Besides that, email is several orders of magnitude more insecure than IM because of all the email viruses, and your anti-virus software is only as good as your last update.
HA HA HA -- you don't even have two groups working or looking at the problem via IM.
IM is just a person private email system, period. Try using email, you can even use filters to pick your freinds messages out of the background noise, like inter-departmental mail.
To fix the security risk of IM, either the you give up point to point email that it is to force it though filtering servers (sound like email there again). The Anti-Virus programs on every machine will have to start filtering all that traffic too (wait they are doing this for wmail today also!!) -- When will people learn that NEW is not always GOOD.
I have NOT even found a use for IM. If I want talk to some one I use the PHONE. If I want to write I use EMAIL. To me IM is the worst mixure of those two worlds.
RSS currently is just another gimick, to waste bandwidth without giving meanful return.
Go and look at a map of the course. I did not see any snake curvey road or U-Turns.
This was a great show and achivement. But no car running would be allowed on highway, there is long road to go. Just like the Wright Brothers plane and 747, there is a lot of development to go.
Article my talk about price wars... BUT THERE ARE NONE HERE. DELL is not doing price wars. BEST BUY is not discounting the OS. Costco is discounting the SO by a few cents - NOT DOLLARS.
MS margins are huge, a great sign of Monoploy Pricing.
Dell and other computers are a dime a dozen. The desk top business is NOT you get what you pay for. It is the lowest bidder. ALT OS like Linux are a lower cost alternive then MS sot he machine should cost less NOT MORE!
With AIX it is one of 3 OS that IBM supports native on the iSeries lines; OS/400, AIX, Linux. With its pSeries line AIX and Linux are both supported. pSeries is a "daughter" or "sister" line of iSeries.
Both of the lines and have 1 or more OS running at the same time on the same box, each acting as it own machine and talking to the other OSs in the box on a 54G back plane.
Differently shows the power of Power5 and hardware design.
Consumption Tax is based are the moment of sale, NOT USE. But USE can change the tax rate.
The information is very complex...
1) Where is the address:
inside USA
inside a State (watch out for federal lands)
inside a county (watch out for State and Federal area)
inside a city (watch out for above plus unincorporated)
inside a special tax district 1
inside a special tax district 2...
inside a special tax district N
2) What are the laws govering the order and amount of tax.
In Texas, the State Rate is 6.5% (if I remember correctly) with up to another 1.5% that can added to it. You must add the whole % so if you had.8% City,.5% County and.25% MTA, then you would only be taxed for City and County, since the MTA will be.05% to great.
In Hawaii they do not have a Sales Tax but and Exise Tax that can be passed though to consumer. This tax is 4%. So the cusomer rate is 4.1666666666%, but YOU CAN NOT ROUND UP.
The only hope I could see is make the Post Office responcable to know the correct rate for every location.
Unless your database includes every UPC and its delivery method you will not get far. Also include every known address (geo location) and its current diffition and buyers info too!
I been doing software that handles taxes in over 70 counties and I have seen most all.
Where a glass milk, servered in Resturant taxed at 5%, servered in the Bar linked to Resturant taxed at 15%, then given to be poured over ceral be taxed at 0%.
An item that is sold straight out be taxed at 7%, but if an installer places it there is NO Tax (Different from 0%).
There are even cases where the tax is taxed.
I have also seen cases were the cash is taxed as if some one bought some thing, then rebated if later the item they bought was different.
I do not see this EVER being a "free" services via OpenSource or what not. There is just to many single points of failure.
There are over 400k tax points based on State, Zip, City and County. and a fair number of these have two or more rates, becuase of MTAsa and Speical Districts. Some follow Elemary School Districts lines (MTAs in WA). Some follow service routes (BART in SF, CA, or the MTA in Texas). Cities cross County boundarys, Cities cross and meet in Same Zip Codes, County meet and cross in Zip Codes, Zip Codes cross State Boundarys.
