How long ago was this? My understanding is that almost everything is electronic now, so being able to push people around in the pit doesn't help much these days...
Obviously. Obstruction of justice, or whatever, can lead to jail time. But jail time is a far better alternative to having the millions you stole taken back. If they can't prove he stole it, he gets to keep it.
If you want a firewall, run a firewall. This is not complicated. Using NAT for a firewall is like hideously disfiguring your face as birth control because you're too dumb to use condoms.
NAT is not a firewall. Want a firewall? Run a firewall. Windows comes with one. So does linux. Modern ISPs even build them into their broadband modems. Welcome to the world of tomorrow, kid.
ISPs won't support it until customers demand it. This requires government action: use stimulus money to make free porno available to all over IPv6 only. And not just any porno: the kinkiest, highest-resolution, full-length nastiness the Feds can commission.
Your U-Verse box will have a v6 address within a week.
Your savings account money typically funds mortgages and small businesses. "Wall Street" runs on capital largely derived from the sale of stocks, and banks don't buy stock with their depositors' money.
The PE has no special legal weight. It is, in fact, a piece of paper like the MCSE. There may be some administrators who yank or certificate under some conditions, but many certs have such things.
The jokers who run the PE program were trying to push software engineering students to take it when I was in school. It was a total joke--hardly anything being tested had anything to do with software engineering.
Having a PE certificate is no guarantee of having knowledge. Anybody idiot can get a certification with some dedication. And that idiot can sign off on anything, until he gets caught and loses his piece of paper (maybe). At that point, another idiot can take his place, and the cycle repeats itself.
Well, I was fooling around with an Indian chick, but she wanted to consult with an astrologer before things got too serious. I refused to tell her my birthdate and pay an extortion fee to some con man for his blessing of the relationship. Now I'm forever alone, and am very aware of the real harmful effects of India's perverse fascination with astrology.
I'm with you. "Cyber" used to mean something, man! When I was a lad, to "cyber" meant to masturbate while text-chatting with a man who is pretending to be a woman. It's time to take back "cyber!"
Seamless? The transition was not seamless! The scarcity of IPv4 addresses has been breaking things for YEARS, ever since the first NAT deployment. Now it will just get worse at a faster rate, until v6 is popular enough that we can reliably address packets to any host on the internet (firewall permitting) and see them get there without needing any "forwarding" nonsense.
To say the US "barely" has the top credit rating is to say they are on a downgrade watch. The US is not on a downgrade watch, therefore your statement is false.
The ultra-rich don't get bonuses. The entirety of their incomes are from dividends and distributions, with the occasional token boardmember salary of $100k or so.
The reason mortgages were being given to anyone with or without a pulse was because banks and investors were lending to them. Banks and investors were lending to them because their computer models said that the risk of default was extremely low.
There are only two reasons the computers could have said those mortgages were a sure thing. One: The humans fed the computers bogus data; Two: the computers were bugged and giving bogus answers from correct data.
Turns out, the humans were at fault, as most people suspected.
The poor were not "scammed" on the mortgage deal. For a time, they got to live in expensive houses for low costs--much lower than renting a similar-sized place. Once the crash happened, they had to move back into places they could afford, and the rich had to eat the losses... (then the government stepped in.)
Well, if the market rate for debt at the time was high, but the government loaned them money at a lower rate, that is, in fact, a give-away. In addition to giving the interest away, they were gambling with the principle. In all cases, your future earnings and those of your children were used to fund this give-out and gambling for the benefit of the international investor class.
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How long ago was this? My understanding is that almost everything is electronic now, so being able to push people around in the pit doesn't help much these days...
To reach "parity with the dollar" means nothing. A Yen may be worth $0.01, but that doesn't mean ANYTHING about the strength of the Yen.
Non-violent, non-repeat criminals typically won't end up in that sort of prison (maximum security federal penitentiary).
Obviously. Obstruction of justice, or whatever, can lead to jail time. But jail time is a far better alternative to having the millions you stole taken back. If they can't prove he stole it, he gets to keep it.
