Passwords are not sent over the network either, at they are not with sane authentication methods. OAuth, Kerberos, NTLM, CHAP, etc. all use the passwords or password hashes to encrypt authentication tokens that are passed over the network.
...but I did work WITH Cognizant on a mutual project. They were the most incompetent engineers I've ever run across.
It was a simple project, just a small web site launch. Windows server,
The rollout took three days, finishing late on a Friday. I got a call early the next day from the so-called "SQL expert" while I was feeding my infant daughter. He had been messing around with the URL Rewrite module and broke the simple Regex statements, again, taking the site down, again. The guy was begging me to help him, so I sent him the correct Regex, which he couldn't install correctly. I had to call my company's account exec for the client to make Cognizant stop harassing me.
The EU thinks otherwise.
Also, a 13B € fine on a profit of 111B € isn't even a penalty. It's less than 12%, when Ireland's foreign passive corporate tax rate is 25%. Apple is still getting a deal.
It happens all the time. In the US States pass laws that are unconstitutional, or that would override federal laws, and these state laws are struck down. Cities pass ordinances that are overruled by state laws. In the European Union, member countries' laws have to fit within the EU's laws.
You are correct. Apple, however, has a net worth of over 3 trillion dollars and can easily afford to pay this fine.
Look for more fines against Apple, Google, and Microsoft soon.
Apple is being fined on approximately 111 billion Euros they shielded from taxes between 2004 and 2014. They have been fined 13 Billion Euros. That's only 11.7%.
Ireland's corporate tax rate on foreign income is 25% (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftaxsummaries.pwc.com%2Fireland%2Fcorporate%2Ftaxes-on-corporate-income)
Apple got off light.
No, it wasn't. Ireland didn't cut Apple a deal. It was tax evasion
There was an open secret than any multinational company with valuable intellectual property could take advantage of called "The Double Irish". It relied on a difference in the way the US and most companies levy corporate profits and how Ireland used to do it. When set up correctly, a corporation would pay ZERO taxes on their profits. No taxes to the US. No taxes to Ireland. No taxes anywhere.
No, not at all. It was a tax dodge known as the "Double Irish", in the accounting biz. Ireland did or does have lower than average corporate tax rates, but this was something else entirely.
You can read up on the concept here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Also, the "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich": https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.investopedia.com%2Ft...
In a nutshell, for about two decades US companies could used a difference in the way the US and Ireland tax corporate profits. In the US, corporate income taxes are levied based on where the profit is realized. Ireland used to levy taxes based on the where a corporation's seat of control. Apple had a subsidiary in Ireland that held ownership of all Apple's intellectual property (patents, trademarks, etc.). Then, they would pay that subsidiary hefty fees for use of said IP. As a result, the American Apple division would see very low profits because they were paying the Irish IP holding company every bit of spare change they could. The Irish subsidiary owed no taxes to Ireland because it was owned by a foreign entity.
The upside for heavily tech invested companies, like Apple, Google, and Microsoft, is that they could shield their corporate profits from all income taxes.
No, tips are not the same as a purchase. A purchase is an agreed upon fee for product or service. A tip is a gratuity paid after the fact as acknowledgement of good service. In an employer/employee setting, an employer is forbidden from keeping a percentage of tips. Understandably, this is not a an employer/employee situation, but it illustrates that a tip is not the same as an in-app purchase. I'd like to see the class-action suite by these teacher vs Apple and see how it shakes out.
I'm not very familiar with the Insight Timer app, but I see that they offer a subscription service, and the app creator shares that revenue with the teachers. Apple is fully justified to collect on subscriptions. But personally, I see Apple's 30% cut on donations and tips as ethically indefensible.
However, last year the 9th Circuit Court ruled that Apple was in violation of the California’s Unfair Competition Law by forbidding and preventing 3rd party payment processors. What the app maker really needs to do is to build in links to a payment processor that charges less for in-app purchases
...it's time to start seizing assets. Governments have the power to acquire property for public use when it serves the public good. I think this qualifies.
