I agree on the tax aspect. The 25% VAT is a major source of income for the public sector.
But when it comes to the tracking it is primarily the banks that are responsible. They will have information about purchasing patterns that they can sell. The result is that you will suffer targeted ads.
The government is in general so incompetent that they can't find their way out of a paper bag, and only in the rare cases that someone is suspected for a major crime they perform an analysis of the purchasing patterns.
One example where unobtrusive ads exists is The Daily WTF.
I don't feel that they are denying me the target experience and therefore they can be left. The fact that they rarely interests me is a different issue, but at least they aren't up in my face annoying me.
If you bought an Asus device then they don't need to push more ads for their products. You can see related products each time you visit their web site for support, like when you need updated firmware or drivers.
If you are exposed locally for questionable actions you may get uncomfortable questions from friends. It may be a worse punushment than being brought to court.
So this time report it to appropriate authorities and if they don't take your case make a public letter into their local newspaper asking them what they are up to.
Just realize that the mobile industry has stabilized now, two big players; Android and iPhone.
But still the security level of either platform is pretty weak. The most worrying thing is that I can't select to say "no" to access rights to app upgrades. And that's what's needed - just say "no" to access to the address book and other stuff for apps because why do that app really need to access my address book?
Each new generation of electronics has a higher density, so this isn't really news.
During the 70's a computer room was huge with a lot of stuff physically. Today that computing power fits in your pocket.
In addition to this we have more and more data stored electronically, so the increased density is somewhat counteracted by that.
Another factor is that earlier there were only a few terminals locally, but today we have networks giving every household a connection where a large number of terminals can reside. Soon your toaster is on the internet as well. All that counteracts higher density in the data centers because they need to be able to manage more connections and a higher traffic volume every year.
And even when you get a higher density you need to cool the electronics in a way that avoids hot spots in the electronic devices shortening their life span.
It's a combination of lazy admins and performance load issues on the routers. Having that check would increase the ping time causing more lag in the net. And that may upset some gamers.
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The difference is that you then have to meet them physically. The Swish transaction don't require you to meet.
Then that storekeeper missed to count the cost that the manual handling of money adds to the running cost of the operation.
Moreover in Sweden it's not permitted to charge the customer extra for a card transaction over a cash transaction.
1 kilogram and 2 years in prison.
It would be hard to enforce such taxation due to the number of ways to circumvent it.
Private transactions are generally exempt from VAT in Sweden.
I agree on the tax aspect. The 25% VAT is a major source of income for the public sector.
But when it comes to the tracking it is primarily the banks that are responsible. They will have information about purchasing patterns that they can sell. The result is that you will suffer targeted ads.
The government is in general so incompetent that they can't find their way out of a paper bag, and only in the rare cases that someone is suspected for a major crime they perform an analysis of the purchasing patterns.
Also realize that the asset forfeiture is nothing but a scam performed under legal pretext.
It's good if they raise the taxes, that would be a good indicator that they have failed to keep the costs down.
In the end we will figure out that someone divided by zero and the universe accidentally came to be.
Size of a football for us that aren't North American.
Today a raspberry pi would be the modern replacement of a TRS80.
Not an identical replacement, but as a relatively cheap computer.
One example where unobtrusive ads exists is The Daily WTF.
I don't feel that they are denying me the target experience and therefore they can be left. The fact that they rarely interests me is a different issue, but at least they aren't up in my face annoying me.
And some roads have obscenely low speed limits, often indicated by when people keeping the speed limit causes a pile-up.
If you bought an Asus device then they don't need to push more ads for their products. You can see related products each time you visit their web site for support, like when you need updated firmware or drivers.
If you are exposed locally for questionable actions you may get uncomfortable questions from friends. It may be a worse punushment than being brought to court.
One solution to such actions is to instead of blocking send them to a tar-pit server. That may look like a valid server but with very slow responses.
So this time report it to appropriate authorities and if they don't take your case make a public letter into their local newspaper asking them what they are up to.
But this also prevents those that may just want to make a quote and then link to the full story at the site.
The practice to think that all such actions are evil intended is sick.
Firefox isn't the worst example, Windows 8 is a recent horrible example together with the ribbon menus.
Just realize that the mobile industry has stabilized now, two big players; Android and iPhone.
But still the security level of either platform is pretty weak. The most worrying thing is that I can't select to say "no" to access rights to app upgrades. And that's what's needed - just say "no" to access to the address book and other stuff for apps because why do that app really need to access my address book?
Each new generation of electronics has a higher density, so this isn't really news.
During the 70's a computer room was huge with a lot of stuff physically. Today that computing power fits in your pocket.
In addition to this we have more and more data stored electronically, so the increased density is somewhat counteracted by that.
Another factor is that earlier there were only a few terminals locally, but today we have networks giving every household a connection where a large number of terminals can reside. Soon your toaster is on the internet as well. All that counteracts higher density in the data centers because they need to be able to manage more connections and a higher traffic volume every year.
And even when you get a higher density you need to cool the electronics in a way that avoids hot spots in the electronic devices shortening their life span.
The Melissa mail worm seems to be forgotten, but there's a new generation of coders now that weren't even in school when that occurred.
Well, it at least solves the problem of repeated offenses.
And nobody really cares if services like Xbox Live goes down. It's only affecting a few users.
But if it was an impact on Wall Street then it would be headlines all over.
It's a combination of lazy admins and performance load issues on the routers. Having that check would increase the ping time causing more lag in the net. And that may upset some gamers.