I dont think it will help many people at least not me.
I'm buying a condo about 1000ft from the Hayward fault line which is overdue and on the QuakeSim map, but I still dont know if I should buy erathquake insurrance or not.
It wont help insurance companies either, since most earthquake insurance in CA is provided by a government fund. Plus if you live in a fault zone your lender will most likely have you pay for quake insurance.
Now, the pros and cons of quake insurance: Pros: - If it happens. Which in some place is likely (as the study show).
Cons: - The premium is high (about 0.5% to 1% of your house value a year) - The deductible is very high: 15% of the house value. This mean that unless your house is a major, you wont get anything from the insurance. - Emergency funds: The state and Federal government have emergency funds, as well as prefered rate loans for the aftermath. If you have insurance, it will be harder to access those funds. - In case of total loss, you give the key back to the lender. Bad for your credit, and only if you dont have a lot of equity in the house already. - Insurance solvability: if a really big one comes the insurance fund may not be able to pay everybody.
I think I saw a statistic that was less than 30% of Californians have quake insurance. Its going up after each significant quake, then decline.
"Those who have long enjoyed such priveleges as we forget that men died to win them" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Interresting quote...
Especially since the most priviledged rarely have to fight for those privileges while the underpriviledged are the first to be sent to die.
I'm quite happy with capitalism as long as I'm high enough in the social ladder...
So they sued ESS, and now Sigma Designs and Mediatek, which are, AFAIK, the only 3 companys selling chipset for Divx capable DVD players ?
Hum... what are the odds...
Mediatak probably wont give flying shit to the MPAA since they are a taiwanese company probably making the bulk of their sales to cheap ass asian manufacturers.
American company Sigma Designs is going to have to play ball though...
Actually, he is probably just American... They have never heard of it there until recently when some credit card company (American Express ??) introduced a news credit card with a chip inside.
As far as i know they are mainly used in France where ALL credit/debit/ATM cards are smartcard as well as all prepaid phone cards (all public phone are equipped with a reader)
Once again the French have demonstrated great technology.... but as usual they have not been able to export it.
I dont really have experience with QNX but I have developped with both eCos and uClinux. I can tell you that you can do things a lot more custom with eCos than linux with much less overhead.
It would just be interesting to see how the FSF will _interpret_ the license which is basically a GPL with a big hole in it.
The license is supposed to be designed for embedded application, but now that FSF is in charge it would be more difficult for companies to discuss with FSF rather than to a company like RedHat.
If you counter 90% of rootkits then all you're left with the remaining 10%. Which is to say that 100% of the installed rootkits would not be countered.
Another way to read it is that maybe 90% of programs claiming to be a rootkit can be countered, and 100% of the rootkits copies youll find on your servers cant be.
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HyperThreading is quite different from a dual-core chip.
HT is more like dual-pipeline but still only one arithmetic units (and some other executions unit).
So when your first pipeline is stalled you maybe able to use the free cycles for the second pipeline.
I dont think it will help many people at least not me.
I'm buying a condo about 1000ft from the Hayward fault line which is overdue and on the QuakeSim map, but I still dont know if I should buy erathquake insurrance or not.
It wont help insurance companies either, since most earthquake insurance in CA is provided by a government fund. Plus if you live in a fault zone your lender will most likely have you pay for quake insurance.
Now, the pros and cons of quake insurance:
Pros:
- If it happens. Which in some place is likely (as the study show).
Cons:
- The premium is high (about 0.5% to 1% of your house value a year)
- The deductible is very high: 15% of the house value. This mean that unless your house is a major, you wont get anything from the insurance.
- Emergency funds: The state and Federal government have emergency funds, as well as prefered rate loans for the aftermath. If you have insurance, it will be harder to access those funds.
- In case of total loss, you give the key back to the lender. Bad for your credit, and only if you dont have a lot of equity in the house already.
- Insurance solvability: if a really big one comes the insurance fund may not be able to pay everybody.
I think I saw a statistic that was less than 30% of Californians have quake insurance. Its going up after each significant quake, then decline.
I have a friend working at google, and all she got was a lousy tee-shirt....
>>> If those productivity increases are so great, how come I'm working over 40 hours a week?!
Well, maybe it increases because you are working more than 40 hours a week but still get paid 40h?
Lets say you are working 50 Hours a week, but your still paid 40 hours like every good geek.
So officially your doing the work of 50h in 40h: congratulation you increased your productivity by 25%
You'd better stop reading Slashdot at work if you want to keep your job...
So they sued ESS, and now Sigma Designs and Mediatek, which are, AFAIK, the only 3 companys selling chipset for Divx capable DVD players ?
Hum... what are the odds...
Mediatak probably wont give flying shit to the MPAA since they are a taiwanese company probably making the bulk of their sales to cheap ass asian manufacturers.
American company Sigma Designs is going to have to play ball though...
Do not take business advice from Slashdot.
Not even this one....
Actually, he is probably just American... They have never heard of it there until recently when some credit card company (American Express ??) introduced a news credit card with a chip inside.
As far as i know they are mainly used in France where ALL credit/debit/ATM cards are smartcard as well as all prepaid phone cards (all public phone are equipped with a reader)
Once again the French have demonstrated great technology.... but as usual they have not been able to export it.
Amen to that...
I know at least one person whose first reaction to the news was "We can forgot about using eCos".
Now anybody can expect the FSF to eventually go to a even more restrictive license.
I dont really have experience with QNX but I have developped with both eCos and uClinux. I can tell you that you can do things a lot more custom with eCos than linux with much less overhead.
So this shouldnt really change anything.
It would just be interesting to see how the FSF will _interpret_ the license which is basically a GPL with a big hole in it.
The license is supposed to be designed for embedded application, but now that FSF is in charge it would be more difficult for companies to discuss with FSF rather than to a company like RedHat.
This is despicable...
Who's got shares in Oritron ?
A real reporter would have at least cited the name of similar products like some comments did.
If you counter 90% of rootkits then all you're left with the remaining 10%. Which is to say that 100% of the installed rootkits would not be countered.
Another way to read it is that maybe 90% of programs claiming to be a rootkit can be countered, and 100% of the rootkits copies youll find on your servers cant be.
...although less spectacular
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http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/1995/40409.htm