I guess they should have let people use OtherOS like the PS3... until they didn't. Coincidentally, a couple years after OtherOS was disabled the PS3 was cracked.
The lesson to be learned here: lock out Linux hackers and you're gonna get pwn3d.
The Cell based PS3 was seriously powerful hardware being sold at a very attractive price by Sony. PS3 clusters made economic sense if you were in the market for a cheap distributed computing platform. The x86 based PS4 was little more than a mid-range PC when released and was sold at break-even price by Sony. Now it would be considered obsolete hardware in the PC world. OtherOS on PS4 would be nothing more than a novelty.
Funny thing, strip the nicotine from the terrible delivery system (and the MAOIs it contains) and nicotine becomes much more benign.
But in general, most of the actual harm from drugs comes from the prohibition itself.
Nicotine is a mild stimulant just like caffeine, by far the worlds most used drug. I really don't understand the growing condemnation of nicotine vaporizers. It is like drug court judges who force addicts to get off successful Methadone regiments because of moral opposition to drugs, while sipping on a cup of joe of course.
Preventing all terrorist attacks is impossible. The most important thing for governments is to keep the public calm by giving the impression of security. A afraid and panicked populace is a bigger threat to those in power than the terrorists themselves. The false sense of security, ineffective but very visible security measures provide is in fact exactly what they want. Of course they could have saved millions of dollars by making consoles with blinking lights themselves.
They need to explain why the massive global surveillance failed to stop the attacks and the reasons they came up with is Snowden and encryption. This is despite their own reports that showed their massive surveillance to not be effective against terrorism even before Snowden and widespread encryption. Big-Data is great for statistical analysis, if is not very useful for spear-fishing.
Whats really the problem is the current H1-B system which basically makes foreign workers Indentured servants to the corporation that hires them. If they get fired for demanding fair pay and benefits then they are sent back home. A good way to end the abuse and make H1b less attractive as a source of cheap labor is to simply make it a 10 year non-conditional work visa. If they can actually compete in the jobs marketplace without fear of loosing their visa they will be far less inclined to accept unfair pay/benefits/working conditions.
It's called an extradition treaty, and it works both ways. Also, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that attempting to frame someone for possession of heroin and botnet-related crimes are illegal both in the US and in Ukraine.
The U.S and Ukraine do not have a extradition treaty. He was apprehended in Italy, a country with which the U.S has a extradition treaty.
In any case with Kiev needing Washington's support in its fight with Russian backed rebels I doubt they would have much of a problem handing a politically-unconnected criminal over, even without a extradition treaty.
While I agree that any toddler who shoots a gun accidentally should be automatically taken away from their parents, there are some flaws with your argument:
1. If guns are similar to hazardous chemicals, why don't guns require gun locks like hazardous chemicals do (child-proof lids)? Hint: gun lobby fights any effort in this direction.
2. Guns are many, many times deadlier than kitchen knives, electrical outlets, heavy objects, or hard floors.
Most states have child Gun access prevention laws.
The truth is that a lot of accidents actually happen at the houses of relatives or friends which do not normally have children present and therefore had no reason to childproof their home and lock their weapons. Should someones child be taken away because he/she drank grandmas drain-cleaner?
The NRA is not the slightest bit interested in gun safety, that’s a smokescreen. They’re the lobby for the arms industry.
There is a difference between promoting gun safety and supporting Nany-State legislation's. Most citizens support private gun ownership and they support some common-sense gun control laws, however when Liberals push for "Sensible gun controls" they are as believable as Conservatives pushing for "Abortion restrictions meant to protect the life of the mother."
Assuming you are not working for the military asking for written orders is sure to raise a few eyebrows and it is really not necessary as long as you take care to document the exchange.
1. Make sure the meetings time and date is recorded on the companies calendar system.
2. Write up a report on the meeting and file it in the companies records system.
3. Write a email to team-members explaining that you will be diverting resources to work on this project order by Management.
4. Comment the code to make it clear under who's authority it was committed.
With all that documentation management would have a very difficult time convincing anyone that it was the work of some rogue engineers.
> "About the only point of agreement so far is that 5G is what we'll all be building or buying after 4G..."
I was going to comment on how obvious and unnecessary the "5G comes after 4G" thing is, but then I remembered Windows 9 and and OS-X "saber-tooth tiger" and realized that with technology, the succession isn't necessarily that obvious.
