But Germany did screw up Greece by imposing more and more austerity measures just when the country needed a boost from fiscal spending.
Problem is it needed responsible fiscal spending, not just spending. Greece is great at spending, but the vast majority of it is completely irresponsible. Providing more money would just have lead to more of the same. The only options were to bring in regulators to tell the Greeks how to spend (which wouldn't have gone down at all well) or to cut off the credit (which didn't go so well either). It's not something that can be fixed by any external agency, you'd need to reform the Greek way of doing business.
Had Greece been out of the EU, they could have devalued their currency and/or defaulted on their debts. After a couple of years of turmoil they could have achieved sustainable growth.
While I agree with the first part, I can't see how you can get the second from it. Have you ever worked/lived in Greece, or tried to run a company there? I'd rather try running a company in Nigeria, it has the same level of dysfunctionality and corruption but at least it's out in the open, and you can buy your way past any obstacles. In Greece, everything is unfuriatingly broken but you also typically can't buy your way past the obstacles (exceptions being for medical treatment and similar). I honestly don't know how you can fix that country short of some sort of reformat-and-reinstall.
I'm not saying this to bash Greece, just that having experienced it as a business environment I can't imagine how you'd fix it, there's just no easy solution I can think of.
Every choice in life is a trade-off. There is no such thing as perfect. You must prioritize what matters most to you.
A confounding factor in my case is that every clique I communicate with seems to have their own pet IM app, to the extent that I've got an entire subfolder in my phone dedicated to all the IM apps I need to run to communicate with them all. All taking up memory and resources when they poke around for new messages. What I want most is some sort of Trillian Mobile that unifies everything into one single app, not one app per user or group.
Also, is it just me or is Wickr on Android the least reliable IM app ever written, and that's including using carrier mackerel across the sahara? It loses messages, decides after an hour of sitting on them that they're now unsent, notifies for message arrivals but doesn't display them, suddenly sends out queues of weeks-old messages, etc etc. How can anyone write an app that bad?
There are dozen Windows Phone users who are applauding this.
"Do not think for one moment that that is the only Windows Phone user in the whole Soviet Union. There are dozens of users just like that one. Literally dozens".
It's also removing weight and volume (the space taken up internally is vast compared to almost everything else but the screen and battery), gets rid of the single largest ingress point for dirt and moisture (another cost issue, since it reduces reliability), and probably disenfranchises some barely-measurable fraction of the market (give me actual figures, not just "I use it so everyone else should have to as well"). Seems like a good move to me.
They also used a pretty irrelevant browser test, video streaming. How about getting it to render web pages, which is what a browser is actually meant, and typically used, for.
We are currently building a hospital in a city of 1.6 million people - which is to be the 3rd most expensive building in the world. Its more expensive than the Burj Khalifa.
Why do you think they're still using DOS-based software in SA? It's to pay for RAH...
I've been seeing these predictions since the Vietnam War at least, when the US military was playing with using computer models to predict VC attacks. Since then, this sort of modelling has been used to predict and warn about the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11, Iraq, the Noodle Incident, and the Wombat Event.
If you don't want it, leave the management interface unconnected.
For Ethernet-based ones, that often doesn't help. The LOM subsystem will detect the absence of a connection over the management LAN and switch over to using the data LAN via a portknocking interface or something similar. In other words it'll rootkit your network interface. So you actually have to set up a dummy LAN with enough infrastructure to tarpit the LOM stuff so it doesn't enable comms on the data LAN. And then hope that it remains fooled by your dummy management LAN.
It's not just that, it makes the assumption that the only way in is by factoring the 2K RSA modulus. That's not how you get in, it's by exploiting a vuln in the 12-year-old copy of OpenSSL that it's using for the crypto, or using a TCP stack exploit that other vendors patched in 1997, or taking advantage of the fact that the incoming data is copied into a fixed-size buffer with strcpy(), or a million other code-like-its-1997 practices that are common in these management-engine devices. You don't even bother with the RSA signatures, in fact they're rather useful because they tell you which bit of the system not to bother attacking.
no companies worrying about what do to when someone posts a cake emoji.
