(5) Server racks weren't locked. (6) Security cameras didn't cover the entire base. (7) Door censors showed doors closed when they were actually open. (8) Base personnel didn't challenge visitors on bases without proper badges, allowing access to secure areas.
So much for the "elaborate physical security measures". This sounds like a recipe for a couple of college kids to sneak in and replace the EEPROMs in the laser targeting system.
Subtle troll. Nice. However, a lying troll you are.
The Democrats passed a law requiring banks make loans to risky applicants under the name of political correctness.
I assume you're referring the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. But that played almost no part in the problem. Many subprime lenders were not subject to the CRA. Research indicates only 6% of high-cost loans - a proxy for subprime loans - had any connection to the law.
Enter the Obama regime. They decide to give the banks trillions of dollars to cover these bad loans that the Democrats made them give in the first place.
Small banks have been steadily declining in numbers since 2000. However, total assets and deposits have grown over that same period.
Yes, regulations passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, notably Dodd-Frank, weigh heavier on small banks. The attempt to standardize or homogenize service offerings runs counter to the small bank model of personalized service and relationship banking. One size fits all regulation is not working and needs changed.
Firsthand knowledge of customers provides useful information for making sound lending decisions. Credit unions report that delinquent loans peaked in 2009 at 1.82 percent of credit unionsâ(TM) loan portfolios and were down to 1.15 percent at the end of 2012. Community banksâ(TM) loans tend to default at lower rates than loans made by bigger institutions. The rate of loans in default for the first quarter of 2013 on loans secured by residential properties was 3.47 percent for banks with less than $1 billion and 10.42 percent for banks with more than $1 billion in assets. Community banks that are closest to their borrowers may fare best. [Citation: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/Peirce_BurdensOnSmallBanks_testimony_112613.pdf]
You're lumping in National Banks with Community Banks, and they are very different. You might want to take a look at a Community bank in addition to your Credit Union.
3. If the feds moved a few thousand large scale projects to Tulsa, many contractors would move there if the pay rates were comparable.
I'd expect contract pay change to mirror Fed pay change. Tulsa is considered "Other US" for locality adjustment, which is 15.37% above base GS Schedule pay. The DC area is 28.22% above, so there will be about a 13% decrease in pay on average.
No one person has all of the information needed for the process and thus the form. The doctors fill out their part, then it moves to the other people who have the remaining information. With a paper form, that's simple. With an improperly designed computer form, the workflow is held up and the form can't be passed to the other people because of an error in assumption on who has the information.
This is an error in design and not something we can blame on users.
Determining who is here "illegally" is a -- wait for it -- legal process. People claiming asylum or who have other legitimate, defined by our law, claims have a legal right to due process and have their case heard and a determination made.
Separating out who has a legitimate claim versus, say, an economic claim, can take time. This is the entire purpose of the Immigration Court system in the United States.
Keeping in mind you can't make a claim of asylum unless you're actually on our soil. People who have legitimate asylum claims are frequently prevented by their own governments from leaving by normal means, so sneaking across is often their only recourse.
I'm not even going to go into the history of the politics of the region, where the United States support for brutal dictatorships in many of those countries helped create the disasters they are today. Nor that much of the drug crime in Mexico is a direct result of the insatiable DEMAND side of the equation from the U.S. and the failed war on drugs.
To sum up, it isn't a disregard for the law on criminal trespass, but a healthy respect for ALL of our laws around immigration and due process. To me, laws regarding due process are fundamentally more important that quickly deporting unwanted migrants.
They're archives, so speed doesn't really mean much in the equation and the actual cost is around $15 per disc in lots of 5 from Amazon. My main focus is reliability, for this use. I can burn data to the disk, put it in a jewel case, and set it on a closet shelf at my parent's house and forget about it.
Honestly, the vast majority of consumers don't have 100 Gb of data they need to back up anyway. I only use 1 disc for family pictures, tax returns, non-media storage, and that is overkill. The rest is a back up of all my ripped music and video media. I just don't want to go thru the hassle of ripping hundreds of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays for my digital collection again.
I don't trust a 2.5" external drive to retain the data for years. That isn't archival media.
As a consumer, for archiving, I use M-Disc in quad-layer Blu-Ray, which is 100 Gb per disc. Verbatim makes the discs I buy, and the drive was less than $100.
