Here comes Zosh to the rescue. After signing up for an account, you can forward e-mails that include a PDF to your Zosh account. From there, the Zosh app lets you fill in the forms by using the iPhone keyboard to enter small bits of information. It also includes a novel signature entry mode that lets you create your John Hancock by using your finger as the field scrolls sideways. With practice, this enabled me to create an approximation of my signature — although I suspect it would work better with a stylus capable of working on capacitive screens. Zosh lets you resize typed information or signatures so that they fit the original underlining of the form. Once the form is complete, you can e-mail it back out to the sending party, providing the sender with your ecologically conscientious acquiescence.
Today, you can add fields and signatures to a PDF — but given that Microsoft Word is probably the only other format commonly used for forms, it would be great if Zosh could convert those during the e-mail process. Additionally, while it is great to be able to e-mail the completed form back, it would also be useful to have the option to fax it on-the-go as with Fax Print Share, for those occasions where you may not have the recipient's e-mail address. Zosh is the kind of innovative app that uses modern handset capabilities to address a real mobile need, but there's room for improvement. However, if you're the sort that's going to print the form anyway, you may as well just fill it out on paper.
Ross Rubin is executive director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group. Views expressed in Switched On are his own.
EW – I’m going to go you one better on the Bybee memo saying it’s not that simple
The Bybee memo actually says, in legalese, that OLC isn’t the entity that can decide the issue of good faith and more directly, that the entity that does make that decision – a jury – is not going to buy the argument that you didn’t realize you were torturing someone bc, instead, you had a “good faith” belief that you weren’t.
E.g. –
As a theoretical matter, therefore knowledge alone that a particular result is certain to occur does not constitute specific intent.
… While as a theoretical matter such knowledge does not constitute specific intent, juries are permitted to infer from the factual circumstances that such intent is present. … Therefore, when a defendant knows that his actions will produce the prohibited result, a jury will in all likelihood conclude that the defendant acted with specific intent. …Although a defendant could theoretically hold an unreasonable [but still good faith-bc Bybee just argued in the memo that good faith doesn't require a reasonableness standard] belief that his acts would not constitute the actions prohibited by the statute, even though they would as a certainty produce the prohibited effects, as a matter of practice in the federal criminal justice system it is highly unlikely that a jury would acquit in such a situation. Where a defendant holds an unreasonable belief, he will confront the problem of proving to a jury that he actually held that belief.
Like the Gonzales Jan 2002 memo and how the focus was on “quaint” Geneva Conventions customs vs. his outright recognition that if they couldn’t come up with an argument to get out from under the US War Crimes Act they WERE COMMITTING domestically chargeable war crimes, it’s always bugged me a bit that the focus on the Bybee 1 and later Yoo to Haynes memos was just on the horrors that they chose not to call torture, as opposed to their outright admissions in the memos that by law, it is a jury that decides – based on a FULL FACTUAL revelation (including those *preliminaries* and the CIA Aug 2002 memo on innocence etc.) what is, or isn’t, reasonable to call torture.
And their revelation that if their own acts – generating a series of memos soliciting and authorizing acts that they know will cause mind altering pain and humiliation – fail (as they already have with retractions) to meet a baseline normalcy standard, then it isn’t just the field torturers, but the torture solicitors, who has to confront the problem of proving that they truly had the belief that they weren’t authorizing torture. To confront the problem of watching America’s – and the World’s – reaction to the Abu Ghraib pictures and still not acting to withdraw their opinions as they realized the reasonable person’s response to a picture of what they were verbally authorizing.
In any event, IMO the biggie that is hidden in the memos isn’t really the mens rea issue of whether or not intent to engage in the predicate (statutorily prohibited) act v. intent to to cause the damage that results from the commission of the predicate act, but instead the flat out admission that it is not a OLC memo, but a jury looking at all facts and circumstances who will determine whether or not torture has been committed and that such a jury CAN INFER intent to torture and will infer that intent unless someone can ante up a damn fine reason as to why they really didn’t think they were torturing when the natural and probable consequences of their actions are torture.
IOW, the Bybee 1 and Yoo to Haynes memos on torture both argue that whatever their academic theories on “specific intent” the actual workings of a trial would be: that facts and circumstances are used to prove intent to a jury (with no need for someone’s flat out confession of his intent to torture); that juries will look to the reasonable and natural results of the actions undertaken and if they think they are reasonably likely to result in torture they can infer specific intent to torture; and that, more than “can” infer, a jury “will in all likelihood conclude the defendant acted with specific intent” and “it is highly unlikely that a jury will acquit.”
