ROTFLMAO! Boot13 ummm wow how long have you worked for Diebold? Who happens to make both ATM and Voting machines and who has gotten quite a lot of press over how bad their voting devices are...
tells them that you watch what you watch. It shouldnt be too hard to figure out that your kid is the one watching Barney unless youre some perv into plushies.
...how difficult this are of law can be. IANAL but I speak with one routinely who teaches and lectures on fair housing. I can tell you this, its a minefield. While it would be nice to be able to communicate exactly what you want in a roommate, facts about the housing etc you cant always do that. Your best bet is to place a generic ad and do all your filtering in your head. If you for example are a person who doesn't want a particular type of roommate, don't advertise the fact, interview whomever you want and make your decision then. For example if you has a phobia of people with red hair like Bozo the clown don't put an ad out that says so, interview all comers and if 2 or 3 have Bozo hair and upset you simply don't rent to them.
Uhhh yes you do want them to collect tax money for service rendered. And in this case the money was collected for the service rendered. After I buy a map at a service station I can pass it around to as many people as I want at no cost to the gas station. Same is true here, sharing the public data(that your tax dollars already paid to accumulate) costs the tax office nothing.
Now if the lady in question is a record keeper and 90% of her job is dispensing records then perhaps she is more worried about losing her job due to lack of work than she is worried about the office getting paid for distribution of the free(as in your tax dollars previously paid for it as I mentioned) data they have. Ideally once the data is collected it should be provided online for free at taxpayer expense which should cost pennies per tax payer.
If the data is public record they need to provide it to the public when asked.
If the public demands a hard copy then the tax office has a right to be compensated for the costs involved in covering the overhead of providing that particular copy.
If that particular copy is then distributed free of charge by the purchaser of the copy the tax office deserves nothing as the documents distribution cost it nothing.
Actually the people of the US and the Constitution are protected by the military. The people of the US by virtue of the power of the second amendment also protect the constitution from the government when needed. If you doubt that read what Thomas Jefferson has to say about overthrowing the government sometime ;)
Bought a Garmin c330 in april/may, new maps are out now, and in order to get them I will have to pay 30% of what I originally paid for the unit in order to partially update my unit. Cant fully update it because they cut the corners on the design so much that it doesnt have enough memory to handle the new maps so you can only load part of the updated map at a time. So lets see $249 for unit and now $70 more for maps, yeah not really worth it....
...its not that they are shaping traffic, maybe their network just sucks that bad. Hmm sounds like an aggressive advertising boomtown for the competition.
"So call now and sign up for {insert service name here}. Because at least with us, if we throttle your service you will know why, not sit there wondering.. Are they throttling or do they just suck?"
This is a horrid precedent, first we have retail stores forcing you to use 'savings cards' so they can track your purchases. And trust me, they definitely do I know someone who worked on a major chains DB. The penalty for not using the card is astronomically higher prices. In some cases 3X higher than normal retail. Now this, must have credit card in order buy, I'm sorry but this should flat out be illegal.
And here is why. I did this for my in-laws who kept constantly changing dialup providers, since I own a few domains I setup X@mydomain.com addresses for them to forward to their ISP DuJour. Worked fine until recently when AT&T took over bellsouth. All of the sudden emails we beign bounced back to my server, come to find out AT&T has implemented HARSH spam policies. Basically you can check my thread on DSLReports ( http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r19057010-Bellsouth-blocking-my-legit-email-server ) for details but they told me that the amount of spam being forwarded to the in-laws @bellsouth accounts was too high and unless I started to filter them in my email server they would continue to automatically throw me on their blocked server list.
Now mind you I wasnt running an open relay, these are their legitimate emails that AT&T is somehow determining are spam. They are saying as high as 90+% of the email being forwarded was spam. My in-laws got on average 100 emails a day. Big deal. I think man in the middle email filtering is akin to Cliff Claven the postal carrier throwing out all bulk postage email because it could be junk mail, not always an accurate thing, and most spam filtering is subject to the same possible errors.
So if email portability happened all the isp's would likely go the way of AT&T and just blockade servers that forwarded 'ported' email accounts that had a high spam ratio(still dont know what AT&T does to monitor the spammyness of an email).
