...if they don't want to be forced into being common carriers, they'd damn well better act responsibly.
Forced into being common carriers? They're fighting tooth and nail to keep their common carrier status. By any chance did you mean "...want to have their common carrier status removed..." because that way, it makes sense and fits with the rest of your comment. Just asking...
News flash: just because something is new doesn't mean it's better. If it did, we wouldn't be seeing all those articles about problems with Windows iCandy. There are things flash is good for, such as videos. However, using flash to serve a static image is an abuse of both the format and the viewer. This means you, Ellen DeGeneris, Garfield, Calvin, Foxtrot. All of you are abusing your viewers by providing static content via flash. STOP IT!
It wasn't new then. I've heard episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly, and there was one character who's only reason for showing up was to turn the conversation into a commercial for Johnson's Wax. Sometimes Molly would "try" to keep him from changing the subject, or make a joke out of it, but he'd always get his commercial in. I'm sure that wasn't the only show doing it, but it's the only one I've heard.
I don't know. I have no idea if you're capable of asking her out. However, I seriously doubt that any AC would meet her standards, or that you're old enough to interest her. (Hint, here: I'm a 'Nam vet and she's my older sister.)
The aforementionned person new to linux will get Ubuntu.
I've been using Fedora along with Windows for a number of years now. My sister has an older machine (800mhz) and Win2K was getting slower and slower, even with all the firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware stuph. In fact, it was the anti-virus that was slowing it down more than anything else; the daily scans took forever and made it almost unresponsive. Then, she tried a Live CD of Ubuntu. In less than 15 minutes she knew it was for her. The next morning, she installed it. The first time it rebooted, it let her know she needed proprietary drivers for her nVidia Geoforce video card and got them. It's now her main OS, and Win2K is the Dark Side to her. I'm happy with Fedora, and will be moving from 8 to 9 when the time comes, but I'd never have suggested it to her. Fedora's a geeky, bleeding edge test bed of a distro, and all she wants or needs is something that Just Works. That's why there are so many Linux distros: different people need and/or want different things, and no matter what you want in the way of Linux, there's at least one distro that's right for you.
Why is there a debate? Simple: it's because there are some small-minded, lazy webmonkeys out there who aren't willing to put themselves out a little to make it easier for blind people to use their sites. They don't care that they're driving away business because they don't see it happening. After all, it's not a matter of former customers leaving or revenue dropping, it's people who would have been customers if they could have.
I have a partial hearing loss, and use closed captioning on TV. It's amazing to see how many commercials have no visual cues to the product, only what an announcer says to tell you. Not only that, a surprising percentage of those aren't captioned, so that if you can't hear, you'll never know what the commercial was about. (Try watching commercials with the sound muted, and you'll get an idea of what I'm talking about.) They don't know it, but they're driving away business, and these foolish web designers are doing exactly the same thing.
Oh, I don't know, she seems to have gotten rid of her bad luck after those three incidents. The QE2 didn't have any trouble while she was on it, did it?
If you don't want to imply that people are breaking the law, don't misuse the terminology. "Tax evasion" has a very specific meaning; what you should have said is "tax avoidance," which means using legal means to lower your tax liability.
Interesting enough, I've heard that back in the '20s a man was charged with tax evasion for doing exactly that and it went all the way to the Supreme Court. The final ruling boiled down to six words: "Tax avoidance is not tax evasion."
IIRC, Larry and Jerry used the correct spelling of the words in the book. Alas, I don't have a copy handy. I suppose, however, I could just ask them next time I see them.
The only real negative effect for internet businesses is that they've been evading sales tax for years...
No, they haven't. Tax evasion is what happens when you fail to pay your taxes, or use phony deductions to lower your taxes. Internet businesses haven't been paying sales taxes to other states in the past because the law said that they didn't have to. If this law goes through, that will change until and unless the courts say the law is unconstitutional.
