There are plenty of English-language publications from media sources in the region. There are also reports from various groups that consistently paint the same picture.
The view of ISIS as "evil" isn't a twisting of the media. When you've managed to turn the entire world against you with such disparate groups as the West, Russia, and al-Qaeda essentially on the same side opposing you, it's usually a good sign you're on the wrong path.
Aside from file sharing, how many programs use BitTorrent? I'm not challenging the defense here, as I also don't equate BitTorrent with piracy, especially since my main use is personal file synchronization using BitSync and downloading Linux ISOs.
I seem to recall that Blizzard's Battle.net uses it, which I suspect is a non-trivial percentage of traffic. Do any other game management systems make use of it?
Intel doesn't want AMD to die off because that would subject its practices to monopoly scrutiny. It shares just enough patent information with AMD to allow it to trail a bit behind (in exchange for access to AMD patents, of course) and not completely collapse. The one time that AMD managed to move ahead of Intel (when the Athlon was the king of the hill), Intel pulled out all the stops to prevent it getting a solid foothold in the PC market until Intel's Core 2 Duo could come along and put Intel technologically back in the lead. AMD hasn't had the money to effectively compete since then in part because Intel ensured that its bank accounts couldn't build up too far.
They do, but they're not remotely the threat that they used to be. The various non-KKK white power groups are more of a problem.
I despise the KKK and what they stand for, but as long as they're not using violence or threat of violence, they have the right to undertake their actions anonymously. The ACLU has sided with them several times on free speech and anonymity points. Publishing this list is a form of presumed guilt, and as others have mentioned, there's little way to prove that it's accurate.
The path as shown in the WG's wiki suggests the possibility of this. It provides the option for payment processing to happen on the payee side or on the payor side. Once it gets to "Send Payment Response," the payee has the option of performing processing, and if not, it goes to the payor to be processed, perhaps using a signed, token-based architecture. A payment-complete notification is then sent to the payee, completing the transaction.
This seems like it would fulfill your requirements.
As a customer of some of McAfee's network security products (from the Secure Computing Corporation purchase McAfee made a bit earlier), it was explained to us that Intel wanted to try to integrate some of the security technologies into the hardware. Think of it like crypto functions that are commonly integrated into CPUs these days, but adding in AV and firewalls. I had no idea how this was supposed to work since firewalls are a hell of a lot more complex than a crypto algorithm and I said as much, and the SCC engineers didn't say anything, but shrugged and looked at me in a way that suggested they agreed with me. Within a couple of years, most of them had found new jobs outside the company despite having been with SCC for many years and sticking through the McAfee purchase.
There are plenty of public safety arguments in favor of applying some level of control from outside of the car. Cars in a high-speed chase put anywhere from a handful to hundreds of people in danger. Suspected stolen cars and drunk drivers could be safely pulled to the side of the road. The implementations of these could vary from nearly direct control to a signal that automatically puts the car into a parking mode (external order with details handled by the car itself).
There are various tradeoffs that have to be weighed and maybe ultimately the cons outweigh the pros, but it's incorrect to say that there is no need at all.
By the provided accounts, they were being detained by the security guards, which in many cases can legally do so if someone is caught on the property they're supposed to protect. Hostage-taking is when there's no legal reason to prevent someone from leaving in the first place.
Local banks commonly have card machines in their offices. Chase operates theirs from a central location, but I've never had a replacement card take longer than two days to arrive and it's usually the next day. In the meantime, existing authorized autopayments (Verizon, virtual server, a few other things) usually go through for at least a couple of months.
When I traveled to Europe a couple of years ago, the Chase card was the only one that had enough room on it to cover everything I expected to spend on during the trip. I called and asked what would happen if my card were lost or stolen, and they promised next-day delivery of a new card to any of the places I was staying (Zurich, Florence, and Venice). They also offered a temporary bump in the credit limit since I had a pending payment of several thousand dollars over a weekend that might not clear until I was actually in Europe.
There's plenty of general Chase business practices to generate complaints, but I've never had a problem with them and they've always gone out of their way to make my life easier.
Closing accounts can negatively affect your credit score by reducing available credit and time of oldest account (and possibly average age of accounts). If you try to maintain the same number of accounts, you also add to the number of applications, which is another negative against credit scores.
My experience with Citi matches yours, but Chase seems to be on their game. Fraudulent transactions have triggered notifications within minutes of the transaction taking place, and they're very pleasant and professional when I call to discuss them.
Both of my frequent flier-linked cards have expressly said that there is no need to call and notify them. It doesn't really change much aside from them adding a note to the account which may or may not be read by the fraud investigator--if there is one. Every time my cards have been blocked, it's completely automated, and the programs aren't likely to examine notes left in the account.
I realize the limited value of anecdotal evidence, especially from cashiers. Some just shrug and say they don't know when they'll work. But when I do get answers, they're remarkably consistent about reported problems.
