Minor detail here: Tor isn't for encryption. Its for obfuscating the endpoints of Internet communications.
The laws governing what the NSA may or may not capture and store depend partially upon whether a person is a US Person or not. The definition isn't quite the same as citizen/non-citizen. And there is no clear way to identify this status from metadata. So the NSA has a policy which says: If we can determine that both communication endpoints lie within US jurisdiction, we treat the communications as being between US Persons. All other communications will be treated otherwise. And this includes communications where endpoints have been concealed.
No, we don't. Except for a few places like Hawaii, the price is significantly cheaper than that.
Publishing high retail prices is a marketing trick played by the petroleum industry to nudge the market price upwards. But it doesn't always take. Two weeks ago, when our local news (Seattle) said prices were creeping up (according to the industries publicity release) many of the independent stations dropped their prices 20 cents per gallon as a sort of FU to the cartel.
And then the whiz kids quit and go to work for some cool startup. Management has set the culture for Google and they just have to like with the consequences.
Because R&D projects are fun for a few years. But once you have an actual product, you have to commit to supporting and improving it. Not so much fun for the whiz-kid CS grads fresh out of school.
But here (USA), the trouble is: You must calculate your capital gains in terms of dollars as well.
If I buy and sell commodities (or whatever) using gold, or a gold-backed currency, inflation is minimal. And so is capital gains. Even if I owe my year-end taxes in dollars, all I'd have to do is to convert some of my real currency into dollars and pay my taxes. Demanding that people compute capital gains in terms of an artificial currency allows a government, or in the case of the United States the Federal reserve to deflate the currency and create false gains.
And the US gov't wonders why corporations choose to move assets offshore to entities with stable currencies and/or minimal capital gains.
You can examine your browser's certificate fingerprints and compare them to those published by the CAs through some side channel*. Its possible that the NSA/CIA/FBI have strong-armed US based CAs into turning over their private keys. But they'd have to do that for foreign CAs as well and I suspect that some of these CAs can't be threatened, or would leak that fact to the public.
*It would be a good idea if the CAs would take out a print ad in a major newspaper occasionally and publish their fingerprint. Lets see the NSA try to round up every copy of Mad Magazine.
US Income taxes must be paid with US currency. This is what gives US (or any other nations') currencies their value. If you can pay in any currency, you would use the most efficient one. But if you must pay in a certain currency, then you have to get hold of some of that.
When a grocery store buys items wholesale and then sells them to its retail customers, that's not a "capital gain", it's just a retail profit. US tax code requires you to hold an asset for at least a year before selling it in order to claim the capital gains tax rate.
I'm certain that a lot of the stuff in my grocery store has been on the shelf for longer than a year.
Maybe Microsoft still doesn't get this Internet thing. But most of the functions performed by a classical (print or physical media) publisher aren't needed for pure digital content. Put it on a web site or app store and you're done. Publishers have very little value in a world with zero distribution costs and viral marketing.
'Publishing' as a gatekeeper for media distribution is also the last holdout of market manipulators and organized crime. Is this what Microsoft wants?
I think they are changing their tactics. They are poisoning the rhino horns in such a manner as not to harm the rhino, but to sicken* or kill the people who eventually ingest the horn products. It will only require poisoning a few of them and a few resulting deaths making the news to reduce the demand for horn.
* Its a shame they couldn't find something to render the users impotent. And spread the news that even toughing the horns makes your junk shrivel.
Be careful you don't find artifacts that might conflict with Native Americans assertions about their history. Kennewick Man, the remains of a person found in Eastern Washington State dating back over 9000 years but not anatomically similar to the natives of the time caused quite a bit of controversy. The Indian tribes of the area claimed the body as their property in spite of scientific evidence because it could conflict with their oral history. Not stated in the Wikipedia article: The site of the find was destroyed to prevent further archeological finds that could challenge tribal mythology. Where's the First Amendment when we need it?
Will we have to blanket block them all? Or can we design a filter to select only certain theologies? Can this be extended to individual prophecies of a particular religion with which I disagree and do not wish my children exposed?
Slashdot Mirror
Minor detail here: Tor isn't for encryption. Its for obfuscating the endpoints of Internet communications.
The laws governing what the NSA may or may not capture and store depend partially upon whether a person is a US Person or not. The definition isn't quite the same as citizen/non-citizen. And there is no clear way to identify this status from metadata. So the NSA has a policy which says: If we can determine that both communication endpoints lie within US jurisdiction, we treat the communications as being between US Persons. All other communications will be treated otherwise. And this includes communications where endpoints have been concealed.
