (32 Stat. 823), as amended (15 U.S.C. 29;
(former) 49 U.S.C. 45) which were in effect on the day preceding
the date of enactment of this Act.''
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1948 AMENDMENT
Section 38 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made
by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1944 AMENDMENT
The last paragraph of act June 9, 1944, provided: ''This Act
(this section) shall apply to every case pending before the Supreme
Court of the United States on the date of its enactment (June 9,
1944).'' SHORT TITLE
Act Feb. 11, 1903, which enacted sections 28 and 29 of this
title, is commonly known as the ''Expediting Act''.
CROSSREF CROSS REFERENCES
Direct appeals from decisions of three-judge courts, see section
1253 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
Time for appeal to Supreme Court, see section 2101 of Title 28.
RealVision will be releasing an add-on for the Palm V so you can use it as a phone on GSM cell networks.
"The communications snap-on product will provide dual-band GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) connectivity to Palm V series handhelds, and an earphone jack to enable voice communications through a headset. The product is expected to be available in early 2001 for less than U.S. $299 when purchased in conjunction with a 1-year wireless service plan."
The 'sled' will also send and receive data which they say "will allow those users to access a wide range of Internet content..." Nothing on whether it will support WAP or i-mode, though there is an inference that it may support the Palm VII "web-clipping" applications.
DFN, the Digital Freedom Network is running a contest until September 25th to find the most egregious example of censorware error. The Foil the Filters contest is being held to coincide with the American Library Association's Banned Books Week.
Entries can be either a site you'd expect to be filtered that wasn't, or one that shouldn't have been but was. WIRED is running a story on it here
RealVision will be releasing an add-on for the Palm V so you can use it as a phone on GSM cell networks.
"The communications snap-on product will provide dual-band GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) connectivity to Palm V series handhelds, and an earphone jack to enable voice communications through a headset. The product is expected to be available in early 2001 for less than U.S. $299 when purchased in conjunction with a 1-year wireless service plan."
The 'sled' will also send and receive data which they say "will allow those users to access a wide range of Internet content..." Nothing on whether it will support WAP or i-mode, though there is an inference that it may support the Palm VII "web-clipping" applications.
per 39$3009(c):
No mailer of any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, shall mail to any recipient of such merchandise a bill for such merchandise or any dunning communications.
So save those those cease and desist orders as evidence, since they are the "dunning communications" that equate to a bill as far as the act is concerned.
It should not be the burden of the gullible end- user to find out, that he can OPT OUT of something, he never had deliberately OPTED IN in the first place.
Ummmm...
In the case of the Radio Shack scanner, you are opting in by supplying info (and I expect signing something) to get the scanner in the first place.
In the case of the Forbes and Wired scanners, I expect there is an EULA that you click to accept when you install the software.
Now, if you were going to use one of the Forbes/Wired scanners with the hacked drivers/software, then maybe you have an argument, but the courts will have to decide this given that as it currently stands you likely violated the DMCA (which unfortunately is still "the law of the land" at least until Suprems Court gets ahold of it.)
opting out opted out of using the 'cat with their web site.
And the problem with opting out of using the 'cat with their website was what again?????
If you picked up the scanner for some other purpose besides scanning Radio Shack catalogs or Wired/Forbes magazines, then why not opt out of the database?
Even if you registered at Radio Shack under some other name, they still would be able to link your IP address (and therefor your ISP) to your particular scanner.
All I'm saying is that disabling the scanner mechanically isn't a fool proof solution since DC would still have your data. Even if you threw them in SF Bay as was mentioned, they still would have your data (albeit likely falsified) in their database, so why NOT take them up on their offer to delete it?
The title of the c|net story "Cat" scanning device may track users online reminded me of this famous Python Sketch:
**** The Fish License Sketch ****
**** Transcribed 4/18/87 from Monty Python's Previous Record ****
Man (Cleese): (whistles a bit, then) Hello. I would like to buy a fish
license, please.
Postal clerk (Palin): A what?
Man: A license for my pet fish, Eric.
Clerk: How did you know my name was Eric?
Man: No, no, no! My fish's name is Eric. Eric the fish. He's an halibut.
