If Apple didn't know this they should sack their lawyers.
Right. That's the thing that gets me. Folks say that "Apple was just following the tax laws" -- or more accurately, that Apple's highly paid team of tax lawyers had figured out detailed and sophisticated ways to leverage the precise letter of the law to their advantage. Except apparently they hadn't researched the precise letter of the law carefully enough.
Ireland had on its books one set of laws which resulted in favorable tax regime for Apple. Meanwhile the same books have another set of laws relating to EU harmonization, which supersede the first, which didn't result in favorable tax regime for Apple:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... The European Communities Act 1972, as amended, provides that treaties of the European Union are part of Irish law, along with directly effective measures adopted under those treaties.
Did Apple's tax lawyers simply not know about the EU treaties applicable to their tax liabilities? Did they not know that the favorable tax regimes they planned together with Ireland were in violation of the EU treaties? Or did they know about them, keep mum, and let the Irish government (hopefully not also taxpayer) take the blame if ever they got found out?
This requires that video detection signatures be present. T-Mobile will work with content providers to ensure that our networks work together to properly detect video. We will continue to work with content providers as new traffic identification means are needed in the event of future technology enhancement or changes. Use of technology protocols which make detection of video difficult such as https and UDP require additional collaboration with TMobile to enable the video detection.
Presumably you have to work hand-in-hand with TMobile developers to make sure your streams are recognized. I haven't found the technical truth. There was an interesting academic paper: http://david.choffnes.com/pubs..., also outlined here: http://dd.meddle.mobi/bingeon....
How does BingeOn classify traffic? Our prior differentiation work suggested that DPI devices classify applications using regular expression matches on certain fields of HTTP requests and responses, and SNI fields in TLS handshakes
2tb isn't that big. It's apparently still in the range of normal family use. If you spend $100/yr to get MS Office for your family, you also get 5tb of onedrive space.
(irritation: Limited to 1tb per account, so you'd need to share it...)
My submission was clearer about this: https://slashdot.org/submissio... Lenovo/Motorola aren't going along with this because they legitimately think customers want Microsoft bloatware. They're doing this to avoid the ~$10 patent tax that Microsoft extracts from Android OEMs so that SD cards will work out-of-the-box (their patent on the exFAT file system, to be precise).
Your submission wasn't clearer! Your submission made two separate statements: (1) lenovo+motorola will ship with MS apps, (2) for the past 9 years Android companies have been paying an android tax. Your submission lacked two crucial (and plausible but as far as I can tell unsubstantiated) conjectures: that doing "1" will get them off the hook for "2"; and that this is why they are doing it.
Uber's quality of service has been no better than any Cab I've ever been in.
For me the awesome feature of Uber is that I can specify an exact GPS location to be picked up on a map, and an exact destination to be dropped off, and I can see how many minutes until the Uber arrives.
With taxis it's always a terrible uncertain communication process to give the telephone operator your pickup address (what if you're at a place where the address isn't clear? like at a park, or shopping mall? or if street numbers on your street don't fit the normal pattern?)
With taxis it's often difficult to communicate your destination address. I typically write it down on a piece of paper and give it to the driver to avoid communication problems.
With taxis it's a complete mystery how long I have to wait until the taxi arrives. I'm forced to waste my time waiting for it. If I knew when it would arrive, then I could budget my time more usefully.
invited complaints, counter-arguments, and forks to get away from your shit, maybe you should take that as a hint to just stop. Chances are that you are, in fact, not the only sane man left.
I honestly can't tell whether you're saying Poettering should stop (since systemd generates so many complaints), or the naysayers should stop (since systemd is so widely adopted and the naysayers aren't the "only sane ones left").
Drupal is to be critized here. Not Linux. Linux as a kernel is doing what the flawed middleware on top of it tells it to. No more, no less. Show me a Linux kernel exploit and I'll be the first to criticize Linux.
Never heard:
"People should call it a vulnerability in GNU/Linux, not just a vulnerability in Linux".
"The survey conducted in six countries, commissioned by the environmental group Greenpeace, showed that more than half of those who responded would prefer to change their phones less frequently. "
I'm sorry, is there some law that says just because a new phone comes out you HAVE to throw the old one away and change to it?
Fucking sheep...
I think the law is "security updates don't come to old Android devices"...
Yeah, their statement is "please upgrade to the newer version of your phone OS. It will have been out for two years already by the time Skype stops working in the older OS. Oh, and if your telco isn't giving you updates to your phone OS then you can get the update direct from s."
