This just in from irs@service.govdelivery.com: IR-2018-253 WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service and its Security Summit partners today warned tax professionals of an uptick in phishing emails targeting them that involve payroll direct deposit and wire transfer scams. These emails generally impersonate a company employee, often an executive, and are sent to payroll or human…
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Tax Credit for buyers of Tesla vehicles ending
This just in from US Internal Revenue Service – irs@service.govdelivery.com First plug-in electric vehicle manufacturer crosses 200,000 sold threshold; Tax credit for eligible consumers begins phase down on Jan. 1 WASHINGTON – The IRS announced today that Tesla, Inc. has sold more than 200,000 vehicles eligible for the plug-in electric drive motor vehicle credit during the…
How to be a reporter that people trust
People reporting today have forgotten that there is such a thing as just reporting the news: they feel every report must be some kind of editorial or investigative opinion. Just report the news, all the news, without omitting or altering anything. Let us decide what we think, just report the news.
fsck update needed GNU/Linux Mint v18 -> v19 file systems
GNU/Linux is built of many programs around a kernel. One of those programs is used to check your file system for errors before mounting it while booting. If errors are detected then the boot process stops and places you at a command line where you must somehow repair your disk so that your system can…
Indiana holds bad debt collectors accountable / protects Hoosier consumers from abuse
Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill announced today that he has joined 41 other states and the District of Columbia in reaching a $6 million settlement with Encore Capital Group Inc. and its subsidiaries Midland Credit Management Inc. and Midland Funding LLC. The settlement also provides full debt forgiveness for 126 Indiana consumers and partial debt forgiveness to 116 Indiana consumers.