If he sold it he might be able to argue on his taxes that the value he sold it for was the actual value, and only pay taxes on that money. He would have come out way ahead, even with the extra $1k for the tax attorney he would probably need.
In States without an income tax reporting and collection is even less common. In my state there is a form you are supposed to fill out for one off out of state purchases, but most people don't even know it exists.
If you are a business that has a sales/use tax license (required to collect sales tax, therefore to sell anything in state) you will have to report it, and every few years the state will go through the books with a fine tooth comb.
I had to dig so far into the states web site to even find the form or information for individuals and companies without a sales tax license it is almost as if the government doesn't want to deal with either.
I see a lot of slashdot readers pulling their domains to another registrar. I don't know if any are better, but at least there have to be some that haven't already taken these draconian messures.
I have a few domains up for renewal, and was considering GoDaddy. Not any more. I am sure slashot readers must control the registration of several million domains.
I hope this publicity shows as a giant drop on their revenue graph.
Those officers should loose their jobs, but remember the police department is funded with tax $. It seems crazy that the entire public has to loose over the actions of these bad officers.
It isn't the latency, but the jitter (the variation of latency). a 600-610ms or 900-940ms latency isn't a problem, but 600-800 is. Most decent sip clients can be tuned to support that, but the providers lock the settings down too far for you to do anything.
We had a new cable company come into my home city pushing fiber to the curb, and in order to get access to the rights of way they had to install in the poor neighborhoods first. Rural areas and chery picking rich neighborhoods are too different issues. If they could have gone into the rich neighborhood they would probably offer much faster services and have a much larger market share.
As for cable TV, that isn't taxed to provide universal service, DSL and phone is. If they are in a rural area, I doubt they will ever see cable TV unless it rides on a subsidized service (fiber Internet...).
I have had it at tier 1 facilities multiple times. Usually a contractor trips a circuit breaker and cuts power to the rack. Redunant circuits and equipment with redudant power supplies is the only defense, but routers, swtiches, servers, etc. are all availible with these options. How much insurance do you need for your aplication?
I have also lost power to a rack in house before. The generator loads tested itself every Monday morning at 10am, using the datacenter as the load. The UPS on one rack failed to carry the rack during the switch. I had 30 minutes to change the batteries (which were not indicating failure before the switch) so the server wouldn't go down again as the load switched back to the grid. The critical servers plugged into multiple UPS units, but people still screamed at the other failures.
Yes, it is fair to charge more. They can then make that an incentive for you to buy their clothing. If you don't like it, go to another dry cleaner.
I personally am quite torn by the network neutrality debate. I don't want more government regulation, but the telecoms are in a position to extort money in almost the same way as the government. I do think the market will most likely work this out without government intrusion, but I can't be sure. There are too many people who will buy the cheapest broadband service availible, and their may be tolls for the content providers on those lines. If that drives up prices for the rest of us, it would suck.
Most speed tests are unreliable. It takes a lot of bandwidth to test speed, so you should do several. Better yet, open ftp and run several downloads from different sites and add the total throughput. On a 5mbps cable connection I would expect about 550KB/s. I almost always get within 10-20% of that.
Keep in mind that upstream load on your connection can also affect your downlaod speed. TCP requires ACKs. If your upstream is jammed and has a large buffer (cable and DSL), you can have latencies of several seconds on outgoing traffic. This will cause most servers sending you data to throttle back the speed.
Keep the faster speeds coming.
On the other hand, I remember being a cable modem early subscriber. It was pre-docsys but the network ran at 27mbps. The only bottleneck was the 10-base-t port on the modem. I would get 950KB/s downloads and 80KB/s uploads. I miss those speeds (the premium package they sell isn't quite that fast, and costs twice as much).
So you just doubled your power requirements, heat output and chance of failure. I would much rather have 2 750GB drives with Raid 1.
I just wish there was an affordable removable media alternative. If I want to have 750GB of storage I have to buy it twice, probably 3 times (online raid 1 for reliability, and an offline drive for backups). In a datacenter enviroment, a nice robotic LTO2 system helps, but I can buy a lot of hard drives for the price of one of those.
Yeah, it would be really convienent to carry a handgun into the shower... I am certainly for the right to carry, but it has some limits to its usefulness (but these shouldn't be legal limits).