As the guys in the Guiness commercials would say..
....Brilliant!
Get a small nibble from a small company and then take on the death star errr I mean AT&T. I am afraid they have bitten off more than they can chew.
Question is, will the big bells be willing to try to get the patent thrown out using the obviousness ruling that was recently made and suffer the consequences themselves? Hmmmmm......
Check out prjects like Dshield or My Net Watchman, completely automated systems that watch for attacks and notify their ISP or owner of the attacking ISP. I have been a member of both and the sheer lack of response is repulsive. If my firewall detects 26,000 attempted varying ID's and passwords from an IP address then the blasted ISP should do something about it, but they DONT.
The whole reason the justice dept is commenting is
They want to allow providers to put a BOX in the middle between you and the destination and that BOX can bandwidht shape and it also servers as a jumping off point for data monitoring.
...who was part of an advertising campaign last election that said if a republican was elected to one office or another in the city that it would signal a return to the days of using dogs and hoses on folks.. Yeah she is a great person. We should listen to her more often.. NOT.
Listen, READ, don't SKIM, they are talking a promotional CD, you CANNOT buy, purchase, lease etc a promotional CD legally because its record label property. Typically a promotion CD comes in a sleeve that announces its promotional material and that the label (universal, sony whomever) is merely letting you (the record store, radio station whomever) use it and that if at any time they want it back you must return it. It is common practice for promotional CD's because they may have special cuts on them that may not appear on the albums. These items are not paid for by the original recipient so no transaction or contract closure has taken place so who knows the license may be relevant.
Sooner or later the morons at the studios will simply start keying these CD's to individual recipients. Once they find a CD in the wild and match it to where it originated from they will cut that company off from promo materials forever. A costly mistake.
There is no way, this goes right along with the Communications Decency Act (as far as it being STUPID) and I will fight it tooth and nail. The same thing I said about the CDA in 1995/96 applies;
"Now some of you are saying "What of the Children??" I say..What happened to their parents? I'm not their child's parent so why should I be striped of my rights to hold an adult discussion because someone's parent refuses to supervise them online? Now some of you are saying "You cant watch a child 24 hours a day!". Passwords are meant to keep people out, you the parent can inconvenience yourself on my behalf and that of the other citizens of the net who want their freedom back. Many probably think "The Internet should be for everyone!!" and you know you're right! I agree wholeheartedly! Its the worlds best place for education and research! BUT remember Central Park in New York city is for everyone too, would you let you children wander there alone? How about Compton California? A swamp in a national park?
YOU took on an awesome responsibility by bringing life into this world, not I. If you cannot handle this responsibility then get help, but don't you come into cyberspace and try to impose your reality here..Its a whole new world...Its Glorious, its beautiful, its fun, but beware, for there are monsters that lurk in the dark."
I still stand by that and now I am the father of a 5yr old girl. Do not hide from knowledge.
On the post: California Reviews... And Decertifies... More ES&S E-Voting Machines
Re: Are Automated Teller Machines secure?
On the post: Seagate: If Flash Drives Get Too Cheap, We'll Use Patents To Make Them Expensive
Screw you segate
On the post: Comcast Tests DVR That Watches You... Literally
Well your DVR already
On the post: Once Again, Craigslist Isn't Liable For Discriminatory Posts
What some of you dont realize is...
On the post: West Virginia Tax Official Tries To Stop Website From Posting Public Tax Maps
Re:
Now if the lady in question is a record keeper and 90% of her job is dispensing records then perhaps she is more worried about losing her job due to lack of work than she is worried about the office getting paid for distribution of the free(as in your tax dollars previously paid for it as I mentioned) data they have. Ideally once the data is collected it should be provided online for free at taxpayer expense which should cost pennies per tax payer.
If the data is public record they need to provide it to the public when asked.
If the public demands a hard copy then the tax office has a right to be compensated for the costs involved in covering the overhead of providing that particular copy.
If that particular copy is then distributed free of charge by the purchaser of the copy the tax office deserves nothing as the documents distribution cost it nothing.
On the post: Your Encryption Key Is Protected By The Constitution?
Re: Protection of constitution
On the post: Did Microsoft Focus Too Much On Security In Vista?
