I think you (or the WSJ journalist) are reading it wrong. The Gov. doesn't collect "virtual tax" of any kind. That simply doesn't make sense.
The announcement made by the Chinese State Administration of Tax basically said this:
1. If you buy virtual stuff in real money and resell the virtual goods at a higher price, then the price difference you collected shall be taxed.
2. The tax law already has a section covering this kind of activities. According to the law, the tax rate should be 20%.
3. If the reseller can't provide valid proof of the price at which he/she bought the virtual goods, they shall be evaluated by the local taxation office.
They made this announcement because the local taxation bureau of Beijing asked them about the taxation rate of reselling virtual goods (incl. virtual money, gaming items, etc). The announcement is the official reply.
I don't think the infamous "isroot = 1" is an example of obfuscated code.
It is actually quite straightforward. I didn't RTFA (but again who does?;-P ), but I guess the "obfuscated" malware is something like a just-in-time code spitter: the attack code is generated at runtime, on-demand, in an obfuscated manner, bypassing common antivirus software. If the payload is not hard-coded, the malware can masquerade itself as an innocuous application more easily.
Far2Paranoid: Knew this guy in HS
Far2Paranoid: Built a box with 2x 350Mhz Pentium2, back in '98
Far2Paranoid: The trick was, filled his bathtub w/ glycerin
Far2Paranoid: Took apart a mini-fridge and used the coils to cool the glycerin to ~40F
Far2Paranoid: Then sunk the box so he could OC the CPUs to 1.3Ghz
Far2Paranoid: Coolest shit I've ever seen.
AlbinoChpmnk: If this was sitting in his tub, how did he shower?
Far2Paranoid: After what I just said, what makes you think he showered?
This idea annoys me. First we have OSS governments and then we'll see physical, deadly, flaming wars between the vi and emacs parties. Finally we end up with a world ruled by several Beowulf clusters of robotic overlords.
e.g. qt3-3.3.8b-14. My distro's packagers does this to allow parallel install of QT 3 and 4. Just name your package something like foopackage6-1.0.0rc1. And when you upgrade to seven, it will be like foopackage7-5.0.2.
>There's no need for extra room in the display. Just convert to hex, then you >only need 13 digits: > >10,150,603,734,720.00 (decimal) = 93,B5F,213,EC0.00 (hex)
Since you are using hex, why one comma every 3 hex "figures"? I believe it's a practice related to the decimal system. The hex number seems better written like this: 09,3B,5F,21,3E,C0.00 --- one byte per comma-separated section.
> Stop Advertising Linux as "Almost Windows" or "Sort of Windows" - Advertise > Linux as - Linux.
I agree this is the sane approach. IANAL but advertising Linux as "Almost Windows" or "Sort of Windows" would probably be false advertisement plus trademark infringement.
rather than blaming the users who "don't want to spend time to learn it". Customers buy your product because they need it, but few would learn it the hard way without well-organized, easy-to-follow documentation. Invest in supporting and documenting your own product and users will be happier, not angrier.
I feel disturbed by the news. I view this as a suicidally silly move.
Remember, you are *trading* with foreign guys. When you trade, play fair --- or at least *appear* to be fair. You blatantly demanded everybody else to hand over you the source, so now everybody else can claim the same thing over you, or even more.
By the way, I am rather suspicious at TFA (yes, I know this is Slashdot and nobody cares about it). It was posted on the website of Yomiuri (Japan's number one newspaper) but I can't even find which guy on earth wrote it. TFA also failed to make clear reference to the source of the story and use cover-all phrases like "the Chinese government said..." or "according to the source" without telling us where the source actually is. It is so obscure that I highly doubt its credibility.
I know this is Slashdot, but here T properly translated FA. Contents inside [] are mine.
Bad article (it's tautology -- blame the writer) and bad translation (blame me).
Space Lab Planned after Shenzhou-X Launch
Mr. Cui Ji-Jun, director of Jiuquan Space Launch Center, today told the media that the Shenzhou-VIII and -IX spaceships, which are scheduled after this year's manned Shenzhou-VII unit, will both be unmanned. The tenth of the series will again send astronauts into space and snap with an orbiting target. After that, work will be done to construct a space-based laboratory.
According to the Qilu Evening [a Shandon-based newspaper], Mr. Cui said the featured task of Shenzhou-VII will be a spacewalk. Three astronauts will be aboard: one will take the walk out of the ship, another one will assist him in the orbiting unit (of Shenzhou-VII), and the third in the return unit. Cui also explained the reason behind the decision of launching the spaceship at night. [However the news fails to tell what it is:(]
Shenzhou-VIII and -IX, Unmanned
Cui said after Shenzhou-VII gets launched, a Target unit will be sent to space, and later the VIII to X units. Shenzhou-VIII, unmanned, will go after the Target unit and join with it. The IX unit will do the same. Shenzhou-X, piloted by astronauts, will also join with the Target. After this is done, the first task will be the making of a space lab.
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Why? We all know that both the worst and the average case of sequential search are of O(N), so your algorithm doesn't make a difference ;-P
I think you (or the WSJ journalist) are reading it wrong. The Gov. doesn't collect "virtual tax" of any kind. That simply doesn't make sense.
