What does the Maglock power input connector have to do with anything Thunderbolt? The Thunderbolt spec uses Mini Display Port, which is a standard port that isn't exclusive to Apple devices.
oh, I agree... once you have it downloaded, it's quite easy to just burn the file to a DVD or a USB key. I was just saying that in order to buy it, you'll be doing that through the App Store.
This is an article that takes headlines produced by non-fox-news organizations and compares them to the headlines that Fox News decided to use. You can definitely see the bias in just their headlines.
You would think so. But sadly, we don't exist in a free market, as far as internet access is concerned.
There have already been several localities (municipal level) that tried to setup their own internet services for their residents, because they were unhappy with what the local cableco and telco were willing to provide. So the cableco and telco have sent lobbyists to the local city councils and state legislative bodies and are having laws written to prevent these forms of competition from even getting off the ground.
Even if another private entity, outside of the cable/phone companies wanted to try and provide internet access, I imagine they will run in to the same road blocks. Also, you need to get local approval to be able to run your wires on the utility poles.
I had hoped that Broadband-over-powerlines would allow a 3rd carrier in to most areas to help drive up speeds and drive down prices, but it hasn't been very successful and has run in to a whole slew of technical issues.
Wireless communication won't be able to keep up, in terms of speed and data caps. Getting in to the wireless business is a huge investment. RF Spectrum is very expensive and you can only physically push so much data through RF.
Sadly, except in a few small and isolated areas, I think we're going to be stuck with the cableco and telco duopolies for quite a while... The only way that is changing is if there are some pretty serious regulations at the federal and/or state levels to really allow for some good competition.
The only wildcards, and hope, that I see is Google's fiber initiatives and the corporate muscle flexing of some large companies. Once enough big companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, etc. want to start pushing their own high-speed services through the limited broadband pipes, they might be willing to spend some money on a state and federal level to lobby for some sanity.
except dictionary attacks aren't combining words in the dictionary in to phrases.
There are 171,476 words in the english language, according to the count in the oxford dictionary (source: http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/93)...probably many more in reality. If your phrase is 4 words long, using just the words in the dictionary, that's 8.65x10^20. If your cracker is going at 1 million guesses per second, then it's taking your "ultra-quick" dictionary attack is going to take about 27 and a half million years.
Except that would completely defeat the whole purpose of a captcha, if the captcha's alt text simply had the text of the captcha in it. You'd be able to program your bot to just grab that alt-text of your image and use that to break the captcha.
You need to generate an audio file you can click on that has the text of the captcha rendered on the server and sent to the client as an audio file to be played by their speakers.
Where i'm at, we have 50-60 total employees, myself included, and we are an IT shop of 1. I support all the users, phones, servers, backups, etc. and still have plenty of time to do a fair amount of research/learning/future planning. The company i'm at is in healthcare as well, and doctors tend to not be the most tech savvy individuals as well.
Installed applications can only install in to their own domain within the/Applications folder. If they want to roam outside that territory, they still need to sudo which prompts the admin privilege password prompt. They can not infect other applications with out that.
Forefront end point protection and MSE are almost exactly the same thing... same user interface, same engine, etc. The only difference is licensing and forefront can be centrally managed. They offer the same exact protection otherwise.
There is an ethernet port on my current generation MacBook Pro. The machine was refreshed about 3 months ago, and they are still including ethernet ports. In fact, the only computer that Apple produces that doesn't have an ethernet port is the MacBook Air. Every other computer has a gigabit ethernet port.
It's not just 50 states that amazon would have to submit sales taxes to. Each county and local government has the authority to establish sales taxes as well. Where I live there is a 6% state sales tax and a 1% county sales tax. If I buy something outside of the county, then I don't have to pay the 1% to the county.
So, it's 50 states + thousands of counties + tens of thousands of cities/villages/towns/etc. The actual number is going to run in to the tens of thousands of distinct entities you have to calculate and remit sales taxes to.
"Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie and don't know anything about the rules of shipping and selling items in the US coming from warehouses in Mexico or elsewhere in the world. But I assume there's no sales tax."
Well, if you admittedly don't know anything about shipping and selling items in the US, then why are you saying the Bezos needs to stop bitching? He has every reason to bitch about his company being taxed incorrectly. Would you bitch if the state of illinois suddenly said that you had to pay it a tax that they justified with some pretty daring legal acrobatics?
