Placing an "add-in" in a competitor's product to render it more vulnerable to attacks and crashes seems like more the DOJ needs to investigate into Microsoft. Because it is hard to remove or disable, it could also be considered malware of some type. There might even be a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for Firefox users. If so sign me up, as that add-in caused my Firefox to crash more often and caused me to lose productivity and gave me emotional and psychological damage. I suffer from schizo affective disorder and the add-in caused crashes and lockups that activated my disorder and made it worse. That makes me more sensitive than normal people.
It took a registry hack and deletion of hidden files to get rid of it, but my Windows XP crashes every three days now since I removed it. Automatic updates of Dotnet frameworks add it back in for some reason.
Actually I think that might have been one of David Banner's many aliases on "The Incredible Hulk" TV show. He usually chose a last name beginning with "B" but kept the David first name of his name for his aliases.
we are trying to detect it using 3D technology. What if the Higgs Boson is more than three dimensional? Remember M-Theory aka Super String Theory, the Universe is made up of many dimensions. Some of those dimensions are so small we cannot see them, and others are so large that they host parallel universes we cannot see nor detect.
Einstein said that time is the fourth dimension and space is the fifth dimension and warped. What if the Higgs Boson exists out of space/time, we'd never be able to see it even if we caused one to be made. What if like the Hawking Paradox with black holes evaporating the mini-black holes caused by the LHC evaporate the Higgs Boson? Maybe sending it somewhere via space/time or a parallel universe or small dimension? Maybe Black Holes and Higgs Bosons travel so far back in space/time that they send matter and energy into the Big Bang event that created the universe, or creates a parallel universe in another dimension?
The explanation that the universe cannot make a Higgs boson because it travels back in time and stops itself from being formed sounds rather silly. I supposed it would be just as silly to say Time Lords exist and Doctor Who used his sonic screwdriver on the LHC so it wouldn't make a Higgs boson so Human Beings would never learn the secret to time travel?
The idea that the Higgs boson would destroy the universe if made, was the same illogical thinking that nuclear scientists had when developing the atomic bomb that smashing atoms would destroy the universe. Think about it, the universe is large and full of matter and energy, and if a nuclear explosion didn't create a chain-reaction that destroyed the universe, then the Higgs boson most likely won't create a chain-reaction to destroy the universe. Physics doesn't work like that and you have to figure in the law of conservation and entropy that limits the effects of matter and energy so that energy is wasted and lost, and thus you couldn't have an infinite series of chain reactions to destroy the universe. Only the area near the LHC would be destroyed if there was an explosion caused by the Higgs boson, not the whole of Europe, not the Earth, not the Solar System, not the Galaxy, and certainly not the universe. We would have discovered a new way of destroying stuff, and life goes on. But I would rather like to think of the positive in which the Higgs boson is discovered and develops a new form of energy that helps humankind get off of fossil fuels.
in which more than one processor will be used for various things like graphics, sound, I/O, memory management etc.
This will be done because they cannot make CPUs any faster clockwise or instructions per second wise, so they will have to use co-processors to work with the main CPU to free up the main CPU, and thus speed up the system.
We might even see parallel processing PCs with more than one CPU chip (not multi-core but more than one CPU) in order to run them in parallel to handle more things.
Some day we will reach quantum computing, fiber optic motherboards, fiber optic RAM, and then we will find way to speed things up more, but until we do, there will be physical limits on what a computer can do speedwise.
I call it the Amiga Factor as the Commodore Amiga used the 68000 running at a slower 7.14Mhz speed, but used co-processors to speed things up and take the tasks off the main CPU. We sort of have that a bit now with modern Macs and PCs as Video Cards have GPUs and some GPUs are built into the CPUs now, and each Sound Card has a processor of sorts. So basically modern systems have evolved into what the Amiga might have been had it used Intel chips instead of Motorola chips.
Well to be honest the Sci Fi writers are writers not scientists. They don't know too much about Science and anything they write they tend to make up.
