Well, they're definitely for tax cuts. Well, for everybody but the unborn kids they like to campaign on. They'll be the ones who get to pay for the huge spending spree.
If you look at the christian right wing of the Republican party, it tends to be mostly evangelical/baptist (just look at where the red states are on the map - you'll find a baptist church on practically every street corner).
These churches tend to strongly encourage tithing. Sure, theologically they wouldn't consider it required to be considered a christian, but they also wouldn't consider not beating your wife required to be a christian. In practice, anybody who doesn't tithe is viewed in these churches almost the same as somebody who beats his wife.
What those tithes get used for varies greatly by church. However, a huge percentage of that goes to the operational expenses of the church - many christian leaders teach that this is where it actually ought to go, with more charitable uses being funded by offerings beyond the tithe. Much of this is spent on manpower. If every small congregation of 40 people wants a pastor who works full time at that church, well, guess where all the tithes are going to go. When you get to megachurches you end up with a lot of infrastructure (huge buildings, AV, theatrical effects, etc), and then a lot of staff to maintain all of it plus the requisite 12 pastors with two secretaries each. When you get to denominations there is even more overhead for all the administrative levels, though denominations are more likely to have less staff per congregant at the individual church level.
Sure, churches do give a lot to the poor, but compared to the kinds of expenses involved in just running the church it isn't much.
In contrast, if I were to go to the local astronomy club and toss $10 in the dues jar to pay for the upkeep of the club equipment and rent, that wouldn't be considered a charitable contribution.
Take the code - the authors intend for people to do that by choosing the BSD. Just don't claim to be the "best" free license because you can take and not give back.
If the authors didn't intend for people to take the code and re-release it under the GPL in a free competitor whose developments would be of no use to the original project they wouldn't have licensed it under the BSD.
If you say "go ahead and take advantage of me," don't be surprised when people do...
At the very least, they should be able to write those costs off for tax purposes.
This is a common misconception. They could write off those costs for tax purposes if they made 1000 pizzas and dumped them in the garbage, or if they took $1000 in cash and set it on fire.
Businesses are taxed on the amount they take in minus the amount they spend. So, any kind of spending reduces their taxes, regardless of purpose. Now, for some purposes they could get other kinds of tax benefits like reductions in property taxes or state sales taxes on their purchases.
For all we know Bob's system supports classification, tags, and search. Those features do you no good if nobody bothers to classify/tag files.
If you take the world's best document management system and just post stuff to it without taking 2 minutes to organize it, then you'll have a mess. The same applies to your filing cabinet - if you just shove stuff in there, you'll never find it.
Sure, search can help rescue poor organization, but that depends greatly on what you're searching. If everything is a lot of prose and it tends to vary quite a bit from file to file, you have a better chance of finding things than if every file is just a scanned cash register receipt. Free text search tends to be pretty poor at searching more structured data, since it tends not to have a lot of verbal context.
Hu? Let say you release a part of your software under GPL and "draw a line" for the rest, I'm entitled to ask you to release the whole thing under GPL, unless you're able to prove that the part you put on the other side of the line is not a derivative work of GPL'd part.
Only if you wrote part of it. If I write a program and release half of it under the GPL, the only person who can sue me over it is me.
The GPL is only an issue if you want to steal other people's code. It doesn't force you to do anything with code you write, unless you mix it with code you didn't write and don't have a license to use (other than the GPL).
Well, I don't have a problem with having a computer help fill out the paper ballot, as a computer can eliminate spurious marks, ensure that ballots are always clear, prevent improper votes, and so on. That eliminates the whole debate over whether a stray mark is a double-vote or whatever.
But, reducing the vote in the end to marks on paper is a great way to eliminate the security issues around electronic voting. Plus, if you keep a stack of markers handy you can automatically fall back to manual marks.
What I wonder is if they propose to send parents to jail for abuse if they don't buy iPads for their kids, or consent to allow their kids to use turnitin, or whatever.