Or, Slack could, and hear me out here... charge a reasonable price for their service.
Slack starts at $7.25/user/mo, but realistically, businesses are going to go for the $12.50/user/mo option for the user ID sync.
Office 365 business standard is $12.50/user/mo for Office apps, email, Sharepoint, Teams, Azure AD, and one TB of storage per user in OneDrive.
Whether Microsoft's services are any good or not is well open for debate, but Slack needs to slash its prices if they want to compete. This legal action from Salesforce is just part of their corporate pricing strategy.
I have Windstream, and I find them to be pretty darned good. Up until about 2015, I had Windstream DSL at 3Mb. Spectrum is in my area and was faster when it worked, but it would go down every day for hours at a time. The Windstream was at least stable at 3Mbit. Around 2015 Spectrum fixed their infrastructure and became stable, so I switched. About three years ago I discovered that Windstream had run fiber down my street. They offered me a 200Mbit symmetric connection for about $60 a month. I switched immediately and it's been a dream. Two months ago they bumped me up to 500Mbit symmetric for no charge. Speed testing pegs it at closer to 700Mbit. My bill has crept up to about $70 per month over the past few years, but the service is worth not dealing with Spectrum.
who's gonaa teach your kids to read?
We learned from COVID and falling test scores that parents make lousy teachers.
Another question, who's gonna teach your kids to think critically and evaluate claims?
Ever work with somebody who's a whiz at anything they've been taught but can't solve new problems? That's a kid who learned math & science but not the humanities. You can't teach critical thinking and problem solving with Math & Science. You spend the 1st 22 years of your STEM education regurgitating facts. There's no room for expression. You're either right or wrong.
If critical thinking comes naturally to a kid great, you didn't need to teach it. If it doesn't, you've got yourself a worker drone. Able to do as their told and nothing else.
Great if you're a mega corp that wants disposable cogs for your machine. Also great if you're an Authoritarian dictator or a crazy religious cult leader or anyone else that wants people who can do without thinking.
Frankly speaking, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about with the math and sciences. You come across as a elitist philosophy grad. Science and math is where things can be tested and proved or not proved. If you want to think critically about something, come up with a test to prove or disprove it, and that's when you become a scientist. I had a ton of humanities courses in college and none taught critical thinking skills any better than math and physics. I've never seen anyone break down complex problems better than the programmers I know. STEM is about understanding and solving novel problems. It's the Literature, language, and history classes I took that were rarely anything but regurgitation of facts.
And since you mentioned parents being poor teachers, there is a good reason for that. It's because parents were not trained to teach. Teaching is a vocation, and one that takes practice and time for honing one's skills. I worked in education for 15 years. Many teachers were wonderful and flexible thinkers, and many of them refused to learn anything outside their immediate field. They got their bachelors and masters and did their mandatory annual training, but were willfully incompetent with everything else. Based on my experience, I don't see this vast superiority of humanities over STEM.
This is just a repeat of the late 90's "but we do it on a computer!" patents, but this time it's "but it's wireless!". Sonos didn't invent these concepts. Networked audio was developed in 1983 at Bell labs. WiFi in 1997. PA systems acme about in 1915. Sonos didn't invent the first Internet streaming service nor the first device that could receive streaming internet audio. The idea of bolting these things together is obvious.
Granted, Sonos makes a good product, and I'm sure they have some novel solutions built in to the product. But, their real innovation was in managing to be the first mover in a new-ish market space AND getting people to buy their premium priced products.
Caloric restriction can add up to 20% IN MICE.
One big difference between animals with longer lifespans and those with short lifespans is the production of free radicals as a byproduct of metabolism. Free radicals are thought to be a large contributor to aging. Long-lived animals, like humans, are good at controlling those free radicals. Short-lived animals tend to not control free radicals as well. The theory is that by reducing calories there are fewer free radicals produced, therefore slower aging. But, reducing calories too much mean cells don't function correctly either. I suspect that humans are good enough at suppressing metabolic free radicals that if a person restricted their diet enough to significantly reduce free radicals that they would be essentially starving.
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
