Apparently, they are instant and basically the same thing as handing a bag of cash to the recipient
What, you mean that the money doesn't flow, a few dollars at a time, from one account to the other, with a progress bar to show how much has transferred, like Hollywood has shown me in countless movies and TV shows?
I suspect the writer of the original story doesn't understand the issues
The issue here is simple. The ultra-rich residents of University Avenue don't want people with mere $100K+ incomes clogging up "their" street and using "their" shops.
He said it's not the role of the FBI or tech companies to tell the American people how to live and govern themselves
Exactly. If I and millions of other people want to use encryption, it's not up to the FBI to tell me not to do so.
This guy will never admit it, but the fault lies with the past and continuing attitudes towards data gathering in the NSA and FBI. Massive overreach (as documented by Snowden) led to an accelerated implementation of encryption.
Comey: grow a pair and admit that it is your own fault.
Can you maintain a single image that easily runs on all providers, or does it involve micromanagement of differences between them?
Using Docker images instead of VM images, this is easy. However, once you need persistent storage or use hosted apps, such as databases, then migration may be more difficult.
Google's Kubernetes is a great way to manage containers and is open source. There is no reason AWS or Azure could not support it.
At the time of the agreement, it was a fairly balanced deal. Things are only skewed by Apple's tremendous growth over the past 10 years.
It's not balanced if you consider the impact on the whole of the EU. Ultimately what Ireland was engaged in here was a race to the bottom. Apple should have paid higher rates of tax in other countries: instead, Apple avoided tax in other EU countries, while paying a pittance in Ireland.
Apple and Ireland benefited from the EU rules on free movement of goods and people, while not conforming to the rules that make the free movement possible.
That's interesting, but look again at my statistics: both parents lived past 85. My father to 100.
But my family history is much more than just my parents: 3 grandparents lived into their '90s (the 4th died relatively young from flu). And one of my great-grandparents lived well into her '90s (I don't know about the others). If there is any genetic disposition towards long life at all, then I should have it.
If you can live the possiblity that you can't access your data (porn stash?) for a day or two, then you don't need RAID.
Break up the RAID and use the freed-up hard drives for a backup. Buy some extra drives and rotate the backup drives so that there is always at least full one copy off-site, preferably encrypted.
And the next thing that will happen is that pharmacies will require you to sign an arbitration agreement before selling you any drugs, so that you cannot effectively sue a drug company that sells bad drugs.
You think that, if you eliminate the powers of the FDA, you will be able to replace that with criminal liability on Big Pharma and its employees? Well then, I have a nice bridge to sell you.
My father was 100 years of when he died. Up until the last 4 months of his life, he was living semi-independently. He lived in his own house, with people coming in to help him with such things as cleaning and preparing meals; other than that, he looked after himself.
I am terrified of the prospect. As some point, I should start living a more risky lifestyle, since 3 out of 4 of my grandparents lived well into their '90s. Maybe I can kill myself in my early '90s through a skydiving accident or something.
This is even worse. They did not use a private server, they used a server run by some unknown third party. There is even less control of the security of those emails than the emails on Clinon's server.
Georgia Godfrey, Rice's chief of staff at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, said the former secretary of state did not use email while in the job nor have a personal email account.
LOL. Does anyone believe that? Not even a private email account in 2009? Really?
I should also mention that, since my house is equipped with solar panels, I am generally selling electricity to the grid at 44c/kWh and buying it back at 12c/kWh.
In my part of CA, if you have an electric vehicle, you can sign up for a rate plan whereby electricity during summer afternoons is 44c/kWh and 12c/kWh at night.
It would be nice if the conservatives started admitting that birth control is effective birth control.
That will never happen: for too many of them, birth control is merely an excuse for their real motive: control of the bodies of young people. The real goal is not to prevent birth, but to prevent sex taking place.
Stock prices don't affect the bottom line (other than on a IPO of course)
Please, don't do any investments in stocks: you clearly don't understand this well enough.
The question you have to ask is: why did the stock price go down? The answer to which is that investors in the stock market expect that future profits (the bottom line) will be lower. In other words, no, stock prices don't affect the bottom line (but see note), instead, the expected future of the bottom line affects the stock price.
Note: a high stock price can improve a company's ability to raise capital for investment, so in this way a high stock price can affect the bottom line.
My older brother made that bet too with a three-bedroom house in Morgan Hill. Seven years after the Great Recession, he can't retire because the mortgage is still underwater and he's still paying off the down payment borrowed from his wife's 401k plan. He might have to work until the day he dies. What a tragedy.
That sucks. But I would argue that he made two bad decisions. I think that most Silicon Valley property is worth considerably more than at the peak just before the recent recession. Hence, apart from timing his purchase badly, the decision to buy in Morgan Hill was spectacularly bad.
It's my guess that cities that are on the outer reaches of commuting distance to the heart of Silicon Valley experience greater swings in value than those closer in. From a purely financial perspective, he should have realized this and compromised with a smaller house closer in.
