There is absolutely no logic to this other than you cannot manage money.
You are saying that you want the IRS to reduce your take home pay to ensure you cover all of your tax and then some. So, if you can live off this reduced amount, have the IRS take out less money, and put this money into savings. If you find you can't save it, that is a sign that you don't have an effective budget. You have proven you can live off of less money.
Ummmm..... If you are getting a refund, you have been loaning your money to the IRS for free. Adjust your W-4 form so that they are loaning YOU money for free.
I am amazed at how bright individuals see the check as "getting" money, when in reality, it is finally the IRS paying back their 0% interest loan.
Yup, as soon as the reduce the IRS workforce, they will lower our taxes. Please tell me where you get your drug supply. For added security, use ROT52 encoding.
Sorry, but you suggested that the editor had not read the linked story. The linked story says that, in fact, the French judged against him on the basis of his publishing a hack. Had you said that the article was incorrect, I woudn't suggest your being modded down.
I will, however, read the other article, as it is hard to believe that you can get busted for publishing an exploit like this.
From the FA: Yesterday the French security researcher Guillame Tena, aka Guillermito, has been fined a suspended fine of 5000 euros by a French court for publishing a vulnerability in the Viguard anti-virus software of the company Tegam.
So you aregue rights are given to us by "society" (is "government" also fair)? So if we enter the absolutely totalitarian Orwellian future described in 1984, is there anything wrong with that setup?
It follows. Read the rest of my comment: My one-entry blog certainly does not merit journalistic status. A regular Business Week columnist does. Somewhere in-between? Let the law figure it out.
A blog CAN be journalism. Not all blogs are, however.
You are the one who added 'poorly researched', not me. Can I give you a hard and fast rule for what is journalism and what is not? No. But to equate blog with journalism 100% is incorrect.
Oh hush. This is Slashdot. We do not believe in souls. We believe we are all random collections of molecules. And that we have inherent rights granted by.... umm.... granted by.... we just DO dammit!
Qualitative measures are used all of the time. Simply because a line is gray doesn't mean we do not try to apply a certain amount of common sense to the situation. Take for example "Good Samaritan" laws that protect me if I choose to give CPR to a dying person. If I crack a rib, that law protects me. Even if I do a crappy job of it. Now lets say i decide to jump up and down on the man's chest to try to start the heart. Well, the law no longer protects me as my actions were no longer 'reasonable'.
Where is the line between reasonable and unreasonable? Hard to say. But the ideas of 'reasonable' and 'prudent' are all throughout our law. They have to be.
So, we do have to make some distinction between who is a journalist and who is not. My one-entry blog certainly does not merit journalistic status. A regular Business Week columnist does. Somewhere in-between? Let the law figure it out.
I seriously doubt the BBC would intentionally leak their program like this. I know this is slashdot, home to the conspiracy theories, but this one doesn't make any sense.
I work in a one-man shop. I do not have a CS degree, kind of sliding into programming from another field. I never understood a lot of the C-programmers terms like inheritence and polymorphism. Now that I have it, I have a hard time remembering how I got my work done otherwise.
You ever play with custom controls in VB6? The damn things would break for no apparent reason, and the code for where controls are loaded was enitrely seperate from the rest of your code... made for some interesting debugging when VB6 decided my control could not be loaded. Add on top of this that you could not truely test an install on your machine, and VB6 sucked
I wear a lot of hats.. db admin, application developer, spec writer, manual writer, tech support, with a user base spread out over five or six cities. I don't have time to delve into third party installation programs, version history databases, etc. I do not have a dedicated QA department with their own set of clean PCs to test on. I don't have someone who can test installs to make sure there are no glitches..NET has made my life much easier. I can invest time into building tools to help me do my job faster and with more reliable results. I can trust.NET's installation programs to work as advertised. Its VSS implementation is vastly improved over VB6's.
Am I a super programmer? No. I can get the job done, and I understand enough about the industry I work in (banking) to know how to meet the requirements of the job even when the folks who are describing the project don't. I am also not impressed by bells and whistles. I like to get the job done, and make my apps as ancillary to my users' lives as possible. I like the same from my development environment..NET has given me a lot of freedom, and helped me to be a lot more efficient than I was three years ago.
Are there "better" programming enviroments for other folks? Sure. We all tend to gravitate to the tools we need. For mine, VB.NET is it. But if anyone claims VB6 is better, they are plain wrong. My guess is that they were not willing to go through the learning curve (quite steep). If I had to go back to VB6, I'd switch careers.
Sadly, this is what many Americans equate rights with.... 'You've got a right to cable TV... You've got a right to download music for free.... Consitution... what's that?'
The funny part is I HAVEN'T expressed my opinion... just the logical couse of our society's way of thinking. Frankly I don't want gov't teaching values to my kids... but we don't want to make the hard choices that prevent this from happening. Part of that is that we, as individuals, have a responsiblity to be role models, and not leave it up to the gov't to step in.
Our gov't was founded on the prinicple that if you leave decisions up to the individual, they will behave responsibly. Not a whole lot of need for gov't intervention. Each of us, when we choose to behave in a self-centered manner tear down that original belief. Continue on the course we are going, and many of the rights we cherish will go into the dust-bin of history...
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There is absolutely no logic to this other than you cannot manage money.
You are saying that you want the IRS to reduce your take home pay to ensure you cover all of your tax and then some. So, if you can live off this reduced amount, have the IRS take out less money, and put this money into savings. If you find you can't save it, that is a sign that you don't have an effective budget. You have proven you can live off of less money.
Loaning the IRS money is insane.
Do you find that she is a details oriented person, and you are a big picture type (with a bit of disorganization)? Just curious.
Ummmm..... If you are getting a refund, you have been loaning your money to the IRS for free. Adjust your W-4 form so that they are loaning YOU money for free.
