My dad was Tom West from Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder lived at our house on weekends in the late 1970s while he was working on this book. He and my dad remained friends for the rest of his life, going out on…
Getting stronger and better every day Evan; best wishes for the speediest recovery possible.
In the United States local drug store Rite Aid got in some serious trouble for using AI facial recognition. Looking at some of the Federal Trade Commission's complaints against them can give you some creepy insight into…
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I believe part of the issue is that the other John Does may be people in other countries (according to the lawsuit) which may add to the issues with identifying and/or charging them.
Thank you so much for this. I'm pretty Wiki-literate and was having a hard time understanding this from their initial pages.
The tool posts the pictures to Wikimedia Commons, logging in there is required for file upload (hello I'm Jessamyn the Community Manager at the Flickr Foundation - please try this tool out and let us know what you…
Hi felix!
I honestly feel like part of it is just that the site sometimes feels like abandonware. That is, it's still running but older cruft is still there (like how you can add AOL Instant Messenger to your profile page) and…
Hi! Yes I'm the owner which is mostly paperwork and legal and sort of "the vision thing." Loup is running day-to-day stuff and we have a 12-member Steering Committee who will hopefully be setting the priorities and…
Hey!
Thanks. I miss my dad a lot.
I feel like a lot of it is changing the discussion. Like not everyone has the money, time and effort to be able to do a small claims thing, but there are a lot of things you can do. Teaching people to pull their credit…
Yep -- if you make over $600 (and mine was $600 + $90 for court costs) they have to send you a tax form and report it.
I definitely tried to (last year was such a shitty year!) but there wasn't a lot of traction for that. Maybe if I had brought in therapist bills and said "Reimburse me"
How badass is that?
They sent me a W-9. I do not think they plan to appeal.
And they had to send a lawyer from Atlanta to Vermont which probably at least tripled that. Not saying it's not small change, just saying there are other costs.
Yep, it's a really useful thing libraries and librarians-without-libraries spend a lot of time doing. We're often good at teaching things that are poorly documented or that people assume "anyone can use." I'm a huge fan…
Sometimes librarians are also those things.
Access to the courts is something guaranteed by the Constitution (standard disclaimer about the shape THAT's in). Usually googling "File a small claims case" and your state name will get you started. Here are the steps.…
They sent me a W-9 to fill out. I think they might actually pay.
When that article was originally written I think it had to do with coming out very strongly against the USA PATRIOT Act which seems like pretty standard stuff now but in the wake of 9/11 being really mouthy about it was…
So far it is holding firm in the 800+ range. This was part of my deal, my credit rating is GOOD and I'd like to hold on to it.
I know this is nitpicking but I did not pay for any identity insurance. I said that if I had to, it would cost this amount and offered low end and high end costs for this. The judge decided to add these numbers together…
My dad was Tom West from Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder lived at our house on weekends in the late 1970s while he was working on this book. He and my dad remained friends for the rest of his life, going out on…
Getting stronger and better every day Evan; best wishes for the speediest recovery possible.
In the United States local drug store Rite Aid got in some serious trouble for using AI facial recognition. Looking at some of the Federal Trade Commission's complaints against them can give you some creepy insight into…
We stay on top of keeping MetaFilter's gopher server working. gopher://gopher.metafilter.com
I believe part of the issue is that the other John Does may be people in other countries (according to the lawsuit) which may add to the issues with identifying and/or charging them.
Thank you so much for this. I'm pretty Wiki-literate and was having a hard time understanding this from their initial pages.
The tool posts the pictures to Wikimedia Commons, logging in there is required for file upload (hello I'm Jessamyn the Community Manager at the Flickr Foundation - please try this tool out and let us know what you…
Hi felix!
I honestly feel like part of it is just that the site sometimes feels like abandonware. That is, it's still running but older cruft is still there (like how you can add AOL Instant Messenger to your profile page) and…
Hi! Yes I'm the owner which is mostly paperwork and legal and sort of "the vision thing." Loup is running day-to-day stuff and we have a 12-member Steering Committee who will hopefully be setting the priorities and…
Hey!
Thanks. I miss my dad a lot.
I feel like a lot of it is changing the discussion. Like not everyone has the money, time and effort to be able to do a small claims thing, but there are a lot of things you can do. Teaching people to pull their credit…
Yep -- if you make over $600 (and mine was $600 + $90 for court costs) they have to send you a tax form and report it.
I definitely tried to (last year was such a shitty year!) but there wasn't a lot of traction for that. Maybe if I had brought in therapist bills and said "Reimburse me"
How badass is that?
They sent me a W-9. I do not think they plan to appeal.
And they had to send a lawyer from Atlanta to Vermont which probably at least tripled that. Not saying it's not small change, just saying there are other costs.
Yep, it's a really useful thing libraries and librarians-without-libraries spend a lot of time doing. We're often good at teaching things that are poorly documented or that people assume "anyone can use." I'm a huge fan…
Sometimes librarians are also those things.
Access to the courts is something guaranteed by the Constitution (standard disclaimer about the shape THAT's in). Usually googling "File a small claims case" and your state name will get you started. Here are the steps.…
They sent me a W-9 to fill out. I think they might actually pay.
When that article was originally written I think it had to do with coming out very strongly against the USA PATRIOT Act which seems like pretty standard stuff now but in the wake of 9/11 being really mouthy about it was…
So far it is holding firm in the 800+ range. This was part of my deal, my credit rating is GOOD and I'd like to hold on to it.
I know this is nitpicking but I did not pay for any identity insurance. I said that if I had to, it would cost this amount and offered low end and high end costs for this. The judge decided to add these numbers together…