You'll probably have some trouble collecting; but if you securitize the coffee obligation and just sell the top tranche or two no harm could come of it...
It's mostly the same stuff, just a lot faster(a latish PII should be mostly familiar, just 32bit and more parallel busses); but 'mostly' is a very, very dangerous word unless heroic patching of a wildly aged kernel is your idea of fun, which it doesn't sound like is the case here.
Unless being NSA directory is a surprisingly cushy position, leaving ample time for personal development and cultivation, I'd be skeptical in this case. Aside from his 1978 BU MBA, there is approximately fuck all on his CV that doesn't involve either armored vehicles or classified (and not always licit) signals intelligence and surveillance work for Uncle Sam. He doesn't even appear to be one of the revolving-door guys who hops back and forth between a stint with the feds, a stint with Spydyne LLC, back to the feds, and so forth.
He's presumably a sharp guy; but he doesn't exactly have lots of experience that it would be legal to go into too much detail about.
Alexander's forte seems to be using brute force to break the security of others, not actually keeping an organization secure.
It sure is a good thing that the banking industry is a bunch of totally upstanding, honest, guys, steeped in a culture of prudent moderation, who definitely wouldn't have any interest in the potential applications of NSA-tested 'tailored access operations' for shareholder value, enhanced lobbying, and other exciting things; or the colossal hubris necessary to not even think twice about doing so.
Newer GPUs are very, very, likely to be unsupported except in whatever fallback VGA mode they offer; but HDMI is actually pretty decent at pretending to be DVI (which is actually pretty ancient, even if you couldn't afford it at the time since LCDs were still $100 per nominal inch, in smaller sizes) so long as you don't expect sound or HDCP to work.
Even if nothing freaks out and dies, if you want to go back in time 13 years, you are probably going to be adding quite a few PCI IDs to assorted bits of kernel.
Off-lease junk shows up by the pallet on fleabay and the like.
The biggest problem for OP is that 'junk' is now probably a PCIe motherboard with a P4, maybe even an early core/core2 system, rather than something that is afraid of 64-bit address spaces and rocks AGP.
In fact, based on a quick look, late-P4 to Core2 era corporate castoffs appear to be cheaper, at least on ebay, than the really elderly stuff (though it looks like the new gear has actual prices, while the old stuff has optimistic starting prices 'or best offer').
They'll still be around in the various dusty closets of the world; but you may or may not have an easy time finding one in person, even Goodwill and similar have to put more saleable stuff on the good shelf space, though they may (since recycling often isn't free) have a few stashed in the back that they'd be happy to see the last of.
It's nice to see that somebody found some coproliths (isn't it nice that there's a scientific synonym for 'shit rocks'?) and managed to get more detailed data (tooth structure and clever isotopic work can distinguish carnivores from onmivores or herbivores; but actual digested material might even allow you to identify plant types, depending on preservation, presence of seeds, etc.); but I'd always had the impression that the 'Cavemen, like, ate meat all the time' considered so disproven as to be barely worth mentioning, given that the dental records suggested that neanderthals weren't wildly different from humans in terms of chewing optimizations, and basically every pre-agricultural society ever(except maybe inuit, since there isn't much to 'gather' on the ice) have combined some amount of hunting with some amount of gathering.
There is a fairly noticeable change when agriculture hits the scene (suddenly all rice/millet/wheat/etc. all the time becomes a thing for the squalid underclass, minus any small livestock that can be raised on scraps); but there is nothing suggesting that hominids with alternatives ever went meat-only.
Fair enough. I should have RTFA-ed. Though, if the guy filing suit is voluntarily picking a US jurisdiction, he either thinks he has a damn strong case, or needs to go punch his lawyer, yesterday, since it's fairly difficult to find a more hostile venue for defamation cases.
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What is really annoying is when the 'Complete Edition' or whatever ends up being released before the last of the DLC, and then remains on the shelf as 'complete' despite not being so(and, when discounted bundlings of the actually-complete version do come along, you either take the bundle and pay for the initial 'complete edition' again, or you pay full release-day price for the DLC because you aren't buying the bundle).
