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when Planck is involved.
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The whole point of this is that the small transactions are batch processed so there are no x number of transactions recorded by the processor. The weak link is the store and forward, not the number of transactions. Although your mileage will vary greatly. I once made the mistake of purchasing gas at the pump for one car before I stopped in the shop to pay the repair bill for another. Got sent straight to "talk to the customer service rep" because they flagged that as a sign for fraudulent activity. (A few minutes on the phone straightened it out and I never made that mistake again.) This implies my less than $20 purchase was immediately recorded by the card holder, even though it was a magnetic card swipe at a retail location.
it is trying to enforce them in its own State. Citizens of NC owe sales tax on items they buy. The catalogue decision protects the seller from being forced to collect the tax, not the citizen from having to pay the tax. Hence the Department of Revenue needs to have the list of items purchased as well as the prices paid in order to enforce the law on its own citizens. I expect the ruling will be overturned on appeal, partially because most DoR agencies are prohibited from filing criminal charges in order to ensure they collect the maximum revenue. Odd but true fact: If Al Capone had put down: Income $xx million, protection rackets on his 1040, he would never have gone to jail for tax evasion, and the 1040 couldn't be used to prosecute him in a criminal case.
is less of an issue than other factors in the environment. Only time mine is slow is when it is waiting for one of the damn Facebook.static pages to finish uploading its data to my pc. And I'm running the current standard install for FF, not the beta.
I don't know about contract laws in Blighty, but if your representation is correct, the difference from US laws would be that in Blighty you gain some rights after two years. Most permanent employment in the US is at will, mostly your employers will.
Rules will vary from State to State, hence the specific reference to Minnesota where the laws there likely is a case.
Ellsion and Jobs are both ego centric prats with "my way or the highway" attitudes. That's okay as long as there isn't a phalanx of lawyers backing both of them with seriously frelled US patent and trademark laws. Sun ran Java as a benign dictator. Now that Ellison owns it Jobs, recognizing his doppleganger across the table is cutting his losses and running.
The bard put it best near the end of one of his great plays: A pox on both [their] houses!
I play several of the games listed in the article. Not much bothered about the info sharing, I think I have a reasonably clean profile, and other than by exact birth date, nothing I want to protect there. But over the last two days I've friended some people who don't play the games, yet their names show up when I pull up the list of people who are supposed to be "neighbors" in the game. I don't think they play because when I look at their walls, there are no game entrails on the wall. Oddly enough, I think they both also have iPhones they use for FB.
An impartial jury is one which distinguishes facts from opinions and bases its decisions of facts. This requires intelligent people, and intelligent people on the whole seem to prefer to keep themselves well informed. As the process for keeping a jury impartial tends to remove precisely those people who tend to keep themselves well informed because they "might have formed prior opinions" this seems to prevent the selection of intelligent juries that can make rational decisions about law. I'd call that the bigger subversion of justice.
The situation might be different in the UK, but given the language used by the attorney and the postings I'm seeing on this board today, I doubt it.
Not sure the spam would have a debilitating affect on the inflation rate, even though it will skew the absolute price. Even the spammers would feel the effects of real inflation and adjust their prices.
The real killer for the index is the same as the killer for the CPI: The need to establish a basket of goods that reflects the actual inflation the buyer experiences. They've already admitted they don't account enough for housing. CPI suffers by excluding certain volatile goods that do influence real inflation. Yet at the same time you don't want the volatile numbers swamping the non-volatile ones.
It's a tough job figuring that stuff out, and one I'm glad I don't have to worry about too much. I just need to make sure there's enough paycheck left at the end of the half month.
And Western Union or similar cash services have records of where their payments went. So jail the mule as is his due and continue to chase the money.
I like the idea of going after MS too.
I'll add a third, which is that even though they are dummy corps, somebody is set up to process the payments, go after them, follow their money and their associations.
Chase all the money on all the angles until you get as much of it as possible. I mean, I hear governments all over the world are short on cash at the moment. The scammers seem to have plenty of it, so isn't it time to shake them down?
but there is a logical* reason for choosing the second lane from the right on multi-lane divided highways: You have less chance of getting creamed in an accident there. People in the second lane are usually camped for the long haul. People in the right lane are merging and exiting. And people in the third through sixth lanes are prone to making sudden and completely unexpected movements across the second lane, through the first lane, and off the exit ramp. Second laners have a chance at seeing this, first laners have none.
Yes, technically it is against state laws to "travel" in the second and other lanes, but Americans being practical people tend to ignore mere legislative law when the laws of physics override them.
*Okay, maybe not "logical" in the Platonic sense of being able to use pure thought to arrive there, but "logical" on the basis of observed experimentation and future extension.
Manged a group of less than 150 loaner laptops, cables with keys were the worst. Users were always losing them. Combination in the way to go. But not the ones with the flippy thing on the end for when you want to reset the password. They need to be pre-coded, or use a screwdriver to reset.. Personal preference is for pre-coded in lots of 25 because then you have the master list of combinations to match the codes printed on the locks.
Oh, and one of the techs had it down to about 35 seconds, certainly never more than 60 with the hack saw blade to cut through the cables on the ones that were fubar.
by the barrel on a daily basis. Given that El Reg doesn't have to pay for ink but does the same thing, that they are known for their snark, and that the PR flack allegedly came from the reporting side of the house, one would have thought she'd at least have some passing acquaintance with that pearl of wisdom.
I've modded the DoB to only show month and day, and if I had been thinking ahead wouldn't have put the real one in anyway. And I don't care about that so much except it's one of the standard security questions for finance info.
As far as I'm concerned, if the groups work correctly what is more important than the security is that I can stop annoying friends with my game posts. Cause that's mostly what I do on FB.
The firefighters are expected to render assistance to the injured animals regardless of their equipment, better to have the right tool for the job. And for those worried about first responders getting scratched or bitten, even though I've never done it myself, I expect applying the correctly sized breathing apparatus is a damn site safer than trying to give mouth-to-mouth to Rin-Tin-Tin.
Not that they will necessarily get a lot of use. Here in the US the workings of various federal laws mean that pretty much any company over 500 employees has to have a disaster recovery plan, and as part of that disaster plan you more or less have to contract with someone to provide you with containerized data centers to rebuild your business for continuity operations. Which means at the very least the companies providing those insurance plans have to buy the containers and outfit them with gear.
he was on, but I'm guessing that would be I70 between Frederick and Baltimore. Depending on the stretch of highway the speed limit might be 65, which makes 69 nowhere near twice the speed limit. Oh, and that would be light to moderate traffic on I70. Same would go for I95 or I270 which are the other major MD highways (and tend to be more urban hence my belief the road is I70).
Pulling the wheelie was stupid. So was not showing a badge or turning on the red and blue lights. Double stupid on raiding the house for wiretapping. But as a long time resident of the People's Republic of Maryland, none of these actions surprise me. And with revenue's down O'Malley is trying to squeeze every cent out of anybody he can shake down for whatever reason.
The only one showing some sense in this whole mess is the judge. Which, this being the People's Republic of Maryland, does surprise me. Kudos to him from a transplanted gun-loving redneck.
Unfortunately, I expect that being only funny and scary, it won't.
I think it will only stop being used for industrial processes after it is flagged as the key culprit in a major industrial accident, e.g. Chernobyl or Bopal. At which point it will be sad and tragic instead of funny.