I would be much more comfortable with 2 fiber links, physically seperated, and maybe wireless as a last resort backup. The weight savings would still be huge, but wireless sounds very scary
A bluetooth rifle uses a high gain antenna for bi-directional comunications. I have seen 802.11b established over several miles through a metalic glass barrier that stopped a laptop at 30 feet. All it required was a 32DB antenna at one end, and careful aim
If that is the case it was never usefull. The ISS is still relatively young and only partly constructed. It is way over budget and way behind schedule so you may be right.
Simply put, it is like saying your house is too old when it was a 1 year old and only half built.
Intel and Broadcom gigabit NICs are still not supported out of the box (I just installed 2003 R2, but that was just with the Broadcom). I have known many geeks to put a 100mbit Intel card in to their servers so they will always have some connectivity out of the box on a reinstall. This isn't needed in Linux.
If I use the Dell XP sp2 reinstall CD on a Latitude D series laptop, I am not going to get network support. This is not exotic hardware.
All this said, and I am putting food on my table programming.NET applications. I consider my view of Windows and Linux to be quite balanced. I like Exchange for all the features (and can even fix some of the biggest problems when things go wrong), but prefer to run Cyrus imapd.
Generally MS doesn't offer site licenses for Windows, and that is one of the sticking points they use against naked PCs. Sure I can get an open business license of XP Professional, but it is only as an upgrade. To buy XP Professional without a computer I have to buy a full retail version.
I am sure there are large enterprise agreements where this isn't the case, but I have not seen any hard evidence otherwise (except certain educational institutions).
If I am buying a PC to run windows, it will have an OEM license, unless I have a retail full version copy sitting unused.
I do have plenty of systems running Linux though, and I have always had to go through rediculous lengths to avoid paying a microsoft tax. I have always had to keep my Laptops dual boot, but if I ever want a straight Linux laptop, I am screwed.
There is way too much truth in the parents article. I have helped many people with their computers, and often when I try to teach enough to let them go on their own, they will outright tell me they just want to be able to X and don't care about the rest. They are not going to switch how they use the computer. No matter how intuitive we think an interface is, they are learning by rote and any changes will screw them.
My 1st TiVo is going to be 6 years old in a few months. I didn't buy a lifetime for the first 1.5 years, so they got $180 plus the $199 lifetime fee from me. It is still running fine with a recent hard drive in my Dad's living room. Being a series 1 the only resell value is the Lifetime sub and that is declining as the series 2 units keep offering more features.
This could be useful for discs that have an extremely limited release audience, such as screeners for the Academy Awards or such. There will also be training discs and such that will screw their purchasers.
I would like to believe the studios wouldn't do this because the customers will revolt, but unfortunately common sense is usually forgotten.
Texas Motor speedway uses paper tickets with barcodes. They scan on entrance and exit to allow readmission. I am fairly certain I could take a color copy of a ticket and get right in, or even copy the barcode to a blank piece of paper. I have always had season tickets, but I believe they even offer an email delivery option for the tickets now.
The barcodes apear to be randomly generated and of sufficient length to stop anyone from brute force hacking when the validation is checked by a person standing with a PDA pressing the button on each read.
Before they started this system I lost my tickets. They will issue vouchers for season ticket holders in this event, and aparently they recorded the numbers of all the stubs collected after the event. I was told if my tickets came through I would get a bill for the duplicates.
The bar codes were on the tickets before the system was in place. What puzzled me was that it was on the main ticket, and not the stub that was collected. Now that they scan on entry they no longer collect the stubs.
It seems like the cell phone and barcodes is only a small step from the above, which has been tested and worked very will at events with attendance of nearly 250k.
I a small enough company this won't always work. Most of us in the security field are honest, but I could have left backdoors on any systems I have worked with in the past. I value my reputation and have a strong sense of morals to prevent me from doing this.
Worse than the jail time, this guy just about gauranteed he won't be hired anywhere local again. I am never more than 2 people removed from knowing someone at a tech company before I end up there.
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If he sold it he might be able to argue on his taxes that the value he sold it for was the actual value, and only pay taxes on that money. He would have come out way ahead, even with the extra $1k for the tax attorney he would probably need.