Aside from Home Depot, none of the stores I've been to in the last couple of months have working chip readers. That includes Sprouts, Tom Thumb, Kroger, 7-Eleven, CVS, or any of the myriad small stores. My wife works in a small retail shop and has asked, and was told that even with the newly-deployed chip readers, they're not likely to be active for several weeks or months yet.
It's not happening as fast as it was supposed to, and that's going to be a problem come tomorrow.
It depends on one's bank. Most are going with chip and signature, but some (Barclay's comes to mind, and some banks that cater heavily to international travelers) are issuing chip and PIN cards.
I've asked dozens of stores in the last couple of months if I can use the chip reader, and they all say that they haven't enabled them (and some have said they don't have plans to enable them) because of problems with the activation of the chip readers. Two 7-Elevens told me that they had problems with double-charges, a big-box store (I don't remember which) said the cards didn't read properly all the time in tests, and several others have said as recently as last week that the required software hadn't been loaded yet because corporate was still testing upgrades. Many restaurants and stores don't even have chip readers yet.
If these are even partially accurate, then despite the long lead time, I suspect this is going to be a massive fiasco. Home Depot is the one place that I've been able to use the chip reader (and that was in July, IIRC) and it went flawlessly for the one or two transactions, but that's not to say that all of the tens of millions of other upgrades are going to work as well. I'm hoping the confusion dies down quickly, but I'm not counting on it.
Probably almost no heating, but still probably a lot of cooling. In mid-September, overnight temps in Texas are still above where most people set their thermostats, plus the house is still radiating heat collected during the day, some of which goes inward. Even with the thermostat set at 78 in a relatively young house (11 years) built with good insulation, here in Dallas the AC still comes on regularly throughout the night.
At their peak, there were 61 million pagers in use in the US. However, many of them were regional, so the broadcast didn't have to go over the entire country, which helped them scale. Now, there are but a small fraction of that number still in use. Trying to bring it up to the cell phone count in just the US (where the number of cell phones actually exceeds the population count) would be astronomically difficult, especially if everyone expected universal coverage as they do now. An average of one page per phone per day, assuming 100 bytes sent per page, would require a constant 3Mbps download stream to monitor. Delivering with any kind of timeliness would require much higher rates, and it would all have to be processed by every device. That's a lot of energy use just to watch the traffic coming across. It gets worse if the messages are encrypted and decryption checks have to be made on every one.
Those conflicts will be fought by drones only if the government intends to lose. Drones can't hold territory, while soldiers can. Those soldiers will need something more capable than a drone.
Engaging from a set distance isn't a rigged test. It's very realistic. It's the same as CAS aircraft loitering in the vicinity of fighting, not knowing where they'll be called to, then vectoring, approaching, engaging, and disengaging. The F-35 has an advantage in approach speed, and when you're under fire from the enemy, fast engagement becomes extremely important not only for your safety but for the safety of the CAS aircraft in that the enemy will have less time to bring in reinforcements.
I'm a huge fan of the A-10 and expect it will do better in a number of tests in a fair competition, including the raw number of targets that can be engaged primarily due to the gun's ammo capacity. I'm not a terribly big fan of the F-35, believing that it's trying to combine too many functions into one airplane. But for a CAS demonstration, I expect that the F-35 will be fitted with external stores (appropriate in an area where air supremacy and some level of major SAM suppression have been achieved). External stores capacity for the two planes is similar weight-wise (16,000 pounds on 11 hardpoints for the A-10 vs. 15,000 pounds on 6 hardpoints for the F-35), but a maximum load for either plane is unrealistic as it adds drag, reduces range and loiter time, impacts agility, and increases stress on the aircraft. A-10s in Afghanistan would rarely go out with more than a single weapon or pod per pylon, and often with four or more stations empty. The F-35, of course, also has the internal stores that can handle up to four Small Diameter Bombs each.
Low-altitude survival time probably goes to the A-10, but accuracy could be a toss up between the slower and more stable A-10 and the faster but perhaps quicker to lock and launch F-35. This may be a closer competition than many believe.
Convention. Isotopic notation is similarly reversed from how it's pronounced. One says, "uranium-235" and yet the isotope goes to the top-left of the atomic symbol.
Neither of those is an option for me simply because I don't have either roof type that you describe. Looking around, I see some DIY options in the US, but most of the sites that talk about it suggest not doing it unless you already do it professionally.
They're signed. Kali even ran into an expired certificate not too long ago that caused a bunch of warning messages and errors. Easily fixed with a single line, or avoided if one was updating regularly, but still present for enough people.
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There are plenty of English-language publications from media sources in the region. There are also reports from various groups that consistently paint the same picture.
