What would be even cooler as a FOSS authentication project that will let you connect a magstripe reader to your PC, so that you can swipe your card for online purchases.
Not to mention, why would a thief even bother. Let's see, I am a CC thief. I need to buy a computer, the card swipe reader, solder the joystick adapter to the reader, and install the software. That seems like an awfull lot of work to steal the information off of a card that I already have stolen.
If I stole the card, I can use it, without having to know the information on it. Not to mention, any good Social Engineer can obtain the personal information of anyone, including credit card number and the personal information encoded on the stripe.
There are so many easier ways to obtain that information.
If you make under (don't quote me) 2K a year then you don't have a business according to the IRS, you have a hobby.
BTW, you can buy components and other tangible goods at retail and so long as your not marking them up (charging install is fine), then you are simply passing the expense through to the customer...
I believe you are correct. The first year that I was "a business" I did not claim it. My tax accountant said that it was not enough to claim. The following years after that, sometime it is, sometimes it is not. Either way, it is not that difficult to save the paper and recipts, and then throw them away if I don't need them.
As for buying the goods, I have done that on occasssion, but unfortuantely I have been burned on payment. By telling them what to buy, it elimanates the potential for lost money on a job, only lost time (Yes i know time is money, but it's better to lose time than the hardware and money spent on the hardware). Not to mention, buy reccomending a vendor, then the vendor gets to know me, and possibly starts refering clients to me. Of course, I still make sure that my customer is aware that I am only giving them a "reccomendation" on where to go, they can always shop around to find it cheaper if they wish
So basically, you have narrowed your potential client base by 90%. I love WinBlow$, it makes me money on side jobs, and keeps me gainfully employed. This way I have money to buy better hardware to run Linux on. Haven't tried a Mac in a few years though. Maybe my M$ side job money will be save to buy one.
That scenario is easy to overcome. I stopped doing side jobs for awhile do to running into that problem. I have since taken a page from RR. After I fix someone's computer, I then make sure that I print off all of the logs from the AV and Anti-Malware software. I then have the user sit down for a test drive. I have them use the new HW/SW/feature/etc. I then have them verify that the entire PC is in working order to their satisfaction. Then I hand them a receipt for their payment that they must sign. On this receipt, it states that they are satisfied with the final state of operation of their computer. I then give the customer a copy of the receipt, and then keep a copy for my self. The copy for myself, I save for my taxes, and if they call back a week later winig that I broke something, I then ask them if they rember that we went through and verified everything was in working order before I left, and that they signed off on it. If stated in a professional and tactful way, most customers agree with me, and then don not even mind paying me for a return visit. The ones that get mad and upset are usually the ones looking for something for free, and never call back after I pont out that they did agree that it was working when I left. Customers like that you do not need anyways, so it is no big loss. I haven't had any problems since.
I just don't want to spend more time working and then have to worry about taxes after that along with all the other things you need to have a legal business.
I don't know where you live, but where I live, it's not that difficult. To be a sole proprieter, all I have to do , is charge for my services. As long as I am not selling a tangible good, I do not have to worry about sales tax. If any hardware or software needs to be purchased, I make a reccomendation to the customer on what they need to buy, and where they can buy it from. This works out nice. The reseller is getting the sale and has to charge and pay the state taxes, and I get refferal business from the reseller. I then have a spread sheet on my PC that I use to print invoices. Once the invoice is paid, i save a copy for when I file my personal income taxes. I then I writr off a portion of my mortgage/utilities/car insurance/mileage/etc. as business expenses. Running a legal business, does not have to be that difficult, as long as you keep it small.
In case any one is wondering:
Family and close friends I don't charge
Home users I charge $20.00/hour,
Businesses, I charge $65/hour plus travel expenses. I'm not looking to get rich, I'm just looking to support my own hardware habit.
Well that's clearly false, for a start. What about the death of the sun? Or of the universe?
Don't forget about the death of the Earth itself. Even putting aside all of the arguing about mans effects on the Earth, The planet is still going to die eventually. Nothing lasts forever. Now if we can change Mars to support life, think of the potential information that would be obtained for saving our own planet in the future. Even if trying to make Mars atmosphere hospitable for human life was a failure, we as a species, would still have acquired a massive amount of information on how to possibly correct our own problems here on Earth.
