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Now "Getty Images" is written all over iStockPhoto's site. I didn't realize they were owned by Getty Images - who I don't care much for. I will be avoiding iStock now.

Just got an e-mail from Amazon stating:

"To ensure compliance with federal law, Amazon Payments account holders are required to provide a Date of Birth. You must provide this information before Sunday, March 31st, 2013 to ensure your account activity is not interrupted..."

The same statements can be found on this site:

https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/helpTab/Personal-Accounts/User-Agreement-Policies/Federal-Regulations

My question is: Why do they need date of birth? Perhaps they want to confirm that one is "over 18" but this still seems odd - and doesn't seem to be in response to any federal law that I know about (but I'm not a lawyer)

What's even more lame is when you click on the FAQ / and the question: "Why do you need my date of birth?" you will find the answer: "To make sure of compliance with federal laws, Amazon Payments Personal Account holders and some Business Account holders are required to provide their date of birth."

I have a non-profit client who wants to be able to accept credit card donations at charity events. They have an authorize.net account and are looking at http://www.usbswiper.com/

I've also seen https://squareup.com/

Have you used any mobile credit card solutions and what did you think of them?

A two paragraph history of Cocoa and Objective-C

Cocoa and Objective-C are at the heart of Apple’s Mac OS X operating system. Although Mac OS X is relatively new, Objective-C and Cocoa are much older. Brad Cox invented Objective-C in the early 1980s to meld the popular and portable C language with the elegant Smalltalk language. In 1985, Steve Jobs founded NeXT, Inc., to create powerful, affordable workstations. NeXT chose Unix as its operating system and created NextSTEP, a powerful user interface toolkit developed in Objective-C. Despite its features and a small, loyal following, NextSTEP achieved little commercial success.

When Apple acquired NeXT in 1996 (or was it the other way around?), NextSTEP was renamed Cocoa and brought to the wider audience of Macintosh programmers. Apple gives away its development tools—including Cocoa—for free, so any Mac programmer can take advantage of them. All you need is a bit of programming experience, basic knowledge of Objective-C, and the desire to dig in and learn stuff.

From "Learn Objective-C on the Mac"

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/objective-c/9781430218159/hello/what_apostrophy_s_coming_up

One of the requirements for a position I'm seeking includes some basic linux server administration. I've had some experience so I'm not too worried, but I wouldn't consider myself an expert. As far as I know the test will have 10 open-ended questions about basic linux administration. How or what do I "study"?

I have a client who doesn't want to finish a web project. He asked me for a "get out" price and I gave him one, which was very reasonable, but he thinks it's too much and doesn't want to pay. I collected an initial payment, but only for 20% because they are a "startup."

I have control over the DNS, the site is on my server, and I am also the administrator for google apps and google voice for the company.

Should I shut everything off until he pays? Is that legal? Should I try and take him to court?

The whole project was only supposed to be $2500 and I've asked for $1700 total, even though I've done about 90% of the project. He's only paid $500 so far. I have about $1200 invested in graphic design. Is this worth fighting over?