Why a new PC is a taxing problem

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Revenue solves taxing internet problem

Revenue solves taxing internet problem 07/15/2004 01:52 AM
Silicon Republic Jul 15 2004 6:10AM GMT

A Taxing Trend

A Taxing Trend 03/19/2005 02:55 AM
Think before charging your taxes.

Taxing Matters

Taxing Matters 04/15/2004 10:15 AM
We should cancel the massive tax cuts for the rich that have been the economic hallmark of the Bush years, and use some of the savings to relieve the burden on middle-class AMT victims. Even better, we could do something about a system that has let so many of the ultra-rich get away scot-free or nearly so.

Way open for taxing Internet

Way open for taxing Internet 11/01/2003 07:29 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Nov 1 2003 5:52AM ET

"Making 1040s a bit less taxing"

"Making 1040s a bit less taxing" 04/24/2004 09:05 AM

Motorola's Taxing Dispute

Motorola's Taxing Dispute 08/12/2004 02:22 AM
Business Week Aug 12 2004 5:27AM GMT

Internet fee talk not taxing yet

Internet fee talk not taxing yet 11/02/2003 07:33 AM
Chicago Tribune Nov 2 2003 6:44AM ET

Wal-Mart's Taxing Comps

Wal-Mart's Taxing Comps 08/17/2004 03:18 PM
Wal-Mart sees August same-store revenues up 2% to 4%. How should investors view this statistical range?

Japan Looking At Taxing WiFi

Japan Looking At Taxing WiFi 07/21/2004 02:54 AM
Joining Florida as a government that is looking for ways to attach a tax to any random technology to make a little extra money, the Japanese government is now discu ssing a tax on WiFi networks. As you may recall, the state of Florida has been considering something similar for quite some time. Unlike the Florida plan, which was designed solely to find new revenue for the state, the Japanese plan seems to be to protect big businesses that shelled out cash for licensed spectrum. The idea to tax WiFi is to "make things fair" in the unlicensed spectrum arena. In other words, the Japanese government has just come up with a plan to kill part of the reason unlicensed spectrum exists, and why it's been so successful. As the article notes, the bill won't be introduced for some time, and there's likely to be a bit of backlash, so it may never get anywhere. Still, you have to wonder what goes through the minds of people who come up with these types of ideas.

Canada Taxing MP3 Players

Canada Taxing MP3 Players 12/12/2003 02:03 PM
Canada has decided that since MP3 players are often used to play files that were downloaded off the internet without permission, they should be taxed. Therefore, MP3 players are about to get more expensive, depending on how big their hard drives are. If I lived in Canada, I'd demand a refund. If I'm not downloading unauthorized files, then why should I be forced to pay for them? In fact, if people are paying for unauthorized files, won't this make them more likely to go download a few songs? Shouldn't they get something for their money? This lets the industry sit back and collect the tax fees rather than working to actually provide something of value to customers that they're willing to pay for.

Intuit's Taxing Quarter

Intuit's Taxing Quarter 05/20/2004 11:34 AM
Net earnings declined and Q4 could see a loss. What should an investor's intuition be saying?

Senate Revives Ban on Taxing Internet
(AP)

Senate Revives Ban on Taxing Internet
(AP) 04/23/2004 04:28 PM
AP - Sen. John McCain worked Friday to revive a bill banning taxes on Internet connections, a measure that bogged down last year amid worries that state and local governments could lose billions in tax revenue.

Foster Innovation by Taxing It? In
Japan, at Least

Foster Innovation by Taxing It? In
Japan, at Least 07/21/2004 12:52 PM
Japan might tax the use of unlicensed spectrum for wireless LANs to protect market for licensed spectrum holders: The logic cited is fairly bizarre--that charging for unlicensed use is "fair," which I presume means "fair to companies that paid large amounts of money for cellular telephone spectrum" but not "fair for citizens who own the airwaves and can now not see fit to use them for free." Japan perhaps has a different regulatory framework than the U.S. Imagine a bill hitting the House of Representatives suddenly that proposed a consumer tax on Wi-Fi? I think the recall petition would be filled with signatures before the bill reached its second reading. The bill in Japan won't reach Parliament until 2005, at which point the legislators involved will probably have been voted out of office, or buried under tens of thousands of letters....

Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi

Japan Considers Taxing of WiFi 07/22/2004 04:38 PM

Florida Still Considering Taxing Home
Networks

Florida Still Considering Taxing Home
Networks 06/24/2004 01:01 PM
Last summer we wrote about a bizarre plan in Florida to tax computer networks that made absolutely no sense under any rationale other than "the state government needs more cash." Some taxes you can defend on the idea that they are paying for something that everyone gets to use. The Florida law, is basically a tax on companies being more efficient for setting up their own networks. The law is written so broadly that it could even apply to home wireless networks, punishing anyone who dared to use WiFi in their homes. Everyone who looks at the law realizes that it's terribly written and would be very damaging if they decided to apply it to computer networks. However the state is desperate for cash and thus politic ians are pushing to officially start taxing networks. Of course, this is short-term narrow-minded thinking. By making local individuals and companies less efficient, they'll do damage to the overall state economy, bringing in even fewer taxes.

