The problem is that they have government contractors reviewing potential solutions. The same people who are incapable of coming up with workable solutions themselves. So what makes anyone think they would know a good solution, even if it bit them in the ass?
DARPA announced a grant program for this last August at Black Hat. We spent a month crafting an RA for developing a solution based upon formal methods that would change the advantage from the attacker to the defender. Even if we were full of shit, you'd think DARPA would want to know more, in case we weren't. We got a form letter rejection for "Mudge". Am I bitter I spent a month trying to help out the DoD? you bet. I have better things to do.
It reminds me of when the Web was first emerging and I was getting my MBA - Anderson Consulting came to our school with a "contest" to see who could come up with the best business model for the web. Anyone know where AC is now? The DoD needs a good shot of Darwin.
Agreed, inference is not always editorializing - given their choice of an alternative designation, I think you can infer what about "democracy" they did not like and what about "republic" they do like.
Daniel Solove makes a good case that imbalance between the power of the individual vs society (government and/or corporations) invariably precedes upheaval.
Open Source does not have to be FOSS. Why not charge those that profit?
If we are going to have motivation for companies to invest in open source rather than proprietary solutions, there there needs to be more than a warm fuzzy feeling. Open Source offered for free for non-profit or personal use and a fee for for-profit use could work. True, it may harder to collect revenue, so fees will have to be kept low enough to make payment cheaper than avoidance.
Or am I just smokin' rope?
I have been corrected that the taxes date to the opening of the facility and not before as I had previously understood.
Thank you kalirion.
The jist remains (as stated in many other comments): Texas is defining its own rules for taxation and back-dating them - how would you like the fed to re-interpret "home office" and go after 6 years of back taxes?
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"Last year the Texas comptroller’s office sent Amazon a demand for $269 million in uncollected sales taxes, plus penalties and interest, from 2005 through 2009." Amazon opened the distribution center in 2006.
While I wholeheartedly support free speech, "it must be true because it is on wikileaks" is as worrisome as efforts to quell free speech. Would it be too much trouble to get an independent eye to validate the charge before making an accusation?
Pick books/stories that will resonate with issues today's kids are aware of.
for example, Heavy Weather by Sterling - for global warming, 1984 - for surveillance and privacy, I'd spend time writing more, but this post is so late that it will probably never be read. . . .
Software developers that learned coding through tutorials and playing around are "unschooled" they are the bane of anyone with a formal software engineering training who has had to fix, replace, or worse, work with the developer's code.
What's the difference between a SW Engineer and a Developer?
A Developer is not done until he/sh has added everything they can think of - an Engineer is not done until he/she has removed everything not absolutely necessary.
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Would love to get my hands on the book, but Amazon is out and the general printing isn't until September.
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The problem is that they have government contractors reviewing potential solutions. The same people who are incapable of coming up with workable solutions themselves. So what makes anyone think they would know a good solution, even if it bit them in the ass?
DARPA announced a grant program for this last August at Black Hat. We spent a month crafting an RA for developing a solution based upon formal methods that would change the advantage from the attacker to the defender. Even if we were full of shit, you'd think DARPA would want to know more, in case we weren't. We got a form letter rejection for "Mudge". Am I bitter I spent a month trying to help out the DoD? you bet. I have better things to do.
It reminds me of when the Web was first emerging and I was getting my MBA - Anderson Consulting came to our school with a "contest" to see who could come up with the best business model for the web. Anyone know where AC is now? The DoD needs a good shot of Darwin.
Agreed, inference is not always editorializing - given their choice of an alternative designation, I think you can infer what about "democracy" they did not like and what about "republic" they do like.
Daniel Solove makes a good case that imbalance between the power of the individual vs society (government and/or corporations) invariably precedes upheaval.
Open Source does not have to be FOSS. Why not charge those that profit? If we are going to have motivation for companies to invest in open source rather than proprietary solutions, there there needs to be more than a warm fuzzy feeling. Open Source offered for free for non-profit or personal use and a fee for for-profit use could work. True, it may harder to collect revenue, so fees will have to be kept low enough to make payment cheaper than avoidance. Or am I just smokin' rope?
I have been corrected that the taxes date to the opening of the facility and not before as I had previously understood. Thank you kalirion. The jist remains (as stated in many other comments): Texas is defining its own rules for taxation and back-dating them - how would you like the fed to re-interpret "home office" and go after 6 years of back taxes?
Link "Last year the Texas comptroller’s office sent Amazon a demand for $269 million in uncollected sales taxes, plus penalties and interest, from 2005 through 2009." Amazon opened the distribution center in 2006.
While I wholeheartedly support free speech, "it must be true because it is on wikileaks" is as worrisome as efforts to quell free speech. Would it be too much trouble to get an independent eye to validate the charge before making an accusation?
Texas is after sales taxes from before Amazon came to the state.
The merchant should give us their account information and we deposit funds into it. - oops - we don't have a way to do that - why not?
Does anyone remember Marshall McLuhan? There is a reason newspapers have (had?) editors.
Pick books/stories that will resonate with issues today's kids are aware of. for example, Heavy Weather by Sterling - for global warming, 1984 - for surveillance and privacy, I'd spend time writing more, but this post is so late that it will probably never be read. . . .
Software developers that learned coding through tutorials and playing around are "unschooled" they are the bane of anyone with a formal software engineering training who has had to fix, replace, or worse, work with the developer's code. What's the difference between a SW Engineer and a Developer? A Developer is not done until he/sh has added everything they can think of - an Engineer is not done until he/she has removed everything not absolutely necessary.
Would love to get my hands on the book, but Amazon is out and the general printing isn't until September.
I just canceled my WSJ subscription on my Kindle
and why is it that Europe and Asia have better and more sophisticated devices without exclusivity?