Clerk: What?
Man: He is an halibut.
Clerk: You've got a pet halibut?
Man: Yes, I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they
were all too flat.
Clerk: You must be a loony.
Man: I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony'
merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald
Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a loony!
Furthermore Dawn Pathorpe, the lady showjumper, had a clam called
Stafford, after the late chancellor. Alan Bullock has two pikes, both
called Chris, and Marcel Proust had an 'addock! So if you're calling
the author of 'A la recherche de temps perdu' a loony, I shall have to
ask you to step outside!
Clerk: All right, all right, all right. A license?
Man: Yes!
Clerk: For a fish.
Man: Yes!
Clerk: You *are* a loony.
Man: Look, it's a bleeding pet, isn't it? I've got a license for me pet
dog Eric, I've got a license for me pet cat Eric.
Clerk: You don't need a license for your cat.
Man: I bleedin' well do and I've got one! Can't be caught out there!
Clerk: There is no such thing as a bloody Cat License.
Man: Yes there is.
Clerk: No there isn't.
Man: Is!
Clerk: Isn't!
Man: I've bleedin' got one, look! What's that then?
Clerk: This is a dog license with the word 'dog' crossed out and 'cat'
written in in crayon.
Man: The man didn't have the right form.
Clerk: What man?
Man: The man from the cat detector van.
Clerk: The loony detector van, you mean.
Man: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
Clerk: What cat detector van?
Man: The cat detector van from the Ministry of Housing.
Clerk: Housing?
Man: It was spelt like that on the van. I'm very observant. I've never
seen so many bleedin' aerials. The man said their equipment could
pinpoint a purr at four hundred yards, and Eric being such a happy cat
was a piece of cake.
Clerk: How much did you pay for this?
Man: Sixty quid and eight for the fruit-bat.
Clerk: What fruit-bat?
Man: Eric the fruit-bat.
Clerk: Are all your pets called Eric?
Man: There's nothing so odd about that. Kemel Attaturk had an entire
menagerie called Abdul.
Clerk: No he didn't.
Man: Did!
Clerk: Didn't!
Man: Did, did, did, did, did and did!
Clerk: Oh all right.
Man: Spoken like a gentleman, sir. Now, are you going to give me a fish
license?
Clerk: I promise you that there is no such thing. You don't need one.
Man: In that case give me a bee license.
Clerk: A license for your pet bee.
Man: Correct.
Clerk: Called Eric? Eric the bee?
Man: No.
Clerk: No?
Man: No, Eric the half bee. He had an accident.
Clerk: You're off your chump.
Man: Look, if you intend by that utilization of an obscure colloquialism to
imply that my sanity is not up to scratch, or even to deny the
semi-existence of my little chum Eric the half bee, I shall have to
ask you to listen to this. Take it away, Eric the orchestra-leader.
Eric Idle: A one, two, a one two three four!
Man (sings): Half a bee, philosophically, Must, ipso facto, half not be.
But half the bee has got to be Vis a vis, its entity. D'you see?
But can a bee be said to be Or not to be an entire bee
When half the bee is not a bee Due to some ancient injury?
Singing.
Chorus: La dee dee, one two three,
Eric the half a bee. A B C D E F G, Eric the half a bee.
Man: Is this wretched demi-bee, Half-asleep upon my knee,
Some freak from a menagerie? No! It's Eric the half a bee!
Chorus: Fiddle de dum, Fiddle de dee, Eric the half a bee.
Ho ho ho, tee hee hee, Eric the half a bee.
Man: I love this hive, employ-ee, Bisected accidentally,
One summer afternoon by me, I love him carnally.
Chorus: He loves him carnally, Semi-carnally.
Man: The end.
Clerk: Cyril Connolly?
Man: No, semi-carnally!
Clerk: Oh.
Chorus: Cyril Connolly. (Whistle end of tune.)
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Nom is French for name, so you could have johnsmith.nom and 5551212.tel as your personal domains. Of course, there would be a lot of other John Smith's who want the johnsmith.nom domain, so I think the .tel is a better idea.
