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Comment Re:Use TaxAct instead (Score 1) 450

I switched to them couple of years back when Intuit decided that it will not allow web browsers running linux to the online version of TurboTax. Beats me why they did it. It worked perfectly the previous years. Anyway, TaxAct is cheaper and does the job just as well.

They had something screwed up last year at the beginning of tax season, but fixed it towards the end. Their support page looked like it was refreshingly flooded with complaints from Linux users. I tried filing my taxes early and ran into the "browser not supported" error that I couldn't get past, then jumped through some support hoops before deciding I didn't need to file taxes just then anyways. By the time I tried again in April, it was fixed. Which is a moot point now, since I'm not going to pay twice as much for their software this year.

Comment Re:Schedule D?! (Score 1) 450

No, but you tend to have more complex tax status... and to the GP's point, you really should be using a CPA. As worthless as my CPA is, I am happy to pay the $350 for him to dump my information into his program.

As for why the change... it is what the market will bear. It is a pain to do Schedule D and the accompanying forms now.

Why not save the the $300 and dump your information into a program yourself?

Comment Re:Modem connection tones (Score 1) 790

Yah, I worked at an ISP back then and it when customers would complain that they were getting a slow connection, I'd have them hold the phone up to the modem speaker and try to connect so I could hear it and determine the connection speed and protocol. The BONG! mentioned above pegs it as a 56k modem string :) v.90 i believe.

It is probably a little sad that my first thought when I saw the bongs was "that's 56k...n00b".

Comment Re:How many times done anything helpful? (Score 1) 189

The ACA gathers money from those like myself who never get sick.

Look, there are real problems with the ACA, but this is not one of them. This is how insurance works. The problem is that it's actually a system of graft from stem to stern. The health insurance companies must be eliminated if we are to have working health care in America. That's how you know the ACA is a lie. If it were meant to help us, the insurance companies would be gone, because we would no longer need them.

But anything getting rid of the private health insurance companies would never have passed because Big Gubment can't tell those small business owners what to do.

Comment Re:Seems unintuative (Score 1) 175

I think you may be misunderstanding. The summary says that it is the engineered mice that could resist the sunlight while the normal mice became prunes. In this case the cream (more likely a shot) would be what allows you to stay out in the sun without using sunscreen at all.

TFS makes it sound like the mice are still susceptible to sunburns (and probably skin cancer), but that their skin is no worse off looking after the burn heals. I'm just curious what the unintended consequences of that would be. Our skin probably gets old and wrinkly for a reason.

Comment Re:I'm a special snowflake apparently. (Score 2) 160

"Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 4,789,097 tested so far.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 22.19 bits of identifying information."

Unique amongst the browser's tested. Is there a selection bias amongst people who would check to see if their browser is unique going on? I tried with IE from a generic install of windows 7 and still get the "you appear to be unique" message.

Comment ...or an alternative view (Score 1) 281

Fast forward to the year 2017.
Headline: NSA outsourced to Google
In a cost cutting move, the US Government has outsource all NSA activity to Google. In a statement from President Hillary, she gives the reasoning that "[they] recognized a duplication of data collection efforts between the NSA and Google and decided to take advantage of those synergies."

Comment Great News! (Score 3, Funny) 281

I was wondering what I could do to keep the NSA from spying on me. I'm glad that Google has it figured out. Time to upload all of the documents I have stored locally on my desktop to the Google servers so that they can keep a watchful eye on them. I was worried that this was going to be hard and require a lot of dilligence.

I'm going to tell my boss that we need to move away from all of these Microsoft products to and only use Google cloud services for security.

Comment Re:Wait what? (Score 1) 222

He has a 4yr old playing these games?
His 4yr old plays mine craft?!?!
His 4yr old can handle WASD input?

I keep hearing about kids loving minecraft, but every time I ask if they have actually played the game I find out they are simply watching Youtube videos of funny British guys narrating their games. It seems the narrators are the real stars and the games incidental. I've got a 7yr old and he, nor anyone in his class can actually play the game.

Whoah...so that SouthPark episode is a real thing?

Comment Re:If everyone in government and industry cheats.. (Score 1) 438

Sigh. True that. We cheat about cheating by pretending we don't cheat.

No, we're just better at it. Reminds me of a course I had in school where about 80% of the grade was a single Java project where students worked in teams of 3 or 4. This project is always the same from one semester to the next. One of the projects from the previous year was floating around, and everybody had access to it. Out of a class of 50 or so students, I think 2 groups turned in what looked to be 100% original projects. The groups that re-used the old projects did so at varying levels...some of them completely changed the UI layout, some of them only changed the UI colors, and then you had the groups of the Asian students. They turned in the exact project from the previous semester only changing the names on it. There were 4 Asian groups, and they all had the exact same software...it was blatant. They also all received As on the project.

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