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  1. Re:Corporate taxes on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 1

    No I'm not. I'm addressing both state and federal taxes. They both exist and are real and apply to any US based corporation. Any solution necessarily involves both.

  2. Re:Corporate taxes on To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's fix the corporate tax evasion first please.

    Let's fix corporate taxes first, so that there is no evasion.

    Both. The US has very high corporate taxes (relative to other countries) but also has the most advanced system of tax loopholes ever developed by a corrupt legislature. States frequently offer tax incentives to big companies to move or stay in a state, while leaving the same unpalatable taxes (like business property taxes on machines and furniture) on everyone else.

    Tax corps uniformly and quit with the loopholes and the same same income would come in at a lower tax rate, thus addressing both evasion and avoidance.

  3. Re:Dare to be stupid on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 1

    Fine excuse. I didn't live in the US in the 80s. We didn't have that crap on TV where I'm from.

  4. Re:False flag ... on Service Promises To Leak Your Documents If the Government Murders You · · Score: 2

    Probably a false flag operation to identify potential whistleblowers. :-)

    Could be.

    The only way to do it is to arrange your own procedure using things you control and know.

  5. The web site sucks. on The UPS Store Will 3-D Print Stuff For You · · Score: 3, Informative

    I took a look at the 3D printing serves section on the UPS web site. It gives you precisely zero details on how or what to do. They claim an F.A.Q. is "What Kind of things can I 3D Print". But they don't think "What 3D file formats do you accept" is an FAQ, when it is obviously the first thing you want to know after "Is this going to bankrupt me?"

    The web site is hermetically sealed. No useful information can escape.

  6. Re:10 Million? on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 2

    Don't believe everything you hear online. Try it for yourself to be sure.

  7. 10 Million? on Apple Sells More Than 10 Million New iPhones In First 3 Days · · Score: 1

    let's hope they don't have any bugs in those phones, or they'll have to replace them all.

  8. Re:In lost the will to live ... on How Our Botched Understanding of "Science" Ruins Everything · · Score: 1

    >Or at least that's the only explanation I can see for a non-violent atheism.

    WTF has non violence got to do atheism? Atheism is a one liner. Other things, like violence, or ice cream preference or table manners are orthogonal.

  9. The Time? on Researchers Propose a Revocable Identity-Based Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1

    After reading through it, my first response to new IBE schemes is "Can I implement it efficiently in hardware?". In this instance, no. The need for bignum arithmetic is a problem since it leads a nondeterministic state requirement. Worse is it appears to require a common understanding of time between the interacting entities. If IBE is used for the key management and those keys are used to secure a common, secure notion of time, then you have a circular dependency.

    I'll need to go an abduct a proper crypto mathematician to check my interpretation though.

  10. Re:dangit, he's dead jin! on Google Partners With HTC For Latest Nexus Tablet · · Score: 1, Troll

    Taiwan is China. China is the '"People's" republic of verbosity in the land that people including geography and history call china and is known a china'

    In capitalist China, Communist China invades you.

  11. Re:Dare to be stupid on Friendly Reminder: Do Not Place Your iPhone In a Microwave · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Put your head in a microwave, and give yourself a tan..."

    Doesn't work. You have to stick a screwdriver in the door interlock so it will come on while your head is in there and the door is open.

  12. Some Math Required. on Ask Slashdot: How To Pick Up Astronomy and Physics As an Adult? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I recommend "The Theoretical Minimum" books as a good starter to get you through to the level of mathematics needed to be able to read the quantum math and vector/tensor calculus used in field equations. Statistical calculus also.

    Once you have these under your belt, comprehending the real physics textbooks and papers will be unlocked.

    This stuff is not hard are impenetrable, but the language is if you don't know it. The language isn't hard or impenetrable. E.G. Vector calculus is much simpler that algebra. Just find a good book or teacher that doesn't blind you with procedure over concepts.

  13. Re:Car Dealers should ask why they're being bypass on Court: Car Dealers Can't Stop Tesla From Selling In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    My algorithm for buying a new car is:
    1) Spend about a year deciding what I want and/or need.
    2) Simultaneously, start saving the cash.

    It's not like you can't tell when a car is nearing the end of time, relative to whatever your own level of love for car maintenance is.

    When the time comes, you know what you want and you've got the cash, which makes the bargaining rather trivial.

  14. Re:It's not your phone on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 2

    >sloeing their shit down

    I thought that was a method for making a variant of gin.

  15. Re:Drop vs. Scratch on Sapphire Glass Didn't Pass iPhone Drop Test According to Reports · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Replaceable is better than any amount of drop or scratch resistance.

  16. Re:1024-fold on SanDisk Releases 512GB SD Card · · Score: 1

    Base-10 units are not in any way more correct than base-2 units. They are merely more consistent with the way scientific units are generally used (but less practical, since base-2 units correspond to how data is actually addressed and alligned).

    I do not oppose people using base-10 units. I do, however, oppose people redefining well-defened units. The idiotic extra i (KiB, MiB, etc.) should have been inserted in the new (base-10) units, not in the existing units. This creates unnessary ambiguity.

    I was referring to the internationally standardized system of units. Not the intrinsic merits of any particular base.

  17. Re:Linux, cryptography, HTML and JavaScript. on Harvard's CompSci Intro Course Boasts Record-Breaking Enrollment · · Score: 1

    Yes, types are only a theory, and an unproven one. That's why I skip types.

    I don't like your type.

  18. Re:1024-fold on SanDisk Releases 512GB SD Card · · Score: 1

    You only show you are old that anyone would be talking about systems using base 10 memory.

    Like disk storage today

  19. Re:1024-fold on SanDisk Releases 512GB SD Card · · Score: 1

    >newfangled
    correct

    There, fixed that for you.

  20. Re:Linux, cryptography, HTML and JavaScript. on Harvard's CompSci Intro Course Boasts Record-Breaking Enrollment · · Score: 1

    So call it a 'programming' course. Computer science marginally overlaps with programming, but a programming course is not computer science.

    While we're at it, we could stop calling Computer Science a science and admit it's applied mathematics with silicon thrown in.

  21. Linux, cryptography, HTML and JavaScript. on Harvard's CompSci Intro Course Boasts Record-Breaking Enrollment · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Linux, cryptography, HTML and JavaScript.

    That's computer science?

    What about algorithm complexity analysis, type theory, normal forms and well, computer science.

  22. Re:I just want the new Nexus. on iPhone 6 Sales Crush Means Late-Night Waits For Some Early Adopters · · Score: 1

    >is because there are many standards

    The problem with creating the one true standard is that in the US the PCI-DSS people would want to do it, and I've never seen a more incompetent bunch of standards writers than PCI-DSS when it comes to payment security.

  23. Re:Eat real foods, mostly veg, not too much on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    >By the sounds of it the only real damage done by salt is kidney damage and that is if you eat too much of it.

    Actually too little salt will kill you. Too much salt (in the normal range of dietary input) has no detectable detrimental effect. A 10 ton block of salt on your head will kill you, providing you're in a suitable strong gravitational field.

    Any claim I've seen of salt causing kidney damage has been thoroughly debunked.

  24. Re:rsync causes lockups? on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 2

    Does the sky fall in if your buffer isn't 'sizable'? Or does it just run a bit slower?

  25. Re:Eat real foods, mostly veg, not too much on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    >Salt can cause weight gain which directly affects BMI.

    Do you have any data to support your claim? It's new to me and I have been paying attention.