I was curious about this, so for anyone else who’s interested, here’s a KrebsOnSecurity article from 2019 about how easy it was to fraudulently register a .gov domain:
Tangent: this link looks like a right-wing propaganda site; I wouldn’t trust any information there without verifying it with trusted sources.
> Thanks to the President’s decisive leadership in the face of radical left-wing obstructionism, the Department of the Treasury has now resumed normal operations.
> (Just be careful, if your regular expression matcher uses backtracking, you might get pathological behaviour. Though memoisation makes that less likely to hit by accident in practice.)
Doesn’t that exactly demonstrate why using the tool effectively requires an understanding of the implementation (or possible implementations) behind the abstraction?
Understanding is perhaps sufficient, but not necessary.
You can just consult a list that tells you which regular expression matchers to avoid (like eg Perl), and which ones are good (like grep), and you are good to go. No need to understand anything.
It does. Their argument is a farce. By now they've had many chances and made many attempts to illustrate their point if they had one. They don't have one, but they somehow don't know it. What can ya do?
Understanding is perhaps sufficient, but not necessary.
You can just consult a list that tells you which regular expression matchers to avoid (like eg Perl), and which ones are good (like grep), and you are good to go. No need to understand anything.
Nerdwallet[1] is an excellent resource for comparing credit card options.
My recommendation would be to get only no-annual-fee cards, and to get one with purchase protection benefits and one with high cash-back. The former would be for purchases of products that might benefit from extended warranties, return protection (covers you when vendors don’t have a good return policy) and purchase protection (if you break your new toy in the first 90-120 days). American Express has a number of no-annual-fee cards that carry these benefits.
The other card would be for purchases that don’t benefit from these perks: groceries, cable bill, medical copays. Here the best perk is getting cash back on your purchases.
I feel like I’m missing something, so perhaps there’s an aspect of corporate taxes here that I don’t understand. I would expect a write-off like this to reduce the assets of the firm on paper, perhaps having an impact on the market valuation, but don’t see how it would impact taxes.
Wouldn’t the actual expenses of production reduce tax liability immediately when they are incurred, regardless of whether or not the corporation later is able to make a profit off of the product? Or do they treat the production of a film as net-zero from a tax perspective because they had $X million in expenses and gained $X million in assets in the form of the finished film?
FYI, you can rent the press tools reasonably cheaply if you’re not a plumber by trade. I rented one for $80 for a plumbing project a few years back and it was worth every penny. A million times easier & faster than sweating joints.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-...
I haven’t seen any follow-up reporting, but it looks like the process now requires some semblance of identity verification:
https://get.gov/domains/before/