I'm not saying people don't hide money or don't pay taxes on money that the earned but the government can usually tell through other means that you earned x amount of money and misreported it. If IBM pays you 100k to do contracting work and you report you only made 5k that year that's a red flag to get audited. It has nothing to do with your bank account.
True enough, that's an easy case. How about a creating a couple of shell companies that move money around and eventually deposit it into a Swiss bank? Quite a bit harder to figure out the money trail since it's not reported to the IRS on a 1099. That's what happens.
You eventually can unravel the shells and trace the money back but it is often expensive and time consuming. So it doesn't always get done.
I do not understand why wikileaks is telling everyone what they will reveal later.
Can't they just post it immediately ?
Better media management. It's easy for something even as large as the US diplomatic cable leak to get swept under the rug of the incessant 24 hour news cycle. By letting it out in bits and pieces he keeps the media interested and talking about Assange and Wikileaks. He is also going for brownie points by establishing relationships with more mainline media outlets. Those take time. TFA also mentions that Wikipedia is trying to evaluate the provenance of the disks, although it's not clear how they plan on doing that.
Rather a dangerous game he's playing. He seems to enjoy it - likely feeds his apparently large ego. I would wonder, though, just how long he can keep this sort of thing up. I don't see an heir apparent in Wikileaks, but there are other sites that are trying to duplicate their efforts.
As long as there are people with source material who are willing to give it to essentially total strangers we may see this as the new big thing. Information wants to be freed....
Exactly. Look at the Boeing 787 - it actually looks pretty 'normal' and the 'only' revolutionary changes have been making it out of composites rather than aluminum. Still it's taking years and billions of dollars extra to get out the hanger. Even factoring out Boeing's brain dead idea to fob out manufacturing to virtually every country on the planet with electricity, it's still quite hard to get even modest changes in extremely complex, extremely expensive systems.
This has to be a mistake. This is so far out of Microsoft's area that it can only be a case of the patent office putting down the wrong name as assignee.
Bugs, program death, viruses - what the hell are you talking about? As someone earlier noted, it's their core competency.
Of course it's not a 'completely unreasonable idea' but that doesn't mean it will actually work. We've all seen reasonable, even good, ideas falter. Lots of reasons. Bad planning, bad execution, lack of money, too much money.
Hell, throw a couple billion more and you might have something. The trick is to know when to fold. Rather reminds me of how the US planned to spend 13 billion dollars on 1000 amphibious tanks. You've got the money, honey, we've got the time.
Unfortunately, like most technology gizmos, details matter.
Stana, who serves as one of Congress’s watchdogs, recently published a Secure Border Initiative (SBI) Report detailing a series of problems with the SBI program, including: issues of camera clarity in bad weather, mechanical problems with the radar, and the radar not being sensitive enough to pick things up.
A brief search with your search engine of choice will lead you to chapter and verse. It looks like the old problem of 'it should work so we will build it'. No clear plan for piloting the program, poor oversight. The usual stuff.
You're right. The e-fence was no fence at all.
- What we need is some kind of wall to keep out non-citizens. I think the Chinese invented the idea 2500 years ago, when they wanted to stop immigrants from the north, so let's go negotiate with them to build it for us.
Made a pretty good tourist attraction though. Gotta think ahead!
More importantly, take more precautions if you work with slaughtered pigs and cows in a meat packing facility/slaughterhouse.
Indeed, just below TFA was this little blurb pointing out exactly that - workers on a pig brain processing line came down with a serious autoimmune disorder linked to heavy exposure to pig brain pieces. Not prion linked apparently, but certainly a potential occupational hazard to all you Zombies out there.
I always looked at that as a nod to vi. In addition to putting the "search this page" on the
bottom you can activate it by hitting the / key, just like doing a find in a vi buffer.
Didn't realize that. What a cute little feature. Thanks.
Really? I would like to see some citations where DNA interacts with any other molecule by any mechanism other than enzyme-substrate noncovalent binding.
Well, there are Van der Walls interactions. Just to be pedantic. This is Slashdot after all.
There are many problems with the paper, not least that it is pretty much self-published in a journal without rigorous peer-review (it took two days from ‘receipt’ of the paper to publishing) and the journal was set up and edited by Montagnier himself.
A setup like that is enormously sensitive to any electric or magnetic fields in the vicinity, mechanical vibration, and even mechanical motion of conductive objects, like fan blades. Like most low-level RF experiments, something like that has to be conducted in a electrically and mechanically quiet area. (RF engineers use either RF-shielded rooms or wooden boxes/sheds in open fields.)
Monster Cables for the win! It's the only way this will work.
The paper is in Arxiv, and has not been peer-reviewed. They refer to Craig Venter as "G. Vinter." I won't hold my breath until these results are replicated by third parties.
The only way this is going to get replicated by third parties is after the party has been going on for a long, long time and aqueous dilutions of certain organic solvents have been extensively studied by all involved.
Yes, this is good. Very good. Just because he can't separate out a mycobacterium from a virus he has to come up with some completely left field explanation?
The 'apparatus' is pretty impressive. I'd expect this out of an eighth grade science fair experiment but "coil made up of copper wire, 300 ohms". That's it? That's all you need? We've all completely missed this one?
I know there is a long lead time on scientific publications but April 1st is still a ways in the future.
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I'm not saying people don't hide money or don't pay taxes on money that the earned but the government can usually tell through other means that you earned x amount of money and misreported it. If IBM pays you 100k to do contracting work and you report you only made 5k that year that's a red flag to get audited. It has nothing to do with your bank account.