I am amazed at how bright individuals see the check as "getting" money, when in reality, it is finally the IRS paying back their 0% interest loan.
Yup, as soon as the reduce the IRS workforce, they will lower our taxes. Please tell me where you get your drug supply. For added security, use ROT52 encoding.
Step Three: Record video of Accountants and Coders bashing each other with blunt objects, as they typically cannot stand each other.
Do it by hand just to make some IRS guy have to type it in. At least, that is my petty rationale for fighting the system in my miniscule way :)
Or at least I WOULD read it if I spoke French.
Sorry, but you suggested that the editor had not read the linked story. The linked story says that, in fact, the French judged against him on the basis of his publishing a hack. Had you said that the article was incorrect, I woudn't suggest your being modded down.
I will, however, read the other article, as it is hard to believe that you can get busted for publishing an exploit like this.
From the FA:
Yesterday the French security researcher Guillame Tena, aka Guillermito, has been fined a suspended fine of 5000 euros by a French court for publishing a vulnerability in the Viguard anti-virus software of the company Tegam.
So you aregue rights are given to us by "society" (is "government" also fair)? So if we enter the absolutely totalitarian Orwellian future described in 1984, is there anything wrong with that setup?
It follows. Read the rest of my comment: My one-entry blog certainly does not merit journalistic status. A regular Business Week columnist does. Somewhere in-between? Let the law figure it out.
A blog CAN be journalism. Not all blogs are, however.
You are the one who added 'poorly researched', not me. Can I give you a hard and fast rule for what is journalism and what is not? No. But to equate blog with journalism 100% is incorrect.
Oh hush. This is Slashdot. We do not believe in souls. We believe we are all random collections of molecules. And that we have inherent rights granted by.... umm.... granted by.... we just DO dammit!
Out of curosity, why do you say this? Not disputing. Just intrigued.
Qualitative measures are used all of the time. Simply because a line is gray doesn't mean we do not try to apply a certain amount of common sense to the situation. Take for example "Good Samaritan" laws that protect me if I choose to give CPR to a dying person. If I crack a rib, that law protects me. Even if I do a crappy job of it. Now lets say i decide to jump up and down on the man's chest to try to start the heart. Well, the law no longer protects me as my actions were no longer 'reasonable'. Where is the line between reasonable and unreasonable? Hard to say. But the ideas of 'reasonable' and 'prudent' are all throughout our law. They have to be. So, we do have to make some distinction between who is a journalist and who is not. My one-entry blog certainly does not merit journalistic status. A regular Business Week columnist does. Somewhere in-between? Let the law figure it out.
and I am hopeful for your support, but I'll understand if you want nothing to do with me.
:)
That depends. What kinda warez can you hook me up with?
I know. I am demanding a refund...
Relax. This engine is still in beta betahttp://biblia.com/jesusbible/isaiah9.htm
Unprotected sex with a member of the opposite gender.
I just hate it when tech support throws out all those technical terms.
I seriously doubt the BBC would intentionally leak their program like this. I know this is slashdot, home to the conspiracy theories, but this one doesn't make any sense.
My guess is you don't even have a job.
Then your devs need to get off the crack pipe.
.NET has made my life much easier. I can invest time into building tools to help me do my job faster and with more reliable results. I can trust .NET's installation programs to work as advertised. Its VSS implementation is vastly improved over VB6's.
.NET has given me a lot of freedom, and helped me to be a lot more efficient than I was three years ago.
I work in a one-man shop. I do not have a CS degree, kind of sliding into programming from another field. I never understood a lot of the C-programmers terms like inheritence and polymorphism. Now that I have it, I have a hard time remembering how I got my work done otherwise.
You ever play with custom controls in VB6? The damn things would break for no apparent reason, and the code for where controls are loaded was enitrely seperate from the rest of your code... made for some interesting debugging when VB6 decided my control could not be loaded. Add on top of this that you could not truely test an install on your machine, and VB6 sucked
I wear a lot of hats.. db admin, application developer, spec writer, manual writer, tech support, with a user base spread out over five or six cities. I don't have time to delve into third party installation programs, version history databases, etc. I do not have a dedicated QA department with their own set of clean PCs to test on. I don't have someone who can test installs to make sure there are no glitches.
Am I a super programmer? No. I can get the job done, and I understand enough about the industry I work in (banking) to know how to meet the requirements of the job even when the folks who are describing the project don't. I am also not impressed by bells and whistles. I like to get the job done, and make my apps as ancillary to my users' lives as possible. I like the same from my development environment.
Are there "better" programming enviroments for other folks? Sure. We all tend to gravitate to the tools we need. For mine, VB.NET is it. But if anyone claims VB6 is better, they are plain wrong. My guess is that they were not willing to go through the learning curve (quite steep). If I had to go back to VB6, I'd switch careers.
It doesn't. Guess what... this is not a constitutional issue. See great grandparent post.
Sadly, this is what many Americans equate rights with.... 'You've got a right to cable TV... You've got a right to download music for free.... Consitution... what's that?'
Go read the written opinion of the Supreme Court decision. Five of nine thought otherwise.
The funny part is I HAVEN'T expressed my opinion... just the logical couse of our society's way of thinking. Frankly I don't want gov't teaching values to my kids... but we don't want to make the hard choices that prevent this from happening. Part of that is that we, as individuals, have a responsiblity to be role models, and not leave it up to the gov't to step in.
Our gov't was founded on the prinicple that if you leave decisions up to the individual, they will behave responsibly. Not a whole lot of need for gov't intervention. Each of us, when we choose to behave in a self-centered manner tear down that original belief. Continue on the course we are going, and many of the rights we cherish will go into the dust-bin of history...