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I can confirm what this writer says - most of what was in F 9/11 was broadcast on Canadian TV months prior.
It wasn't a bit surprising to us - the surprise has been that Americans generally knew so little about it.
Sounds like a plan! Walmart doesn't care if you shoplift the cards as they have no value until registered. Also saves the cost of duplication.
You could simply copy the mag stripe from each card.
The only real catch is knowing when the cards are purchased and if you were to shoplift complete racks of cards, and replace them, it would be easy enough to track. Inside help would of course make it easier, but it isn't necessary.
Almost make you think you should go into business!;)
So they simply print up in duplicate, a bunch of Walmart cards, and stock the store with sequentially numbered cards. I mean what Walmart employee would notice you "adding" cards, which are non-redeemable anyway?
Then they simply do a daily inventory of the cards that have been purchased, email their co-conspirator in another state and use their duplicate card to redeem the card. Voila!
It doesn't seem that difficult - mind you, the simplest explanation is an inside job.
I've had no problem with Internet banking on the three bank sites I use. (RBC, CIBC and BNS - sorry, all Canadian). I'd have to think that the bank having problems with this, is behind the times and is a much smaller bank?
I also the IE icon too, and explain to users they have to go to the Control Panel and click on "Windows Update" at the left of the screen.
I've now converted 15 employees and probably a half dozen friends.
I've never experienced the sites that say you have to "upgrade" to IE, but if I did, I think I'd fall down laughing!
And you didn't send them an invoice for your hours of scurrying around, too?!
I would have... and I'd have taken them to small claims court if they didn't pay. They'd lose no matter which way it came out, because they'd be paying legal fees.
We are unfortunately losing our current part time sys admin, and are in the process of looking for someone who is familiar with Debian, Samba, Apache, mysql, along with a little php or unix scripting. He was great - experienced, thoughtful, and fortunately for our little business, inexpensive.
If you happen to be a student in need of part time work (about a day a week), and are near Burlington, Ontario, Canada, let me know!:)
I don't honestly know what 90% of the users you are referring to, but I've been slowly replacing Is on my friend's, family, and now my employees machines.
No one complains, they are all happy, functionality is similar and IE users easily adapt to it. I've only encountered one person with an issue - they used the portfolio tracking section related to the Globe & Mail didn't seem to act properly. I didn't have time to investigate so moved them back to IE temporarily.
Unlike many other open source products, I've found Firefox to be easily accepted and in fact welcomed, by 90%+ of those I try it on.
And - while many users are not aware, I'm finding a surprising number who are becoming aware of IE vulnerabilities.
For what its worth, I submitted a story with linkage to Digital Copyright Canada, and in a rarity of rarities it was actuall accepted. Presumably there should be something out soon, if I haven't missed it already.
Here is hoping that it makes a difference in this year's election!!
If I could mod you up just for your reference to the Digital Copyright Canada forum,which I didn't realise existed, I would!!
Unfortunately it seems that the political parties (other than the Green Party) aren't responding to the survey. (The half-assed non-specific Liberal response shouldn't count)
Apparently most/all of Canada's comments were completely disregarded.
I'm left to wonder if our representation is that bad (probably) or if Canada is just expected to go along with the status quo, as put forth by the US (probably).
Personally - while radical and unlikely - I'd just as soon see Canada completely withdraw from this organisation.
"Protect your independant retailers. Don't listen to drivel like the parent's post."
So, how do you feel if its Walmart - who incidentally have enough retail clout to take the point being made at their expense, and shove it back down the RIAA's throat?!
"My understanding of the music biz is that in this type of situation, the retail price of the albums that are returned will be subtracted from the artist's royalities"
Okay, so you are telling me that if an artist receives a 1% royalty on a $20 CD, which would total $0.20, they would have to deduct $20 and owe the record companies $19.80??
I can understand deducting the $0.20 royalty, as it was never a real sale, but your suggestion that the retail price of $20 would be deducted, makes no sense at all?!
I've been watching a similar Company bring a waste oil to diesel fuel concept to market here in Canada.
The current process to treat waste oil (ie. your 5,000 Km oil change) is to ship it halfway across the country in trucks, filter it, add chemicals, and sell it as refurbished motor oil. This is expensive and polluting.
Process Capital Corporation's process involves putting micro-refineries near to the sources of used oil, and converting at a much lower cost to diesel fuel. No new oil enters the system, and no oil leaves the system.
Now if we can just get governments to look at and mandate the ramping up and use of some of these technologies, in the way that California (okay, perhaps not exactly that way) started mandating certain minimum pollution standards, on cars.
"mostly due to the half-assed case presented by the CRIA"
In fact the judge ultimately held that the Copyright Act permitted the behaviour. Apparently unlike the CRIA, the judge read the Copyright Act.
The real question is whether you and other Canadians will write to your MP's to ensure that the ratification of WIPO Copyright Treaty includes a section exhausting the right to "make available" under Article 6, for any "non commercial distribution" made "after the first sale or other transfer of ownership of the original or a copy of the work with the authorization of the author".