But some things on the Star Trek show made it to reality. Spock was using floppy disks in one episode and then later the Floppy Disk was invented, on the show they looked like 3.5" floppys that Sony later invented. Also the Classic Star Trek communicators eventually lead to the invention of the cell phone, which almost everyone uses in modern day times.
Still no transporter, warp drive, phasers, human like androids, or even a Tricorder yet. But we don't know if such things are possible or impossible, we just don't know how they work, and the Science on Star Trek was imaginary and nothing like Real Life Science.
When you have a show in the future, with advanced science, you cannot make a plot based on science or technology without making stuff up. Once Sci Fi universe is the Traveller Universe in which they tried to make the technology and science as realistic as possible. But the Jump Drive is basically a Hyperspace Drive that enters another dimension and takes a shortcut in three Parsecs per Jump factor of the Jump Drive. But almost everything else uses formulas from Physics to explain how they work. Traveller could have made a good movie or series of books, but most Traveller writers didn't know how to write them or used a "Chose your own adventure" type book.
The video is over 5 years old. Notice he has a G3 iMac he calls a "Boat Anchor" because of the handle on the back and he was beating on a G4 tower later. No modern Macs are in his video.
I apologize for the flamebait. It should have been funny instead as I meant it as a joke.
Somewhere on the Internet this is funny and people on Slashdot should know by now that I try to write things as funny and not flamebait. I am, after all, an Internet Comedian.
I cannot stress this enough, back up your user data often. Even back up data on your mobile devices and cell phones for they can be deleted as well. Even bugs in Mac OSX can delete user data, and even on a Mac it can have a hard drive failure and wipe out your data. Backing up user data should be a part of everyone's daily if not at least weekly routines.
Actually there is a reason why a person logs into a guest account and then later into an administrative account. The guest account can be used to make sure that nothing on the Internet gets installed and that all web browser private data gets deleted when the guest account logs out of Mac OSX. Logging in with the Administrator account after the Guest account would be to install some program found on the web or tweak OSX settings that only an administrator can do like run an OSX software update or something.
As a programmer sometimes I need different accounts with different profiles to test things out with different settings. It is good to know how a program works for a guest account or an administrator account, or an account with different group policies or file access. That way I can work out my programs to work for all sorts of different type of users.
"What do I do if someone is harassing me on the site or through Inbox? We suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the... We suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the "Blocking People" box at the bottom of the Privacy page. If this does not resolve the problem, please report the user by clicking the 'Report/Block person' link that appears at the bottom of the user's profile. To report a user for a message you have received, use the report link located next to the message in your inbox."
Victim who got the TRO should have blocked that woman from his/her Facebook profile. Then there would have been no poke.
I removed friends from Facebook but they still show up in my user profile updates and it still gives me the option to poke them. Obviously she was Friends with the one who did the restraining order, and her friend removed her, but Facebook still gave her options for a friend that was removed. It is a bug in Facebook that they are trying to fix.
I write for Uncyclopedia and other humor web sites and people add me as friends via email address, and sometimes it autoaccepts them even if I didn't hit "approve" it just says "John Smith accepted your friend invite" and I didn't invite such a person. So when I remove John Smith from my friends list he still shows up in my updates and I still have options to send a poke or anything else a friend can do.
If you know of a way around this Facebook bug please let me know so I can permanently remove these people who forced a friendship somehow without my permission. Maybe it is a Facebook hacking script or something? I didn't think that I was that popular on the Internet that random strangers are friending me on Facebook.
Gah, I wonder if Sun would give anyone who downloads OpenOffice.Org a PDF of an invoice they can print out that says sales price is $0 or something. Just to get the accountants and BSA off of their backs.
Maybe this is why corporations won't use FOSS software, they have no purchase invoice to show accounting or pass a BSA pirate software check.
