I don't see how it has merit. There are a couple of posts above that discuss why submarines run quiet - it's precisely so they won't be detected.
Submarines are the last part of Mutual Assured Destruction. Even if one country manages to wipe out another's land-based missile launch capability, the submarine-based missiles still have a good chance of being launched in retaliation and finding their targets.
It's for that deterrent reason that I think making submarines easy to track would be a very bad idea. It would open up the possibility for one country to have confidence it could attack another with little threat of retaliation.
However, in China I'm sure the benefits are great!
I have to wonder if this story is accurate, though. Maybe it is, but snapping keys into place on keyboards seems like a perfect job for high speed robots. Maybe 41 cents per hour is too cheap to justify robots?
Maybe so, but how many people have iPod docks in their car?
More and more. New cars are coming with USB ports that also support plain old USB memory sticks as well as iPods. Even better, auto manufacturers are putting controls on the steering wheels.
Satellite does offer some value but instead of a monthly payment, people can get whatever hardware and load it with their own music. And there are starting to be changes in the music industry too - DRM-free music, more competition, etc.
I could have gotten satellite radio with my last car but decided not to and won't get it with my next. I would rather eliminate monthly payments than pick more up.
I quit hoping a long time ago. Windows gets hit over and over with security problems that are exposed to the outside world. As the stakes keep going up because compromising computers is now a business, it's that much more important for people to protect themselves.
I don't know about this. The really cool thing is that Mars is almost certainly terraformable to some extent, if we're willing to spend a few trillion dollars and wait several decades. In the grand scheme of things, it should be very achievable.
Hell, we can't even terraform Iraq and it's right here on earth.
Who knows? By the time you get there, they might have joined the rest of the world and no longer care about their citizen's privacy.
It's looking that way.
But who am I, as an American, still subject to George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales' so-called Patriot Act with all the warrantless wiretaps, no notice search warrants, gag orders, etc, to criticize any other country in any way for not caring about citizen privacy?
Your comment about taking away each other's customers by laying off big chunks of workers is true and if I had mod points, I'd mod your comment up.
These layoffs are scaring everyone else and making them stop buying anything. The ones laid off certainly aren't spending except on absolute essentials until their money/retirement/savings run out, etc.
It's the economic death spiral and is becoming its own self-fulfilling prophecy.
It is getting scary out there. I hope it doesn't happen to me, but you never know...
I'm wondering how you land all that methane back on earth.
It may be a liquid on Titan, but as you get it back closer to earth and let the sun start to warm the skin of the spaceship, it's going to start turning into gas and take up a lot more volume.
But let's assume you figure out a way to keep it liquid. How do you get it back down to earth? A space shuttle sized spacecraft is only going to be able to bring back a tanker truckload or so. You'll use much more energy than that just to relaunch some spacecraft to go get more.
It's a terrible idea anyway, but also impractical.
I do not know tax law concerning this, but it wouldn't surprise me if the shares were considered compensation and assigned a value.
That value would be added to the OP's income and be taxable at whatever rate they land in. However, withholding would probably only be based on actual salary so when April 15 rolls around, OP could end up having to pay money out of his pocket to cover the tax liability.
Then, after a few years of paying the taxes on whatever shares were awarded during the year, if the company tanks, the OP doesn't get all that money back. They just get to claim a loss.
I don't know how shares would really count, but I'd bet they would count as compensation and their value be taxable.
That only works out for the OP if the company goes on to hit it big time. Most other scenarios probably work out to be out of pocket expense for nothing but sheets of paper.
There could be tax liabilities involved. I wouldn't just talk to a lawyer, I'd talk to a tax specialist. They might end up counting as income that you can't do squat with and worse - you might end up having to come up with cash to pay the taxes on them.
Also, when do you get the shares? All at once up front or only after the five years? Are they given so much each year and what, if any restrictions are there on what you do with them.
Maybe options would be a better way to go than outright shares. That way, you don't commit anything until you know they are worth something - if they ever are.
