What the fuck are you talking about? Buying domains has nothing to do with the spam - and it's up to the registrars if they want to take on the responsibility for domains purchased from them not being used for spam. Laws don't change that one bit - in fact you could go ahead and buy 155,000 domains from GoDaddy tomorrow and spam content on them... would you be talking about the USAs lax laws then? No? Surprise!
So true. In fact, even Microsoft hates Access so much there's a group policy setting in the Office 2007 resource kit to prohibit the creation of Access databases, to prevent your users making Access apps then bitching at you when they break.
So if I'm a Oregon resident (no sales tax) in Washington and have to pay sales tax, something I did for 9 months this year, a California resident should have to pay local sales tax for something they buy while in the state of California, even if it is bought from Washington and shipped to them.
That's right. But it shouldn't be the seller in Washington's problem. Their responsibility is to pay taxes in their municipality.
Amazon.com, in the US, shouldn't have to charge or collect taxes for PNG, but if you are ordering from amazon.au from Australia, then you should be expected to pay.
Right. If Amazon had a site in Australia (they don't), and shipped from Australia, then they absolutely should be expected to collect sales taxes for the Australian government when shipping to an Australian. They shouldn't be expected to collect sales tax for the New Zealand government when shipping to New Zealand.
Just like how if Amazon had a site in Washington, and shipped from Washington, they should be expected to collect sales tax for the Washington state government when shipping to a Washington resident. They should not be expected to collect sales tax for the California state government when shipping to California.
Remember: inter-state commerce is the exclusive domain of the Federal government.
I think you'll find that they are a citizen of Washington State then, where they do indeed collect and pay taxes. Why should they pay, say, California when all they do is ship a box there? If you're saying they should in fact collect taxes for California then you must also hold as a logical extension of that, that they must collect taxes for Papua New Guinea or Australia.
No it isn't. If you expect Amazon to collect taxes for every single US state (that they have no presence in), you should be expecting them to collect taxes for every country on the planet (that they have no presence in). It's the same thing.
10%? Holy crap that's low. We pay 12.5% here, on top of our income tax (sliding scale from 19.5% to 33%)
Then, I've also got transaction notifications from my eCommerce provider that they've had to add 25% VAT to an order because the customer was European. Ouch.
If Amazon can't afford to collect taxes for fifty states, someone else will.
I call BS anyway. There are only 50, is it too much to have some schmoe simply look the damned tax up on a sheet of paper?
But where do you draw the line? Should Amazon US collect VAT if they sell to a European, GST to a New Zealander or Australian? Because that's effectively what you're saying, that Amazon should have to keep abreast of tax laws, and collect for, every single piddling country on the face of the planet.
Point, my bad. This does actually mean that only developing commercial applications (not services) falls within the purview of the GPL in this case. And even then, that's only if you use the MySQL client libraries (and who doesn't?)
Selection bias. Unless the target of their actions is an American company, you will never hear about it.
ING and Royal Bank of Scotland, two of the largest financial institutions in the world, have been ordered to split up in the past few weeks. As these companies don't make gadgets, and aren't American, this news doesn't belong on slashdot, so you aren't aware of it. The EC deals with the European market, and as such primarily with European companies. You will never hear about it, it's not newsworthy in the US any more than news about Walmart is in Europe.
Walmart is still relevant in Europe. They trade as "ASDA"
No, MySQL is not the perfect choice for "grownup enterprises" as you say. With MySQL, you have two choices of storage engine. MyISAM is a piece of shit which randomly corrupts indexes weekly (which takes your database offline as it's a catastrophic error). InnoDB is already owned by Oracle. So really, the only thing that makes MySQL usable to enterprise is... Oracle.
Facebook uses tremendous amounts of hardware (1,800 servers?!?) to run their databases. They could cut that at least in half by using a different RDBMS - like Oracle. Or hell, even MS SQL Server.
