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  1. Re: Enormous tax and administrative burdens on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a fairly large expense for a side business. Especially if you're making low margin sales.

    Just buying the software doesn't automate it into your workflow, so that's not the all-in cost. You have to integrate it into a (likely) custom e-commerce system to enable real-time sales and pricing. The small businesses don't have that either.

  2. Re:Enormous tax and administrative burdens on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're a business large enough to have a physical presence in multiple states, it's a trivial expense. If you're a small-time Internet retailer, you can't imagine it's an affordable service.

  3. Re:Enormous tax and administrative burdens on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    reference a table of tax rates updated on a regular basis

    OK, give me one.

  4. Re:What's changed since '92 in this regard? on Should You Pay Sales Tax on Internet Purchases? South Dakota Law Could Be The Test (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    OK. Let's say I'm some random guy on the Internet that wants to sell pieces of paper (let's keep it simple). Small company, two sales per week. How do I make my "computer" magically know about all the tax districts in the US and be able to calculate this?

    The answer is that I'd likely have to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars a year to a 3rd-party to do this for me, or it would be even MORE expensive doing the continual research and data entry myself. That's not just unfeasible, it wipes out entrepreneurship entirely.

  5. I know about PCMCIA cards, but not <name of their specific PCMCIA card> cards. Anyone have any idea?

    It's a matter of specificity

  6. and not depend on computers

    Someone here didn't even read the headline.

  7. Re: Duress print on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why a fingerprint makes a terrible password, as I've already stated elsewhere in the comments.

  8. Re:With 32 gig usb sticks so cheap ... on Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you mean FAT16 (minus one byte)?

  9. Re:Why is this news? on Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Quietly implies that there isn't any outward announcement., but there's a relatively official statement by Canonical on this. That's about as official as you can get for something that's not all that newsworthy.

  10. Re:Fingerprinting is new? on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    Printing with raised ink (or laser-compatible goldleaf type material) and folding it into a curve would defeat slightly more sophisticated hardware.

  11. Re:If he were, why isn't he using the money? on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Almost nobody accepts Bitcoins for payment, except through an exchange with all prices in USD. Nobody says "this game costs 1.3 BTC, now send me 1.3 BTC". This has almost no influence on Bitcoins current or future value.

  12. Re: Duress print on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    So if caught with the finger on a paper shredder power button, pressing ON is not tampering? Certainly being forced to press the OFF button is not a violation of Fifth Amendment.

    The only clause of the Fifth that applies is this:

    nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself

    The term "self-incrimination" is shorthand, but it's not really accurate for every interpretation. Putting your finger on the phone to unlock is not an act of testimony.

  13. Re: Duress print on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    So changing all the data on the phone (even if it could be decrypted to the same) is not tampering? Might as well just have it delete the private key instead (which is how remote wipe / too many guesses wipe works).

  14. Re:Fingerprinting is new? on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 1

    That's OK. The girlfriend had her phone in a case, and the case has her fingerprints on it (and that's assuming the phone has an anti-fingerprint coating on all of it and not just the glass).

  15. Re:Fingerprinting is new? on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds like a mistake to use your fingerprint as a password in that case, then. Not law enforcement's fault.

  16. Re: Duress print on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 2

    That won't help you. Unless the "wipe" included fake usage and history, that's tampering with evidence and a crime all its own. And if your fake data doesn't match call record metadata, that will still be easy to prove as tampering.

  17. Fingerprinting is new? on The Government Wants Your Fingerprint To Unlock Phones (dailygazette.com) · · Score: 0

    Since when was it uncommon for someone allegedly involved (directly or otherwise) to be fingerprinted? So they made someone do it to a phone instead of an ink pad this time. What's the task difference here?

  18. Re: In many ways paper maps continue to be superio on What Happened to Google Maps? (justinobeirne.com) · · Score: 2

    You really shouldn't be using paper maps while driving anyway. Too much detail is too distracting.

    If your phone is telling you where to turn, it also has a screen showing a close-up and the orientation and distance to that turn. If you don't have a good place to mount that screen or a newer vehicle with Android Auto, you're missing something you can't get on paper.

  19. Re: Useless? on Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    What AC said. That's about the most useless sounding form of QoS I've ever heard of. Ranking is very important.

  20. Re: Useless? on Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So put it at second priority and you'll get exactly that. The Chromecast bandwidth still won't be getting used if it's unplugged.

  21. Re: A proper API maybe? on Microsoft Limits Cortana Search Box In Windows 10 To Bing and Edge Only (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    What is it they say about turnabout?

  22. Useless? on Google's OnHub Is First WiFi Router To Support IFTTT (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    automatically prioritize Wi-Fi to your Chromecast when it connects to your OnHub network after you plug it in

    Or you could just leave it always-prioritized, and still have the same end result. Unplugged devices don't use much bandwidth.

  23. Re:Meh on iTunes Turns 13 Today -- Continues To Be 'Awful' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    iTunes has to manage music, handle ratings, act as a downloader, manage DRM, handle device reflashing (DFU or normal), sync apps/music/media with devices, handle backups of devices, handle restores, act as a music player, act as a movie player with a remote, rip CDs, and so on.

    This is exactly the problem with iTunes.

  24. Re:A great opportunity for a Slashdot revival on Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    After that, all of the moderation data should be released publicly

    No. Retaliation is a bad enough problem when APK thinks you're the one who downmodded them.

  25. Re:Software as a Service avoids open source benefi on Open365 Is An Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Office 365 (open365.io) · · Score: 1

    Web site still doesn't say how yet. It's mostly signup-walled.