With taxes alone it is unlikely that this would ever happen, but since so many other programs are based on these income numbers, you're right.
In States without an income tax reporting and collection is even less common. In my state there is a form you are supposed to fill out for one off out of state purchases, but most people don't even know it exists.
If you are a business that has a sales/use tax license (required to collect sales tax, therefore to sell anything in state) you will have to report it, and every few years the state will go through the books with a fine tooth comb.
I had to dig so far into the states web site to even find the form or information for individuals and companies without a sales tax license it is almost as if the government doesn't want to deal with either.
I see a lot of slashdot readers pulling their domains to another registrar. I don't know if any are better, but at least there have to be some that haven't already taken these draconian messures.
I have a few domains up for renewal, and was considering GoDaddy. Not any more. I am sure slashot readers must control the registration of several million domains.
I hope this publicity shows as a giant drop on their revenue graph.
Those officers should loose their jobs, but remember the police department is funded with tax $. It seems crazy that the entire public has to loose over the actions of these bad officers.
It isn't the latency, but the jitter (the variation of latency). a 600-610ms or 900-940ms latency isn't a problem, but 600-800 is. Most decent sip clients can be tuned to support that, but the providers lock the settings down too far for you to do anything.
Having written a sipXtapi application and the SipxTapiDotNet wrappers you better be quite daring. If you are it can be very rewarding.
You are right and wrong. Skype is both a service and a technology.
There go 2 moderation points. Oh well.
We had a new cable company come into my home city pushing fiber to the curb, and in order to get access to the rights of way they had to install in the poor neighborhoods first. Rural areas and chery picking rich neighborhoods are too different issues. If they could have gone into the rich neighborhood they would probably offer much faster services and have a much larger market share.
As for cable TV, that isn't taxed to provide universal service, DSL and phone is. If they are in a rural area, I doubt they will ever see cable TV unless it rides on a subsidized service (fiber Internet...).
I have had it at tier 1 facilities multiple times. Usually a contractor trips a circuit breaker and cuts power to the rack. Redunant circuits and equipment with redudant power supplies is the only defense, but routers, swtiches, servers, etc. are all availible with these options. How much insurance do you need for your aplication?
I have also lost power to a rack in house before. The generator loads tested itself every Monday morning at 10am, using the datacenter as the load. The UPS on one rack failed to carry the rack during the switch. I had 30 minutes to change the batteries (which were not indicating failure before the switch) so the server wouldn't go down again as the load switched back to the grid. The critical servers plugged into multiple UPS units, but people still screamed at the other failures.
Yes, it is fair to charge more. They can then make that an incentive for you to buy their clothing. If you don't like it, go to another dry cleaner.
I personally am quite torn by the network neutrality debate. I don't want more government regulation, but the telecoms are in a position to extort money in almost the same way as the government. I do think the market will most likely work this out without government intrusion, but I can't be sure. There are too many people who will buy the cheapest broadband service availible, and their may be tolls for the content providers on those lines. If that drives up prices for the rest of us, it would suck.
Tortoise SVN would be your friend. It allows you to easily use SVN from windows explorer.
Most speed tests are unreliable. It takes a lot of bandwidth to test speed, so you should do several. Better yet, open ftp and run several downloads from different sites and add the total throughput. On a 5mbps cable connection I would expect about 550KB/s. I almost always get within 10-20% of that.
Keep in mind that upstream load on your connection can also affect your downlaod speed. TCP requires ACKs. If your upstream is jammed and has a large buffer (cable and DSL), you can have latencies of several seconds on outgoing traffic. This will cause most servers sending you data to throttle back the speed.
Keep the faster speeds coming.
On the other hand, I remember being a cable modem early subscriber. It was pre-docsys but the network ran at 27mbps. The only bottleneck was the 10-base-t port on the modem. I would get 950KB/s downloads and 80KB/s uploads. I miss those speeds (the premium package they sell isn't quite that fast, and costs twice as much).
So you just doubled your power requirements, heat output and chance of failure. I would much rather have 2 750GB drives with Raid 1.
I just wish there was an affordable removable media alternative. If I want to have 750GB of storage I have to buy it twice, probably 3 times (online raid 1 for reliability, and an offline drive for backups). In a datacenter enviroment, a nice robotic LTO2 system helps, but I can buy a lot of hard drives for the price of one of those.