And MySQL AB can't even tell you what EMC uses MySQL for. Here's a tip: EMC has acquired almost 50 companies in its lifetime, and produces over 200, 300, hell, I stopped counting at 100 and that was on "D", products. At least one of those has some piddly connection to MySQL (even if it's an "import data" command) which requires EMC become a customer of MySQL or GPL all the code for whichever product uses it.
Doesn't matter whether it's incompatible with the GPL or not. As the copyright holder, Sun has the right to determine the terms of their licensing. And one of the terms of their licensing is that the client libraries are also licensed under the GPL, not LGPL, so you have to disclose the source code of every application you build against MySQL under the GPL, or purchase a commercial license which is not under the GPL.
Oracle could also obliterate MySQL by revoking the InnoDB license (which they already own), leaving MySQL with no decent transactional engine, and pretty much ruling it out for any significant usage.
For example, suppose a virus is designed to patch a system DLL so that it includes a copy of the virus. Now suppose that the patch basis it's using disagrees from thecurrent version of the DLL. GNU Patch would refuse to do the patch if it couldn't be done safely, but the viruses doing binary patches on DLLs may not be so concerned with data integrity.
Funnily enough, that's exactly why Blaster resulted in so many crashes - it was written to patch the RPC Subsystem, and on virtually every copy of Windows current at that time it patched with the wrong addresses (as the library was updated between the time of the virus writing and its release), causing the service to crash. When it crashed, Windows would immediately initiate a reboot, as the RPC service is considered critical.
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Fucking WebMasterWorld is good at that.
What the fuck are you talking about? Buying domains has nothing to do with the spam - and it's up to the registrars if they want to take on the responsibility for domains purchased from them not being used for spam. Laws don't change that one bit - in fact you could go ahead and buy 155,000 domains from GoDaddy tomorrow and spam content on them... would you be talking about the USAs lax laws then? No? Surprise!
Have they never heard of the DEFER attribute?
Yeah, and don't forget the atrocious amount of Javascript errors you suddenly get.
I don't have it, and I moderate often and have Karma: Excellent (bonus disabled).
I guess it's because subscribers aren't eligible.
3. Usually if she gets called in, someone is dying. I would rarely, if ever, classify an IT emergency anywhere near as important as that.
Try doing IT at a hospital. We are often informed that there is significant mortality risk if certain systems fail.
i.e, someone dies.
Said big corporation is Google. Google can't do wrong, you know?
Another reason to avoid Internet Explorer until it gets a no script equivalent (which it never will).
http://www.ie7pro.com/
So true. In fact, even Microsoft hates Access so much there's a group policy setting in the Office 2007 resource kit to prohibit the creation of Access databases, to prevent your users making Access apps then bitching at you when they break.
That policy setting is godly.
What has Google ever done once to suggest to me that I shouldn't trust them?
Handed over data on "dissident" bloggers to the Chinese government.
So if I'm a Oregon resident (no sales tax) in Washington and have to pay sales tax, something I did for 9 months this year, a California resident should have to pay local sales tax for something they buy while in the state of California, even if it is bought from Washington and shipped to them.
That's right. But it shouldn't be the seller in Washington's problem. Their responsibility is to pay taxes in their municipality.
Amazon.com, in the US, shouldn't have to charge or collect taxes for PNG, but if you are ordering from amazon.au from Australia, then you should be expected to pay.
Right. If Amazon had a site in Australia (they don't), and shipped from Australia, then they absolutely should be expected to collect sales taxes for the Australian government when shipping to an Australian. They shouldn't be expected to collect sales tax for the New Zealand government when shipping to New Zealand.
Just like how if Amazon had a site in Washington, and shipped from Washington, they should be expected to collect sales tax for the Washington state government when shipping to a Washington resident. They should not be expected to collect sales tax for the California state government when shipping to California.
Remember: inter-state commerce is the exclusive domain of the Federal government.
I think you'll find that they are a citizen of Washington State then, where they do indeed collect and pay taxes. Why should they pay, say, California when all they do is ship a box there? If you're saying they should in fact collect taxes for California then you must also hold as a logical extension of that, that they must collect taxes for Papua New Guinea or Australia.
