If you're bringing in $5000000 or more annually, you can probably afford such a person. According to TFA, that's the threshold where businesses would have to start collecting and filing sales tax from out of state.
With the current feedback system, there's no way to amend feedback after it's given (at least not that I'm aware of). The fact that the seller received payment or not is NOT the only thing that should be considered or waited on before leaving feedback for the buyer. There's nothing stopping a buyer from becoming a complete ass after sending payment, leaving groundless or otherwise unreasonable feedback to the seller or contesting the credit card charges for no reason, leaving the seller no way to warn others of a rotten buyer.
That's what the comment that you were replying to said as well but, as your name suggests, you were blind to it.
On the other hand, suing everyone that walks in your door just because it's unlocked can get expensive and time-consuming. It's simpler and less costly to keep them from getting in in the first place.
The only difference in the courts is that a judge will understand the stupidity of "locking" your home via litigation like that. When it comes to technological equivalents, such as securing name servers, the chances of that are not nearly as high.
After removing everything that Vista doesn't offer, we're left with V (we are talking the product and not the company, after all). Does that mean, then, that Microsoft is populated by a bunch of biped lizards that see the world only as something to consume?
What legal action? More specifically, what legal action in their own country?
Phone unlocking is legal in many places in the US, if not all over, and the DMCA recently had an exception added to it so that circumventing phone locks to unlock them isn't a violation of that law. I'm curious, then, just what they could use to make a case.
DH: What's this! What are we looking at? CS: We're looking at now. DH: So go back to then! CS: It's too late, we've passed it. DH: We were just looking at then! CS: That was then, this is now. DH: So when will then be now? CS: Soon.
Indeed... like so many things in this world, it does precisely the job that it was intended for, but can also be misused. Those who cry foul in the name of privacy are simply lacking in common sense.
PO boxes are very useful for this type of thing, as are "detached" phone numbers like those obtained through services like Skype. As long as they can be used to contact you, even indirectly, they're still technically valid.
As for email spam, whether an address is posted somewhere or not, it's going to start getting spam eventually... just get a decent (but not overzealous) spam filter and you're good to go.
There is quite a bit of difference between not wanting to add sound to movies and overcoming the very real law of diminishing returns.
The accuracy of human sense organs remaining equal, there's only so much you can do to what is presented to them to improve an experience before the difference can't be perceived. Another example of this is setting the color depth of a display to anything beyond 24 bits... the human eye can only differentiate 10 million colors (and that's only with a side-by-side comparison), where 24 bits gives you over 16 million.
You actually do have to do that to "prove" that you're an adult vouching for a child getting a Passport account. Who knows if they ever get rid of that info, though...
I sure hope not, since there isn't any operating system called Linux '05 now, and probably won't be later. Perhaps this is something you're inventing yourself?
There's nothing called that, because Linux still has sane version numbering (where'd the other 2000 versions of Windows go, anyway?). The closest approximation would be the version of Linux available now or, comparing it to Microsoft's use of those numbers, the version available next year.
58. We also seek comment on our tentative conclusion that providers of non-managed, or disintermediated, communications should not be subject to CALEA.166 Non-managed VoIP services, such as peer-to-peer communications and voice enabled Instant Messaging, as currently provided, do not appear to be subject to CALEA for two reasons. First, because they are confined to a limited universe of users solely within the Internet or a private IP-network, they may be more akin to private networks, which Congress expressly excluded from section 103's capability requirements. Therefore, they do not appear to replace a substantial portion of local exchange service; as such they do not appear to fall within the Substantial Replacement Provision. Second, they may be excluded information services under section 103(b)(2)(A) (as discussed above). We seek comment on this issue. Are there other characteristics or distinguishing features that may be used to determine whether a particular class of VoIP service providers is covered under CALEA? One example may be that VoIP service providers are covered under CALEA where their service interconnects to the PSTN.
The bolded portion reflects where Skype themselves say that they are not intended as a replacement for local phone service. Trying to use them for that is silly in most cases, anyway, because in the US you can normally talk to someone a few houses down the street without per-minute charges. Using Skype to connect to your local PSTN in that case would cost $0.02/minute.
If it's found that Skype may fall under the new rules, it's only where it connects to phone networks in the US for incoming and outgoing calls. Wiretap provisions could be done at that point if required, probably by the phone companies providing that connection.
Over 90% of the Linux-related patches have nothing to do with Linux itself, though, merely the applications that run on it which are worked in as part of most Linux distributions. That's according to the Slackware distro change logs, at least.
Pretty sure that you can't say the same thing about Windows...
Clearly an unwinnable argument, that I clearly remember SCO trying to use earlier in this whole mess. Their lawyers tried to proclaim the GPL as invalid, and that argument was tossed pretty quickly.
Therefore, the GPL was tested in court, and it stood rather well.
The down side is for those that aren't average Joe users... having to figure out what to turn off where to even get some of Microsoft's own development tools (recent versions of them, too) to install and work correctly. It basically involves turning off most of what M$ put into SP2.
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If you're bringing in $5000000 or more annually, you can probably afford such a person. According to TFA, that's the threshold where businesses would have to start collecting and filing sales tax from out of state.
Not to mention that it incorrectly implies that all cops are male.
With the current feedback system, there's no way to amend feedback after it's given (at least not that I'm aware of). The fact that the seller received payment or not is NOT the only thing that should be considered or waited on before leaving feedback for the buyer. There's nothing stopping a buyer from becoming a complete ass after sending payment, leaving groundless or otherwise unreasonable feedback to the seller or contesting the credit card charges for no reason, leaving the seller no way to warn others of a rotten buyer.
