I'm way behind schedule on my plans to gather everything up and git my ass to the mountains before it all goes to hell. Anyone interested in swapping some land up the hill a ways for some coastal Carolina soon to be beachfront property?
Update 18 December ***Incorrect data redacted*** (click to read)
[See newer information on DDoS in update below]
A DDoS attack was launched on www.spamhaus.org today in retaliation for us warning Internet users about the Russian-German cyber criminals behind the Wikileaks mirror wikileaks.info.
Spamhaus is currently under a 2.1Gbps DDoS attack which began at 05:20 CET. As we are used to DDoS attacks from cybercriminals our anti-ddos defences are holding and our web servers are still operating, a little slower than normal.
By no coincidence, the 'AnonOps' DDoS group irc.anonops.net is also hosted by the same Heihachi Russian-German cybercrime gang in the same CIDR as wikileaks.info:
In addition to the LOIC and *OIC tools issued to dimwitted script kiddies to DDoS "enemies of Anon" with, AnonOps appears to be now escalating its DDoS attacks using dedicated criminal botnets (botnets of illegally hijacked PCs), and now appears to be directing DDoS attacks not at "enemies of Wikileaks" but at "enemies of our criminal bosses".
There is palpable irony in a DDoS being used to prevent exposure of a probably-false Wikileaks mirror that could potentially harm Wikileaks and Wikileaks readers. We hope that AnonOps supporters appreciate the irony as much as we do.
Update 19 December
We have been analyzing the traffic patters of the attempted DDoS attack against Spamhaus that started yesterday. We are seeing that it is made up of UDP and Syn flood type packets. This is not the profile of DDoS traffic from the LOIC and other *OIC tools issued to script kiddies to DDoS "enemies of Anon" with. In fact, at some semi-private forums, the AnonOps members have denied the DDoS and have stated how much they hate spam and would not attack Spamhaus. It would seem some actually read and understood what our warning message was about. Rumors are that they have also distanced themselves from members who were promoting the use of botnets to attack sites.
This now looks far more likely to be the work of people running, or hosting at, Webalta or the Heihachi cybercrime group. Possibly angered with the attention this wikileaks.info article brought to their dirty section of the internet. When one hosts spam servers, malware, Zeus and other botnet command and control (C&C) servers, bank phish sites and "backends", child exploitation sites and other badness, keeping off-the-radar is a must. Perhaps Russian authorities are now looking closer at this Webalta and its datacenter, as Russian citizens and banks are often the target of the people running systems there.
As we do when hit by these attacks, Spamhaus is working with both network experts and law-enforcement agencies to find and shut down the botnet used for the DDoS and to try and track who may be behind it.
In a statement released today on wikileaks.info entitled "Spamhaus' False Allegations Against wikileaks.info", the person running the wikileaks.info site (which is not connected with Julian Assange or the real Wikileaks organization) called Spamhaus's information on his infamous cybercrime host "false" and "none of {your} business" and called on people to contact Spamhaus and "voice your opinion". Consequently Spamhaus has now received a number of emails some asking if we "want to be next", some telling us to stop blacklisting Wikileaks (obviously they don't understand that we never did) and others claiming we are "a pawn of US Government Agencies".
None of the people who contacted us realised that the "Wikileaks press release" published on wikileaks.info was not written by Wikileaks and not issued by Wikileaks - but by the person running the wikileaks.info site only - the very site we are warning about. The site data, disks, connections and visitor traffic, are all under the control of the Heihachi cybercrime gang. There are more than 40 criminal-run sites operating on the same IP address as wikileaks.info, including carder-elite.biz, h4ck3rz.biz, elite-crew.net, and bank phishes paypal-securitycenter.com and postbank-kontodirekt.com.
Because they are using a Wikileaks logo, many people thought that the "press release" was issued "by Wikileaks". In fact there has been no press release about this by Wikileaks and none of the official Wikileaks mirrors sites even recognise the wikileaks.info mirror. We wonder how long it will be before Wikileaks supporters wake up and start to question why wikileaks.info is not on the list of real Wikileaks mirrors at wikileaks.ch.
Currently wikileaks.info is serving highly sensitive leaked documents to the world, from a server fully controlled by Russian and German malware cybercriminals, to an audience that faithfully believes anything with a 'Wikileaks' logo on it.
Spamhaus continues to warn Wikileaks readers to make sure they are viewing and downloading documents only from an official Wikileaks mirror site. We're not saying "don't go to Wikileaks" we're saying "Use the wikileaks.ch server instead".
