Imagine if corporations actually paid taxes based on where their clients reside, not where they choose to set up a tax chop-shop.
Google is an American company, founded by Americans, with the majority of its operational offices in America, listed on the American stock markets, with board members and officers who are American citizens living and working in America, offering services to Americans. So what if they expanded globally? Good for them, but they are clearly still an American company - pay the American taxes or go get EU citizenship and move your corporate arses!
The Internet is more than just a protocol, but we already have found the next protocol: IPv6
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, know it? It's what you eat for breakfast every day. Don't change the subject. Not to mention IPv6 will remove your privacy and that is also a violation of your enjoyment of the interwebs.
I believe that it is the Corporations and Government Agencies that are making poor choices for the masses re: The Internet (against our will, I might add). They are the ones we struggle against to win our freedoms of information exchange.
Well, if you read the comment correctly that is the whole problem. If the masses are being driven to the slaughter then you must slaughter them. You hoped to vote the problem out but it's getting worse. Your financial choices are driving a larger portion of wealth to internet monopolies. Unedited, this will continue for 10 years before anyone blinks.
Nope, they must not die. Scaled down versions and detailed technical documentation must be preserved in order to fashion better networks to succeed them. Why throw away research and backup systems?
You're going to scale down Google? NSA? The cat already ate the mouse, his wife, kids, and his pet mousedog. The illusion of web must be destroyed, not the concept of web.
Yeah, no. Hopefully new generations will be able to access their predecessors knowledge and build upon it and their infrastructures a new and better system of idea and culture exchange (wasting less time re-implementing & rebuilding everything required for advancement beyond the current state).
Nope, right now we're looking at the next step, but are impeded by the Corporate Greed and ancient copyright and patent laws our Government's enforce.
Technology has no place in extinction; Old laws, beliefs and socio-political environments maybe, but certainly not technology... One can only re-invent the wheel so many times before realization that it's better to just build upon previous ideas and technological advancements than to invent them all over again.
The sheeple can't hear you until you threaten them with fear. The government and corporations won't respond until you scream bloody murder. Cooperation is merely personal greed. You can't win a war you've lost with technical charts and analysis.
It's like the Matrix, we're powering it with our queries and addiction to information. Me included, right now as I type away on the / and expect love and rewards, I am feeding the beast. The corps and agencies that are growing as a result of this behavior will eventually start eating us, our rights, our independence, our freedoms. Find a way out and I'll support it but you're offering nothing. Fight the power!
The internet is already dead. Writing about it its demise only prolongs agony. It's time to find the next protocol and destroy this illusion.
We're already enduring the obliteration of inconspicuous choices by the masses. A few of the old guard might remain but it's clearly become an uphill struggle in perpetuity.
The Web/Web2.0/Web3.x must all die. Then maybe a new generation will be ready to tear it all down. Right now they are too stupid to lose their interwebs and see or create what lies beyond.
This is just my perspective but these statements seem to be true:
The professor is pressuring the students to take the test, even though he probably can't.
Retaking the test potentially reveals those who cheated by their sudden score drop.
The university can't force a grade on anyone because they can't prove cheating without a retest.
Anyone who cheated and doesn't cop to it can't be proven guilty without some form of corroborating evidence (retest, witnesses, etc)
Any student who refuses to retake the test and receives anything other than an qualified grade will likely win in court. The Uni knows this and is probably going to let every student keep their midterm grade
The professor is upset and agitated, part of that is due to not being able to due more about the problem. He knows he got screwed over and he knows he doesn't have the power to bash heads, and it shows in his speech.
Re:Let's call it scam when it is a scam
on
The Ascendancy of .co
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
It's a scam to sell off.co domains as.com domains, and it should be outed as such by slashdot.
I smell lawsuit. Unwary and dumb users expect to have their hands held in this day and age.
This is a really uninformed error by the world's largest registrar. If you don't have a big blue banner that says "This is NOT a.COM domain -.CO domains are from COlumbia!" you are automatically setting yourself up for a class-action suit which you will assuredly lose or settle.
But maybe the GoDaddy lawyers already figured out the cost of the suit, the settlement and the legal fees, and the 90% markup still leaves more on the table than an ultra-competitive.com price. In which case, we are the sheeple and will be eaten soon by the GoDragon.
It's one of those bureaucratic loopholes. Without the GSA schedule and number, you can be dismissed from any offering regardless of how much time you put in. Did they really not have one? Almost seems like a bad oversight.
Honestly though, even if they did can they really think that suing the gov't over some minor app is going to win tons of dollars and contracts? Every spec can be written in the future in such a way to exclude a companies abilities ad infinitum.
MS Office 2007 or higher (limited to 1 million rows and 16 thousand columns) or 2 billion cells, beyond which supposedly opens the additional rows or columns into a second and third spreadsheet instead of the older 65536 (32bit) limit. Not that Excel is useful for much else
Pratchett said he had thrown in "several pieces of meteorites — thunderbolt iron, you see — highly magical, you’ve got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it or not". Pratchett has stored the sword in a secret location, apparently concerned about the authorities taking an interest in it.
Slashdot Mirror
You push button and missile goes correctly. If some missile don't go correctly you shoot more missile.
Imagine if corporations actually paid taxes based on where their clients reside, not where they choose to set up a tax chop-shop.
Google is an American company, founded by Americans, with the majority of its operational offices in America, listed on the American stock markets, with board members and officers who are American citizens living and working in America, offering services to Americans. So what if they expanded globally? Good for them, but they are clearly still an American company - pay the American taxes or go get EU citizenship and move your corporate arses!
