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  1. this sounds self defeating on Rhode Island Affiliates Banned From Amazon.com Sales · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So the store doesn't get a sale, doesn't pay the stakeholder, who was presumably going to spend money in the state on taxable goods and services. The state still loses. The original sale doesn't generate revenue and the seller won't be purchasing anything that generates tax revenue with the proceeds of the sale that didn't happen. Sorry states, there will always be at least one state that will take advantage of this and host amazon friendly affiliate websites. This is kinda like how you can incorporate an LLC in any state you have an "agent" in (100 bucks a year gets you agent representation in any state) but no one in their right minds incorporates an LLC outside of Nevada or Delaware because of the incredibly low taxes and business friendly body of case law they've produced. You still have to pay personal income tax in the state you perform work but you get a credit for taxes you pay to other states for your state of residence taxes.

  2. Re:Rather not. on Wikipedia To Add Video · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it will be optional.

  3. Re:Meh on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1


    Meh. I'll just install linux over the windows install as usual.

    And pay the microsoft tax?

  4. Re:It's Time, not Money on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    Time and points on my systolic BP. Seriously. As a model Type-A heart attack waiting to happen, taking the bus in the morning has probably added 30 years to my life. YMMV (hah)

  5. Re:two ways to solve the tax "scam" on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    False dichotomy. The wars aren't necessary and neither is the budget they require.

  6. I must not understand what they're trying to do on A Mixed Review For Windows 7's XP Mode · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you just run it in a vm?

  7. Re:So....We've all forgotten on Swine Flu Genetics Suggest a Vaccine Is Possible · · Score: 1

    Another three banks shut down today. Long term treasury rates are rising in spite of Fed policy. There is an ammo shortage (bare shelves at wall mart). The GOP is essentially dead.

  8. Re:Glassfish is a Must-Have for Oracle on Will Oracle Keep Funding Sun's Pet Java Projects? · · Score: 1

    They'll can Glassfish because they're committed to Weblogic, and it would be very not good to release 3 different J2ee servers in 5 years. OAS is an absolute rotting turd. Weblogic is probably going to suffer the same fate unless they manage to write some awesome tooling. There's a ton of potential to create a painless j2ee development stack with Oracle and Weblogic eclipse plugins. They've never managed to do this. Eclipse + OAS is a friggin nightmare. OAS + Oracle DB works fine if you don't do anything fancy like HA JMS Queues (ActiveMQ) or use the data-guard debacle against an oracle RAC db. You'd think they'd get database connection failover right, seeing as they own both ends of the stack. As of 10.1.3 R2, you'd be wrong. They needed Sun badly. I don't know if they'll be able to fix things, or if they even need to (for all it's flaws, it's still the hottest corporate stack going right now).

  9. Re:Not good enough. on GE Introduces 500GB Holographic Disks · · Score: 1

    Can you also remove that 1 TB hard drive and feed it to another machine without powering either down?

  10. Re:First you need root on the box on Intel Cache Poisoning Is Dangerously Easy On Linux · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's a whole new class of vulnerabilities. In addition to remote code execution and privilege escalation vulnerabilities, we now have privilege equalization vulnerabilities. Scary stuff.

    How do you not have any of this if you have root? You're root! You can replace the kernel! This isn't scary at all!

  11. Re:Let me be the first one to say it ... on Pirate Bay Trial Ends In Jail Sentences · · Score: 1

    They're in no danger. Law is not equally applied. It's The Pirate Bay because their stated mission is to facilitate the distribution of copyrighted material. This is not Google's stated mission. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, just that Google hasn't gone out of its way to thumb its nose at the powers that be. This verdict is a message to anyone who would consider acting in a way that would affect the bottom lines of those in power. Google has never made any such intentions public.

  12. Re:do their own then... on Sun's Phipps Slams App Engine's Java Support · · Score: 1

    Then subclass for f***'* sake

  13. New Tax Idea on When Politicians Tax Violent Video Games · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Let's just tax bad parents. You let your kid fail spelling? That's a hundred bucks. You let your kid fail math? That's two hundred. You let your kid fail PE? Well, celibacy is it's own tax plus, he/she won't be squishing out any more sedentary, garbage pile producing crotchfruit to compete with the resources of other, more fit people. TAX PARENTS.

  14. Re:America against Bandwidth Caps on Time Warner Transfer Caps May Inspire Fair-Price Legislation · · Score: 1

    If they stop using the word "unlimited" I would have no problem at all.

  15. Re:I may not be reading this right, but... on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 1

    Throttling.

  16. And THIS time on Time Warner To Offer Unlimited Bandwidth For $150 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unlimited, and this time, we mean it. Trust us.

  17. Re:I hadn't noticed on Why Your Pop-Up Blocker Doesn't Work Anymore · · Score: 1

    Have you noticed any degraded usability?

  18. so.... on Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camera · · Score: 1

    Much like the printing press, I can only assume this technology will find its first commercial success in pornography. Some angles are worth hiding.

  19. wow on Zero Day Threat · · Score: 1

    If you need a book to tell you that a corporation that exists solely to increase shareholder wealth gives one flying fuck about you or your information, I have a Nigerian Prince who would LOVE to make your acquaintance.

  20. Re:Only obfuscation on Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping · · Score: 4, Informative

    So the MiTM attacks the notaries as well. I call Fail.

    You would have to successfully attack the notary. That will be harder than successfully attacking the client. Call fail all you like, don't bother with the plugin. Perhaps you should read the article though before posting.

  21. This is far from my biggest complaint about firefo on Firefox SSL-Certificate Debate Rages On · · Score: 1

    Plugin incompatibility, unsupported flash, java shennanigans, the 32/64 bit crapfest, have fun trying to get a java vpn client working... Under ubuntu with AMD64 you need to run a 32 bit version of the firefox2 browser and java 5 to get the most popular java based vpn client on the planet to work.

    Flash is simply BROKEN. I'm not blaming firefox for this one. The easiest workaround is to run firefox.exe from wine.

  22. How is this a threat anymore? on Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I thought we neutralized the ICBM boogey man with our missile defense stuff. Isn't that why Russia's pissed at Poland right now?

  23. Who is valuing these minutes? on FEMA Phones Hacked, Calls Made To Mideast and Asia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Twelve Grand?! Is this another indicator of inflation? Who is billing this out? For 12 grand the phone companies should give you a phone that will work for life, from anywhere, to anywhere. Are the same people responsible for claiming that a quarter of schwag has a "street value" of fifty grand?

  24. Re:You know... on James Powderly of Graffiti Research Labs Detained In China · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yes those do-nothing loudmouth liberal hiptards should just die in a fire. It's almost like they're doing nothing at all... what with all that thinking about this stuff.... and talking about it...

    Since when did communication become a stoning offense? Bringing ideas to the fore without some kind of action attached to it isn't a crime.

    And regarding those loudmouths who talk about the Native Americans on Thanksgiving, they are doing something. They are doing more than you sound like you're doing (which is simply whining about people who talk about what they feel strongly about).

    Enjoy yourself a nice tall cup of STFU. On the house. With my compliments. You seem to be serving enough of it. Perhaps now would be a good time to have a drink yourself.

  25. quick on New Multi-GPU Technology With No Strings Attached · · Score: 0

    Someone port java to opengl.

    Seriously. That would rock.