Update 18 December
A DDOS attack was launched on www.spamhaus.org today in retaliation for us warning Internet users about the Russian-German cyber criminals behind the Wikileaks mirror wikileaks.info.
Spamhaus is currently under a 2.1Gbps DDOS attack which began at 05:20 CET. As we are used to DDOS attacks from cybercriminals our anti-ddos defences are holding and our web servers are still operating, a little slower than normal.
By no coincidence, the 'AnonOps' DDOS group irc.anonops.net is also hosted by the same Heihachi Russian-German cybercrime gang in the same CIDR as wikileaks.info:
In addition to the LOIC and *OIC tools issued to dimwitted script kiddies to DDOS "enemies of Anon" with, AnonOps appears to be now escalating its DDOS attacks using dedicated criminal botnets (botnets of illegally hijacked PCs), and now appears to be directing DDOS attacks not at "enemies of Wikileaks" but at "enemies of our criminal bosses".
There is palpable irony in a DDOS being used to prevent exposure of a probably-false Wikileaks mirror that could potentially harm Wikileaks and Wikileaks readers. We hope that AnonOps supporters appreciate the irony as much as we do.
Spamhaus' False Allegations Against wikileaks.info
Published 15-Dec-2010, 8:00 AM GMT
On Tuesday, 14-Dec-2010 Spamhaus has issued a statement wherein it labels wikileaks.info as "unsafe", as they consider our hosting company as a malware facilitator:
We find it very disturbing that Spamhaus labels a site as dangerous without even checking if there is any malware on it. We monitor the wikileaks.info site and we can guarantee that there is no malware on it. We do not know who else is hosted with Heihachi Ltd and it is none of our business. They provide reliable hosting to us. That's it.
While we are in favour of "Blacklists", be it for mail servers or web sites, they have to be compiled with care. Just listing whole IP blocks as "bad" may be quick and easy for the blacklist editors, but will harm hosters and web site users.
Wikileaks has been pulled from big hosters like Amazon. That's why we are using a "bulletproof" hoster that does not just kick a site when it gets a letter from government or a big company. Our hoster is giving home to many political sites like castor-schottern.org and should not be blocked just because they might have hosted some malware sites.
Fortunately, more responsible blacklists, like stopbadware.org (which protects the Firefox browser, for example), don't list us. We do hope that Spamhaus hasn't issued this statement due to political pressure.
Wikileaks.info will always be safe and clean. Promised:
Google Safe Browsing Check for wikileaks.info
Update (15-Dec-2010 17:00 PM GMT): Spamhaus has updated their statement to say that they don't blacklist us.
Though this well known verse was probably quite relevant at it's time of writing, it still says it all rather well. http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-12.htm GREAT site I found looking up this scripture:
King James Bible For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Please scroll down at the above link to the commentaries and analysis. Simply must reading for anyone wanting insight.
I believe the vast majority of law enforcement workers just wish the public would vote in legislators who would create more reasonable laws for them to enforce. Very few want to ruin lives over relatively victim-less crimes.
I'll believe Google is serious about stopping fraud when they make it easier to report the hordes of affiliates of http://www.threestarsinc.com/ who use Gmail accounts to abuse the craigslist job boards. If you'll check this page: http://www.threestarsinc.biz/ they spell out their business plan to use job seekers as a quality target for marketers.
While it may be legit on the the face of it, when combined with their pyramid-like rankings for job applicants who drive more traffic to their sites it has ruined job searching on craigslist. I have wasted MANY hours composing replies to ads only to get the auto-replies directing me to one of their many "front" websites where they collect your information and have you apply for online education and such.
I spent another couple of hours trying to figure out how to report the abused Gmail accounts to Google. Only after creating a gmail account to gain access to and search their forum did I find a link for reporting abuse which gave an error when submitted. I now just flag any craigslist ad that uses a gmail address to reply.
Copied from the website: "If you support Wikileaks, back our defense fund by emailing supporters@sunshinepress.org with your pledge!" I've already Paypaled?(grammar nazi help needed) my pittance but we might wait to be sure they can accept those type of payments.
As the other replier said what a false dichotomy! How about we give Bob a third option: C)Bob can take care of the vast majority of his own health needs because he can read and think and care for himself and on the off chance he requires professional help he can pay a fair market rate to his provider of choice. This is the only approach that will bring insurance inflated costs back to reasonable levels,my provider having to justify his bill to ME. If my dysfunctional brothers or sisters need help and can't afford it let them walk into our church and make their need known. If they are not helped to all extent possible I will become a member of a church that will help. So will the vast majority of the other members of my church. Exactly which corner of hell is this country headed for?