Europa Universalis III did that particularly egregiously (a pity, I found it otherwise engrossing): "Europa Universalis III Complete edition" is the base game and two expansion packs. Oh, you wanted all four expansion packs(and we are talking some pretty substantial changes and additions here)? Try "Europa Universalis III Chronicles", because that makes some kind of sense. Oh, and then there is a bunch of petty DLC that doesn't fit anywhere in there...
If they can refrain from screwing around like that, 'GOTY' and friends are actually inoffensive(except 'season pass', which is the same 'money up front for you don't know what; but totally 20% off!' scam as pre-order). Games, like movies, books, and basically anything else that has a low per-unit cost of reproduction but a relatively high cost of production, tend to be sold in a way that attempts price discrimination: Rabid fan? Buy it on release day for $69.99, buy each DLC as it comes out at full price. As time goes on, and sales at that price dry up, you lower the price and/or bundle all the DLC to lower the total acquisition cost(and, in the case of any DLC that includes plot additions or graphics overhauls, give the player a more coherent experience). As time goes on further, you drop the price further, until you eventually hit the cost of distribution, concerns about 'devaluation perceptions', worries about competition with newer titles, or desire to preserve the value of eventual nostalgia-bundles.
The grandiosity of the names for "Yeah, all the stuff related to GameX" is kind of annoying; but it otherwise seems about the least offensive part of the DLC business (and is actually older than it: back when 'expansion pack' was something you bought in a separate box, on a disk, eventually the 'Gold Edition' 'GOTY' 'Battle Chest', etc. would come out, sometimes remastered onto fewer disks and a streamlined installer, sometimes just all the disks shoved in one box for the price of one box.)
As it happens, the US has specific legislation to the contrary. In a strikingly atypical turn of events, this so-called "SPEECH Act" (yes, 'Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage' is one hell of a tortured attempt to get a cute acronym; but congress loves that stuff) passed unanimously in both the house and senate, (111th congress) before being signed by Obama in 2010.
The TL;DR is that the US Will Not in any way assist in the enforcement of a foreign defamation judgement against a US citizen or alien lawfully residing in the US at the time of their allegedly defamatory speech unless the domestic court being asked to enforce the judgement finds that either the US person was convicted in a court offering protection equivalent to, or greater than, that provided by the first amendment and any other state laws and constitutional provisions that would apply to the domestic court or that, while the foreign court was not up to those standards, the accused would still have been convicted had such standards been applied. The burden of demonstrating one, the other, or both, is on the person wishing to have the foreign defamation judgement enforced in the US.
So, while you may end up reducing the number of countries you can safely vacation in or catch a connecting flight through (Looking at you, London Heathrow), you have quite broad protection, if you qualify as a US person for the purposes of the act, to tell anyone pursuing a defamation case outside the US to kiss your constitutionally protected, at least in this context, ass.
In practice, the UK is basically the country we wrote this against; but it applies to any foreign defamation judgements whatsoever.
Title IX, mostly. (Which, at the risk of bringing down the MRAs on my head, didn't exactly make it through the house and senate by substantial margins, and across the desk of notorious liberal Richard Nixon; because the treatment of women in college athletics, or even college generally, was exactly peachy-keen...)
Given the relatively chickenshit amount of money a few 'cyberathletes' are going to cost, compared to existing sports, I'm not overwhelmingly convinced that it will make much of a difference.
(Note, I'm against athletic scholarships entirely, and the degree of emphasis that the more competitive tiers of college athletics as a whole get, so I'm unconvinced as to why it would be a good use of money to pay gamers, as much as I'm unconvinced by the virtues of paying rowers, football players, or anyone else. If having some athletic offerings is good for work/life balance, exercise, and whatnot, all well and good, I certainly participated when I was in school; but once you get to the realm of paid atheletes, just drop the "Oh, just a 'student athlete', not a real employee or anything" bullshit and just cut them a paycheck, rather than dicking around with scholarships based on academically irrelevant criteria.)
