None of that is senior management level decision making. All they need to know is "this program can do this, requires this level of spend to make work". The lower level technical shit should be abstracted away from them, all they need to know is something like "we'll need $50k to upgrade our hardware to run this properly". That's all that is relevant.
100% that. Teaching senior management IT is a complete waste of fucking time. They are senior management because they should be spending their time making business decisions in the best interest of the company. Leave teh IT nerd shit to those who are actually qualified in it. IT is a profession, you can't teach it in a couple of sittings. All you'll achieve is give them something half-assed that they can use to make bad decisions with.
They presumably have specialist IT staff to advise them on decisions of a technical nature. If they don't they should do. Having management make IT decisions is like getting the work experience kid out of filing and asking him to close a joint venture deal. It's fucking retarded, and will not end well.
Closed circuit monitoring is different to video/photo that is automatically uploaded to Google+, potentially geotagged, processed for facial recognition (and thus tagged to a user profile), etc.
For a crowd usually so up in arms over privacy matters due to fucking web browser cookies, you'd think this level of free government surveillance would get a little more concern.
But hey, it's google, they can do no wrong, right?
I think you overestimate the potential size of the US market compared to the rest of the world including china. Also you under-estimate the rest of the world's population who do not consider "made in USA" to be a good thing. Quite the reverse in fact. The only products we see made in the US in the rest of the world are shitty low quality cars and low-tech stone age motorcycles.
No, most of the wars in the past 2-3 decades have been instigated by the US (either directly or by CIA involvement to destabilise the country in question). Let me remind you that for all the crap spouted about democracy - the UN is a democracy - which the US conveniently ignores.
Err... most iphone users are reluctant to spend any money on anything unless there is no free alternative. My ex had about a hundred apps on her iphone and paid for maybe 5 of them. And no, none of them were warez. There is a heap of free and ad supported content on that platform. IF the user is likely to pay for something, there's very little chance of them stepping up to 10 dollars or more - the norm is maybe 1-2 dollars.
If the cost to replace is 190k, the cost to clean is 130k, and the machines are say, over 18 months old (i.e., book value depreciated by 50%), it is probably not worth cleaning them and just replacing with current hardware, OS, etc. Certainly of dubious value spending 60% plus of replacement cost in maintenance in any case.
If that sounds crazy - if you had a 30k car, and got slapped with a 20k service, you'd seriously consider fucking the car off, yes? Computers are no different.
ANFO is also extensively used in the mining industry. If they get rid of it they will need to come up with an equivalent cheap explosive or deal with the price increase in everything that comes out of holes in the ground.
Causing cancer is probably a win anyway for the medical/drug industry and reduces the problems of paying out benefits or otherwise providing for those who are retired and on pensions.
Because it is inconceivable that 2 different people in 2 lines of work might buy fertilizer and bleach and co-operate. Like say, a cleaning company and a farmer...
Yeah, wasn't claiming to be offering financial advice, but taxation works both ways. If they're going to tax you on a profit on someting then the costs incurred to generate said profit are often/usually tax deductible. Which would make your hardware tax deductible, as well.
If they want to start taxing bitcoin, they need/should start taking the costs to generate bitcoin into account for tax purposes also, like any other profit generating activity.
If you cut your military budget down to say, only 2-3 times your largest potential adversary's, and used it for defence rather than empire building, you'd probably be in surplus in no time.
IF this is the case (I don't have the figures) I can tell you now that the government of Denmark spends a lot higher percentage of it's spending on PRODUCTIVE pusuits, rather than warfare and playing world police. PRODUCTIVE government spending is not a bad thing. Pissing money into the wind chasing ghosts and suppressing your population's civil rights, is.
If this is the case, then you should be able to claim power consumption costs for bitcoin mining as a tax deduction. Which could alter the profitability of mining.
You're just pushing TRUST out to the remote site. Are you really sure that EVERY single website you use is likely to adhere to any sort of sane security standards, and have competent security-aware web developers?
Random usernames. Random passwords. This whole "your email address is your username" thing is retarded.
Don't make users log in with their email address. Give them a randomly generated username and password combination.
This whole practice of forcing you to use an EASILY identifiable piece of information (your email) as one of the autentication factors is just retarded.
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None of that is senior management level decision making. All they need to know is "this program can do this, requires this level of spend to make work". The lower level technical shit should be abstracted away from them, all they need to know is something like "we'll need $50k to upgrade our hardware to run this properly". That's all that is relevant.
100% that. Teaching senior management IT is a complete waste of fucking time. They are senior management because they should be spending their time making business decisions in the best interest of the company. Leave teh IT nerd shit to those who are actually qualified in it. IT is a profession, you can't teach it in a couple of sittings. All you'll achieve is give them something half-assed that they can use to make bad decisions with.
