I would say incredibly stupid. This is someone the human gene pool can do without. No diver with half a brain would go anywhere near something like this.
Not really, people that just aren't willing to acceptbugs and crashes need to get th fuck off the beta builds and stick to consumer builds (i.e. not the insider builds).
Then the user should be asked and CONSENT to changing the security setting. Allowing any addon to do this without the users knowledge is most definitely a design flaw.
yeah I did, feel slightly dirty about that. But I was just reading a news story on his success and this seems a contradiction to a belief in personal safety.
A homebred processor and a variant of an open source OS does not achieve that protection from a full blown attack either. Or do you somehow think they can deploy all this with the NSA never getting their hands on it? The money spent creating this could be far better spent on good network and security which would achieve far more.
If a computer on a government controlled network has both the capability and access to collect and send information out then they have a lot more series problems that could be easily addressed by semi competent network admins a 1000 fold cheaper than building a new processor and OS.
Seriously this is not your call. Ask the company, if they really have no use for the code and are OSS friendly chances are they will let you publish the fixes. If they say no, well then that is also their right and you have to live with it, it aint your decision to make.,
of course people all around the world prefer to buy from them, They can undercut all the local companies driving them out of business as they don't pay taxes and hence have a competitive advantage. yep I am sure that is what is best for everyone, a few rich companies collecting money without paying tax while all the local companies go broke putting everyone out of work. Your short sighted view of the world is sad, I am sure we would all be better off if none of us payed any tax and I am sure the governments would still be able to provide all the esential services.
You may think it is plenty. The rest of the world has had a gutful of large companies hiding profits in tax havens to leech money out of countries. The taxes they pay are a tiny fraction of what they should be paying and no this isn't just a google problem.
They aren't accidents. Tax laws for the most part were designed when globalisation was just a glimmer in the eyes of most corporations and most large companies were not mobile like they are today, they were written so that companies could legitimately operate across international borders without finding they would be taxed multiple times. today companies can literally be just an office anywhere, especially software companies this allows them to easily jump from country to country and shift costs and profits with ease. This problem simply didn't exist last century (or at least not to any significant degree where it was a problem worth pursuing) and has only really escalated to ridiculous levels in the last 20 years when mobility for a company is simple.
If you can avoid it, you do not owe it. It is legal. It is not fraud, however unjust you may think it is.
If you owe it, try to hide it, and do not pay it, it's called "Tax Evasion". That's against the law, you don't pay back taxes you pay back taxes and go to jail.
If there is a dispute between what you think you owe, and what the government thinks you owe, it's called a lawsuit. If France wins, google owes back taxes (presumably with interest). If Google wins they still pay nothing.
France is asserting that Google does in fact owe money that Google does not believe it owes. It's a lawsuit. This distinction is incredibly important in many countries, as what these companies are doing is usually LEGAL. It is our own governments that are screwing up in tax law, and our governments that need to fix the problem. Of course the second you talk about "fixing" tax law, you end up with all sorts of barnyard noises in congress (in the US, but I imagine we don't have the market cornered on this). It's easier in this case to wage a war of public opinion (similar to FBI and keys to the city) than to actually try to get these sorts of laws changed against a hostile congress. But, as a people, we need to understand this: the government is complicit. The only reason these lawsuits even happen is that there is debate, there shouldn't be debate.
Also when you go do lawsuit stuff, you always exaggerate your claims. It's part of the game.
I think the problem here is NOT that it is illegal or legal. They are using tricks to evade the laws or go in areas where the laws haven't explicitly forbidden. Companies are actively seeking loopholes in the wording or in international tax treaties, they are then abusing these holes. It may be legal by the letter of the law (or at least not illegal), but it was certainly not the intention of the law to allow it. It is like someone finding a way to steal or kill someone with some new technology and then finding the law doesn't cover it, it is obvious it is wrong and should be illegal but it hasn't been made explicitly illegal so they get away with it.
in this case silicon valley has been a leech on many of the world's societies. Perhaps silicon valley should actually try paying what it legitimately owes instead of trying to use tax havens to leech off society.
it was done stealthy and quietly by the greens because it wqas garbage. It doesn't matter whether this passed or not the motion said nothing, it was fluff from the greens trying to get publicity and you heard nothing about it as they pulled it out of their arses at the last moment.
Why would a spur of the moment motion that has zero substance or effect regardless of whether it passes or not hold any news value whatsoever. The truly sad thing is somehow something like this actually made it here, sad indictment on this site really.
It was a moronic spur of the moment motion by a minor party looking for publicity. The motion had no merits or substance of any kind and never ha any chance whasoever, purely a stunt by a minor party and a complete non issue.
