That's why you send about 50% of the profits to the shareholders as stock dividends, to cover their tax liability. ("about 50%" because you want to adjust the amount to match the highest marginal state and federal tax-rate for the shareholders.)
Of course, ideally you won't have any "profits" because you'll be spending a lot of money on:
Salaries (mostly your pocket, but don't forget to pay spouse/kids/significant-other for answering phones, etc.),
Equipment (computer, networking gear),
Services (DSL, cell-phone, etc., and
Rent (the S-corp rents a spare bedroom from you to use an an office).
If you set up an S-corp, then it doesn't have to pay any taxes. Instead, all tax liability gets passed on to the stockholders. S-corps are usually used for businesses that will show a loss for tax purposes, allowing the owners to reduce their taxes, but they can be useful for consultants as well. One nice trick is to pass 50% of the profits to the owners (i.e., you) to cover your tax bill, the rest stays with the company to cover business expenses (computers, cell phones, etc.).
I understand that LLC's offer the same tax advantages as S-corps, but I've never owned any of them.
I've only used TurboTax and TaxCut myself, and the Deluxe versions of either should have everything that you need. The simple fact is that not getting a W-2 complicates your tax situation tremendously, so you'll need tax preparation software eventually. The Deluxe versions of both TurboTax and TaxCut have "expert assistance" to guide you through a series of questions that will explain exactly what you can and cannot deduct.
I tried searching for info on the 1989 Bay area earthquake, but couldn't find any of the postings that I dimly recall from that time.
I particularly recall a description from someone living on a hillside. He was looking down at the mostly dark Bay, lit only by the eerie green glow of burning power transformers.
I think that it was posted in an alt newsgroup, and those don't seem to be nearly as well represented in the archives.
A pity.
Back in January, I was "interviewed" for
an article in Wired about some files that I had lost and then recovered via Google's cache. At the time, I mentioned that there was still one file missing, a Usenet posting.Well, I've got it back now!
From the article: "The guys at Google thought, 'How cool that we can offer this to our users' without thinking about security." -- Gary McGraw
Allow me to disagree. This fellow apparantly agrees with Microsoft that people shouldn't publish code exploits and weaknesses. Sorry, but anyone who had secret information available to the external web is in the exact same boat as someone who has an unpatched IIS server or is running SQL Server without a password.
Let's assume that Google had (a) somehow figured out from day one that people would search for passwords, credit card numbers, etc, and (b) figured out some way to recognize such data to help keep it secret. Should they have publisized this fact or kept it a secret? Publicity would just mean that every script kiddie would be out writting their own search engines, looking for the things that Google et al were avoiding. Secrecy would mean that a very few black hats would write their own search engines, and the victims of such searches would have no idea how their secrets were being compromised.
But this assumes that there's someway of accomplishing item (B), which I claim is very difficult indeed. In fact, it would be harder to accomplish than natural language recognition. Think about it... Secrets are frequently obscure, to the point that to a computer they look like noise. Most credit cards, for example, use 16 digit numbers. Should Google not index any page containing a string of 16 consecutive digits? How about pages that contain SQL code? How would one not index those, but still index the on-line tutorials at MySQL, Oracle, etc?
The only "solution" is to recognize that this problem belongs in the lap of the web site's owner, and the search engine(s) have no fundamental responsibilty.
We have the technology to create parodies of web-sites in real time. And we have ways to translate text in real time. How about copying Civ (and other games) to a JIT-translating file server.
Here's one method off the top of my head: Put the files on a Linux filesystem, exported via SAMBA. Add a hook that intercepts text, routes it through the fish, and sends it on the the game system. The first time the file is accessed, things will be slow, but the file server can cache the translations so that subsequent accesses will be much faster.
