Barter is considered income by the US Tax code.
You will be liable for income tax on the perceived value of your work, and you'll have to pay with US Dollars.
Of course the IRS will have to find out somehow. If you don't report the income then they later find out you'll be liable for a felony of tax evasion.
This has to be the lamest/. topic ever.
I mean EVER. Who would ever waste their time even THINKING about video games and sex at the same time then thinking it would make a good article to post?
Then again I just posted about it.
Damn me !
Back to the video games.
How can a small courier compete if they can only afford vans, where the Big Boys can afford fleets of their own 747's and their own airport hub, train rails and ships.
And how can these Big Boys compete against a government subsidized international (mail) delivery service paid for largely by taxes which the Big Boys *pay* instead of receive.
Clearly competition is impossible in the face of an unlevel playing field.
Wait, damnit !
I RTFA'd and the word "Cloud" is not mentioned *once* except as a caption on the first article summary, not in any of the actual text.
Aparently its gotten to the point where we just put the word "Cloud" on anything we want (to make it "kewl" ?)
As for "Cloud Computing" being "boring" and a bunch of UI's... I disagree. I've been working on Amazon EC2 and related services for several years now and find it everything but boring. Its challenging ! Fun, interesting. Having to work around its limits and discover what it is and isnt good at is a fresh experience after 30 of traditional computing. I can see why there are jobs openings, its *not easy* to do well.
Why the hell do we need a new browser to do ":Social Networking" ?
I watched the video and so totally dont get it maybe I'm just past my years...
But whats the point ? All the social networking sites have perfectly fine apps and plugins that work with existing browsers and devices why on earth would anyone switch to a new browser for this ?
The way browsers are nowadays its like switching to a new OS just to use Facebook...
Is the world insane ? People actually invested time and money on this concept ?
WTF?
What I was meaning is this. Just because someone found 2 serial port connectors on the iphone connector, that doesnt necessarily mean that this is exposed through the kenral up to the device level.
Reguardless of what they are called (and I'm from the age when they were/dev/tty1/dev/tty2... )
is there in fact charactor devices of some name you can access from an iphone app to make use of these serial ports. If not its entirely unimportant that they exist and its just wishful thinking that you could use an iphone as a 'full computer' just because someone found 2 pins that say TX/RX on them.
Cory Doctorow's excellent book on exactly this topic (I just read it) as well as gold farming and various related practices. Wrapped in a great novel.
http://craphound.com/ftw/
Available for free download or real money for paper.
A definite "Must Read" for all/.ers
This is so obviously a Liberian socialist bit of propaganda it makes me puke. For one the assumption is that "Feeling sorry for other people having problems" is a unambiguously good thing.
Well, yeah, it sort of is.
Very often peoples problems are self imposed.
Citation needed. And just because Jimmy stuck his hand in the door before he slammed it onto his hand doesn't mean we don't feel sorry for him, even if it was a stupid move that he brought upon himself
Wheres the questions about taking personal responsibility ? "When you see someone having problems do you think about how they may have made bad choices in the past which caused those problems ?" "Do you want to help educate them to make better decisions in their lives ?" No... everyone with problems is a "Victim", and your supposed to "Feel Sorry" for them or your an unemphatic asshole.
I don't see how that has to do with the survey, though. And if you want to educate someone to make better decisions - eg. that you care and want to help them so that they don't suffer. In such, empathy, the very thing you decry as socialist. If you want to help them, that implies that you feel sorry for them in some fashion.
The whole thing just reeks of new-age "Make everyone feel good about themselves" psychological bullshit. With an under current of liberal socialism.
I'm not entirely sure what making people feel good has to do with liberal socialism. I was under the impression that socialism was a political philosophy that emphasized overall control through the people as a collective, not a "make everyone feel good about themselves" psychological stance. Maybe you might want to connect the dots.
For the record, liberalism is a philosophy in the US that supports regulated capitalism, not socialism.
"You dont feel sorry enough for the Poor !!! Shame on you !!!" The obvious solution to everyone's problems is for us all to feel sorry for them then create massive government structures to hand out to them sympathy dollars so the problem goes away and we can feel sooo warm and fuzzy.
Well, not quite warm and fuzzy. More on the lines of, if we up the lowest common denominator, then we have a better society. We can judge a country based on its rich elites all we want, but if we look at the poverty line then, well, if that has been upped to a reasonable line then we can say we have succeeded in making a good quality of life for all. Then we won't need to feel sorry for anyone, because the collective as succeeded and as a race we have achieved success.