I run adops for a network that gets 20 million impressions per day, on average there is one complaint every 5 days, nearly always on an Android phone in Europe or Australia. Assuming the real reporting rate is 10 times higher, that is still a 1 in 100,000,000 chance of junk ad if you live in the US
I think you're missing an entire UNIVERSE of annoyance if you think that "junk ad" is what annoys people about ads.
What annoys me is that my page takes longer to load, it skips around under my thumb as the ad dynamically resizes the mobile content, I can't reliably scroll to a given place in the article, sometimes it counts as a mis-tap when I'm trying to drag the screen but it registers as a click on the ad, and sometimes the ad just causes my mobile browser to crash. It annoys me that each of these seconds of frustration on my part are worth about 0.001 cents to you.
I am annoyed by almost every single ad I see on the internet. That must be close to 3 million annoying ads. I've only ever reported a complaint for one of them.
If my experience is typical, then in 5 days you're showing 100 million ads, causing 1 complaint, and getting 3 million people annoyed. That's 3% of your user-base that are annoyed by your ads.
I'll bite. I believe teachers in the public sector are underpaid. I've never once had a teacher of mine mention anything about pay. I don't think my teacher friends mention it either. The fact that they routinely buy pens, books, supplies out of their own budget indeed suggests they're not underpaid.
But I see how so many people teaching are there because they passionately believe in it, and they'd get higher salaries elsewhere for their skillsets, and the reaching sector doesn't attract regular people who chose jobs that pay competitively. None of it is commensurate with how I think learning and teaching should be valued in our society. I'm glad I'll (just barely) be able to afford to send my three kids to a school that does pay enough salary.
And nanny states are happy to turn on their own citizens eventually.
Just to repeat my question (since you didn't answer it before): [citation needed] which nanny states are you thinking of which have turned on their own citizens?
And nanny states are happy to turn on their own citizens eventually.
Really? Which nanny states are you thinking of?
Sweden? Denmark? -- No turning on citizens. Just improving their lot. Singapore? Yes it did ban bubble gum, but on the list of "turning on your own citizens" that seems pretty minor. UK? Yes it does have the same Orwellian surveillance of its own citizens as the US, but that's not really "turning on your own citizens" and it's not really associated with nanny states.
You're presupposing that you should vote to maximize your personal benefit.
Many (including the Catholic Church itself) say it's your moral duty to help the poorest in society. That could quite easily extend to voting for their self interest even at the cost of your own.
Some say it's your duty to vote for your own self interest for the good of democracy, since that's how the end goal of "well functioning democracy" is achieved.
Chivalric code says you have to do what's right, and if this puts you in a bind of bad consequences, you have roll with it.
Some say it's your patriotic duty to vote on behalf of your country even at the cost of your personal welfare. Same equation has people join the military. Same equation as in Heinlein's book "starship troopers" where you can't vote unless you've served.
So: Your utilitarianism is an assumption not a conclusion, and the outcome you've chosen to optimize for is also arbitrary.
Too much emotion, not enough reason. Excess enthusiasm and pessimism are the top causes of market instability. People got whipped up into a buying frenzy based on bad/incomplete information, and a third party (Nintendo) suffers for it.
I'm happy that you're charging me a fee so you can continue to offer "best support". If at any time I find you are not offering me the best support, or indeed have no occasion or need to offer me support since everything just works fine, I shall be obliged to issue a chargeback.
an ad blocker for edge. last time I tried it they didn't have any ad blocker (please no host file APK spam) I refuse to run a browser without ad blocking because of malware.
The authorities seem clueless as to how to stop terrorists attacks around the world. What's are all the spying and warrantless requests actually going towards?
Since the London bombings of a decade ago, Britain has managed to avoid such a mass attack. But statistics show it has been a close-run thing. Forty terrorist plots have been disrupted since 2005 - including seven in the past 18 months.
It's no accident that this country has not yet endured a Paris, Brussels or Nice. Britain's defences against terrorist attack depend not just on the watery buffer of the English Channel and our non-membership of Schengen - Europe's border-free area. Crucially they also rely on the way in which intelligence is now intimately shared between all the agencies: the Security Service (MI5), MI6, GCHQ - and the police. This is the key to keeping Britain safe - although it's by no means guaranteed.
But effective intelligence-sharing in the UK didn't happen overnight - as the history of combating Irish and Islamist terrorism shows. In many years of covering the conflict in Northern Ireland, I lost count of the number of times I was assured that intelligence-sharing had never been closer and the IRA was on the run. Both were fictions.
