Mod parent insightful! DRMing content according to the buyer's fingerprint pattern is an excellent way to make sure they are the only person using the content. Oh and as a side effect, M$ and [insert other evil DRM proponents here] would get to see your fingerprint...
Indeed, like making a (cross-platform, standards compliant) web version. They should have done so in the first place, but instead we're stuck using their crappy app that makes me feel like I'm using Win311 (as if WinXP doesn't annoy me enough).
But surely you could see many programmers hiding little bugs within the program to make themselves tax free.
What? How? Everyone's tax returns are still processed by the ATO, irrespective of how they're compiled or submitted.
There are so many security risks involved.
There isn't reall. All their e-tax application does is run through a (rather long-winded) set of questions -- exactly the same as what you fill in on paper. It also provides a refund estimate, which it calculates based on the user's input. All of that could be coded by anyone using the paper tax-pack. The only other thing is the actual submission of the completed tax return, which seems to involve a few HTTP requests (enter some details to confirm your identity, get a submission code back, then submit your return using that code) -- and there's no reason that couldn't be open.
where every website indexed is 1) sumbitted by multiple people as usefull, and 2) checked by someone at google to be sure it is not spam, and 3) there is a web form to indicate a website does not belong
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Mod parent insightful! DRMing content according to the buyer's fingerprint pattern is an excellent way to make sure they are the only person using the content. Oh and as a side effect, M$ and [insert other evil DRM proponents here] would get to see your fingerprint ...
Spooky indeed.
Except the Windows version (surely only an insignificant number of users though :-P), which would be statically linked against libz.
Indeed, like making a (cross-platform, standards compliant) web version. They should have done so in the first place, but instead we're stuck using their crappy app that makes me feel like I'm using Win311 (as if WinXP doesn't annoy me enough).
But surely you could see many programmers hiding little bugs within the program to make themselves tax free.
What? How? Everyone's tax returns are still processed by the ATO, irrespective of how they're compiled or submitted.
There are so many security risks involved.
There isn't reall. All their e-tax application does is run through a (rather long-winded) set of questions -- exactly the same as what you fill in on paper. It also provides a refund estimate, which it calculates based on the user's input. All of that could be coded by anyone using the paper tax-pack. The only other thing is the actual submission of the completed tax return, which seems to involve a few HTTP requests (enter some details to confirm your identity, get a submission code back, then submit your return using that code) -- and there's no reason that couldn't be open.
Meh, John Howard*'s tongue is so far up Dubya's arse, it can be hard to tell them apart sometimes ...
(* our Prime Minister)
where every website indexed is 1) sumbitted by multiple people as usefull, and 2) checked by someone at google to be sure it is not spam, and 3) there is a web form to indicate a website does not belong
Have you heard of The Open Directory Project?
As someone formally employed in the IT certification training industry
I hope you meant formerly. ;-)