We send that $5/month to help the starving children in Africa so now we can feel all smug and liberal instead of addressing the actual causes of people problems.
Whoa, whoa whoa, so then, you want to say that helping African children is a bad thing? What other kind of problems do we have to deal with that is anything worse than a society that is so poor that they are literally dying of hunger? In a world where we have enough food for everyone in the world, what kind of monster do you have to be to not feel sorry for them at least a little?
That's not anti-socialist, that's sociopath behavior.
Where's my puke bucket,
Indeed.
We send that $5/month to help the starving children in Africa so now we can feel all smug and liberal instead of addressing the actual causes of people problems.
Whoa, whoa whoa, so then, you want to say that helping African children is a bad thing? What other kind of problems do we have to deal with that is anything worse than a society that is so poor that they are literally dying of hunger? In a world where we have enough food for everyone in the world, what kind of monster do you have to be to not feel sorry for them at lea
This is so obviously a Liberian socialist bit of propaganda it makes me puke. For one the assumption is that "Feeling sorry for other people having problems" is a unambiguously good thing. Very often peoples problems are self imposed. Wheres the questions about taking personal responsibility ? "When you see someone having problems do you think about how they may have made bad choices in the past which caused those problems ?" "Do you want to help educate them to make better decisions in their lives ?" No... everyone with problems is a "Victim", and your supposed to "Feel Sorry" for them or your an unemphatic asshole.
The whole thing just reeks of new-age "Make everyone feel good about themselves" psychological bullshit. With an under current of liberal socialism.
Your obviously supposed to feel bad about yourself if you don't score high on this test. That way the government can control you by labeling every socialiast agenda as an empathy issue. "You dont feel sorry enough for the Poor !!! Shame on you !!!" The obvious solution to everyone's problems is for us all to feel sorry for them then create massive government structures to hand out to them sympathy dollars so the problem goes away and we can feel sooo warm and fuzzy.
We send that $5/month to help the starving children in Africa so now we can feel all smug and liberal instead of addressing the actual causes of people problems.
Where's my puke bucket,
Post back when you actually *try* to write a complex WebKit app that runs well on all the webkit platforms unchanged.
WebOS / Android / iPhone
Its a sheer and utter fantasy that because its "WebKit" its "write once run everywhere".
Maybe someday, but not today.
http://www.xmlsh.org/
Syntax compatible with *nix scripts but runs in a Java VM and integrates efficiently with XML processing tools as well as standard *nix command sets.
Scripting with xmlsh can perform 100x-1000x or more better running large XML data processing operations.
Yes I'm biased. But yes there is hard evidence.
http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol4/html/Lee01/BalisageVol4-Lee01.html
Ok I know thats a teaser. No software is ever "done"... but really, whats left in the kernal that *has* to be done? Sure there can be improvements and tweeks and supporting new devices, but thats all hard work and "engineering". Its not "sexy".
I do agree that more people coming out of collage are more focused on higher levels of software, which I dont really think is 'a good thing' but OTOH is not to be unexpected.
Much like people dont focus on building their own hardware or improving the C compiler much anymore. Whens the last time you heard the masses asking to make the assembler better ?
When I was in collage (80's) it was an exciting challenge to write my own device driver or kernel module... why ? I think because thats where the "edge" of development was. There were not a lot of "apps", if you wanted to do something new you had to go all the way down to the kernal level. Just to get a file to copy from one system to the other I had to write a network driver !
Nowadays the edge has moved. If your working on a GUI app you dont have to hack the kernel, if you working on a new Web (N+1) App you dont need to write your own device driver.
Its already done.
You want MarkLogic (www,marklogic.com). Really, you do.
You'll never go back to Relational again./Disclaimer
( I'm not related to MarkLogic, just a fanboy)
Except for the health insurance part which is expensive, the rest is FUD. You get around these laws by incorporating, then you make yourself a W2 employee of your own corporation and invoice clients corp to corp. This totally gets around all this nonsense. Did it for 15 years, its quite easy.
The REAL problem with independent programming is not the laws, its the business model and complexity of modern software.
I learned a long time ago that it doesnt matter how good a programmer you are, at least 80% of the software business is marketing, sales, and other business related tasks.
The days of whipping up your own title at home and trying to sell it are long gone.