That's what the comment that you were replying to said as well but, as your name suggests, you were blind to it.
On the other hand, suing everyone that walks in your door just because it's unlocked can get expensive and time-consuming. It's simpler and less costly to keep them from getting in in the first place.
The only difference in the courts is that a judge will understand the stupidity of "locking" your home via litigation like that. When it comes to technological equivalents, such as securing name servers, the chances of that are not nearly as high.
After removing everything that Vista doesn't offer, we're left with V (we are talking the product and not the company, after all). Does that mean, then, that Microsoft is populated by a bunch of biped lizards that see the world only as something to consume?
They're both forms of transportation, though. In that case, are you trying to argue for or against the parent?
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In truth, time is an illusion...
Lunch time, doubly so.
What legal action? More specifically, what legal action in their own country?
Phone unlocking is legal in many places in the US, if not all over, and the DMCA recently had an exception added to it so that circumventing phone locks to unlock them isn't a violation of that law. I'm curious, then, just what they could use to make a case.
I guess that just leaves them with one option.
DH: What's this! What are we looking at?
CS: We're looking at now.
DH: So go back to then!
CS: It's too late, we've passed it.
DH: We were just looking at then!
CS: That was then, this is now.
DH: So when will then be now?
CS: Soon.
Indeed... like so many things in this world, it does precisely the job that it was intended for, but can also be misused. Those who cry foul in the name of privacy are simply lacking in common sense.
PO boxes are very useful for this type of thing, as are "detached" phone numbers like those obtained through services like Skype. As long as they can be used to contact you, even indirectly, they're still technically valid.
As for email spam, whether an address is posted somewhere or not, it's going to start getting spam eventually... just get a decent (but not overzealous) spam filter and you're good to go.
There is quite a bit of difference between not wanting to add sound to movies and overcoming the very real law of diminishing returns.
The accuracy of human sense organs remaining equal, there's only so much you can do to what is presented to them to improve an experience before the difference can't be perceived. Another example of this is setting the color depth of a display to anything beyond 24 bits... the human eye can only differentiate 10 million colors (and that's only with a side-by-side comparison), where 24 bits gives you over 16 million.
You were dropped on your head as a child, weren't you? There are other definitions there...
You actually do have to do that to "prove" that you're an adult vouching for a child getting a Passport account. Who knows if they ever get rid of that info, though...
I sure hope not, since there isn't any operating system called Linux '05 now, and probably won't be later. Perhaps this is something you're inventing yourself?
There's nothing called that, because Linux still has sane version numbering (where'd the other 2000 versions of Windows go, anyway?). The closest approximation would be the version of Linux available now or, comparing it to Microsoft's use of those numbers, the version available next year.
From the text of the proposal:
58. We also seek comment on our tentative conclusion that providers of non-managed, or
disintermediated, communications should not be subject to CALEA.166 Non-managed VoIP services, such as peer-to-peer communications and voice enabled Instant Messaging, as currently provided, do not appear to be subject to CALEA for two reasons. First, because they are confined to a limited universe of users solely within the Internet or a private IP-network, they may be more akin to private networks, which Congress expressly excluded from section 103's capability requirements. Therefore, they do not appear to replace a substantial portion of local exchange service; as such they do not appear to fall within the Substantial Replacement Provision. Second, they may be excluded information services under section 103(b)(2)(A) (as discussed above). We seek comment on this issue. Are there other characteristics or distinguishing features that may be used to determine whether a particular class of VoIP service providers is covered under CALEA? One example may be that VoIP service providers are covered under CALEA where their service interconnects to the PSTN.
The bolded portion reflects where Skype themselves say that they are not intended as a replacement for local phone service. Trying to use them for that is silly in most cases, anyway, because in the US you can normally talk to someone a few houses down the street without per-minute charges. Using Skype to connect to your local PSTN in that case would cost $0.02/minute.
If it's found that Skype may fall under the new rules, it's only where it connects to phone networks in the US for incoming and outgoing calls. Wiretap provisions could be done at that point if required, probably by the phone companies providing that connection.
Ok, alright... first authorized sale.
...as long as they can play nice, and do three things:
- Color within the lines (add their crap using a separate namespace)
- Don't break the existing spec
- Accept RSS feeds without their markup
What are the chances of that happening, though, considering their history? STL... Java... JavaScript... TCP/IP... HTTP Digest Auth... SPF... RSS?
Does it mean that, since time is money, the cheap is available sooner...
They obviously don't mean that part, considering Microsoft's track record lately.
Over 90% of the Linux-related patches have nothing to do with Linux itself, though, merely the applications that run on it which are worked in as part of most Linux distributions. That's according to the Slackware distro change logs, at least.
Pretty sure that you can't say the same thing about Windows...
So that makes TFA redundant as well?
"Even though we told people months ago not to use it, maybe we should still favor it. Yeah."
Clearly an unwinnable argument, that I clearly remember SCO trying to use earlier in this whole mess. Their lawyers tried to proclaim the GPL as invalid, and that argument was tossed pretty quickly.
Therefore, the GPL was tested in court, and it stood rather well.
So THAT'S where Ballmer came from... I knew it.
The down side is for those that aren't average Joe users... having to figure out what to turn off where to even get some of Microsoft's own development tools (recent versions of them, too) to install and work correctly. It basically involves turning off most of what M$ put into SP2.
Not to mention dissociative personality disorder.
Of course, being under the influence of an embodiment of evil for 500 years may have those effects... who knows?