Yeah, and BMW needs to offer an $18,000 Rolls Royce minivan if it wants to compete...
If our frame of reference were perpetually, immortally static, what you say would be meaningful.
But it isn't. Our frame of reference could change. Therefore, we need to consider a more absolute value for time.
If you want a firewall, run a firewall. This is not complicated. Using NAT for a firewall is like hideously disfiguring your face as birth control because you're too dumb to use condoms.
NAT is not a firewall. Want a firewall? Run a firewall. Windows comes with one. So does linux. Modern ISPs even build them into their broadband modems. Welcome to the world of tomorrow, kid.
ISPs won't support it until customers demand it. This requires government action: use stimulus money to make free porno available to all over IPv6 only. And not just any porno: the kinkiest, highest-resolution, full-length nastiness the Feds can commission.
Your U-Verse box will have a v6 address within a week.
Your savings account money typically funds mortgages and small businesses. "Wall Street" runs on capital largely derived from the sale of stocks, and banks don't buy stock with their depositors' money.
The PE has no special legal weight. It is, in fact, a piece of paper like the MCSE. There may be some administrators who yank or certificate under some conditions, but many certs have such things.
The jokers who run the PE program were trying to push software engineering students to take it when I was in school. It was a total joke--hardly anything being tested had anything to do with software engineering.
The slashdot solution to challenges to liberty: become a homeless, jobless bum.
Having a PE certificate is no guarantee of having knowledge. Anybody idiot can get a certification with some dedication. And that idiot can sign off on anything, until he gets caught and loses his piece of paper (maybe). At that point, another idiot can take his place, and the cycle repeats itself.
Well, I was fooling around with an Indian chick, but she wanted to consult with an astrologer before things got too serious. I refused to tell her my birthdate and pay an extortion fee to some con man for his blessing of the relationship. Now I'm forever alone, and am very aware of the real harmful effects of India's perverse fascination with astrology.
I'm with you. "Cyber" used to mean something, man! When I was a lad, to "cyber" meant to masturbate while text-chatting with a man who is pretending to be a woman. It's time to take back "cyber!"
Seamless? The transition was not seamless! The scarcity of IPv4 addresses has been breaking things for YEARS, ever since the first NAT deployment. Now it will just get worse at a faster rate, until v6 is popular enough that we can reliably address packets to any host on the internet (firewall permitting) and see them get there without needing any "forwarding" nonsense.
What? Fat chicks need love too... but they gotta pay. [/quagmire]
On the contrary, I recently experimented with online dating myself. In my experience, the site should actually be called "plenty of whales" though...
That's wrong. You can loan your car to anyone who themselves has insurance. You don't have to notify anyone. Every insurance policy is this way.
To say the US "barely" has the top credit rating is to say they are on a downgrade watch. The US is not on a downgrade watch, therefore your statement is false.
The formulas were (part of) the data. And they were wrong. Humans fed computers bogus data. The computers weren't wrong, the humans were.
The ultra-rich don't get bonuses. The entirety of their incomes are from dividends and distributions, with the occasional token boardmember salary of $100k or so.
The reason mortgages were being given to anyone with or without a pulse was because banks and investors were lending to them. Banks and investors were lending to them because their computer models said that the risk of default was extremely low.
There are only two reasons the computers could have said those mortgages were a sure thing. One: The humans fed the computers bogus data; Two: the computers were bugged and giving bogus answers from correct data.
Turns out, the humans were at fault, as most people suspected.
The poor were not "scammed" on the mortgage deal. For a time, they got to live in expensive houses for low costs--much lower than renting a similar-sized place. Once the crash happened, they had to move back into places they could afford, and the rich had to eat the losses... (then the government stepped in.)
Well, if the market rate for debt at the time was high, but the government loaned them money at a lower rate, that is, in fact, a give-away. In addition to giving the interest away, they were gambling with the principle. In all cases, your future earnings and those of your children were used to fund this give-out and gambling for the benefit of the international investor class.