All that has dramatically changed. The Security Service and local counter-terrorism police officers now work closely together and share all intelligence. The barriers are down. MI5's door is open. This shared intelligence is then passed upwards to the pinnacle of Britain's counter-terrorist pyramid where it's sifted and analysed by MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the police at their weekly meetings in MI5's London headquarters. A further benefit of shared intelligence is that the agencies and police - both at home and abroad - now all work from a single list of targets - the contents and length of which are a closely guarded national secret. These are the hard-learned lessons that have kept Britain relatively safe for the past decade. But, as the intelligence services and the police here are at pains to point out, there is no guarantee that it will always be so.
Now this BBC news story looks like it came directly out of a PR spokesperson from the intelligence agencies, so I don't know how much of it is true. But I wouldn't automatically assume it's all false.
If the telemetry says only things like "10 days since last crash" or "browser was switched from Edge" then I struggle to see any privacy or security issues.
If the telemetry is "this software was installed and these apps have crashed" then I certainly hope the IT managers are collecting this telemetry and it's up to them to figure a secure way to do it, maybe with Microsoft maybe without, as they see fit.
If the telemetry is "this sequence of keystrokes was pressed" then there are obvious security and privacy risks.
I haven't yet been able to find solid details on what telemetry and when... Only rumours and insinuations.
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but in OSS C# language area, not Windows.
They have either evidence or assumption that the demographic ratio within their employees is different from the demographic ratio of the "best and the brightest". Therefore their hiring practices failing to catch all of the best and brightest.
Some ways to move to that demographic ratio aren't progress. Other ways are. If any company is in the business of gathering data about people and their activities (in order to tell whether it's progress or not), surely that company is Facebook.
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If Apple didn't know this they should sack their lawyers.
Right. That's the thing that gets me. Folks say that "Apple was just following the tax laws" -- or more accurately, that Apple's highly paid team of tax lawyers had figured out detailed and sophisticated ways to leverage the precise letter of the law to their advantage. Except apparently they hadn't researched the precise letter of the law carefully enough.
Ireland had on its books one set of laws which resulted in favorable tax regime for Apple. Meanwhile the same books have another set of laws relating to EU harmonization, which supersede the first, which didn't result in favorable tax regime for Apple:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The European Communities Act 1972, as amended, provides that treaties of the European Union are part of Irish law, along with directly effective measures adopted under those treaties.
Did Apple's tax lawyers simply not know about the EU treaties applicable to their tax liabilities? Did they not know that the favorable tax regimes they planned together with Ireland were in violation of the EU treaties? Or did they know about them, keep mum, and let the Irish government (hopefully not also taxpayer) take the blame if ever they got found out?
How can T-Mobile differentiate between these,
as far as I know the connection to youtube is cryptographically secured.
TMobile addressed this in their technical notes: https://www.t-mobile.com/conte...
This requires that video detection signatures be present. T-Mobile will work with content providers to ensure that our networks work together to properly detect video. We will continue to work with content providers as new traffic identification means are needed in the event of future technology enhancement or changes. Use of technology protocols which make detection of video difficult such as https and UDP require additional collaboration with TMobile to enable the video detection.
Presumably you have to work hand-in-hand with TMobile developers to make sure your streams are recognized. I haven't found the technical truth. There was an interesting academic paper: http://david.choffnes.com/pubs..., also outlined here: http://dd.meddle.mobi/bingeon....
How does BingeOn classify traffic? Our prior differentiation work suggested that DPI devices classify applications using regular expression matches on certain
fields of HTTP requests and responses, and SNI fields in TLS handshakes
2tb isn't that big. It's apparently still in the range of normal family use. If you spend $100/yr to get MS Office for your family, you also get 5tb of onedrive space.
(irritation: Limited to 1tb per account, so you'd need to share it...)
My submission was clearer about this: https://slashdot.org/submissio... Lenovo/Motorola aren't going along with this because they legitimately think customers want Microsoft bloatware. They're doing this to avoid the ~$10 patent tax that Microsoft extracts from Android OEMs so that SD cards will work out-of-the-box (their patent on the exFAT file system, to be precise).
Your submission wasn't clearer! Your submission made two separate statements: (1) lenovo+motorola will ship with MS apps, (2) for the past 9 years Android companies have been paying an android tax. Your submission lacked two crucial (and plausible but as far as I can tell unsubstantiated) conjectures: that doing "1" will get them off the hook for "2"; and that this is why they are doing it.