IF not, the latest Court ruling will be nullified by new copyright legistlation, thanks to our Liberal task master, and this committee.
I absolutely agree with you. I bought it because it had a game of the year symbol. Then had second thoughts, but started playing, and it got better and better and better!
Definately one of the better games I've played, and would love to find more like that.
Actually, the longer this drags out, the more SCO spends in legal fees, and the quicker their ultimate financial demise takes place.
With SCO now fighting on multiple fronts, they are likely to run out of cash before anything but the IBM suit, gets to court. And that suit will eat them alive.
As for companies afraid to use Linux due to SCO's legal shenanigans, I haven't encountered any - have you?! That is surely the worst news for SCO to hear, as their tactic is in essence, legal terrorism.
c) not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings against that person in respect of the offence; and
(g) not to be found guilty on account of any act or omission unless, at the time of the act or omission, it constituted an offence under Canadian or international law or was criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations.
I'd be hard pressed to believe that turning over encryption keys wouldn't make me a witness to my own criminal proceeding.
I agree, the I-bead is great! After checking out a lot of other MP3 flash players, I bought an i-bead. Lots of play time, nice size, recharges directly from the USB port, has FM radio, can record conversations, and works as a usb drive. The swiss army knife of MP3 players!
I also saw mention that they are working on ogg vorbis firmware version, thought I'd wait to see if it actually comes out, if this is a feature you need.
If anyone is interested I found the best price here, and no, I am not affiliated in any way, other than to have purchased one from them.
In the past when I received invoices for services we didn't use (ie. directories) I have notified the companys that any future dubious invoicing would result in a charge of $1,500 plus collection costs. Thats stopped the invoicing cold - including calls of apology.
I'm wondering what would happen if US customers did the same - sent Gator a cease and desist letter for their company - with any future occurence costing $1,500.
While the circumstances aren't quite the same because of the EULA, I think the judge might be more sympathetic to the Company having to continually clean their systems, who has asked Gator to cease and desist, then he/she will be to Gator, whose EULA was unwittingly agreed to by an employee?
They took the words right out of my mouth - all we need is a nice front end.
The problem of course will be that if the front end become ubiquitous, Gmail will fail from an advertising point of view (unless of course their ads are based on the receipt of unencrypted spam).
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Moderators - Mod this comment up! I can confirm what this writer says - most of what was in F 9/11 was broadcast on Canadian TV months prior. It wasn't a bit surprising to us - the surprise has been that Americans generally knew so little about it.
Sounds like a plan! Walmart doesn't care if you shoplift the cards as they have no value until registered. Also saves the cost of duplication.
;)
You could simply copy the mag stripe from each card.
The only real catch is knowing when the cards are purchased and if you were to shoplift complete racks of cards, and replace them, it would be easy enough to track. Inside help would of course make it easier, but it isn't necessary.
Almost make you think you should go into business!
Lets presume its not an inside job.
So they simply print up in duplicate, a bunch of Walmart cards, and stock the store with sequentially numbered cards. I mean what Walmart employee would notice you "adding" cards, which are non-redeemable anyway?
Then they simply do a daily inventory of the cards that have been purchased, email their co-conspirator in another state and use their duplicate card to redeem the card. Voila!
It doesn't seem that difficult - mind you, the simplest explanation is an inside job.
I've had no problem with Internet banking on the three bank sites I use. (RBC, CIBC and BNS - sorry, all Canadian). I'd have to think that the bank having problems with this, is behind the times and is a much smaller bank? I also the IE icon too, and explain to users they have to go to the Control Panel and click on "Windows Update" at the left of the screen. I've now converted 15 employees and probably a half dozen friends. I've never experienced the sites that say you have to "upgrade" to IE, but if I did, I think I'd fall down laughing!
And you didn't send them an invoice for your hours of scurrying around, too?!
... and I'd have taken them to small claims court if they didn't pay. They'd lose no matter which way it came out, because they'd be paying legal fees.
I would have
We are unfortunately losing our current part time sys admin, and are in the process of looking for someone who is familiar with Debian, Samba, Apache, mysql, along with a little php or unix scripting. He was great - experienced, thoughtful, and fortunately for our little business, inexpensive.
If you happen to be a student in need of part time work (about a day a week), and are near Burlington, Ontario, Canada, let me know! :)
I don't honestly know what 90% of the users you are referring to, but I've been slowly replacing Is on my friend's, family, and now my employees machines.
No one complains, they are all happy, functionality is similar and IE users easily adapt to it. I've only encountered one person with an issue - they used the portfolio tracking section related to the Globe & Mail didn't seem to act properly. I didn't have time to investigate so moved them back to IE temporarily.
Unlike many other open source products, I've found Firefox to be easily accepted and in fact welcomed, by 90%+ of those I try it on.
And - while many users are not aware, I'm finding a surprising number who are becoming aware of IE vulnerabilities.
For what its worth, I submitted a story with linkage to Digital Copyright Canada, and in a rarity of rarities it was actuall accepted. Presumably there should be something out soon, if I haven't missed it already.