Oh crud dont say that
Ballmer: "Thats right, we released a more secure OS and look, the number of zombie spam bots dropped and so did the spam. Lets see linux do that.."
On the post: Garmin, TomTom Settle One Fight, In Order To Concentrate On A Different Fight
Bunch crooks if you ask me anyway...
On the post: Comcast Sued For Traffic Shaping
Maybe....
"So call now and sign up for {insert service name here}. Because at least with us, if we throttle your service you will know why, not sit there wondering.. Are they throttling or do they just suck?"
On the post: Apple Doesn't Want Your Cash (Credit Only, Please)
Screw Apple and Steve Jobs
On the post: Judge Orders Software Firm To Stop Selling Software For Beating Ticketmaster's Ticket Queue
Re:
On the post: Don't Post This Cease-and-Desist Letter, Or Else
Re: Disbar them...
So already you have to enter into more mucky muck.
On the post: Should There Be Mandatory Email Address Portability?
Will NEVER happen..
Now mind you I wasnt running an open relay, these are their legitimate emails that AT&T is somehow determining are spam. They are saying as high as 90+% of the email being forwarded was spam. My in-laws got on average 100 emails a day. Big deal. I think man in the middle email filtering is akin to Cliff Claven the postal carrier throwing out all bulk postage email because it could be junk mail, not always an accurate thing, and most spam filtering is subject to the same possible errors.
So if email portability happened all the isp's would likely go the way of AT&T and just blockade servers that forwarded 'ported' email accounts that had a high spam ratio(still dont know what AT&T does to monitor the spammyness of an email).
On the post: NTP's Back, And It's Brought More Lawsuits
As the guys in the Guiness commercials would say..
Get a small nibble from a small company and then take on the death star errr I mean AT&T. I am afraid they have bitten off more than they can chew.
Question is, will the big bells be willing to try to get the patent thrown out using the obviousness ruling that was recently made and suffer the consequences themselves? Hmmmmm......
On the post: Do ISPs Ignore Security Researchers Who Point Out Zombied Machines?
Hell yes they ignore it
On the post: Why Is The Justice Department Commenting On Net Neutrality?
The whole reason the justice dept is commenting is
Simple....
On the post: Patent Hoarding Firm Sues Google, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL, IAC & Borders For Automating Email Responses
Re: patents are about claims, not titles
Prior art relevant to the claims;
(a) receiving an electronic message;
See any patent dealing with a packet which is simply a message
(b) intrepreting
Uhh fella how do you think that electronic data winds up in your inbox? And rejection emssage ggo out for no existant addressees ?
(c) See (b)
This patent is bull$#@% Nothing to see here move along.
On the post: Atlanta Mayor Blames Craigslist For Child Prostitution
This from the mayor...
http://politicalvine.com/outrage/BroandSistaGrimm.mp3
On the post: Who Really Owns Promotional CDs?
Ok folks pay attention.
Sooner or later the morons at the studios will simply start keying these CD's to individual recipients. Once they find a CD in the wild and match it to where it originated from they will cut that company off from promo materials forever. A costly mistake.
On the post: Senate Proposes Giving The FCC Authority To Regulate Internet Content... For The Children
No Effing Way
"Now some of you are saying "What of the Children??" I say..What happened to their parents? I'm not their child's parent so why should I be striped of my rights to hold an adult discussion because someone's parent refuses to supervise them online? Now some of you are saying "You cant watch a child 24 hours a day!". Passwords are meant to keep people out, you the parent can inconvenience yourself on my behalf and that of the other citizens of the net who want their freedom back. Many probably think "The Internet should be for everyone!!" and you know you're right! I agree wholeheartedly! Its the worlds best place for education and research! BUT remember Central Park in New York city is for everyone too, would you let you children wander there alone? How about Compton California? A swamp in a national park?
YOU took on an awesome responsibility by bringing life into this world, not I. If you cannot handle this responsibility then get help, but don't you come into cyberspace and try to impose your reality here..Its a whole new world...Its Glorious, its beautiful, its fun, but beware, for there are monsters that lurk in the dark."
I still stand by that and now I am the father of a 5yr old girl. Do not hide from knowledge.
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