Controversy over translation of the US play Civilization 3 escalates
The controversy over the translation of the US play Civilization 3 (Civ3) by fans of the play escalates. The company Infogrames, who possesses world-wide the rights to distribute, sent to the 39-jaehrigen project manager dock Fiebach additionally for the provisional order an omission assertion and a lawyer calculation at a value of over 1.000 Marks. The calculation called, requires Infogrames fast groundless however further the delivery of the omission assertion. Fiebach needs more time according to own specification however, in order to confer with its lawyer over the individual points exactly.
In the omission assertion Fiebach is requested Stephan Wiedorfer, by the lawyer of the enterprise, to omit any processing the computer program Civilization 3 and so far created to ' processing ' no more to spread. With an offence against this agreement Fiebach would have to pay a contractual penalty at a value of 20.000 Marks as well as transfer the lawyer costs.
Fiebach could not fulfill these demands according to its predicates -- however the condition to be responsible for further files which are based on its translation which distribute third over the network. " as I am to control ", express myself Fiebach annoyed opposite heise on-line.
Besides it is impossible in opinion of Fiebach to consult within the set period its lawyer. It is annoyed about the behavior of employer speaker Michael Wetzel, which guessed/advised it to the lawyer assistance, it however for it no extension of the period not described more near enables in particular. " Mr. Wetzel even guessed/advised me to switch a lawyer on. Mine is however in the vacation and I at present knows myself not, as I with restraint is ", does not deplore myself Fiebach. The demand, Civilization 3 might be translated not through third, is to opinion of Fiebach besides in the glaring contrast to the comments and the initial assistance of a support coworker of the Civilization developer Firaxis. This had helped Fiebach at the beginning of the translation work and even for its Community support had praised.
Likewise under bombardment the operators of the German-language Civilization-3 largest according to own specification are guessed/advised - Fansite Civ3.de , which is led even on the Firaxis homepage in the column Fansites. The two operators likewise received an omission assertion. Fiebach explained in the meantime, he respected the decision of the Site operators to delete the project web page and lock the FTP acces.
Infogrames speaker Michael Wetzel understands the disappointment of Fiebach, does not want however despite the protests of the fans not from the course to deviate and a time extension grant. In a discussion with heise on-line it made clear that it concerns itself with the play around property of Infogrames. Therefore be out of the question a translation through third, particularly since Infogrames Germany counts on not insignificant incomes with the sales starting from March 2002 of the available German version of Civ 3.
The fact that the fans of Civ3 do not agree with the behavior shows various forum contributions to the Infogrames Website.Auch those daily more than 200 Mails, which achieve the enterprise according to firm speaker Wetzel daily, makes by the majority their displeasure over this situation air -- partial in quite harschen words ( daa / c't)
The major vendors each have their own unique key, and the key is tied to the BIOS of the PC, he says. So when a company such as Dell ships you a Windows XP PC, the company has pre-activated the software for you.
So, I need to fire up a pre-installed copy of WinXP on systems by two manufacturers, using a hardware debugger to spot where the instructions diverge, check out the BIOS differences that are triggering the branch, and then use VM software that intercepts the instructions that check the BIOS to ensure that it looks "right". I'll get right on that!
Looks like you're probably hosed. The p0rn site that seems to own it now won't want to let it go cheap. (1) They got it so that they could try sell p0rn to everyone who bookmarked it when it belonged to the radio station. (2) They're probably pretty happy that they're being slashdotted right now, because that's more people that they can try to sell p0rn to.
Your best bet is arbitration, since the domain pretty obviously has nothing to do with their real business.
So, if I now understand correctly, posting a message with the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox unchecked means that I get 1 point added to my score, but it costs me a point of karma; posting a message with the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox checked means that I get no points added to my score, and my karma remains untouched.
I was just about to post a question about this. I've been seeing the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox for some time now, but I never knew what it did and I couldn't find anywhere at/. that explained it. So, sometimes I'd check it, and sometimes I wouldn't, and I could never figure out what the difference was, and I don't have the time to "use the Source".