I was under the impression that your employer can listen and record your phone converstaions once the conversation has entered there private phone switch. I could be wrong. Anybody have more info about this? Can someone please link to any releveant information.
I just didn't get all the way to the final paragraph, my bad I didn't post an uninformed opinion, the part I didn't read from the article I posed as a question
IMHO This sounds like posting an uniformed opnion to me. I don't mean to constantly keep ragging on you, but I'm so sick of going through the majority of posts, and reading crap that is already answered by the linked article. You wante to promote discussion, please try to read the entire article before you post, that we we do have intelligent conversations, instead of you and me bitching at each other.
Yes I am. You actually read the article. As for karma envy, grow up! As for moderateing, I would have mod'ed you down, if I haden't used all of my Mod points already. I'm sick of little kiddies like you that rant and rave and throw in you uninformed opnions. RTFA before you post, and the world will be a better place. If you would have ZRTFA'ed before you posted, you would not have gotten pissed off at me.
If you don't mind the degradation of going from digital to analog back to digital again, just connect you audio out from your sound card to the audio in, and press record.
I'm already awaiting a patenet for something like this, except there is a wire that runs from the hat to the specialized metalic filter that you place between your cell phone and battery. By Ionizing thoughts and then directing them to your cell phone to increase antena reception and increase battery life. You can even get a 1000% increase in bettery life nad reception if you were to use the device during a thunder and lightning storm. Cost $9.99. Hurry before they are laa gone!!!
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What would be even cooler as a FOSS authentication project that will let you connect a magstripe reader to your PC, so that you can swipe your card for online purchases.
Not to mention, why would a thief even bother. Let's see, I am a CC thief. I need to buy a computer, the card swipe reader, solder the joystick adapter to the reader, and install the software. That seems like an awfull lot of work to steal the information off of a card that I already have stolen.
If I stole the card, I can use it, without having to know the information on it. Not to mention, any good Social Engineer can obtain the personal information of anyone, including credit card number and the personal information encoded on the stripe.
There are so many easier ways to obtain that information.
Link Please
Troll...Troll...It was meant to be a joke!!! Lightrn up people....Jeez!!!
Yes, it's fucking pathetic...
And how much money has been pledged by other countries?
What's next, universal cable TV? Everyone gets a free laptop?
If that were to happen, maybe I would switch to becoming a liberal. Can the government get me a grilfriend too?
You are correct. The article is misleading. Not all symantec products are vulnerable. Go here to see if your product requires the update.
Luckily my product here at work does not require the update. I will however have my qmail/ClamAV mail router filter out UPX files as a precaution.
See this post for an easy way to avoid this problem. It at least has worked for me.
If you make under (don't quote me) 2K a year then you don't have a business according to the IRS, you have a hobby.
BTW, you can buy components and other tangible goods at retail and so long as your not marking them up (charging install is fine), then you are simply passing the expense through to the customer...
I believe you are correct. The first year that I was "a business" I did not claim it. My tax accountant said that it was not enough to claim. The following years after that, sometime it is, sometimes it is not. Either way, it is not that difficult to save the paper and recipts, and then throw them away if I don't need them.
As for buying the goods, I have done that on occasssion, but unfortuantely I have been burned on payment. By telling them what to buy, it elimanates the potential for lost money on a job, only lost time (Yes i know time is money, but it's better to lose time than the hardware and money spent on the hardware). Not to mention, buy reccomending a vendor, then the vendor gets to know me, and possibly starts refering clients to me. Of course, I still make sure that my customer is aware that I am only giving them a "reccomendation" on where to go, they can always shop around to find it cheaper if they wish
So basically, you have narrowed your potential client base by 90%. I love WinBlow$, it makes me money on side jobs, and keeps me gainfully employed. This way I have money to buy better hardware to run Linux on. Haven't tried a Mac in a few years though. Maybe my M$ side job money will be save to buy one.
