I took apart the Disney Parks App as I was frustrated at the fact the full information therein was only available if you're physically inside the park.
Firstly, I used an American friends App-Store account to download the app, as it was not on the UK App-Store and you need an US credit card to set up a US account (Please correct me if I am wrong here.)
Next I used Fake Location, a €3 app from the Cydia store on my jailbroken iPhone, so I could convince the app I was 4500 miles away in Florida in the sun.
Finally, I used "mitmproxy" on my Mac, to proxy the web access the Disney app was making to the server, and noted the URL's and over time worked out the structure of the API and it's JSON replies.
If he gave the amount in shares, they have the shares and could sit on them. This may have problems with shareholders voting rights and such like. (Which is why you should always try to have 50% of a companies shares in the ideal world.)
If they wanted to sell them they need to find a buyer, and if one person bought many of the shares they may end up in a controlling position of the company.
I think that like share dividends in the UK, it attracts a lower tax rate. I think Sweden is 30%?
However, "gifting" monies to people is a strange area, with various odd rules.
You can only give away a certain amount of money a year in the UK, and that depends on who it is you are giving to or even the circumstance. (EG, you can gift £5,000 as a wedding gift.)
If I had to guess, I imagine he refused a dividend and instead had the company issue the equivalent sum in bonuses to the employees. Tax wise it'd make no sense for him to take a dividend and then create havoc by gifting it. (At least, under UK style tax law.)
Gifts are no longer taxes in Sweden but it is likely that the tax authority will regard it as income (Or bonus) and they will pay 50-56% taxes on the lot. Quite tricky but I assume Mojang has good accountants that will work it out!
Yeah, it should get caught somehow otherwise companies would just gift their employees every month ;-)
So I suspect gifting would still be tax inefficient, since he'd have paid taxes on the dividend and then employees would pay tax on the gift.. whereas skipping the dividend and just getting bonuses could cut out one whole layer of tax.
There's no tax on gifts in Sweden, and the dividend tax is 30%, compared to 50% or so on salaries. So if the IRS doesn't consider it a compensation for work (which they will, of course) gifting the dividends would mean less tax.
I don't know how it would work out in this particular case (there might be other juridical complications) but Sweden has no taxes (any longer) on gifts.
But once the dividend tax is paid to make the money Notch's, and not Mojang's, the money no longer comes from the employer, does it? </not-an-accountant>
>when depression robs you of all motivation and the very will to live, how can you be expected to recognize the symptoms and go out there and seek help?
I, for one, didn't realise I'd become depressed. It took my partner and my best friend to take me to get diagnosed and treated.
On reflection, it's frightening to think I didn't realise.
Then how do you rectify the statement you made that their customers should be angry with them, and that they shouldn't be destroyed? I really want to hear this.
GoDaddy's actions don't cancel it out because ignoring or not adequately preparing for phishing was wrong every single day and a foreseeable problem for about a decade now. They had a responsibility to prevent this for their paying users.
Maybe it wouldn't have saved them, but there are a lot of free-x-hosting companies out there that haven't been shut down in spite of abuse.
This isn't really some unforeseeable edge case that nobody could have reasonably expected to happen - their site lets you build a form, embed it on a page, and they either email or save the form data for you. Not anticipating phishing would be fine if it was 10 years ago.
benologist please stop trying to make it sound as if there is any dependency between your 1 and 2.
How can anyone who has ever used the Internet or has even a basic understanding of the Domain Name System believe that it is a registrar's right or responsibility to take down a domain, especially without notice, and that does nothing to contravene the conditions of owning that domain name?
I wouldn't even say you are beating a dead horse with that dependency. It was never a horse to begin with!
The blame obviously lies squarely with the US federal agencies - you do not see this happen in other developed countries, for example (UK does not count since its a US colony in all but name).
In particular, to be able to shutdown or ruin the reputation of a business at the drop of a hat due to alleged breaking of the law - not even by the business itself - before it has even been processed by the justice system!
Just imagine if this had been a takedown of Google, Microsoft, Apple or Facebook site, all of which easily meet or have met the conditions for alleged infringements of US IP or other laws at some point, if for no other reason than hosting user-generated content...
You misread what I'm saying. Jotform users deserve to be angry about this situation which in the last decade has been successfully avoided by many free-x-hosting companies who actually prepared for obvious problems.
benologist please stop trying to make it sound as if there is any dependency between your 1 and 2.
He didn't. In fact, his point was that there is not a dependency between the points - which is what it means that even if 1 is worse than 2, 2 is still a serious problem.
"Autonomous System numbers (ASNs) are globally unique identifiers for Autonomous Systems."
I'd also add some information as to where/why the origin of the trace route is - I'm not sure how useful it is to have it come from some random location in France for me.
