And if the app were go abroad and ever passed on information to foreigners which was under government quarantine that would be espionage. They would need to be insane to provide that app outside the United States under almost any circumstance.
Seriously? The application that was banned was relaying information from the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The source data is ALREADY coming from outside the United States.
Square seems to be going for the paypal market - being a middle-man between the credit card companies and the merchants.
Just like with paypal, I cannoth fathom why the credit card companies would allow this to go on without offering a similar service themselves, and I also cannot understand how it could possibly be anything but more expensive per transaction for the merchant.
The difference is that Square is actually a Merchant Service Provider, for all intents and purposes, they ARE the credit card company. Paypal is more like an escrow service. I own a small business and have a merchant service account through a decent provider, the rates are pretty good and the money shows up in my bank pretty quickly. After reviewing services like Square and Intuit's GoPayment I realized that once I factor in the monthly fee I'm currently paying my provider, any fees associated with my POS terminal as well as yearly compliance fees I can get a MUCH better rate by using Square or GoPayment (I decided to go with GoPayment because of the integration with QuickBooks).
Aren't the examiners ever reviewed? There's nothing inherently novel in doing things on a wireless device that's already being done on a Piece of Paper.
If Verizon doesn't adhere to neutrality then simply revoke their common carrier status. I'm sure the FCC has the authority to do that and it will wake Verizon up REALLY fast when they ARE being held liable and accountable for everything that goes through their network.
Have you guys even READ any Asimov? This is the story line for 'The Evitable Conflict' and also the movie 'I, Robot'. The laws are misinterpreted to mean mankind or humanity instead of the individual person, so limited harm could be inflicted on the individual to prevent harming humanity as a whole.
Even the posts below either didn't read the very first sentence in my post or they aren't familiar with the I, Robot stories.
As in I, Robot. The robot was able to differentiate between the well being of the one against the well being of the many and caused harm to the one.
Similarly, our 'robots' harm the one (the owner) for the benefit of the many (the corporate overlords and the minions that thrive off the aggregated data supplied to them by our little robots).
Almost every karaoke machine I've ever seen, the music is NOT the original artists recording. Why then are the original recording artists entitled to a per performance fee. I would think that the mechanicals have been paid when the karaoke company licensed the song to be included in whatever package they purchased.
Also, in the states, bars are already required to pay fees for music performed in the venue which includes karaoke.
When a book is available in paperback, why should I be expected to pay hardcover prices for the ebook. That's what I was referring to and if the paperback actually IS available then you SHOULD make the comparison between the two.
Forget about comparing the price of hard cover books to ebooks, try comparing the cost of paperback books to ebooks. In almost EVERY case the ebook will cost more than the paperback book, that is just absurd.
Very good explanation, on Rt 84 they have those white boxes over the road right before the weigh station. When the weigh station is open there are usually one or two state police vehicles hovering around.
You aren't going to get any serious life span from ink jet printers. I guess the top notch is pigment based but that comes at a cost. I've had pretty good luck with Wal-Mart and Costco photo printing provided the printers are maintained properly although I have no idea on the longevity of the images.
I do have a Canon Selphy photo printer to print one offs and hang tags Arts & Crafts projects, the tags we printed 7-8 years ago still look pretty good. Canon boasts a life span of close to 100 years for the Selphy printers but I'm a bit skeptical about that claim. One thing I really like about the Canon printer is it takes different size cartridges to print anything from a wallet size to post card and 4X6 although the cost per print is between 60 cents to a dollar, much more that what you will pay to get your images printed in bulk.
iTunes is just as bloated and doggy on a Mac as it is on Windows.
I'm also not sure that iCloud 'iTunes Match' is 100% ready for prime time yet. I'm still hearing about issues where only a small percentage of songs are matched or worse, the wrong song is matched in the cloud. My biggest problem with iTunes Match is that once my songs are on iCloud I need to download them to my phone to listen to them and the last time I checked you could only download at most one album at a time. I still like the option of physically copying my music to my iDevice so I know the music is there for when I want to listen to it.
This doesn't make sense. If Xfinity traffic stays on the Comcast internal network then there is still bandwidth utilization between their internal servers and your device. Additionally, once the packet from Netflix routes into the Comcast network it's no different than the Xfinity traffic.
CT has consumer protection laws that require retailers accept returns made with a valid receipt, even if they have been notified by the retailer that they have passed the return limit.