I went to work at a company that gave me 20,000 shares of options at $8+ per share. There were tons of restrictions on what I could do with them, when, and they were eeked out slow until I had been there some number of years.
Turns out that none of that mattered, though. When I left the company, they had been delisted and the share price was $0.09.
Actual value of all those stock options? Zero. Zip. Nada.
Ahhh, nice flame. My butt is feeling quite toasty.
The fact is that people can misconfigure a Linux box, use a weak password, not update, or through any number of things make their computer vulnerable. That really is a fact.
And you are the one that's wrong about Linux being more secure regardless of who is running it. Say somebody wants to ssh in to their system so they open 22 but don't turn off permitrootlogin in their sshd_config - and last I saw, allowing root logins was the default. They also don't lock ssh to specific users or machines logging in. Now, also assume they think that nobody but they can log in as root at the console and so they pick a password like abc123. They ignore the weak password warning or don't even have that checking running.
They now have a Linux box that's basically wide open because it was misconfigured and it is all because of the person running it.
And actually, all operating systems do have security issues. Where have you been the last 30 years? I also never said it doesn't matter what you use. You are fighting a ghost of your own creation. I believe that Linux is more secure. That's why I run it. I believe that Windows is less secure. That's why I don't run that.
All I said was that just assuming you are secure just because you run Linux doesn't mean that you are. And that, mohawk, is a fact.
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I don't see how it has merit. There are a couple of posts above that discuss why submarines run quiet - it's precisely so they won't be detected.
Submarines are the last part of Mutual Assured Destruction. Even if one country manages to wipe out another's land-based missile launch capability, the submarine-based missiles still have a good chance of being launched in retaliation and finding their targets.
It's for that deterrent reason that I think making submarines easy to track would be a very bad idea. It would open up the possibility for one country to have confidence it could attack another with little threat of retaliation.
But in China, Joe Francis wouldn't just go to jail. They'd put a bullet in his head and charge his family for the bullet.
Then he and Larry Flynt couldn't lobby the Chinese government that their keyboard companies were just too big to fail...
The horror!
However, in China I'm sure the benefits are great!
I have to wonder if this story is accurate, though. Maybe it is, but snapping keys into place on keyboards seems like a perfect job for high speed robots. Maybe 41 cents per hour is too cheap to justify robots?
Maybe so, but how many people have iPod docks in their car?
More and more. New cars are coming with USB ports that also support plain old USB memory sticks as well as iPods. Even better, auto manufacturers are putting controls on the steering wheels.
Satellite does offer some value but instead of a monthly payment, people can get whatever hardware and load it with their own music. And there are starting to be changes in the music industry too - DRM-free music, more competition, etc.
I could have gotten satellite radio with my last car but decided not to and won't get it with my next. I would rather eliminate monthly payments than pick more up.
To borrow from Texas...
"Utah - It's like a whole 'nuther country."
And of course you know that if you draw lines between the windows in the Windows logo, you can draw a swastika!
I quit hoping a long time ago. Windows gets hit over and over with security problems that are exposed to the outside world. As the stakes keep going up because compromising computers is now a business, it's that much more important for people to protect themselves.
Windows has become the AOL of operating systems.
Probably the dolphins, although inventing chemistry would have been a bitch...
Or fire...
"Oh, the universe is so big! Life must be everywhere" isn't an argument.
Sure it is. It's just not a good one.
So beaming "I Love Lucy" out into space is the equivalent of yelling "Show us your tits" from our planetary car?
I don't know about this. The really cool thing is that Mars is almost certainly terraformable to some extent, if we're willing to spend a few trillion dollars and wait several decades. In the grand scheme of things, it should be very achievable.
Hell, we can't even terraform Iraq and it's right here on earth.
Sacrifice? Oh, that.
No biggie. Our kids will all take care of it.
Who knows? By the time you get there, they might have joined the rest of the world and no longer care about their citizen's privacy.
It's looking that way.
