Some states, such as Ohio, have a "Use Tax" which is up to the consumer to register and pay on their own. If I purchase on-line, over the phone, or even drive elsewhere to purchase goods that are tax free where/when/how bought but are taxable in Ohio and I use them in Ohio, by law I am required to fill out a Use Tax form. The Use Tax entry is now conveniently included on the standard Ohio State Tax forms vs having to be tracked down separately as it was years ago, and is calculated as the standard Ohio + County tax. This was done back in the catalog mail-order days to level the playing field. Most states with Use Taxes are pretty lax on making a big deal about it, but it is there, it is the law, and it has been enforced.

I have been confused by this. They often report that there is no way for the machines to record the images and therefor it is not a violation of privacy. I do not see how that makes any difference. If someone creates a peep-hole in the women's changing room it is an invasion of privacy, whether pictures are taken or not.

On the other hand, I would WANT the machines to be able to capture the image if something suspicious was found. I would want them to show me on the screen why they felt they had the right to do a more invasive search if they thought they saw something suspicious. An image capture should be kept should the incident go to court for any reason (the screener followed up with a more invasive search when the screen did not display anything that should have raised any suspicions, or on the flip-side something illegal was found after a more invasive search but the suspect claims they were chosen illegally for a more invasive search.)

At first I thought this would cover issues like the one caught on film by Genesis back in 1986. The video clearly shows Reagan getting confused and pressing the "Nuke" button by mistake when he meant to press the "Nurse" call button. That incident threatened the USSR, not the US though. Maybe Clinton nearly did the same thing when he was wanting some "Nookie" though.

By hijacking a foreign country's TLD Google has messed up World Of Goo's plans on getting goo.gl for their Greenland offices.

I think much of it has to do with lessening chaffing, wearing a material that will let your sweat evaporate vs just absorb it, not as a fashion statement to try to catch the eyes of condescending people like you and your wife. Those who ride longer distances/more strenuous routes seem to think it is worth wearing even when having to put up with ribbing/heckling from people like you, so apparently the benefits are noticeable enough to make it worth their while to pay the extra expense of cycling gear (a T-shirt and shorts are quite a bit less expensive) along with wearing it out on a ride on public roads/paths.

1. This was on his own estate. I do not know how large his estate was, but I think it is fair to assume that he knew where the river and bluff were.

2. Segways max out at 12.5mph. I don't really think that counts as "high speed."

It looks like Huntington's downloadable records go back a scrolling window of three years. My Huntington account dates back a bit further (I opened my savings account when I was in first grade, about 30 years ago.) I used 1900 for the starting year and the records it reported back started with September 2007.

I agree with what others have said though. If you can not remember to grab your data once every month, let alone once every three months, then apparently the data is not all that important to you. It would also be better to set up a pop-up calendar reminder or cron job than to rely on the bank to forever allow X months of history for free since they can change their record availability at any time. If some unusual event does occur where you need more of the record history from the bank I am sure you would be able to do so from any of them for a relatively reasonable fee.

This is where the penny tip comes into play. For extremely horrid service you leave a single penny. That way the server knows that you did not just forget to tip or normally don't tip. They know you intentionally left them a single penny. I've only done this twice in my life.

I do think that tipping is an odd way to let a server know how you felt about their general service since some people never tip, others use 10, 15, 18, 20, 25% to signify standard service, and with that wide range for "standard service" it is hard to tell what message is trying to be expressed. And since the vast majority of servers are paid below minimum wage (allowed by law when tips are expected as part of income) many feel compelled to tip at least 10% even for bad service to make up for this.

On top of that, why is a tip calculated on the cost of the food? Is it five or ten times more difficult to carry a lobster thermador than a hamburger to the table?

It would be a bit tough to close the shade on something like this to keep the sun off your face when you wanted to take a nap since it could be coming in from any angle. The first handful of times on a transparent flight, night or day, would be quite an experience, but sadly just like normal flight today the novelty would eventually dissipate.

With unlicensed games based on movies like "The Big Lebowski" and "Men in Black" the MPAA is sure to invade with platoon after platoon of lawyers until North Korea completely backs down and turns over every piece of electronics that could possibly have been involved with creating the games or been touched by those who made the games. They may feel a bit of a conflict of interest about going after News Corp for their role, so they will probably settle out of court.

I think there are MANY uses for Google Wave, but that is part of its problem. They are all very small, niche uses, which makes it hard to give a succinct description of it to someone and tell them how it could be relevant and useful to them. Also, since Wave is for coordinating with others it doesn't help to just persuade one person to try checking it out. They have to see a use for it and convince all the others on their project to give it an honest try too.

With GMail, the brand new Google Phone, etc, I just had to see that it could possibly be useful for me and try it out on my own. If it works for me, then great, I can just go ahead and use it. I can tell friends how useful they are, and since they are fairly single purpose tools they are easy to describe and simple for others to figure out if they are likely to be useful for them or not. Google Wave is much more amorphous.

Most of my friends are fairly geeky (yes, I know, quite a shocker for a slashdotter.) Back in March we started planning a group trip to Washington D.C.. We only had three weeks to plan (a friend's cousin was getting married out there and he mentioned to the rest of us just weeks in advance about it and in passing asked if any of us would like to take some days off to join in and do some sight-seeing.) Since we had limited time and couldn't all get together easily to plan we put Wave to great use. We were able to share links to points of interest, the metro system, possible places to stay; we created a roughed out itinerary that we could modify and you could click on each entry and it would show the location on the map so we could see what locations were in the vicinity to try to reduce unnecessary traveling back and forth, we put up a couple of polls for voting on what were the most and least desired to see by the group as we had to weed down a bit on what all we could do on our five day trip, and at the end of the trip we were able to share our photos with eachother. Wave allowed us to comment during lunch breaks and after work as time allowed, so even though we were unable to meet up in person or even on-line at the same time we could have group discussions about what we would like to see and do. Our trip went VERY smoothly and with the pre-planning we were able to pack in a LOT more than we ever could have otherwise on a trip like that.

My older sister just started up a new on-line magazine. She wanted to coordinate with others to figure out what format the magazine should take, be able to share and group edit the articles and layouts, have discussions about all of the physical, legal, IT logistics of getting the magazine started with the others involved, and asked me if I knew of something that could help them do all of that. I suggested Google Wave, and although the bulk of the people involved were from an English/Arts background they jumped in and found Wave to be indispensable since they all have "other" jobs while they are getting this off the ground so they do not have matching schedules or locations.

Wave can definitely start to get too unwieldy for large groups or very long running projects, so I agree with the "small projects" part, but I would definitely remove the "OSS" part.

I always have at least a web browser open, and it is always maximized. I never bothered to change my wallpaper since it only shows for a few seconds after a reboot.

I have no idea how many icons are on my desktop since I never see them let alone use them. Whenever I install a program I make sure I do NOT allow it to install a desktop icon since I find them to just be clutter, but many programs seem to skip giving you the option.

You are correct, Wikipedia is not the arbiter of names, but in this case I would have to say that the US National Parks Service, which runs and maintains all of the federal memorials, is the one who would set the official name. According to the US National Parks Service it is indeed the "Lincoln Memorial".

What was his reaction to goatse videos? Actually, I think I'd rather not know. I'm sure such an experiment with a normal person would push the Emotiv beyond its capabilities.

That is why I spray all of my USB ports with VOTiVO.