Uber's quality of service has been no better than any Cab I've ever been in.
For me the awesome feature of Uber is that I can specify an exact GPS location to be picked up on a map, and an exact destination to be dropped off, and I can see how many minutes until the Uber arrives.
With taxis it's always a terrible uncertain communication process to give the telephone operator your pickup address (what if you're at a place where the address isn't clear? like at a park, or shopping mall? or if street numbers on your street don't fit the normal pattern?)
With taxis it's often difficult to communicate your destination address. I typically write it down on a piece of paper and give it to the driver to avoid communication problems.
With taxis it's a complete mystery how long I have to wait until the taxi arrives. I'm forced to waste my time waiting for it. If I knew when it would arrive, then I could budget my time more usefully.
invited complaints, counter-arguments, and forks to get away from your shit, maybe you should take that as a hint to just stop. Chances are that you are, in fact, not the only sane man left.
I honestly can't tell whether you're saying Poettering should stop (since systemd generates so many complaints), or the naysayers should stop (since systemd is so widely adopted and the naysayers aren't the "only sane ones left").
Predictions about predictions about crime
Predictive policing isn't working? -- no one would have seen that coming!
Drupal is to be critized here. Not Linux. Linux as a kernel is doing what the flawed middleware on top of it tells it to. No more, no less. Show me a Linux kernel exploit and I'll be the first to criticize Linux.
Never heard:
"People should call it a vulnerability in GNU/Linux, not just a vulnerability in Linux".
"The survey conducted in six countries, commissioned by the environmental group Greenpeace, showed that more than half of those who responded would prefer to change their phones less frequently. "
I'm sorry, is there some law that says just because a new phone comes out you HAVE to throw the old one away and change to it?
Fucking sheep...
I think the law is "security updates don't come to old Android devices"...
No it doesn't need a new phone. Windows 10 mobile is just the next version of the OS that comes after 8.1
Yeah, their statement is "please upgrade to the newer version of your phone OS. It will have been out for two years already by the time Skype stops working in the older OS. Oh, and if your telco isn't giving you updates to your phone OS then you can get the update direct from s."
I run adops for a network that gets 20 million impressions per day, on average there is one complaint every 5 days, nearly always on an Android phone in Europe or Australia. Assuming the real reporting rate is 10 times higher, that is still a 1 in 100,000,000 chance of junk ad if you live in the US
I think you're missing an entire UNIVERSE of annoyance if you think that "junk ad" is what annoys people about ads.
What annoys me is that my page takes longer to load, it skips around under my thumb as the ad dynamically resizes the mobile content, I can't reliably scroll to a given place in the article, sometimes it counts as a mis-tap when I'm trying to drag the screen but it registers as a click on the ad, and sometimes the ad just causes my mobile browser to crash. It annoys me that each of these seconds of frustration on my part are worth about 0.001 cents to you.
I am annoyed by almost every single ad I see on the internet. That must be close to 3 million annoying ads. I've only ever reported a complaint for one of them.
If my experience is typical, then in 5 days you're showing 100 million ads, causing 1 complaint, and getting 3 million people annoyed. That's 3% of your user-base that are annoyed by your ads.
I'll bite. I believe teachers in the public sector are underpaid. I've never once had a teacher of mine mention anything about pay. I don't think my teacher friends mention it either. The fact that they routinely buy pens, books, supplies out of their own budget indeed suggests they're not underpaid.
But I see how so many people teaching are there because they passionately believe in it, and they'd get higher salaries elsewhere for their skillsets, and the reaching sector doesn't attract regular people who chose jobs that pay competitively. None of it is commensurate with how I think learning and teaching should be valued in our society. I'm glad I'll (just barely) be able to afford to send my three kids to a school that does pay enough salary.
It will be ad-supported. "Other people with nerve impulses like yours bought Daz Automatic".
And nanny states are happy to turn on their own citizens eventually.
Just to repeat my question (since you didn't answer it before): [citation needed] which nanny states are you thinking of which have turned on their own citizens?
I think there aren't any.
And nanny states are happy to turn on their own citizens eventually.
Really? Which nanny states are you thinking of?
Sweden? Denmark? -- No turning on citizens. Just improving their lot. Singapore? Yes it did ban bubble gum, but on the list of "turning on your own citizens" that seems pretty minor. UK? Yes it does have the same Orwellian surveillance of its own citizens as the US, but that's not really "turning on your own citizens" and it's not really associated with nanny states.
Rational self interest be damned.
You're presupposing that you should vote to maximize your personal benefit.
