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Comment Re:which state(s)? (Score 1) 784

Well ... we're dealing with folks who like tax revenue .. so they'd probably like to say **BOTH**.

Also IANAL, but isn't congress not supposed to make laws about interstate commerce?

In reality though,
- taxing from the seller state makes states it less attractive for businesses to do business there.
- From the buyer's side, makes it complicated, because then the business may have to pay/file in every state depending on where

Either way ... it's a discouragement for the businesses as far as I can see. They're using the recession to say that they really need this. Yeah ... I'm sure that's the solution!! I bet that will make big government and its employees more responsible with the money they from the US' collective pockets.

Comment A platform question (Score 1) 133

OK ... I've only read up on it a little so far, but I have to ask:

Most of those apps use mysql on the backend (at least WP and Drupal do ... and those are two of the main apps touted). BUT! The platform only mentions SQL Server as far as I've read so far. Is MySQL quietly installed or is this some port of those apps that uses SQL Server? Some DB Abstraction Layer (find that hard to believe)?

Mod me down for not reading enough or being lazy if you want, but I an still trying to figure out how they include some of these apps without including MySQL

Anyone actually played with it yet?

Comment Re:The Best Defense is Offense (Score 1) 232

Exactly, the browser's history is not protected per tab, but is globally accessible by all tabs (and their js) AFAIK. The browser-maker has to figure out how to balance the security of the tab versus the convenience of a global history for the user. As I understand it, the only piece of info needed here is your history ... nothing from your banking site tab itself. So ... it's a question of whether or not the history can be "stove-piped" and protected as tab information as far as js is concerned.

For that matter though ... I'd be fine with banning js from having access to browser history at all. I don't think the trade-off is worth it in the end. Would break a lot of stuff out there I'm sure (well ... none of my stuff).

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Input Devices

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