Let's see, first of all, the federal government produces things, just not (often) things that commerce finds profitable. Interstate highways, public vacination programs, and oh yeah, let's not forget a little thing called the Internet.
One of the few functions of government that even Libertarians agree with is to provide for the common defense. This defense can take many forms, such as the planes flying sorties over the East and West coasts since 9/11. There's also police protection, such as is provided by the FBI. There's protection of the public well-being, such as is provided by the CDC.
Finally, there is protection from those who would abuse the free market system that you claim to admire. Monopolies break free markets. Yes, I know that card-carrying Libertarians don't fully agree on that point, but their position papers clearly state that only government regulation creates monopolies, completely ignoring the fact that the sale of information (books, music, software) differs in several fundamental ways from the sale of material goods.
On the other hand, copyrights are the only goverment regulations that I can think of that have assisted the RIAA, the MPAA, and Microsoft in establishing their monopolies. So maybe the Libertarians are right! Let's tell Microsoft that we'll let them completely off the hook, no breakup, no fines, no punishments of any kind, except that they will have to forgo copyrights on their products forever more. Heck, I'd even let them keep the source code for everything secret for as long as they are able, just as long as they realize that if any of it ever gets out, they couldn't do anything to stop its spread.
Just to mention one error that shows up on almost every page, "independance" isn't the way to spell "independence". And yes, I know that he's Canadian, but I'm pretty sure that the British spelling is the same.
Why would encryption reduce the bandwidth? Encrypted data is generally the same size as the original, depending on whether a block or stream cypher is used and how much, if any, header data is attached to the message.
It's the only thing that I can think of that fits. Seahaven supposedly had 5,000 cameras, not 1,000, but maybe 80% of them were off-line most of the time. And you just know that Christof would've wanted every bit of video kept forever, because you never know when an event from Truman's childhood might have significance that isn't realized until years later. But only keeping B&W is OK, because it signals to the audience that they're watching archival footage.
Unfortunately for your example, Tog was researching Macs, not Windows. Tognazzini also is on record as saying that performing a task on Windows takes up to five times longer than on a Mac, due to several bad design decisions. See here for more info.
I was having trouble with the link, so here's the text...
Lego robot Jiiter sweeps in the space station EATS
(tecChannel.de) Konrad and Bastian black brook won with its " model " jitter " the Ultimate builder " Competition of Lego Mindstorms. The small robot from Lego sections and technique will fly in November to the space station IIS.
Of 124 users in the competition also
the slogan " Lego Mindstorms " the last ten met goes space to the final in Munich. In presence of jury protector and astronaut Ulf Merbold were explained to father and son black brook as the winner. The winner model jitter is in EATS flying around sections to in-collect, at least is programmed it apart from other functions for it. Special prices went to the muscle coach for astronaut the one sechskoepfiges team out of Austria/Germany and Switzerland built.
With jitters the crew gets an aid to the hand, which, if it in weightlessness works satisfactorily, freely in-collects flying particles in the space station. Additionally communicate jitter with tones and light signal on its finds or contacts with the cab wall. Jitter is based on the salesusual Lego Mindstorm sections. Hitachi H8 micro CONTROLLER, programmable chips, which are likewise standard, form the heart.
Progarmmiert became jitter of Konrad black brook in Java (TinyVM).
If jitter is switched on in the IIS under weightlessness, it must be brought into a calm orientation position. The Z-axis should show thereby direction passenger lighting, one permanent guideline assistance of jitters. Afterwards the robot turns some 360 degrees of roles around its control parameters to initialize and can with easy thrust in travel be brought.
Jitter operates with impulse drive. But permanently a cam disk in a cage is propelled. With contact with the external wall the cage shifts. Depending upon impact direction such an impulse is produced into the opposite direction.