What happens when the school says they won't accept papers that don't come through turnitin, and the parent sends turnitin a letter telling them that they explicitly do not consent to this and any report to the contrary is a forgery, and that a suit would be filed if they create an account for their child?
It is already crazy how kids can't qualify for financial aid if their parents refuse to sign a FAFSA form. In fact, they can be turned down if the spouse of one of their parents refuses to sign, even though they are not in any way biologically related. Well, they can wait until they're 26 or whatever the age is where parental income is no longer considered.
Yup. Phase I results aren't generally considered newsworthy. Pharmaceutical companies have drugs get through phase I trials many times per year. Most turn out to not work, or to have subtle but serious side effects.
The kinds of problems that you can actually spot in Phase I trials are the kinds of problems that would wipe out entire cities if you actually put the pills on store shelves. We're not talking about "maybe causes a 10% increase in heart attack risk" dangerous - more like "causes half those who take it to turn purple and gasp for air" dangerous.
It is the logical first step in testing drugs on people, and it confirms that testing it on sick people isn't going to outright kill a bunch of them, and it helps you to understand how it is metabolized so that you can get the dosing about right when you start the "Real" tests.
There is obviously no way something like this would actually pass. I was just correcting some historical errors in the discussion. Corporations will gladly bribe congressmen with millions of dollars to avoid paying billions in taxes...
Well, that's illegal unless the Hummer stays in the garage the other 364 days a year, but of course stuff like that is very hard to audit as well.
But, since doctors claim to be independent professionals they could say it is used to drive to client locations, like the hospital they provide services to 365 days a year. No doubt the IRS would want to consider that a regular commute which is not a business expense, but I'm sure the AMA would fight that tooth and nail, as we can't have patients suing hospitals when the doctor messes up. I have no idea how the medical industry gets away with that stuff - their lobby can't be THAT strong, can it?
I think a big contribution to the removal of "barriers to capital flow" was the move from manufacturing to service/IP. If you build a big factory and most of your value-add is in the efficiency of that factory, then it is going to be hard to move your capital out. If your primary assets are your logo and possibly patents which get you a 100% markup and even if you own a factory or two they aren't anything hard to reproduce, then it is very easy to move things around. Do you really care what sweatshop is being used to make your sneakers?
Letters of Marque were almost never used directly against ARMED aggressors. They were simply authorization for privately owned warships to engage in piracy against weakly armed merchant shipping. It isn't like the pirates would go looking for other warships to tangle with. Sure, the nations the targeted ships belong to might have been armed, but piracy was essentially what we would today call terrorism - avoiding regular combat and attacking civilian shipping.
Whether you call them Letters of Marque or something else, this measure probably would be pretty effective at discouraging the use of tax havens.
The FDIV bug was a pretty big fiasco at the time, though actual tangible errors caused by it were rare (unless you actually ran a script designed to reproduce it). It was notable mainly because owners were offered the opportunity to replace their CPUs. Most CPUs today contain errata, including those in Macs, which obviously use the same CPUs as most other PCs these days.
I replaced a few of those CPUs myself back in the day.
Could have happened to anybody though - Intel had very good quality at that time, as did IBM which made the PowerPC chips (I think Macs were on PowerPC by then). It wasn't any kind of "Apple Quality Control" that prevented that particular issue.
do you use it as a tool to launch a browser or two, open an editor, maybe write a document? or do you (seemingly) endlessly futz with window drag effects, scrollbar pixel width, which hotkey launches your audio player, etc? There's a point where it's just masturbating.
The only thing that makes it such is your word "endlessly." I don't need to endlessly configure things to be able to appreciate the value of being able to configure things at all.
I have numerous settings modified from their default values in KDE. I can't remember the time I changed a KDE setting though. If something bothers me enough I go and fix it. With KDE that is much easier than with many of the alternatives. Otherwise I just use it.
I don't use much eye-candy beyond transparency while window dragging, and using screen corners to present all windows and things like that. Those are fairly practical improvements.