I'm not speaking to anything else in your comment, only to the following:
Also, in this case, I'm told that the FCC public comment process isn't required to *remove* a regulation anyway. The only time the process is required is when enacting new ones.
That is incorrect. The term "repeal Net Neutrality" is just a catch all, as there was no one "net neutrality" regulation. It was a combination of amendments on existing rules, and took other amendments to undo. Nor does the Administrative Procedures Act, the law that defines how these things are done, make an exception for repealing rules -- including a clean repeal of an entire, stand-alone rule.
However, in everything I read, it looks like Agencies aren't required to listen to comments. Review and analyze, yes, but the comments are not binding at all.
The difference today is that more and more of those non office applications are web-based or have a web interface. Fewer and fewer require applications to run on specific computer platform. Combine that with vdi and you have a Chrome solution.
Actually, on the other hand, it was tested by the U.S. Military at the White Sands Missile Testing Range by subjecting it to a 5-kiloton non-nuclear explosion. It was also subjected to -- and passed -- tests by the U.K. nuclear weapons agency as well as tested involving high intensity pulse lasers.
I want local governments to act in the best interests of their citizens, and require ISPs to fully cover the regulated areas and not just cherry-pick only the most profitable.
I want them to require that, as a condition of being able to provide 5G mostly in high-density environments, telcos provide 100% broadband coverage for every household and business in the regulated area -- State or County.
By 100% broadband I mean 25 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up speeds, which is the FCC definition of broadband. I'd add to that no usage cap or throttling based on anything other than real-time, actual congestion and capacity checks (95th percentile) to ensure they don't plant a single, overloaded cell out in an area and claim constant congestion. This can be fixed or wireless (4G LTE, WiMax, etc.)
The saying is "The perfect is the enemy of the good", meaning that if you keep trying to get to perfect, you'll never ship because most people just want good.
The problem is, "good enough" is an even bigger enemy, and we never end up with "good", instead ending up with "good enough". And "good enough" usually isn't.
No. Not being a jerk does not take extra effort, nor does it take time away from your work. Not being social or friendly and focusing intensely on something is not what Linus was talking about. You can be brief, to the point, and cut through all the bullshit without being abrasive and resorting to ad hominem attacks.
"No thanks" is just as quick and to the point as "Fuck off, I'm busy".
Assuming they can convert it into real money -- Dollars, Euro, Yen. What are you going to do with $60 million of crypto currency if you can't transfer it to something you can really spend?
Turning crypto to real is where the danger is -- no anonymity when you show up at the bank.
Throttling for congestion is simply QoS in terms the average person will understand. Not only is there nothing wrong with it, it is necessary for the smooth operation of the network. This is traffic management, pure and simply.
The commercial network world buys bandwidth based off of Committed Information Rate (CIR), 95th Percentile, Burst Capacity, and Line Rate. Doing it any other way leads to a horrible under-utilization of the network and a waste of resources.
You're average home user doesn't understand any of that, nor do they want to, hence the simplistic terminology.
No, that isn't correct. Many of the applications you describe are now server based with web interfaces, if not out right cloud based with web interfaces.
For the one or two legacy apps that aren't, they are accessed thru RDP or Citrix.
In my office of 200, with 160 of those not in IT, we're finishing a transition to Chromebook or iPad for everyone. The pulpit were very well and this is much easier to support.
The product they put out is reasonably solid, but is nowhere close to what they had hyped up, and has several flaws that prevent it from becoming a broadly useful tool for development of AR applications.
What he's actually saying is it's not bad -- compared to the state of the art three years ago. Given that the company was hyping this as the AR equivalent of Mr. Fusion, what they delivered is woefully disappointing.
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You'd have a point, except:
(5) Server racks weren't locked. (6) Security cameras didn't cover the entire base. (7) Door censors showed doors closed when they were actually open. (8) Base personnel didn't challenge visitors on bases without proper badges, allowing access to secure areas.
So much for the "elaborate physical security measures". This sounds like a recipe for a couple of college kids to sneak in and replace the EEPROMs in the laser targeting system.
Subtle troll. Nice. However, a lying troll you are.
The Democrats passed a law requiring banks make loans to risky applicants under the name of political correctness.