Actually yes lawyers can be unemployed. I worked as a programmer in a law firm, and a lawyer was hired as a programmer because he claimed he couldn't find work as a lawyer. I trained him on Visual BASIC, Crystal Reports, and ASP 2.0 VBScript programming. After six months working as a programmer, he claimed he couldn't handle it, and that the job was too stressful and he quit and got hired as a lawyer by a rival law firm. I don't know why a lawyer would want to work as a programmer without any programming experience, but as I taught/tutored him in programming he taught me a bit about lawyers and the law. Unless a lawyer is well known, or working for a major law firm, they can suffer from periods of unemployment. Since he got a job working as a programmer for the big law firm we both worked in, it helped a rival big law firm hire him on. He couldn't get a job at my employer as a lawyer so he applied for a programmer position, as he had entry level knowledge and I was always given the task to train new programmers to get them up to speed because I have a lot of experience and worked in a college computer lab training students and debugging programs, and other jobs where I trained programmers like when I was a federal contractor for the US Army before that.
Didn't you pay for tax insurance? That way if H&R Block butchers your tax filing and you get sued or owe money, they would have someone from H&R represent you and pay part of the fees and back taxes.
H&R Block is basically temporary workers who only work tax season and they use H&R Block's tax software to file the taxes for you and charge you $300 or more for the service. You can buy the H&R Block Taxcut software which does the same as the software the H&R Block Employees use, or use the TurboTax software instead. They both have a tax insurance option as well, but cost less than the $300+ H&R Block and other tax companies charge. If you are computer savvy enough to fill out electronic forms and wizards then you can use your own tax software like TaxCut or TurboTax to file your own taxes. They are programmed to catch mistakes like working in a State and not paying taxes on it, but the software that H&R Block uses for employees does not have that sort of failsafe and depends on the worker to know the tax laws.
In some cases if a single source of income earns you less than $500 a year, you may not have to report it. But the 1099 Form would be filled out anyway and a copy sent to the IRS that unemployment could see as income.
In this economy being self-employed and working freelance and having web advertising and blogs might be the only way some people are able to get a job and earn income. She needs to offer her services on those freelance web sites if unemployment cuts her off and earn enough to start up her own small business. Then the small business earns the web advertising and it does not count for her personal income, as long as she doesn't pay herself a salary, the small business can earn income and pay off the house bill if the home is used for the small business. She just would have to file business taxes separate from her personal taxes.
The difference between the homeless guy holding a sign and the woman with a blog, is that the woman with a blog has a legal contract with Google that reports income on a 1099 form that Unemployment and the Government can check for income.
If she held up a sign in the streets that said "Will do legal work for food/change." and she had a solicitor's license she would earn food and cash, and earning cash for payment is one form of income the government and unemployment cannot track. She is legally supposed to report any income she receives even in cash, but many just work for cash off the books and still collect unemployment. Just that you cannot do that with a legal contract with Google that gives you a 1099 tax form that reports income on and the contract says you are self-employed and Google is paying you as a contractor for your web advertising with them.
The Homeless man has no contract and no 1099 form, so he could earn a million dollars in cash and the government would not even know it, unless he reported it. But I doubt many homeless men earn more than $300 a year or month.
Actually unemployment doesn't pay that much, I once took a $9/hr help desk job to find out that Unemployment paid just a bit more than that. I couldn't afford very much on unemployment or that $9/hr job. I got a $50,000 a year programmer job soon after that. Unemployment allows you to try a job, and if you don't like it or it doesn't pay much, a person can quit it and go back on unemployment by filing papers. Yes any income you get is considered a job, and they do count advertising for blogs or collecting donations from friends and family members as income as well.
Unemployment is working like an insurance, not socialism. People on unemployment are supposed to be looking for work in order to stay on unemployment and at least report four to six jobs applied for per week. But Unemployment sometimes slacks off on the job application checks, but does not slack off when the unemployed starts to earn any sort of money.
