You seem to forget that the banks' "insurer" was AIG. And they insured total crap in huge amounts, essentially betting against a collapse of the housing market (collapse which was pretty much assured thanks to the banks' practices). Oh and they also let people "insure" other people's property, giving the banks additional incentive to make their practices worse and WANT a collapse.
I'll support your suggestion too, I've been installing Zabbix for a lot of my customers, especially since version 2.0 came out it's a really strong product that does everything you could want from a monitoring solution.
Oneof the major issues wit 4.0 was how they switch the video drivers to ring 0 for better performance, but most video drivers in those days were total crap. Things have gotten better.
Regarding external certificates, most certification agencies (at least those that are members of the https://www.cabforum.org/ have stopped issuing certificates for invalid domain names for any date posterior to November 1st 2015. They put this policy in place on Nov 1st 2012. Any such certificates that might be marked as valid beyond that date will be revoked on October 1st 2016.
Now, there may be a concern with internal certificates for such domains, but that is for the internal policy of businesses to fix in time. It should be easy to implement redirecting policies to new domains for any internal web site or system that could collide with gTLDs before they're actually implemented. It is certainly NOT a serious security concern in my opinion.
You talk as if the "government" was a monolithic entity. Its left hand very often doesn't even know its right hand even EXISTS, much less care what it does. Even worse, it may very well be that they don't want other government employees to patch those systems so they can spy on them, too!
Those are the reasons I buy Nintendo consoles. I have a Wii U only because I won it at a trade show, otherwise I would not yet have bought one until at least one of those is released.
It's not often done because it's extraordinarily time-consuming; the time it takes to do goes up exponentially with program length/complexity, I believe.
I came here to say the same thing. He's a crook. Shame that he gets money for his elucubrations.
People like him have been telling us we'll have a True AI(r) in 10 years. The problem is they've been telling us the same thing for 50 years.
He's no better at predicting the future as any bad science-fiction writer, and his "theories" are unscientific and based on his peculiar views of the nature of reality, not on reality itself.
I saw it in IMAX 3D @48fps yesterday evening. I enjoyed the movie a lot, and the 48fps didn't bother me much after the first few minutes. It made 3D seem much better, I think.
My only problem was what it did to the light in the movie. Although in soft light areas, it seemed a lot more realistic, in brighter areas (like the sun on the landscape or the braziers in Goblin Town for example), the light seem too harsh. Especially since I was expecting a digitally graded movie like LotR was to offer perfect coloring. It also made a few special effects seem a bit fake.
The first is probably an editing and a filming issue. With better lenses, filters, and adjustments to lighting conditions it will help, and with better adjustments of the color values in editing it can be fixed. The second will get better as digital technology improves.
I'm going to go see it @24fps this weekend if I can to compare.
I am a Costco member and haven't put a foot in a Walmart in years. Their respective corporate practices have been an important factor in those choices. If only more people did the same.
One of the major problems of capitalism is how it assumes people will act reasonably in their self-interest, but a lot of consumers are misled as to where their own interests actually lie.
They're killing characters and npcs, not deleting them. Death is only a short-lived inconvenience in wow.
Killing npcs is more annoying actually since some can take a while to respawn.
The issue appears to be a combination of a teleport/wall-hack and the ability to kill any creature, npc or character with a single hit which obviously trivializes the whole game and enables griefing on this kind of epic scale. The hack was apparently found a couple weeks ago but only fixed today with a server restart.
I hate tobacco smoking with a passion. But this is going too far, and it 's wrong. I have absolutely no problem with forbidding employees from smoking while on work hours, or on work premises. Employees who take constant pauses to go and smoke lower productivity, pollute the area around work areas, and smell bad which can annoy customers.
Forbidding smoking in all work areas, even in all interior public areas is a very good thing, and most countries have by now enacted such ordinances.
But what people smoke, snort, or eat outside of their work time, as long as it does not affect their ability to conduct their work, is none of an emplloyer's business.
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You seem to forget that the banks' "insurer" was AIG. And they insured total crap in huge amounts, essentially betting against a collapse of the housing market (collapse which was pretty much assured thanks to the banks' practices). Oh and they also let people "insure" other people's property, giving the banks additional incentive to make their practices worse and WANT a collapse.
I still consider The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to be the best video game ever created.
People with no job conspire and fail in trying to shave off a few millions out of a bank's billions?
Get arrested, thrown in prison for years.
Work for a bank, conspire and succeed in destroying the global economy and cheat your customers out of trillions of dollars?
Get the government to give you even MORE money.
Not saying these guys here should not have been arrested. But the worst crooks in the story are working inside the bank, not outside.