No, more like the enemy can't actually be everywhere at once, and does not have unlimited resources. Sure, cavalry are useless against machine guns, but the average soldier did not carry that kind of firepower back then. In fact, while modern riles are much better they can't do full auto for 15 minutes straight like they do in the movies either. The kind of weapon carried by an average soldier today would deplete its clip in a few seconds at full automatic, and only send a few dozen rounds down range at most. Back then a soldier might be able to fire a few rounds before reloading, and it was strictly semi-automatic. We're talking about the beginning of the war as well.
Machine guns were of course very effective, but at the time were crew served weapons and it would probably take more than one to take out a large number of cavalry unless they had a lot of open field to cross. I think modern machine guns generally are manportable and can be operated by one man, but they aren't the sort of thing you just fire from the hip.
The key to military tactics is to hit the enemy where they're weak, because they can't be strong everywhere. That's why US soliders die all the time in wars of occupation - you can have the fanciest weapons around but if the bad guy pops up while you're buying a coke you're done for.
Interesting, though by the middle of WWII the "German" spies in England were all double agents. The Brits were so good at breaking ciphers that they basically could just meet the spies as they came ashore and sign them up, and of course once you have half the network penetrated you know about the spies that are headed your way before they even get their own assignments.
No, you can't paste data from emails into the banking program.
Ugh - I can imagine how well that would go over at work. That's the problem - we can't even figure out if a piece of code will run to completion, let alone whether it is doing something "bad."
I do think capability-based security is a good idea, but the fact is that if you want people to get anything done things will still need to be reasonably open. You can't live like you're in a perpetual state of war...
Yeah, the funny thing is that if they just stuck a link "below the fold" on their main page, and then had it just lead to the verbatim paragraph from the order, I doubt more than 5% of the viewing public would have even noticed it.
At the rate they're going they'll get an order that reads like something out of tobacco advertisement regulation.
It was a dick move, and I'm not sorry they're called on it, but I don't see how it fails to comply with the court order.
I don't think the court is terribly concerned with whether anybody else understands how they arrived at their conclusions. When you can make billions of dollars by not understanding something, sometimes it can be pretty hard to understand.
I'm sure Apple will take a few more shots at it, and once the fines start to frighten the shareholders or the jail time starts to scare the CEO, then they probably will figure out how to make the court happy.
The judge would have done well to not leave this is the hands of Apple's legal and marketing teams, and instead sit down with somebody with half a clue about editing an HTML page, get to the result he believes to be fair, get back to Apple with that, and barring any valid complaints from their side, order them to make it just so.
Nah, they should just tell them to stick it on their page, and when they play games, fine them $1M and repeat the instruction, doubling the fine each time they don't get it right. When they complain about your instructions not being clear just double it again.
Pretty soon they'll "figure it out." Society is under no obligation to play games with people who break the rules.
Yup, for a while I was entertaining switching over to VOIP and I found I could set my caller ID to whatever I wanted to. Policy was that I was supposed to set it to something appropriate, but the carrier had no way to know whether I was complying. It is very common for outgoing calls to go through a different carrier than incoming calls anyway - so even the carrier wouldn't know my phone number. Plus if it is going into some kind of PBX they have to take your word for it anyway.
If you call an 800 number they get ANI info which you can't spoof. However, again if it is VOIP there is no guarantee that they could reach you back on that same number.
Apple laptops can double boot to Windows. Or run it in a VM.
Ok, then why throw out a perfectly fine Windows laptop for a piece of OSX software? Or, are we now expecting kids to figure out how to get OSX working in a VM? If only Apple were as user and consumer friendly as Microsoft that might not be such a chore.:) (Now there's irony.)
This isn't really an Apple vs MS thing either. It comes down to coupling things that bear no relationship - your choice of computer and your choice of educational institution.
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Well, they're definitely for tax cuts. Well, for everybody but the unborn kids they like to campaign on. They'll be the ones who get to pay for the huge spending spree.
