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  1. Re:USA sucks with taxes on Amazon Poised To Get Cut of CA Sales Taxes · · Score: 1

    Why? For federal taxes US law is fairly straightforward. Why does a foreign merchant need to bother with US taxes anyways?

  2. Re:sucks for his kids on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    You don't know if he's applying for Singapore citizenship. He has an oldie but goodie Brazilian passport.

  3. Re:who's data on Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users · · Score: 1

    Ive was told the prablim with spellling is zat its hard to bee taking srsly

  4. Re:Bribery Tax on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1

    We sent such bill to Cnogres long time ago, but USPS lobby keeps rejecting it with "Recepeint does not exist".

  5. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    Amen, someone posted an infographic for just you what said
    http://pics.livejournal.com/ivan_gandhi/pic/0003e1gb

  6. Re:Amazon did it on Tablet Makers Try To Beat iPad's $500 Pricetag · · Score: 1

    That is 7". The competition there is Dell Streak, not iPad.

  7. Re:Probably neither party with Democratic leanings on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1, Informative

    * Any time somebody votes GOP, they do it out of money
    * Any time somebody votes Democrat, they do it out of goodness of their heart and pristine beauty of their souls

  8. Re:Bribery Tax on Facebook Forming a PAC · · Score: 1

    Tax all people who cannot spell "campaign" and run elections on that money instead of donations.

  9. Re:Money burned elsewhere on Social Media Bubble Pops Before It Fully Inflates · · Score: 1

    Why would the banks worry about US budget?

  10. Re:Group = Social Media? on Social Media Bubble Pops Before It Fully Inflates · · Score: 1

    Old Navy has that feature, and "it is certainly exploiting real world relationships".

  11. Re:Shortage of engineering jobs, on Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage · · Score: 1

    If this was true, faculty salaries would've spiked on new demand and availability of cheap credit.

    A quick overview of where the state education money is going http://www.sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2005/ucsalary/ tells you that most universities nowadays are just a stadium and sports team operation with education annoyingly tacked on here and there.

  12. Re:more software engineers on Mr. President, There Is No (US) Engineer Shortage · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what GNU Hurd is doing?

  13. Re:Except on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    This is his picture, not yours.
    What difference does it make whether he tags blair1q in it, or writes something like "Look at this blair1q guy making a complete opposite of gentleman of himself" without tag?

  14. Re:Except on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Step backward on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    Now everybody can tag (which is no different then mentioning you in text in captions to their photos), but not every tag will automatically post to your profile.
    You have to approve others' tags for them to go on your profile, and for your friends to discover them.

  16. Re:Wow... that's on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 2

    It's the same as posting an image with privacy set to "Everyone" and providing an exception to specific users.
    This is possible today.
    However, with new privacy settings one has to approve other people's photo tags, so this photo will never show up on taggee's profile.

  17. Re:Wow... that's on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    Only your friends will see it.
    How is it different from photoshopping an image and then sending it around from your email address?

  18. Except on Facebook's New Privacy Controls: Still Broken · · Score: 1

    The tagged person needs to approve that tag first. Only then his friends would discover the photo via taggee's profile.

    The photo would indeed be visible to poster's friends, but he could've mentioned the person's name (without the tag and with whatever custom privacy she chose) to begin with.

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

    "Amazon wants to continue to have an associate program ..."
    Do they?

  20. Reply from a former FB engineer on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 3, Interesting
  21. Re:Netflix on Has the Second Dotcom Bubble Started? · · Score: 1

    Why write articles when you can take your money and sell NFLX short, generating a fortune, if your prediction is true?

  22. Few more questions on Is Setting Up an Offshore IT Help Desk Ethical? · · Score: 1

    1) Is setting up a helpdesk in another building ethical?
    2) Is setting up a helpdesk in another city ethical?
    3) Is setting up a helpdesk in another state ethical? Even if they speak in funny language with words like "y'all"?

  23. Re:Reconsider What That Estimate Represents on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 1

    In what way has Goldman misled investors?

    People who were eligible to invest got the report first-hand from GS. People who got it from the leak are still not eligible, interest or no interest.

  24. valuated on Facebook's Revenues Leaked · · Score: 2

    ...should Facebook be valuated...

    We should have more financious intellectious discussions like this.

  25. Re:Browse friendships needs to be blockable. on Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned Profile Pages · · Score: 1

    One of the people is always you.
    For the second person, would you hide it if you were viewing their profile (without friendship filter)?