If a person is earning money via a blog, I think they are considered to be self-employed. Doesn't Google file a 1099 Form if the person earns enough money to file it on their taxes? In my experience blog advertising doesn't earn that much money, and even what little you earn gets taxed a lot as well. I think Unemployment considered her to be working at least part-time for that under $300 income, even if it looks like a joke to most people to earn that little in a year and $1 a month salary.
or other porn magazines. I don't think my wife would like me reading them.
But usually there are WWE Divas who pose for Playboy, but I think this is the first time a Simpsons character posed for Playboy. Is Playboy becoming softcore now in that it uses cartoon characters instead of real people? Who next? Jane Jetson from the Jetsons, Willma Flintstone from the Flintstones, Betty Rubble from The Flintstones, Lois Griffin from Family Guy, Leela from Futurerama, Amy Wong from Futurerama, Mary Jane Watson from Spider-Man? Will Playboy turn into a cartoon centerfold magazine or spin off a new magazine called Playboy Cartoon about nude cartoon characters for 20something young men? Is Playboy going after the Japanese Henti market or just trying to appeal to a younger readership? What if this attracts boys younger than 18 to read Playboy like 10, isn't that like marketing cigarettes using cartoon characters for kids? I know the magazine is sold to adults only, but if someone's father or uncle has an issue on the coffee table won't that get some boys to at least peek inside the cover?
is that it does not run Windows legacy software like Windows XP and earlier versions did.
My brother is a Gamer, and he bought a Windows Vista Home Premium Laptop, it would not run his old games like Warlords IV and we tried a VirtualBox machine with Windows XP Pro in it but it had limited 3D support and Warlords IV would not run under it. His only option is to run Warlords IV on his old Windows XP Pro desktop, but then he cannot take the game with him on his laptop.
Not just Gamers are affected, but business owners. Many have custom written software they paid for development on older versions of Windows or even MS-DOS that Windows Vista won't run. Some software needs special hardware that does not have drivers for Windows Vista and the XP drivers don't work too well in Windows Vista. Windows Vista does not have hardware drivers for a lot of legacy hardware and thus many machines even if they meet the RAM, CPU, Video, and Hard Drive requirements cannot run Vista without the needed hardware that lacks drivers.
For example my son's Windows XP Pro system has a Texas Instruments Wireless adapter, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 lack a proper driver for it. TI never made a Vista or 7 driver, and neither did Microsoft. So in upgrading him to Windows 7 I'd need to buy a new wireless card. Now if it was a hardware dongle, TV tuner, AM/FM Radio card, or multiple port serial port adapter that lacked Vista or 7 drivers it would be more expensive to buy a newer one to replace the older one. In that case most people just stick with an older version of Windows.
I admit the Cookbook is incomplete but at least it is a start to get a look at Zoolib. Nobody else has tried to write a book or documentation on it yet. But The Zoolib page at Source Forge has more info and a mailing list to ask questions at.
Do you mean that the BSA thinks that if one does not pay for their software it is automatically pirated? Which means FOSS is pirated software because the user didn't pay for it? Linux is pirated, Firefox is pirated, Thunderbird is pirated, Google Chrome is pirated, The GIMP is pirated, Paint.Net is pirated, etc?
So they are counting "Used Software" as Pirated Software? Most software sold by auctions were used once and then sold via an auction to the lowest bidder. If one sold a book via an auction, it would not be considered pirated, but selling software via an auction is considered pirated? Some software sold via auction is still new and never used, is that pirated software as well? If so how is that different from a friend of mine buying the software new and then giving the copy to me to use as he bought two copies one for him and one for me to use. Is it pirated software then?
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Placing an "add-in" in a competitor's product to render it more vulnerable to attacks and crashes seems like more the DOJ needs to investigate into Microsoft. Because it is hard to remove or disable, it could also be considered malware of some type. There might even be a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for Firefox users. If so sign me up, as that add-in caused my Firefox to crash more often and caused me to lose productivity and gave me emotional and psychological damage. I suffer from schizo affective disorder and the add-in caused crashes and lockups that activated my disorder and made it worse. That makes me more sensitive than normal people.