If you look at the christian right wing of the Republican party, it tends to be mostly evangelical/baptist (just look at where the red states are on the map - you'll find a baptist church on practically every street corner).
These churches tend to strongly encourage tithing. Sure, theologically they wouldn't consider it required to be considered a christian, but they also wouldn't consider not beating your wife required to be a christian. In practice, anybody who doesn't tithe is viewed in these churches almost the same as somebody who beats his wife.
What those tithes get used for varies greatly by church. However, a huge percentage of that goes to the operational expenses of the church - many christian leaders teach that this is where it actually ought to go, with more charitable uses being funded by offerings beyond the tithe. Much of this is spent on manpower. If every small congregation of 40 people wants a pastor who works full time at that church, well, guess where all the tithes are going to go. When you get to megachurches you end up with a lot of infrastructure (huge buildings, AV, theatrical effects, etc), and then a lot of staff to maintain all of it plus the requisite 12 pastors with two secretaries each. When you get to denominations there is even more overhead for all the administrative levels, though denominations are more likely to have less staff per congregant at the individual church level.
Sure, churches do give a lot to the poor, but compared to the kinds of expenses involved in just running the church it isn't much.
In contrast, if I were to go to the local astronomy club and toss $10 in the dues jar to pay for the upkeep of the club equipment and rent, that wouldn't be considered a charitable contribution.
Take the code - the authors intend for people to do that by choosing the BSD. Just don't claim to be the "best" free license because you can take and not give back.
If the authors didn't intend for people to take the code and re-release it under the GPL in a free competitor whose developments would be of no use to the original project they wouldn't have licensed it under the BSD.
If you say "go ahead and take advantage of me," don't be surprised when people do...
At the very least, they should be able to write those costs off for tax purposes.
This is a common misconception. They could write off those costs for tax purposes if they made 1000 pizzas and dumped them in the garbage, or if they took $1000 in cash and set it on fire.
Businesses are taxed on the amount they take in minus the amount they spend. So, any kind of spending reduces their taxes, regardless of purpose. Now, for some purposes they could get other kinds of tax benefits like reductions in property taxes or state sales taxes on their purchases.
For all we know Bob's system supports classification, tags, and search. Those features do you no good if nobody bothers to classify/tag files.
If you take the world's best document management system and just post stuff to it without taking 2 minutes to organize it, then you'll have a mess. The same applies to your filing cabinet - if you just shove stuff in there, you'll never find it.
Sure, search can help rescue poor organization, but that depends greatly on what you're searching. If everything is a lot of prose and it tends to vary quite a bit from file to file, you have a better chance of finding things than if every file is just a scanned cash register receipt. Free text search tends to be pretty poor at searching more structured data, since it tends not to have a lot of verbal context.
Hu? Let say you release a part of your software under GPL and "draw a line" for the rest, I'm entitled to ask you to release the whole thing under GPL, unless you're able to prove that the part you put on the other side of the line is not a derivative work of GPL'd part.
Only if you wrote part of it. If I write a program and release half of it under the GPL, the only person who can sue me over it is me.
The GPL is only an issue if you want to steal other people's code. It doesn't force you to do anything with code you write, unless you mix it with code you didn't write and don't have a license to use (other than the GPL).
Well, I don't have a problem with having a computer help fill out the paper ballot, as a computer can eliminate spurious marks, ensure that ballots are always clear, prevent improper votes, and so on. That eliminates the whole debate over whether a stray mark is a double-vote or whatever.
But, reducing the vote in the end to marks on paper is a great way to eliminate the security issues around electronic voting. Plus, if you keep a stack of markers handy you can automatically fall back to manual marks.
What I wonder is if they propose to send parents to jail for abuse if they don't buy iPads for their kids, or consent to allow their kids to use turnitin, or whatever.
What happens when the school says they won't accept papers that don't come through turnitin, and the parent sends turnitin a letter telling them that they explicitly do not consent to this and any report to the contrary is a forgery, and that a suit would be filed if they create an account for their child?