Caution, spontaneous diatribe follows: Yeah, ain't this one a hoot? If the government takes the money out of my pay for health care I don't need I promise all of you I WILL get my moneys worth out of the system or kill myself trying. After 43 years of physically hard living (Marine Corps,country boy daredevil,construction work,etc.) I am essentially in fine shape except of course for the catalog of nagging sore joints,tendons, muscles, etc. that I currently accept as just reward for the life I've lived.
I get up every morning and take a long hot shower to loosen things up and start putting one foot in front of the other until my days work is done as I understand any good American should do. Unfortunately, I am currently in a field of work that "real" Americans should no longer lower themselves to so the market is flooded with cheap third world labor, nobody cares for any quality of work, only quantity, and I think everyone is aware of what developers and lenders have done to the housing market.
I can't beg the local telco(damn you to hell Sprint/Embarq!) to provide high speed data service to our area (even after gathering a couple dozen of my closest neighbors' info to show the potential market) so my vision of opening a small Linux centered tech shop has been on hold for over 4 years now(man could I ever elaborate on this issue).
I survive as a single parent barely above poverty level and therefore barely above qualifying for the assistance that might enable me to retool into a more rewarding profession and now Mrs. Clinton is so worried about my health that she is proposing to take money from my paycheck to provide the health care industry business I don't want to give them. They'll need to pay for more police too to remove my angry ass from the waiting room because if I am forced to pay for it you had better believe I'm gonna get my moneys worth. Let me just shut up now before I get pissed.
I also must endorse the Taxact solution. I still wish there was a Linux download edition available. It appears to be a Java based app so it should be easy? IANAP. I have used their product for several years now starting back with the download editions on winbloze. I kept a dual-boot setup just for this until the online version became available. It makes me as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs to hang all my stuff outside my walls like that but I haven't managed to kill myself yet... 15.95 gets you the full Fed & state with e-filing as available,last years info auto-filled in for you,tax tips,forms,library of docs,etc.,etc. 9.95 for Fed only + e-file. 7.95 for state or e-file alone. FREE printable tax calculation with ALL commonly used forms and schedules except 1040x(amended return). Everyone go tell 2nd Story Software to give us another cool Linux solution!
I have a flashback to Heavy Metal, the trial of Captain Stern(Darl) when they call out Sterns' "angle" Hanover Fist(Po' Badari)! "PULAVARTY, CALLING BADARI PULAVARTY TO THE STAND!"
In light of the overall negative reception you and Lindows have had amongst the/. community to date would you take this opportunity to pledge your intent to be a reasonably good citizen of the open source community? Please elaborate to the extent and/or limit you view this responsibility.
I think this subject was best summed up inside a Talking Heads album cover,"The only children who are affected by television are those whose parents act like television characters".
I've run it for the last 3 or 4 years and it has handled mortgage,dependants,etc. flawlessly. It seems to have all capabilities right up through small business needs. Paper return is free,Deluxe Fed&state efile version for ~$20. My only problem this year is unless I run it on my kid's dualboot I'll have to try the online interface:( SO...If everyone will kindly go to http://www.taxact.com/tsupport/suggestion.html and let them know how much you'd appreciate a Linux client and all of my fellow MandrakeClub members would go to http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload &name=RPM&func=info_page&RID=311 and throw a vote at it to get Denos' attention we just might get something started here!
Slashdot Mirror
I'm way behind schedule on my plans to gather everything up and git my ass to the mountains before it all goes to hell. Anyone interested in swapping some land up the hill a ways for some coastal Carolina soon to be beachfront property?
How does an industry get away with pushing a maximum copyright agenda for a product they'll "give" away.....?
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=665
Update 18 December ***Incorrect data redacted*** (click to read)
[See newer information on DDoS in update below]
A DDoS attack was launched on www.spamhaus.org today in retaliation for us warning Internet users about the Russian-German cyber criminals behind the Wikileaks mirror wikileaks.info.
Spamhaus is currently under a 2.1Gbps DDoS attack which began at 05:20 CET. As we are used to DDoS attacks from cybercriminals our anti-ddos defences are holding and our web servers are still operating, a little slower than normal.