The view of ISIS as "evil" isn't a twisting of the media. When you've managed to turn the entire world against you with such disparate groups as the West, Russia, and al-Qaeda essentially on the same side opposing you, it's usually a good sign you're on the wrong path.
Aside from file sharing, how many programs use BitTorrent? I'm not challenging the defense here, as I also don't equate BitTorrent with piracy, especially since my main use is personal file synchronization using BitSync and downloading Linux ISOs.
I seem to recall that Blizzard's Battle.net uses it, which I suspect is a non-trivial percentage of traffic. Do any other game management systems make use of it?
Intel doesn't want AMD to die off because that would subject its practices to monopoly scrutiny. It shares just enough patent information with AMD to allow it to trail a bit behind (in exchange for access to AMD patents, of course) and not completely collapse. The one time that AMD managed to move ahead of Intel (when the Athlon was the king of the hill), Intel pulled out all the stops to prevent it getting a solid foothold in the PC market until Intel's Core 2 Duo could come along and put Intel technologically back in the lead. AMD hasn't had the money to effectively compete since then in part because Intel ensured that its bank accounts couldn't build up too far.
They do, but they're not remotely the threat that they used to be. The various non-KKK white power groups are more of a problem.
I despise the KKK and what they stand for, but as long as they're not using violence or threat of violence, they have the right to undertake their actions anonymously. The ACLU has sided with them several times on free speech and anonymity points. Publishing this list is a form of presumed guilt, and as others have mentioned, there's little way to prove that it's accurate.
The path as shown in the WG's wiki suggests the possibility of this. It provides the option for payment processing to happen on the payee side or on the payor side. Once it gets to "Send Payment Response," the payee has the option of performing processing, and if not, it goes to the payor to be processed, perhaps using a signed, token-based architecture. A payment-complete notification is then sent to the payee, completing the transaction.
This seems like it would fulfill your requirements.
As a customer of some of McAfee's network security products (from the Secure Computing Corporation purchase McAfee made a bit earlier), it was explained to us that Intel wanted to try to integrate some of the security technologies into the hardware. Think of it like crypto functions that are commonly integrated into CPUs these days, but adding in AV and firewalls. I had no idea how this was supposed to work since firewalls are a hell of a lot more complex than a crypto algorithm and I said as much, and the SCC engineers didn't say anything, but shrugged and looked at me in a way that suggested they agreed with me. Within a couple of years, most of them had found new jobs outside the company despite having been with SCC for many years and sticking through the McAfee purchase.
There are plenty of public safety arguments in favor of applying some level of control from outside of the car. Cars in a high-speed chase put anywhere from a handful to hundreds of people in danger. Suspected stolen cars and drunk drivers could be safely pulled to the side of the road. The implementations of these could vary from nearly direct control to a signal that automatically puts the car into a parking mode (external order with details handled by the car itself).
There are various tradeoffs that have to be weighed and maybe ultimately the cons outweigh the pros, but it's incorrect to say that there is no need at all.
By the provided accounts, they were being detained by the security guards, which in many cases can legally do so if someone is caught on the property they're supposed to protect. Hostage-taking is when there's no legal reason to prevent someone from leaving in the first place.
Local banks commonly have card machines in their offices. Chase operates theirs from a central location, but I've never had a replacement card take longer than two days to arrive and it's usually the next day. In the meantime, existing authorized autopayments (Verizon, virtual server, a few other things) usually go through for at least a couple of months.
When I traveled to Europe a couple of years ago, the Chase card was the only one that had enough room on it to cover everything I expected to spend on during the trip. I called and asked what would happen if my card were lost or stolen, and they promised next-day delivery of a new card to any of the places I was staying (Zurich, Florence, and Venice). They also offered a temporary bump in the credit limit since I had a pending payment of several thousand dollars over a weekend that might not clear until I was actually in Europe.
There's plenty of general Chase business practices to generate complaints, but I've never had a problem with them and they've always gone out of their way to make my life easier.
Closing accounts can negatively affect your credit score by reducing available credit and time of oldest account (and possibly average age of accounts). If you try to maintain the same number of accounts, you also add to the number of applications, which is another negative against credit scores.
My experience with Citi matches yours, but Chase seems to be on their game. Fraudulent transactions have triggered notifications within minutes of the transaction taking place, and they're very pleasant and professional when I call to discuss them.
Both of my frequent flier-linked cards have expressly said that there is no need to call and notify them. It doesn't really change much aside from them adding a note to the account which may or may not be read by the fraud investigator--if there is one. Every time my cards have been blocked, it's completely automated, and the programs aren't likely to examine notes left in the account.
I realize the limited value of anecdotal evidence, especially from cashiers. Some just shrug and say they don't know when they'll work. But when I do get answers, they're remarkably consistent about reported problems.