Exactly ! Shortened links should only be used for a life of a few days at most. Anything beyond that you should use the full URL. Who case if they go out of business.
Now what *really* matters is where do "full URL's" go when those companies die ? Or move pages. The holy grail of a truely portable and perminent URI that has longer life then a particular web site that happens to host it has yet to see light. On the other hand, maybe its a good thing that data gets lost. We've done just great with maybe 0.0000001% data retention for the last 100,000 years.
I suggest the suggestions that Linux isnt "bloated" because you can trim it are off point.
Linux is "bloated" because of the amount of total code, whether you choose to link it in or not.
It doesnt matter of JoesTinyDistro ripped out 99% so it could run on a pencil, that doesnt change The Linux Kernel as a whole.
That said, so what.
Noone's stopping anyone from pulling that 1999 CD off the shelf and using that if they want a less bloated kernel.
When I worked for we were working on an *nix project. This was fairly new for the company which typicaly produced Mainframe products. One of the Company Software Requirements was that a copyright notice had to be within the first 512 bytes of every program and object module. I'm not talking about the source code, I'm talking about the exe's (a.out's ) and objects (.o's) and shared libraries (.so's). Supposedly this was some kind of legal requirement for all software everywhere... but I'd never heard of it before or since... I think it was some Lawyer's interpretation of some 1950's law...
Naturally, Big Company's Mainframe Software had a compile flag to do this... so it was no big deal. But we were using C and there was no such concept of forcing an arbitrary string into the first 512 bytes. So... some "creative" individual found a way... by declaring a global static function like
we were able to comply with this coding standard... the linker's would sort the function names in the a.out headers and this one function name would happen to (usually) be in the first 512 bytes of all output files. So we had to include
#include "BigCompany_Copyright.h" in every.c file just to make sure...
And then... we had to do some tricks to make sure the function wasnt optimized out in the final link pass...
sticking in a DVD still hang Explorer for the 5-10 seconds it takes to spin up and read the TOC? Presumably Vista fixes this... or so the White Papers on the asynchronous IO claim.
I havent actually (or really desired to ) see for myself.
Slashdot Mirror
Barter is considered income by the US Tax code. You will be liable for income tax on the perceived value of your work, and you'll have to pay with US Dollars. Of course the IRS will have to find out somehow. If you don't report the income then they later find out you'll be liable for a felony of tax evasion.
Time to tax Bike Miles and Public Transport Miles. They all take a toll on our infrastructure.
This has to be the lamest /. topic ever.
I mean EVER. Who would ever waste their time even THINKING about video games and sex at the same time then thinking it would make a good article to post?
Then again I just posted about it.
Damn me !
Back to the video games.
Oh and the Backspace Key.
How can a small courier compete if they can only afford vans, where the Big Boys can afford fleets of their own 747's and their own airport hub, train rails and ships. And how can these Big Boys compete against a government subsidized international (mail) delivery service paid for largely by taxes which the Big Boys *pay* instead of receive. Clearly competition is impossible in the face of an unlevel playing field. Wait, damnit !
I RTFA'd and the word "Cloud" is not mentioned *once* except as a caption on the first article summary, not in any of the actual text. Aparently its gotten to the point where we just put the word "Cloud" on anything we want (to make it "kewl" ?) As for "Cloud Computing" being "boring" and a bunch of UI's ... I disagree. I've been working on Amazon EC2 and related services for several years now and find it everything but boring. Its challenging ! Fun, interesting. Having to work around its limits and discover what it is and isnt good at is a fresh experience after 30 of traditional computing. I can see why there are jobs openings, its *not easy* to do well.
Why the hell do we need a new browser to do ":Social Networking" ? I watched the video and so totally dont get it maybe I'm just past my years ...
But whats the point ? All the social networking sites have perfectly fine apps and plugins that work with existing browsers and devices why on earth would anyone switch to a new browser for this ?
The way browsers are nowadays its like switching to a new OS just to use Facebook ...
Is the world insane ? People actually invested time and money on this concept ?
WTF?
What I was meaning is this. Just because someone found 2 serial port connectors on the iphone connector, that doesnt necessarily mean that this is exposed through the kenral up to the device level. Reguardless of what they are called (and I'm from the age when they were /dev/tty1 /dev/tty2 ... )
is there in fact charactor devices of some name you can access from an iphone app to make use of these serial ports. If not its entirely unimportant that they exist and its just wishful thinking that you could use an iphone as a 'full computer' just because someone found 2 pins that say TX/RX on them.