By no coincidence, the 'AnonOps' DDoS group irc.anonops.net is also hosted by the same Heihachi Russian-German cybercrime gang in the same CIDR as wikileaks.info:
wikileaks.info = 92.241.190.202
irc.anonops.net = 92.241.190.94
In addition to the LOIC and *OIC tools issued to dimwitted script kiddies to DDoS "enemies of Anon" with, AnonOps appears to be now escalating its DDoS attacks using dedicated criminal botnets (botnets of illegally hijacked PCs), and now appears to be directing DDoS attacks not at "enemies of Wikileaks" but at "enemies of our criminal bosses".
There is palpable irony in a DDoS being used to prevent exposure of a probably-false Wikileaks mirror that could potentially harm Wikileaks and Wikileaks readers. We hope that AnonOps supporters appreciate the irony as much as we do.
Update 19 December
We have been analyzing the traffic patters of the attempted DDoS attack against Spamhaus that started yesterday. We are seeing that it is made up of UDP and Syn flood type packets. This is not the profile of DDoS traffic from the LOIC and other *OIC tools issued to script kiddies to DDoS "enemies of Anon" with. In fact, at some semi-private forums, the AnonOps members have denied the DDoS and have stated how much they hate spam and would not attack Spamhaus. It would seem some actually read and understood what our warning message was about. Rumors are that they have also distanced themselves from members who were promoting the use of botnets to attack sites.
This now looks far more likely to be the work of people running, or hosting at, Webalta or the Heihachi cybercrime group. Possibly angered with the attention this wikileaks.info article brought to their dirty section of the internet. When one hosts spam servers, malware, Zeus and other botnet command and control (C&C) servers, bank phish sites and "backends", child exploitation sites and other badness, keeping off-the-radar is a must. Perhaps Russian authorities are now looking closer at this Webalta and its datacenter, as Russian citizens and banks are often the target of the people running systems there.
As we do when hit by these attacks, Spamhaus is working with both network experts and law-enforcement agencies to find and shut down the botnet used for the DDoS and to try and track who may be behind it.
Wow. Everybody prepped for Armageddon?
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=665
Update 15 December
In a statement released today on wikileaks.info entitled "Spamhaus' False Allegations Against wikileaks.info", the person running the wikileaks.info site (which is not connected with Julian Assange or the real Wikileaks organization) called Spamhaus's information on his infamous cybercrime host "false" and "none of {your} business" and called on people to contact Spamhaus and "voice your opinion". Consequently Spamhaus has now received a number of emails some asking if we "want to be next", some telling us to stop blacklisting Wikileaks (obviously they don't understand that we never did) and others claiming we are "a pawn of US Government Agencies".
None of the people who contacted us realised that the "Wikileaks press release" published on wikileaks.info was not written by Wikileaks and not issued by Wikileaks - but by the person running the wikileaks.info site only - the very site we are warning about. The site data, disks, connections and visitor traffic, are all under the control of the Heihachi cybercrime gang. There are more than 40 criminal-run sites operating on the same IP address as wikileaks.info, including carder-elite.biz, h4ck3rz.biz, elite-crew.net, and bank phishes paypal-securitycenter.com and postbank-kontodirekt.com.
Because they are using a Wikileaks logo, many people thought that the "press release" was issued "by Wikileaks". In fact there has been no press release about this by Wikileaks and none of the official Wikileaks mirrors sites even recognise the wikileaks.info mirror. We wonder how long it will be before Wikileaks supporters wake up and start to question why wikileaks.info is not on the list of real Wikileaks mirrors at wikileaks.ch.
Currently wikileaks.info is serving highly sensitive leaked documents to the world, from a server fully controlled by Russian and German malware cybercriminals, to an audience that faithfully believes anything with a 'Wikileaks' logo on it.
Spamhaus continues to warn Wikileaks readers to make sure they are viewing and downloading documents only from an official Wikileaks mirror site. We're not saying "don't go to Wikileaks" we're saying "Use the wikileaks.ch server instead".
Update 18 December
A DDOS attack was launched on www.spamhaus.org today in retaliation for us warning Internet users about the Russian-German cyber criminals behind the Wikileaks mirror wikileaks.info.
Spamhaus is currently under a 2.1Gbps DDOS attack which began at 05:20 CET. As we are used to DDOS attacks from cybercriminals our anti-ddos defences are holding and our web servers are still operating, a little slower than normal.