Combine that with the skull and crossbones and you've got an obvious "Cake or Death?" threat. Who cares about rifles, this is the issue we really need to be addressing.
Oh, and you! Guy in the corner. Your choice is "or Death".
Those are still Gen III reactors, which in turn are just warmed-over Gen II reactors. I don't know of any US plans to build reactors that aren't based on 50-year-old designs (with various tweaks applied). The most likely candidates to get Gen IV's into operation are probably China and Japan, with Europe and Russia coming second. The US has some cool ideas, but I can't see much coming of them.
There's actually a lot of precedent for this sort of thing in the way of ILOM/DRAC/IPMI and similar capabilities. In fact Intel's AMT isn't really news, it's been there for years. A general pattern in all of these systems is the use of crappy old ARM processors, incredibly ancient Linux kernels (2.6.x), unpatched old binaries from God knows where, and coding like it's 1997 (strcpy(), fixed-length buffers, etc). There's lots of material out there on this, e.g. Dan Farmer's take. Oh yeah, and you typically can't disable it, even when you think you've disabled it. My only surprise about all of this is that people are surprised by it.
And that's the strange thing about this: For the first time in I-don't-know-how-many-years, Mozilla are making a Firefox change that's actually useful, and that (I assume) users will appreciate. What's happening? How did this one slip through?
AT&T should just trademark "Fuck you", which is what they're really doing to customers. I don't think Citigroup would object, since their real motto, "Screw you", sounds substantially different.
Two-sentence summary: You run your crypto and store your keys on a computer controlled by your opponent. Quelle surprise, this turns out to be insecure.
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Wires are for disgusting plebs. The next generation of Apple monitors will use bluetooth. Performance doesn't matter, only aesthetics.
If they used Ultraviolettooth they wouldn't have this problem, that has a much higher data rate.
Can't wait for the new Thunderapp display
I want to use it while I'm in the Thunderbox.
But Germany did screw up Greece by imposing more and more austerity measures just when the country needed a boost from fiscal spending.
Problem is it needed responsible fiscal spending, not just spending. Greece is great at spending, but the vast majority of it is completely irresponsible. Providing more money would just have lead to more of the same. The only options were to bring in regulators to tell the Greeks how to spend (which wouldn't have gone down at all well) or to cut off the credit (which didn't go so well either). It's not something that can be fixed by any external agency, you'd need to reform the Greek way of doing business.
Had Greece been out of the EU, they could have devalued their currency and/or defaulted on their debts. After a couple of years of turmoil they could have achieved sustainable growth.
While I agree with the first part, I can't see how you can get the second from it. Have you ever worked/lived in Greece, or tried to run a company there? I'd rather try running a company in Nigeria, it has the same level of dysfunctionality and corruption but at least it's out in the open, and you can buy your way past any obstacles. In Greece, everything is unfuriatingly broken but you also typically can't buy your way past the obstacles (exceptions being for medical treatment and similar). I honestly don't know how you can fix that country short of some sort of reformat-and-reinstall.
I'm not saying this to bash Greece, just that having experienced it as a business environment I can't imagine how you'd fix it, there's just no easy solution I can think of.
Every choice in life is a trade-off. There is no such thing as perfect. You must prioritize what matters most to you.
A confounding factor in my case is that every clique I communicate with seems to have their own pet IM app, to the extent that I've got an entire subfolder in my phone dedicated to all the IM apps I need to run to communicate with them all. All taking up memory and resources when they poke around for new messages. What I want most is some sort of Trillian Mobile that unifies everything into one single app, not one app per user or group.
Also, is it just me or is Wickr on Android the least reliable IM app ever written, and that's including using carrier mackerel across the sahara? It loses messages, decides after an hour of sitting on them that they're now unsent, notifies for message arrivals but doesn't display them, suddenly sends out queues of weeks-old messages, etc etc. How can anyone write an app that bad?
There are dozen Windows Phone users who are applauding this.
"Do not think for one moment that that is the only Windows Phone user in the whole Soviet Union. There are dozens of users just like that one. Literally dozens".