Given that videogaming is cheaper than just about anything except pick-up frisbee on the quad, (maybe $4K over the course of undergrad if the school is buying the hardware and keeping it fresh, and likely substantially less insurance exposure than any more active sport), if the Title IX metric is monetary, they'll need to free up very little extra funding for parity on the women's sports side. If the metric is participation, what a handy excuse to axe some comparatively expensive and not terribly popular men's sport...
More pathetic? I suspect that LoL scholarship admits will cost far less, not require some grandiose jerkoff who calls himself 'The Coach' at 500K/yr or more, require no facilities more expensive than a few new video cards, and probably involve less "Well, yeah, the star quarterback is probably a narcissistic serial rapist; but what's more important? Winning The Game or a few unimportant people who were probably dressed slutty anyway" decisionmaking among theoretically responsible adults...
Honestly, you could probably do a lot worse than offering scholarships (possibly even automatic admits) to people who finished Robot Odyssey. Kiddie game, or looks like one; but widely reputed to either turn you into a hardcore programming geek for life, or beat you up and take your lunch money, self-worth, and sense of hope.
Why not some other team-based game?
There's hundreds.
Presumably based on its audience popularity. LoL, by all reports, is very high indeed in the ranks of 'people actually watch streams of this stuff'. If a sport doesn't have a long, stuffy, history to justify it's existence, it probably has to be popular.
Oh, I was thinking of doing it preemptively, before they left, rather than trying to operate in space (Just imagine all the horrid blood globules floating merrily around the OR in zero gravity, and probably ending up hiding behind important instrument panels... Loathsome).
We already aggressively train and screen the humans we send into the harsh environment of space. Should we be planning to do anything more ambitious, or risky, it seems only logical to consider sending better-than-humans, rather than enough hardware to keep ordinary ones functioning.
Would there be any substantial anatomical issues presented by cracking the subject open and implanting a failover heart (maybe a pediatric one, to save weight, and since it's not the base-load heart or anything) if you are so worried about the primary one conking out?
I can see that transporting an entire failover astronaut, and getting him to swiftly and effectively take over the tasks abandoned by his dying comrade, might present payload capacity and psychological issues; but if it's just an extra heart and nobody dies, those should be substantially mitigated...
Did you read the memo? The authorization of use of force is mentioned; but is explicitly orthogonal to the classification of a given group as an 'armed group' in a state of 'non-international armed conflict'.
I didn't actually say anything about suicide bombers(though, since you mentioned it, I judge suicide bombers by their targets, not their methods.)
Munitions delivery is fundamentally the same business, ethically speaking, whether you can afford ICBMs, or whether you get a shabby backpack and a T-shirt and have to walk it in on foot. What you blow up is what counts.
Do...enlighten us... about the relationship between the bunch of mostly saudi guys who caused considerable mayhem and the bulk of the assorted locals we've been shooting in Iraq and Afghanistan...
The overlap isn't entirely nonexistent(though the number who are hiding out with our 'friends' in Pakistan rather than bothering with getting shot for the Afghan or Iraqi governments and assorted internal militant groups is probably higher at this point); but any assertion that the poor bastards fighting for their homesand are the same 'terrorists' involved against US interests at home is risible.
Based on the mixed reviews, it sounds like 220w is really pushing your luck unless the motherboard has some heroically overqualified VRM onboard, and your PSU is descended from an arc welder on its mothers side; but I've yet to see a single report of somebody actually fusing a pin rather than just crashing a lot, so apparently the socket is tougher than it looks. I was very surprised to see such a part being sold at that power level, though, rather than just 'unlocked, and we'll just look the other way'.
There are no such things as 'innocent bystanders', only enemy combatants and enemy suicide-propagandists who ruthlessly get themselves blown up to tarnish the reputation of our legitimate peace actions.
(This would be more obviously sarcastic were it not for the... striking... analysis provided by the then-commander of JTF-GTMO: 'Honor bound to defend freedom.', of three detainee suicides; "They are smart, they are creative, they are committed," Admiral Harris said. "They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.")
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You'll probably have some trouble collecting; but if you securitize the coffee obligation and just sell the top tranche or two no harm could come of it...
