As crap as Canada's wireless cartel are, they're still required to let you port your number from one carrier to another. In practice it takes a couple of hours, although they do warn you it could take a day or so.Of course, here three year contracts are standard, and the three companies that own ~95% of the market offer essentially the same services/products at the same prices, so I don't think most people take advantage of this.
Bull****. Mistakes are roughly stochastic, ergo, there are random elements in chess players' performance. This is why chess matches involve more than just two games.
I'm trying to imagine how... we do this sort of thing routinely in our java libraries to make them linux/windows friendly, so I don't understand what the issue is.
TFA doesn't mention any developers involved. Why don't you add to our knowledge and name them, since you seem to be better-informed?A wholesale lifting of code (such as would be implied by their leaving their victim's phone number intact) could as easily have been done by a lazy, recklessly indifferent lawyer or lazy, supervised staff worker as by a lazy third-party web developer.Moreover I really doubt there's a legally viable argument that USCG, filled with state-licensed members of the bar, doesn't ultimately have responsibility for approving and operating a website that collects evidence for use in court.
We're talking about Hedge Funds here, so their bosses are in fact ex-Traders, ex-Sales and ex-Analysts from big investment banks and such.- The reason why they are the bosses of the hedge funds is that they had millions of dollars to start their hedge funds, business contacts to get extra founds at low cost and already potential customers lined up from their time with the big banks.- The reason they made millions of dollars in the first place is because they got fat bonuses in their previous job.- The reason they got their bonuses is because they were lucky: I work in the industry and I know what I see. Also, studies show that the best performing hedge funds in one year are less likelly to be in the top the following years - in other words, hedge funds are not consistent in their performance, which indicates that chance, not skill is what determines most of their it.Keep in mind that, most of the money made in Investment Banking is of the rent-seeking variety, such as:- Decieve your customers by creating and selling them strange, complex and expensive derivatives to protect them from a certain risk when they could get equivalent protections from buying cheap standard products from the market.- Get yourself in the middle of a transaction and take a cut. The transaction would occur anyway if u weren't there but either it would be cheaper for the buyer or more profitable for the seller.- Get 20x your core capital in cheap loans (thanks to low interest rates and an implicit government guarantee). Invest those 21x core-capital in safe, low return instruments (say, 5% yield bonds). At the end cash it, repay loan, post more than 100% returns on your core capital (since the 5% return was applied to the 20x loan + 1x core capital), pay traders big bonuses for their "skill".Essentially Investment Banking (and Hedge Funds) are the posh version of the Car Mechanic: professionals in the business use their superior knowledge of how finance works to decieve the customers (which are not specialists in that domain) to think that what they really need to "fix the problem" is something a lot more expensive that what is actually needed.This would be alright if it wasn't for the fact that some of their customers are the managers of things like pension funds which (mis)manage our money and "invest" it through those guys instead of doing the due dilligence themselves to figure out that the average return after comissions and costs of a hedge fund is lower than the return on major market indexes (which you can get cheaply via ETFs).So:- Guys that started working in an industry which is mostly parasitic got lucky and made millions in bonuses.- They used those millions, plus the contacts they created while working in that industry to setup a company and make money directly from the suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers instead of via bonuses.- They setup systems (i.e. auto-trading) that allow them to insert themselves into and get a cut from other people's trades because their systems are faster reacting to the market than other traders since they're located next to the exchanges and react within milliseconds.- Add to this that in many cases, after they left their big bank jobs their old employer lost money on their bets and had to be rescued by the state using our tax money.There are plenty of bosses out there that one can respect for having real risks and clawed their way to success by creating companies that provided real products/services to their customers but these guys ain't it.These guys are more like pimps that made enough from forcing junkies to prostitute themselves that they could afford to open a brothel.
Totally agree, we are altruistic creatures, but our current societal models are based on Original Sin Theory. That's a vestige that needs shaking free, and again I rely optimistically on science to defeat The Church. , but they are never absolute. Even the right to life: in certain cases, nearly all societies agree that that right needs to be removed. For murder, for instance, or in the case of war. I think this can be approached from a better perspective - taking life is always wrong, especially by a State
A) I'm always very skeptical of big corporations trying to greenwash. I have lots of technical quibbles with the design of the Volt. However even I admit it's an honest effort.B) Toyota has partnered with PHEV post-factory mod manufacturers to honor their warranty. In fact some dealerships are licensed installers.Healthy and proper skepticism will get you far in life. Cynicism won't.
