The only way this can work is if the tax is charged on interstate purchases only, based on the purchasers residence, and the state only receives the funds in lieu of any state, local and city sales taxes.
If the state tries to collect their own local and/or use taxes on the purchase, they lose the reimbursement from the federal tax. The purchaser ends up getting double-taxed, which should be enough to ignite a tax revolt in states that try to collect the user taxes on top of the federal tax.
No, but the end-users who are the targets of spyware authors by and large obey the license agreements. The security benefit isn't from preventing the WRITING of software, it's from preventing PHB's and other idiot users from infecting themselves in ways that are hard to see.
That said, I'm not saying there isn't an anti-competitive benefit to Apple in blocking the 3rd party background apps. From their point of view, the security, device management and anti-competitive benefits are synergistic.
From my POV, being able to jailbreak your iPhone is a sufficient IQ test (or test of recklessness) to separate the users that should be allowed to run 3rd party apps in the background from those who shouldn't. Unfortunately, this cuts down on the easy income possibilities for the app developers.
I suspect some truly innovative app developers will find ways to do something like the old TSR utilities in DOS, where the OS was made to behave something like a task-switching OS even though it wasn't in the OS architecture.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That study seems to say that the average GPA for the entire student body is above 3.0. Talk about grade inflation.
That would be a valuable statistical cross-check: What is the actual average student-body GPA at OSU. You may have to take two populations: one including the football team and one without.
Apple's prohibition on 3rd party software running in background is probably the best line of defense against spyware infecting the average idiot/user's phone. Once you let un-vetted apps run in the background, you create the opportunity for keyloggers, spam software and all the other fun stuff that runs on PCs to infect the iPhone without the user even being aware. Plus you end up going down the path of requiring anti-virus and security software to run on the phone all the time, reducing the battery life. What's basically going on is that no one is willing to pay the costs that would be required to develop a "trusted application" framework where Apple could test and approve 3rd party apps. Plus, there's always the paranoia factor that someone's great idea would get stolen as part of the approval process.
But given the state of windoze computing these days, I'd say Apple's approach has to be viewed more as a security feature than an anti-competitive fair trade violation.
Wasn't Rudy Rucker the one who came up with "wetware"?
You can always tell the snobbish, stuck-up zombies from the low-class, plebian ones. They're the ones moan "weeeeetwaaaarrre" instead of "braaaainnnnzzzz".
Just exactly who is going to decide what "... a compelling state interest" is? It used to be Dick Cheney. I don't think the Obama administration has gotten around to making that appointment yet.
Now to be serious. Home PC do not come yet with 6GB or 8GB. HP Sells plenty of computers with 5-8GB of memory. Even in consumer stores like BestBuy. Yeah, it's their high-end multi-media stuff, but they definitely aren't being marketed as business computers. 3 GB is their low-end now for desktops and midrange for laptops. They frequently have free upgrades to 4 GB and Vista 64-bit on their website.
Some of the old mainframe programmers are still out there. My father's over 70 and he still codes. Although it's Java and Linux now with FoxPro as the legacy system, rather than COBOL and Assembler (mainframe, not PC).
Also, as the boomers start retiring, and companies find that there aren't enough CS graduates available to replace them, they really won't give a damn about your age. If they're going to be forced to keep the 70 year old guy who knows the system on board, they won't have any worries about hiring the 35-40 year old.
Also, a lot of the boomers will probably stay in the work force an extra 5-10 years to make up for the stock market crash. This might cut the number of openings, but even then they'll still be looking at you as the "young guy" compared with their veterans.
If you're really into it, go for your masters, too.
I've never met one with the total arrested development of the guy in the article, but I've met plenty of coding prima-donnas that made it clear they thought they were better than the people on the test teams, documentation teams, production support teams and all the other teams it takes to put together a product, simply because they were deeper into the technical details. Not enough to get themselves fired or even kicked off the project, but enough to drag down the overall team morale by just that much.
Even in Hollywood, there are stars who are a*holes and think they run the show just because their last movie made $50-60 million and those who are team-players. So it isn't just the techies.
This guy's dangerous to have even if he IS irreplaceable. If I was a female or PoC working there and coming in contact with this guy, I'd be looking for an EEO lawyer to file a rainmaker lawsuit.
How many sexual/racial harrassment lawsuits would this guy be worth to your company? Definitely creating the proverbial "hostile work environment" and if your managers don't do anything about it, the whole company becomes liable.
If MS thinks that this is a way of ensuring their gaming environment is kid-friendly, they're nuts. Even Disneyworld knows better.
