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Comment Such annoying policies (Score 1) 20

The community college I'm attending a class in online uses Proctorio. The rules say that we shouldn't wear headphones during the tests because we could be getting answers through the headset.

I'm taking a foreign language class, and part of the tests involves listening to spoken words. I don't own computer speakers, so how am I supposed to follow that rule? I'd have to buy speakers for just Proctorio.

Comment And it doesn't stop anything. (Score 2) 60

You can always make your own custom Secure Boot key database and sign whatever you want.

It's even easier on millions of Dell and Alienware computers that used the test key as their production Platform Key. You can just use the leaked private key to modify the keys without being easily detectable.

Comment Re:Sold his stock (Score 5, Informative) 98

I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. I have no idea how much I have but after speaking for 20 years it might be $10M plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18-20 years old and I never sold out.

Comment Run your own resolver, like we used to do? (Score 1) 36

I don't understand why more people don't run a local recursive resolver. It isn't hard.

Additionally, I'd love to see every consumer router have a local Unbound recursive resolver (or similar) included. Ideally, used by default. With an optional forward to the local ISP or a 3rd party DNS resolver if absolutely necessary.

Having mega-resolvers like cloudflare, google, 9.9.9.9 etc makes them an overly attractive target.

Comment Re:Geez, total BS they can'y fix it themselves ! (Score 1) 135

And this is where the federal legislation has to go. I can easily see Congress making the requirement only for military agencies, in which case, the only companies bidding for the "right of repair" will be companies willing to forgo a repair monopoly. A repair monopoly or a ban on product repair is as damaging to consumers as a standard monopoly. And all this corporate repair practices stem from "intellectual property" laws which never was implemented to aid product monopolies. Just tell these "intellectual property" zealots to go burn in hell.

Comment Re:National sales tax (Score 1) 268

Companies should be hating the idea of tariffs. It's like a tax, that is collected before even receiving any revenue

It also makes it more difficult to ensure a profit. The company has to "front" even more money (tariff) before they can start selling the item. If they overestimate the product's sales desirability, it takes away available operating credit to do other things.

, at a higher rate than any sales or income tax.

It also depresses sales, because the tariff raises the price of the item to consumers, who subsequently may become less "carefree" about their spending patterns. An income tax doesn't affect consumer purchasing perception; the absence of tariffs surcharges do not trigger "hesitation" towards a purchase, based on price. Finally, tariffs end up suppressing the money raised for state and local sales tax; they need revenue as well.

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