The fact is that the US Constitution expressly gives the power to regulate interstate commerce to the federal government. A tax is a regulation on commerce. This means that the states don't have the power to create taxes on interstate commerce.
The specific type of case against amazon has already been decided by the supreme court once in 1967 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bellas_Hess_v._Illinois) and again in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota). Basically, unless Amazon has a significant business presence in a state, then they aren't required to submit sales taxes to that state.
agreed. This is EXACTLY why the interstate commerce clause was added to the constitution. To make it easy to do business between the many states.
Where I live, there are 3 different sales tax rates depending on WHERE I purchase...I have the state sales tax of 6% that always applies. Then if i'm inside the county lines of one of the local counties then you add another 1.25%. Then if i'm inside the major city inside that county, add another 0.5%.
On top of all of THAT, the various sales taxes that you can be subjected to are all different based on the different classifications of things you buy. For example, if you buy things deemed "necessities" (clothes, shoes, anything medical related, groceries) then you don't pay taxes on those from the state, but you do pay them to the local and county governments. There are many different classifications of things that qualify for reduced sales tax rates in the various combinations of applicable state, county, and city sales tax structures. All of this is just in one metro area of the US I live in.
So, with that said...Lets run some numbers:
50 states 3,143 counties in the US (for an average of 63 counties in each state) (source: wikipedia) 25,375 "places" that could be counted as city/local government (for an average of 8 per county) (source: 2000 US Census)
so... for Amazon to keep track of the all various state/county/local sales tax possibilities, they'd have to keep track of 50 states, times 63 counties in each state, times 8 localities per county...or 25,200 different possible combinations of sales tax laws. Then on top of that, some of the laws allow for sales tax exemptions or reductions based on the different classifications of products you can buy. It would take a HUGE amount of effort to get all the different sales tax rates right... and then on top of that, localities can change sales tax rates, so you have to keep up with it.
And all of that is just to figure out what to charge. Next you have to setup accounts with potentially 50 states + 3,143 counties + 25,375 localities = 28,568 different state/county/local governments you are remitting sales taxes to.
I will say that there are a few states, many many counties that don't have a sales tax, and many many localities that don't have a sales taxes. So the actual numbers are going to be a lot lower...but you can see the possibilities here.
I will also say that an organization like amazon has the ability to keep up with this...but now imagine every other single store on the internet...there are thousands and thousands of many small "mom-and-pop" type internet shops that sell all over the US. These stores would be put out of business from the administrative costs of having to submit taxes to 28,568 different governments.
Except this is unconstitutional as per the 4th amendment to the constitution. The states can't demand to see amazon's sales records unless they have reasonable suspicion that someone is evading taxes... in which case, the 4th amendment then further dictates that such warrants have to be narrow in focus and can only be for the records for the person they believe is evading taxes.
Basically, the state has to have evidence that a particular person is evading taxes, get a judge to sign off on it for that one person, and the subpoena has to be for that person only.
No. Because the cigarettes are sold by local stores to consumers. The tax is at the point of the retail transaction...which is a transaction that takes place entirely within the state.
In the case of taxing imports on orange juice produced in florida, the tax is at the point the orange juice crosses the state border...giving preferential pricing to california orange juice producers.
Placing a tax on all orange juice wouldn't be an issue...since it covers all orange juice, regardless of where it's grown... and the tax happens at the point of retail...which is intra state commerce.
This is incorrect. It is currently impossible to be under a long term service contract on an iPad. This is why they charge extra for the 3G radio. You aren't obligated to buy service. The 3G service doesn't even auto renew each month. Once you've used up your usage allotment or your time has expired, that's it...you can't access data and you have to explicitly resubscribe again.
An unborn child is 100% dependent on ONE person...if you remove the unborn child from this ONE person, then the child will very likely die. The unborn child also has the ability, through no fault of it's own, to cause significant harm to the woman he/she is living inside...up to and including death. An unborn child also causes significant emotional and physical stress on the mother.
A child that has been born, or is capable of surviving outside of the womb, is not 100% dependent on ONE person. They are 100% dependent on SOMEONE, but that someone could be anybody.
This is where I think the US's abortion laws are actually pretty balanced: The theory is that if the unborn child has the ability to survive after being removed from the mother, then abortion isn't allowed. If the unborn child is still at a stage of development where removing it from the mother WILL certainly cause it's death, then abortion is an option for the mother.
And I think that's a good point to determine when an unborn child becomes an independent being: when it's able to survive outside of the mother, even if that survival requires extra care. If the mother doesn't want the responsibility or burden of caring for the child, then there is likely a line of couples or single wannabe parents who will take that responsibility.
