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Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing
"The layout of our Web page doesn't do a great job of showing that the story continues on a second page. That's where I explain what is up for taxing.He also provides this link to the full, uninterrupted text.Quoting the story now:
'...That brings them under the purview of the proposed rule, which includes computer networks as 'substitute communications systems' -- subject to a 9.17 percent state tax, plus local option taxes.
In Orange County, the local tax typically runs between 5.5 percent and 6.5 percent. That would bring the total tax to between 14-15 percent.
[end of first page, you hafta click to get to the rest of the story]
Computer networks would be taxed at that percent on either annual lease payments or depreciation.'"
Willie Sutton has met his betters.
Syphtor writes "DE Tech has responded to a reporters inquiries as to their patent claims (DE Tech refuses to say why NZ firms were targeted first)
DE Tech appeared previously in the /. article, Australian Gov't Moves To Block E-commerce Patent. Latest: the patent has been just granted in Virginia 'after five years of making changes in the application.'
Legitimate protection of IP or a 'fishing expedition worthy of a Sicilian Mafia protection racket.'?"
Well, not releasing everything, No, not as such, that is, you see ...
An anonymous reader writes "According to this press release from the BBC, the 'BBC creative archive' (earlier on slashdot) will not be as full as previously assumed. As the page says, 'The BBC Creative Archive would make selected BBC material universally available for private not commercial use in the UK.' (my emphasis) Looks like we won't be able to get the Hitchhiker's Guide and complete works of Monty Python after all, folks."
Who, really, is Peter Lynds, and how old is he? evil_one666 writes "You may remember that Slashdot reported a few weeks ago on ground-breaking work in the understanding of time. Well, it appears that it was all a hoax. While the Guardian is running a story that suggests several interesting conspiracy theories (although they seem to think that Peter Lynds is in fact legitimate), Museumofhoaxes.com present some convincing evidence that he is in fact a 17-year-old student at the same radio college at which he claimed to be a 27-year old-lecturer. Astute Slashdot readers rightly pointed out some big red flags, the first time the topic was aired, and Cesar Sirvent, a researcher in the field, has a list of links related to the controversy here."
Outlook Express not yet left out to rot. dr. electron writes "As stated previously on Slashdot, Outlook was to be slaughtered. Now MS says, in a article on Internet Magazine, it won't be, but developed further. They blame communication problem inside the company about the previous press release. Maybe the ongoing development of Outlook Express isn't the biggest news here, I find the reason 'communication problem' a bit odd (It's not a small decision to kill a product)."
Speaking of Outlook and anguish: caseywest, among others, has had enough blame redirected into his email box. He writes "This is my plea, my Public Service Announcement. Please, please stop bouncing email viruses! I don't run any windows computers, and /dev/null'ing viruses are trivial. I cannot, however, say that this problem is only a Windows-only menace. My email address is plastered all over the internet. As a result, I'm receiving thousands of bounced messages claiming I sent a virus. This is costly, let alone wrong! I didn't send you that virus! If you admin an email server, please answer chromatic's one question test. If you're bouncing email viruses, please reconfigure your filters to send viruses to /dev/null, and save us all money on bandwidth, hard disk space, and general anguish. Thank you."
Sorry, I just don't get what you are trying to say here: 1. Sending mail to dev/null is wrong, because people need to be able to use e-mail. 2. If an admin tries to be helpful (maybe misguidedly), you blacklist them, thus no more mail. This seems to be a contradiction, at least to me. Oh, and btw, usenet rocks.
The best is the enemy of the good
"1. Microsoft Outlook 2002 has an inferior interface to Mozilla Messenger." -- Wrong. Actually, Outlook's interface is rather pleasant. Want to combine two things? No prob, click and drag. Despite all the features Outlook has (and there are a shitload of them) it still manages to be quite useful. I've personally witnessed. the most computer illiterate people breeze right through it, including the Rules Wizard.
"2. Microsoft Outlook is riddled with security holes that are never patched because Microshaft would rather threaten so-called "hackers" under the DCMA." -- Wrong. I've been using Outlook 2000 since it came out. Everybody and their mother's tried to send me a virus, nothign got through. I can say the same for my 15 coworkers as well, seeing as how it's been my job to clean up messes like that. I'll happily grant that by default Outlook 2000 is worriesome, but it doesn't take a lot to turn off the vulnerable features. It is important to mention that every install of Outlook has all the features turned off. Not everybody does this, and because of that Outlook is a nasty seucrity risk. I just want it to be clear that I'm not saying Outlook's insecurity is a bunch of lies, there's much truth to it.
"3. Microsoft Outlook has no spam filter." -- Bullshit. Look up the Rules Wizard some time. It's far more robust than any other solution I've seen out there. If you really want to tinker with it, fire up VBA and write fancier rules.
"4. Microsoft Outlook insists on using HTML and displays all images including web bugs." -- You can have partial credit for this one since by default this is true. However, Outlook runs on a different set of permissions than IE does. Set those, and nothing but the basics will work. No plugins, no activex controls, no self-running attachements. Sadly, Microsoft's defaults are nasty.
"5. Microsoft Outlook is closed-source." -- Big fucking deal. Being open source isn't the shiznit to end users. Unless you've actually written code and modified your mailclient, stfu.