It is already crazy how kids can't qualify for financial aid if their parents refuse to sign a FAFSA form. In fact, they can be turned down if the spouse of one of their parents refuses to sign, even though they are not in any way biologically related. Well, they can wait until they're 26 or whatever the age is where parental income is no longer considered.
Yup. Phase I results aren't generally considered newsworthy. Pharmaceutical companies have drugs get through phase I trials many times per year. Most turn out to not work, or to have subtle but serious side effects.
The kinds of problems that you can actually spot in Phase I trials are the kinds of problems that would wipe out entire cities if you actually put the pills on store shelves. We're not talking about "maybe causes a 10% increase in heart attack risk" dangerous - more like "causes half those who take it to turn purple and gasp for air" dangerous.
It is the logical first step in testing drugs on people, and it confirms that testing it on sick people isn't going to outright kill a bunch of them, and it helps you to understand how it is metabolized so that you can get the dosing about right when you start the "Real" tests.
There is obviously no way something like this would actually pass. I was just correcting some historical errors in the discussion. Corporations will gladly bribe congressmen with millions of dollars to avoid paying billions in taxes...
The US used them for more than that. Here is one authorizing the attack of any British vessel, public or private.
Well, that's illegal unless the Hummer stays in the garage the other 364 days a year, but of course stuff like that is very hard to audit as well.
But, since doctors claim to be independent professionals they could say it is used to drive to client locations, like the hospital they provide services to 365 days a year. No doubt the IRS would want to consider that a regular commute which is not a business expense, but I'm sure the AMA would fight that tooth and nail, as we can't have patients suing hospitals when the doctor messes up. I have no idea how the medical industry gets away with that stuff - their lobby can't be THAT strong, can it?
I think a big contribution to the removal of "barriers to capital flow" was the move from manufacturing to service/IP. If you build a big factory and most of your value-add is in the efficiency of that factory, then it is going to be hard to move your capital out. If your primary assets are your logo and possibly patents which get you a 100% markup and even if you own a factory or two they aren't anything hard to reproduce, then it is very easy to move things around. Do you really care what sweatshop is being used to make your sneakers?
Letters of Marque were almost never used directly against ARMED aggressors. They were simply authorization for privately owned warships to engage in piracy against weakly armed merchant shipping. It isn't like the pirates would go looking for other warships to tangle with. Sure, the nations the targeted ships belong to might have been armed, but piracy was essentially what we would today call terrorism - avoiding regular combat and attacking civilian shipping.
Whether you call them Letters of Marque or something else, this measure probably would be pretty effective at discouraging the use of tax havens.
The FDIV bug was a pretty big fiasco at the time, though actual tangible errors caused by it were rare (unless you actually ran a script designed to reproduce it). It was notable mainly because owners were offered the opportunity to replace their CPUs. Most CPUs today contain errata, including those in Macs, which obviously use the same CPUs as most other PCs these days.
I replaced a few of those CPUs myself back in the day.
Could have happened to anybody though - Intel had very good quality at that time, as did IBM which made the PowerPC chips (I think Macs were on PowerPC by then). It wasn't any kind of "Apple Quality Control" that prevented that particular issue.
do you use it as a tool to launch a browser or two, open an editor, maybe write a document? or do you (seemingly) endlessly futz with window drag effects, scrollbar pixel width, which hotkey launches your audio player, etc? There's a point where it's just masturbating.
The only thing that makes it such is your word "endlessly." I don't need to endlessly configure things to be able to appreciate the value of being able to configure things at all.
I have numerous settings modified from their default values in KDE. I can't remember the time I changed a KDE setting though. If something bothers me enough I go and fix it. With KDE that is much easier than with many of the alternatives. Otherwise I just use it.
I don't use much eye-candy beyond transparency while window dragging, and using screen corners to present all windows and things like that. Those are fairly practical improvements.
