Comment Re:And this is good why? (Score 1) 150
It's purpose is clearly to force wireless device manufacturers to use secure data transmission protocols.
I genuinely can't tell whether or not you're joking. Excellent.
It's purpose is clearly to force wireless device manufacturers to use secure data transmission protocols.
I genuinely can't tell whether or not you're joking. Excellent.
What if you want to sniff your own keyboard?
I can only imagine you'd want to do this to see what your wife/kids/cat was using it for.
what does a cute girl look like too you????)
As this is slashdot, probably two dimensional, hand drawn and with tentacles nearby.
Be very afraid when Slashdot starts saying 'cute' in its summaries of electronic devices. I just gagged a little..
That's why I block Apple stories. "Cute" might be nausea-inducing, but it's better than "sexy".
I stopped reading at "climate change."
They are your "and here's a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed" words?
So though far I've never had an audit
That's what everyone says. Until they get audited.
$350 for what? Convenience?
It's simply enough to fill in the forms yourself.
People pay for an accountant to do their tax for the same reason they pay a mechanic to fix their car, or a plumber to install their gas central heating.
They don't want to spend the time learning something that doesn't interest them, and perhaps more importantly they want a professional who can spot anything unusual that requires additional work, and react quickly and accurately if something goes wrong.
Just because you're self employed doesn't mean you're rich.
No, but it means that whatever your income level you can legitimately pay much less tax than an equivalent employed person if you know what you're doing.
A CPA knows what he is doing; you probably don't. There is a reason why accountants and tax lawyers exist, and it's not because people like paying them for the fun of it.
For any tax situation that is even slightly complicated, relying on a piece of software is unwise. It's like self-diagnosing illnesses via the internet: I'd rather go to my doctor.
Why do these AI experts assume that biological intelligence is better? If machines are smarter, if they can out-compete humans and florish.... why should they be controlled by an inferior life form? Are we biased in favor of ourselves (how unique is that?) or can we just let evolution, in the larger sense, take it's course?
There's nothing magical about evolution, it's just what happens if no one interferes with nature. Once you're talking about robots and AI, you are way beyond that point already.
You know what? If you want to publish some cartoons denouncing King John as a pedophile, I will totally support your right to do so.
That's because you probably know or care nothing abut King John, so it's a meaningless comparison.
the top religious authority in Saudi Arabia (our ally) informed that there is no age restriction on consuming women as long as they are physically developed enough
I don't think that even the more extreme versions of Islam allow you to eat women.
The patent is only a piece of paper granting you, within a particular jurisdiction, exclusive rights to control the production of a particular implementation of an idea - something which by it's nature cannot be owned at all.
A contract is also just a piece of paper (or verbal agreement), but contract law exists.
The debate about whether patents and copyrights should be called "intellectual property" at all is interesting, but ultimately irrelevant. Just because the offence you commit isn't 'stealing a piece of physical property' doesn't mean it's not illegal.
A lot of people here argue that there are two sorts of laws, natural and artificial. In fact, all laws are artificial. If you're alone on a desert island the concept of law is as meaningless as your "right" to life or liberty or whatever.
Unless you believe in God, of course, but that's another question.
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect "Hungry." -- a Larson cartoon
