>> they do not buy online to avoid sales tax, they buy online for lower prices, choices and convenience. the internet is here to stay. and businesses turn to the internet to reach customers. those are the ones that will run head long into the border less world that david talks about. now it's without borders for the tax department. >> address the constitutional portions that it brings up? >> the supreme court said in 1992, a time we were talking about catalogs. that that time, state laws were too complex for everyone. guess what? we are in a different day and age, everyone knows electronic commerce, the internet is here to take. it's robust and what you have now is because congress has not acted you are giving a subsidy to online retailer that is not needed. what we need to do is treat everyone the same. if you have customers in a state with a sales tax, you should collect and remit. >> steve, you got the first word, david got the last. thank you both for appreciajoin. >> first, let's look at how co e commodities and treasuries faired today. >> china is the world's biggest market for au

online. first of all, in my state they have a 6% advantage because our sales tax is 6% in all of our counties. that's a 6% advantage from the get-go. and in these hard economic times, a price is the driving force. that's why this bill has so much bipartisan support. 74 votes, mr. president. you've been here a short period of time but you're very observant, i know that. and you've watched very few times that we've got that type of broad bipartisan support on anything. and that's what's refreshing to see. and with awful -- and with all my friends that come from states that don't have taxes and friends from both sides -- colleagues on the democrat side and republican side -- what i understand and what i know will happen is, first of all, they don't collect the tax of in-state residents if they buy on the internet. they won't collect that tax because they don't have a sales tax. now, if they say it's unfair because they're collecting it for me in my state even though someone from west virginia mi

. >> also this evening a full conversation about online education, something called math open online courses. >> we talk to anant agarwal, amy guttman, tom friedman and joel klein. >> i do think that the blended model is the one that we can say with certainty is revolutionizing higher education now and actually k through 12 as well. i think it is still, we are not online. because it takes an exceptional person to be so motivated and so creative to do something online and get the same thing out of it as wow wld get wth having a master teacher. >> i think what online learning and moocs has done it has put education front and center of the national and international eco, i think people are discussing it and i think teachers are becoming rock stars and i think education as a field i think is becoming exciting and i think people who pay a lot more attention to it and i think that is really good thing. >> rose: syria and chemical weapons, online education, taking new strides. when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. captioning sponsored by rose communicatio

four hours online. reducing how much time we spend watching real tv on the tv screen. nelson numbers show tv usage last month around the clock, all viewers up 2% from the year before. and up a touch in prime time as well. it may be that the extra screens are adding to it. have watching, not reducing it. just one problem though of. nielsen will be measuring online viewing on laptops only. not on iphones or other smartphones. and not on the ipad or other tablets. that means netflix shows that are watched on xbox 360 or playstation won't be measured. even as nielsen watches laptop viewing from hulu and youtube it will leave out millions of online viewers watching on their iphones and tablets. viewers and networks are dying to put a price tag on delivery to advertisers. nielsen says hey, you got to start someplace. it working eventually to include tablets and the like though nielsen can't say when that will happen, dave. david: nielsen, dictators, nielsen. dennis, thank you very much. >> thanks. david: we a

online to collect. and the sales tax to whoever. live in so if you're amazon and you sell across all fifty states would be a major regulatory burden on your business so your business is like amazon will probably be able to absorb those costs on the smaller online retailers not so tolo who is one of the proponents and opinion is that who's from this who are calling it the marketplace fairness act brick and mortar stores are competing against enter net store as an arrest or as they're getting away with not collecting all the taxes at times so the people who are for it are more stores but there's also a eighty four million dollars lobbying force behind this for rights and so there's a lot of this going into the words and he was pushing and he was right yeah sometimes it just takes a look at who's pushing the bill to really find out who stands to benefit the most some criticism that i've heard about the bill though is that it's kind of like a taxation without representation because it's kind of this pooling

ah, yes, online gaming addiction.iplayer monkey on your back. sheldon, wake up! danger! danger! afternoon, men. sheldon. oh, yeah? well, your attempt at juvenilizing me by excluding me from the set of adult males, just... oh, i'm too tired to do this. that's right i heard you've been pulling all-nighters with middle earth barbie. she comes into my room. no one's supposed to be in my room. well, i would postulate that she's escaping into the online world to compensate for her sexual frustration. i do that, too. but probably in a different way. that's not what she's doing, leslie. she's just trying to shore up her self-esteem. it has nothing to do with sex. everything has to do with sex. mm, testify. i'm not touching that. leslie, you are way off base here. hang on, leonard. while i have no respect for leslie as a scientist or a human being for that matter, we have to concede her undeniable expertise in the interrelated fields of promiscuity and general sluttiness. my point is that tinker bell just needs to get her some