That scenario is easy to overcome. I stopped doing side jobs for awhile do to running into that problem. I have since taken a page from RR. After I fix someone's computer, I then make sure that I print off all of the logs from the AV and Anti-Malware software. I then have the user sit down for a test drive. I have them use the new HW/SW/feature/etc. I then have them verify that the entire PC is in working order to their satisfaction. Then I hand them a receipt for their payment that they must sign. On this receipt, it states that they are satisfied with the final state of operation of their computer. I then give the customer a copy of the receipt, and then keep a copy for my self. The copy for myself, I save for my taxes, and if they call back a week later winig that I broke something, I then ask them if they rember that we went through and verified everything was in working order before I left, and that they signed off on it. If stated in a professional and tactful way, most customers agree with me, and then don not even mind paying me for a return visit. The ones that get mad and upset are usually the ones looking for something for free, and never call back after I pont out that they did agree that it was working when I left. Customers like that you do not need anyways, so it is no big loss. I haven't had any problems since.
I don't know where you live, but where I live, it's not that difficult. To be a sole proprieter, all I have to do , is charge for my services. As long as I am not selling a tangible good, I do not have to worry about sales tax. If any hardware or software needs to be purchased, I make a reccomendation to the customer on what they need to buy, and where they can buy it from. This works out nice. The reseller is getting the sale and has to charge and pay the state taxes, and I get refferal business from the reseller. I then have a spread sheet on my PC that I use to print invoices. Once the invoice is paid, i save a copy for when I file my personal income taxes. I then I writr off a portion of my mortgage/utilities/car insurance/mileage/etc. as business expenses. Running a legal business, does not have to be that difficult, as long as you keep it small.
In case any one is wondering:
Family and close friends I don't charge
Home users I charge $20.00/hour,
Businesses, I charge $65/hour plus travel expenses. I'm not looking to get rich, I'm just looking to support my own hardware habit.
Well that's clearly false, for a start. What about the death of the sun? Or of the universe?
Don't forget about the death of the Earth itself. Even putting aside all of the arguing about mans effects on the Earth, The planet is still going to die eventually. Nothing lasts forever. Now if we can change Mars to support life, think of the potential information that would be obtained for saving our own planet in the future. Even if trying to make Mars atmosphere hospitable for human life was a failure, we as a species, would still have acquired a massive amount of information on how to possibly correct our own problems here on Earth.
Just my $0.02
It was only after the ice melted and the sea level rose that it required boats....
Yeah those damn Martians terraformed Earth by releasing green house gases. Now we can't walk to Asia any more
Damn Martian's!!!!!!!!
But if this was true, wouldn't voicemail systems and answering machines vioalte this?
I was under the impression that your employer can listen and record your phone converstaions once the conversation has entered there private phone switch. I could be wrong. Anybody have more info about this? Can someone please link to any releveant information.
Dont you mean that the rest of the world does have an u in the words.....
If we are going to be grammar nazis, at least we should do it right.
I just didn't get all the way to the final paragraph, my bad
I didn't post an uninformed opinion, the part I didn't read from the article I posed as a question
IMHO This sounds like posting an uniformed opnion to me. I don't mean to constantly keep ragging on you, but I'm so sick of going through the majority of posts, and reading crap that is already answered by the linked article. You wante to promote discussion, please try to read the entire article before you post, that we we do have intelligent conversations, instead of you and me bitching at each other.
Satisfied now?
Yes I am. You actually read the article. As for karma envy, grow up! As for moderateing, I would have mod'ed you down, if I haden't used all of my Mod points already. I'm sick of little kiddies like you that rant and rave and throw in you uninformed opnions. RTFA before you post, and the world will be a better place. If you would have ZRTFA'ed before you posted, you would not have gotten pissed off at me.
If you don't mind the degradation of going from digital to analog back to digital again, just connect you audio out from your sound card to the audio in, and press record.
I think you mean the RIAA not the MPAA.
I can't believe this was mod'ed as Intersting. RTFA!!!!!
I'm already awaiting a patenet for something like this, except there is a wire that runs from the hat to the specialized metalic filter that you place between your cell phone and battery. By Ionizing thoughts and then directing them to your cell phone to increase antena reception and increase battery life. You can even get a 1000% increase in bettery life nad reception if you were to use the device during a thunder and lightning storm. Cost $9.99. Hurry before they are laa gone!!!
Kind of like the magnets in my shoes????
Especially if you have been reading /. posts for any length of time.