They really have gotten more annoying, Ad's that wrap the backgrounds of pages so that if you accidently click on the wrong part of a page you are redirected to an advertisement page, auto playing video and audio and of course those cunt ad's that resize as you scroll over them expanding over the pag yu are trying to view.
Search for something on Amazon? See the ads in Facebook and Google. Search for something on Google? See ads for that everywhere else.
I don't mind that to be honest. If I am looking to purchase something, e.g. a new battery for my old laptop recently then passive research is better than the random crap they usually show.
I hate and despise it. I go off to a website and search and buy something then I get bombarded with fucking ads for the same or similar things for the next few days. I can live with non intrusive ads that are relevant to the site I am visiting.
google et al seem to be living in another reality. There is no relationship to consumers, there is a WAR between consumers and arsehole companies like google. Ads have become more intrusive and obnoxious, ads that have video and or sound, dynamic windows that increase to cover the page if you accidentally scroll over them, ads positioned and made to look like search results or news items. They then wonder why Ad blocking is increasing and blame those that are trying to help the consumers, Googles lack of security/privacy awareness is just mindboggling, you want people to stop using ad blocking, then you need to stop acting like totally obnoxious pricks.
The majority of people are sheep or stupid. You only have to look at the amount of people that believe in conspiracy theories or the amount of support Trump has. I don't know anyone personally that fits into either of those categories either but their appears to be a shit ton of them.
regardless, hoverboards have been shown to be horribly unsafe. In Australia they had to recall most of them as they are at risk of exploding or causing fires (several fires already caused from them). What I find amusing though (or sad) is that a few months ago there were news articles about how wonderful they were and how one young girl was making a small fortune importing them from china, didn't hear anymore about her after the series of disasters that led to the mandatory recall.
Any seller that feels the need to identify themselves or there gender I would also be a little suspicious off and perhaps bid less on the item due to the perceived risk as why the fuck in this day and age would anyone do that on something like ebay.
incorrect. If they find 3 digits and know it is a 4 digit pin (but not which number is repeated) then the possible combinations are significantly higher not lower.
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This guy is incredibly lucky.
I would say incredibly stupid. This is someone the human gene pool can do without. No diver with half a brain would go anywhere near something like this.
Not really, people that just aren't willing to acceptbugs and crashes need to get th fuck off the beta builds and stick to consumer builds (i.e. not the insider builds).
Then the user should be asked and CONSENT to changing the security setting. Allowing any addon to do this without the users knowledge is most definitely a design flaw.
yeah I did, feel slightly dirty about that. But I was just reading a news story on his success and this seems a contradiction to a belief in personal safety.
Considering how well Trump is doing I am suprised safety ranks in the concerns of the average American at all.
A homebred processor and a variant of an open source OS does not achieve that protection from a full blown attack either. Or do you somehow think they can deploy all this with the NSA never getting their hands on it? The money spent creating this could be far better spent on good network and security which would achieve far more.
If a computer on a government controlled network has both the capability and access to collect and send information out then they have a lot more series problems that could be easily addressed by semi competent network admins a 1000 fold cheaper than building a new processor and OS.
Seriously this is not your call. Ask the company, if they really have no use for the code and are OSS friendly chances are they will let you publish the fixes. If they say no, well then that is also their right and you have to live with it, it aint your decision to make.,
of course people all around the world prefer to buy from them, They can undercut all the local companies driving them out of business as they don't pay taxes and hence have a competitive advantage. yep I am sure that is what is best for everyone, a few rich companies collecting money without paying tax while all the local companies go broke putting everyone out of work. Your short sighted view of the world is sad, I am sure we would all be better off if none of us payed any tax and I am sure the governments would still be able to provide all the esential services.
You may think it is plenty. The rest of the world has had a gutful of large companies hiding profits in tax havens to leech money out of countries. The taxes they pay are a tiny fraction of what they should be paying and no this isn't just a google problem.
They aren't accidents. Tax laws for the most part were designed when globalisation was just a glimmer in the eyes of most corporations and most large companies were not mobile like they are today, they were written so that companies could legitimately operate across international borders without finding they would be taxed multiple times. today companies can literally be just an office anywhere, especially software companies this allows them to easily jump from country to country and shift costs and profits with ease. This problem simply didn't exist last century (or at least not to any significant degree where it was a problem worth pursuing) and has only really escalated to ridiculous levels in the last 20 years when mobility for a company is simple.
avoid .... owe ... legal fraud
If you can avoid it, you do not owe it. It is legal. It is not fraud, however unjust you may think it is.