But who am I, as an American, still subject to George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales' so-called Patriot Act with all the warrantless wiretaps, no notice search warrants, gag orders, etc, to criticize any other country in any way for not caring about citizen privacy?
Your comment about taking away each other's customers by laying off big chunks of workers is true and if I had mod points, I'd mod your comment up.
These layoffs are scaring everyone else and making them stop buying anything. The ones laid off certainly aren't spending except on absolute essentials until their money/retirement/savings run out, etc.
It's the economic death spiral and is becoming its own self-fulfilling prophecy.
It is getting scary out there. I hope it doesn't happen to me, but you never know...
At least we would never have to worry about being invaded. A flamethrower would be the ultimate weapon against them in our atmosphere.
I'm wondering how you land all that methane back on earth.
It may be a liquid on Titan, but as you get it back closer to earth and let the sun start to warm the skin of the spaceship, it's going to start turning into gas and take up a lot more volume.
But let's assume you figure out a way to keep it liquid. How do you get it back down to earth? A space shuttle sized spacecraft is only going to be able to bring back a tanker truckload or so. You'll use much more energy than that just to relaunch some spacecraft to go get more.
It's a terrible idea anyway, but also impractical.
Now if you could just find the oxygen necessary to use those hydrocarbons...
One or two trillion... tops.
Er, "fricken' laser beams, I mean...
I do not know tax law concerning this, but it wouldn't surprise me if the shares were considered compensation and assigned a value.
That value would be added to the OP's income and be taxable at whatever rate they land in. However, withholding would probably only be based on actual salary so when April 15 rolls around, OP could end up having to pay money out of his pocket to cover the tax liability.
Then, after a few years of paying the taxes on whatever shares were awarded during the year, if the company tanks, the OP doesn't get all that money back. They just get to claim a loss.
I don't know how shares would really count, but I'd bet they would count as compensation and their value be taxable.
That only works out for the OP if the company goes on to hit it big time. Most other scenarios probably work out to be out of pocket expense for nothing but sheets of paper.
There could be tax liabilities involved. I wouldn't just talk to a lawyer, I'd talk to a tax specialist. They might end up counting as income that you can't do squat with and worse - you might end up having to come up with cash to pay the taxes on them.
Also, when do you get the shares? All at once up front or only after the five years? Are they given so much each year and what, if any restrictions are there on what you do with them.
Maybe options would be a better way to go than outright shares. That way, you don't commit anything until you know they are worth something - if they ever are.
I went to work at a company that gave me 20,000 shares of options at $8+ per share. There were tons of restrictions on what I could do with them, when, and they were eeked out slow until I had been there some number of years.
Turns out that none of that mattered, though. When I left the company, they had been delisted and the share price was $0.09.
Actual value of all those stock options? Zero. Zip. Nada.
Do you think anyone at Microsoft said "Windows 7 Starter should be enough for anyone..."?
If we're basing the naming on what the product is aimed at, how about "Trashcan"?
Ahhh, nice flame. My butt is feeling quite toasty.
The fact is that people can misconfigure a Linux box, use a weak password, not update, or through any number of things make their computer vulnerable. That really is a fact.
And you are the one that's wrong about Linux being more secure regardless of who is running it. Say somebody wants to ssh in to their system so they open 22 but don't turn off permitrootlogin in their sshd_config - and last I saw, allowing root logins was the default. They also don't lock ssh to specific users or machines logging in. Now, also assume they think that nobody but they can log in as root at the console and so they pick a password like abc123. They ignore the weak password warning or don't even have that checking running.
They now have a Linux box that's basically wide open because it was misconfigured and it is all because of the person running it.
And actually, all operating systems do have security issues. Where have you been the last 30 years? I also never said it doesn't matter what you use. You are fighting a ghost of your own creation. I believe that Linux is more secure. That's why I run it. I believe that Windows is less secure. That's why I don't run that.
All I said was that just assuming you are secure just because you run Linux doesn't mean that you are. And that, mohawk, is a fact.
Agreed completely!