Nevada Lawmakers Consider Taxing
Brothels (Reuters)

Nevada Lawmakers Consider Taxing
Brothels (Reuters) 04/15/2005 09:51 AM
Reuters - Nevada lawmakers are considering a bill that would tax the state's 28 legal brothels, the only regulated bordellos in the United States.

Senate revives ban on taxing Internet
connections

Senate revives ban on taxing Internet
connections 04/23/2004 04:17 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Apr 23 2004 8:22PM GMT

Illinois Considers Taxing Custom
Software

Illinois Considers Taxing Custom
Software 05/12/2004 08:20 AM

Senate approves moratorium on taxing
Internet access

Senate approves moratorium on taxing
Internet access 04/30/2004 12:13 PM
AP via Fox 6 Apr 30 2004 3:56PM GMT

Bill Clinton Book Writing 'Physically
And Psychologically' Taxing

Bill Clinton Book Writing 'Physically
And Psychologically' Taxing 01/26/2004 10:19 AM
Bill Clinton is behind schedule on his book .. From Newsweek: .. Newsweek

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A GLOBAL
IDEA: TAXING 'BADS' THROUGH A SECOND
CURRENCY

A GLOBAL
IDEA: TAXING 'BADS' THROUGH A SECOND
CURRENCY 09/21/2004 12:24 PM

This is the first of a series of articles discussing some of the remarkable ideas in a new book called The Global Ideas Book. The book, with a forward by Charles Handy (pictured right) is the brainchild of the UK-based Institute for Social Inventions, and is a compendium of some of the 4000 ideas in the Global Ideas Bank, ideas and germs of ideas submitted by the public for free use and development by others. Described as "part suggestion box, part ideas network and part democratic think-tank", what impresses me about this collection is the sheer ingenuity of the ideas. Thanks to Nick Temple, one of the book's editors, for bringing it to my attention. You can buy the book here. One of several concepts that grabbed my attention immediately is described by its inventor, Bradley Hall, as "A currency created to limit people's exploitation of the environment". I had been kicking around the idea of putting some constraint on the ability of the very rich to spend profligately without restriction, and Bradley's proposition meets that difficult need and more. Basically how it works is this: Every individual would be given a flat, fixed, non-transferable amount of a new Environment and Social Currency (ESC), say, 10,000 units per month. A regulatory body would assign an ESC 'price' to each product and service sold, reflecting its negative environmental and social costs. So gasoline, for example, would have a high ESC price, while a service that has no negative environmental or social impact would have a zero ESC price. Theoretically, goods and services that actually improve the environment or social welfare could even be assigned a negative ESC price. Sellers would be required to charge users both its normal market-demand price and its ESC price. So there would be a strict limit, no matter how rich you are, on how much you could damage the environment and social welfare through your purchases. If you've reached your 10,000 ESC quota for the month, you're simply not allowed to buy any more 'bads' that month -- you'll have to spend the rest of your money on 'goods'. As with any novel idea, its development will need a lot of thought and planning, to minimize bureaucracy (much of it could be done electronically) and minimize the risk of fraud (people buying in the 'black market' from vendors who don't charge ESC). But what appeals to me about it is its extraordinary simplicity and egalitarianism. The fact that it challenges the presumption that money gives you the unlimited right to cause environmental or social damage is just the icing on the cake. What do you think? Are there some other obvious problems with the idea? Any thoughts on how to implement it and avoid bureaucracy and fraud? Would you welcome it or see it as another undesirable imposition of government? I'll be describing some other ideas from the book on these pages in the coming weeks.

Win XP Sp2 Problem

Win XP Sp2 Problem 08/27/2004 01:56 PM
Introduced in Service Pack 2, along side many other security features, Windows XP gained the "security center" (screenshot). A nice addition, and a central place for people to check their system's security status. So we thought.

eWeek and PC Magazine have published reports suggesting that the system can be spoofed very easily, allowing potentially nasty programs to perform un-wanted tasks. "Based on an anonymous tip, we looked into the WMI and the Windows Security Center's use of it, and found that it may not only be a security hole, but a crater in the wrong hands. Due to the nature of WMI, the WSC could potentially allow attackers to spoof the state of security on a user's system while accessing data, infecting the system, or turning the PC into a zombie for spam or other purposes."