Look at Dallas, TX in one Zip Code, it is three Counties, and has 6 different rates.
Look at Mobile, AL every county and zipcode part in the city has at least 2 tax rates.
Look at St Augustine, FL and FT Worth, TX there are indentical addresses (like 100 Main ST) that occur twice within the city boundries, but one once in zipcode.
I would suggest you get good address validation software first. Watch out for special Zipcodes that any are valid in. And get a good tax table from a site that really keeps it up to date (monthly at least)
Also watch for Hawaii, they do not have Sales Tax, but most tax software say they do. They have is an exisive tax that can be past though to customer like sales tax. But to past the correct 4% though you actually have to charge 4.16666666666666666% note: do not round this up to 4.167% that is illegal.
Because Sale Tax was designed aroudn the though of "Localatiy" the Sales Tax Rate is based on the Location of "Cash Register".
With the internet, or a business that services are a home or business, the "Cash Register: is thought to be at the location of consumer. ie: the Home.
For a business to handle that funcation of taxes is very hard, even in a state level. Texas just last year joined the 49 of states to define its taxation to work the same way, at the location of "Cash Register" not the business.
This appears to two fold reason, match the rests of country, and to stop home service based business from moving out of higher rate MTA to lower rate areas.
I work for a company that has offices in all 50 states plus DC, and the hassel to collect the correct tax location is nearly impossible. We can get it right for about 97-98% but after that you hope the agents that have local knowledge or the default will be close (IE you "eat" a liitle on every transactions)
First you need is good address validation software, so the county can be determined. Then you need tax software on top of that, that understands the where the tax lines are drawn.
Example: There are "special" zipcodes that act as PostOffices. Banks, Clearing Houses, and State IRS all use them. The problem is that the number is 1 digit or 2 digits reversed from normal zipcodes. With address validation software, these normal are overrides making what every address that is enter valid. And the tax will be charged for wrong location. These zipcode exist is NYC, Colombus, Chicago to name a few.
Example: In a town in AR, there is section of land that is NOT incorporated into the town. Address Validation places the land in the town... but NOT for tax, the extra 1% for the town is not charged on that land. The same can go for Fed and State lands wrapped inside of city.
Example: Mobile AL. Every address is what we call MULTI-TAX. There is more than one tax that could apply, if you could get the tax software that define the sub-sub-distracting. Same goes for Dallas, Ft Worth, alot of MD, a good part of WA (follows Elemenary School Boundaries)...
The tax software we are getting only defines the US into 400,000 tax "districts" but they can not get closer than State, Zip(5), County, City. This does not help when you talk about multiple MTA or other agencies.
When I lived in Orlando, I had ISDN installed for the internet, before DSL was in my area and cable was a local only just a TV. The tech installing it was complaning of the too few wires... Only 2 pair to a house, and I had 1 pair for land line. He wanted to cut my land line to install the ISDN (needed 2 pairs). I told him no. He started to talk about about how ISDN was 2 digital phone lines and all the benfits. I asked was he willing to power my ISDN from his CO? He looked at me, smiled and said "So you want to be able to call when the power goes out!" I smiled and walked away. He stole an extra pair from my nieghbor.
I believe each company should own their own TLDs....IBM,.Mircosoft,...
I believe the UN should make money from this!!! Yes the UN!!
This way there is not a problem with Trademarks in TLD. The UN will hand out International Trademarks.
Now a country will still rights to their TLDs, so US (or who they wish) can sell to their public. By defination.IBM.US is already mapped to.IBM. So no trademark issues again.
IF there are sub sub then it keeps going down.
Once there is moon base or mars base, then all TLD come under the planetary TLD of EA (Earth), MR (Mars), MN (Moon).
Once there is bases in other solar systems... you get the picture.
Actually Free Speech can be viewed as a Cost issue.
1) If I stand a street corner yelling "The end is near.". I am under free speech, becuase the cost of the listener is 0.
