Letters to the editor

Re: Tor GUI competition

Hi Jonathan, others,
 
One of the Debian developers pointed me to your note today about the
Tor GUI competition. Thanks for helping us get the word out!
 
I wanted to answer your question about prizes, though -- if we have
prizes then it's legally a contest of skill, and (so our lawyers tell us)
we would need to include many pages of legal text, disallow submissions
from most parts of the world, and so on. Since Tor is a global effort,
we decided to avoid explicit prizes and instead give an EFF Tor T-shirt
for each submission.
 
Of course, the winning entries will likely be the subject of a slashdot
article and other press, so this 'glory of victory' is not totally
without its benefits. :)
 
Hope that helps. Feel free to post this as a comment / addendum / etc
if you like.
--Roger

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Re: The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

> The "Mortgage/Loan Druid" is highly capable, though with some strange
defaults (interest rate of 0.001%, for example)
 
This is not "strange default". Actually it's standard interest rate for
normal account in Japanese bank (plus there are 30% tax so actual interest
rate is 0.0007%). And I've seen programs where this standard default can not
be used at all (they'll just round it up to 0%), so it's quite good to show
that GnuCash actually can.
 
P.S. May be I'm wrong about reasoning but recently my friend from Japan
written about funny fact: when some bank actually forgot about this interest
rate and forgot to put funds on accounts not even single client complained -
and I can see why: I do not think a lot of clients ever check for it since
to check your account you must pay ~$30 (3000yen actually) and with
0.0007%per year it usually not worth it... Of course my friend used
the same bank
(that's how he was aware about the problem) and he too never checked if he
got these 0.0007% counted correctly or not...
 

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