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Submission + - SPAM: Wal-Mart engineer firing is backfiring

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alphadogg

on Monday April 09, 2007 @02:15PM

alphadogg writes: "The ugly story of a Wal-Mart firing of an engineer and the story he has to tell about the big retailer's questionable security practices. [spam URL stripped]a rt-surveillance-employees.html"

Submission + - Is donated computing power tax deductible?

Submitted by janneH on Sunday April 08, 2007 @04:48PM

janneH writes: With the Folding@home now on Playstation 3 and talk about Rosetta@home on Xbox, I was wondering if this donated computing power was tax deductable? I am not a lawyer, but assuming that it is the Universities that house the projects that are the recipients, it would seem that something of value given to them would be tax deductible (cash certainly is). There is a commercial market for network based computing power, and it does not seem it would be too difficult for someone to determine a fair market value. It would seem likely that this value might be enough to pay for the machine before it was too old. For that matter, this would be true for any computing power provided to a non-profit.

Comment Hey, thats MY job (Score 1) 347

by blake6489 on Thursday January 18, 2007 @01:57AM (#17659398) Attached to: Modernizing the Common Language - COBOL

as an intern for the DNR in alaska, my job is to do the grunt work of 'webifying' a ~21 year old COBOL database system. the back end isnt being changed, but the application is getting a java and jsp front end so that the forms can be used over the internet with something like modern a GUI.

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