I used it for years. I had a "shop" page where each button went directly to the payment provider (with the appropriate details). This was the most basic way to make purchases years ago. The payment providers used this method in its examples. You still come across sites doing it this way, here and there.
The patent is beyond ridiculous. I doubt it would hold outside the US. (I'm not in the US, but I use some US-based service providers.) But I guess someone, sometime will have to go through the process of knocking this patent down, such is the madness that the patent process has become.
Barnes & Noble tested this 10 years ago and their solution was to add a second "confirmation" click. That would seem to be about the minimum necessary to avoid infringement.
I spent a few days earlier this week adding hoops to a checkout process to avoid infringing on this. Previous devs had naively implemented something they thought made sense & made things easier for the customer. Foolish fools!
Still makes me angry that they got away with this.
Most of them can't handle really large attacks. Wikileaks was supposedly getting hit with more than 10Gbps, which is right around the maximum Peakflow can handle.
When an attack this big targets a small business, they usually just null route the servers, essentially sending all data into a blackhole. The downside is that their website will be inaccessible by legitimate users. The upside is that they don't have to pay for the used bandwidth, which is pricey at 10Gbps.
That's just for now. We're manually running the scans to monitor the results as they come in. After our beta, scan results will be viewable in less than a day.
Mostly, it's another way for pigs to steal from people. The idea being they can not only throw you in prison for dealing, but then use tax forfeiture laws to take everything you own.
Arguing with facts, good. Using terminology for the police that an angsty teenager would use, bad. Moreover, the target of your animosity is misguided. Baring obvious ethical problems, I expect our law enforcement to enforce a law to the fullest extent. And as determined by the nation as a whole, Marijuana laws are not an obvious ethical problem. It's not a police officers prerogative to ignore the law, even when it will probably change in the next decade or two.
Just to let you know, the way you worded your entire last paragraph reversed the tone of your post for me. What was informative before became ignorant and vacuous. Is it too much to ask that we keep away from the obvious logical fallacies on HN?
Same goes to illegal immigrants. You do not need proof of citizenship to acquire a Tax ID or file a return. Those that are picked up and tried for illegal immigration are much more likely to not be deported/jailed if they have all of their taxes in order.
You can get a free consultation from just about any tax professional. They would have noticed your mistake within a few minutes of talking to you.
The IRS usually takes 3 years to find a mistake like yours. It sounds like you've been filing wrong since 2005. The penalties suck but you got to keep that extra 15% for a really long time.
Most importantly, you have a really long time(6-12 months) from your initial notice from the IRS, before they start trying to collect. You couldn't pay right now even if you had the money, that was my experience anyways. I received a different letter from them, months later, and was finally able to pay.
Everyone knows you don't mess with the IRS. I don't get how you did this wrong for 6 years, never researched it, asked someone, or talked to an accountant. My gut tells me you probably knew what you were doing.
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