At a state level, Nevada, where I live, is ranked third by the Tax Foundation in "state business tax climate" for 2013, and conversely 47th in tax collected per person. We have no corporate income tax, no personal state income tax. We ranked 46th in federal aid in 2011 (same source), so it's not like Nevada is a "donor" state.
So, free of all of those taxes, Nevada's unemployment rates should be pretty good, because taxes are the worst thing for a regional economy, right? Except, in August, the state had the highest unemployment rate in the nation according to the BLS.
Yes, there are other factors besides taxation. There is regulation, of course, but it doesn't seem that much worse here than in California where I used to live. We have the double whammy of underfunded schools with a very strong teachers union, which pretty makes any improvement in education impossible. Our state legislature meets only every two years, and seems to function about on par with our federal legislature, so getting anything done from a legislative perspective is difficult. It gets really hot here about 1/3 of the year (although not much in the way of earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc. - pick your poison I guess)
In my case, I was drawn to Nevada by the low taxation, but businesses are not crashing the boarders. Taxation is not everything. There is a balance to be had between taxes and other quality of life factors, some of which you need government actively involved with. Education, infrastructure, utility price stability also count.
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
Jim Sting: [yelling] Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Malvin: Yeah, but Jim, you're giving away all our best tricks!
Jim Sting: They're not tricks.
It will stream videos, play music, have Angry Birds and have a great newsreader; but won't excel at it's primary task which, in this case, is keeping decent time.
Per the article (and submitter, it's politico.com not "political.com"), there more than 10,000 petitions each for Texas and Louisiana secession. Is this even close to a flood by web standards? Just because something happens on the web, does that necessarily make it "news for nerds?" Perhaps it's the inflammatory "racist" link that got the editors' attention. There are plenty of blog sites for "everybody in the South is an idiot racist", why do we have to add Slashdot to the list?
But you can't do auto-updates of Java, otherwise other stuff on your machine stops working.
Java is sufficiently flaky that it's very common for particular applications to need particular versions very carefully installed and configured, so you end up with several versions on your machine - allowing auto-update is a recipe for utter chaos.
This. For those running eBusiness Suite and also have to use sites with applets, companies are caught between the rock of having to update Java to keep your browsers happy and the hard place of incompatibility of applications with newer versions of Java. Yes, you can load multiple versions of Java, but keeping things automatically updated, and keeping each application/browser using the correct JVM? Ouch. The recent issues over the past few months with poorly executed changes in the security model (broken applets that leverage AJAX), Apple's insistence (now abandoned) on distributing its own, outdated Java, and the mediocre UI stack make Java on the desktop a nightmare. I love my glassfish servers, but Java needs to be abandoned on the desktop. I think most people have given up on "write once, run anywhere", they would settle for "write once, run consistently". The Java brand suffers because of the desktop nonsense, which is a shame because it is so powerful and useful on servers.
The DMCA will probably never be overturned in the US, there is too much industry money behind it, and we know what feeds the political machine in the US.
If some third-party copyright trollbot interferes with the legitimate viewing of a webcast event, there has to be a law firm somewhere that, for the notoriety alone, would be willing to file a class action suit alleging damages of inconvenience and anguish on the behalf of thousands of viewers. Moreover, the broadcaster could sue for the costs of their broadcast that was interfered with. It costs real money to do a good quality webcast, trolls should be on the hook for diluting the value of a broadcaster's investment.
For MacOS, Apple handles all Java releases directly. R19 had new security features which basically broke many applets which called a webservice. On Windows and Linux, when Sun released a fix, our users were able to patch. Unfortunately, our Mac users had to wait until Apple got around to packaging the fix/update, which took weeks longer. The Java model has degenerated to Write Once, Debug Everywhere and Wait...
god is it that hard to actually follow the law. apple uses tons of "other people's patents" but guess what they actually pay for them! Duh!
Yes, that is why if you Google "Apple pays patent lawsuit" you will get no results. Unlike most of us on Slashdot who think that software patents have devolved into a corporate arms race that has created a minefield for independent developers; Apple considers it a civic, perhaps patriotic, duty to proactively find and pay for patents that apply to their product lines.
not.
duh.
Yeah, sometimes you are stuck with some legacy app that you have to run to do a data sync or something. But in such a case under the given scenario, a Virtual Machine would probably do the trick.
I worked for a company that had written add-on software to WordPerfect for medical transcription. I remember 6.0 for DOS coming out and the pain it entailed. Endless mucking about with customers' config.sys and autoexec.bat files to free up every last bit of conventional memory. Yeah, I know, it's unfair to blame WP for DOS's 640k memory model, but there were enough games that made decent use of XMS and EMS memory that WP should have been able to do somewhat of a better job. I also recall changes in the macro platform that added some functionality but changed things just enough to cause headaches with compatibility on the libraries of macros people had spent years building.
