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and imaging news, reviews of the latest It's In, It's Out, It's In Again! Why, Internet access taxes, of course! Congress has agreed to extend the 1998 ban on access taxes another two years, and President Bush has promised to sign it when it reaches his desk. (This isn't the sales tax issue; that's still hot-potato stuff.) It's Your Money Sure, tax credits are good, but the taxpayers end up paying for them. The National Research Council, part of the National Academy of Sciences, has proposed a 10% to 20% tax credit to companies that provide broadband access to rural America as a way of "encouraging" communication companies to offer high-speed access in sparsely populated areas. The current estimate is that only 8% of American households use broadband services (DSL, cable modems, or satellite). This is only a proposal by a committee, and may never make it any further. Verizon, a major communications company, has said that the tax credit "does not have a significant impact" for them. I'll bet they'll take it anyway. Those Annoying Banner Ads We all know about those ad companies, and that many of them place cookies on your computer to help track their ads. But what can you do? Plenty. Here's one idea you may not have run across. It's kinda funny, really. You let those Internet ad companies put a cookie on your computer that tells them you don't want any cookies. Naturally, the anti-tracking cookies do not have a long timespan, but it's a start. Pivacy.net has accumulated the hyperlinks to quite a few banner ad companies that let you opt-out of the banner tracking and offers some alternatives for companies that don't use the opt-out cookie approach. Visit their opt-out page at http://www.privacy.net/OptOut/adnetwork.asp. |
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