$60 games with no resale means i buy one or two awesome games per year
Seems that that many manufacturers and game studios fail to grasp this concept. Many buyers of new titles only pay top dollar for the game because of the resale value. I'm sure that no secondary market will hurt the sales of new games, the game studios will of course claim the decline in numbers is due to piracy.
In the case of the this story, the sales tax would apply to people that live in CT and buy something online from a vendor that does not have a physical presence in CT and currently pay no income tax. This is troublesome on many levels, the first being that why does the state of CT have the authority to force an entity in a different state to collect sales tax payable to CT (not to mention that in order to collect CT sales tax the vendor would have to have a CT sales tax permit that currently costs $100). Is every vendor in the entire country supposed to just up and order a CT sales tax permit? That is just absurd.
Now what happens when other states implement the same thing? Is every vendor expected to have a sales tax permit for every state in the country that collects sales tax? There are quite a few states that have different tax rates depending on where you live (or rather based on where the vendor is located). So, once you alter the methodology from vendor location to consumer location the whole concept breaks down pretty quickly.
But, what really bothers me is that the state of CT ALREADY has a system in place to collect sales tax for citizens of CT. The CT sales and use tax includes a use section, which means that if you buy something and the cost did not include CT sales tax then you are responsible for paying the use tax (which is identical to the sales tax percentage) when you file your state tax return. Wouldn't it be easier to enforce this than to try to go after venders located in states that CT could have ZERO jurisdiction over?
Ironically, they're going to be investigated because they're supposedly trying to offset the traffic load from heavy consuming adds to the developers instead of the customers.
No, they are NOT trying to offset the traffic load. They are trying to get content providers to pay for data usage, the traffic load isn't going to change and in fact may actually increase. If I'm using say 2GB/month and suddenly x number of content providers are being charged for 1/2 of my data usage then my usage drops to 1GB/month. I'm not going to be so concerned about going over my data limit and possibly use more data, say up to 1.5GB/month. NOW, my usage is ACTUALLY 2.5GB/month.
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10% isn't enough of an increase to leave a job you KNOW you like for one that you MIGHT like.
Couldn't you just put the device in the Airplane mode? No internet access, no ads (unless the ads are cached).
And if the app were go abroad and ever passed on information to foreigners which was under government quarantine that would be espionage. They would need to be insane to provide that app outside the United States under almost any circumstance.
Seriously? The application that was banned was relaying information from the U.K.'s Bureau of Investigative Journalism. The source data is ALREADY coming from outside the United States.
It happened a long time ago. No one had anything to do with it.
It's in Tennessee, God put it there.
Square seems to be going for the paypal market - being a middle-man between the credit card companies and the merchants.
Just like with paypal, I cannoth fathom why the credit card companies would allow this to go on without offering a similar service themselves, and I also cannot understand how it could possibly be anything but more expensive per transaction for the merchant.
The difference is that Square is actually a Merchant Service Provider, for all intents and purposes, they ARE the credit card company. Paypal is more like an escrow service. I own a small business and have a merchant service account through a decent provider, the rates are pretty good and the money shows up in my bank pretty quickly. After reviewing services like Square and Intuit's GoPayment I realized that once I factor in the monthly fee I'm currently paying my provider, any fees associated with my POS terminal as well as yearly compliance fees I can get a MUCH better rate by using Square or GoPayment (I decided to go with GoPayment because of the integration with QuickBooks).
Aren't the examiners ever reviewed? There's nothing inherently novel in doing things on a wireless device that's already being done on a Piece of Paper.
Fixed that for you >br />
That's why dangling participles should be avoided, the antecedent is ambiguous.
If Verizon doesn't adhere to neutrality then simply revoke their common carrier status. I'm sure the FCC has the authority to do that and it will wake Verizon up REALLY fast when they ARE being held liable and accountable for everything that goes through their network.
Wow, Troll?
Have you guys even READ any Asimov? This is the story line for 'The Evitable Conflict' and also the movie 'I, Robot'. The laws are misinterpreted to mean mankind or humanity instead of the individual person, so limited harm could be inflicted on the individual to prevent harming humanity as a whole.
Even the posts below either didn't read the very first sentence in my post or they aren't familiar with the I, Robot stories.
As in I, Robot. The robot was able to differentiate between the well being of the one against the well being of the many and caused harm to the one.
Similarly, our 'robots' harm the one (the owner) for the benefit of the many (the corporate overlords and the minions that thrive off the aggregated data supplied to them by our little robots).
I don't know where you live, but in the US, non-group insurances plans ARE move expensive for people who smoke.
The proposed tax is comparable to the US Government taxing Ford for all of their cars on interstate highways.
