Does the possibility of effecting low-income houseowners over-ride getting rid of the IRS, doing away with shell corporate tax structures, and having a clear tax obligation?

Further, there is nothing to suppose low-income houseowners wouldn't be affected by other taxes, or even an increase in property taxes under the current or any other scheme. In all likelihood, they would end up paying less in total taxes, unless they are slumming it in Manhattan. And you've reduced the overhead cost of tax administration tremendously.

No system is perfect, but I have yet to hear of any other tax scheme that has more benefits.

Having a set dollar amount doesn't resolve the possibility of more people on the dole than working. You very much want it to be solvent regardless of what the economy does, with any type of welfare directly tied to what the economy can produce.

Random personal data isn't worth much. You can get that from the phone book. But names and emails associated with a specific esoteric interest are worth far more. I am interested in SBCs, embedded Linux systems, FPGA boards, ASIC services, electronic CAD, oscilloscopes, etc. I have spent $10k or more of my own money on this stuff, and influenced several million $ on behalf of my employers and clients. My email, phone number, and physical address would be worth something to a company with a new and interesting product in this area.

Kapersky has the best AV software and while great, the only to be completely protected from viruses is to use secure software which completely excludes commercial systems like Windows.

Can you imagine the dystopian dictatorship where trekkies come to power? All of the halls of power full of people walking around in spandex and fake ears and brow ridges, the fed directed to work toward the absolution of currency, the military directed to accelerate development of phasers and for all recruits to undergo "Kobayashi Maru" training.... NASA would finally get their proposed $18,5 billion dollar annual budget passed - except that the bill would have the word "annual" crossed out and the word "monthly" written in its place. National anti-bullying legislation would be passed, probably with a name like Spock's Law. And of course they'd insist on referring to the UN as the United Federation of Planets.

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OS image size is 30k, including a bunch of stuff IoT probably doesn't need (pre-emptive multithreading, multiple network support, multiple platform support, etc...)

"Drone" does not necessarily mean autonomous. It just means it is not controlled by direct line of sight. An R/C is controlled by looking at the aircraft. A drone can be autonomous or it can be controlled by looking at the realtime output from the on-board camera.

I first saw this puzzle in a brainteaser book* when I was a kid, many decades ago. I think Elon's goal is to hire people that read a lot of brainteaser books, which means they are curious and have no social life, so they will make good employees. This is a smart strategy.

*The book explained that there are an infinite number of solutions: The north pole is one point, and any point 1+1/(2*pi) miles north of the south pole. He should not hire anyone that just says "north pole", since they clearly didn't read the book.

Thanks for reading.

My next piece is going to examine how stable systemd interfaces are over time. I would have written it already, but it's not an easy thing to do :S

Depends on how many language tricks they use to get the code size down that small. Ever see RSA implemented in a single line of Perl regex?

Well, that strategy does match your sig.

AFAICT it doesn't put 'the internet' in jeopardy, reports are only a small percentage of websites are even vulnerable to this (link).

Here's the weird thing about this to me (in bullet points):
* A couple years ago, the only people who cared about vulns were people who knew how to use metasploit or ethereal or something.
* Last year, with Heartbleed, the news organization found out it could generate page views if the vulnerability had a pretty logo.
* Now with this story, the non-techy articles are so numerous it's hard to figure out what the actual exploit even is. But if you want to find an 'personal interest' story blaming Bush or Clinton (or whatever president), they're all over the place.

I wonder what will happen if the mainstream media learns to read Apple's or Microsoft's security bulletins and finds out how common security exploits actually are......

ICMP uses IP, and ARP typically does too.

They're annoying only if you can't solve them

What do you suggest doing about that?