It took a registry hack and deletion of hidden files to get rid of it, but my Windows XP crashes every three days now since I removed it. Automatic updates of Dotnet frameworks add it back in for some reason.
Actually I think that might have been one of David Banner's many aliases on "The Incredible Hulk" TV show. He usually chose a last name beginning with "B" but kept the David first name of his name for his aliases.
we are trying to detect it using 3D technology. What if the Higgs Boson is more than three dimensional? Remember M-Theory aka Super String Theory, the Universe is made up of many dimensions. Some of those dimensions are so small we cannot see them, and others are so large that they host parallel universes we cannot see nor detect.
Einstein said that time is the fourth dimension and space is the fifth dimension and warped. What if the Higgs Boson exists out of space/time, we'd never be able to see it even if we caused one to be made. What if like the Hawking Paradox with black holes evaporating the mini-black holes caused by the LHC evaporate the Higgs Boson? Maybe sending it somewhere via space/time or a parallel universe or small dimension? Maybe Black Holes and Higgs Bosons travel so far back in space/time that they send matter and energy into the Big Bang event that created the universe, or creates a parallel universe in another dimension?
The explanation that the universe cannot make a Higgs boson because it travels back in time and stops itself from being formed sounds rather silly. I supposed it would be just as silly to say Time Lords exist and Doctor Who used his sonic screwdriver on the LHC so it wouldn't make a Higgs boson so Human Beings would never learn the secret to time travel?
The idea that the Higgs boson would destroy the universe if made, was the same illogical thinking that nuclear scientists had when developing the atomic bomb that smashing atoms would destroy the universe. Think about it, the universe is large and full of matter and energy, and if a nuclear explosion didn't create a chain-reaction that destroyed the universe, then the Higgs boson most likely won't create a chain-reaction to destroy the universe. Physics doesn't work like that and you have to figure in the law of conservation and entropy that limits the effects of matter and energy so that energy is wasted and lost, and thus you couldn't have an infinite series of chain reactions to destroy the universe. Only the area near the LHC would be destroyed if there was an explosion caused by the Higgs boson, not the whole of Europe, not the Earth, not the Solar System, not the Galaxy, and certainly not the universe. We would have discovered a new way of destroying stuff, and life goes on. But I would rather like to think of the positive in which the Higgs boson is discovered and develops a new form of energy that helps humankind get off of fossil fuels.
in which more than one processor will be used for various things like graphics, sound, I/O, memory management etc.
This will be done because they cannot make CPUs any faster clockwise or instructions per second wise, so they will have to use co-processors to work with the main CPU to free up the main CPU, and thus speed up the system.
We might even see parallel processing PCs with more than one CPU chip (not multi-core but more than one CPU) in order to run them in parallel to handle more things.
Some day we will reach quantum computing, fiber optic motherboards, fiber optic RAM, and then we will find way to speed things up more, but until we do, there will be physical limits on what a computer can do speedwise.
I call it the Amiga Factor as the Commodore Amiga used the 68000 running at a slower 7.14Mhz speed, but used co-processors to speed things up and take the tasks off the main CPU. We sort of have that a bit now with modern Macs and PCs as Video Cards have GPUs and some GPUs are built into the CPUs now, and each Sound Card has a processor of sorts. So basically modern systems have evolved into what the Amiga might have been had it used Intel chips instead of Motorola chips.
Well to be honest the Sci Fi writers are writers not scientists. They don't know too much about Science and anything they write they tend to make up.
But some things on the Star Trek show made it to reality. Spock was using floppy disks in one episode and then later the Floppy Disk was invented, on the show they looked like 3.5" floppys that Sony later invented. Also the Classic Star Trek communicators eventually lead to the invention of the cell phone, which almost everyone uses in modern day times.