Does this serial port appear on /dev/tty(?) can you run a getty on it ?
Cory Doctorow's excellent book on exactly this topic (I just read it) as well as gold farming and various related practices. Wrapped in a great novel. http://craphound.com/ftw/ Available for free download or real money for paper. A definite "Must Read" for all /.ers
This is so obviously a Liberian socialist bit of propaganda it makes me puke. For one the assumption is that "Feeling sorry for other people having problems" is a unambiguously good thing.
Well, yeah, it sort of is.
Very often peoples problems are self imposed.
Citation needed. And just because Jimmy stuck his hand in the door before he slammed it onto his hand doesn't mean we don't feel sorry for him, even if it was a stupid move that he brought upon himself
Wheres the questions about taking personal responsibility ? "When you see someone having problems do you think about how they may have made bad choices in the past which caused those problems ?" "Do you want to help educate them to make better decisions in their lives ?" No ... everyone with problems is a "Victim", and your supposed to "Feel Sorry" for them or your an unemphatic asshole.
I don't see how that has to do with the survey, though. And if you want to educate someone to make better decisions - eg. that you care and want to help them so that they don't suffer. In such, empathy, the very thing you decry as socialist. If you want to help them, that implies that you feel sorry for them in some fashion.
The whole thing just reeks of new-age "Make everyone feel good about themselves" psychological bullshit. With an under current of liberal socialism.
I'm not entirely sure what making people feel good has to do with liberal socialism. I was under the impression that socialism was a political philosophy that emphasized overall control through the people as a collective, not a "make everyone feel good about themselves" psychological stance. Maybe you might want to connect the dots. For the record, liberalism is a philosophy in the US that supports regulated capitalism, not socialism.
"You dont feel sorry enough for the Poor !!! Shame on you !!!" The obvious solution to everyone's problems is for us all to feel sorry for them then create massive government structures to hand out to them sympathy dollars so the problem goes away and we can feel sooo warm and fuzzy.
Well, not quite warm and fuzzy. More on the lines of, if we up the lowest common denominator, then we have a better society. We can judge a country based on its rich elites all we want, but if we look at the poverty line then, well, if that has been upped to a reasonable line then we can say we have succeeded in making a good quality of life for all. Then we won't need to feel sorry for anyone, because the collective as succeeded and as a race we have achieved success.
We send that $5/month to help the starving children in Africa so now we can feel all smug and liberal instead of addressing the actual causes of people problems.
Whoa, whoa whoa, so then, you want to say that helping African children is a bad thing? What other kind of problems do we have to deal with that is anything worse than a society that is so poor that they are literally dying of hunger? In a world where we have enough food for everyone in the world, what kind of monster do you have to be to not feel sorry for them at least a little? That's not anti-socialist, that's sociopath behavior.
Where's my puke bucket,
Indeed.
We send that $5/month to help the starving children in Africa so now we can feel all smug and liberal instead of addressing the actual causes of people problems.
Whoa, whoa whoa, so then, you want to say that helping African children is a bad thing? What other kind of problems do we have to deal with that is anything worse than a society that is so poor that they are literally dying of hunger? In a world where we have enough food for everyone in the world, what kind of monster do you have to be to not feel sorry for them at lea
This is so obviously a Liberian socialist bit of propaganda it makes me puke. For one the assumption is that "Feeling sorry for other people having problems" is a unambiguously good thing. Very often peoples problems are self imposed. Wheres the questions about taking personal responsibility ? "When you see someone having problems do you think about how they may have made bad choices in the past which caused those problems ?" "Do you want to help educate them to make better decisions in their lives ?" No ... everyone with problems is a "Victim", and your supposed to "Feel Sorry" for them or your an unemphatic asshole.
The whole thing just reeks of new-age "Make everyone feel good about themselves" psychological bullshit. With an under current of liberal socialism.
Your obviously supposed to feel bad about yourself if you don't score high on this test. That way the government can control you by labeling every socialiast agenda as an empathy issue. "You dont feel sorry enough for the Poor !!! Shame on you !!!" The obvious solution to everyone's problems is for us all to feel sorry for them then create massive government structures to hand out to them sympathy dollars so the problem goes away and we can feel sooo warm and fuzzy.
We send that $5/month to help the starving children in Africa so now we can feel all smug and liberal instead of addressing the actual causes of people problems.