It's mostly the same stuff, just a lot faster(a latish PII should be mostly familiar, just 32bit and more parallel busses); but 'mostly' is a very, very dangerous word unless heroic patching of a wildly aged kernel is your idea of fun, which it doesn't sound like is the case here.
Unless being NSA directory is a surprisingly cushy position, leaving ample time for personal development and cultivation, I'd be skeptical in this case. Aside from his 1978 BU MBA, there is approximately fuck all on his CV that doesn't involve either armored vehicles or classified (and not always licit) signals intelligence and surveillance work for Uncle Sam. He doesn't even appear to be one of the revolving-door guys who hops back and forth between a stint with the feds, a stint with Spydyne LLC, back to the feds, and so forth.
He's presumably a sharp guy; but he doesn't exactly have lots of experience that it would be legal to go into too much detail about.
Alexander's forte seems to be using brute force to break the security of others, not actually keeping an organization secure.
It sure is a good thing that the banking industry is a bunch of totally upstanding, honest, guys, steeped in a culture of prudent moderation, who definitely wouldn't have any interest in the potential applications of NSA-tested 'tailored access operations' for shareholder value, enhanced lobbying, and other exciting things; or the colossal hubris necessary to not even think twice about doing so.
Newer GPUs are very, very, likely to be unsupported except in whatever fallback VGA mode they offer; but HDMI is actually pretty decent at pretending to be DVI (which is actually pretty ancient, even if you couldn't afford it at the time since LCDs were still $100 per nominal inch, in smaller sizes) so long as you don't expect sound or HDCP to work.
Even if nothing freaks out and dies, if you want to go back in time 13 years, you are probably going to be adding quite a few PCI IDs to assorted bits of kernel.
Off-lease junk shows up by the pallet on fleabay and the like.
The biggest problem for OP is that 'junk' is now probably a PCIe motherboard with a P4, maybe even an early core/core2 system, rather than something that is afraid of 64-bit address spaces and rocks AGP.
In fact, based on a quick look, late-P4 to Core2 era corporate castoffs appear to be cheaper, at least on ebay, than the really elderly stuff (though it looks like the new gear has actual prices, while the old stuff has optimistic starting prices 'or best offer').
They'll still be around in the various dusty closets of the world; but you may or may not have an easy time finding one in person, even Goodwill and similar have to put more saleable stuff on the good shelf space, though they may (since recycling often isn't free) have a few stashed in the back that they'd be happy to see the last of.
It's nice to see that somebody found some coproliths (isn't it nice that there's a scientific synonym for 'shit rocks'?) and managed to get more detailed data (tooth structure and clever isotopic work can distinguish carnivores from onmivores or herbivores; but actual digested material might even allow you to identify plant types, depending on preservation, presence of seeds, etc.); but I'd always had the impression that the 'Cavemen, like, ate meat all the time' considered so disproven as to be barely worth mentioning, given that the dental records suggested that neanderthals weren't wildly different from humans in terms of chewing optimizations, and basically every pre-agricultural society ever(except maybe inuit, since there isn't much to 'gather' on the ice) have combined some amount of hunting with some amount of gathering.
There is a fairly noticeable change when agriculture hits the scene (suddenly all rice/millet/wheat/etc. all the time becomes a thing for the squalid underclass, minus any small livestock that can be raised on scraps); but there is nothing suggesting that hominids with alternatives ever went meat-only.
Fair enough. I should have RTFA-ed. Though, if the guy filing suit is voluntarily picking a US jurisdiction, he either thinks he has a damn strong case, or needs to go punch his lawyer, yesterday, since it's fairly difficult to find a more hostile venue for defamation cases.
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You forgot the numbing cold and crushing pressure...
What is really annoying is when the 'Complete Edition' or whatever ends up being released before the last of the DLC, and then remains on the shelf as 'complete' despite not being so(and, when discounted bundlings of the actually-complete version do come along, you either take the bundle and pay for the initial 'complete edition' again, or you pay full release-day price for the DLC because you aren't buying the bundle).