The Internet is more than just a protocol, but we already have found the next protocol: IPv6
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, know it? It's what you eat for breakfast every day. Don't change the subject. Not to mention IPv6 will remove your privacy and that is also a violation of your enjoyment of the interwebs.
I believe that it is the Corporations and Government Agencies that are making poor choices for the masses re: The Internet (against our will, I might add). They are the ones we struggle against to win our freedoms of information exchange.
Well, if you read the comment correctly that is the whole problem. If the masses are being driven to the slaughter then you must slaughter them. You hoped to vote the problem out but it's getting worse. Your financial choices are driving a larger portion of wealth to internet monopolies. Unedited, this will continue for 10 years before anyone blinks.
Nope, they must not die. Scaled down versions and detailed technical documentation must be preserved in order to fashion better networks to succeed them. Why throw away research and backup systems?
You're going to scale down Google? NSA? The cat already ate the mouse, his wife, kids, and his pet mousedog. The illusion of web must be destroyed, not the concept of web.
Yeah, no. Hopefully new generations will be able to access their predecessors knowledge and build upon it and their infrastructures a new and better system of idea and culture exchange (wasting less time re-implementing & rebuilding everything required for advancement beyond the current state).
Nope, right now we're looking at the next step, but are impeded by the Corporate Greed and ancient copyright and patent laws our Government's enforce.
Technology has no place in extinction; Old laws, beliefs and socio-political environments maybe, but certainly not technology... One can only re-invent the wheel so many times before realization that it's better to just build upon previous ideas and technological advancements than to invent them all over again.
The sheeple can't hear you until you threaten them with fear. The government and corporations won't respond until you scream bloody murder. Cooperation is merely personal greed. You can't win a war you've lost with technical charts and analysis.
It's like the Matrix, we're powering it with our queries and addiction to information. Me included, right now as I type away on the / and expect love and rewards, I am feeding the beast. The corps and agencies that are growing as a result of this behavior will eventually start eating us, our rights, our independence, our freedoms. Find a way out and I'll support it but you're offering nothing. Fight the power!
The internet is already dead. Writing about it its demise only prolongs agony. It's time to find the next protocol and destroy this illusion.
We're already enduring the obliteration of inconspicuous choices by the masses. A few of the old guard might remain but it's clearly become an uphill struggle in perpetuity. The Web/Web2.0/Web3.x must all die. Then maybe a new generation will be ready to tear it all down. Right now they are too stupid to lose their interwebs and see or create what lies beyond.
The professor is upset and agitated, part of that is due to not being able to due more about the problem. He knows he got screwed over and he knows he doesn't have the power to bash heads, and it shows in his speech.
I will post my reply using my spacetime browser but you won't see it until several nanoseconds later!
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/11/500x_tsa-humor-book.jpg
can i haz stuxnet?
It's a scam to sell off .co domains as .com domains, and it should be outed as such by slashdot.
I smell lawsuit. Unwary and dumb users expect to have their hands held in this day and age.
.COM domain - .CO domains are from COlumbia!" you are automatically setting yourself up for a class-action suit which you will assuredly lose or settle.
.com price. In which case, we are the sheeple and will be eaten soon by the GoDragon.
This is a really uninformed error by the world's largest registrar. If you don't have a big blue banner that says "This is NOT a
But maybe the GoDaddy lawyers already figured out the cost of the suit, the settlement and the legal fees, and the 90% markup still leaves more on the table than an ultra-competitive
can i haz cheezburger pic?
Any good Windows administrator knows that you can't rely on a Microsoft product alone to solve your virus/trojan/keylogger/spyware/whatever problems.
Maybe Drew Carey or Clive Anderson can guest-animate.
It's one of those bureaucratic loopholes. Without the GSA schedule and number, you can be dismissed from any offering regardless of how much time you put in. Did they really not have one? Almost seems like a bad oversight.
Honestly though, even if they did can they really think that suing the gov't over some minor app is going to win tons of dollars and contracts? Every spec can be written in the future in such a way to exclude a companies abilities ad infinitum.
Sure, here you can't smoke in pubs and clubs etc anymore, but smoking in public is still allowed.
http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2010/oct/14/new-york-city-considers-public-smoking-ban/
There aren't going to be any laws that force people to stop smoking.
Move to NYC or SF - you can smoke in your house and your car. Most everything else is public property and off-limits.
It's like smoking: If you don't quit, they'll eventually pass laws that force you to.
On top of that, this past week Google bid 2 billion to acquire 111 Eighth Ave, New York's ISP hub in Manhattan http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/google-near-purchase-of-nyc-landmark-building-at-111-eighth-ave/19692398/
But a bribe would imply corruption, which is unlikely in NZ Gov http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results
MS Office 2007 or higher (limited to 1 million rows and 16 thousand columns) or 2 billion cells, beyond which supposedly opens the additional rows or columns into a second and third spreadsheet instead of the older 65536 (32bit) limit. Not that Excel is useful for much else
The pope also warned that condoms would lead to an epidemic of sex and suggested they should be confiscated and molded into a giant plastic jesus.
I can haz revolution?
Fastest password crack ever: Click "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue"
All of the above combined
That reason is inconceivable.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Pratchett said he had thrown in "several pieces of meteorites — thunderbolt iron, you see — highly magical, you’ve got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it or not". Pratchett has stored the sword in a secret location, apparently concerned about the authorities taking an interest in it.