Indeed, what was it that made those 1400 deaths so much worse than the 100 000 previous ones?
I'll support your suggestion too, I've been installing Zabbix for a lot of my customers, especially since version 2.0 came out it's a really strong product that does everything you could want from a monitoring solution.
Oneof the major issues wit 4.0 was how they switch the video drivers to ring 0 for better performance, but most video drivers in those days were total crap. Things have gotten better.
DLL hell wasn't as bad in 2k and XP and is almost entirely gone now since Vista thanks to SxS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly
This is mostly FUD.
Regarding external certificates, most certification agencies (at least those that are members of the https://www.cabforum.org/ have stopped issuing certificates for invalid domain names for any date posterior to November 1st 2015. They put this policy in place on Nov 1st 2012. Any such certificates that might be marked as valid beyond that date will be revoked on October 1st 2016.
Now, there may be a concern with internal certificates for such domains, but that is for the internal policy of businesses to fix in time. It should be easy to implement redirecting policies to new domains for any internal web site or system that could collide with gTLDs before they're actually implemented. It is certainly NOT a serious security concern in my opinion.
You talk as if the "government" was a monolithic entity. Its left hand very often doesn't even know its right hand even EXISTS, much less care what it does. Even worse, it may very well be that they don't want other government employees to patch those systems so they can spy on them, too!
There's no 3D Mario, no Zelda, no Metroid game.
Those are the reasons I buy Nintendo consoles. I have a Wii U only because I won it at a trade show, otherwise I would not yet have bought one until at least one of those is released.
What about online-only games? Will historians in 100 years be able to play WoW and see what the game was like?
It's doable to ensure a program does exactly what its specs say it should do. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification.
It's not often done because it's extraordinarily time-consuming; the time it takes to do goes up exponentially with program length/complexity, I believe.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/03/27/we-were-all-wrong-the-true-god-is-polynesian/
That would be illegal and probably unconstitutional in most western countries.
ID is religion disguised as pseudo-science, it has nothing to do with skepticism.
I came here to say the same thing. He's a crook. Shame that he gets money for his elucubrations.
People like him have been telling us we'll have a True AI(r) in 10 years. The problem is they've been telling us the same thing for 50 years.
He's no better at predicting the future as any bad science-fiction writer, and his "theories" are unscientific and based on his peculiar views of the nature of reality, not on reality itself.
What's the point of a protest if it doesn't impact anything or anyone?
You probably mean the FAA. I don't think the FCC has anything to do with regulating airplanes or batteries.
Betteridge's law of headlines says no.
I concur.
The same thing was done in Canada.
I saw it in IMAX 3D @48fps yesterday evening. I enjoyed the movie a lot, and the 48fps didn't bother me much after the first few minutes. It made 3D seem much better, I think.
My only problem was what it did to the light in the movie. Although in soft light areas, it seemed a lot more realistic, in brighter areas (like the sun on the landscape or the braziers in Goblin Town for example), the light seem too harsh. Especially since I was expecting a digitally graded movie like LotR was to offer perfect coloring. It also made a few special effects seem a bit fake.
The first is probably an editing and a filming issue. With better lenses, filters, and adjustments to lighting conditions it will help, and with better adjustments of the color values in editing it can be fixed. The second will get better as digital technology improves.
I'm going to go see it @24fps this weekend if I can to compare.
I am a Costco member and haven't put a foot in a Walmart in years. Their respective corporate practices have been an important factor in those choices. If only more people did the same.
One of the major problems of capitalism is how it assumes people will act reasonably in their self-interest, but a lot of consumers are misled as to where their own interests actually lie.
"Everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother"
They're killing characters and npcs, not deleting them. Death is only a short-lived inconvenience in wow.
Killing npcs is more annoying actually since some can take a while to respawn.
The issue appears to be a combination of a teleport/wall-hack and the ability to kill any creature, npc or character with a single hit which obviously trivializes the whole game and enables griefing on this kind of epic scale. The hack was apparently found a couple weeks ago but only fixed today with a server restart.
I hate tobacco smoking with a passion. But this is going too far, and it 's wrong. I have absolutely no problem with forbidding employees from smoking while on work hours, or on work premises. Employees who take constant pauses to go and smoke lower productivity, pollute the area around work areas, and smell bad which can annoy customers.
Forbidding smoking in all work areas, even in all interior public areas is a very good thing, and most countries have by now enacted such ordinances.
But what people smoke, snort, or eat outside of their work time, as long as it does not affect their ability to conduct their work, is none of an emplloyer's business.