Where's my puke bucket,
http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/05/07/quattron_4.jpg That just about sums up the entire article.
Well That solves it! I *definately* want the girl in yellow.
Post back when you actually *try* to write a complex WebKit app that runs well on all the webkit platforms unchanged. WebOS / Android / iPhone Its a sheer and utter fantasy that because its "WebKit" its "write once run everywhere". Maybe someday, but not today.
http://www.xmlsh.org/ Syntax compatible with *nix scripts but runs in a Java VM and integrates efficiently with XML processing tools as well as standard *nix command sets. Scripting with xmlsh can perform 100x-1000x or more better running large XML data processing operations. Yes I'm biased. But yes there is hard evidence. http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol4/html/Lee01/BalisageVol4-Lee01.html
Ok I know thats a teaser. No software is ever "done" ... but really, whats left in the kernal that *has* to be done? Sure there can be improvements and tweeks and supporting new devices, but thats all hard work and "engineering". Its not "sexy".
I do agree that more people coming out of collage are more focused on higher levels of software, which I dont really think is 'a good thing' but OTOH is not to be unexpected.
Much like people dont focus on building their own hardware or improving the C compiler much anymore. Whens the last time you heard the masses asking to make the assembler better ?
When I was in collage (80's) it was an exciting challenge to write my own device driver or kernel module ... why ? I think because thats where the "edge" of development was. There were not a lot of "apps", if you wanted to do something new you had to go all the way down to the kernal level. Just to get a file to copy from one system to the other I had to write a network driver !
Nowadays the edge has moved. If your working on a GUI app you dont have to hack the kernel, if you working on a new Web (N+1) App you dont need to write your own device driver.
Its already done.
You want MarkLogic (www,marklogic.com). Really, you do. You'll never go back to Relational again. /Disclaimer
( I'm not related to MarkLogic, just a fanboy)
The last sentance says all "So the only reason that things could break down is that we run out of money." You dont need to read the rest.
Except for the health insurance part which is expensive, the rest is FUD. You get around these laws by incorporating, then you make yourself a W2 employee of your own corporation and invoice clients corp to corp. This totally gets around all this nonsense. Did it for 15 years, its quite easy. The REAL problem with independent programming is not the laws, its the business model and complexity of modern software. I learned a long time ago that it doesnt matter how good a programmer you are, at least 80% of the software business is marketing, sales, and other business related tasks. The days of whipping up your own title at home and trying to sell it are long gone.
Exactly ! Shortened links should only be used for a life of a few days at most. Anything beyond that you should use the full URL. Who case if they go out of business. Now what *really* matters is where do "full URL's" go when those companies die ? Or move pages. The holy grail of a truely portable and perminent URI that has longer life then a particular web site that happens to host it has yet to see light. On the other hand, maybe its a good thing that data gets lost. We've done just great with maybe 0.0000001% data retention for the last 100,000 years.
I suggest the suggestions that Linux isnt "bloated" because you can trim it are off point. Linux is "bloated" because of the amount of total code, whether you choose to link it in or not. It doesnt matter of JoesTinyDistro ripped out 99% so it could run on a pencil, that doesnt change The Linux Kernel as a whole. That said, so what. Noone's stopping anyone from pulling that 1999 CD off the shelf and using that if they want a less bloated kernel.
When I worked for we were working on an *nix project. This was fairly new for the company which typicaly produced Mainframe products. One of the Company Software Requirements was that a copyright notice had to be within the first 512 bytes of every program and object module. ... but I'd never heard of it before or since ... I think it was some Lawyer's interpretation of some 1950's law ...
I'm not talking about the source code, I'm talking about the exe's (a.out's ) and objects (.o's) and shared libraries (.so's).
Supposedly this was some kind of legal requirement for all software everywhere
Naturally, Big Company's Mainframe Software had a compile flag to do this ... so it was no big deal. But we were using C and there was no such concept of forcing an arbitrary string into the first 512 bytes. So ... some "creative" individual found a way ... by declaring a global static function like
static void aaaaaaa_Copyright_1980_International_BigCompany_BlahhBlahh() { }
we were able to comply with this coding standard ... the linker's would sort the function names in the a.out headers and this one function name would happen to (usually) be in the first 512 bytes of all output files. So we had to include
#include "BigCompany_Copyright.h" .c file just to make sure ...
in every
And then ... we had to do some tricks to make sure the function wasnt optimized out in the final link pass ...