Plus if they really want a kid-friendly environment that satisfies the helicopter parents, they should ban all of their violent games along with the sexual references. But, ohhhh, that's where the money is. Which is what shows this ban to just be another symptom of America's really screwed-up view of Christian virtue across the board: 1) Sex 2) Violence ?!? 3) Prophet!
that's what happened to the MIT girl at Logan airport. Instead of admitting they had f-ed up, they charged her with bringing a hoax bomb into the airport. A lot of home routers don't have the capacity to hold 2 years worth of data and don't have the capabillity to offload old log files to another machine, unless you violate the DMCA to hack into the file system.
That brings up another aspect: is this really an anti-terrorism/hacking law or is it really just an RIAA/MPAA tool to give them the info they need to sue the pants off of people?
Exactly. So in effect this just becomes an excuse to hold just about anyone in jail while they search through your house for porn or whatever.
As a home user, I would argue that I'm not providing a service, so I'm not subject to the requirement. If I were a small-business owner I'd be screaming at congress to get a life.
Thanks to the fear of lawsuits, teachers aren't allowed to touch the students and searches can only be done by the school cops. So if a student refuses to turn over the phone and do what the teacher says, they HAVE to call the cops, because at that point it becomes an issue of disruption in the classroom. Most urban schools now have cops on campus during school hours, including the Elementary schools, for just this reason. So it isn't a question of overreacting and calling 911. This is just the normal escalation process for a student who started out disobeying a minor rule by texting and then made the matter worse when she refused to turn the phone over to the teacher. The cops were called because of the refusal, not because of the texting.
It ain't the police state that caused this, it's our lawsuit-happy culture. In the old days, the teacher would've just caned the silly kid on the butt and that would have been the end of it.
Childhood is a form of slavery. Parents and society have an obligation at least try to teach kids as much as possible, even when they aren't interested or actively resist. The consequences of not teaching kids things like using math to figure out if they're being scammed, or how to avoid STDs are worse than the consequences of the coercion.
Isn't this what California tried to do with electric power before they got Enronned? Just make sure we don't end up with a commodity market for bandwidth.
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The only way this can work is if the tax is charged on interstate purchases only, based on the purchasers residence, and the state only receives the funds in lieu of any state, local and city sales taxes.
If the state tries to collect their own local and/or use taxes on the purchase, they lose the reimbursement from the federal tax. The purchaser ends up getting double-taxed, which should be enough to ignite a tax revolt in states that try to collect the user taxes on top of the federal tax.
No, but the end-users who are the targets of spyware authors by and large obey the license agreements. The security benefit isn't from preventing the WRITING of software, it's from preventing PHB's and other idiot users from infecting themselves in ways that are hard to see.
That said, I'm not saying there isn't an anti-competitive benefit to Apple in blocking the 3rd party background apps. From their point of view, the security, device management and anti-competitive benefits are synergistic.
From my POV, being able to jailbreak your iPhone is a sufficient IQ test (or test of recklessness) to separate the users that should be allowed to run 3rd party apps in the background from those who shouldn't. Unfortunately, this cuts down on the easy income possibilities for the app developers.
I suspect some truly innovative app developers will find ways to do something like the old TSR utilities in DOS, where the OS was made to behave something like a task-switching OS even though it wasn't in the OS architecture.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That study seems to say that the average GPA for the entire student body is above 3.0. Talk about grade inflation.
That would be a valuable statistical cross-check: What is the actual average student-body GPA at OSU. You may have to take two populations: one including the football team and one without.
Apple's prohibition on 3rd party software running in background is probably the best line of defense against spyware infecting the average idiot/user's phone. Once you let un-vetted apps run in the background, you create the opportunity for keyloggers, spam software and all the other fun stuff that runs on PCs to infect the iPhone without the user even being aware. Plus you end up going down the path of requiring anti-virus and security software to run on the phone all the time, reducing the battery life. What's basically going on is that no one is willing to pay the costs that would be required to develop a "trusted application" framework where Apple could test and approve 3rd party apps. Plus, there's always the paranoia factor that someone's great idea would get stolen as part of the approval process.
But given the state of windoze computing these days, I'd say Apple's approach has to be viewed more as a security feature than an anti-competitive fair trade violation.
On the other hand, everyone in the country must be getting bulk discounts on CCTV surveillance cameras by now... :)
You forgot
4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat
5. ??
6. Profit!!!
Wasn't Rudy Rucker the one who came up with "wetware"?
You can always tell the snobbish, stuck-up zombies from the low-class, plebian ones. They're the ones moan "weeeeetwaaaarrre" instead of "braaaainnnnzzzz".
Just exactly who is going to decide what "... a compelling state interest" is?
It used to be Dick Cheney. I don't think the Obama administration has gotten around to making that appointment yet.
Now to be serious. Home PC do not come yet with 6GB or 8GB.