10Mbit or 100Mbit to your broadband provider doesn't mean anything if what is overloaded are the interconnects between the broadband provider and the service providers. Starting with Comcast the large broadband providers engaged in deliberate interconnect congestion tactics that eventually forced Netflix and others to make direct payments to restore acceptable service to their customers, The new net neutrality rules are supposed to put an end to this practice but between net neutrality being tied up in courts and the GOP vowing to tear it down, the future is uncertain.
Lived in Alabama for four years. This represents major progress. However, there's still a long way to go.
The GOP is learning that educating generations of children to mistrusts science has its drawbacks. The anti-GMO sentiments basically falls in 2 camps. Liberals that mistrust the Corporations involved and Conservatives that mistrust the science involved.
Starting with long lines and ending with rude, overworked, less-then-knowledgeable cashiers the payment method whether cash, plastic or nfc is the least of the annoyances.
All the major operators are moving away from the 2 year contract yet apple still list the iphone prices in terms of a 2 year contract.
I am guessing even Apple knows that many customers are going to balk at the iphones true starting price of $650.
Countless individuals have died fighting to gain their liberty and you would give it up for something as fleeting as money? Even minimum security prisons are still a traumatic dehumanizing experience that not only will rob you of some of the limited time we have to do something meaningful in life but is likely to scar you emotionally for years to come,if not permanently.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry
No, they just thought it would be nice not to have their First Amendment rights infringed, that's all.
Want to explain to me why Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the ruling why Republicans supported it? Do Democrats not want their first amendment rights or is it much more likely that Republicans thought they stood to gain from the ruling while Democrats thought that they stood to loose.
Off topic wrt Bhutan, but... I find GDP a particularly frustrating statistic, especially when trotted out as GDP per capita at PPP and used as a comparator between countries. It tells you nothing about the income distribution within a country -- a slave plantation, for example, would have a pretty decent income per capita. Median income per capita would be a far more meaningful statistic in so many ways.
Depends what you are comparing. GDP per capita makes sense if you are comparing productivity as in the original article, after all the slaves are being productive, they just aren't being compensated fairly for their work. If you want to compare citizens average wealth then GDP per capita can be very misleading as per your example.
The reason why is because it's dead easy to run as one of the major parties and use their ballot line. In some states it is practically too late to try to start a new party or run as an independent; it's an incredibly time-consuming and resource-draining process. If he runs as a Democrat, he's on the ballot in all 50 states and DC. If he runs as an indy, he might be able to reach somewhere in the 30-40 state range.
Unlike the UK (which I'm assuming you're from just because that's the easiest assumption), where a few signatures and a deposit gets you on the ballot, here each state has different rules, and most states unabashedly try to keep independents or minor party candidates off the ballots with unequal laws.
The main political parties in the U.S are heterogeneous and not only loosely bound in ideology but even somewhat accepting of members with contradicting positions. There are Republicans and Democrats which differ with their own party even in defining issues such as abortion, gun-control and fiscal policy. MP voting against their own party is a sure way to a party split in Parliamentary systems, in the United States Congressman and even Senators regularly vote against the parties leadership.
The Republicans thought they would have the upper hand in the post Citizens United era. The truth is that among the top 100 individual donors more than half are democrats and for whatever reason Democrats tend to have a higher % of their supporters contribute financially despite them generally earning less then their Republican counterparts . The SuperPACS are generally simply cancelling each other out and have had limited impact outside of primaries. As time and effort spent fundraising is reaching ridiculous levels, support for campaign reform is rising even on the Republican side.
Case in point, I just checked my own health plan's website, and if I wanted to go on Truvada, it would cost me $1762.61 for a 90-day supply.
Rounding to make the math simple... $600 a month is a car payment, for a fairly expensive car. In some places, that could be an entire rent check or even mortgage payment. That's overtly extortionate for a life-saving preventative treatment. And I, at least, would have *some* coverage for it. According to drugs.com, retail pricing runs about $1500 per 30-days. That rises up to a C. Montgomery Burns level of inhumanity.
Want to keep your luxury car, then spend $5 on a pack of condoms instead.
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I guess they should have let people use OtherOS like the PS3... until they didn't. Coincidentally, a couple years after OtherOS was disabled the PS3 was cracked.
The lesson to be learned here: lock out Linux hackers and you're gonna get pwn3d.
The Cell based PS3 was seriously powerful hardware being sold at a very attractive price by Sony. PS3 clusters made economic sense if you were in the market for a cheap distributed computing platform. The x86 based PS4 was little more than a mid-range PC when released and was sold at break-even price by Sony. Now it would be considered obsolete hardware in the PC world. OtherOS on PS4 would be nothing more than a novelty.