By no coincidence, the 'AnonOps' DDOS group irc.anonops.net is also hosted by the same Heihachi Russian-German cybercrime gang in the same CIDR as wikileaks.info:
wikileaks.info = 92.241.190.202
irc.anonops.net = 92.241.190.94
In addition to the LOIC and *OIC tools issued to dimwitted script kiddies to DDOS "enemies of Anon" with, AnonOps appears to be now escalating its DDOS attacks using dedicated criminal botnets (botnets of illegally hijacked PCs), and now appears to be directing DDOS attacks not at "enemies of Wikileaks" but at "enemies of our criminal bosses".
There is palpable irony in a DDOS being used to prevent exposure of a probably-false Wikileaks mirror that could potentially harm Wikileaks and Wikileaks readers. We hope that AnonOps supporters appreciate the irony as much as we do.
http://wikileaks.info/press/spamhaus-false-allegations-against-wikileaks.html
Spamhaus' False Allegations Against wikileaks.info
Published 15-Dec-2010, 8:00 AM GMT
On Tuesday, 14-Dec-2010 Spamhaus has issued a statement wherein it labels wikileaks.info as "unsafe", as they consider our hosting company as a malware facilitator:
http://www.spamhaus.org/news.lasso?article=665
We find it very disturbing that Spamhaus labels a site as dangerous without even checking if there is any malware on it. We monitor the wikileaks.info site and we can guarantee that there is no malware on it. We do not know who else is hosted with Heihachi Ltd and it is none of our business. They provide reliable hosting to us. That's it.
While we are in favour of "Blacklists", be it for mail servers or web sites, they have to be compiled with care. Just listing whole IP blocks as "bad" may be quick and easy for the blacklist editors, but will harm hosters and web site users.
Wikileaks has been pulled from big hosters like Amazon. That's why we are using a "bulletproof" hoster that does not just kick a site when it gets a letter from government or a big company. Our hoster is giving home to many political sites like castor-schottern.org and should not be blocked just because they might have hosted some malware sites.
Fortunately, more responsible blacklists, like stopbadware.org (which protects the Firefox browser, for example), don't list us. We do hope that Spamhaus hasn't issued this statement due to political pressure.
Wikileaks.info will always be safe and clean. Promised:
Google Safe Browsing Check for wikileaks.info
Update (15-Dec-2010 17:00 PM GMT): Spamhaus has updated their statement to say that they don't blacklist us.
The wikileaks.info Team
Though this well known verse was probably quite relevant at it's time of writing, it still says it all rather well.
http://bible.cc/ephesians/6-12.htm GREAT site I found looking up this scripture:
New International Version (©1984)
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
New Living Translation (©2007)
For we are not fighting against flesh-and-blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.
English Standard Version (©2001)
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
International Standard Version (©2008)
For our struggle is not against human opponents, but against rulers, authorities, cosmic powers in the darkness around us, and evil spiritual forces in the heavenly realm.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
This is not a wrestling match against a human opponent. We are wrestling with rulers, authorities, the powers who govern this world of darkness, and spiritual forces that control evil in the heavenly world.
King James Bible
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
Please scroll down at the above link to the commentaries and analysis. Simply must reading for anyone wanting insight.
I believe the vast majority of law enforcement workers just wish the public would vote in legislators who would create more reasonable laws for them to enforce. Very few want to ruin lives over relatively victim-less crimes.
I'll believe Google is serious about stopping fraud when they make it easier to report the hordes of affiliates of http://www.threestarsinc.com/ who use Gmail accounts to abuse the craigslist job boards. If you'll check this page: http://www.threestarsinc.biz/ they spell out their business plan to use job seekers as a quality target for marketers.
While it may be legit on the the face of it, when combined with their pyramid-like rankings for job applicants who drive more traffic to their sites it has ruined job searching on craigslist. I have wasted MANY hours composing replies to ads only to get the auto-replies directing me to one of their many "front" websites where they collect your information and have you apply for online education and such.
I spent another couple of hours trying to figure out how to report the abused Gmail accounts to Google. Only after creating a gmail account to gain access to and search their forum did I find a link for reporting abuse which gave an error when submitted. I now just flag any craigslist ad that uses a gmail address to reply.
Am I the only one here with a 14 year old daughter? Help me, please, save me.
Copied from the website:
"If you support Wikileaks, back our defense fund by emailing supporters@sunshinepress.org with your pledge!"
I've already Paypaled?(grammar nazi help needed) my pittance but we might wait to be sure they can accept those type of payments.