Here is hoping that it makes a difference in this year's election!!
If I could mod you up just for your reference to the Digital Copyright Canada forum ,which I didn't realise existed, I would!!
Unfortunately it seems that the political parties (other than the Green Party) aren't responding to the survey. (The half-assed non-specific Liberal response shouldn't count)
Wonder if the political parties read slashdot?
Apparently most/all of Canada's comments were completely disregarded.
I'm left to wonder if our representation is that bad (probably) or if Canada is just expected to go along with the status quo, as put forth by the US (probably).
Personally - while radical and unlikely - I'd just as soon see Canada completely withdraw from this organisation.
So, how do you feel if its Walmart - who incidentally have enough retail clout to take the point being made at their expense, and shove it back down the RIAA's throat?!
Okay, so you are telling me that if an artist receives a 1% royalty on a $20 CD, which would total $0.20, they would have to deduct $20 and owe the record companies $19.80??
I can understand deducting the $0.20 royalty, as it was never a real sale, but your suggestion that the retail price of $20 would be deducted, makes no sense at all?!
Perhaps - or perhaps they just haven't had an effective way in which to make their voices heard?
I agree - an International "take-back day" would send a wonderful protest message.
I wonder if this group might consider the idea?
Here is the Kuro5him link referred to.
Here is the Kuro5him link referred to.
I've been watching a similar Company
bring a waste oil to diesel fuel concept to market here in Canada.
The current process to treat waste oil (ie. your 5,000 Km oil change) is to ship it halfway across the country in trucks, filter it, add chemicals, and sell it as refurbished motor oil. This is expensive and polluting.
Process Capital Corporation's process involves putting micro-refineries near to the sources of used oil, and converting at a much lower cost to diesel fuel. No new oil enters the system, and no oil leaves the system.
Now if we can just get governments to look at and mandate the ramping up and use of some of these technologies, in the way that California (okay, perhaps not exactly that way) started mandating certain minimum pollution standards, on cars.
In fact the judge ultimately held that the Copyright Act permitted the behaviour. Apparently unlike the CRIA, the judge read the Copyright Act.
The real question is whether you and other Canadians will write to your MP's to ensure that the ratification of WIPO Copyright Treaty includes a section exhausting the right to "make available" under Article 6, for any "non commercial distribution" made "after the first sale or other transfer of ownership of the original or a copy of the work with the authorization of the author" .
IF not, the latest Court ruling will be nullified by new copyright legistlation, thanks to our Liberal task master, and this committee.
If you want to learn more, I highly recommend this page by Laura J. Murray.
Actually, given the discrepancy between Soundscan (who measure all sales) and the RIAA, who measure only member sales, the boycott is in fact working.
Sites like Downhill Battle, RIAA Radar and Canfli.
I absolutely agree with you. I bought it because it had a game of the year symbol. Then had second thoughts, but started playing, and it got better and better and better!
Definately one of the better games I've played, and would love to find more like that.
Actually, the longer this drags out, the more SCO spends in legal fees, and the quicker their ultimate financial demise takes place.
With SCO now fighting on multiple fronts, they are likely to run out of cash before anything but the IBM suit, gets to court. And that suit will eat them alive.
As for companies afraid to use Linux due to SCO's legal shenanigans, I haven't encountered any - have you?! That is surely the worst news for SCO to hear, as their tactic is in essence, legal terrorism.
... the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms states at Paragraph 11 that and person charged with an offense has a right to:
c) not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings against that person in respect of the offence; and
(g) not to be found guilty on account of any act or omission unless, at the time of the act or omission, it constituted an offence under Canadian or international law or was criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations.
I'd be hard pressed to believe that turning over encryption keys wouldn't make me a witness to my own criminal proceeding.
I agree, the I-bead is great! After checking out a lot of other MP3 flash players, I bought an i-bead. Lots of play time, nice size, recharges directly from the USB port, has FM radio, can record conversations, and works as a usb drive. The swiss army knife of MP3 players!
I also saw mention that they are working on ogg vorbis firmware version, thought I'd wait to see if it actually comes out, if this is a feature you need.
If anyone is interested I found the best price here, and no, I am not affiliated in any way, other than to have purchased one from them.
In the past when I received invoices for services we didn't use (ie. directories) I have notified the companys that any future dubious invoicing would result in a charge of $1,500 plus collection costs. Thats stopped the invoicing cold - including calls of apology.
I'm wondering what would happen if US customers did the same - sent Gator a cease and desist letter for their company - with any future occurence costing $1,500.
While the circumstances aren't quite the same because of the EULA, I think the judge might be more sympathetic to the Company having to continually clean their systems, who has asked Gator to cease and desist, then he/she will be to Gator, whose EULA was unwittingly agreed to by an employee?
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They took the words right out of my mouth - all we need is a nice front end.
The problem of course will be that if the front end become ubiquitous, Gmail will fail from an advertising point of view (unless of course their ads are based on the receipt of unencrypted spam).