Yeah, it would be really convienent to carry a handgun into the shower... I am certainly for the right to carry, but it has some limits to its usefulness (but these shouldn't be legal limits).
I would be much more comfortable with 2 fiber links, physically seperated, and maybe wireless as a last resort backup. The weight savings would still be huge, but wireless sounds very scary
A bluetooth rifle uses a high gain antenna for bi-directional comunications. I have seen 802.11b established over several miles through a metalic glass barrier that stopped a laptop at 30 feet. All it required was a 32DB antenna at one end, and careful aim
If that is the case it was never usefull. The ISS is still relatively young and only partly constructed. It is way over budget and way behind schedule so you may be right.
Simply put, it is like saying your house is too old when it was a 1 year old and only half built.
Intel and Broadcom gigabit NICs are still not supported out of the box (I just installed 2003 R2, but that was just with the Broadcom). I have known many geeks to put a 100mbit Intel card in to their servers so they will always have some connectivity out of the box on a reinstall. This isn't needed in Linux.
.NET applications. I consider my view of Windows and Linux to be quite balanced. I like Exchange for all the features (and can even fix some of the biggest problems when things go wrong), but prefer to run Cyrus imapd.
If I use the Dell XP sp2 reinstall CD on a Latitude D series laptop, I am not going to get network support. This is not exotic hardware.
All this said, and I am putting food on my table programming
Generally MS doesn't offer site licenses for Windows, and that is one of the sticking points they use against naked PCs. Sure I can get an open business license of XP Professional, but it is only as an upgrade. To buy XP Professional without a computer I have to buy a full retail version.
I am sure there are large enterprise agreements where this isn't the case, but I have not seen any hard evidence otherwise (except certain educational institutions).
If I am buying a PC to run windows, it will have an OEM license, unless I have a retail full version copy sitting unused.
I do have plenty of systems running Linux though, and I have always had to go through rediculous lengths to avoid paying a microsoft tax. I have always had to keep my Laptops dual boot, but if I ever want a straight Linux laptop, I am screwed.
There is way too much truth in the parents article. I have helped many people with their computers, and often when I try to teach enough to let them go on their own, they will outright tell me they just want to be able to X and don't care about the rest. They are not going to switch how they use the computer. No matter how intuitive we think an interface is, they are learning by rote and any changes will screw them.
My 1st TiVo is going to be 6 years old in a few months. I didn't buy a lifetime for the first 1.5 years, so they got $180 plus the $199 lifetime fee from me. It is still running fine with a recent hard drive in my Dad's living room. Being a series 1 the only resell value is the Lifetime sub and that is declining as the series 2 units keep offering more features.
This could be useful for discs that have an extremely limited release audience, such as screeners for the Academy Awards or such. There will also be training discs and such that will screw their purchasers.
I would like to believe the studios wouldn't do this because the customers will revolt, but unfortunately common sense is usually forgotten.
Texas Motor speedway uses paper tickets with barcodes. They scan on entrance and exit to allow readmission. I am fairly certain I could take a color copy of a ticket and get right in, or even copy the barcode to a blank piece of paper. I have always had season tickets, but I believe they even offer an email delivery option for the tickets now.
The barcodes apear to be randomly generated and of sufficient length to stop anyone from brute force hacking when the validation is checked by a person standing with a PDA pressing the button on each read.
Before they started this system I lost my tickets. They will issue vouchers for season ticket holders in this event, and aparently they recorded the numbers of all the stubs collected after the event. I was told if my tickets came through I would get a bill for the duplicates.
The bar codes were on the tickets before the system was in place. What puzzled me was that it was on the main ticket, and not the stub that was collected. Now that they scan on entry they no longer collect the stubs.
It seems like the cell phone and barcodes is only a small step from the above, which has been tested and worked very will at events with attendance of nearly 250k.
I a small enough company this won't always work. Most of us in the security field are honest, but I could have left backdoors on any systems I have worked with in the past. I value my reputation and have a strong sense of morals to prevent me from doing this.
Worse than the jail time, this guy just about gauranteed he won't be hired anywhere local again. I am never more than 2 people removed from knowing someone at a tech company before I end up there.