Except they can't do that. It's expressly forbidden to do this in the US Constitution. It's called "Ex Post Facto" and it's not allowed.
I could be wrong, but I don't even think an amendment to the constitution can allow ex post facto laws, since it's explicitly in the section called "limits on congress".
That is legend of the green dragon. It's a remake...and you can even use the keyboard to play. Even though it differs in a lot of areas, it definitely has the same feel as the original.
The people you know of probably got jailed for ignoring a court order to show up to a debtors exam. Once you get a judgement against you and the creditor is unable to collect on the judgement, the creditor can ask the court to force you to answer questions about your assets (cash, real estate, cars, boats, RVs, investments, etc.). This is so that the creditor can find stuff to seize to satisfy the debt. This is a court order requiring you to show up and answer these questions. If you don't show up or refuse to answer the questions, then the court issues a bench warrant for contempt and will jail you until you answer the questions.
A court can't put you in jail for refusing to pay, regardless of ability. But they can put you in jail for contempt if you ignore court orders that are related to debtors exams and such...but that's not going to jail for refusing to pay. Once you've been jailed you'll be hauled off to court for the debtors exam and then released.
Another thing that might have happened with the people you know of could be that they bounced a few checks. Writing checks that you know won't be paid is a crime in and of itself. But there are two issues: the civil issue of the money you owe to the person you wrote the check to and then there is the criminal issue of writing a rubber check. Most often the person you wrote the rubber check to will say "Pay us in full for your check and our fees and we'll drop the charges."
As GP said, if you could be jailed for owing money to someone, OJ would be in jail a long time ago. One of the issues with putting someone in jail for refusing to pay a debt is how would you ever earn money at that point to pay said debt?
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What does the Maglock power input connector have to do with anything Thunderbolt? The Thunderbolt spec uses Mini Display Port, which is a standard port that isn't exclusive to Apple devices.
No, only firefox does that.
oh, I agree... once you have it downloaded, it's quite easy to just burn the file to a DVD or a USB key. I was just saying that in order to buy it, you'll be doing that through the App Store.
Apple has said, quite explicitly, that Lion will ONLY be available in the App store. They mentioned this as part of the WWDC keynote.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/actual-news-headlines-vs-fox-news-headlines
This is an article that takes headlines produced by non-fox-news organizations and compares them to the headlines that Fox News decided to use. You can definitely see the bias in just their headlines.
You would think so. But sadly, we don't exist in a free market, as far as internet access is concerned.
There have already been several localities (municipal level) that tried to setup their own internet services for their residents, because they were unhappy with what the local cableco and telco were willing to provide. So the cableco and telco have sent lobbyists to the local city councils and state legislative bodies and are having laws written to prevent these forms of competition from even getting off the ground.
Even if another private entity, outside of the cable/phone companies wanted to try and provide internet access, I imagine they will run in to the same road blocks. Also, you need to get local approval to be able to run your wires on the utility poles.
I had hoped that Broadband-over-powerlines would allow a 3rd carrier in to most areas to help drive up speeds and drive down prices, but it hasn't been very successful and has run in to a whole slew of technical issues.
Wireless communication won't be able to keep up, in terms of speed and data caps. Getting in to the wireless business is a huge investment. RF Spectrum is very expensive and you can only physically push so much data through RF.
Sadly, except in a few small and isolated areas, I think we're going to be stuck with the cableco and telco duopolies for quite a while... The only way that is changing is if there are some pretty serious regulations at the federal and/or state levels to really allow for some good competition.
The only wildcards, and hope, that I see is Google's fiber initiatives and the corporate muscle flexing of some large companies. Once enough big companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Netflix, etc. want to start pushing their own high-speed services through the limited broadband pipes, they might be willing to spend some money on a state and federal level to lobby for some sanity.
except dictionary attacks aren't combining words in the dictionary in to phrases.
There are 171,476 words in the english language, according to the count in the oxford dictionary (source: http://oxforddictionaries.com/page/93)...probably many more in reality. If your phrase is 4 words long, using just the words in the dictionary, that's 8.65x10^20. If your cracker is going at 1 million guesses per second, then it's taking your "ultra-quick" dictionary attack is going to take about 27 and a half million years.
Except that would completely defeat the whole purpose of a captcha, if the captcha's alt text simply had the text of the captcha in it. You'd be able to program your bot to just grab that alt-text of your image and use that to break the captcha.