As the other replier said what a false dichotomy! How about we give Bob a third option:
C)Bob can take care of the vast majority of his own health needs because he can read and think and care for himself and on the off chance he requires professional help he can pay a fair market rate to his provider of choice. This is the only approach that will bring insurance inflated costs back to reasonable levels,my provider having to justify his bill to ME.
If my dysfunctional brothers or sisters need help and can't afford it let them walk into our church and make their need known. If they are not helped to all extent possible I will become a member of a church that will help. So will the vast majority of the other members of my church.
Exactly which corner of hell is this country headed for?
Caution, spontaneous diatribe follows:
Yeah, ain't this one a hoot? If the government takes the money out of my pay for health care I don't need I promise all of you I WILL get my moneys worth out of the system or kill myself trying. After 43 years of physically hard living (Marine Corps,country boy daredevil,construction work,etc.) I am essentially in fine shape except of course for the catalog of nagging sore joints,tendons, muscles, etc. that I currently accept as just reward for the life I've lived.
I get up every morning and take a long hot shower to loosen things up and start putting one foot in front of the other until my days work is done as I understand any good American should do. Unfortunately, I am currently in a field of work that "real" Americans should no longer lower themselves to so the market is flooded with cheap third world labor, nobody cares for any quality of work, only quantity, and I think everyone is aware of what developers and lenders have done to the housing market.
I can't beg the local telco(damn you to hell Sprint/Embarq!) to provide high speed data service to our area (even after gathering a couple dozen of my closest neighbors' info to show the potential market) so my vision of opening a small Linux centered tech shop has been on hold for over 4 years now(man could I ever elaborate on this issue).
I survive as a single parent barely above poverty level and therefore barely above qualifying for the assistance that might enable me to retool into a more rewarding profession and now Mrs. Clinton is so worried about my health that she is proposing to take money from my paycheck to provide the health care industry business I don't want to give them. They'll need to pay for more police too to remove my angry ass from the waiting room because if I am forced to pay for it you had better believe I'm gonna get my moneys worth.
Let me just shut up now before I get pissed.
Here are a few ideas... ;-)
http://www.shelfordfeast.co.uk/guineapig.html
http://www.marxmail.org/archives/december98/guinea_pig.htm
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/od/cuisine/a/cuy.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cookingdiva/62203219/
http://www.exotickitchen.com/recipes/recipes5.htm
Just think of them as big squirrels without the fluffy tails
"To put science and faith on the same level is insulting to scientists everywhere." Not to mention how it must piss off the big "G".
Do all you need for under $20.
I also must endorse the Taxact solution. I still wish there was a Linux download edition available. It appears to be a Java based app so it should be easy? IANAP. I have used their product for several years now starting back with the download editions on winbloze. I kept a dual-boot setup just for this until the online version became available. It makes me as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs to hang all my stuff outside my walls like that but I haven't managed to kill myself yet... 15.95 gets you the full Fed & state with e-filing as available,last years info auto-filled in for you,tax tips,forms,library of docs,etc.,etc. 9.95 for Fed only + e-file. 7.95 for state or e-file alone. FREE printable tax calculation with ALL commonly used forms and schedules except 1040x(amended return). Everyone go tell 2nd Story Software to give us another cool Linux solution!
Off topic? Po' ol' Badari is off topic? Come on, when I get to moderate I at least go read the story so I have a clue!
I have a flashback to Heavy Metal, the trial of Captain Stern(Darl) when they call out Sterns' "angle" Hanover Fist(Po' Badari)!
"PULAVARTY, CALLING BADARI PULAVARTY TO THE STAND!"
2300+ in the first 12 hours...not too bad! (I'm 2295!)
Somebody mod the parent up and get this thing some views!
In light of the overall negative reception you and Lindows have had amongst the /. community to date would you take this opportunity to pledge your intent to be a reasonably good citizen of the open source community? Please elaborate to the extent and/or limit you view this responsibility.
I think this subject was best summed up inside a Talking Heads album cover,"The only children who are affected by television are those whose parents act like television characters".
I've run it for the last 3 or 4 years and it has handled mortgage,dependants,etc. flawlessly. It seems to have all capabilities right up through small business needs. Paper return is free,Deluxe Fed&state efile version for ~$20. My only problem this year is unless I run it on my kid's dualboot I'll have to try the online interface:( SO...If everyone will kindly go to http://www.taxact.com/tsupport/suggestion.html and let them know how much you'd appreciate a Linux client and all of my fellow MandrakeClub members would go to http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload &name=RPM&func=info_page&RID=311
and throw a vote at it to get Denos' attention we just might get something started here!