On a related note, the US post office is creating a email address for every mail recipient in the US. it will consist of your 9-digit zip, followed by the last two digits of your street address or apartment number, and your first and last initial. So Bill Clinton's is bc20502000100@usps.gov
Interesting Coincidence that today is the day Taco chose to finally reset the karma of everyone over 50 back down to 50.
Maybe he is finally removing the cap, and is just making it fair by giving anyone previously held to the 50 cap a level playing field with those that had previously gotten past 50. Regardless of the reason, there is finally a point to clicking the 'No Score +1 Bonus box again.'
My own suggestions:
/. could be used for fan-fiction)
.ftp .nntp .smtp etc.)
.cpa & .lld (there's already a .md, so it would only be fair. Wait, add .ianal while you're at it)
.bsd .os2
.slash
(in addition to
.tld
.url
.www (as well as
.etc
.ssl
.phd,
.spam
.oss
.linux
Of those that were suggested, I call dibs on deer.xing and shark.fin
I think the the
Total Cost, on top of the Pilot itself, about $270, $250 if you've already got the sync cable.
The cnet story is very poorly written, so I understand how it was interpretted by the original submittor, but Supreme Court ruling only confirmed the 9th Circuits ruling that SONY was not entitled to injunctive relief, therefor allowing the release of the Mac version of Virtual Game Station.
Here is today's ruling as report by the wire services. AP.
"The court, without comment Monday, let Connectix continue selling its Virtual Game Station until a lower court rules on Sony's claim of unfair competition."
UNESCO World Heritage sites
Hmm, maybe I'll have to scale back the goal a little bit, but I still hope to see a majority of them. Even that will be a challenge, since they keep adding them each year.
Here is the current list Current List.
ZDNET reported Friday that if you have a Synaptics touchpad on your notebook they will be letting you download a fully licensed copy of Silanis ApproveIt software.
I think it is only available currently for Windows, but there is a developer toolkit version that supports C++ so maybe there is hope for porting at the API to other OS's.
Please Moderate Up the parent to this post!
The one draw back to the World Heritage site designation to me is personal. One of my life goals is to visit all of them, and putting one at such a remote location would make acheiving that goal MUCH more dificult.
As to the claim that it isn't part of the world, I find that legally (by Earth Law) it is. It is almost invariably described as "Earth's Moon". Under common law, after a certain period (usually 7 or 17 years) of being claimed by an individual, if the true owner doesn't come forward to claim it, ownership passes to the new claimant. With 500 years of claiming it as Earth's moon, and by planting a flag on it over 30 years ago, by Earth law it belongs to Earth. The US possibly could have staked a claim to at least the regions directly explored by Apollo, by treaty we have renounced the ability to stake such a claim.
NOTE: I am not a space lawyer, but I know someone that is, there is actaully a specialty in it now.
Here are some background articles on the purchase:
Upside Today
Red Herring
Morningstar
Reuters.
But this is not an Airboard! An airboard can be seen in Back to the Future part 2
Actually, an Australian comapny is marketing a personal hovercraft called the AirBoard. The inventor says he was originally inspired by BttF2. They are a bit pricey though, around $7,000 (I think that is Aussie dollars, but the web site its pretty vague.)
They can go 25 kph, but aren't marketed as street legal, so you're supposed to use them in your yard, or at the beach. However, since they don't have wheels, I don't think they can be classified as vehicles, and unless a cop has authority to arrest for illegally operating an aircraft, I bet you could take it on most public streets where it is safe to drive that slowly.
The website seems to marketing them as an alternative to go-karts for amusement rides.
I would've had them add me to the express article suggestion queue. (Which of course doesn't really exist. It wouldn't be fair to have class distinctions between SlashDot users. yeah right)
Can anyone explain Taco's thought process as to what is considered news and what isn't?
To me, this was news when the contest was ANNOUNCED, and people might have a chance to participate. Therefore I submitted this story but it was rejected.
Now the story is no longer news, it's just history.
NOTE TO MODERATORS: Go ahead and moderate me down, I'm so far over the 50 point cap that harldy matters anymore.
I think the best strategy is gather as many as you can, neuter them, then box them up and send them to China or India where I'm sure there are lots of aspiring entrepenuers who find lots of uses for them.