They presumably have specialist IT staff to advise them on decisions of a technical nature. If they don't they should do. Having management make IT decisions is like getting the work experience kid out of filing and asking him to close a joint venture deal. It's fucking retarded, and will not end well.
Closed circuit monitoring is different to video/photo that is automatically uploaded to Google+, potentially geotagged, processed for facial recognition (and thus tagged to a user profile), etc.
For a crowd usually so up in arms over privacy matters due to fucking web browser cookies, you'd think this level of free government surveillance would get a little more concern.
But hey, it's google, they can do no wrong, right?
"publishing" = uploading to the internet? e.g., with google's live upload crap?
I think you overestimate the potential size of the US market compared to the rest of the world including china. Also you under-estimate the rest of the world's population who do not consider "made in USA" to be a good thing. Quite the reverse in fact. The only products we see made in the US in the rest of the world are shitty low quality cars and low-tech stone age motorcycles.
No, most of the wars in the past 2-3 decades have been instigated by the US (either directly or by CIA involvement to destabilise the country in question). Let me remind you that for all the crap spouted about democracy - the UN is a democracy - which the US conveniently ignores.
They're aussie dollars, so by the time the law is ratified it will likely be the equivalent of about 100 million $us.
Or you could just use a browser that hasn't been user-hostile for a few years now.
Err... most iphone users are reluctant to spend any money on anything unless there is no free alternative. My ex had about a hundred apps on her iphone and paid for maybe 5 of them. And no, none of them were warez. There is a heap of free and ad supported content on that platform. IF the user is likely to pay for something, there's very little chance of them stepping up to 10 dollars or more - the norm is maybe 1-2 dollars.
Well, depending on tax law...
If the cost to replace is 190k, the cost to clean is 130k, and the machines are say, over 18 months old (i.e., book value depreciated by 50%), it is probably not worth cleaning them and just replacing with current hardware, OS, etc. Certainly of dubious value spending 60% plus of replacement cost in maintenance in any case.
If that sounds crazy - if you had a 30k car, and got slapped with a 20k service, you'd seriously consider fucking the car off, yes? Computers are no different.
ANFO is also extensively used in the mining industry. If they get rid of it they will need to come up with an equivalent cheap explosive or deal with the price increase in everything that comes out of holes in the ground.
Causing cancer is probably a win anyway for the medical/drug industry and reduces the problems of paying out benefits or otherwise providing for those who are retired and on pensions.
Because it is inconceivable that 2 different people in 2 lines of work might buy fertilizer and bleach and co-operate. Like say, a cleaning company and a farmer...
You're not taking into account the increased profit for fertilizer manufacturers. Starvation, death, etc. are all of secondary concern to the big $.
Yeah, pretty much that. I mean, a primary explosive component you could use would be say... gasoline? Chlorine + brake fluid? LPG?
Everything in the computing landscape since the 1940s is an incremental development of an existing product...
Apple II pre-dates the C64 by a number of years. The VIC-20 wasn't really mass-market.
Yeah, wasn't claiming to be offering financial advice, but taxation works both ways. If they're going to tax you on a profit on someting then the costs incurred to generate said profit are often/usually tax deductible. Which would make your hardware tax deductible, as well.
If they want to start taxing bitcoin, they need/should start taking the costs to generate bitcoin into account for tax purposes also, like any other profit generating activity.
If you cut your military budget down to say, only 2-3 times your largest potential adversary's, and used it for defence rather than empire building, you'd probably be in surplus in no time.
IF this is the case (I don't have the figures) I can tell you now that the government of Denmark spends a lot higher percentage of it's spending on PRODUCTIVE pusuits, rather than warfare and playing world police. PRODUCTIVE government spending is not a bad thing. Pissing money into the wind chasing ghosts and suppressing your population's civil rights, is.
If this is the case, then you should be able to claim power consumption costs for bitcoin mining as a tax deduction. Which could alter the profitability of mining.
Yes. Put it in a keychain, paper, or whatever. You can't "remember" properly secure randomly generated passwords for each website anyhow.
You're just pushing TRUST out to the remote site. Are you really sure that EVERY single website you use is likely to adhere to any sort of sane security standards, and have competent security-aware web developers?
Random usernames. Random passwords. This whole "your email address is your username" thing is retarded.
Don't make users log in with their email address. Give them a randomly generated username and password combination.
This whole practice of forcing you to use an EASILY identifiable piece of information (your email) as one of the autentication factors is just retarded.
Can I burn it with fire? No? Same storage? Well then it's NOT a backup.