I think WP 6 was a defining milestone in the death of the consumer "word processor" and spawning of consumer "document publishers". The various industry magazines at the time were really found of whole page (or more) comparison lists that would simply regurgitate all of the "features" that compared products supported side-by-side. There were very few metrics that would say how usable the applications were, how productive users would be with them, and how much time users would fight with their computers to get the applications to run, and very few reviews about living with an application for an extended amount of time. It was always "what's new" from the companies that were paying for the advertising in the trade rags. It reminds me of how each year we get laundry detergent that makes our whites even whiter than last year's formula. The pointy-haired boss would simply see that "WSIWYG" and "built in grammar checker" and that was the end of the conversation. It didn't (and doesn't) matter how much work you could actually got done with the tools under review.
The article states that the vulnerability is triggered when a library load is added to pkcs11.txt, and it's really not a problem because as long as you are using Google as a search engine (or anything else that would load up PKCS routines before the pkcs11.txt is modified) then you are not going to run into any problems. But if pkcs11.txt does get modified because the user loads on a malicious payload, does pkcs11.txt somehow reset to its original content when Chrome is shutdown? Or is that library line still there in pkcs11.txt when Chrome restarts?
A configuration file located in a user writable directory seems like an odd place to load up a library, especially one that allows the a library to be loaded from the Internet. "Strange Behavior" seems a bit euphemistic here.
Duke Nukem Forever hits stores on June 14, 2011. 2K Games, now the patron saint of lost causes, has agreed to spearhead the shepherding of CSS 3 through the W3C standards process. They have committed to the publishing of CSS 3 as a formal standard by the time Duke Nukem Infinity hits store shelves in 2020.
So assuming that Apple gets this patent, what then? Would only Apple phones allow recording to be disabled, in which case the simple workaround would be to own a non-Apple phone? Or do they expect all other manufacturers to give them royalties? It seems more likely that manufacturers of other phones would market the lack of such a "feature" as a benefit.
The very act of patenting this method defeats the purpose for which it supposedly serves. If I am a theater owner or amusement park operator, why would I bother paying to implement a technology that is only going to work with a subset of phones?
Agreed. They are trying too hard to accommodate the tablet crowd. And while it's nice to be able to type what you want instead of dealing with cascading menus, it's a bummer to have to guess whether I need to type "configuration", "settings" or "appearance" to get what I want.
Unity 3D was a bust for me. Although I had Compiz working fine on Ubuntu 9 and Gnome, compositing was broken horribly on my notebook (partial screen drawing, artifacts left "stuck" after mouse over, and other fun). The notebook is a Dell with an Intel graphics adapter so, while somewhat underpowered, has had open source drivers for a while. Canonical needs to do a better job in looking at the hardware, and enabling/disabling features appropriately. Unity 2D works okay but, to me, ends up being not much more than a different app bar and really stupid scroll bars.
The good news is that the United States will be able to find something to do for all the people excreted from its deteriorating education system, once the service jobs have all filled/dried up. We can have cheap labor creating knock-off products based upon Chinese intellectual property.
Reading this post and TFA, the chronology seems to be that Tivo sued first. If this is the case, then Microsoft is doing exactly what they should be doing, bitch-smacking Tivo on behalf of its customer, AT&T. This is how companies expect their vendors to cover their asses. Pay attention Google.
I dunno, after reading Dvorak's screed, I'm guessing that he is just sad that if are no junkets where "journalists" like him are invited to Vegas, receive their talking points, and then go gamble and drink afterward. No more Comdex. No more twenty-foot high convention center displays. No more huge ad-revenue funded parties where vendors "give back" to the publications that so shameless promoted them.
Ted writes (wrote) a semi-recurring column in the The Register that uses the word "fuck" a lot, has awkward metaphors that work hard to offend the easily-offended, and that's seems to be set up to troll-bait and build out the numbers on the comment forums. Nothing new since August, so apparently he is spending more time with his family.
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At a state level, Nevada, where I live, is ranked third by the Tax Foundation in "state business tax climate" for 2013, and conversely 47th in tax collected per person. We have no corporate income tax, no personal state income tax. We ranked 46th in federal aid in 2011 (same source), so it's not like Nevada is a "donor" state.
So, free of all of those taxes, Nevada's unemployment rates should be pretty good, because taxes are the worst thing for a regional economy, right? Except, in August, the state had the highest unemployment rate in the nation according to the BLS.
