My PC for sure has a kill switch somewhere. Now and then an odd blue screen with a funny message appears on the screen. I wonder who is operating the switch and why...
It's called a "hardware driver" it was written by a 19 year old college intern named Steve. (Steve's company was the lowest bidder...)
We employeed contract employees in 30+ states, so it was a little larger than "my jurisdiction" & "Where I live".
Yet the jurisdiction in question is still outside of your realm of stated knowledge. This again is my point.
The facts:
1) Subject in the article is required to report income to the State of New York.
2) Your statement is about Federal taxes, which is outside the scope of this subject.
My statement is that you should always state the jurisdiction in which you are referring to. In this case the jurisdiction is of the U.S. Department of Treasury's I.R.S bureau. If you choose to not include the jurisdiction you are almost certainly giving factually incorrect information.
I beleive that working as a contract employee, if you make less than $600, you do not have to report it.
You forgot to put the sentence, in my jurisdiction. The person in the story receives unemployment benefits from the State of New York. In that jurisdiction she was required to report the income according to the article (also according to the attorney of which the story is about).
Just because that is how it works where YOU live, does not mean it is the same else where.
Just to point out that if you do get charged to that PayPal/bank account, you would be responsible for all fines, fees, and actual translations.
You don't want to pay? Ok, that is fine, that is what collection agencies, fraud charges and bankruptcy is for...
Since that is the case, I fail to see why you think there is a difference between your current bank account and a new one.
As a developer, my view on this is, Palm's policy forces me to be directly financially liable. It opens up a avenue of having charges sent to me in a way that I have little ability to dispute them and very little leverage to negotiate. All this when I just want to give something away.
It sounds like you have a decent amount of experience writing software. My thought is, why are you treating this product any differently just because it is a "web" product?
A "web" program is just the same as any distributed access program. The only difference from having a Mainframe with terminals, a web server with browser access and a client/server system is the UI (user interface).
Personally I would say that the same locking system you were using before would probably work fine here. I would add either a time-out on the lock or a way of overriding that lock for when a user either walks away for the day or just hits close without saving.
1) We are talking about cable not internet service in this case.
2) Satellite availability depends on being able to have a satellite. If you rent, which more than half of the U.S. population does, you probably don't have this option.
In my area (Portland Oregon). I have one option for cable, comcast. Why is there not another cable provider in my area? Because comcast has bought them all...
What the FCC policy should be is that a service provider can not buy out another service provider if it means that the new company will have more than 30% of the market...
Set it up as a loan from the company to purchase the laptop, payable over x months. If you leave before x months, you owe the remainder, if you stay the full x months, you don't have to repay it. That way the laptop is yours, not the companies.
That then requires him to stay X months. If his boss is already going to GIVE him the money with no strings attached (presumably the boss didn't think of ownership issues when he offered to refund him for the laptop) then why would he jump up and down asking to have junk added on to his employment contract?
I don't think MOST companies require you to sign something like that. My company does not. Anything I write while on the clock is owned by the company but nothing written off the clock is. The line between personal innovation/skill and a companies IP is a very thin one, but increasingly in most jurisdictions the person has the edge.
It also sounds from the summery that he isn't under any such contract either:
We do not have a policy that intellectual property developed using company assets belongs to the company.
I will also hazard a guess that like the company I work for, the author of this question work for a company that treats him with respect. That does not demean him or act like he will screw them over. In fact I would say that they are betting that he will have the personal integrity not to do anything immoral much less illegal. In my experience that is a much better deterrent than any contract or legal wording.
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It's called a "hardware driver" it was written by a 19 year old college intern named Steve. (Steve's company was the lowest bidder...)
No, many of us typed random stuff into notepad!
*shudders in horror at the memories*
We employeed contract employees in 30+ states, so it was a little larger than "my jurisdiction" & "Where I live".
Yet the jurisdiction in question is still outside of your realm of stated knowledge. This again is my point. The facts: 1) Subject in the article is required to report income to the State of New York. 2) Your statement is about Federal taxes, which is outside the scope of this subject. My statement is that you should always state the jurisdiction in which you are referring to. In this case the jurisdiction is of the U.S. Department of Treasury's I.R.S bureau. If you choose to not include the jurisdiction you are almost certainly giving factually incorrect information.
I beleive that working as a contract employee, if you make less than $600, you do not have to report it.
You forgot to put the sentence, in my jurisdiction . The person in the story receives unemployment benefits from the State of New York. In that jurisdiction she was required to report the income according to the article (also according to the attorney of which the story is about).
Just because that is how it works where YOU live, does not mean it is the same else where.
You did it wrong. It should be, "Then you can't sell it or steal it either, man."
Just to point out that if you do get charged to that PayPal/bank account, you would be responsible for all fines, fees, and actual translations.
You don't want to pay? Ok, that is fine, that is what collection agencies, fraud charges and bankruptcy is for...
Since that is the case, I fail to see why you think there is a difference between your current bank account and a new one.
As a developer, my view on this is, Palm's policy forces me to be directly financially liable. It opens up a avenue of having charges sent to me in a way that I have little ability to dispute them and very little leverage to negotiate. All this when I just want to give something away.
It sounds like you have a decent amount of experience writing software. My thought is, why are you treating this product any differently just because it is a "web" product?
A "web" program is just the same as any distributed access program. The only difference from having a Mainframe with terminals, a web server with browser access and a client/server system is the UI (user interface).
Personally I would say that the same locking system you were using before would probably work fine here. I would add either a time-out on the lock or a way of overriding that lock for when a user either walks away for the day or just hits close without saving.
Did you really just say your version was a better choice, then talk about this strange error you can't get around? Really?
You are positing on Slashdot. That disqualifies you as from being a typical anything (except possibly sociopath), much less a typical IPod user...
1) We are talking about cable not internet service in this case.
2) Satellite availability depends on being able to have a satellite. If you rent, which more than half of the U.S. population does, you probably don't have this option.
In my area (Portland Oregon). I have one option for cable, comcast. Why is there not another cable provider in my area? Because comcast has bought them all...
What the FCC policy should be is that a service provider can not buy out another service provider if it means that the new company will have more than 30% of the market...
Set it up as a loan from the company to purchase the laptop, payable over x months. If you leave before x months, you owe the remainder, if you stay the full x months, you don't have to repay it. That way the laptop is yours, not the companies.
That then requires him to stay X months. If his boss is already going to GIVE him the money with no strings attached (presumably the boss didn't think of ownership issues when he offered to refund him for the laptop) then why would he jump up and down asking to have junk added on to his employment contract?
We do not have a policy that intellectual property developed using company assets belongs to the company.
I will also hazard a guess that like the company I work for, the author of this question work for a company that treats him with respect. That does not demean him or act like he will screw them over. In fact I would say that they are betting that he will have the personal integrity not to do anything immoral much less illegal. In my experience that is a much better deterrent than any contract or legal wording.