You need to generate an audio file you can click on that has the text of the captcha rendered on the server and sent to the client as an audio file to be played by their speakers.
1 IT staff member per 10 users? Are you crazy?
Where i'm at, we have 50-60 total employees, myself included, and we are an IT shop of 1. I support all the users, phones, servers, backups, etc. and still have plenty of time to do a fair amount of research/learning/future planning. The company i'm at is in healthcare as well, and doctors tend to not be the most tech savvy individuals as well.
Installed applications can only install in to their own domain within the /Applications folder. If they want to roam outside that territory, they still need to sudo which prompts the admin privilege password prompt. They can not infect other applications with out that.
Forefront end point protection and MSE are almost exactly the same thing... same user interface, same engine, etc. The only difference is licensing and forefront can be centrally managed. They offer the same exact protection otherwise.
There is an ethernet port on my current generation MacBook Pro. The machine was refreshed about 3 months ago, and they are still including ethernet ports. In fact, the only computer that Apple produces that doesn't have an ethernet port is the MacBook Air. Every other computer has a gigabit ethernet port.
It's not just 50 states that amazon would have to submit sales taxes to. Each county and local government has the authority to establish sales taxes as well. Where I live there is a 6% state sales tax and a 1% county sales tax. If I buy something outside of the county, then I don't have to pay the 1% to the county.
So, it's 50 states + thousands of counties + tens of thousands of cities/villages/towns/etc. The actual number is going to run in to the tens of thousands of distinct entities you have to calculate and remit sales taxes to.
"Disclaimer: I'm an Aussie and don't know anything about the rules of shipping and selling items in the US coming from warehouses in Mexico or elsewhere in the world. But I assume there's no sales tax."
Well, if you admittedly don't know anything about shipping and selling items in the US, then why are you saying the Bezos needs to stop bitching? He has every reason to bitch about his company being taxed incorrectly. Would you bitch if the state of illinois suddenly said that you had to pay it a tax that they justified with some pretty daring legal acrobatics?
The fact is that the US Constitution expressly gives the power to regulate interstate commerce to the federal government. A tax is a regulation on commerce. This means that the states don't have the power to create taxes on interstate commerce.
The specific type of case against amazon has already been decided by the supreme court once in 1967 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bellas_Hess_v._Illinois) and again in 1992 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill_Corp._v._North_Dakota). Basically, unless Amazon has a significant business presence in a state, then they aren't required to submit sales taxes to that state.
agreed. This is EXACTLY why the interstate commerce clause was added to the constitution. To make it easy to do business between the many states.
Where I live, there are 3 different sales tax rates depending on WHERE I purchase...I have the state sales tax of 6% that always applies. Then if i'm inside the county lines of one of the local counties then you add another 1.25%. Then if i'm inside the major city inside that county, add another 0.5%.
On top of all of THAT, the various sales taxes that you can be subjected to are all different based on the different classifications of things you buy. For example, if you buy things deemed "necessities" (clothes, shoes, anything medical related, groceries) then you don't pay taxes on those from the state, but you do pay them to the local and county governments. There are many different classifications of things that qualify for reduced sales tax rates in the various combinations of applicable state, county, and city sales tax structures. All of this is just in one metro area of the US I live in.
So, with that said...Lets run some numbers:
50 states
3,143 counties in the US (for an average of 63 counties in each state) (source: wikipedia)
25,375 "places" that could be counted as city/local government (for an average of 8 per county) (source: 2000 US Census)
so... for Amazon to keep track of the all various state/county/local sales tax possibilities, they'd have to keep track of 50 states, times 63 counties in each state, times 8 localities per county...or 25,200 different possible combinations of sales tax laws. Then on top of that, some of the laws allow for sales tax exemptions or reductions based on the different classifications of products you can buy. It would take a HUGE amount of effort to get all the different sales tax rates right... and then on top of that, localities can change sales tax rates, so you have to keep up with it.
And all of that is just to figure out what to charge. Next you have to setup accounts with potentially 50 states + 3,143 counties + 25,375 localities = 28,568 different state/county/local governments you are remitting sales taxes to.
I will say that there are a few states, many many counties that don't have a sales tax, and many many localities that don't have a sales taxes. So the actual numbers are going to be a lot lower...but you can see the possibilities here.