Still no transporter, warp drive, phasers, human like androids, or even a Tricorder yet. But we don't know if such things are possible or impossible, we just don't know how they work, and the Science on Star Trek was imaginary and nothing like Real Life Science.
When you have a show in the future, with advanced science, you cannot make a plot based on science or technology without making stuff up. Once Sci Fi universe is the Traveller Universe in which they tried to make the technology and science as realistic as possible. But the Jump Drive is basically a Hyperspace Drive that enters another dimension and takes a shortcut in three Parsecs per Jump factor of the Jump Drive. But almost everything else uses formulas from Physics to explain how they work. Traveller could have made a good movie or series of books, but most Traveller writers didn't know how to write them or used a "Chose your own adventure" type book.
The video is over 5 years old. Notice he has a G3 iMac he calls a "Boat Anchor" because of the handle on the back and he was beating on a G4 tower later. No modern Macs are in his video.
I apologize for the flamebait. It should have been funny instead as I meant it as a joke.
Somewhere on the Internet this is funny and people on Slashdot should know by now that I try to write things as funny and not flamebait. I am, after all, an Internet Comedian.
Did they stop making the Norton Utilities for the Macintosh? IIRC it had an Undelete program at one time.
This user claims Norton Utilities for the Mac says "You idiot, this is a Macintosh, your file is f***ing gone!"
Maybe this can help review some Mac undelete programs.
Agreed!
T-Mobile Sidekick user data got deleted as well.
I cannot stress this enough, back up your user data often. Even back up data on your mobile devices and cell phones for they can be deleted as well. Even bugs in Mac OSX can delete user data, and even on a Mac it can have a hard drive failure and wipe out your data. Backing up user data should be a part of everyone's daily if not at least weekly routines.
Actually there is a reason why a person logs into a guest account and then later into an administrative account. The guest account can be used to make sure that nothing on the Internet gets installed and that all web browser private data gets deleted when the guest account logs out of Mac OSX. Logging in with the Administrator account after the Guest account would be to install some program found on the web or tweak OSX settings that only an administrator can do like run an OSX software update or something.
As a programmer sometimes I need different accounts with different profiles to test things out with different settings. It is good to know how a program works for a guest account or an administrator account, or an account with different group policies or file access. That way I can work out my programs to work for all sorts of different type of users.
Facebook Help says:
"What do I do if someone is harassing me on the site or through Inbox?
We suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the...
We suggest that you block the person by listing his or her name in the "Blocking People" box at the bottom of the Privacy page. If this does not resolve the problem, please report the user by clicking the 'Report/Block person' link that appears at the bottom of the user's profile. To report a user for a message you have received, use the report link located next to the message in your inbox."
Victim who got the TRO should have blocked that woman from his/her Facebook profile. Then there would have been no poke.
I removed friends from Facebook but they still show up in my user profile updates and it still gives me the option to poke them. Obviously she was Friends with the one who did the restraining order, and her friend removed her, but Facebook still gave her options for a friend that was removed. It is a bug in Facebook that they are trying to fix.
I write for Uncyclopedia and other humor web sites and people add me as friends via email address, and sometimes it autoaccepts them even if I didn't hit "approve" it just says "John Smith accepted your friend invite" and I didn't invite such a person. So when I remove John Smith from my friends list he still shows up in my updates and I still have options to send a poke or anything else a friend can do.
If you know of a way around this Facebook bug please let me know so I can permanently remove these people who forced a friendship somehow without my permission. Maybe it is a Facebook hacking script or something? I didn't think that I was that popular on the Internet that random strangers are friending me on Facebook.
Gah, I wonder if Sun would give anyone who downloads OpenOffice.Org a PDF of an invoice they can print out that says sales price is $0 or something. Just to get the accountants and BSA off of their backs.
Maybe this is why corporations won't use FOSS software, they have no purchase invoice to show accounting or pass a BSA pirate software check.