It's also removing weight and volume (the space taken up internally is vast compared to almost everything else but the screen and battery), gets rid of the single largest ingress point for dirt and moisture (another cost issue, since it reduces reliability), and probably disenfranchises some barely-measurable fraction of the market (give me actual figures, not just "I use it so everyone else should have to as well"). Seems like a good move to me.
They also used a pretty irrelevant browser test, video streaming. How about getting it to render web pages, which is what a browser is actually meant, and typically used, for.
I really don't understand why movie theaters can't be built with a single-occupant unisex toilet and soundproof door
Semen. We don't have those because they'd be covered in semen.
Well, if you insist on going to those sorts of movie theatres...
We are currently building a hospital in a city of 1.6 million people - which is to be the 3rd most expensive building in the world. Its more expensive than the Burj Khalifa.
Why do you think they're still using DOS-based software in SA? It's to pay for RAH...
Ah, good point, I was thinking of the HTTR but that's barely a proof-of-concept.
Oh come on, it's at least slightly funny, even if it's mostly schadenfreude.
Of course Microsoft would want to remove competing crapware, they hate competition.
I've been seeing these predictions since the Vietnam War at least, when the US military was playing with using computer models to predict VC attacks. Since then, this sort of modelling has been used to predict and warn about the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11, Iraq, the Noodle Incident, and the Wombat Event.
If you don't want it, leave the management interface unconnected.
For Ethernet-based ones, that often doesn't help. The LOM subsystem will detect the absence of a connection over the management LAN and switch over to using the data LAN via a portknocking interface or something similar. In other words it'll rootkit your network interface. So you actually have to set up a dummy LAN with enough infrastructure to tarpit the LOM stuff so it doesn't enable comms on the data LAN. And then hope that it remains fooled by your dummy management LAN.
It's not just that, it makes the assumption that the only way in is by factoring the 2K RSA modulus. That's not how you get in, it's by exploiting a vuln in the 12-year-old copy of OpenSSL that it's using for the crypto, or using a TCP stack exploit that other vendors patched in 1997, or taking advantage of the fact that the incoming data is copied into a fixed-size buffer with strcpy(), or a million other code-like-its-1997 practices that are common in these management-engine devices. You don't even bother with the RSA signatures, in fact they're rather useful because they tell you which bit of the system not to bother attacking.
no companies worrying about what do to when someone posts a cake emoji.
Combine that with the skull and crossbones and you've got an obvious "Cake or Death?" threat. Who cares about rifles, this is the issue we really need to be addressing.
Oh, and you! Guy in the corner. Your choice is "or Death".
Those are still Gen III reactors, which in turn are just warmed-over Gen II reactors. I don't know of any US plans to build reactors that aren't based on 50-year-old designs (with various tweaks applied). The most likely candidates to get Gen IV's into operation are probably China and Japan, with Europe and Russia coming second. The US has some cool ideas, but I can't see much coming of them.
There's actually a lot of precedent for this sort of thing in the way of ILOM/DRAC/IPMI and similar capabilities. In fact Intel's AMT isn't really news, it's been there for years. A general pattern in all of these systems is the use of crappy old ARM processors, incredibly ancient Linux kernels (2.6.x), unpatched old binaries from God knows where, and coding like it's 1997 (strcpy(), fixed-length buffers, etc). There's lots of material out there on this, e.g. Dan Farmer's take. Oh yeah, and you typically can't disable it, even when you think you've disabled it. My only surprise about all of this is that people are surprised by it.
And that's the strange thing about this: For the first time in I-don't-know-how-many-years, Mozilla are making a Firefox change that's actually useful, and that (I assume) users will appreciate. What's happening? How did this one slip through?
My tulip bulbs! My tulip bulbs! Oh the tulipanity!
AT&T should just trademark "Fuck you", which is what they're really doing to customers. I don't think Citigroup would object, since their real motto, "Screw you", sounds substantially different.
Give me the rundown. How does it work?
Two-sentence summary: You run your crypto and store your keys on a computer controlled by your opponent. Quelle surprise, this turns out to be insecure.
If it was culturally acceptable for males to wear heals once more, I can guarantee those numbers would be a lot more even.
They still wear them today while driving.
where in australia?
Salzburg.