Otherwise is the robot with light -, contact and rotation sensors equipped it on its course to lead and steer are. Jitter function it is to be in-collected flying around sections, which it sweeps with a broom from Lego hoses into a chamber in its korpus. If jitter pushes against a wall, the chamber closes automatically, so that the past charge is not again scattered. Jitter reacted additionally over the contact sensors on caper flaxnesses and flips and is programmed, about on all kinds of nonsense Anschleichen and frightening, dancing and continuous rotating. Additionally it reacts to sign movements, which it analyses with its infrared sensors.
One of the functions for the Mindstorm technical designers was it to accommodate their robots into a crate of 30x30x30 centimeter. Jitter can be transported, which did not succeed to all models, therein in a piece. Additionally the models may not be heavier than 1400 gram. For Bastian black brook, which had taken over the mechanical construction, was that the most difficult function. It has jitters taken and again (differently) assembled that it in the meantime know each section in the sleep, said so often apart it during the award of the prize in Siemens (Frankfurt: 723610.F , message ) - forum Munich. The two Tueftler live in the control center in Moscow will see the start of their robot to the acid test in the universe (uba)
Ok. Ok.. I got another one: The right to prevent people from running my programs. The right to prevent people from listening to my music. The right to prevent people from reading my comments.
Hey! are you reading my comments?? Stop it! They are mine!
And don't you dare using my idea's in your own comments!
I have a Nokia phone and my wife has an Ericson. Both of them have a special "speed dial" for 911 calls. (On mine, press and hold "9", after a couple of seconds you're connected.) I would imagine that this would also activate the GPS feature.
And for those who live someplace where the numer isn't 911, the manual for my phone states only that the speed dial will connect you to "emergency services" and that you can't reprogram the number dialed. I presume that the provider could set this number to whatever was appropriate for the region.
I, too, interviewed at Fermi in early June. It got down to me and one other person, they went with the other guy. Needless to say, I was a bit disappointed.
But to return to the topic, yeah, I was *very* impressed with the hardware, too. The only thing that really surprised me, given the vast number of Linux boxes, was how much software they built themselves. Not the scientific stuff, that's got to be custom, but then more mundane infrastructure stuff. If hired, I was going to maintain something that was a cross between CVS and rdist, with a bit of Big Brother thrown in for good measure.
They also seemed to have written their own clustering software from scratch. Not that I minded. Heck, I would have loved a chance to get paid to reinvent some open source wheels.;-)
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If it needs anything more than curses to run, I ain't interested.
Of course, ideally you won't have any "profits" because you'll be spending a lot of money on:
If you set up an S-corp, then it doesn't have to pay any taxes. Instead, all tax liability gets passed on to the stockholders. S-corps are usually used for businesses that will show a loss for tax purposes, allowing the owners to reduce their taxes, but they can be useful for consultants as well. One nice trick is to pass 50% of the profits to the owners (i.e., you) to cover your tax bill, the rest stays with the company to cover business expenses (computers, cell phones, etc.).
I understand that LLC's offer the same tax advantages as S-corps, but I've never owned any of them.
- TaxACT
- TaxCut
- TaxSlayer
- TurboTax
I've only used TurboTax and TaxCut myself, and the Deluxe versions of either should have everything that you need. The simple fact is that not getting a W-2 complicates your tax situation tremendously, so you'll need tax preparation software eventually. The Deluxe versions of both TurboTax and TaxCut have "expert assistance" to guide you through a series of questions that will explain exactly what you can and cannot deduct.I particularly recall a description from someone living on a hillside. He was looking down at the mostly dark Bay, lit only by the eerie green glow of burning power transformers.
I think that it was posted in an alt newsgroup, and those don't seem to be nearly as well represented in the archives. A pity.
Thanks a million, Google!
The article doesn't list any sellers, but I want to buy one quick, before Disney stormtroopers sweep down and confiscate them from the stores.
Allow me to disagree. This fellow apparantly agrees with Microsoft that people shouldn't publish code exploits and weaknesses. Sorry, but anyone who had secret information available to the external web is in the exact same boat as someone who has an unpatched IIS server or is running SQL Server without a password.