2) If I call you up and said "The end is near.". I am costing you a little of your fixed cost of a phone line.
3) If I fax you and wrote "The end is near.". I am costing you a little fixed cost of the phone line, AND the cost of paper & toner, plus some life of your machine.
In all cases above the message is one directional, I am not expect any money in return. Case 3) is closest to an Email and it is the one that is point that Free Speech is no longer Free to Listern. The Listern has to pay for paper & toner and machine costs (mechinal wear and tear).
But note, once the speech become commerical, ie there is an expectation for a return on the investment, then it is no longer free speech, if the cost to listen, in turning it down is more than 0.
This is why case 2) and 3) are now regulated for commerical speech.
How are they to download the service or software, if the ISP cuts them off?
I am all for closing these pests down, but you have think of the user trying to fix something that now can not be fixed. Maybe isolating them to a micro-net that has one server with the required fixed software loaded. Basicly, ANY webapge they ask for, comes back with a fix it page with a valation link to get them reworked up.
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Besides that, email is several orders of magnitude more insecure than IM because of all the email viruses, and your anti-virus software is only as good as your last update.
HA HA HA -- you don't even have two groups working or looking at the problem via IM.
IM is just a person private email system, period. Try using email, you can even use filters to pick your freinds messages out of the background noise, like inter-departmental mail.
To fix the security risk of IM, either the you give up point to point email that it is to force it though filtering servers (sound like email there again). The Anti-Virus programs on every machine will have to start filtering all that traffic too (wait they are doing this for wmail today also!!)
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When will people learn that NEW is not always GOOD.
Amen!
I have NOT even found a use for IM. If I want talk to some one I use the PHONE. If I want to write I use EMAIL. To me IM is the worst mixure of those two worlds.
RSS currently is just another gimick, to waste bandwidth without giving meanful return.
IM is a waste of resources, besides is use another form of EMIAL to me.
Use EMAIL, the filters are place and all have it. The responces are just as fast.
Go and look at a map of the course. I did not see any snake curvey road or U-Turns.
This was a great show and achivement. But no car running would be allowed on highway, there is long road to go. Just like the Wright Brothers plane and 747, there is a lot of development to go.
And in fact all AIR based accidents end up on the ground or below.
Article my talk about price wars... BUT THERE ARE NONE HERE. DELL is not doing price wars. BEST BUY is not discounting the OS. Costco is discounting the SO by a few cents - NOT DOLLARS.
MS margins are huge, a great sign of Monoploy Pricing.
Dell and other computers are a dime a dozen. The desk top business is NOT you get what you pay for. It is the lowest bidder. ALT OS like Linux are a lower cost alternive then MS sot he machine should cost less NOT MORE!
Where is the price war over the cost of their OS. Every one sells them at the same prices. And that price keeps getting higher.
Where is ALT OS for sale preinstalled that do NOT cost more then MS. Even if the OS is Linux that can be gotten for free?
Where is the price war over the cost of Office products. Again with free versions out there has been no cost improviments.
To me, MS is MONOPLOY, with the price fixing that a monoploy can bring to the market.
Very much agreed.
With AIX it is one of 3 OS that IBM supports native on the iSeries lines; OS/400, AIX, Linux. With its pSeries line AIX and Linux are both supported. pSeries is a "daughter" or "sister" line of iSeries.
Both of the lines and have 1 or more OS running at the same time on the same box, each acting as it own machine and talking to the other OSs in the box on a 54G back plane.
Differently shows the power of Power5 and hardware design.
Consumption Tax is based are the moment of sale, NOT USE. But USE can change the tax rate.
...
.8% City, .5% County and .25% MTA, then you would only be taxed for City and County, since the MTA will be .05% to great.
The information is very complex...