No, more like the enemy can't actually be everywhere at once, and does not have unlimited resources. Sure, cavalry are useless against machine guns, but the average soldier did not carry that kind of firepower back then. In fact, while modern riles are much better they can't do full auto for 15 minutes straight like they do in the movies either. The kind of weapon carried by an average soldier today would deplete its clip in a few seconds at full automatic, and only send a few dozen rounds down range at most. Back then a soldier might be able to fire a few rounds before reloading, and it was strictly semi-automatic. We're talking about the beginning of the war as well.
Machine guns were of course very effective, but at the time were crew served weapons and it would probably take more than one to take out a large number of cavalry unless they had a lot of open field to cross. I think modern machine guns generally are manportable and can be operated by one man, but they aren't the sort of thing you just fire from the hip.
The key to military tactics is to hit the enemy where they're weak, because they can't be strong everywhere. That's why US soliders die all the time in wars of occupation - you can have the fanciest weapons around but if the bad guy pops up while you're buying a coke you're done for.
Well, they probably did use redundancy, within the limits of their ability to keep them in stock.
However, I do recall reading that pigeons were explicitly targeted in battle.
Interesting, though by the middle of WWII the "German" spies in England were all double agents. The Brits were so good at breaking ciphers that they basically could just meet the spies as they came ashore and sign them up, and of course once you have half the network penetrated you know about the spies that are headed your way before they even get their own assignments.
No, you can't paste data from emails into the banking program.
Ugh - I can imagine how well that would go over at work. That's the problem - we can't even figure out if a piece of code will run to completion, let alone whether it is doing something "bad."
I do think capability-based security is a good idea, but the fact is that if you want people to get anything done things will still need to be reasonably open. You can't live like you're in a perpetual state of war...
Yeah, the funny thing is that if they just stuck a link "below the fold" on their main page, and then had it just lead to the verbatim paragraph from the order, I doubt more than 5% of the viewing public would have even noticed it.
At the rate they're going they'll get an order that reads like something out of tobacco advertisement regulation.
It was a dick move, and I'm not sorry they're called on it, but I don't see how it fails to comply with the court order.
I don't think the court is terribly concerned with whether anybody else understands how they arrived at their conclusions. When you can make billions of dollars by not understanding something, sometimes it can be pretty hard to understand.
I'm sure Apple will take a few more shots at it, and once the fines start to frighten the shareholders or the jail time starts to scare the CEO, then they probably will figure out how to make the court happy.
The judge would have done well to not leave this is the hands of Apple's legal and marketing teams, and instead sit down with somebody with half a clue about editing an HTML page, get to the result he believes to be fair, get back to Apple with that, and barring any valid complaints from their side, order them to make it just so.
Nah, they should just tell them to stick it on their page, and when they play games, fine them $1M and repeat the instruction, doubling the fine each time they don't get it right. When they complain about your instructions not being clear just double it again.
Pretty soon they'll "figure it out." Society is under no obligation to play games with people who break the rules.
Yup, for a while I was entertaining switching over to VOIP and I found I could set my caller ID to whatever I wanted to. Policy was that I was supposed to set it to something appropriate, but the carrier had no way to know whether I was complying. It is very common for outgoing calls to go through a different carrier than incoming calls anyway - so even the carrier wouldn't know my phone number. Plus if it is going into some kind of PBX they have to take your word for it anyway.
If you call an 800 number they get ANI info which you can't spoof. However, again if it is VOIP there is no guarantee that they could reach you back on that same number.
Apple laptops can double boot to Windows. Or run it in a VM.
Ok, then why throw out a perfectly fine Windows laptop for a piece of OSX software? Or, are we now expecting kids to figure out how to get OSX working in a VM? If only Apple were as user and consumer friendly as Microsoft that might not be such a chore. :) (Now there's irony.)
This isn't really an Apple vs MS thing either. It comes down to coupling things that bear no relationship - your choice of computer and your choice of educational institution.