Let's assume that Google had (a) somehow figured out from day one that people would search for passwords, credit card numbers, etc, and (b) figured out some way to recognize such data to help keep it secret. Should they have publisized this fact or kept it a secret? Publicity would just mean that every script kiddie would be out writting their own search engines, looking for the things that Google et al were avoiding. Secrecy would mean that a very few black hats would write their own search engines, and the victims of such searches would have no idea how their secrets were being compromised.
But this assumes that there's someway of accomplishing item (B), which I claim is very difficult indeed. In fact, it would be harder to accomplish than natural language recognition. Think about it... Secrets are frequently obscure, to the point that to a computer they look like noise. Most credit cards, for example, use 16 digit numbers. Should Google not index any page containing a string of 16 consecutive digits? How about pages that contain SQL code? How would one not index those, but still index the on-line tutorials at MySQL, Oracle, etc?
The only "solution" is to recognize that this problem belongs in the lap of the web site's owner, and the search engine(s) have no fundamental responsibilty.
Here's one method off the top of my head: Put the files on a Linux filesystem, exported via SAMBA. Add a hook that intercepts text, routes it through the fish, and sends it on the the game system. The first time the file is accessed, things will be slow, but the file server can cache the translations so that subsequent accesses will be much faster.
The controversy over the translation of the US play Civilization 3 (Civ3) by fans of the play escalates. The company Infogrames, who possesses world-wide the rights to distribute, sent to the 39-jaehrigen project manager dock Fiebach additionally for the provisional order an omission assertion and a lawyer calculation at a value of over 1.000 Marks. The calculation called, requires Infogrames fast groundless however further the delivery of the omission assertion. Fiebach needs more time according to own specification however, in order to confer with its lawyer over the individual points exactly.
In the omission assertion Fiebach is requested Stephan Wiedorfer, by the lawyer of the enterprise, to omit any processing the computer program Civilization 3 and so far created to ' processing ' no more to spread. With an offence against this agreement Fiebach would have to pay a contractual penalty at a value of 20.000 Marks as well as transfer the lawyer costs.
Fiebach could not fulfill these demands according to its predicates -- however the condition to be responsible for further files which are based on its translation which distribute third over the network. " as I am to control ", express myself Fiebach annoyed opposite heise on-line.
Besides it is impossible in opinion of Fiebach to consult within the set period its lawyer. It is annoyed about the behavior of employer speaker Michael Wetzel, which guessed/advised it to the lawyer assistance, it however for it no extension of the period not described more near enables in particular. " Mr. Wetzel even guessed/advised me to switch a lawyer on. Mine is however in the vacation and I at present knows myself not, as I with restraint is ", does not deplore myself Fiebach. The demand, Civilization 3 might be translated not through third, is to opinion of Fiebach besides in the glaring contrast to the comments and the initial assistance of a support coworker of the Civilization developer Firaxis. This had helped Fiebach at the beginning of the translation work and even for its Community support had praised.
Likewise under bombardment the operators of the German-language Civilization-3 largest according to own specification are guessed/advised - Fansite Civ3.de , which is led even on the Firaxis homepage in the column Fansites. The two operators likewise received an omission assertion. Fiebach explained in the meantime, he respected the decision of the Site operators to delete the project web page and lock the FTP acces.
Infogrames speaker Michael Wetzel understands the disappointment of Fiebach, does not want however despite the protests of the fans not from the course to deviate and a time extension grant. In a discussion with heise on-line it made clear that it concerns itself with the play around property of Infogrames. Therefore be out of the question a translation through third, particularly since Infogrames Germany counts on not insignificant incomes with the sales starting from March 2002 of the available German version of Civ 3.