he is also outspoken online very much like kevin curtis.ome of the parallels, some of the things similar about these two are a little funny if it wasn't such a serious situation as you were talking about the parallels are weird. they seem to have been involved in some sort of online feud, the two of them. they both claim to be members of mensa, both claim to be esteemed martial artists. is there a reason to believe these guys would do anything together? >> not from anything that i have seen. it appears their relationship was nothing but contentious. >> this is such a strange story i can hardly believe it. we're left with this very serious bottom line which is these weren't just threats about ricin. there really was deadly poison sent to the white house to a u.s. senator and to a mississippi judge. just in terms of your reporting on this have you had any indication that any physical evidence has been found whatsoever in any of the investigations so far to the actual production of ricin, castor beans found anywhere, anything that has turned u

do you do your banking online and your financial work online? >> i do, yes. >> and so what would the three key things that you would recommend to our audience be to protect yourself in -- against cyber threat? >> well, one was what i just mentioned, you really do need to have a security suite of anti-virus software and spy wear. the other is to have very strong passwords. and to change them regularly. the recommendation is, that you not have the same password for more than one account. practically speaking, nobody can keep track of all those passwords, but at least have unique passwords for those accounts that are most sensitive. for instance, your bank accounts or things like that. >> and i think the other thing is to reduce the use of those computers on which you're conducting really sensitive banking transactions. >> michael, managing director and leader of the cyber investigation unit at kroll advicery solutions. >>> still ahead, best buy teams up with samsung. will it be a win win for both companies? >>> first, how treasuries faired today.

commerce right this is the online sales tax and what it does is it requires online companies that sell products online to collect roommates and calculate the sales tax to whoever's in whatever state they live in so if you're amazon and you sell across all fifty states is this going to be a major regulatory burden on your business so larger businesses like and will probably be able to absorb those costs with some of the smaller online retailers might not and so total who is one of the proponents and opponents saying is that is to benefit and lose from this well you can't the marketplace fairness act because brick and mortar stores are competing against entered at stores and a store is are getting away with not collecting all the taxes at times so the people who are for it are more stores but there's also a eighty four million dollars lobbying force behind this for eyes and so there is a lot of this going into the words and he was pushing and he was right yeah sometimes it just takes a look at who's pushing the bill to really find out who stands to benefit the most some criticism that i'

udacity main goal is to expand its affordable online classes throughout the csu system. this is the first semester of the program and san jose state will asses the data at the end of this semester. on campus, i'm christian ceaser, update news." san jose state will be offering a hybrid engineering class that involves both online curriculum as well as practical hands-on class time. class "e-e-nine-eight", intro to circuits analysis, will be offered in fall twenty-thirteen. depending on the success, the class could pave the way for these blended classes to expand from engineering to the social sciences, business, science, and the humanities. president qayoumi said, "san jose state is the perfect place for a center for excellence in online education. we look forward to helping other california state university campuses make available to thousands of students the innovative, blended approach to learning developed by s-j-s-u and ed-x." california public schools are now allowed to expand their reading lists to feature l-g-b-t friendly books. update news reporter ashley cunha ex

you don't have ownership of what you do online. from the giants perspective there's a lot of opportunity to educate kids through junior giants and serving as role models with our players to spread the message about all bullying, not just what you do in the hallway or the classroom, but all bullying, including online, is unacceptable. as parents trying to teach kids about the boundaries of the social media world and respecting people in all ways. >> i'd just like to first of all begin by condemning the violence and mourning the death of a wonderful friend to arabs and muslims, i knew people who knew him, he was a cal grad like myself. the irony is you are killing a fripd. but that's the nature of mob violence and the ideology of hate. and unfortunately hate begets hate and that's what we're really seeing on both sides. put out an inflammatory film and people who are willing to do the dance who will confirm what the film is saying and when does this cycle end? we see this in schools as well, unfortunately. we see it on the internet w

said they were 13 online?, not 13. 16 in my area, and it was a -- it was a guy that was -- i don't know, mid 20s, you know? who had a big laugh on me. but that's why i was just -- i was just very curious. >> there were a few moments when i was talking to dan allen where i thought, you know, based upon the look in his eyes, that this could go a couple different ways. one of them not so good. >> i wish i could just run home with my tail between my legs and i'd feel like apologizing but i mean, like, it's cyber. who do i apologize to? and -- i don't know. i feel sick. >> well, i am not the police. but i am chris hansen with "dateline nbc" and we're doing a story on computer predators. he knows that he's a bad situation once the camera guys come out. and so he's not going to try to be my pal anymore. he's mad. >> well, you better -- i'll shove that camera down his throat. >> i don't think you're going to want to do that. >> why's that? >> i don't think you want to do that. we can't keep you here. you're free to le