I work on the LHC, and if its pinnacle of achievement, its major contribution to the progress of humanity, turns out to be cheaper Kraft dinners, I think I'm going to go lie under a bus.
The copy in RAM is exempted in 17 USC 117(a)(1) Other states probably also have similar laws. You don't need a license to use an authorized copy of software.
The real fix would be to get users to realize that there's no such thing as a secret when you're yelling loud enough that people a half a block away can hear you. Even if you're talking in code, chances are, if someone really wants to screw with you, they'll figure out how.Wireless networking is a convenience, and at Layer 2, there probably isn't much that can be done to secure traffic. If you want secure, either use your own encryption (IPSEC, SSL/TLS, SSH, etc.) or use a wire.
For example, they KNEW that the BOP (blowout preventer) was not functioning correctly. one of the 2 control systems was out, and they had been bringing up pieces of the rubber seal in the test fluid. They were cutting corners on their cut corners.
You'd think this would serve as exhibit A to silence all the "GOVERNMENT R BAD, CORPORATIONS R GOOD" nutcases in the USA today, but unfortunately it does not seem to have had that effect.
Basically, this.
There also is research into storing the energy as compressed air. The compressed air can also be generated directly by the windmills (sorry for the marketing video, was to lazy to search for a more scientific source)
Makes me wonder who the **** in their right mind would *ever* give a company with a track record like that a license to design and sell food for human consumption...Maybe those anti-GM-food-hippies have a valid point after all; better safe than sorry.:-)
They lied there is a third party DX 10 on XP installation. No real modifications were needed except to remove checks in the installation that deliberately block the install and execution.
My friend's wife is in an architecture program, and she told me that they are literally taught to completely ignore all engineering concerns, and only design structures that look cool. I believe she was told to "make at least one point touching the ground, and then the engineers can figure out how to make it work." The program is supposed to be pretty prestigious.
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As crap as Canada's wireless cartel are, they're still required to let you port your number from one carrier to another. In practice it takes a couple of hours, although they do warn you it could take a day or so.Of course, here three year contracts are standard, and the three companies that own ~95% of the market offer essentially the same services/products at the same prices, so I don't think most people take advantage of this.
Bull****. Mistakes are roughly stochastic, ergo, there are random elements in chess players' performance. This is why chess matches involve more than just two games.
The exploit may, in fact, be in Adobe's code.
Well, if submitter learned Java then it would be trivial for them to learn C# as well.
I'm trying to imagine how ... we do this sort of thing routinely in our java libraries to make them linux/windows friendly, so I don't understand what the issue is.
TFA doesn't mention any developers involved. Why don't you add to our knowledge and name them, since you seem to be better-informed?A wholesale lifting of code (such as would be implied by their leaving their victim's phone number intact) could as easily have been done by a lazy, recklessly indifferent lawyer or lazy, supervised staff worker as by a lazy third-party web developer.Moreover I really doubt there's a legally viable argument that USCG, filled with state-licensed members of the bar, doesn't ultimately have responsibility for approving and operating a website that collects evidence for use in court.