Funny thing, strip the nicotine from the terrible delivery system (and the MAOIs it contains) and nicotine becomes much more benign.
But in general, most of the actual harm from drugs comes from the prohibition itself.
Nicotine is a mild stimulant just like caffeine, by far the worlds most used drug. I really don't understand the growing condemnation of nicotine vaporizers. It is like drug court judges who force addicts to get off successful Methadone regiments because of moral opposition to drugs, while sipping on a cup of joe of course.
Preventing all terrorist attacks is impossible. The most important thing for governments is to keep the public calm by giving the impression of security. A afraid and panicked populace is a bigger threat to those in power than the terrorists themselves. The false sense of security, ineffective but very visible security measures provide is in fact exactly what they want. Of course they could have saved millions of dollars by making consoles with blinking lights themselves.
They need to explain why the massive global surveillance failed to stop the attacks and the reasons they came up with is Snowden and encryption. This is despite their own reports that showed their massive surveillance to not be effective against terrorism even before Snowden and widespread encryption. Big-Data is great for statistical analysis, if is not very useful for spear-fishing.
Whats really the problem is the current H1-B system which basically makes foreign workers Indentured servants to the corporation that hires them. If they get fired for demanding fair pay and benefits then they are sent back home. A good way to end the abuse and make H1b less attractive as a source of cheap labor is to simply make it a 10 year non-conditional work visa. If they can actually compete in the jobs marketplace without fear of loosing their visa they will be far less inclined to accept unfair pay/benefits/working conditions.
It seems like surveillance is a big deal after all. When they are the ones being spied on at least!
It's called an extradition treaty, and it works both ways. Also, I'm going to take a wild guess and say that attempting to frame someone for possession of heroin and botnet-related crimes are illegal both in the US and in Ukraine.
The U.S and Ukraine do not have a extradition treaty. He was apprehended in Italy, a country with which the U.S has a extradition treaty. In any case with Kiev needing Washington's support in its fight with Russian backed rebels I doubt they would have much of a problem handing a politically-unconnected criminal over, even without a extradition treaty.
While I agree that any toddler who shoots a gun accidentally should be automatically taken away from their parents, there are some flaws with your argument:
1. If guns are similar to hazardous chemicals, why don't guns require gun locks like hazardous chemicals do (child-proof lids)? Hint: gun lobby fights any effort in this direction.
2. Guns are many, many times deadlier than kitchen knives, electrical outlets, heavy objects, or hard floors.
Most states have child Gun access prevention laws. The truth is that a lot of accidents actually happen at the houses of relatives or friends which do not normally have children present and therefore had no reason to childproof their home and lock their weapons. Should someones child be taken away because he/she drank grandmas drain-cleaner?
The NRA is not the slightest bit interested in gun safety, that’s a smokescreen. They’re the lobby for the arms industry.
There is a difference between promoting gun safety and supporting Nany-State legislation's. Most citizens support private gun ownership and they support some common-sense gun control laws, however when Liberals push for "Sensible gun controls" they are as believable as Conservatives pushing for "Abortion restrictions meant to protect the life of the mother."
1. Make sure the meetings time and date is recorded on the companies calendar system.
2. Write up a report on the meeting and file it in the companies records system.
3. Write a email to team-members explaining that you will be diverting resources to work on this project order by Management.
4. Comment the code to make it clear under who's authority it was committed.
With all that documentation management would have a very difficult time convincing anyone that it was the work of some rogue engineers.
Isn't errors in the data analysis exactly the sort of issue the peer-review system is supposed to catch?
> "About the only point of agreement so far is that 5G is what we'll all be building or buying after 4G..." I was going to comment on how obvious and unnecessary the "5G comes after 4G" thing is, but then I remembered Windows 9 and and OS-X "saber-tooth tiger" and realized that with technology, the succession isn't necessarily that obvious.
Guess you forgot about 2.5G as well.
I am tired of Religious beliefs dictating Ethics. This is especially true for stem-cell research.
An embryo can grow into a human given the right conditions, namely being carried to term by the host.
A zygote can grow into a human given the right conditions, namely attaching to uterues and being carried to term by the host
An egg can do the same given the right conditions, namely getting fertilized and then attaching to uterues and being carried to term by the host.
None of them is a human being despite your Religious convictions.
So why would one have anything against folks that want to institute Sharia law in Texas . . . ? .