True enough, that's an easy case. How about a creating a couple of shell companies that move money around and eventually deposit it into a Swiss bank? Quite a bit harder to figure out the money trail since it's not reported to the IRS on a 1099. That's what happens.
You eventually can unravel the shells and trace the money back but it is often expensive and time consuming. So it doesn't always get done.
I do not understand why wikileaks is telling everyone what they will reveal later. Can't they just post it immediately ?
Better media management. It's easy for something even as large as the US diplomatic cable leak to get swept under the rug of the incessant 24 hour news cycle. By letting it out in bits and pieces he keeps the media interested and talking about Assange and Wikileaks. He is also going for brownie points by establishing relationships with more mainline media outlets. Those take time. TFA also mentions that Wikipedia is trying to evaluate the provenance of the disks, although it's not clear how they plan on doing that.
Rather a dangerous game he's playing. He seems to enjoy it - likely feeds his apparently large ego. I would wonder, though, just how long he can keep this sort of thing up. I don't see an heir apparent in Wikileaks, but there are other sites that are trying to duplicate their efforts.
As long as there are people with source material who are willing to give it to essentially total strangers we may see this as the new big thing. Information wants to be freed....
"Mount Slashdot"? Elevation of what, 20 cm?
More likely "Top 'O the Swamp".
I will ask this again: Why didn't MySpace gain from the hate for Facebook here on Slashdot?
Goggle melting HTML. You get no second chances with that stuff.
Exactly. Look at the Boeing 787 - it actually looks pretty 'normal' and the 'only' revolutionary changes have been making it out of composites rather than aluminum. Still it's taking years and billions of dollars extra to get out the hanger. Even factoring out Boeing's brain dead idea to fob out manufacturing to virtually every country on the planet with electricity, it's still quite hard to get even modest changes in extremely complex, extremely expensive systems.
This has to be a mistake. This is so far out of Microsoft's area that it can only be a case of the patent office putting down the wrong name as assignee.
Bugs, program death, viruses - what the hell are you talking about? As someone earlier noted, it's their core competency.
Of course it's not a 'completely unreasonable idea' but that doesn't mean it will actually work. We've all seen reasonable, even good, ideas falter. Lots of reasons. Bad planning, bad execution, lack of money, too much money.
Hell, throw a couple billion more and you might have something. The trick is to know when to fold. Rather reminds me of how the US planned to spend 13 billion dollars on 1000 amphibious tanks. You've got the money, honey, we've got the time.
how in the hell do these people even face themselves in the mirror when they wake up each morning?
They're vampires.
Cool - we go from vaporware to beta testing. Keep us posted, guys.
Stana, who serves as one of Congress’s watchdogs, recently published a Secure Border Initiative (SBI) Report detailing a series of problems with the SBI program, including: issues of camera clarity in bad weather, mechanical problems with the radar, and the radar not being sensitive enough to pick things up.
A brief search with your search engine of choice will lead you to chapter and verse. It looks like the old problem of 'it should work so we will build it'. No clear plan for piloting the program, poor oversight. The usual stuff.
You're right. The e-fence was no fence at all. - What we need is some kind of wall to keep out non-citizens. I think the Chinese invented the idea 2500 years ago, when they wanted to stop immigrants from the north, so let's go negotiate with them to build it for us.
Made a pretty good tourist attraction though. Gotta think ahead!
One Card to rule them all, One Party to find them, One System to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
(Apologies to JRRT)
More importantly, take more precautions if you work with slaughtered pigs and cows in a meat packing facility/slaughterhouse.
Indeed, just below TFA was this little blurb pointing out exactly that - workers on a pig brain processing line came down with a serious autoimmune disorder linked to heavy exposure to pig brain pieces. Not prion linked apparently, but certainly a potential occupational hazard to all you Zombies out there.
What's Alaskan for redneck?
Alaskan.
Shall we compare her to a summer's day?
In Alaska, that would be the incessant buzzing of mosquitoes and the occasional thump of a Moose as it collapses from a hunter's gunshot.
All in all, fairly close. Especially the mosquito part.
God hates them both. Good enough for him, good enough for me.
I always looked at that as a nod to vi. In addition to putting the "search this page" on the bottom you can activate it by hitting the / key, just like doing a find in a vi buffer.
Didn't realize that. What a cute little feature. Thanks.
Slashdot - even better than Man pages!
Duct tape. Can fix almost anything.
Try really dry hands, some mornings with it being -4DegF here the phone will not respond to any touches until Iick my finger.
STOP! Go no further.
Please.
Really? I would like to see some citations where DNA interacts with any other molecule by any mechanism other than enzyme-substrate noncovalent binding.
Well, there are Van der Walls interactions. Just to be pedantic. This is Slashdot after all.
My head asplode.
Monster Cables for the win! It's the only way this will work.
The paper is in Arxiv, and has not been peer-reviewed. They refer to Craig Venter as "G. Vinter." I won't hold my breath until these results are replicated by third parties.
The only way this is going to get replicated by third parties is after the party has been going on for a long, long time and aqueous dilutions of certain organic solvents have been extensively studied by all involved.
Yes, this is good. Very good. Just because he can't separate out a mycobacterium from a virus he has to come up with some completely left field explanation?
The 'apparatus' is pretty impressive. I'd expect this out of an eighth grade science fair experiment but "coil made up of copper wire, 300 ohms". That's it? That's all you need? We've all completely missed this one?
I know there is a long lead time on scientific publications but April 1st is still a ways in the future.
ars and Engadget both say there is a wifi hotspot feature.
It's just not in the software. It's magic!