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  1. Accountants are liable. The IRS goes after the filer. Now there may be some firms that will offer some sort of protection/advice. This is rare. But strictly speaking the IRS doesn't have to and often won't even contact whoever did them. They simply don't care.

  2. Most probably do unless they have an accountant that is very good. I just spend 30 bucks for turbo tax and quickly fill in the blanks. Odds are I'm leaving money on the table.

  3. Without the promise of hot women or good looking celebs who are now ugly. So it doesn't even have that going for it.

  4. What is this even talking about? on Why Sys-Admins Are Disabling The Lights on WiFi Access Points (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, didn't read the article. The summary itself is all over the place. What are they even talking about? Blue light keeping admins who take naps in router closets from being able to sleep? Or millennials complaining because the are living in their moms basements and being kept awake because the router is still down there? Who the hell walks around the office looking for blue lights shining through to see if wifi is working? Who are these people?

  5. Re: Great firefighters on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't want to pay firefighters to be trained in a car that .000001% of the populace has. There is much more beneficial training to be had.

  6. Re:I'd probably fire every CEO I've ever worked un on Ask Slashdot: Would You Fire Your CEO? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    Believe it was Sarah Silverman who said along the lines of, 'if all you've ever had are bitchy roomates, you're the bitch'

  7. Re:Food supply for bats on Should We Kill All The Mosquitoes? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually they aren't. Some studies have shown about 5% of their diet being mosquitoes. The night is full of other insects.

  8. The real issue keeps being ignored on Not Just Samsung? The Increasing Frequency Of Battery Fires (sltrib.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't worry about the one off situations that occur for the end user. The real issue is what brought down the UPS 747 outside of Dubai in 2010. While this was a freight aircraft, pallets of these things are routinely shipped as cargo commercial airlines. Scores of lithium batteries left unattended in the cargo hold does concern me.

  9. Re:38,000 cubic meters of helium? on World's Largest Aircraft Crashes Its Second Flight (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    That's nothing compared to the number of birthday balloons that are wasted each day at parties for 1 year olds. That's a piddle amount of something that is presumably not just released.

  10. Explain 40 days and 40 nights of rain in a time where there was virtual no man made CO2 emissions. You can go back through history and find plenty of times where more rain has fallen.

  11. Wow on Google Testing AI System To Cool Data Center Energy Bills · · Score: 1

    So closed loop control is now AI.

  12. Re:Not quite so bad on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 2

    All of which are reliable compared to the physical mechanical systems that break. I don't make claim this isn't an issue. Simply that the things that break most often on tractors are in fact still repairable. I can say this as my wifes family business is in supplying parts to farmers to do just that. I'm simply stating that the entire picture is not painted in this article.

  13. Not quite so bad on Farmers Demand Right To Fix Their Own Dang Tractors (modernfarmer.com) · · Score: 1

    The vast majority of repairs are mechanical in nature that are more traditional old school repairs and don't require electronic diagnostics. On a car its typically emissions related that you need to diagnose, Tractors don't have the same requirements. Things that break are typically mechanic, and fixable. Again, is silly, but lets not paint a picture that you need to take the tractor in to have the tire replaced either.

  14. Re:Frequency limited by processor clock speed? on FCC OKs Sweeping Spectrum Frontiers Rules To Open Up Nearly 11 GHz Of Spectrum (fiercewireless.com) · · Score: 2

    You must work in IT.

  15. It's only the professionals who are opting out of what used to be the games to find the best non professional athletes.

  16. And then in the real world... on Insect-Devouring Bats Now Welcomed in New York (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    from mosquito.org Do bats serve as an effective mosquito control? Recently the public has shown increased interest in the value of insectivorous species of bats in controlling mosquitoes. Although untested lately, this is not a new idea. During the 1920's several bat towers were constructed near San Antonio, Texas, in order to help control malarial mosquitoes. Mosquito populations were not affected and the project was discontinued. Bats in temperate areas of the world are almost exclusively insectivorous. Food items identified in their diet are primarily beetles, wasps, and moths. Mosquitoes have comprised less than 1% of gut contents of wild caught bats in all studies to date. Bats tend to be opportunistic feeders. They do not appear to specialize on particular types of insects, but will feed on whatever food source presents itself. Large, concentrated populations of mosquitoes could provide adequate nutrition in the absence of alternative food. However, a moth provides much more nutritional value per capture than a mosquito. M.D. Tuttle, a world authority on bats, is often quoted for his anecdotal report that bats effectively controlled mosquito populations at a popular resort in New York State. While there is no doubt that bats have probably played a visible, if not prominent, role in reducing the mosquito problems in many areas, the natural abatement of mosquito populations is an extremely complex process to study, comprising poorly known ecological relationships. Tuttle attempts to underscore the bats role by citing an experiment in which bats released into a laboratory room filled with mosquitoes caught up to 10 mosquitoes per minute. He extrapolated this value to 600 mosquitoes per hour. Thus, a colony of 500 bats could consume over a quarter of a million mosquitoes per hour. Impressive numbers indeed, but singularly unrealistic when based upon a study where bats were confined in a room with mosquitoes as their only food source. There is no question that bats eat mosquitoes, but to utilize them as the sole measure of control would be folly indeed, particularly considering the capacity of both mosquitoes and bats to transmit diseases.

  17. Whatever on Mozilla Is Building Context Graph, a 'Recommender System For the Web' (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Other than tabs, I'm pretty sure I use my web browser almost exactly like I did with Mosaic.

  18. Re:Small Government? on Theranos Faces Congressional Inquiry Over Faulty Blood Tests (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange considering it was the NY Times that broke the story.

  19. Re:median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Give me a break, most modern cars will go 10 years with little more than oil changes.

  20. Re:median vs average on New Cars Are Too Expensive For The Typical Family, Says Study (gulfnews.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    That's why there are these magical things called loans which spread the cost over 3-6 years.

  21. Re:In other news on Multitasking Drains Your Brain's Energy Reserves, Researchers Say (qz.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I disagree because you then have to add all the time wasted interacting with the people who come over and ask when you are going to start on their task.

  22. Re:Amazon, you could do it for 1/10 the price on Amazon Gobbles Downtown Seattle, Builds Biospheres (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm missing all the quotes from Amazon execs complaining about the cost. Why are you such an angry person?

  23. What does public money have to do with being risk adverse for loss of life? We're risk adverse because NASA decided to ram down everyone's throat that they were so good people wouldn't lose their life. NASA is the problem, not the public. Look at how many people lose their life every year climbing Mt Everest. NASA is underfunded for their current plans because they believe loss of life is not acceptable, not the public. We all see people die all over the place.

  24. Re:Warranty on Tesla Suspension Breakage: It's Not The Crime, It's The Coverup (dailykanban.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The point is it appears Tesla was trying to hush this guy so that there was no inquiry that may cause a recall. That's the real story.

  25. Control arm failure is a safety issue. "Real" car companies deal with recalls all the time that are well out of warranty. For example, my 11 year old jeep failed Mass inspection due to a control arm question. Low and behold there was a recall on it that started 8 years after the fact. So for free they replaced both control arms on a car with 185k miles. I'm not surprised this guy had an issue being in the north east with the new spray road prep they put down for icing.