We're talking about Hedge Funds here, so their bosses are in fact ex-Traders, ex-Sales and ex-Analysts from big investment banks and such.- The reason why they are the bosses of the hedge funds is that they had millions of dollars to start their hedge funds, business contacts to get extra founds at low cost and already potential customers lined up from their time with the big banks.- The reason they made millions of dollars in the first place is because they got fat bonuses in their previous job.- The reason they got their bonuses is because they were lucky: I work in the industry and I know what I see. Also, studies show that the best performing hedge funds in one year are less likelly to be in the top the following years - in other words, hedge funds are not consistent in their performance, which indicates that chance, not skill is what determines most of their it.Keep in mind that, most of the money made in Investment Banking is of the rent-seeking variety, such as:- Decieve your customers by creating and selling them strange, complex and expensive derivatives to protect them from a certain risk when they could get equivalent protections from buying cheap standard products from the market.- Get yourself in the middle of a transaction and take a cut. The transaction would occur anyway if u weren't there but either it would be cheaper for the buyer or more profitable for the seller.- Get 20x your core capital in cheap loans (thanks to low interest rates and an implicit government guarantee). Invest those 21x core-capital in safe, low return instruments (say, 5% yield bonds). At the end cash it, repay loan, post more than 100% returns on your core capital (since the 5% return was applied to the 20x loan + 1x core capital), pay traders big bonuses for their "skill".Essentially Investment Banking (and Hedge Funds) are the posh version of the Car Mechanic: professionals in the business use their superior knowledge of how finance works to decieve the customers (which are not specialists in that domain) to think that what they really need to "fix the problem" is something a lot more expensive that what is actually needed.This would be alright if it wasn't for the fact that some of their customers are the managers of things like pension funds which (mis)manage our money and "invest" it through those guys instead of doing the due dilligence themselves to figure out that the average return after comissions and costs of a hedge fund is lower than the return on major market indexes (which you can get cheaply via ETFs).So:- Guys that started working in an industry which is mostly parasitic got lucky and made millions in bonuses.- They used those millions, plus the contacts they created while working in that industry to setup a company and make money directly from the suckers^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomers instead of via bonuses.- They setup systems (i.e. auto-trading) that allow them to insert themselves into and get a cut from other people's trades because their systems are faster reacting to the market than other traders since they're located next to the exchanges and react within milliseconds.- Add to this that in many cases, after they left their big bank jobs their old employer lost money on their bets and had to be rescued by the state using our tax money.There are plenty of bosses out there that one can respect for having real risks and clawed their way to success by creating companies that provided real products/services to their customers but these guys ain't it.These guys are more like pimps that made enough from forcing junkies to prostitute themselves that they could afford to open a brothel.
Totally agree, we are altruistic creatures, but our current societal models are based on Original Sin Theory. That's a vestige that needs shaking free, and again I rely optimistically on science to defeat The Church. , but they are never absolute. Even the right to life: in certain cases, nearly all societies agree that that right needs to be removed. For murder, for instance, or in the case of war. I think this can be approached from a better perspective - taking life is always wrong, especially by a State
The Volt is not an import, the Leaf is. We're talking about greenies from California here folks.
A) I'm always very skeptical of big corporations trying to greenwash. I have lots of technical quibbles with the design of the Volt. However even I admit it's an honest effort.B) Toyota has partnered with PHEV post-factory mod manufacturers to honor their warranty. In fact some dealerships are licensed installers .Healthy and proper skepticism will get you far in life. Cynicism won't.
I work on the LHC, and if its pinnacle of achievement, its major contribution to the progress of humanity, turns out to be cheaper Kraft dinners, I think I'm going to go lie under a bus.
If there aren't any, it's BP's fault!
The copy in RAM is exempted in 17 USC 117(a)(1) Other states probably also have similar laws. You don't need a license to use an authorized copy of software.
The real fix would be to get users to realize that there's no such thing as a secret when you're yelling loud enough that people a half a block away can hear you. Even if you're talking in code, chances are, if someone really wants to screw with you, they'll figure out how.Wireless networking is a convenience, and at Layer 2, there probably isn't much that can be done to secure traffic. If you want secure, either use your own encryption (IPSEC, SSL/TLS, SSH, etc.) or use a wire.
Good thing their motto is "don't be evil", so they won't abuse this capability. whoops, that's them other guys.... awwww fuuuuuuuu
That's true. I saw it in this documentary
Basically, this. There also is research into storing the energy as compressed air. The compressed air can also be generated directly by the windmills (sorry for the marketing video, was to lazy to search for a more scientific source)
Makes me wonder who the **** in their right mind would *ever* give a company with a track record like that a license to design and sell food for human consumption...Maybe those anti-GM-food-hippies have a valid point after all; better safe than sorry. :-)
Yep that would be quite a thrill watching your boat leave you behind while you swim. Oh, you have a seven mile long anchor chain - nevermind.
us mathematicians DO NOT use calculators. We don't do arithmetic. Don't tag this math.
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My friend's wife is in an architecture program, and she told me that they are literally taught to completely ignore all engineering concerns, and only design structures that look cool. I believe she was told to "make at least one point touching the ground, and then the engineers can figure out how to make it work." The program is supposed to be pretty prestigious.