I assume you're referring the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. But that played almost no part in the problem. Many subprime lenders were not subject to the CRA. Research indicates only 6% of high-cost loans - a proxy for subprime loans - had any connection to the law.
Enter the Obama regime. They decide to give the banks trillions of dollars to cover these bad loans that the Democrats made them give in the first place.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was done by Republican George W. Bush. Here's his televised address announcing the bailout.
Small banks have been steadily declining in numbers since 2000. However, total assets and deposits have grown over that same period.
Yes, regulations passed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, notably Dodd-Frank, weigh heavier on small banks. The attempt to standardize or homogenize service offerings runs counter to the small bank model of personalized service and relationship banking. One size fits all regulation is not working and needs changed.
Firsthand knowledge of customers provides useful information for making sound lending decisions. Credit unions report that delinquent loans peaked in 2009 at 1.82 percent of credit unionsâ(TM) loan portfolios and were down to 1.15 percent at the end of 2012. Community banksâ(TM) loans tend to default at lower rates than loans made by bigger institutions. The rate of loans in default for the first quarter of 2013 on loans secured by residential properties was 3.47 percent for banks with less than $1 billion and 10.42 percent for banks with more than $1 billion in assets. Community banks that are closest to their borrowers may fare best. [Citation: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/Peirce_BurdensOnSmallBanks_testimony_112613.pdf]
Yes, thank you, I was sloppy with my definition. Though, as a practical matter, most community banks seem to be State-chartered.
https://www.csbs.org/state-chartered-banks-state
And most State-chartered banks are community banks.
https://www.csbs.org/most-state-chartered-banks-are-community-banks
You're lumping in National Banks with Community Banks, and they are very different. You might want to take a look at a Community bank in addition to your Credit Union.
https://ilsr.org/top-5-reasons-choose-community-bank-or-credit-union/
3. If the feds moved a few thousand large scale projects to Tulsa, many contractors would move there if the pay rates were comparable.
I'd expect contract pay change to mirror Fed pay change. Tulsa is considered "Other US" for locality adjustment, which is 15.37% above base GS Schedule pay. The DC area is 28.22% above, so there will be about a 13% decrease in pay on average.
No, you're wrong.
No one person has all of the information needed for the process and thus the form. The doctors fill out their part, then it moves to the other people who have the remaining information. With a paper form, that's simple. With an improperly designed computer form, the workflow is held up and the form can't be passed to the other people because of an error in assumption on who has the information.
This is an error in design and not something we can blame on users.
Determining who is here "illegally" is a -- wait for it -- legal process. People claiming asylum or who have other legitimate, defined by our law, claims have a legal right to due process and have their case heard and a determination made.
Separating out who has a legitimate claim versus, say, an economic claim, can take time. This is the entire purpose of the Immigration Court system in the United States.
Keeping in mind you can't make a claim of asylum unless you're actually on our soil. People who have legitimate asylum claims are frequently prevented by their own governments from leaving by normal means, so sneaking across is often their only recourse.
I'm not even going to go into the history of the politics of the region, where the United States support for brutal dictatorships in many of those countries helped create the disasters they are today. Nor that much of the drug crime in Mexico is a direct result of the insatiable DEMAND side of the equation from the U.S. and the failed war on drugs.
To sum up, it isn't a disregard for the law on criminal trespass, but a healthy respect for ALL of our laws around immigration and due process. To me, laws regarding due process are fundamentally more important that quickly deporting unwanted migrants.
They're archives, so speed doesn't really mean much in the equation and the actual cost is around $15 per disc in lots of 5 from Amazon. My main focus is reliability, for this use. I can burn data to the disk, put it in a jewel case, and set it on a closet shelf at my parent's house and forget about it.
Honestly, the vast majority of consumers don't have 100 Gb of data they need to back up anyway. I only use 1 disc for family pictures, tax returns, non-media storage, and that is overkill. The rest is a back up of all my ripped music and video media. I just don't want to go thru the hassle of ripping hundreds of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays for my digital collection again.
I don't trust a 2.5" external drive to retain the data for years. That isn't archival media.
As a consumer, for archiving, I use M-Disc in quad-layer Blu-Ray, which is 100 Gb per disc. Verbatim makes the discs I buy, and the drive was less than $100.