That's even more true about the Italians. Some of their equipment was very well designed, especially their planes. Alas, they were designed to be built one at a time by craftsmen not on an assembly line by semi-skilled workmen, so they never had enough of them to make a difference.
I used to have a memoir written by a stewardess, Violet Jessup, who not only survived the Titanic, she was also working on the Britanic when it went down. She kept working as a stewerdess right up into the mid '50s, without further problems. It's the only known account of the Titanic written by a crew member that wasn't an officer.
Some of you may remember an incident from the historical account where an officer orders a stewardess onto a boat because even though she's just a crew member not a passenger, she's a woman and "women and children first." That was Violet.
If I'd been working for a company like that, I'd have waited until I went home and emailed from there. As it was, I've no reason to think there was any systematic snooping going on, it was just the corporate culture I mentioned above that made me want to be cautious. I didn't expect any packet sniffing, but snooping around the mail spool wouldn't have surprised me one bit.
I worked at one place where I was pretty sure that one of their standard practices was pointless. (Not bad, just useless.) I emailed a question about it to a friend with more specialized knowledge, but because I was doing it from work, I used my gmail account. Nothing on that subject when through the company's mail servers. Not that they were snooping, but they certainly could have if they'd wanted to, and it was the type of place where I'd expect it. (A corporate culture of micro-management and second-guessing tends to make me expect things like that.)
US law says exactly the same thing. They can't send you unsolicited merchandise and then charge you for it, and you don't have to return it if you didn't ask for it. It's yours, and you can do whatever you want with it. Whoever came up with this case should be disbarred for incompetence.
e. Because the IP address is in Massachusetts, the investigation has crossed into these borders. Because they have been submitted to courts, it is proof of investigation.
OK, there's something here that looks wrong. Let's say I'm a PI in (at random) Ohio, with a license there, but not in Massachusetts. Sitting in my office, I do a traceroute on an IP and it ends in Boston. How does that lead you to say that I was investigating there? You certainly wouldn't say that if I called somebody in Boston on my phone, or emailed them, would you? How is a traceroute different?
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It might be better if they'd named these sites "boojums," because any packet that reaches one "will softly and silently vanish away and never be seen again."
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Forced into being common carriers? They're fighting tooth and nail to keep their common carrier status. By any chance did you mean "...want to have their common carrier status removed..." because that way, it makes sense and fits with the rest of your comment. Just asking...
No. Dilbert is still Dilbert. Scott Adams is now a PHB.
Who cares if it's in black and white or color? It's not in color in most of the dead-tree versions, so why care about it on the web?
News flash: just because something is new doesn't mean it's better. If it did, we wouldn't be seeing all those articles about problems with Windows iCandy. There are things flash is good for, such as videos. However, using flash to serve a static image is an abuse of both the format and the viewer. This means you, Ellen DeGeneris, Garfield, Calvin, Foxtrot. All of you are abusing your viewers by providing static content via flash. STOP IT!
OK, to continue down this tangent, why did the audience always break up when Beulah came on?
It wasn't new then. I've heard episodes of Fibber McGee and Molly, and there was one character who's only reason for showing up was to turn the conversation into a commercial for Johnson's Wax. Sometimes Molly would "try" to keep him from changing the subject, or make a joke out of it, but he'd always get his commercial in. I'm sure that wasn't the only show doing it, but it's the only one I've heard.
I don't know. I have no idea if you're capable of asking her out. However, I seriously doubt that any AC would meet her standards, or that you're old enough to interest her. (Hint, here: I'm a 'Nam vet and she's my older sister.)