Almost every karaoke machine I've ever seen, the music is NOT the original artists recording. Why then are the original recording artists entitled to a per performance fee. I would think that the mechanicals have been paid when the karaoke company licensed the song to be included in whatever package they purchased.
Also, in the states, bars are already required to pay fees for music performed in the venue which includes karaoke.
Yes but that was for an actual contract. Not sure if an EULA is a valid contract...
When a book is available in paperback, why should I be expected to pay hardcover prices for the ebook. That's what I was referring to and if the paperback actually IS available then you SHOULD make the comparison between the two.
Forget about comparing the price of hard cover books to ebooks, try comparing the cost of paperback books to ebooks. In almost EVERY case the ebook will cost more than the paperback book, that is just absurd.
Very good explanation, on Rt 84 they have those white boxes over the road right before the weigh station. When the weigh station is open there are usually one or two state police vehicles hovering around.
You aren't going to get any serious life span from ink jet printers. I guess the top notch is pigment based but that comes at a cost. I've had pretty good luck with Wal-Mart and Costco photo printing provided the printers are maintained properly although I have no idea on the longevity of the images.
I do have a Canon Selphy photo printer to print one offs and hang tags Arts & Crafts projects, the tags we printed 7-8 years ago still look pretty good. Canon boasts a life span of close to 100 years for the Selphy printers but I'm a bit skeptical about that claim. One thing I really like about the Canon printer is it takes different size cartridges to print anything from a wallet size to post card and 4X6 although the cost per print is between 60 cents to a dollar, much more that what you will pay to get your images printed in bulk.
I would be surprised if most of those ~30 million users Instagram claims to have aren't already using Facebook to share their photos.
iTunes is just as bloated and doggy on a Mac as it is on Windows.
I'm also not sure that iCloud 'iTunes Match' is 100% ready for prime time yet. I'm still hearing about issues where only a small percentage of songs are matched or worse, the wrong song is matched in the cloud. My biggest problem with iTunes Match is that once my songs are on iCloud I need to download them to my phone to listen to them and the last time I checked you could only download at most one album at a time. I still like the option of physically copying my music to my iDevice so I know the music is there for when I want to listen to it.
This doesn't make sense. If Xfinity traffic stays on the Comcast internal network then there is still bandwidth utilization between their internal servers and your device. Additionally, once the packet from Netflix routes into the Comcast network it's no different than the Xfinity traffic.
CT has consumer protection laws that require retailers accept returns made with a valid receipt, even if they have been notified by the retailer that they have passed the return limit.
$60 games with no resale means i buy one or two awesome games per year
Seems that that many manufacturers and game studios fail to grasp this concept. Many buyers of new titles only pay top dollar for the game because of the resale value. I'm sure that no secondary market will hurt the sales of new games, the game studios will of course claim the decline in numbers is due to piracy.
In the case of the this story, the sales tax would apply to people that live in CT and buy something online from a vendor that does not have a physical presence in CT and currently pay no income tax. This is troublesome on many levels, the first being that why does the state of CT have the authority to force an entity in a different state to collect sales tax payable to CT (not to mention that in order to collect CT sales tax the vendor would have to have a CT sales tax permit that currently costs $100). Is every vendor in the entire country supposed to just up and order a CT sales tax permit? That is just absurd.
Now what happens when other states implement the same thing? Is every vendor expected to have a sales tax permit for every state in the country that collects sales tax? There are quite a few states that have different tax rates depending on where you live (or rather based on where the vendor is located). So, once you alter the methodology from vendor location to consumer location the whole concept breaks down pretty quickly.
But, what really bothers me is that the state of CT ALREADY has a system in place to collect sales tax for citizens of CT. The CT sales and use tax includes a use section, which means that if you buy something and the cost did not include CT sales tax then you are responsible for paying the use tax (which is identical to the sales tax percentage) when you file your state tax return. Wouldn't it be easier to enforce this than to try to go after venders located in states that CT could have ZERO jurisdiction over?
Ironically, they're going to be investigated because they're supposedly trying to offset the traffic load from heavy consuming adds to the developers instead of the customers.
No, they are NOT trying to offset the traffic load. They are trying to get content providers to pay for data usage, the traffic load isn't going to change and in fact may actually increase. If I'm using say 2GB/month and suddenly x number of content providers are being charged for 1/2 of my data usage then my usage drops to 1GB/month. I'm not going to be so concerned about going over my data limit and possibly use more data, say up to 1.5GB/month. NOW, my usage is ACTUALLY 2.5GB/month.