I'm not speaking to anything else in your comment, only to the following:
Also, in this case, I'm told that the FCC public comment process isn't required to *remove* a regulation anyway. The only time the process is required is when enacting new ones.
That is incorrect. The term "repeal Net Neutrality" is just a catch all, as there was no one "net neutrality" regulation. It was a combination of amendments on existing rules, and took other amendments to undo. Nor does the Administrative Procedures Act, the law that defines how these things are done, make an exception for repealing rules -- including a clean repeal of an entire, stand-alone rule.
However, in everything I read, it looks like Agencies aren't required to listen to comments. Review and analyze, yes, but the comments are not binding at all.
Isn't that covered under insurance fraud?
Barratry: fraud or gross negligence of a ship's master or crew at the expense of its owners or users.
That totally sounds likea beer commercial.
The difference today is that more and more of those non office applications are web-based or have a web interface. Fewer and fewer require applications to run on specific computer platform. Combine that with vdi and you have a Chrome solution.
Yes, but they've gone a long way towards disabling and neutering the management engine. Their progress is impressive.
https://puri.sm/?s=Management+...
Actually, on the other hand, it was tested by the U.S. Military at the White Sands Missile Testing Range by subjecting it to a 5-kiloton non-nuclear explosion. It was also subjected to -- and passed -- tests by the U.K. nuclear weapons agency as well as tested involving high intensity pulse lasers.
Watch the video series, it is very interesting.
Purism is already far down along this path, with good quality hardware.
I want local governments to act in the best interests of their citizens, and require ISPs to fully cover the regulated areas and not just cherry-pick only the most profitable.
I want them to require that, as a condition of being able to provide 5G mostly in high-density environments, telcos provide 100% broadband coverage for every household and business in the regulated area -- State or County.
By 100% broadband I mean 25 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up speeds, which is the FCC definition of broadband. I'd add to that no usage cap or throttling based on anything other than real-time, actual congestion and capacity checks (95th percentile) to ensure they don't plant a single, overloaded cell out in an area and claim constant congestion. This can be fixed or wireless (4G LTE, WiMax, etc.)
The saying is "The perfect is the enemy of the good", meaning that if you keep trying to get to perfect, you'll never ship because most people just want good.
The problem is, "good enough" is an even bigger enemy, and we never end up with "good", instead ending up with "good enough". And "good enough" usually isn't.
No. Not being a jerk does not take extra effort, nor does it take time away from your work. Not being social or friendly and focusing intensely on something is not what Linus was talking about. You can be brief, to the point, and cut through all the bullshit without being abrasive and resorting to ad hominem attacks.
"No thanks" is just as quick and to the point as "Fuck off, I'm busy".
Assuming they can convert it into real money -- Dollars, Euro, Yen. What are you going to do with $60 million of crypto currency if you can't transfer it to something you can really spend?
Turning crypto to real is where the danger is -- no anonymity when you show up at the bank.
You don't understand. It is so much easier to drain the swamp if you bring your own alligators.
You forgot to account for the ongoing hybridization project.
Throttling for congestion is simply QoS in terms the average person will understand. Not only is there nothing wrong with it, it is necessary for the smooth operation of the network. This is traffic management, pure and simply.
The commercial network world buys bandwidth based off of Committed Information Rate (CIR), 95th Percentile, Burst Capacity, and Line Rate. Doing it any other way leads to a horrible under-utilization of the network and a waste of resources.
You're average home user doesn't understand any of that, nor do they want to, hence the simplistic terminology.
No, that isn't correct. Many of the applications you describe are now server based with web interfaces, if not out right cloud based with web interfaces.
For the one or two legacy apps that aren't, they are accessed thru RDP or Citrix.
In my office of 200, with 160 of those not in IT, we're finishing a transition to Chromebook or iPad for everyone. The pulpit were very well and this is much easier to support.
The full quote:
The product they put out is reasonably solid, but is nowhere close to what they had hyped up, and has several flaws that prevent it from becoming a broadly useful tool for development of AR applications.
What he's actually saying is it's not bad -- compared to the state of the art three years ago. Given that the company was hyping this as the AR equivalent of Mr. Fusion, what they delivered is woefully disappointing.