1) Where is the address:
inside USA
inside a State (watch out for federal lands)
inside a county (watch out for State and Federal area)
inside a city (watch out for above plus unincorporated)
inside a special tax district 1
inside a special tax district 2
inside a special tax district N
2) What are the laws govering the order and amount of tax.
In Texas, the State Rate is 6.5% (if I remember correctly) with up to another 1.5% that can added to it. You must add the whole % so if you had
In Hawaii they do not have a Sales Tax but and Exise Tax that can be passed though to consumer. This tax is 4%. So the cusomer rate is 4.1666666666%, but YOU CAN NOT ROUND UP.
The only hope I could see is make the Post Office responcable to know the correct rate for every location.
And the windows support is bad too!
I have to run it on Celron 500 with OpenGL, becuase it will run on P4-3.0G with Hyperthreading.
Unless your database includes every UPC and its delivery method you will not get far. Also include every known address (geo location) and its current diffition and buyers info too!
I been doing software that handles taxes in over 70 counties and I have seen most all.
Where a glass milk, servered in Resturant taxed at 5%, servered in the Bar linked to Resturant taxed at 15%, then given to be poured over ceral be taxed at 0%.
An item that is sold straight out be taxed at 7%, but if an installer places it there is NO Tax (Different from 0%).
There are even cases where the tax is taxed.
I have also seen cases were the cash is taxed as if some one bought some thing, then rebated if later the item they bought was different.
I do not see this EVER being a "free" services via OpenSource or what not. There is just to many single points of failure.
There are over 400k tax points based on State, Zip, City and County. and a fair number of these have two or more rates, becuase of MTAsa and Speical Districts. Some follow Elemary School Districts lines (MTAs in WA). Some follow service routes (BART in SF, CA, or the MTA in Texas). Cities cross County boundarys, Cities cross and meet in Same Zip Codes, County meet and cross in Zip Codes, Zip Codes cross State Boundarys.
Look at Dallas, TX in one Zip Code, it is three Counties, and has 6 different rates.
Look at Mobile, AL every county and zipcode part in the city has at least 2 tax rates.
Look at St Augustine, FL and FT Worth, TX there are indentical addresses (like 100 Main ST) that occur twice within the city boundries, but one once in zipcode.
I would suggest you get good address validation software first.
Watch out for special Zipcodes that any are valid in.
And get a good tax table from a site that really keeps it up to date (monthly at least)
Also watch for Hawaii, they do not have Sales Tax, but most tax software say they do. They have is an exisive tax that can be past though to customer like sales tax. But to past the correct 4% though you actually have to charge 4.16666666666666666% note: do not round this up to 4.167% that is illegal.
Because Sale Tax was designed aroudn the though of "Localatiy" the Sales Tax Rate is based on the Location of "Cash Register".
With the internet, or a business that services are a home or business, the "Cash Register: is thought to be at the location of consumer. ie: the Home.
For a business to handle that funcation of taxes is very hard, even in a state level. Texas just last year joined the 49 of states to define its taxation to work the same way, at the location of "Cash Register" not the business.
This appears to two fold reason, match the rests of country, and to stop home service based business from moving out of higher rate MTA to lower rate areas.
You are missing a point...
Sales Tax is generally though of as a Comsumption Tax.
That means where the item is consumed. It the middle guy does nto use/consume the item then it is passed on to where it is consumed.
If I remember correctly, buying Cigarette (more thazn a pack or two) is another state and you bring them in to New York, you are bootlegging.
I work for a company that has offices in all 50 states plus DC, and the hassel to collect the correct tax location is nearly impossible. We can get it right for about 97-98% but after that you hope the agents that have local knowledge or the default will be close (IE you "eat" a liitle on every transactions)
First you need is good address validation software, so the county can be determined. Then you need tax software on top of that, that understands the where the tax lines are drawn.
