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Comment open battlenet (Score 2, Informative) 252

Anyone remember open battlenet? Idiot judge in that case shut down the totally open-source, non-commerical open battle net server which allowed people to run their own private Startcraft/Warcraft servers on their own private networks. Sure it could allow people to play others without a valid serial number, but it opened up another very interesting legal question: can certain software be considered illegal?

Fuck Blizzard.

Comment Re:Its easy to keep both (Score 1) 93

In this situation it's not that easy. I have the feeling they're trying to aggregate data across a lot of different school systems to understand what is happening and create papers and reports people can use. Decentralized engines won't help achieve that. Even with anonymous IDs, you still need to track students, and really each student in a family (to judge family trends) and that ID has so much of their other information that it could be traversed back to the individual.

Comment Re:Something wrong at the foundation - (Score 1) 504

People are afraid of deflation, layoffs, reduction in force, etc. But it's sad because it's a failure to realize sometimes that maybe technology has brought us to the point where we don't need those jobs. We could staff fewer people and pay them all more and free up other people for more interesting jobs. I mean really, we should have a TON more robots right now.

But we have this feeling everyone has to work; you gotta do what you gotta do and all that bullshit. So we pay people less, work them more and people are afraid of being automated because they like that paycheck.

Capitalism is a failure.

Comment Re:Over 18 (Score 1) 632

You still need to file. If you make over $90k USD, then it is taxable. Otherwise you don't need to pay, but you still need to file.

I just filed yesterday with $0 liability/return.

Fun fact, the United States is one of two countries in the entire world that taxes citizens on their income, even when they don't live in the country. The other is Eritrea which has a 2% tax for citizens living abroad.

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