HP Sells plenty of computers with 5-8GB of memory. Even in consumer stores like BestBuy. Yeah, it's their high-end multi-media stuff, but they definitely aren't being marketed as business computers. 3 GB is their low-end now for desktops and midrange for laptops. They frequently have free upgrades to 4 GB and Vista 64-bit on their website.
Funny, parent (and grandparent) looks like advice for a new hire, not just a new student.
Words to live by, whatever you're new at.
Some of the old mainframe programmers are still out there. My father's over 70 and he still codes. Although it's Java and Linux now with FoxPro as the legacy system, rather than COBOL and Assembler (mainframe, not PC).
Same goes for software development. The term of art that I recall for violating the change control process was "sliming it into the system."
And if you got caught the slime was useful as a lubricant for the reaming out you got from the tech lead and the SCM team.
Also, as the boomers start retiring, and companies find that there aren't enough CS graduates available to replace them, they really won't give a damn about your age. If they're going to be forced to keep the 70 year old guy who knows the system on board, they won't have any worries about hiring the 35-40 year old.
Also, a lot of the boomers will probably stay in the work force an extra 5-10 years to make up for the stock market crash. This might cut the number of openings, but even then they'll still be looking at you as the "young guy" compared with their veterans.
If you're really into it, go for your masters, too.
Hmm, it makes more sense as ROT13..."Cu'atyhv ztyj'ansu P'guhyuh E'ylru jtnu'anty sugnta"
And they get their fingers...err tentacles into everything.
Yet another god from the holy land?
The origin of Japanese tentacle porn?
Or just another plate of calamari?
I've never met one with the total arrested development of the guy in the article, but I've met plenty of coding prima-donnas that made it clear they thought they were better than the people on the test teams, documentation teams, production support teams and all the other teams it takes to put together a product, simply because they were deeper into the technical details. Not enough to get themselves fired or even kicked off the project, but enough to drag down the overall team morale by just that much.
Even in Hollywood, there are stars who are a*holes and think they run the show just because their last movie made $50-60 million and those who are team-players. So it isn't just the techies.
This guy's dangerous to have even if he IS irreplaceable. If I was a female or PoC working there and coming in contact with this guy, I'd be looking for an EEO lawyer to file a rainmaker lawsuit.
Rules to live by:
"Never get into a pissing contest with a dickhead."
"Never waste time trying to tell an asshole they're full of shit."
How many sexual/racial harrassment lawsuits would this guy be worth to your company? Definitely creating the proverbial "hostile work environment" and if your managers don't do anything about it, the whole company becomes liable.
If MS thinks that this is a way of ensuring their gaming environment is kid-friendly, they're nuts. Even Disneyworld knows better.
Plus if they really want a kid-friendly environment that satisfies the helicopter parents, they should ban all of their violent games along with the sexual references. But, ohhhh, that's where the money is. Which is what shows this ban to just be another symptom of America's really screwed-up view of Christian virtue across the board:
1) Sex
2) Violence
?!?
3) Prophet!
that's what happened to the MIT girl at Logan airport. Instead of admitting they had f-ed up, they charged her with bringing a hoax bomb into the airport. A lot of home routers don't have the capacity to hold 2 years worth of data and don't have the capabillity to offload old log files to another machine, unless you violate the DMCA to hack into the file system.
That brings up another aspect: is this really an anti-terrorism/hacking law or is it really just an RIAA/MPAA tool to give them the info they need to sue the pants off of people?
Exactly. So in effect this just becomes an excuse to hold just about anyone in jail while they search through your house for porn or whatever. As a home user, I would argue that I'm not providing a service, so I'm not subject to the requirement. If I were a small-business owner I'd be screaming at congress to get a life.
Thanks to the fear of lawsuits, teachers aren't allowed to touch the students and searches can only be done by the school cops. So if a student refuses to turn over the phone and do what the teacher says, they HAVE to call the cops, because at that point it becomes an issue of disruption in the classroom. Most urban schools now have cops on campus during school hours, including the Elementary schools, for just this reason. So it isn't a question of overreacting and calling 911. This is just the normal escalation process for a student who started out disobeying a minor rule by texting and then made the matter worse when she refused to turn the phone over to the teacher. The cops were called because of the refusal, not because of the texting.
It ain't the police state that caused this, it's our lawsuit-happy culture. In the old days, the teacher would've just caned the silly kid on the butt and that would have been the end of it.
Childhood is a form of slavery. Parents and society have an obligation at least try to teach kids as much as possible, even when they aren't interested or actively resist. The consequences of not teaching kids things like using math to figure out if they're being scammed, or how to avoid STDs are worse than the consequences of the coercion.
Isn't this what California tried to do with electric power before they got Enronned? Just make sure we don't end up with a commodity market for bandwidth.