commerce right is the online sales tax and what it's acquire is companies that sell products online to collect. the. women so if you're amazon and you sell across all fifty states it's going to be a major regulatory burden on your business and so larger businesses like amazon will probably be able to absorb those costs on the smaller online retailers might not and so tolo who is one of the proponents and opponents saying is that is to benefit and lose from this well in the marketplace fairness act because brick and mortar stores are competing against enter net stores and internet stores are getting away with collecting taxes at times so the people who are for it are more stores so there's also a eighty four million dollars lobbying force behind this from verizon and viacom so there's a lot of this going into the words he was pushing and he was right yeah sometimes it just takes a look at who's pushing the bill to really find out who stands to benefit the most some criticism that i've heard about that though is that i'm going to taxation without reservation because it's kind of this you

the answer, the catalog in the online. so an outdated rule for sales tax collection doesn't adversely impact particularly small business and main street retailers. i know a lot of your books would ever be published if it wasn't for the support of some of the local businesses. thousands of local businesses are forced to do business at a competitive disadvantage because they have to collect sales tax and use tax and the remote sellers don't. in some states that can mean five to 10% price disadvantage. we should not be subsidizing some taxpayers at the expense of others. all businesses and the retail sales should be treated equally. now, as a former mayor i know that sales taxes go to state and local governments, which brings in needed revenue for maintained schools, fixing a roads, supporting law enforcement, fire protection, first responders that we are always so conscious of, particularly today and for the last week. if congress to fails to offer states to collect tax on remote sales and electronic commerce continues to gr

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they're online. they're transcribe sod you can actually search them if you want to find what this person says about a particular topic you can search the text and go to the video that corresponds. all the reading assignments and the related course materials are online so you could if you wanted to sit there and go through a 13-week lecture material and work your way through the course. we do not yet offer credit for taking these or oversee the grading and evaluation of students doing the assignments. >> rose: why not? >> i think that's the next step. we'll start that. and we did experiment with it in our summer school this past summer with several courses and it was very satisfactory. directors thought it was good and the students evaluated it as excellent but what we didn't do is what you're here reading about. we didn't do the mook version, the massive online open courses. we did smaller courses so that the professor could interact online with the students so these were courses with 25 or 30 people

new industry of online classes. >> how things work is about every day life. >> everything happens online. professors from colleges around the country give lectures, and students take quizzes, exams and exchange ideas in online discussions. until recently, it meant indepth learning from renowned professors and just a certificate but with the american council on education giving courseera a stamp of approval, it could mean real credit on your transcript. it means that students will now be able to take some of our courses and have them be transferred potentially for academic credit. >> for the first time ever, if you complete select courses, you can ask for college credit. but there's a catch. it's up to the schools to decide if they will accept it. >> there's some kinds of courses for which it makes perfect sense. >> he teaches a course on courseera and while a fan on online ed, he is careful about giving credit. >> learning something remotely in your home, will get you something. and for some disciplines it's fine. i do notee it as being the replacement for colleges and universities. >> h

the other is understanding the online/offline. we had alonzo coming in and speaking to us, they don't understand the impact, it's not enough for me to say we're going to do a workshop or a campaign, a poster thing, it's really about how do we change the culture of a community and a people and it's not just a one-off. >> what does it take? >> the thing about changing the environment again, changing the social norms, it helps to understand there are primarily about 5 different ways we can influence and warm the climate of a school or community, students being one, families and parents, staff, policies and young people themselves. if we can understand that strategickly, sort of get down out of the big conversation and look at ways how do we, as you said, educate the educators, make sure they receive the education and understand that relationships are as important as the classroom can urriculum, especially at the secondary level, continue to hammer out policies that are not so punitive but restore we want to connect to correct. we don

if you are a lot of people online shopping break you get on sales tax. it can add up.ashington wants a piece of the action. chief washington correspondent james rosen on the online money grab. >> the motion is agreed to. >> ecommerce may soon get a reboot after the senate voted 74 to 20 on monday to advance the marketplace fairness act. a measure that would require online retailers who do more than a million dollars a year in out-of-state business to collect the applicable sales taxes for each state in which their online buyers reside. proponents say this will level the playing field for bring and mortar stores whose owners have grown accustomed to seeing customers browse the showroom only to dash off to a computer or hand held device. >> that's not fair. that's discriminating against the local merchant. the local merchant who hires local people. the local merchant who pays property taxes. >> nine states have enacted online sales taxes. enforcement thus far has been lax. the marketplace fairness act would require the states to provide online retailers with new software