Yes, there are other factors besides taxation. There is regulation, of course, but it doesn't seem that much worse here than in California where I used to live. We have the double whammy of underfunded schools with a very strong teachers union, which pretty makes any improvement in education impossible. Our state legislature meets only every two years, and seems to function about on par with our federal legislature, so getting anything done from a legislative perspective is difficult. It gets really hot here about 1/3 of the year (although not much in the way of earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc. - pick your poison I guess)
In my case, I was drawn to Nevada by the low taxation, but businesses are not crashing the boarders. Taxation is not everything. There is a balance to be had between taxes and other quality of life factors, some of which you need government actively involved with. Education, infrastructure, utility price stability also count.
Memories...
Malvin: I can't believe it, Jim. That girl's standing over there listening and you're telling him about our back doors?
Jim Sting: [yelling] Mister Potato Head! Mister Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets!
Malvin: Yeah, but Jim, you're giving away all our best tricks!
Jim Sting: They're not tricks.
It will stream videos, play music, have Angry Birds and have a great newsreader; but won't excel at it's primary task which, in this case, is keeping decent time.
I wonder how many of the Facebook flames, that will inevitably make their way this discussion thread, are authored by people with Facebook accounts?
Per the article (and submitter, it's politico.com not "political.com"), there more than 10,000 petitions each for Texas and Louisiana secession. Is this even close to a flood by web standards? Just because something happens on the web, does that necessarily make it "news for nerds?" Perhaps it's the inflammatory "racist" link that got the editors' attention. There are plenty of blog sites for "everybody in the South is an idiot racist", why do we have to add Slashdot to the list?
But you can't do auto-updates of Java, otherwise other stuff on your machine stops working.
Java is sufficiently flaky that it's very common for particular applications to need particular versions very carefully installed and configured, so you end up with several versions on your machine - allowing auto-update is a recipe for utter chaos.
This. For those running eBusiness Suite and also have to use sites with applets, companies are caught between the rock of having to update Java to keep your browsers happy and the hard place of incompatibility of applications with newer versions of Java. Yes, you can load multiple versions of Java, but keeping things automatically updated, and keeping each application/browser using the correct JVM? Ouch. The recent issues over the past few months with poorly executed changes in the security model (broken applets that leverage AJAX), Apple's insistence (now abandoned) on distributing its own, outdated Java, and the mediocre UI stack make Java on the desktop a nightmare. I love my glassfish servers, but Java needs to be abandoned on the desktop. I think most people have given up on "write once, run anywhere", they would settle for "write once, run consistently". The Java brand suffers because of the desktop nonsense, which is a shame because it is so powerful and useful on servers.
[citation needed] Cite an actual statute, please, not just a ruling by an idiot judge.
[citation not needed] "Stare decisis" - rulings by idiot judges can act as precedent to other idiot judges.
The DMCA will probably never be overturned in the US, there is too much industry money behind it, and we know what feeds the political machine in the US.
If some third-party copyright trollbot interferes with the legitimate viewing of a webcast event, there has to be a law firm somewhere that, for the notoriety alone, would be willing to file a class action suit alleging damages of inconvenience and anguish on the behalf of thousands of viewers. Moreover, the broadcaster could sue for the costs of their broadcast that was interfered with. It costs real money to do a good quality webcast, trolls should be on the hook for diluting the value of a broadcaster's investment.
That's actually really good news. Thanks for sharing.
For MacOS, Apple handles all Java releases directly. R19 had new security features which basically broke many applets which called a webservice. On Windows and Linux, when Sun released a fix, our users were able to patch. Unfortunately, our Mac users had to wait until Apple got around to packaging the fix/update, which took weeks longer. The Java model has degenerated to Write Once, Debug Everywhere and Wait...
god is it that hard to actually follow the law. apple uses tons of "other people's patents" but guess what they actually pay for them! Duh!
Yes, that is why if you Google "Apple pays patent lawsuit" you will get no results. Unlike most of us on Slashdot who think that software patents have devolved into a corporate arms race that has created a minefield for independent developers; Apple considers it a civic, perhaps patriotic, duty to proactively find and pay for patents that apply to their product lines.
not.
duh.
Yeah, sometimes you are stuck with some legacy app that you have to run to do a data sync or something. But in such a case under the given scenario, a Virtual Machine would probably do the trick.