The announcement made by the Chinese State Administration of Tax basically said this:
1. If you buy virtual stuff in real money and resell the virtual goods at a higher price, then the price difference you collected shall be taxed.
2. The tax law already has a section covering this kind of activities. According to the law, the tax rate should be 20%.
3. If the reseller can't provide valid proof of the price at which he/she bought the virtual goods, they shall be evaluated by the local taxation office.
They made this announcement because the local taxation bureau of Beijing asked them about the taxation rate of reselling virtual goods (incl. virtual money, gaming items, etc). The announcement is the official reply.
The announcement was made on Sep. 28th. It was only recently pushed to the Administration of Taxation's website.
McCain FTW
It's the USA election you insensitive clod!
I don't think the infamous "isroot = 1" is an example of obfuscated code.
It is actually quite straightforward. I didn't RTFA (but again who does? ;-P ), but I guess the "obfuscated" malware is something like a just-in-time code spitter: the attack code is generated at runtime, on-demand, in an obfuscated manner, bypassing common antivirus software. If the payload is not hard-coded, the malware can masquerade itself as an innocuous application more easily.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
User curl or wget.
Why? Just bribe the guys in front of you and profit!!!
You can as well announce that today is yesterday. Whatever.
This idea annoys me. First we have OSS governments and then we'll see physical, deadly, flaming wars between the vi and emacs parties. Finally we end up with a world ruled by several Beowulf clusters of robotic overlords.
The /. tagging system is borked. Look at all the recent tagtrolls.
e.g. qt3-3.3.8b-14. My distro's packagers does this to allow parallel install of QT 3 and 4. Just name your package something like foopackage6-1.0.0rc1. And when you upgrade to seven, it will be like foopackage7-5.0.2.
>There's no need for extra room in the display. Just convert to hex, then you
>only need 13 digits:
>
>10,150,603,734,720.00 (decimal) = 93,B5F,213,EC0.00 (hex)
Since you are using hex, why one comma every 3 hex "figures"? I believe it's a practice related to the decimal system. The hex number seems better written like this: 09,3B,5F,21,3E,C0.00 --- one byte per comma-separated section.
What? This is modded Informative??
I like the idea.
Just my 2c, literally.
Disconnect me? Does that mean, er, I could no longer read Slashdot?
> Stop Advertising Linux as "Almost Windows" or "Sort of Windows" - Advertise
> Linux as - Linux.
I agree this is the sane approach. IANAL but advertising Linux as "Almost Windows" or "Sort of Windows" would probably be false advertisement plus trademark infringement.
rather than blaming the users who "don't want to spend time to learn it". Customers buy your product because they need it, but few would learn it the hard way without well-organized, easy-to-follow documentation. Invest in supporting and documenting your own product and users will be happier, not angrier.
I feel disturbed by the news. I view this as a suicidally silly move.
Remember, you are *trading* with foreign guys. When you trade, play fair --- or at least *appear* to be fair. You blatantly demanded everybody else to hand over you the source, so now everybody else can claim the same thing over you, or even more.
By the way, I am rather suspicious at TFA (yes, I know this is Slashdot and nobody cares about it). It was posted on the website of Yomiuri (Japan's number one newspaper) but I can't even find which guy on earth wrote it. TFA also failed to make clear reference to the source of the story and use cover-all phrases like "the Chinese government said ..." or "according to the source" without telling us where the source actually is. It is so obscure that I highly doubt its credibility.
But why are the eyeballs of Wilber (the GIMP mascot) on the /. summary rolling?! I for one don't welcome animated GIFs as /. story icons.
This distro seems to be based on the RHEL distro. I wonder when shall we have a CentOS-like, free as in free beer redistribution of it.
I don't think you got it. I was trying to make fun of the "business types" in my post. I guess I made a bad joke.
>What proprietry vendors need to do is charging for software as a service and provide support packages that the OSS world don't bother to do.
Or better: eradicate the geek culture?
Since we have a large amount of decent, usable hardware, as well as space, funding and a very fast internet connection
Imagine a Beowulf cluster?
I know this is Slashdot, but here T properly translated FA. Contents inside [] are mine.
Bad article (it's tautology -- blame the writer) and bad translation (blame me).
Space Lab Planned after Shenzhou-X Launch
Mr. Cui Ji-Jun, director of Jiuquan Space Launch Center, today told the media that the Shenzhou-VIII and -IX spaceships, which are scheduled after this year's manned Shenzhou-VII unit, will both be unmanned. The tenth of the series will again send astronauts into space and snap with an orbiting target. After that, work will be done to construct a space-based laboratory.
According to the Qilu Evening [a Shandon-based newspaper], Mr. Cui said the featured task of Shenzhou-VII will be a spacewalk. Three astronauts will be aboard: one will take the walk out of the ship, another one will assist him in the orbiting unit (of Shenzhou-VII), and the third in the return unit. Cui also explained the reason behind the decision of launching the spaceship at night. [However the news fails to tell what it is:(]
Shenzhou-VIII and -IX, Unmanned
Cui said after Shenzhou-VII gets launched, a Target unit will be sent to space, and later the VIII to X units. Shenzhou-VIII, unmanned, will go after the Target unit and join with it. The IX unit will do the same. Shenzhou-X, piloted by astronauts, will also join with the Target. After this is done, the first task will be the making of a space lab.