The PC Magazine article explores the problem and how it can be exploited in good depth. It makes very depressing reading for users who had hoped that Microsoft had over-come this kind of problem with Service Pack 2. Microsoft responded to the article suggesting that they didn't think it was a problem at all; they added that you needed to be running as an administrator for it to be an issue; true, PC Mag agreed, but they also noted that XP Home runs (by default) as Admin, and most users of XP Pro make themselves administators to save hassle when installing and running programs.

Service Pack 2 is a necessary upgrade for all users, and everyone should install it. However, as the article and Neowin recommend, don't rely to heavily on these new security features. Ensure you update Firewall / AV / Windows often, and check the status of your protection often. Microsoft will never be able to be 100% safe / problem free, but they are trying, and should be commended for their effort.

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Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem?

Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem? 02/12/2004 12:51 PM
After POST but before win xp starts up I hear two beeps and the computer never gets past detecting the drives (the hard drives and dvd-rom). Most of the time it boots fine. Then when I shut the system down sometimes I get the two beeps agian and it never shuts off...

A look at the problem

A look at the problem 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:57AM GMT

What's the Problem?

What's the Problem? 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
and Tim Meehan Freud asked, "What does a user really want?" Ten-plus years into web development, we still don't know. One of the biggest problems in creating and delivering a site is how to decide, specify, and communicate exactly what we're building and why. Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project. In this quick-reading article, Messieurs Carr and Meehan introduce use cases and their, uh, uses.

Another Day, Another IE Problem

Another Day, Another IE Problem 07/02/2004 08:22 AM

Security risks swell for Microsoft's Explorer: From the Gee, That's Obvious Department.

Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to surf the Internet has become a marked risk — even with the latest security patches installed.

That's the upshot of the discovery of yet another Internet Explorer security hole being exploited by intruders bent on swiping personal information from unwitting Internet users.

[...] "Internet Explorer's track record is such that the software just cannot be trusted right now," says Jeremiah Grossman, CEO of WhiteHat Security.

Again, I ask: if you're still using IE...why?

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What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem? 11/27/2002 07:36 AM

a problem we could fix

a problem we could fix 05/25/2004 12:50 AM
"It's extremely difficult to govern when you control all three branches of government." John Feehery, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Washington Post, 5/23/04. And when did political parties begin to claim "control" of the Judicial Branch? Someone should inform the Justices. I don't think they've been told yet.

The Problem With Presntations

The Problem With Presntations 12/18/2003 05:45 AM
Doc Searls' advice on PowerPoint .. The Problem With Presentations .. It’s the story, stupid .. piece

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What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem

What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem 12/16/2003 06:28 PM
The real source of the vulnerability is not Apple's code, or really even their implementation. But the DHCP standard itself. (John C. Welch via MyAppleMenu)

The Problem with .NET Generics

The Problem with .NET Generics 08/05/2004 03:28 AM
One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.

Image problem

Image problem 08/02/2004 08:46 AM
I'm a strait-laced progressive. Why do people think I'm a Republican?

P2P Porn Is Not The Problem

P2P Porn Is Not The Problem 12/12/2003 12:51 PM
A few months back, when Senator Orrin Hatch was convinced by some wealthy backers that the real problem with P2P file sharing systems was that porn was available, we wondered how that was any different from the internet. There's lots of porn on the internet, but politicians aren't running around saying that we need to shut it down. But, because of some misleading statements by the entertainment industry, politicians are freaking out about the file sharing networks. If they do try to do something to shut them down, of course, the porn will just move elsewhere where it will be harder to shut it down. In fact, the porn already is elsewhere - as it has been all along. The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) is telling Senator Hatch that P2P porn is no worse than what's already available on the web. Hatch's original statement was based on a GAO report, but they're now saying that wasn't based on a comprehensive study, but tips that were sent in to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Only about 1.4% of those tips concerned P2P networks.

AMD compatibility no problem

AMD compatibility no problem 02/16/2004 06:49 PM
CNET Asia Feb 16 2004 9:55PM GMT

No files, no problem

No files, no problem 05/21/2004 03:52 AM
USA Today May 21 2004 7:05AM GMT

CSS Problem-Solving

CSS Problem-Solving 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Save your sanity. After spending an hour debugging CSS with Tim Bray this morning, I've written up some of my handier CSS problem-solving techniques.

The Version Problem

The Version Problem 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
The cobbler's children go barefoot -- or, why the Safari guy's Safari blog doesn't work right in Safari 1.0 -- or linking the browser to the operating system. Wasn't that supposed to be a bad thing?

Bluetooth Problem!

Bluetooth Problem! 12/25/2004 04:52 PM
All About Symbian Dec 25 2004 9:42AM GMT

No regs, no problem

No regs, no problem 01/24/2004 03:30 AM
USA Today Jan 24 2004 7:11AM GMT
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