If you live in California and buy internet or mail order goods for which sales tax is not deducted - you owe the state a "use" tax on the goods. It's right there on your state tax return. California doesn't trust its citizens to report and pay it, so they want an out of state company to collect it for them. Amazon rightly said - no way.
How WELL will it run Windows 8? Microsoft always adds new bloat... um... features to their OS's in each new release. So it will run in existing machines, but will it be usable?
So what's a good alternative to Skype that works cross-platform? I use Skype with Linux and Android connecting to Mac and Windows users. Is Jitsi a reasonable solution?
Question for those who know about such things - wouldn't the RF emissions from a phone of the battlefield give away information about troop locations and deployment?
Self wiping drives - I had a few of those YEARS ago. They had the added feature that when they were erasing themselves,they alerted the user via a loud screeching sound.
Anonymous should have learned from Homer and named themselves 'No man'. They could have avoided the warrants. Or perhaps the more modern 'Who', 'What', and 'I Don't Know'.
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Just as well, judging by the latest HP laptop I've seen, they weren't very good at it.
Nah, just a Blue Hades colony.
If you live in California and buy internet or mail order goods for which sales tax is not deducted - you owe the state a "use" tax on the goods. It's right there on your state tax return. California doesn't trust its citizens to report and pay it, so they want an out of state company to collect it for them. Amazon rightly said - no way.
How about passing laws that make sense in the first place?
What, and set a precedent?!
How WELL will it run Windows 8? Microsoft always adds new bloat... um ... features to their OS's in each new release. So it will run in existing machines, but will it be usable?
But only if the question is: "What energy technology is only ten years away, and has been for the last thirty years?"
You might want to look up "Stephen Decatur".
Not a big deal, my university cafeteria was doing this years ago. Overall, a lot tastier than their Soylent Green burgers.
Having read "Snow Crash", my first reaction was, of course REASON is a weapon.
And the media is going to look at Obama's e-mails too. Right? Anyone? ... crickets ...
So what's a good alternative to Skype that works cross-platform? I use Skype with Linux and Android connecting to Mac and Windows users. Is Jitsi a reasonable solution?
Icarus might want to avoid it. Just sayin' ...
On the Internet no one knows you are a dog ... until now!
Air-gap your production SCADA/embedded stuff
Stuxnet was designed to use USB-flash drives as a transmission vector.
The BBC can just fire up the TARDIS and go back an fix the problem.
Question for those who know about such things - wouldn't the RF emissions from a phone of the battlefield give away information about troop locations and deployment?
yet none of our leaders have done anything to address it
Sure they have - they are doing quite a bit to distract the public from thinking about it.
Self wiping drives - I had a few of those YEARS ago. They had the added feature that when they were erasing themselves,they alerted the user via a loud screeching sound.
Facebook to apply for TARP funds from the Obama administration. :-)
China needs the equivalent of Cockney Rhyming Slang in Mandarin. But what do I know, I'm just a septic.
A a killer robot sentry.
The alien ship was actually running a pirated copy of Windows. Plan B was an assault on the aliens by Microsoft IP lawyers.
Nice write-up on why this is junk science - Research on Authoritarianism and Religion.
Anonymous should have learned from Homer and named themselves 'No man'. They could have avoided the warrants. Or perhaps the more modern 'Who', 'What', and 'I Don't Know'.
A disciple of another sect once came to Drescher as he was eating his morning meal.
"I would like to give you this personality test" said the outsider, "because I wish you to be happy."
Drescher took the paper that was offered to him and put it in the toaster, saying "I wish the toaster to be happy, too."