No, we don't. Except for a few places like Hawaii, the price is significantly cheaper than that.
Publishing high retail prices is a marketing trick played by the petroleum industry to nudge the market price upwards. But it doesn't always take. Two weeks ago, when our local news (Seattle) said prices were creeping up (according to the industries publicity release) many of the independent stations dropped their prices 20 cents per gallon as a sort of FU to the cartel.
I have always suspected that Google autocomplete was on drugs.
-- Bender
And then the whiz kids quit and go to work for some cool startup. Management has set the culture for Google and they just have to like with the consequences.
In Soviet Russia, Slashdot turns you in!
My cat spends most of its time sleeping (Usually in inappropriate places). So a cat-like robot would just be a sack of loose mechanical parts.
Why?
Because R&D projects are fun for a few years. But once you have an actual product, you have to commit to supporting and improving it. Not so much fun for the whiz-kid CS grads fresh out of school.
No port of Windows to it, so it will be fine.
Are you... getting your news from Mad Magazine?
No. Slashdot.
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But here (USA), the trouble is: You must calculate your capital gains in terms of dollars as well.
If I buy and sell commodities (or whatever) using gold, or a gold-backed currency, inflation is minimal. And so is capital gains. Even if I owe my year-end taxes in dollars, all I'd have to do is to convert some of my real currency into dollars and pay my taxes. Demanding that people compute capital gains in terms of an artificial currency allows a government, or in the case of the United States the Federal reserve to deflate the currency and create false gains.
And the US gov't wonders why corporations choose to move assets offshore to entities with stable currencies and/or minimal capital gains.
You can examine your browser's certificate fingerprints and compare them to those published by the CAs through some side channel*. Its possible that the NSA/CIA/FBI have strong-armed US based CAs into turning over their private keys. But they'd have to do that for foreign CAs as well and I suspect that some of these CAs can't be threatened, or would leak that fact to the public.
*It would be a good idea if the CAs would take out a print ad in a major newspaper occasionally and publish their fingerprint. Lets see the NSA try to round up every copy of Mad Magazine.
US Income taxes must be paid with US currency. This is what gives US (or any other nations') currencies their value. If you can pay in any currency, you would use the most efficient one. But if you must pay in a certain currency, then you have to get hold of some of that.
When a grocery store buys items wholesale and then sells them to its retail customers, that's not a "capital gain", it's just a retail profit. US tax code requires you to hold an asset for at least a year before selling it in order to claim the capital gains tax rate.
I'm certain that a lot of the stuff in my grocery store has been on the shelf for longer than a year.
Rottweiler DNA in the bite marks in burglars' asses.
He's in one already. Leave him be (but do put in padded furniture).
Maybe Microsoft still doesn't get this Internet thing. But most of the functions performed by a classical (print or physical media) publisher aren't needed for pure digital content. Put it on a web site or app store and you're done. Publishers have very little value in a world with zero distribution costs and viral marketing.
'Publishing' as a gatekeeper for media distribution is also the last holdout of market manipulators and organized crime. Is this what Microsoft wants?
I think they are changing their tactics. They are poisoning the rhino horns in such a manner as not to harm the rhino, but to sicken* or kill the people who eventually ingest the horn products. It will only require poisoning a few of them and a few resulting deaths making the news to reduce the demand for horn.
* Its a shame they couldn't find something to render the users impotent. And spread the news that even toughing the horns makes your junk shrivel.
Be careful you don't find artifacts that might conflict with Native Americans assertions about their history. Kennewick Man, the remains of a person found in Eastern Washington State dating back over 9000 years but not anatomically similar to the natives of the time caused quite a bit of controversy. The Indian tribes of the area claimed the body as their property in spite of scientific evidence because it could conflict with their oral history. Not stated in the Wikipedia article: The site of the find was destroyed to prevent further archeological finds that could challenge tribal mythology. Where's the First Amendment when we need it?
Religious websites would be a decent start.
Will we have to blanket block them all? Or can we design a filter to select only certain theologies? Can this be extended to individual prophecies of a particular religion with which I disagree and do not wish my children exposed?
More likely the funding comes from Microsoft,
In before* the latest anti-Troll legislation makes parties behind the litigants reveal themselves as a condition of an IP suit.
*Translation: INB4