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  1. Re:Taxing revenue may actually be the best thing on Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So wait, taxing them is just taxing the people who own them, right? So wouldn't those very same people be the ones representing them in this tax structure?
    Do you know how many people "own" your average company?
    You should read "The Big Change" by Frederick Lewis Allen so you can see how the real world works, although it's even more complicated now.

  2. Re:Couple of thoughts on Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Chicken wire makes a Faraday cage, I'd be surprised if they do much of that. It's stick lumber framed, then insulation, plastic wrap, and siding on the outside. Drywall goes on the inside.
    You could enter most new homes with a utility knife.

  3. Re:Those profits are taxed in the US on Four EU Countries Seek Higher Taxes On Google and Amazon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    IP should be taxed as inventory. If they are making money from it, it should be simple to assign a value.

  4. Re:Years ago... on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    There's help out there brother.
    http://www.npr.org/2017/07/15/537381161/more-domestic-violence-shelters-for-men-opening

  5. Re:Huh? This is stupid. on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With An Old Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Donate it to a shelter for abused spouses. Nursing homes or children's hospitals might be able to use it also, if it has a browser that works on wifi.

  6. Re:How is it different from Red Hat's distros? on Linux Pioneer SUSE Marks 25 Years In the Field (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    My cluster was for Rolls-Royce, based in the UK. This was a US clone of their larger UK one.

  7. Re:How is it different from Red Hat's distros? on Linux Pioneer SUSE Marks 25 Years In the Field (itwire.com) · · Score: 3

    Most stuff is certified for SUSE, it's not as popular in the US, but very common in Europe. I ran a SLES based cluster for the last couple years.
    My understanding is that RH wants you to license every copy once you licence any copy of RH. SUSE doesn't really care if your license lapses, you just won't be getting support on that machine anymore.

  8. Re:How is it different from Red Hat's distros? on Linux Pioneer SUSE Marks 25 Years In the Field (itwire.com) · · Score: 3

    SUSE has Yast, love it or hate it, it's unique to linux and presents the same interface across gui or headless systems. Zypper is also the package management system yum wants to be when it grows up.

    Aside from that OpenSUSE, IMHO, it has the hands down best hardware support of any distribution. I used to slum it with Ubuntu when I ran into packages missing in OpenSUSE, but that's almost never the case now. SUSE build services are awesome and if you haven't checked out SUSE studio, your missing out.

  9. There have been plenty of them, go ahead an google for yourself. You basically increasing your area of attack significantly when your using a plugin, browser, os, application in tandem. It's common sense that this is not best security practice.
    You could make an argument that it's sufficiently secure, or better then the usual practice. You might be rigtht, but it's still not secure enough for the security conscious.

  10. Yeah, those are a security problem.

  11. Keepass has this. You can use the same database across desktop, windows, linux, android, iphone, etc. You can even keep the database in the cloud.

  12. Re:Content owners will win... on Disney Is Pulling Star Wars and Marvel Films From Netflix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a full PC (hp stream mini). The web interface still sucks, although I don't think I've tried it since I went from 10Mb to 75Mb internet. It defaults to a very high definition and I don't think I can turn it down, so it stuttered and hung occasionally.

  13. Haha, ...no

    as if they could stop it...

  14. Re:I can't wait to pay $20/m for a disney streamin on Disney Is Pulling Star Wars and Marvel Films From Netflix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Pro-tip: an old antenna works for HDTV.

  15. Re:I can't wait to pay $20/m for a disney streamin on Disney Is Pulling Star Wars and Marvel Films From Netflix (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, they'll just roll it into your broadband bill and you'll pay for it whether you watch it or not, like ESPN already does.

  16. Re:Tips now that your credit info has been stolen on Credit Reporting Firm Equifax Announces 'Cybersecurity Incident Impacting Approximately 143 Million US Consumers' (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    What's a "pay raise" did you switch companies?

  17. No policy that creates a pool of unassigned growing money is a good one. Someone will figure out how to tap it and it will probably be damaging.

  18. Don't forget chexsystem, I guess they are falling under the free credit report law now, good.
    Free report here.

  19. I'd like a free latte.

  20. Keepass is a better choice, keep your passwords under your own control.

  21. Re:A few VPNs here. on Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    As a recovering Citrix admin, I truly feel your pain.
    Hugs.

  22. Re:Depends on use case. on Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I get great speeds with Air VPN, and I used to use PIA and get excellent speeds. Never noticed much slowdown, but I was only on a 10/1 connection.

  23. Re:VPN uses are a-many on Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a home server running x2go, so I can access everything from it on an encyrpted SSH tunnel. I pass it's outbound traffic through a vpn for privacy. It works great. I've thought about an inbound VPN, but it's just not necessary yet and I have restricted inbound traffic, although AT&T is offering symmetrical 100 and 1000 mbit connections in my neighborhood now.

  24. Re:Apple broke VPN in El Capitan.... Grrrr on Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Stand up an openvpn server, it's easy with linux or pfSense. You can do virtual or physical. Dump that proprietary shit.

  25. Re:Apple broke VPN in El Capitan.... Grrrr on Two-Thirds of Tech Workers Now Use a VPN, Survey Finds (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    everybody gets a reverse ssh to the home server, right?