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And you think the owners of the printers really enjoy others using them like that? That all those IPs are set up like this on purpose?
Is there a fact we can examine to answer that/those questions?
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I think that law dates back decades. I don't think it applies to non USPS carriers though. That said my Google-fu is weak against this particular law.
It's not a postal thing, I believe it's common law. If someone ships you something unsolicited, you are under no obligation to return the item or make payment.
I believe this was originally in response to shoe manufacturers mailing people shoes and then invoicing for them if they weren't sent back.
As for whether it applies to non-USPS shipments, I have strong doubts. The law says "mail", and my understanding is that because the USPS is a protected monopoly, non-USPS carriers are explicitly not mail services.
I wrote a scriptable "chooser" when I was at Apple -- it let you programmatically find and select a printer to print to. I enumerated every printer on campus (about 900 of them at the time, I think), and came /this close/ to printing a snarky page -- a fake version of the "Five Star News" internal company news -- on each one of them. Decided not to; probably a good career move that I resisted that urge.
Seems it would make a valuable tool for managing a larger number of printers, to know when to switch the toner for instance.
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The nail that sticks up gets hammered. If someone else later does something bad with the publicly accessible printer and there's a witch hunt for the responsible party, and the only lead they have is that you emailed them about the possibility in advance...then they'll go after you, even though you were just trying to do a good thing. And if you're expecting the victim / police / legal system to understand that, tech…
Also, if someone really wanted to do something bad at least they would do it from Tor or a shadowy proxy from eastern Europe...
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I'm a little unclear as to how how exactly they planned to enforce payment for un-solicited toner. What am I missing?
http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus24-avoiding-office-supp... They threaten, talk to A/P directly and demand payment (skipping over the original agent), all sorts of ways.
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http://business.ftc.gov/documents/bus24-avoiding-office-supp... They threaten, talk to A/P directly and demand payment (skipping over the original agent), all sorts of ways.
How long ago was this written? They make reference to ordering typewriter ribbons ...
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I think the Sony TV's offer an onscreen pop-up before accepting commands from unregistered DLNA controllers although maybe that can be faked (and maybe there is a flaw, I've never explored it deeply).
Mine doesn't. Bravia EX series.