Sharia Law in Texas? Are they mad! Everyone knows that only Christian law apply in Texas.
Christians trying to ram their beliefs down our throats in the name of "Religious Freedom" gives me a uneasy feeling about Christianity as well..
He is being hailed as a symbol against prejudice and suspicion. Whether he is a genius or not makes absolutely no difference in this case.
10Mbit or 100Mbit to your broadband provider doesn't mean anything if what is overloaded are the interconnects between the broadband provider and the service providers. Starting with Comcast the large broadband providers engaged in deliberate interconnect congestion tactics that eventually forced Netflix and others to make direct payments to restore acceptable service to their customers, The new net neutrality rules are supposed to put an end to this practice but between net neutrality being tied up in courts and the GOP vowing to tear it down, the future is uncertain.
Lived in Alabama for four years. This represents major progress. However, there's still a long way to go.
The GOP is learning that educating generations of children to mistrusts science has its drawbacks. The anti-GMO sentiments basically falls in 2 camps. Liberals that mistrust the Corporations involved and Conservatives that mistrust the science involved.
Starting with long lines and ending with rude, overworked, less-then-knowledgeable cashiers the payment method whether cash, plastic or nfc is the least of the annoyances.
All the major operators are moving away from the 2 year contract yet apple still list the iphone prices in terms of a 2 year contract. I am guessing even Apple knows that many customers are going to balk at the iphones true starting price of $650.
I'll do two years standing on my head for 280K.
Countless individuals have died fighting to gain their liberty and you would give it up for something as fleeting as money? Even minimum security prisons are still a traumatic dehumanizing experience that not only will rob you of some of the limited time we have to do something meaningful in life but is likely to scar you emotionally for years to come ,if not permanently.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!" - Patrick Henry
No, they just thought it would be nice not to have their First Amendment rights infringed, that's all.
Want to explain to me why Democrats overwhelmingly opposed the ruling why Republicans supported it? Do Democrats not want their first amendment rights or is it much more likely that Republicans thought they stood to gain from the ruling while Democrats thought that they stood to loose.
Off topic wrt Bhutan, but... I find GDP a particularly frustrating statistic, especially when trotted out as GDP per capita at PPP and used as a comparator between countries. It tells you nothing about the income distribution within a country -- a slave plantation, for example, would have a pretty decent income per capita. Median income per capita would be a far more meaningful statistic in so many ways.
Depends what you are comparing. GDP per capita makes sense if you are comparing productivity as in the original article, after all the slaves are being productive, they just aren't being compensated fairly for their work. If you want to compare citizens average wealth then GDP per capita can be very misleading as per your example.
The reason why is because it's dead easy to run as one of the major parties and use their ballot line. In some states it is practically too late to try to start a new party or run as an independent; it's an incredibly time-consuming and resource-draining process. If he runs as a Democrat, he's on the ballot in all 50 states and DC. If he runs as an indy, he might be able to reach somewhere in the 30-40 state range.
Unlike the UK (which I'm assuming you're from just because that's the easiest assumption), where a few signatures and a deposit gets you on the ballot, here each state has different rules, and most states unabashedly try to keep independents or minor party candidates off the ballots with unequal laws.
The main political parties in the U.S are heterogeneous and not only loosely bound in ideology but even somewhat accepting of members with contradicting positions. There are Republicans and Democrats which differ with their own party even in defining issues such as abortion, gun-control and fiscal policy. MP voting against their own party is a sure way to a party split in Parliamentary systems, in the United States Congressman and even Senators regularly vote against the parties leadership.
The Republicans thought they would have the upper hand in the post Citizens United era. The truth is that among the top 100 individual donors more than half are democrats and for whatever reason Democrats tend to have a higher % of their supporters contribute financially despite them generally earning less then their Republican counterparts . The SuperPACS are generally simply cancelling each other out and have had limited impact outside of primaries. As time and effort spent fundraising is reaching ridiculous levels, support for campaign reform is rising even on the Republican side.
Case in point, I just checked my own health plan's website, and if I wanted to go on Truvada, it would cost me $1762.61 for a 90-day supply.
Rounding to make the math simple... $600 a month is a car payment, for a fairly expensive car. In some places, that could be an entire rent check or even mortgage payment. That's overtly extortionate for a life-saving preventative treatment. And I, at least, would have *some* coverage for it. According to drugs.com, retail pricing runs about $1500 per 30-days. That rises up to a C. Montgomery Burns level of inhumanity.
Want to keep your luxury car, then spend $5 on a pack of condoms instead.