Doing the next step of the root cause analysis leads to "Intuit lobbied Congress and the IRS hard enough that they passed a law, and the IRS conspired to change their procedures".
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Our household has just the basic salaries / expenses / 401k / IRAs. THe year I received some temporary additional benefits, Intuit decided that I had to pay premium in order to enter that single additional 1099.
I left, found a much simpler, straightforward service with which I filed legitimately free, and have never looked back.
Plus, I've read about Intuit's history with the whole market, and I will never willingly give them a damn cent.
From now on, sunrise is 0700. The clock runs from 0700 sunrise to whatever time necessary overnight to arrive at sunrise again, at which point the time becomes 0700. For the part of the year where that duration is greater than 24 hours, the time past 06:59 simply counts up extra seconds until reset.
Now we can have computers and every other carefully regulated timekeeping system on milliseconds since an epoch timestamp, and regular old clock time fits everyone's schedules regardless of time of year, and never needs 'adjusting' again, since its sun-synchronized.
And people said Y2K and the Year 2038 issues were hard...
Convince me that won't happen...
Every activity has its own popularity, and number of fans of various seriousness... Cat and dog shows, caber toss, curling, singing competitions, on and on and on, the list is about infinite, since it encompasses everything within which someone could potentially be more skilled.
Singling out video games among all the other things humans do competitively feels like a personal bias.
I personally don't care about probably 99% of the 'competitions' out there, but I don't give anyone crap for being obsessed about their own thing.
(I don't play games online multiplayer style, so I'm not in the target group anyway.)
I don't think there's such a thing as "gaming", as you use the word... everyone involved does their own thing, in infinite variety as well.
(Of course, there could be deeper ops from the CISA side, but if their only cost is having to lose older vulns, so be it.)
This is an awesome idea, I just wish I wasn't so cynical about the likelihood of any success... cash flow is jut a very big motivator.
Until we as a species grow past the greed that drives too many of us, I fear these fights will be long, slow, and provide little gain.
I applaud everyone working for that first inch, though, and maybe this is the first step in breaking down these systems.
If I was truly insane I'd go the Steve Gibson route and write a completely different browser from scratch. I'm aware it would take the rest of my life (or longer) at this point but the engine options are so few, and the ability to avoid the owners' restrictive BS limited enough, that I'd be happy as a clam to see a whole new reboot.
I'd jump onto even an alpha of that, just to bump numbers out of hope that ANY group could get together and get out from under the advertising trap.
That can be far more toxic pushback to any attempted improvement.
Shipping channels and shallows need to be resurveyed constantly or you have no idea what you might encounter.
At least, that's what it looked like when I saw it in '98. It doesn't sound like it's gotten any better.
Other responses have mentioned some routes inside... but beware... make the incumbents look bad too much and you'll be bought out and shut down.
Pride takes a seriously distant back seat to maintaining the current procurement monopolies and relationships, and maximizing contract payments for the least effort.
I'll stop there before I start to incriminate myself or get on watch lists if I mention possible solutions.
I can't believe that after all this time, it's still completely borked, in all the same ways.
Somebody at NAVSEA needs to be dragged by their nostrils out on a deployment, take notes, and go back to their office with their pride in a garbage bag.
Proud as hell to have served, and angry as hell that our current crews are still dealing with the same ---procurement--- failures.
Even legendary names are just humans. TBL and his support for DRM. LT's notorious personality. Page & Schmidt and completely losing sight of the helpfulness they started from.
Worship / revere / appreciate no one. Filter their good, acknowledge their bad, find a path past them to something better, and know you'll probably be corrupted by something along the way unless you somehow transcend your own DNA.
Publishing to a public web server is analogous to that little free library, out in the yard. No keys, anyone can look in it at any time. If you accidentally put something sensitive in there, where anyone can see it without any access control, you can't blame them for doing so.
If you wind up putting your tax returns in the 'little free library' you set up on your front yard, you can't blame others for reading them, then handing them back to you and not telling anyone else.
That's the proper analogy for what happened in the original article.
See www.1soft.com, Above & Beyond does this rescheduling the real way, but it's only on Windows.
I've been looking for an Android implementation for forever, but 1soft apparently doesn't care about platforms beyond Windows. A true shame.
Having worked with A&B when I used to be desktop bound years ago, it's almost painful to see some very few others stumbling around in the dark and almost getting to A&B's full algorithm.
I wish I had the confidence and tools to go ahead and build the Android version I want!
We're talking 50 individual state governments here. We all know that federal, state, and local govt IT practices are basically troubled at best, disastrously shoddy at worst, the only way I would accept this idea is if it was a completely optional, user-chosen, option for an ID.
I would want at least ten years of first adopters getting their lives shafted and/or stolen and/or stalked and/or breached before I'd ever think of even using the optional service.
Yes, little trust.
Unless these asshats are hit on the nose with newspapers when they shit in your house, they'll never learn to take it elsewhere.
Umm, no? Like I tried to convey in my original comment, "for <group>" means a focus on that group, as opposed to just general content. Nothing I've ever come across that was marketed as "for <>" has ever been intended to exclude me as a non-member, nor have I ever interpreted it that way.
I suspect you have a bias to hear it as exclusionary more than is typical.
Anecdotally, I watch BET fairly regularly, if not often. I'm aware that it's business model is generally content by black creators, for black consumers, but again, I don't remember any hints anywhere of implications of "if you're not black, you can go". If anything, wider viewing would be more informative and promote sharing across groups.
They're focusing on a particular cultural group to aggregate content and sponsor more... none of which excludes anyone else. Marketing niches are a core concept across the entire business world.
What makes this one niche less effective?
If not, what's the difference? Each is a cultural group - one just has a history of being violently attacked and suppressed...