Europa Universalis III did that particularly egregiously (a pity, I found it otherwise engrossing): "Europa Universalis III Complete edition" is the base game and two expansion packs. Oh, you wanted all four expansion packs(and we are talking some pretty substantial changes and additions here)? Try "Europa Universalis III Chronicles", because that makes some kind of sense. Oh, and then there is a bunch of petty DLC that doesn't fit anywhere in there...
If they can refrain from screwing around like that, 'GOTY' and friends are actually inoffensive(except 'season pass', which is the same 'money up front for you don't know what; but totally 20% off!' scam as pre-order). Games, like movies, books, and basically anything else that has a low per-unit cost of reproduction but a relatively high cost of production, tend to be sold in a way that attempts price discrimination: Rabid fan? Buy it on release day for $69.99, buy each DLC as it comes out at full price. As time goes on, and sales at that price dry up, you lower the price and/or bundle all the DLC to lower the total acquisition cost(and, in the case of any DLC that includes plot additions or graphics overhauls, give the player a more coherent experience). As time goes on further, you drop the price further, until you eventually hit the cost of distribution, concerns about 'devaluation perceptions', worries about competition with newer titles, or desire to preserve the value of eventual nostalgia-bundles.
The grandiosity of the names for "Yeah, all the stuff related to GameX" is kind of annoying; but it otherwise seems about the least offensive part of the DLC business (and is actually older than it: back when 'expansion pack' was something you bought in a separate box, on a disk, eventually the 'Gold Edition' 'GOTY' 'Battle Chest', etc. would come out, sometimes remastered onto fewer disks and a streamlined installer, sometimes just all the disks shoved in one box for the price of one box.)
As it happens, the US has specific legislation to the contrary. In a strikingly atypical turn of events, this so-called "SPEECH Act" (yes, 'Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage' is one hell of a tortured attempt to get a cute acronym; but congress loves that stuff) passed unanimously in both the house and senate, (111th congress) before being signed by Obama in 2010.
The TL;DR is that the US Will Not in any way assist in the enforcement of a foreign defamation judgement against a US citizen or alien lawfully residing in the US at the time of their allegedly defamatory speech unless the domestic court being asked to enforce the judgement finds that either the US person was convicted in a court offering protection equivalent to, or greater than, that provided by the first amendment and any other state laws and constitutional provisions that would apply to the domestic court or that, while the foreign court was not up to those standards, the accused would still have been convicted had such standards been applied. The burden of demonstrating one, the other, or both, is on the person wishing to have the foreign defamation judgement enforced in the US.
So, while you may end up reducing the number of countries you can safely vacation in or catch a connecting flight through (Looking at you, London Heathrow), you have quite broad protection, if you qualify as a US person for the purposes of the act, to tell anyone pursuing a defamation case outside the US to kiss your constitutionally protected, at least in this context, ass. In practice, the UK is basically the country we wrote this against; but it applies to any foreign defamation judgements whatsoever.
Title IX, mostly. (Which, at the risk of bringing down the MRAs on my head, didn't exactly make it through the house and senate by substantial margins, and across the desk of notorious liberal Richard Nixon; because the treatment of women in college athletics, or even college generally, was exactly peachy-keen...)
Given the relatively chickenshit amount of money a few 'cyberathletes' are going to cost, compared to existing sports, I'm not overwhelmingly convinced that it will make much of a difference.
(Note, I'm against athletic scholarships entirely, and the degree of emphasis that the more competitive tiers of college athletics as a whole get, so I'm unconvinced as to why it would be a good use of money to pay gamers, as much as I'm unconvinced by the virtues of paying rowers, football players, or anyone else. If having some athletic offerings is good for work/life balance, exercise, and whatnot, all well and good, I certainly participated when I was in school; but once you get to the realm of paid atheletes, just drop the "Oh, just a 'student athlete', not a real employee or anything" bullshit and just cut them a paycheck, rather than dicking around with scholarships based on academically irrelevant criteria.)