"6. Microsoft Outlook requires you to install Microsoft Exchange server, which costs $20,000 per license and is also closed-source. It also runs exclusively under Windows "Server," which is just Windows NT Workstation 2000 (or whatever it's called) with a different registry entry." -- Liar. Outlook is a mail client. It is true that it has nice 'enhanced' features for MS's mail serving product, but it is by no means dependent on Exchange. My company's using Linux based mail servers here and everybody is quite happy using Outlook 2000. Even the most uninformed anti-MS zealot knows this is a bunch of bullshit. You don't even know anything about what Windows Server is! Yeesh.
"7. Microsoft Outlook costs $100 per seat. Netscape Messenger costs $0 per seat." -- Netscape doesn't do NEAR what all Outlook does. That's like saying a bicycle is cheaper than a car.
"In short, I predict that Microsoft Outlook will be dead within 3 months. "
Right. Except nobody's come along and adequately replaced them.
"Derp de derp."
RTFP, the Outlook and virus bouncing are distinct subjects.
To spare you the trouble of reading the article:
1: Outlook Express will not be killed off, to the delight of many of my non/semi computer literate friends.
2: Getting bounced virus messages from mails you never sent is crap. I got one such mail last week from a email adress which is _never_ in use (.forward file in $home). when you are bouncing/retuerning warnings on email borne viruses, someone who is not infected will wake up one day and find 100 "your message contained a virus" mail in the inbox, almost like spam, it creates alot of uneccesary traffic.
I have no problem with other countries using GPS, and that was paid for by American taxpayers.
Is this case really any different?
First of all, you have the Two Armies Problem. Two armies are on opposite sides of a common enemy. If they attack that common enemy on their own, they will lose, so they must attack at the same time. How do you send messages to each other with knowledge of receipt? You can't. If I send the "Go" and you send the "OK", how do you know that I got the "OK"? I send an ACK. How do I know you got the "ACK"? You send me another ACK... and so on.
The Second problem with EMail is that a good number of routers that use the leaky bucket protocol will see that it's only port 25, not something important like port 21, and drop the packet. Tannenbaum talks about this in his networking book.
Beware TPB
No, it doesn't. Also, Messenger doesn't have a calendar.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
Looks like a calendar to me.
Be ot or bot ne ot, taht is the nestquoi.
For the benefit of less SMTP-savy, here are a couple of things you need to keep in mind.
Unless you want to open yourself to the rumplestiltskin attack, you must accept every message for delivery, and THEN decide on the action.
In fact, returning a 5XX is a bounce. It's not blocking them from sending it. You have still received the data, and nothing is going to undo that.
Beware TPB
lies, damn lies... and republicans
I'm not going to say you're wrong, but you have to consider the effects of:
1. inflation
2. a growing worldwide economy
3. emergence/growth of industries like hi-tech
4. deficit spending (it generates some tax revenue)
5. shifts is gov't spending (i.e. major increases in defense).
I'll rewrite the parent to your post:
It is not true that anything always happens, except maybe entropy.
Businesses in FL are used to this sort of thing, and still would probably prefer the no-income tax benefit of FL over relocating to a different state.
While I agree that businesses in Florida may be used to it, I'm not so sure about the conclusion.
States without income tax often have to resort to "nuisance" taxes on random shiat, as noted above. There's quite a lot of red tape and bureaucracy involved, for both businesses and government, in enforcing tax compliance.
Not saying that the income tax does not introduce red tape and bureaucracy (but, generally, state (personal) income taxes are vastly simplified in comparison to federal, and the collection of which is a very minor paperwork issue for businesses. Furthermore, it is possible to design a corporate income tax that's simple (though states like to fark that up.)
Having said that, Florida would not make a good income tax state. A good percentage of the population lives there only a few months of the year, and another good percentage of the population is retired and therefore has no yearly income anyway.
For those with this problem, there is a wiki with a set of helpful SpamAssassin rules to filter out the worst offenders. Culley Harrelson was kind enough to point me at the rules.
Well, Exchange Server doesn't work too well in non-Win-NT/2K/2K3 server environments. It doesn't run under Wine. It also needs a whole boat load of other MS services to work properly. I have one Win2K server with ES under an MSDN Universal license (it come to only about $4500, but this is for development, not production). It prefers not to operate with our normal DNS but needs to use the DNS server under Microsoft. For development, operating ES doesn't cost me to much for up to a handful of users. For production that is something else, i.e., client licenses, etc. Very quickly the package gets over the $10K mark.
See my journal, I write things there
Yes, we paid for it through the licence fee; but most of this programming has paid for itself through export sales several times over - or at least the programming that's likely to attract really high levels of international interest has. What's more it will quite likely continue to do so.
Besides, the BBC's archive should be a source of national pride (well, maybe not Terry and June, but you get the idea). It's a globally-important collection which makes a powerful statement about our cultural values. I'm not blind to the commercial value of this material, but "we're smart, we're classy, we're worthy of respect" certainly seems like a more potent message to be sending than "we're so desperate for money that we've always got our hand down the back of the couch on the off-chance that we'll find 50p".
Reagan didn't get into office until 1981, not 1980.