So back to the old point, the torture lawyers are all pretty much in agreement that there is no good faith defense to torture. It’s just guys like Sessions and Cornyn and Obama that beg to differ.
Thermal Fax
If you have set up your home office, and you spend a reasonable amount of time working from that space, then you will probably need a printer, even if just for drafts of your work, or to produce a hard copy of a reference sheet. The problem is that there are literally hundreds of printers available on the market today, so how do you choose?
First of all, since this is for your home office, and not strictly for personal tasks, you will need a printer that can serve both aspects of your life. If you like to print photographs of your family from a digital camera, or if you produce annual newsletters to send to family members across the country, then the printer you choose should not only serve business purposes, but personal ones as well. This eliminates the need for two seperate printers, and certainly helps with your budget.
Most home office printers are used for the following purposes:
1. Correspondence from associates and clients.
2. Brochures, newsletters and letterhead.
3. Contracts & Agreements.
However, you might have other needs as well:
1. Faxes to and from primary office or clients' offices.
2. Copies of memos and intra-office material.
3. Scanning of important documents or pictures.
4. Multiple copies of correspondence or documents.
Because of these varied tasks, you might end up buying a printer, copier, scanner and fax machine seperately, which could cost you thousands of dollars! Not to mention, you have to find surface space for all of these different machines. Rather than breaking your budget and causing organization havoc, you might want to consider a multi-function printer.
I've compiled a list of the five most cost-effective machines for your home office. All of these printers enable you to perform multiple functions, but can fall well within your budget.
HP Officejet 4215 All-in-One
Price: $99.99 (online price)
Speed: 17 PPM in black; 12 ppm color
Cartridge: 56 Black Inkjet (19.99); 28 Tri-Color Inkjet ($21.99)
Functions: Color printing, color copying, color scanning, color faxing
Website: HP 4215
This compact printer also provides you with a scanner, a fax machine and a copier. It weighs just under nine pounds, and works in both black and color. It comes with a one-year limited hardware warranty, and one year of technical phone support, which can greatly simplify your need for repairs or assistance. It is compatible with both Mac and PC computers. The fax machine comes with a 33.6 Kbps modem, 80 speed dials, and automatic redial, and you can automatically resize documents and photos.
Brother MFC-210C
Price: $99.99 (online only; before $20.00 rebate)
Speed: 20 ppm (black); 15 ppm (color)
Cartridge: LC41BK, LC41C, LC41M, LC41Y
Functions: Color printing, color copying, color scanning, color faxing
Website: MFC-210C
With a one-year limited warrenty, Brother International has come out with a great, cost-effective multi-function printer. The MFC-210C is attractive with a black and gray cover and offers the highest print resolution available. It has an 8MB Memory, an NC-2200W wireless print server, and a 14.4K bps fax modem. You can also enjoy its added feature of the PhotoCapture center, with a built-in digital Media Card drive. Copies can also be enlarged or reduced by 25-500%.
Lexmark X4270
Price: $99.99
Speed: 19ppm (black); 22 ppm (color)
Cartridge: #20 / 15M0120 Color Print Cartridge, #70 / 12A1970 Black Print Cartridge
Functions: Color Fax, Print, Copy & Scan
Website: X4270
This machine reduces your space even more by providing an attractive black telephone handset along with its other specifications. Lexmark has provided a professional, functional thermal inkjet printer that will last for years, and boasts the latest technology. It is very quiet, which will allow you to work while you print, scan, fax or copy documents, and it supports all types of media, including card stock, coated paper, envelopes, labels, and transparencies.
Canon PIXMA MP130
Price: $99.99
Speed: 18 ppm black; 13 ppm color
Cartridge: unknown
Functions: Print, Copy, Scan and Direct Print Photo Card Slot
Website: MP130
Canon doesn't produce an inexpensive printer with a fax machine, but this printer does have the extremely easy-to-use Direct Print Photo Card slot. It is able to print completely borderless pictures, and it also has a sleek, modern appeal. It prints fast and quietly, and the print cartridges are said to last longer than most, which means that you won't be running to the store every other week for more ink.
Samsung SCX-4720FN
Price: $99.99 (Internet only)
Speed: 22 ppm
Cartridge: unknown
Functions: color print, copy, scan & fax
Website: SCX-4720FN
With two-sided scanning, automatic folding, clone copy capabilities and enlargements of up to 300%, this Samsung printer is the perfect home office machine for all of your needs. It is larger than some of the other models - around 28 pounds - but with its 33.6 Kbps modem and 20 speed dial capabilities, you won't even notice it's size! It also has an automatic power save function that will help with those electricity bills.
Рубрика: 
9 Июнь 2010