Many (including the Catholic Church itself) say it's your moral duty to help the poorest in society. That could quite easily extend to voting for their self interest even at the cost of your own.
Some say it's your duty to vote for your own self interest for the good of democracy, since that's how the end goal of "well functioning democracy" is achieved.
Chivalric code says you have to do what's right, and if this puts you in a bind of bad consequences, you have roll with it.
Some say it's your patriotic duty to vote on behalf of your country even at the cost of your personal welfare. Same equation has people join the military. Same equation as in Heinlein's book "starship troopers" where you can't vote unless you've served.
So: Your utilitarianism is an assumption not a conclusion, and the outcome you've chosen to optimize for is also arbitrary.
Too much emotion, not enough reason. Excess enthusiasm and pessimism are the top causes of market instability. People got whipped up into a buying frenzy based on bad/incomplete information, and a third party (Nintendo) suffers for it.
How has Nintendo suffered? I can't see how.
so it's still a mobile UI forced onto a workstation OS? No thanks.
Yeah, nothing quite says "mobile UI" like a bash command prompt...
At DNC fewer attendees will connect to the "I vote Trump!" network.
Dear Verizon,
I'm happy that you're charging me a fee so you can continue to offer "best support". If at any time I find you are not offering me the best support, or indeed have no occasion or need to offer me support since everything just works fine, I shall be obliged to issue a chargeback.
an ad blocker for edge. last time I tried it they didn't have any ad blocker (please no host file APK spam) I refuse to run a browser without ad blocking because of malware.
Yes, the ad blockers so far released for Edge are "Adblock" and "Adblock Plus"
https://www.engadget.com/2016/...
They're for the anniversary update, currently available on the insiders program, due for general release on August 2nd.
The authorities seem clueless as to how to stop terrorists attacks around the world. What's are all the spying and warrantless requests actually going towards?
They don't seem clueless. Here, from the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
How Britain has been kept safe for a decade
Since the London bombings of a decade ago, Britain has managed to avoid such a mass attack. But statistics show it has been a close-run thing. Forty terrorist plots have been disrupted since 2005 - including seven in the past 18 months.
It's no accident that this country has not yet endured a Paris, Brussels or Nice. Britain's defences against terrorist attack depend not just on the watery buffer of the English Channel and our non-membership of Schengen - Europe's border-free area. Crucially they also rely on the way in which intelligence is now intimately shared between all the agencies: the Security Service (MI5), MI6, GCHQ - and the police. This is the key to keeping Britain safe - although it's by no means guaranteed.
But effective intelligence-sharing in the UK didn't happen overnight - as the history of combating Irish and Islamist terrorism shows. In many years of covering the conflict in Northern Ireland, I lost count of the number of times I was assured that intelligence-sharing had never been closer and the IRA was on the run. Both were fictions.
All that has dramatically changed. The Security Service and local counter-terrorism police officers now work closely together and share all intelligence. The barriers are down. MI5's door is open. This shared intelligence is then passed upwards to the pinnacle of Britain's counter-terrorist pyramid where it's sifted and analysed by MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the police at their weekly meetings in MI5's London headquarters. A further benefit of shared intelligence is that the agencies and police - both at home and abroad - now all work from a single list of targets - the contents and length of which are a closely guarded national secret.
These are the hard-learned lessons that have kept Britain relatively safe for the past decade. But, as the intelligence services and the police here are at pains to point out, there is no guarantee that it will always be so.
Now this BBC news story looks like it came directly out of a PR spokesperson from the intelligence agencies, so I don't know how much of it is true. But I wouldn't automatically assume it's all false.
If the telemetry says only things like "10 days since last crash" or "browser was switched from Edge" then I struggle to see any privacy or security issues.
If the telemetry is "this software was installed and these apps have crashed" then I certainly hope the IT managers are collecting this telemetry and it's up to them to figure a secure way to do it, maybe with Microsoft maybe without, as they see fit.
If the telemetry is "this sequence of keystrokes was pressed" then there are obvious security and privacy risks.
I haven't yet been able to find solid details on what telemetry and when... Only rumours and insinuations.
Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft, but in OSS C# language area, not Windows.
They have either evidence or assumption that the demographic ratio within their employees is different from the demographic ratio of the "best and the brightest". Therefore their hiring practices failing to catch all of the best and brightest.
Some ways to move to that demographic ratio aren't progress. Other ways are. If any company is in the business of gathering data about people and their activities (in order to tell whether it's progress or not), surely that company is Facebook.