If you owe it, try to hide it, and do not pay it, it's called "Tax Evasion". That's against the law, you don't pay back taxes you pay back taxes and go to jail.
If there is a dispute between what you think you owe, and what the government thinks you owe, it's called a lawsuit. If France wins, google owes back taxes (presumably with interest). If Google wins they still pay nothing.
France is asserting that Google does in fact owe money that Google does not believe it owes. It's a lawsuit. This distinction is incredibly important in many countries, as what these companies are doing is usually LEGAL. It is our own governments that are screwing up in tax law, and our governments that need to fix the problem. Of course the second you talk about "fixing" tax law, you end up with all sorts of barnyard noises in congress (in the US, but I imagine we don't have the market cornered on this). It's easier in this case to wage a war of public opinion (similar to FBI and keys to the city) than to actually try to get these sorts of laws changed against a hostile congress. But, as a people, we need to understand this: the government is complicit. The only reason these lawsuits even happen is that there is debate, there shouldn't be debate.
Also when you go do lawsuit stuff, you always exaggerate your claims. It's part of the game.
I think the problem here is NOT that it is illegal or legal. They are using tricks to evade the laws or go in areas where the laws haven't explicitly forbidden. Companies are actively seeking loopholes in the wording or in international tax treaties, they are then abusing these holes. It may be legal by the letter of the law (or at least not illegal), but it was certainly not the intention of the law to allow it. It is like someone finding a way to steal or kill someone with some new technology and then finding the law doesn't cover it, it is obvious it is wrong and should be illegal but it hasn't been made explicitly illegal so they get away with it.
in this case silicon valley has been a leech on many of the world's societies. Perhaps silicon valley should actually try paying what it legitimately owes instead of trying to use tax havens to leech off society.
it was done stealthy and quietly by the greens because it wqas garbage. It doesn't matter whether this passed or not the motion said nothing, it was fluff from the greens trying to get publicity and you heard nothing about it as they pulled it out of their arses at the last moment.
Why would a spur of the moment motion that has zero substance or effect regardless of whether it passes or not hold any news value whatsoever. The truly sad thing is somehow something like this actually made it here, sad indictment on this site really.
It was a moronic spur of the moment motion by a minor party looking for publicity. The motion had no merits or substance of any kind and never ha any chance whasoever, purely a stunt by a minor party and a complete non issue.
They really have gotten more annoying, Ad's that wrap the backgrounds of pages so that if you accidently click on the wrong part of a page you are redirected to an advertisement page, auto playing video and audio and of course those cunt ad's that resize as you scroll over them expanding over the pag yu are trying to view.
Then use an ISP that doesn't have it. The majority of users are far better off with ISP's that offer some basic filtering and firewalling.
I don't mind that to be honest. If I am looking to purchase something, e.g. a new battery for my old laptop recently then passive research is better than the random crap they usually show.
I hate and despise it. I go off to a website and search and buy something then I get bombarded with fucking ads for the same or similar things for the next few days. I can live with non intrusive ads that are relevant to the site I am visiting.
google et al seem to be living in another reality. There is no relationship to consumers, there is a WAR between consumers and arsehole companies like google. Ads have become more intrusive and obnoxious, ads that have video and or sound, dynamic windows that increase to cover the page if you accidentally scroll over them, ads positioned and made to look like search results or news items. They then wonder why Ad blocking is increasing and blame those that are trying to help the consumers, Googles lack of security/privacy awareness is just mindboggling, you want people to stop using ad blocking, then you need to stop acting like totally obnoxious pricks.
The majority of people are sheep or stupid. You only have to look at the amount of people that believe in conspiracy theories or the amount of support Trump has. I don't know anyone personally that fits into either of those categories either but their appears to be a shit ton of them.
regardless, hoverboards have been shown to be horribly unsafe. In Australia they had to recall most of them as they are at risk of exploding or causing fires (several fires already caused from them). What I find amusing though (or sad) is that a few months ago there were news articles about how wonderful they were and how one young girl was making a small fortune importing them from china, didn't hear anymore about her after the series of disasters that led to the mandatory recall.
listing unnecessary personal information to garner support just screams SCAM SCAM SCAM to me and I would definitely avoid.
Any seller that feels the need to identify themselves or there gender I would also be a little suspicious off and perhaps bid less on the item due to the perceived risk as why the fuck in this day and age would anyone do that on something like ebay.
incorrect. If they find 3 digits and know it is a 4 digit pin (but not which number is repeated) then the possible combinations are significantly higher not lower.