I will also say that an organization like amazon has the ability to keep up with this...but now imagine every other single store on the internet...there are thousands and thousands of many small "mom-and-pop" type internet shops that sell all over the US. These stores would be put out of business from the administrative costs of having to submit taxes to 28,568 different governments.
Except this is unconstitutional as per the 4th amendment to the constitution. The states can't demand to see amazon's sales records unless they have reasonable suspicion that someone is evading taxes... in which case, the 4th amendment then further dictates that such warrants have to be narrow in focus and can only be for the records for the person they believe is evading taxes.
Basically, the state has to have evidence that a particular person is evading taxes, get a judge to sign off on it for that one person, and the subpoena has to be for that person only.
No. Because the cigarettes are sold by local stores to consumers. The tax is at the point of the retail transaction...which is a transaction that takes place entirely within the state.
In the case of taxing imports on orange juice produced in florida, the tax is at the point the orange juice crosses the state border...giving preferential pricing to california orange juice producers.
Placing a tax on all orange juice wouldn't be an issue...since it covers all orange juice, regardless of where it's grown... and the tax happens at the point of retail...which is intra state commerce.
This would effectively block all websites who are on those non-standard SSL ports to anyone who is behind a strict firewall.
+$130 for 3G WITH a contract
This is incorrect. It is currently impossible to be under a long term service contract on an iPad. This is why they charge extra for the 3G radio. You aren't obligated to buy service. The 3G service doesn't even auto renew each month. Once you've used up your usage allotment or your time has expired, that's it...you can't access data and you have to explicitly resubscribe again.
Apples to Oranges:
An unborn child is 100% dependent on ONE person...if you remove the unborn child from this ONE person, then the child will very likely die. The unborn child also has the ability, through no fault of it's own, to cause significant harm to the woman he/she is living inside...up to and including death. An unborn child also causes significant emotional and physical stress on the mother.
A child that has been born, or is capable of surviving outside of the womb, is not 100% dependent on ONE person. They are 100% dependent on SOMEONE, but that someone could be anybody.
This is where I think the US's abortion laws are actually pretty balanced: The theory is that if the unborn child has the ability to survive after being removed from the mother, then abortion isn't allowed. If the unborn child is still at a stage of development where removing it from the mother WILL certainly cause it's death, then abortion is an option for the mother.
And I think that's a good point to determine when an unborn child becomes an independent being: when it's able to survive outside of the mother, even if that survival requires extra care. If the mother doesn't want the responsibility or burden of caring for the child, then there is likely a line of couples or single wannabe parents who will take that responsibility.
iOS 4.3 is compatible with any device that is able to run iOS 4... so this includes various iPhones, iPod touches and all iPads.
Except they can't do that. It's expressly forbidden to do this in the US Constitution. It's called "Ex Post Facto" and it's not allowed.
I could be wrong, but I don't even think an amendment to the constitution can allow ex post facto laws, since it's explicitly in the section called "limits on congress".
If you like Legend of the Red Dragon: http://www.lotgd.net/
That is legend of the green dragon. It's a remake...and you can even use the keyboard to play. Even though it differs in a lot of areas, it definitely has the same feel as the original.
Because audible files are DRM'd It may support the codec, but you also need to support the encryption/decryption method as well.
The GP got it a little wrong, actually.
The people you know of probably got jailed for ignoring a court order to show up to a debtors exam. Once you get a judgement against you and the creditor is unable to collect on the judgement, the creditor can ask the court to force you to answer questions about your assets (cash, real estate, cars, boats, RVs, investments, etc.). This is so that the creditor can find stuff to seize to satisfy the debt. This is a court order requiring you to show up and answer these questions. If you don't show up or refuse to answer the questions, then the court issues a bench warrant for contempt and will jail you until you answer the questions.
A court can't put you in jail for refusing to pay, regardless of ability. But they can put you in jail for contempt if you ignore court orders that are related to debtors exams and such...but that's not going to jail for refusing to pay. Once you've been jailed you'll be hauled off to court for the debtors exam and then released.
Another thing that might have happened with the people you know of could be that they bounced a few checks. Writing checks that you know won't be paid is a crime in and of itself. But there are two issues: the civil issue of the money you owe to the person you wrote the check to and then there is the criminal issue of writing a rubber check. Most often the person you wrote the rubber check to will say "Pay us in full for your check and our fees and we'll drop the charges."
As GP said, if you could be jailed for owing money to someone, OJ would be in jail a long time ago. One of the issues with putting someone in jail for refusing to pay a debt is how would you ever earn money at that point to pay said debt?