The fact that the fans of Civ3 do not agree with the behavior shows various forum contributions to the Infogrames Website.Auch those daily more than 200 Mails, which achieve the enterprise according to firm speaker Wetzel daily, makes by the majority their displeasure over this situation air -- partial in quite harschen words ( daa / c't)
So, I need to fire up a pre-installed copy of WinXP on systems by two manufacturers, using a hardware debugger to spot where the instructions diverge, check out the BIOS differences that are triggering the branch, and then use VM software that intercepts the instructions that check the BIOS to ensure that it looks "right". I'll get right on that!
Hey, I listen to all of the files on *my* 30 gig drive. I've got a few really big playlists that get shuffle-played every day while I'm at work.
Your best bet is arbitration, since the domain pretty obviously has nothing to do with their real business.
I was just about to post a question about this. I've been seeing the "No Score +1 Bonus" checkbox for some time now, but I never knew what it did and I couldn't find anywhere at /. that explained it. So, sometimes I'd check it, and sometimes I wouldn't, and I could never figure out what the difference was, and I don't have the time to "use the Source".
Let's see, first of all, the federal government produces things, just not (often) things that commerce finds profitable. Interstate highways, public vacination programs, and oh yeah, let's not forget a little thing called the Internet.
One of the few functions of government that even Libertarians agree with is to provide for the common defense. This defense can take many forms, such as the planes flying sorties over the East and West coasts since 9/11. There's also police protection, such as is provided by the FBI. There's protection of the public well-being, such as is provided by the CDC.
Finally, there is protection from those who would abuse the free market system that you claim to admire. Monopolies break free markets. Yes, I know that card-carrying Libertarians don't fully agree on that point, but their position papers clearly state that only government regulation creates monopolies, completely ignoring the fact that the sale of information (books, music, software) differs in several fundamental ways from the sale of material goods.
On the other hand, copyrights are the only goverment regulations that I can think of that have assisted the RIAA, the MPAA, and Microsoft in establishing their monopolies. So maybe the Libertarians are right! Let's tell Microsoft that we'll let them completely off the hook, no breakup, no fines, no punishments of any kind, except that they will have to forgo copyrights on their products forever more. Heck, I'd even let them keep the source code for everything secret for as long as they are able, just as long as they realize that if any of it ever gets out, they couldn't do anything to stop its spread.
Just to mention one error that shows up on almost every page, "independance" isn't the way to spell "independence". And yes, I know that he's Canadian, but I'm pretty sure that the British spelling is the same.
Why would encryption reduce the bandwidth? Encrypted data is generally the same size as the original, depending on whether a block or stream cypher is used and how much, if any, header data is attached to the message.
It's the only thing that I can think of that fits. Seahaven supposedly had 5,000 cameras, not 1,000, but maybe 80% of them were off-line most of the time. And you just know that Christof would've wanted every bit of video kept forever, because you never know when an event from Truman's childhood might have significance that isn't realized until years later. But only keeping B&W is OK, because it signals to the audience that they're watching archival footage.
Unfortunately for your example, Tog was researching Macs, not Windows. Tognazzini also is on record as saying that performing a task on Windows takes up to five times longer than on a Mac, due to several bad design decisions. See here for more info.
Hey! are you reading my comments?? Stop it! They are mine!
And don't you dare using my idea's in your own comments!
And for those who live someplace where the numer isn't 911, the manual for my phone states only that the speed dial will connect you to "emergency services" and that you can't reprogram the number dialed. I presume that the provider could set this number to whatever was appropriate for the region.
But to return to the topic, yeah, I was *very* impressed with the hardware, too. The only thing that really surprised me, given the vast number of Linux boxes, was how much software they built themselves. Not the scientific stuff, that's got to be custom, but then more mundane infrastructure stuff. If hired, I was going to maintain something that was a cross between CVS and rdist, with a bit of Big Brother thrown in for good measure.
They also seemed to have written their own clustering software from scratch. Not that I minded. Heck, I would have loved a chance to get paid to reinvent some open source wheels. ;-)