47% of households paid no income tax for 2009 or 2010. 43% think their taxes are "just right".
This is often recited, but economically incorrect.
About 22% of prices are upstream income taxes. You can see how income taxes are part of the cost of goods, I'm sure.
Also, everybody pays FICA taxes, which are based on income, only segregated as separate line-items.
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So many superior (e.g. python)...if memory efficiency isn't on your requirements list...
or just simpler (e.g. php5)... if you can remember to use different string function calls depending on the encoding of your variable (you always know this ahead of time, right?)...
while Larry vainly struggles on trying to turn Perl 6 into a swiss army knife
Larry's not involved in the most likely successful implementation effort (Rakudo). Heck, I'm not even sure there have been any language specification updates of note in the last five years.
There may be a hiring boom in "IT folks", but what does have to do with computer science?
I do some of both. When I do IT work, I clean up, or often have to throw out a non-solution developed by an IT jockey who doesn't have a CS background because fundamental assumptions were impossible, the problem was never correctly analyzed, or the performance is abysmal due to knowledge deficits.
You simply can't make intelligent decisions on how to structure, organize, and optimize IT systems if you don't know how they work all the way up and down the stack.
CS is the MD for a sophisticated-level IT residency.
Perl 6 has 140+ different operators! That is absolutely insane. While I support being concise, Perl has far more complexity in the language core than any other language I have ever seen.
I like this about English too. Can't tell that Larry is a linguist by training, can you?
Come to think of it, I bet Python developers tend to be fond of Esperanto too. Some similarities there.
Yeah, that's why I specified "base-level" secure, not "provably secure".
Security is a process, not an achievement. Yes, if the Android source is compromised and the gcc source is compromised then there could be problems. But your attack surfaces are much smaller than with closed-source software - having millions of eyes and unaffiliated contributors working on the projects is important. They can't all be bought.
they will continue to make clients for assorted mobile devices so that they have opportunities to continue to exist so they can listen in on your calls
See, I'm taking the approach that every Microsoft action now is intended to hurt Google. So, if they pull Skype from Android but keep upgrading it on WinCE, then they'll hurt Android and actually sell a few WinCE7 phones.
I think that's worth quite a bit more to them than any sort of voyeurism would allow. Or maybe you're right and the NSA is funding this so they can get a back door that eBay wouldn't allow.
It seems that people just come here to complain about the news articles.
Exactly, it's a virtual water cooler. We don't talk about what was on reality TV last night, but the cool shit that's happening in the tech world instead. But we still bitch about the office.
Immediate issues are resolved by falling back to SMB by weakening security on MS file servers.
Ah, there's your problem. Set up a Linux fileserver. Make the Windows boxes talk to Samba, the Macs talk to netatalk, and the Linux boxes can speak NFS directly.
Use the superset on the server side to handle the subsets on the client side - don't look for intersections of the subsets!
GEOS? Are you freaking kidding me? That was an 8086 based task switching system, no memory management,
You and your fancy 16-bit 8086. I waited 15 minutes for the damn thing to load on my 64K 6510-based system! Frankly, in an age where Firefox needs 200MB of RAM to turn on, I'm astounded it worked at all, even though it was pretty painful to operate.
Right, Word 6 for Mac was a train wreck. It was said at the time that Microsoft wrote a WinAPI compatibility layer for MacOS.
And they were trying to sell to Mac users on Word 5.1, which was, frankly, a really great Mac application. There, I've said it, but that was back when Microsoft wasn't a company you wanted to hate.
Speaking of which, the Skype buyout still has to be approved by the feds...
Is anybody going to explain to them that within five years Microsoft will only support Skype on Windows-branded OS's (other than the 3-year-old Mac version they barely keep on life support?)
Corruption just seems to be getting more and more visible and obvious, and nobody with the power to stop it gives a damn.
Power serves corruption and corruption serves power.
The government exists because the People have given it their power. It's beyond obvious (this being a text book illustration) that we've given too much power.
How to stop corruption at the FCC? Get rid of the FCC. Done, next?