sell products online to collect . and calculate the sales tax to whoever's in whatever state they live in so if you're amazon and you sell across all fifty states is this going to be a major regulatory burden on your business so larger businesses like amazon will probably be able to absorb those costs and some of the smaller online retailers might not and so toll who is one of the proponents and opponents saying is this is to benefit and lose from this well in the marketplace fairness act because brick and mortar stores are competing against enter net stores and a store is are getting away with not collecting all the taxes at times so the people who are for it are more stores but there's also a eighty four million dollars lobbying force behind this for eyes and so there's a lot of this going into the words and he was pushing and he was right yeah sometimes it just takes a look at who's pushing the bill to really find out who stands to benefit the most some of this criticism that i've heard about the bill though is tha

. >> lurking in the online ads for sex. >> is this kim? >> and luring the unsuspecting to a rendezvous with death. >> hey, how are you doing? >> while pimps and hustlers sell young women on a promise of protection. >> hey, let me holler at you for a minute. >> somebody that's involved in this business should be able to protect anybody that gets down with them. >> they're not protectors. they're exploiters. >> they were selling my granddaughter. >> and whenever something goes bad or goes wrong, they're going to abandon you. >> msnbc goes undercover for a closer look at life and death in the deadly game of sex for sale. >> people are closing their eyes. open your eyes. before it's your child. ♪ >>> today in detroit on street corners and on the internet, selling sex to strangers has become a deadly proposition. >> recently there have been two separate incidences where two young ladies in each incident have been discovered deceased in vehicles on the east side of detroit. >> we have four homicides of which a serial pattern is developing. >> th

>> we did a lot of online advertising, found a lot of new online contributors. we, you know, talked to a lot of new donors that could give at the higher level and were able to get a the lo of new bundlers and those who followed what the president was doing and wanted to be a part of this campaign and for whatever reason hadn't been involved in the last one. >> what was your breakdown between the percentage that gave over $100, or $250, if you want to mesh occur that way? >> our average contribution by the time it was all said and done was $66 which is pretty amazing. so about 97% was under $250. >> ok. now, this is not really a question that you probably want to answer, spencer, but how about for you guys? >> didn't look quite like that. the obama campaign had more new donors in 2012 than we had total. so just to put that in perspective. we had about two million donors and about four million contributions. over the course of the campaign. so about half the number of donors. when we started, we recognized that we had a -- had to go through a primary process or th

you can order by phone or online. burger king actually already delivers in washington, new york, houston and miami. >>> you're going to have to wait to get a new pair of google glasses. chairman eric schmidt says the device won't be available to most consumers until next year. google glasses are a wearable smartphone, allowing people to surf the web, take photos and video chat. back to you. >> and they look kind of cool, too. thank you, courtney. >>> just moments ago ford reported better than expected first quarter results as new models boosted pretax profits to its highest level in more than a decade. on the individual earnings front for you, new pew study finds the net worth of the nation's wea h wealthiest shot up nearly 30% to more than $3 million. meanwhile, during the first two years of the economic recovery, the rest of the nation dropped 4% to around $134,000. >>> another big market driver today, apple. it beat earnings estimates but delivered a disappointing sales force cast last night. apple also announced m

is online education a right for you?anford university, all right, tell me what this does? >> well, it works for the best universities to offer the best classes from the best instructors the students are everywhere around the world, 3.3 million students now taking education from the best education for free. gerri: taught by professors at 6 # # -- 62 universities, so how do you do this? my goodness? how do you convince people to teach for free? >> i think that for a professor, given an opportunity to take something they are passionate about and convey it to tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand people is really a priceless opportunity for them to get the message out about something they care deeply about. at the same time, for the universities we're working with, this is is a great opportunity for them to change the way in which on campus instruction is done because a lot of times instructors take a lot of insights as well as the materials developed as part of the online education effort, and use that to better teac

russia reset so you can go and vote online or use our common sections if you have more thoughts on the issue and still ahead for your own at a nation in turmoil a decade on since the fall of saddam hussein. iraq convulses ilse worries over terror and uncertainty while this cars left behind by deer's of occupation are passed on to a new trying to break. the death of controversial former british pm law great such has provoked scandal and they do ask the song dean don't be witches dad rockets up the music charts as part of the population of show their anger at hope political legacy that's coming up later. the u.s. secretary of state john kerry is in china on the latest leg of his emergency tour to try and diffuse tension around north korea's nuclear threats and in a news conference he suggested america could remove its newly bolstered missile defense in the region if pyongyang abandons its nuclear weapons program so it's believed that also might encourage china to put pressure on north korea something it has been reluctant to do so far and earlier this week a pentagon report released by m