Now that is the type of funny I tried to get with my original comment. Thanks.
Actually yes lawyers can be unemployed. I worked as a programmer in a law firm, and a lawyer was hired as a programmer because he claimed he couldn't find work as a lawyer. I trained him on Visual BASIC, Crystal Reports, and ASP 2.0 VBScript programming. After six months working as a programmer, he claimed he couldn't handle it, and that the job was too stressful and he quit and got hired as a lawyer by a rival law firm. I don't know why a lawyer would want to work as a programmer without any programming experience, but as I taught/tutored him in programming he taught me a bit about lawyers and the law. Unless a lawyer is well known, or working for a major law firm, they can suffer from periods of unemployment. Since he got a job working as a programmer for the big law firm we both worked in, it helped a rival big law firm hire him on. He couldn't get a job at my employer as a lawyer so he applied for a programmer position, as he had entry level knowledge and I was always given the task to train new programmers to get them up to speed because I have a lot of experience and worked in a college computer lab training students and debugging programs, and other jobs where I trained programmers like when I was a federal contractor for the US Army before that.
Didn't you pay for tax insurance? That way if H&R Block butchers your tax filing and you get sued or owe money, they would have someone from H&R represent you and pay part of the fees and back taxes.
H&R Block is basically temporary workers who only work tax season and they use H&R Block's tax software to file the taxes for you and charge you $300 or more for the service. You can buy the H&R Block Taxcut software which does the same as the software the H&R Block Employees use, or use the TurboTax software instead. They both have a tax insurance option as well, but cost less than the $300+ H&R Block and other tax companies charge. If you are computer savvy enough to fill out electronic forms and wizards then you can use your own tax software like TaxCut or TurboTax to file your own taxes. They are programmed to catch mistakes like working in a State and not paying taxes on it, but the software that H&R Block uses for employees does not have that sort of failsafe and depends on the worker to know the tax laws.
In some cases if a single source of income earns you less than $500 a year, you may not have to report it. But the 1099 Form would be filled out anyway and a copy sent to the IRS that unemployment could see as income.
In this economy being self-employed and working freelance and having web advertising and blogs might be the only way some people are able to get a job and earn income. She needs to offer her services on those freelance web sites if unemployment cuts her off and earn enough to start up her own small business. Then the small business earns the web advertising and it does not count for her personal income, as long as she doesn't pay herself a salary, the small business can earn income and pay off the house bill if the home is used for the small business. She just would have to file business taxes separate from her personal taxes.
The difference between the homeless guy holding a sign and the woman with a blog, is that the woman with a blog has a legal contract with Google that reports income on a 1099 form that Unemployment and the Government can check for income.
If she held up a sign in the streets that said "Will do legal work for food/change." and she had a solicitor's license she would earn food and cash, and earning cash for payment is one form of income the government and unemployment cannot track. She is legally supposed to report any income she receives even in cash, but many just work for cash off the books and still collect unemployment. Just that you cannot do that with a legal contract with Google that gives you a 1099 tax form that reports income on and the contract says you are self-employed and Google is paying you as a contractor for your web advertising with them.
The Homeless man has no contract and no 1099 form, so he could earn a million dollars in cash and the government would not even know it, unless he reported it. But I doubt many homeless men earn more than $300 a year or month.
Actually unemployment doesn't pay that much, I once took a $9/hr help desk job to find out that Unemployment paid just a bit more than that. I couldn't afford very much on unemployment or that $9/hr job. I got a $50,000 a year programmer job soon after that. Unemployment allows you to try a job, and if you don't like it or it doesn't pay much, a person can quit it and go back on unemployment by filing papers. Yes any income you get is considered a job, and they do count advertising for blogs or collecting donations from friends and family members as income as well.
Unemployment is working like an insurance, not socialism. People on unemployment are supposed to be looking for work in order to stay on unemployment and at least report four to six jobs applied for per week. But Unemployment sometimes slacks off on the job application checks, but does not slack off when the unemployed starts to earn any sort of money.