Open source also opens organizations to criticism when they try to push out code that isnâ(TM)t ready, and I think this is very much a problem for Google with Honeycomb.
I suspect the code is functional but poorly architected. As they say, "first you write the code, then you understand it, then you re-write it." If there's a major rewrite underway, it's at least good to tell developers to expect that any of their changes would rapidly bitrot, and not to spend too much time trying to augment this version.
At least that's the impression I get from folks who are really happy with their Nook Colors on Gingerbread - if it were buggy they'd likely be complaining.
Still, they Google to release the code so that we can verify that the binaries are not compromised through recompilation. That's the only way to validate a platform as base-level secure these days.
Apple Computer owned the Apple trademark in the context of computers, while Apple Corps owned it in the context of music
And that was one of the more acrimonious disputes, thought I guess emotions ran rather high with the 'A Paul Corporation' in contention. I guess these days they'd just register moc.daedsilu.ap if they were still putting out music.
No, roots are proven to be broken, can be taken over, and will attract power/abuse. Figure out something distributed - you've got a whole Internet to work with.
Nissan motors sued him, his company and a third company which had nothing to do with their trademark simply because he was a shareholder.(yes nissan motors is that scummy)
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47% of households paid no income tax for 2009 or 2010. 43% think their taxes are "just right".
This is often recited, but economically incorrect.
About 22% of prices are upstream income taxes. You can see how income taxes are part of the cost of goods, I'm sure.
Also, everybody pays FICA taxes, which are based on income, only segregated as separate line-items.
So many superior (e.g. python) ...if memory efficiency isn't on your requirements list...
or just simpler (e.g. php5) ... if you can remember to use different string function calls depending on the encoding of your variable (you always know this ahead of time, right?)...
while Larry vainly struggles on trying to turn Perl 6 into a swiss army knife
Larry's not involved in the most likely successful implementation effort (Rakudo). Heck, I'm not even sure there have been any language specification updates of note in the last five years.
I have a six figure salary in Washington. I wouldn't mind paying more of that as income tax alongside others in the same bracket.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Lead by example, etc.
Though only if that is state income tax and not federal (I don't want to fund further growth of federal power at the expense of states)
Wise move (though donating the money to more efficient charities would be even wiser).
There may be a hiring boom in "IT folks", but what does have to do with computer science?
I do some of both. When I do IT work, I clean up, or often have to throw out a non-solution developed by an IT jockey who doesn't have a CS background because fundamental assumptions were impossible, the problem was never correctly analyzed, or the performance is abysmal due to knowledge deficits.
You simply can't make intelligent decisions on how to structure, organize, and optimize IT systems if you don't know how they work all the way up and down the stack.
CS is the MD for a sophisticated-level IT residency.
What are you doing with all that free time?
WoW, beer and porn. *
Oh, wait, that was a rhetorical question, wasn't it?
* the complainers about this problem suffer from a selection bias problem
Perl 6 has 140+ different operators! That is absolutely insane. While I support being concise, Perl has far more complexity in the language core than any other language I have ever seen.
I like this about English too. Can't tell that Larry is a linguist by training, can you?
Come to think of it, I bet Python developers tend to be fond of Esperanto too. Some similarities there.
I think we all knew this.
On Slashdot? What's next, they'll tell us sapphire-encrusted Monster Cables are a waste of money too?
Seriously, though, getting a dupe from 2002 must be some sort of record.
and then the alarms don't even ring with DST rolls over.
iPhones don't go on DST, they go on RDF (which is amazingly revolutionary and intuitive).
Yeah, that's why I specified "base-level" secure, not "provably secure".
Security is a process, not an achievement. Yes, if the Android source is compromised and the gcc source is compromised then there could be problems. But your attack surfaces are much smaller than with closed-source software - having millions of eyes and unaffiliated contributors working on the projects is important. They can't all be bought.