Example: There are "special" zipcodes that act as PostOffices. Banks, Clearing Houses, and State IRS all use them. The problem is that the number is 1 digit or 2 digits reversed from normal zipcodes. With address validation software, these normal are overrides making what every address that is enter valid. And the tax will be charged for wrong location. These zipcode exist is NYC, Colombus, Chicago to name a few.
Example: In a town in AR, there is section of land that is NOT incorporated into the town. Address Validation places the land in the town... but NOT for tax, the extra 1% for the town is not charged on that land. The same can go for Fed and State lands wrapped inside of city.
Example: Mobile AL. Every address is what we call MULTI-TAX. There is more than one tax that could apply, if you could get the tax software that define the sub-sub-distracting. Same goes for Dallas, Ft Worth, alot of MD, a good part of WA (follows Elemenary School Boundaries)...
The tax software we are getting only defines the US into 400,000 tax "districts" but they can not get closer than State, Zip(5), County, City. This does not help when you talk about multiple MTA or other agencies.
This will be mess.
Darn, I was too slow!
When I lived in Orlando, I had ISDN installed for the internet, before DSL was in my area and cable was a local only just a TV. The tech installing it was complaning of the too few wires... Only 2 pair to a house, and I had 1 pair for land line. He wanted to cut my land line to install the ISDN (needed 2 pairs). I told him no. He started to talk about about how ISDN was 2 digital phone lines and all the benfits. I asked was he willing to power my ISDN from his CO? He looked at me, smiled and said "So you want to be able to call when the power goes out!" I smiled and walked away. He stole an extra pair from my nieghbor.
Why not just use IBM.UK the .CO. in middle is another valueless filler like the .COM
TLDs are an appendix that needs to cut out!!
.IBM, .Mircosoft, ...
.IBM.US is already mapped to .IBM. So no trademark issues again.
I believe each company should own their own TLDs...
I believe the UN should make money from this!!! Yes the UN!!
This way there is not a problem with Trademarks in TLD. The UN will hand out International Trademarks.
Now a country will still rights to their TLDs, so US (or who they wish) can sell to their public. By defination
IF there are sub sub then it keeps going down.
Once there is moon base or mars base, then all TLD come under the planetary TLD of EA (Earth), MR (Mars), MN (Moon).
Once there is bases in other solar systems... you get the picture.
Actually Free Speech can be viewed as a Cost issue.
1) If I stand a street corner yelling "The end is near.". I am under free speech, becuase the cost of the listener is 0.
2) If I call you up and said "The end is near.". I am costing you a little of your fixed cost of a phone line.
3) If I fax you and wrote "The end is near.". I am costing you a little fixed cost of the phone line, AND the cost of paper & toner, plus some life of your machine.
In all cases above the message is one directional, I am not expect any money in return. Case 3) is closest to an Email and it is the one that is point that Free Speech is no longer Free to Listern. The Listern has to pay for paper & toner and machine costs (mechinal wear and tear).
But note, once the speech become commerical, ie there is an expectation for a return on the investment, then it is no longer free speech, if the cost to listen, in turning it down is more than 0.
This is why case 2) and 3) are now regulated for commerical speech.
That is a great ISP, but..
How are they to download the service or software, if the ISP cuts them off?
I am all for closing these pests down, but you have think of the user trying to fix something that now can not be fixed. Maybe isolating them to a micro-net that has one server with the required fixed software loaded. Basicly, ANY webapge they ask for, comes back with a fix it page with a valation link to get them reworked up.
They where using 300 sq ft of mirrors to set fire to a boat. They actually set fire boat at 75ft, so I call it a PASS. At 150ft they got smoke.
Now we know that SQ of distance effects the power so at 75ft there was 4 times more light/heat hitting a sq in of boat.
So that would suggest that 1200 sq ft would be needed for a fire at 150ft. Or use a different mirror that can cause a tighter beam.
The MS has only one choice...
Pay the man for NOT using his brain for the rest of his life.
This will be a great boon for all, you can retire at anytime, becuase the company can not let you work no where else.