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  1. Re:Perfectly sound legal arguments on Slate: Amazon's Tax Stance Unfair and Unethical · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Someone please tell me how a corporation based in Washington State and legally incorporated in Delaware suddenly becomes a tax collector for states in which it does not have a physical presence?

    Because it's easier trying to get the corporation to pay a sales tax then going after their own citizens for not paying the use tax.

  2. Editor fail, Anita Khanna blogspam on Google+: Tools, Names, and Facebook · · Score: 2

    How about linking to the real source instead of a spam site stealing content.

  3. And this helps how? on Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts · · Score: 0

    ~nt~

  4. Despite their claim of Do No Evil on Why No War Over MS's Android Patent Shakedown? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So why is it sitting back and letting Microsoft shake down OEMs over its claims to own patents that Android infringes?

    Because Google is a Business. Litigation costs money. Business don't like spending money until they have to.

  5. Why forums suck for documentation on Using Old Linksys Routers to Control BBQ Smokers · · Score: 2

    A mismash of old and possibly current information split up over 20 posts on a dozen pages with disclaimers of "This is old, dont use it, but here it is anyways" interspersed with links to other posts that may or may not work anymore.

  6. Not even on 11-Year-Old Pilots 1,325 MPG Concept Car · · Score: 1

    Until you could take it out on existing roads and not get turned into a smear on the road if somebody hits you, it's not a car.

  7. Basically nothing new on Amir Taaki Answers Your Questions About Bitcoin · · Score: 2

    So in short, lots of rationalization for having spent lots of time working on this with nothing of real substance to get people to actually use it.

  8. Re:Not Surprised on FBI Seizes Servers In Virginia · · Score: 0

    and by get rid, I of course meant get away with it.

  9. Not Surprised on FBI Seizes Servers In Virginia · · Score: 1

    And so it begins . . . .

    did lulzsec think they could get rid of it forever?

  10. Re:Glad I Dropped 'Em on Verizon To Drop Unlimited Data Plans In Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    I get unthrottled, uncapped, unlimited data access for $15 extra, and I can tether my laptop when I'm traveling.

    For now.

  11. Re:What? on PlanetLab Creates a More Advanced Sudo · · Score: 1

    I mean, sudo has little to do with user permissions or anything like that - the mnemonic is "sub user and do". It tries to change the current user to the user specified in the command line (and uses root if none is specified), and executes the command it's given. That's it. That's all it does. It doesn't have anything to do with "fine grained permissions", that sort of thing should be handled at the OS level.

    No, you're the confused one. sudo does that, try man 5 sudoers in your favorite shell

  12. Re:Unexploitable vuln? on SSL/TLS Vulnerability Widely Unpatched · · Score: 1

    It is only not a vulnerability, because it's not practically exploitable right now

    Yea it is, a guy already did a PoC with Twitter.

  13. Re:So.... the change is.... on FTC Approves Microsoft's Takeover of Skype · · Score: 2

    Perhaps one change will be that PostgreSQL will no longer be moving forward so fast in the realm of free and open source high availability databases.

    Let's see a small selection of other people using Pg.

    US State Department
    whitepages.com
    IMDB
    Fujitsu
    Sun
    Apple
    RedHat
    Junipet
    Cisco
    NTT Data

    I'm pretty sure most of these companies produce a lot more contributions to Pg then Skype ever did. Not to mention there's quite a few failover/replication suites for Pg

  14. Re:Wankers on LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard · · Score: 2

    There's a big difference between what Mitnick did and mass disruption of services

  15. Re:Balls of steel on LulzSec Phone-Bombs FBI and Blizzard · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being behind a ski mask (7 proxies) doesn't really mean much unless you're outside the country, what with all the taps the NSA have, I'm sure if they wanted them gone it wouldn't take much.

  16. Re:CC-SA? on Senate Bill Could Make It Illegal To Upload Lip-Synced Videos · · Score: 1

    I'm mystified how this works with a copyrighted song released under a CC-SA license that explicitly permits that soon to be criminal act...

    If you read the bill it likely refers to unlicensed performance of an copyrighted work.

  17. Re:I call BS on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 3, Funny

    It boggles the mind how emos found the time to learn hacking.

  18. Why Bother? ~nt~ on Ask Amir Taaki About Bitcoin · · Score: 0

    ~nt~

  19. I would be amazed . . . on Gran Turismo Gamer Takes Second In Class In World-Renowned Race · · Score: 0

    . . . if he was second overall, not just second in class.

  20. Short Answer? on Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump .NET · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No.

    If you watch the presentation for what it really is, what they're saying is if you want the 'New Hotness' flashy canvas, yes your apps will have to be HTML/JS. No, they're not going to throw away everything out there, you'll be able to use 'old and busted'.

  21. Yay on Mozilla MemShrink Set To Fix Firefox Memory · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At long last, Mozilla developers are finally set to take this issue seriously

    Yay, it only took 5 years of bitching for them to actually look into it instead of blaming addons or your profile.

  22. Re:Former Employee Has Chip on Shoulder... on Ex-Google Engineer Blasts Google's Technology · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not just former employee:

    As a member of the Google Wave team, Prasanna helped build the search and indexing pipelines for the ill-fated effort to reinvent communication on the web

    Probably angsty nobody liked his baby.

  23. In my opinion . . . on The Ongoing Case of Rakofsky vs. Internet · · Score: 4, Informative

    . . . Joseph Rakofsky is an asshat.

  24. Where's the DOJ on Could Apple Kill Off Mac OS X? · · Score: 1

    Plus, Apple would take a 30% cut on all Mac software if it mandated downloads via the App Store only.

    How would that not be any more egregious then what MS was convicted for.

  25. Re:Data corruption? on Has iTunes Been Hacked? · · Score: 1

    Some users are starting to notice they have someone else's info and are going on a buying spree. Or people are just making their normal purchases and are unknowingly charging other people's accounts, like I almost did last night.

    Or somebody hacked your account and changed the billing info.