I worked for a company that had written add-on software to WordPerfect for medical transcription. I remember 6.0 for DOS coming out and the pain it entailed. Endless mucking about with customers' config.sys and autoexec.bat files to free up every last bit of conventional memory. Yeah, I know, it's unfair to blame WP for DOS's 640k memory model, but there were enough games that made decent use of XMS and EMS memory that WP should have been able to do somewhat of a better job. I also recall changes in the macro platform that added some functionality but changed things just enough to cause headaches with compatibility on the libraries of macros people had spent years building.
I think WP 6 was a defining milestone in the death of the consumer "word processor" and spawning of consumer "document publishers". The various industry magazines at the time were really found of whole page (or more) comparison lists that would simply regurgitate all of the "features" that compared products supported side-by-side. There were very few metrics that would say how usable the applications were, how productive users would be with them, and how much time users would fight with their computers to get the applications to run, and very few reviews about living with an application for an extended amount of time. It was always "what's new" from the companies that were paying for the advertising in the trade rags. It reminds me of how each year we get laundry detergent that makes our whites even whiter than last year's formula. The pointy-haired boss would simply see that "WSIWYG" and "built in grammar checker" and that was the end of the conversation. It didn't (and doesn't) matter how much work you could actually got done with the tools under review.
The article states that the vulnerability is triggered when a library load is added to pkcs11.txt, and it's really not a problem because as long as you are using Google as a search engine (or anything else that would load up PKCS routines before the pkcs11.txt is modified) then you are not going to run into any problems. But if pkcs11.txt does get modified because the user loads on a malicious payload, does pkcs11.txt somehow reset to its original content when Chrome is shutdown? Or is that library line still there in pkcs11.txt when Chrome restarts?
A configuration file located in a user writable directory seems like an odd place to load up a library, especially one that allows the a library to be loaded from the Internet. "Strange Behavior" seems a bit euphemistic here.
Duke Nukem Forever hits stores on June 14, 2011. 2K Games, now the patron saint of lost causes, has agreed to spearhead the shepherding of CSS 3 through the W3C standards process. They have committed to the publishing of CSS 3 as a formal standard by the time Duke Nukem Infinity hits store shelves in 2020.
So assuming that Apple gets this patent, what then? Would only Apple phones allow recording to be disabled, in which case the simple workaround would be to own a non-Apple phone? Or do they expect all other manufacturers to give them royalties? It seems more likely that manufacturers of other phones would market the lack of such a "feature" as a benefit.
The very act of patenting this method defeats the purpose for which it supposedly serves. If I am a theater owner or amusement park operator, why would I bother paying to implement a technology that is only going to work with a subset of phones?
Agreed. They are trying too hard to accommodate the tablet crowd. And while it's nice to be able to type what you want instead of dealing with cascading menus, it's a bummer to have to guess whether I need to type "configuration", "settings" or "appearance" to get what I want.
Unity 3D was a bust for me. Although I had Compiz working fine on Ubuntu 9 and Gnome, compositing was broken horribly on my notebook (partial screen drawing, artifacts left "stuck" after mouse over, and other fun). The notebook is a Dell with an Intel graphics adapter so, while somewhat underpowered, has had open source drivers for a while. Canonical needs to do a better job in looking at the hardware, and enabling/disabling features appropriately. Unity 2D works okay but, to me, ends up being not much more than a different app bar and really stupid scroll bars.
The good news is that the United States will be able to find something to do for all the people excreted from its deteriorating education system, once the service jobs have all filled/dried up. We can have cheap labor creating knock-off products based upon Chinese intellectual property.
Reading this post and TFA, the chronology seems to be that Tivo sued first. If this is the case, then Microsoft is doing exactly what they should be doing, bitch-smacking Tivo on behalf of its customer, AT&T. This is how companies expect their vendors to cover their asses. Pay attention Google.
How come they can't avoid gill nets?
And why do they live in igloos?
and how come I miss typos until after I hit submit?
How come they can't gill nets?
And why do they live in igloos?
I went to download 2005 Toxics Release Inventory data for the state of California and the only link was for a .csv. When I went to download it, up comes an .exe file. Why the binary executable?
I dunno, after reading Dvorak's screed, I'm guessing that he is just sad that if are no junkets where "journalists" like him are invited to Vegas, receive their talking points, and then go gamble and drink afterward. No more Comdex. No more twenty-foot high convention center displays. No more huge ad-revenue funded parties where vendors "give back" to the publications that so shameless promoted them.
Good riddance.
Ah... iocane powder
Ted writes (wrote) a semi-recurring column in the The Register that uses the word "fuck" a lot, has awkward metaphors that work hard to offend the easily-offended, and that's seems to be set up to troll-bait and build out the numbers on the comment forums. Nothing new since August, so apparently he is spending more time with his family.