No. I don't think any US state charges that much even stamping federal taxes on top of it, surely.
No it isn't. If you expect Amazon to collect taxes for every single US state (that they have no presence in), you should be expecting them to collect taxes for every country on the planet (that they have no presence in). It's the same thing.
And worse, they demand overseas retailers collect it for them too.
10%? Holy crap that's low. We pay 12.5% here, on top of our income tax (sliding scale from 19.5% to 33%)
Then, I've also got transaction notifications from my eCommerce provider that they've had to add 25% VAT to an order because the customer was European. Ouch.
And don't forget the rest of Earth.
If Amazon can't afford to collect taxes for fifty states, someone else will.
I call BS anyway. There are only 50, is it too much to have some schmoe simply look the damned tax up on a sheet of paper?
But where do you draw the line? Should Amazon US collect VAT if they sell to a European, GST to a New Zealander or Australian? Because that's effectively what you're saying, that Amazon should have to keep abreast of tax laws, and collect for, every single piddling country on the face of the planet.
Point, my bad. This does actually mean that only developing commercial applications (not services) falls within the purview of the GPL in this case. And even then, that's only if you use the MySQL client libraries (and who doesn't?)
Selection bias. Unless the target of their actions is an American company, you will never hear about it.
ING and Royal Bank of Scotland, two of the largest financial institutions in the world, have been ordered to split up in the past few weeks. As these companies don't make gadgets, and aren't American, this news doesn't belong on slashdot, so you aren't aware of it. The EC deals with the European market, and as such primarily with European companies. You will never hear about it, it's not newsworthy in the US any more than news about Walmart is in Europe.
Walmart is still relevant in Europe. They trade as "ASDA"
No, MySQL is not the perfect choice for "grownup enterprises" as you say. With MySQL, you have two choices of storage engine. MyISAM is a piece of shit which randomly corrupts indexes weekly (which takes your database offline as it's a catastrophic error). InnoDB is already owned by Oracle. So really, the only thing that makes MySQL usable to enterprise is... Oracle.
Facebook uses tremendous amounts of hardware (1,800 servers?!?) to run their databases. They could cut that at least in half by using a different RDBMS - like Oracle. Or hell, even MS SQL Server.
And MySQL AB can't even tell you what EMC uses MySQL for. Here's a tip: EMC has acquired almost 50 companies in its lifetime, and produces over 200, 300, hell, I stopped counting at 100 and that was on "D", products. At least one of those has some piddly connection to MySQL (even if it's an "import data" command) which requires EMC become a customer of MySQL or GPL all the code for whichever product uses it.
Doesn't matter whether it's incompatible with the GPL or not. As the copyright holder, Sun has the right to determine the terms of their licensing. And one of the terms of their licensing is that the client libraries are also licensed under the GPL, not LGPL, so you have to disclose the source code of every application you build against MySQL under the GPL, or purchase a commercial license which is not under the GPL.
Oracle could also obliterate MySQL by revoking the InnoDB license (which they already own), leaving MySQL with no decent transactional engine, and pretty much ruling it out for any significant usage.
For example, suppose a virus is designed to patch a system DLL so that it includes a copy of the virus. Now suppose that the patch basis it's using disagrees from thecurrent version of the DLL. GNU Patch would refuse to do the patch if it couldn't be done safely, but the viruses doing binary patches on DLLs may not be so concerned with data integrity.
Funnily enough, that's exactly why Blaster resulted in so many crashes - it was written to patch the RPC Subsystem, and on virtually every copy of Windows current at that time it patched with the wrong addresses (as the library was updated between the time of the virus writing and its release), causing the service to crash. When it crashed, Windows would immediately initiate a reboot, as the RPC service is considered critical.
Because, dumbass, then we'd just have more OSX viruses. And we all know how fast Apple is at fixing flaws.