I've been using Fedora along with Windows for a number of years now. My sister has an older machine (800mhz) and Win2K was getting slower and slower, even with all the firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware stuph. In fact, it was the anti-virus that was slowing it down more than anything else; the daily scans took forever and made it almost unresponsive. Then, she tried a Live CD of Ubuntu. In less than 15 minutes she knew it was for her. The next morning, she installed it. The first time it rebooted, it let her know she needed proprietary drivers for her nVidia Geoforce video card and got them. It's now her main OS, and Win2K is the Dark Side to her. I'm happy with Fedora, and will be moving from 8 to 9 when the time comes, but I'd never have suggested it to her. Fedora's a geeky, bleeding edge test bed of a distro, and all she wants or needs is something that Just Works. That's why there are so many Linux distros: different people need and/or want different things, and no matter what you want in the way of Linux, there's at least one distro that's right for you.
I have a partial hearing loss, and use closed captioning on TV. It's amazing to see how many commercials have no visual cues to the product, only what an announcer says to tell you. Not only that, a surprising percentage of those aren't captioned, so that if you can't hear, you'll never know what the commercial was about. (Try watching commercials with the sound muted, and you'll get an idea of what I'm talking about.) They don't know it, but they're driving away business, and these foolish web designers are doing exactly the same thing.
Oh, I don't know, she seems to have gotten rid of her bad luck after those three incidents. The QE2 didn't have any trouble while she was on it, did it?
Interesting enough, I've heard that back in the '20s a man was charged with tax evasion for doing exactly that and it went all the way to the Supreme Court. The final ruling boiled down to six words: "Tax avoidance is not tax evasion."
IIRC, Larry and Jerry used the correct spelling of the words in the book. Alas, I don't have a copy handy. I suppose, however, I could just ask them next time I see them.
I'm sure they have. However, the ones who haven't aren't all committing tax evasion as the OP claimed and that was my point.
Well, one thing for sure: if it does, Hot Fudge Sunday lands on a Friday instead of Tuesday.
No, they haven't. Tax evasion is what happens when you fail to pay your taxes, or use phony deductions to lower your taxes. Internet businesses haven't been paying sales taxes to other states in the past because the law said that they didn't have to. If this law goes through, that will change until and unless the courts say the law is unconstitutional.
That's even more true about the Italians. Some of their equipment was very well designed, especially their planes. Alas, they were designed to be built one at a time by craftsmen not on an assembly line by semi-skilled workmen, so they never had enough of them to make a difference.
Some of you may remember an incident from the historical account where an officer orders a stewardess onto a boat because even though she's just a crew member not a passenger, she's a woman and "women and children first." That was Violet.
If I'd been working for a company like that, I'd have waited until I went home and emailed from there. As it was, I've no reason to think there was any systematic snooping going on, it was just the corporate culture I mentioned above that made me want to be cautious. I didn't expect any packet sniffing, but snooping around the mail spool wouldn't have surprised me one bit.
I worked at one place where I was pretty sure that one of their standard practices was pointless. (Not bad, just useless.) I emailed a question about it to a friend with more specialized knowledge, but because I was doing it from work, I used my gmail account. Nothing on that subject when through the company's mail servers. Not that they were snooping, but they certainly could have if they'd wanted to, and it was the type of place where I'd expect it. (A corporate culture of micro-management and second-guessing tends to make me expect things like that.)
Think of a Beowolf cluster of old memes, naked and covered with hot grits!
US law says exactly the same thing. They can't send you unsolicited merchandise and then charge you for it, and you don't have to return it if you didn't ask for it. It's yours, and you can do whatever you want with it. Whoever came up with this case should be disbarred for incompetence.
OK, there's something here that looks wrong. Let's say I'm a PI in (at random) Ohio, with a license there, but not in Massachusetts. Sitting in my office, I do a traceroute on an IP and it ends in Boston. How does that lead you to say that I was investigating there? You certainly wouldn't say that if I called somebody in Boston on my phone, or emailed them, would you? How is a traceroute different?
It might be better if they'd named these sites "boojums," because any packet that reaches one "will softly and silently vanish away and never be seen again."
What Unix really needs is some sort of filter named haggis, so that all good geeks can pipe in the haggis.
No, it didn't, and all the quibbling in the world won't make it so.