classes online. other schools are part of this expansion. governor brown has pushed for schools to aggressively pursue online courses as a way to deal with overcrowding at public universities. lieutenant governor gavin newsom was at the campus for the announcement. >> this is evidence-base ad provo to a new form of learning in a world that's no longer connected, but hyper-connected. in a world that's changing as rapidly as any other time in human history. no longer localized, no longer centralized, it's people-centric. technology is democratizing voices and giving people more choices. >> $10 million in state money has been earmarked for the online-only courses. >>> still ahead at 5:00, fast forward treatment. the potential breast cancer breakthrough that was green lighted today. >>> not a regular call. firefighters respond only to become the emergency themselves. the late-breaking details on a hostage situation, next. >>> and good afternoon. i'm jeff ranieri in the nbc bay area weather center. spring

some big online retailers say that limit is far too low.y officials sullinger raising it to less than $10 million. the wife of the now dead bombing suspect in boston is ready to give her side of the story. what she is saying about the attacks coming up. plus, the gator in south florida that shows -- chose the wrong little boy for lunch. >> he is recovering very well. he sleeps all through the night. even the night that it happened -- >> -- actually, my mom and dad is getting the nightmares. i'm sleeping good. [ laughter ] >> shepard: ha ha, ha ha. >> shepard: i love him. if you missed "studio b" today. you have got to meet the kid that survived the gator attack. that's coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. he wants to race my niece. he would lose, i tell you. [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where giving up isn't who you are. ♪ this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectile dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about viagra. 20 million men already have. ask y

photographs of both alleged attacks were shared online. one big difference between the two cases, in california the boys accused of the crime have been charged. dan simon is following that story. he's joining us now from san francisco. dan, the suspects, tell us more. >> well, fred, first of all you know it's a story that seems to have a familiar narrative. here you have a large amount of alcohol consumed, there's a sexual assault, a photo is taken, it gets shared virally. and then in this case the tragedy here is the 15-year-old victim decides to take her own life. the victim is 15-year-old audrey pott. this occurred last september. it's now seven months later now in september and you have three 16-year-old boys who have been arrested and charged with two counts of felony sexual battery and one misdemeanor. now, fred, we don't know all the details here. but what we know is they were at a friend's house, drinking was involved, the girl passes out. there's some kind of sexual assault, a photo is taken and then it gets widely distributed amo

businesses to collect taxes for transactions that the online businesses would not have to. and for a state like mine of new hampshire where we do not have a sales tax, this is also particularly onerous and really tramples on the decision that new hampshire has made to not have a sales tax. but most importantly, where we stand right now with the -- with the bill pending on the floor, you know, so many t

online. or usc schools part of the expansion. governor brown pushing schools to aggressively have online courses. governor newsome there for the big announcement. >>> plans for canceling saturday service has been put on hold. in february, the postmaster general proposed cutting first class mail delivery on saturday to save taxpayers about $2 billion per year. >>> governor jerry brown, he's in china this morning. he says he has signed a trade deal of sorts with china. >> joins us now explaining why the governor can't make this an official full on deal. >> that's exactly right. states can't make their own independent deals with sovereign nations, but brown, who is in china to push for better trade with california the best he can, has signed an agreement to create a task force to find ways to boost trade and investment. now, china is already hugely important to california. a third of chinese exports to the u.s. and up here or pass through california courts and more than a third of chinese educat

you search for something like let's just say a new pair of pajamas online. then for weeks all the ads on your web browser tempt you with pjs. some with feet. [ laughter ] >> coming up, we'll show you how to keep your computer from tracking your ever search. ,,,,,,,, private??? well, think again. a lot of >>> do you think what you research and buy online is private? well, think again. a lot of companies are paying to know what you sl d do on the internet. but as kpix 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts explains, thakes on ent's toyi practice. >>> reporter: whether it's a vacation by the sea or just a p something on the internet and cnet's seth rosenblatt says it will probably come back to haunt you. >> the website broadcasts where you have been and what you're looking at. >> reporter: along with where you're located and your ip address. it's information tracking firms and ad agencies eagerly buy and immediately put to use. >> they use that information to determine what kinds of ads to show you next. >> reporter: that's why you may have noticed once you look