Aside from Home Depot, none of the stores I've been to in the last couple of months have working chip readers. That includes Sprouts, Tom Thumb, Kroger, 7-Eleven, CVS, or any of the myriad small stores. My wife works in a small retail shop and has asked, and was told that even with the newly-deployed chip readers, they're not likely to be active for several weeks or months yet.
It's not happening as fast as it was supposed to, and that's going to be a problem come tomorrow.
It depends on one's bank. Most are going with chip and signature, but some (Barclay's comes to mind, and some banks that cater heavily to international travelers) are issuing chip and PIN cards.
I've asked dozens of stores in the last couple of months if I can use the chip reader, and they all say that they haven't enabled them (and some have said they don't have plans to enable them) because of problems with the activation of the chip readers. Two 7-Elevens told me that they had problems with double-charges, a big-box store (I don't remember which) said the cards didn't read properly all the time in tests, and several others have said as recently as last week that the required software hadn't been loaded yet because corporate was still testing upgrades. Many restaurants and stores don't even have chip readers yet.
If these are even partially accurate, then despite the long lead time, I suspect this is going to be a massive fiasco. Home Depot is the one place that I've been able to use the chip reader (and that was in July, IIRC) and it went flawlessly for the one or two transactions, but that's not to say that all of the tens of millions of other upgrades are going to work as well. I'm hoping the confusion dies down quickly, but I'm not counting on it.
Probably almost no heating, but still probably a lot of cooling. In mid-September, overnight temps in Texas are still above where most people set their thermostats, plus the house is still radiating heat collected during the day, some of which goes inward. Even with the thermostat set at 78 in a relatively young house (11 years) built with good insulation, here in Dallas the AC still comes on regularly throughout the night.
330 million cell phones in the US * 100 bytes / message * 1 message / phone = 3Mbps constant download speed, plus decryption checks.
It would be a great hand-warmer in the winter for as long as the battery lasted.
At their peak, there were 61 million pagers in use in the US. However, many of them were regional, so the broadcast didn't have to go over the entire country, which helped them scale. Now, there are but a small fraction of that number still in use. Trying to bring it up to the cell phone count in just the US (where the number of cell phones actually exceeds the population count) would be astronomically difficult, especially if everyone expected universal coverage as they do now. An average of one page per phone per day, assuming 100 bytes sent per page, would require a constant 3Mbps download stream to monitor. Delivering with any kind of timeliness would require much higher rates, and it would all have to be processed by every device. That's a lot of energy use just to watch the traffic coming across. It gets worse if the messages are encrypted and decryption checks have to be made on every one.
Those conflicts will be fought by drones only if the government intends to lose. Drones can't hold territory, while soldiers can. Those soldiers will need something more capable than a drone.
Engaging from a set distance isn't a rigged test. It's very realistic. It's the same as CAS aircraft loitering in the vicinity of fighting, not knowing where they'll be called to, then vectoring, approaching, engaging, and disengaging. The F-35 has an advantage in approach speed, and when you're under fire from the enemy, fast engagement becomes extremely important not only for your safety but for the safety of the CAS aircraft in that the enemy will have less time to bring in reinforcements.
I'm a huge fan of the A-10 and expect it will do better in a number of tests in a fair competition, including the raw number of targets that can be engaged primarily due to the gun's ammo capacity. I'm not a terribly big fan of the F-35, believing that it's trying to combine too many functions into one airplane. But for a CAS demonstration, I expect that the F-35 will be fitted with external stores (appropriate in an area where air supremacy and some level of major SAM suppression have been achieved). External stores capacity for the two planes is similar weight-wise (16,000 pounds on 11 hardpoints for the A-10 vs. 15,000 pounds on 6 hardpoints for the F-35), but a maximum load for either plane is unrealistic as it adds drag, reduces range and loiter time, impacts agility, and increases stress on the aircraft. A-10s in Afghanistan would rarely go out with more than a single weapon or pod per pylon, and often with four or more stations empty. The F-35, of course, also has the internal stores that can handle up to four Small Diameter Bombs each.
Low-altitude survival time probably goes to the A-10, but accuracy could be a toss up between the slower and more stable A-10 and the faster but perhaps quicker to lock and launch F-35. This may be a closer competition than many believe.
Convention. Isotopic notation is similarly reversed from how it's pronounced. One says, "uranium-235" and yet the isotope goes to the top-left of the atomic symbol.
In English, Irish, Latvian, and Maltese, the Euro symbol is placed before the value. This is actually encoded in official European Union usage guidelines.
Neither of those is an option for me simply because I don't have either roof type that you describe. Looking around, I see some DIY options in the US, but most of the sites that talk about it suggest not doing it unless you already do it professionally.
They're signed. Kali even ran into an expired certificate not too long ago that caused a bunch of warning messages and errors. Easily fixed with a single line, or avoided if one was updating regularly, but still present for enough people.