Given that videogaming is cheaper than just about anything except pick-up frisbee on the quad, (maybe $4K over the course of undergrad if the school is buying the hardware and keeping it fresh, and likely substantially less insurance exposure than any more active sport), if the Title IX metric is monetary, they'll need to free up very little extra funding for parity on the women's sports side. If the metric is participation, what a handy excuse to axe some comparatively expensive and not terribly popular men's sport...
More pathetic? I suspect that LoL scholarship admits will cost far less, not require some grandiose jerkoff who calls himself 'The Coach' at 500K/yr or more, require no facilities more expensive than a few new video cards, and probably involve less "Well, yeah, the star quarterback is probably a narcissistic serial rapist; but what's more important? Winning The Game or a few unimportant people who were probably dressed slutty anyway" decisionmaking among theoretically responsible adults...
Honestly, you could probably do a lot worse than offering scholarships (possibly even automatic admits) to people who finished Robot Odyssey. Kiddie game, or looks like one; but widely reputed to either turn you into a hardcore programming geek for life, or beat you up and take your lunch money, self-worth, and sense of hope.
Why not some other team-based game? There's hundreds.
Presumably based on its audience popularity. LoL, by all reports, is very high indeed in the ranks of 'people actually watch streams of this stuff'. If a sport doesn't have a long, stuffy, history to justify it's existence, it probably has to be popular.
I suspect that a "See also: List of Litigious Assholes" section for his page is pretty much buttoned up for the forseeable future...
I just hope that none of the poor bastards he is suing happen to live in the UK... If so, they are six flavors of screwed.
Oh, I was thinking of doing it preemptively, before they left, rather than trying to operate in space (Just imagine all the horrid blood globules floating merrily around the OR in zero gravity, and probably ending up hiding behind important instrument panels... Loathsome).
We already aggressively train and screen the humans we send into the harsh environment of space. Should we be planning to do anything more ambitious, or risky, it seems only logical to consider sending better-than-humans, rather than enough hardware to keep ordinary ones functioning.
Would there be any substantial anatomical issues presented by cracking the subject open and implanting a failover heart (maybe a pediatric one, to save weight, and since it's not the base-load heart or anything) if you are so worried about the primary one conking out?
I can see that transporting an entire failover astronaut, and getting him to swiftly and effectively take over the tasks abandoned by his dying comrade, might present payload capacity and psychological issues; but if it's just an extra heart and nobody dies, those should be substantially mitigated...
Did you read the memo? The authorization of use of force is mentioned; but is explicitly orthogonal to the classification of a given group as an 'armed group' in a state of 'non-international armed conflict'.
I didn't actually say anything about suicide bombers(though, since you mentioned it, I judge suicide bombers by their targets, not their methods.)
Munitions delivery is fundamentally the same business, ethically speaking, whether you can afford ICBMs, or whether you get a shabby backpack and a T-shirt and have to walk it in on foot. What you blow up is what counts.
Do...enlighten us... about the relationship between the bunch of mostly saudi guys who caused considerable mayhem and the bulk of the assorted locals we've been shooting in Iraq and Afghanistan...
The overlap isn't entirely nonexistent(though the number who are hiding out with our 'friends' in Pakistan rather than bothering with getting shot for the Afghan or Iraqi governments and assorted internal militant groups is probably higher at this point); but any assertion that the poor bastards fighting for their homesand are the same 'terrorists' involved against US interests at home is risible.
Based on the mixed reviews, it sounds like 220w is really pushing your luck unless the motherboard has some heroically overqualified VRM onboard, and your PSU is descended from an arc welder on its mothers side; but I've yet to see a single report of somebody actually fusing a pin rather than just crashing a lot, so apparently the socket is tougher than it looks. I was very surprised to see such a part being sold at that power level, though, rather than just 'unlocked, and we'll just look the other way'.
There are no such things as 'innocent bystanders', only enemy combatants and enemy suicide-propagandists who ruthlessly get themselves blown up to tarnish the reputation of our legitimate peace actions.
(This would be more obviously sarcastic were it not for the... striking... analysis provided by the then-commander of JTF-GTMO: 'Honor bound to defend freedom.', of three detainee suicides; "They are smart, they are creative, they are committed," Admiral Harris said. "They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us.")