What about the 'false' part?
they will continue to make clients for assorted mobile devices so that they have opportunities to continue to exist so they can listen in on your calls
See, I'm taking the approach that every Microsoft action now is intended to hurt Google. So, if they pull Skype from Android but keep upgrading it on WinCE, then they'll hurt Android and actually sell a few WinCE7 phones.
I think that's worth quite a bit more to them than any sort of voyeurism would allow. Or maybe you're right and the NSA is funding this so they can get a back door that eBay wouldn't allow.
Is anybody going to explain to you that you're free to use another product, considering there are hundreds of products similar to Skype available?
Nope, Skype owns essential echo cancellation patents. The Government will use violent force to ensure their monopoly on this aspect of VoIP software.
If it were a free market you'd be absolutely right. Too bad it's not.
Also, Kermit is a terminal emulator. Pick a different name.
They just have to hold their breath for eight more weeks.
It seems that people just come here to complain about the news articles.
Exactly, it's a virtual water cooler. We don't talk about what was on reality TV last night, but the cool shit that's happening in the tech world instead. But we still bitch about the office.
Immediate issues are resolved by falling back to SMB by weakening security on MS file servers.
Ah, there's your problem. Set up a Linux fileserver. Make the Windows boxes talk to Samba, the Macs talk to netatalk, and the Linux boxes can speak NFS directly.
Use the superset on the server side to handle the subsets on the client side - don't look for intersections of the subsets!
GEOS? Are you freaking kidding me? That was an 8086 based task switching system, no memory management,
You and your fancy 16-bit 8086. I waited 15 minutes for the damn thing to load on my 64K 6510-based system! Frankly, in an age where Firefox needs 200MB of RAM to turn on, I'm astounded it worked at all, even though it was pretty painful to operate.
Right, Word 6 for Mac was a train wreck. It was said at the time that Microsoft wrote a WinAPI compatibility layer for MacOS.
And they were trying to sell to Mac users on Word 5.1, which was, frankly, a really great Mac application. There, I've said it, but that was back when Microsoft wasn't a company you wanted to hate.
Speaking of which, the Skype buyout still has to be approved by the feds...
Is anybody going to explain to them that within five years Microsoft will only support Skype on Windows-branded OS's (other than the 3-year-old Mac version they barely keep on life support?)
Corruption just seems to be getting more and more visible and obvious, and nobody with the power to stop it gives a damn.
Power serves corruption and corruption serves power.
The government exists because the People have given it their power. It's beyond obvious (this being a text book illustration) that we've given too much power.
How to stop corruption at the FCC? Get rid of the FCC. Done, next?
Open source also opens organizations to criticism when they try to push out code that isnâ(TM)t ready, and I think this is very much a problem for Google with Honeycomb.
I suspect the code is functional but poorly architected. As they say, "first you write the code, then you understand it, then you re-write it." If there's a major rewrite underway, it's at least good to tell developers to expect that any of their changes would rapidly bitrot, and not to spend too much time trying to augment this version.
At least that's the impression I get from folks who are really happy with their Nook Colors on Gingerbread - if it were buggy they'd likely be complaining.
Still, they Google to release the code so that we can verify that the binaries are not compromised through recompilation. That's the only way to validate a platform as base-level secure these days.
Apple Computer owned the Apple trademark in the context of computers, while Apple Corps owned it in the context of music
And that was one of the more acrimonious disputes, thought I guess emotions ran rather high with the 'A Paul Corporation' in contention. I guess these days they'd just register moc.daedsilu.ap if they were still putting out music.
roots are proven to be broken
Just start a whole new root zone.
No, roots are proven to be broken, can be taken over, and will attract power/abuse. Figure out something distributed - you've got a whole Internet to work with.
Nissan motors sued him, his company and a third company which had nothing to do with their trademark simply because he was a shareholder.(yes nissan motors is that scummy)
Oh, thanks for the head's up. No LEAF then.
Ironically, anonymous cash would really help to restore trust here.
Agreed, though not really too ironic - non-tracked money ought to be obvious to people as a good thing for not being tracked.
Please ask your Congressman to co-sponsor the Free Competition in Currency Act.