It says the following at the end:
So, by Xmas, there will be just as many units as originally planned and nearly twice as many titles.
The Chief Justice, and all other federal judges, may be impeached by the House and tried by the Senate just like the President.
If the President can be impeached for failing to volunteer incriminating personal information when he was never asked a straight forward question as to what physical activities actually took place between him and another consenting adult, then certainly a Chief Justice who apparently violates the Judicial Ethics Laws in the US Code should be subject to at least a further investigation.
Think of all the Supreme Court nominees who were rejected because they didn't understand the tax witholding laws for their nannies. If this was on a court nominee's record, there is no way they would be approved for the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court Justices, must hold themselves to the highest standards of ethical conduct, both in fact and in appearance, if nothing else, there is certainly the appearance of a conflict here and he should have recused himself.
5) They needed to post something, ANYTHING, to use the DIGITAL logo before people forgot what it stood for.
Actually, prior to passage of the Expediting Act (see below), the Supreme ourt was tasked with directly hearing all federal anti-trust cases.
RealVision will be releasing an add-on for the Palm V so you can use it as a phone on GSM cell networks.
"The communications snap-on product will provide dual-band GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) connectivity to Palm V series handhelds, and an earphone jack to enable voice communications through a headset. The product is expected to be available in early 2001 for less than U.S. $299 when purchased in conjunction with a 1-year wireless service plan."
The 'sled' will also send and receive data which they say "will allow those users to access a wide range of Internet content..." Nothing on whether it will support WAP or i-mode, though there is an inference that it may support the Palm VII "web-clipping" applications.
DFN, the Digital Freedom Network is running a contest until September 25th to find the most egregious example of censorware error. The Foil the Filters contest is being held to coincide with the American Library Association's Banned Books Week.
Entries can be either a site you'd expect to be filtered that wasn't, or one that shouldn't have been but was. WIRED is running a story on it here
RealVision will be releasing an add-on for the Palm V so you can use it as a phone on GSM cell networks.
"The communications snap-on product will provide dual-band GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) connectivity to Palm V series handhelds, and an earphone jack to enable voice communications through a headset. The product is expected to be available in early 2001 for less than U.S. $299 when purchased in conjunction with a 1-year wireless service plan."
The 'sled' will also send and receive data which they say "will allow those users to access a wide range of Internet content..." Nothing on whether it will support WAP or i-mode, though there is an inference that it may support the Palm VII "web-clipping" applications.
per 39$3009(c):
No mailer of any merchandise mailed in violation of subsection (a) of this section, or within the exceptions contained therein, shall mail to any recipient of such merchandise a bill for such merchandise or any dunning communications.
So save those those cease and desist orders as evidence, since they are the "dunning communications" that equate to a bill as far as the act is concerned.
Of course it goes without saying that IANAL.
It should not be the burden of the gullible end- user to find out, that he can OPT OUT of something, he never had deliberately OPTED IN in the first place.
Ummmm...
In the case of the Radio Shack scanner, you are opting in by supplying info (and I expect signing something) to get the scanner in the first place.
In the case of the Forbes and Wired scanners, I expect there is an EULA that you click to accept when you install the software.
Now, if you were going to use one of the Forbes/Wired scanners with the hacked drivers/software, then maybe you have an argument, but the courts will have to decide this given that as it currently stands you likely violated the DMCA (which unfortunately is still "the law of the land" at least until Suprems Court gets ahold of it.)
opting out opted out of using the 'cat with their web site.
And the problem with opting out of using the 'cat with their website was what again?????
If you picked up the scanner for some other purpose besides scanning Radio Shack catalogs or Wired/Forbes magazines, then why not opt out of the database?
Even if you registered at Radio Shack under some other name, they still would be able to link your IP address (and therefor your ISP) to your particular scanner.
All I'm saying is that disabling the scanner mechanically isn't a fool proof solution since DC would still have your data. Even if you threw them in SF Bay as was mentioned, they still would have your data (albeit likely falsified) in their database, so why NOT take them up on their offer to delete it?
"Cat" scanning device may track users online reminded me of this famous Python Sketch: