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Comment Re:It is the cost of "participation" (Score 1) 323

by Asgard on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @07:15PM (#35498016) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Privacy Paranoia

Legally, you do not have to pay any taxes until your file your tax return, but if you earn a taxable income of US$50,000.00, you will have to write a check for US$12,500.00 when you file your taxes.

Income taxes have to be paid throughout the year; if you are in a situation where you do not have an employer to do witholding on your income then you have to pay estimated tax payments. You can't just hold on to all the income tax money untill the end of the year and pay it in a lump sum; you'll be penalized for that.

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=110413,00.html

What Ways Can Sites Handle Spambot Attacks? 75

Posted by Cliff on Friday November 03, 2006 @01:25PM from the barbarians-at-the-gates dept.

Amazing Quantum Man asks: "I'm a member of a site devoted to nitpicking TV shows and movies. It has always had an open posting policy — no registration required, and you could use any name you wanted. This policy was instituted way back in 1998, and led to some quite fun, freewheeling threads on various boards. Recently, we have come under spambot attack, with spambots posting links to gambling and porn sites on every single discussion board on the site. The admins have been trying to block IPs, but it's useless against a botnet. As a defense, it looks like the site is going to require registration, and disable anonymous posting. Many regulars, while they understand the need, are concerned that the freewheeling character of the site will be lost. Let me continue by saying that I'm not a site admin, merely a member there. Also, if it helps, the site in question is running Discus. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? How did you handle it, and what did it do to the 'culture' of your site?"

Submission + - Quake 4: Raytraced

Submitted by

Daniel Pohl

on Friday November 03, 2006 @11:54AM

Daniel Pohl writes: "After Quake 3: Raytraced there is now a new raytraced game. It's Quake 4: Raytraced! Besides the features from this scientific research projects includes now the following features: Support for Quake 4 shader scripting language, bump- and specular mapping, reflecting and refracting water with normal mapping, loading quake4 maps, support for md5 and lwo model format. In the research area a new algotihm has been invented to use rays for efficient collision detection ingame. Another interesting fact is, that the game runs factor 3.84 faster on Intel's latest quad-core-sytem (Core 2 Extreme QX6700) compared to single-core. More information, screenshots and a video can be found on the webpage."

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