If a person is earning money via a blog, I think they are considered to be self-employed. Doesn't Google file a 1099 Form if the person earns enough money to file it on their taxes? In my experience blog advertising doesn't earn that much money, and even what little you earn gets taxed a lot as well. I think Unemployment considered her to be working at least part-time for that under $300 income, even if it looks like a joke to most people to earn that little in a year and $1 a month salary.
Actually I was trying to be funny, but that usually backfires here on Slashdot. I'm trying to get "The Comedian" award.
or other porn magazines. I don't think my wife would like me reading them.
But usually there are WWE Divas who pose for Playboy, but I think this is the first time a Simpsons character posed for Playboy. Is Playboy becoming softcore now in that it uses cartoon characters instead of real people? Who next? Jane Jetson from the Jetsons, Willma Flintstone from the Flintstones, Betty Rubble from The Flintstones, Lois Griffin from Family Guy, Leela from Futurerama, Amy Wong from Futurerama, Mary Jane Watson from Spider-Man? Will Playboy turn into a cartoon centerfold magazine or spin off a new magazine called Playboy Cartoon about nude cartoon characters for 20something young men? Is Playboy going after the Japanese Henti market or just trying to appeal to a younger readership? What if this attracts boys younger than 18 to read Playboy like 10, isn't that like marketing cigarettes using cartoon characters for kids? I know the magazine is sold to adults only, but if someone's father or uncle has an issue on the coffee table won't that get some boys to at least peek inside the cover?
is that it does not run Windows legacy software like Windows XP and earlier versions did.
My brother is a Gamer, and he bought a Windows Vista Home Premium Laptop, it would not run his old games like Warlords IV and we tried a VirtualBox machine with Windows XP Pro in it but it had limited 3D support and Warlords IV would not run under it. His only option is to run Warlords IV on his old Windows XP Pro desktop, but then he cannot take the game with him on his laptop.
Not just Gamers are affected, but business owners. Many have custom written software they paid for development on older versions of Windows or even MS-DOS that Windows Vista won't run. Some software needs special hardware that does not have drivers for Windows Vista and the XP drivers don't work too well in Windows Vista. Windows Vista does not have hardware drivers for a lot of legacy hardware and thus many machines even if they meet the RAM, CPU, Video, and Hard Drive requirements cannot run Vista without the needed hardware that lacks drivers.
For example my son's Windows XP Pro system has a Texas Instruments Wireless adapter, and Windows Vista and Windows 7 lack a proper driver for it. TI never made a Vista or 7 driver, and neither did Microsoft. So in upgrading him to Windows 7 I'd need to buy a new wireless card. Now if it was a hardware dongle, TV tuner, AM/FM Radio card, or multiple port serial port adapter that lacked Vista or 7 drivers it would be more expensive to buy a newer one to replace the older one. In that case most people just stick with an older version of Windows.
I admit the Cookbook is incomplete but at least it is a start to get a look at Zoolib. Nobody else has tried to write a book or documentation on it yet. But The Zoolib page at Source Forge has more info and a mailing list to ask questions at.
Do you mean that the BSA thinks that if one does not pay for their software it is automatically pirated? Which means FOSS is pirated software because the user didn't pay for it? Linux is pirated, Firefox is pirated, Thunderbird is pirated, Google Chrome is pirated, The GIMP is pirated, Paint.Net is pirated, etc?
So they are counting "Used Software" as Pirated Software? Most software sold by auctions were used once and then sold via an auction to the lowest bidder. If one sold a book via an auction, it would not be considered pirated, but selling software via an auction is considered pirated? Some software sold via auction is still new and never used, is that pirated software as well? If so how is that different from a friend of mine buying the software new and then giving the copy to me to use as he bought two copies one for him and one for me to use. Is it pirated software then?