I have seen peaks and troughs before, in the UK, one year, my house went up in value by approximately twice my annual salary and then, the following year, down by about my annual salary. I ended up OK, but some of my colleagues bought houses at the peak and were stuck with an underwater mortgage ("negative equity" as it was known in the UK) for many years. Having seen this, I was perhaps more cautious. Perhaps too cautious: I could have bought a house in Silicon Valley earlier and be sitting on more equity now.
DDoS Bots and Trojans will vanish from the planet for 24 to 48 hours until people reinstall Windows on their machines and will access infected sites, get infected again... and the whole thing will start all over again:-)
Quite likely, it'll be worse than before. Many of those machines will be browsing the web without the benefit of all the updates from Microsoft, so a very high infection rate is to be expected.
A studio apartment, no. A three-bedroom house that they can't afford, absolutely.
I live in a nice 4-bedroom house in Silicon Valley, which, when I sell it, I expect it to pay back every penny that I have spent in mortgage interest, property taxes, maintenance, insurance, etc.. I expect its net cost over 15 years to be zero. Even if house prices drop dramatically in the next few years, I can still expect it to have cost less per year than your little box.
That's a pretty terrible story, but technically, she did not have a valid visa to enter the country. How do you think someone attempting to enter the USA without a suitable visa would be treated?
On the flip side, I would have thought that a rule that would have allowed her to enter if she were being paid by a UK company but did not allow entry because she was paid by a German country would be in violation of EU rules.
Enforce the laws on minor crimes, and major crimes go down. You don't have to be a hardass, or pick on anyone in particular, just enforce the common, everyday laws that help keep things working.
We know this works.
Citation? And one that doesn't simply show crime numbers reducing, because reduced lead in the environment explains the reduction
Let's face it, even the police don't believe this. The police are able to get away with misconduct with insignificant or no consequences.
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What, you mean that the money doesn't flow, a few dollars at a time, from one account to the other, with a progress bar to show how much has transferred, like Hollywood has shown me in countless movies and TV shows?
I'm shocked! </sarcasm>
The issue here is simple. The ultra-rich residents of University Avenue don't want people with mere $100K+ incomes clogging up "their" street and using "their" shops.
Exactly. If I and millions of other people want to use encryption, it's not up to the FBI to tell me not to do so.
This guy will never admit it, but the fault lies with the past and continuing attitudes towards data gathering in the NSA and FBI. Massive overreach (as documented by Snowden) led to an accelerated implementation of encryption.
Comey: grow a pair and admit that it is your own fault.
Tcl-based? /shudders
Using Docker images instead of VM images, this is easy. However, once you need persistent storage or use hosted apps, such as databases, then migration may be more difficult.
Google's Kubernetes is a great way to manage containers and is open source. There is no reason AWS or Azure could not support it.
It's not balanced if you consider the impact on the whole of the EU. Ultimately what Ireland was engaged in here was a race to the bottom. Apple should have paid higher rates of tax in other countries: instead, Apple avoided tax in other EU countries, while paying a pittance in Ireland.
Apple and Ireland benefited from the EU rules on free movement of goods and people, while not conforming to the rules that make the free movement possible.
That's interesting, but look again at my statistics: both parents lived past 85. My father to 100.
But my family history is much more than just my parents: 3 grandparents lived into their '90s (the 4th died relatively young from flu). And one of my great-grandparents lived well into her '90s (I don't know about the others). If there is any genetic disposition towards long life at all, then I should have it.
If you can live the possiblity that you can't access your data (porn stash?) for a day or two, then you don't need RAID.
Break up the RAID and use the freed-up hard drives for a backup. Buy some extra drives and rotate the backup drives so that there is always at least full one copy off-site, preferably encrypted.
And the next thing that will happen is that pharmacies will require you to sign an arbitration agreement before selling you any drugs, so that you cannot effectively sue a drug company that sells bad drugs.
You think that, if you eliminate the powers of the FDA, you will be able to replace that with criminal liability on Big Pharma and its employees? Well then, I have a nice bridge to sell you.
You are so naive. It's saddening.
My father was 100 years of when he died. Up until the last 4 months of his life, he was living semi-independently. He lived in his own house, with people coming in to help him with such things as cleaning and preparing meals; other than that, he looked after himself.
I am terrified of the prospect. As some point, I should start living a more risky lifestyle, since 3 out of 4 of my grandparents lived well into their '90s. Maybe I can kill myself in my early '90s through a skydiving accident or something.
You think that generics are identical to brand-name drugs. How cute.
Yes, the "active ingredient" is identical, but the fillers, binding agents, etc. differ and this can have an effect on how the drug works.
While they are making this legal, how about funding the FDA so that it can get through its backlog of generics waiting for approval?
All this "small government" claptrap is really "dysfunctional government". Guess who benefits from a dysfunctional government?
This is even worse. They did not use a private server, they used a server run by some unknown third party. There is even less control of the security of those emails than the emails on Clinon's server.
LOL. Does anyone believe that? Not even a private email account in 2009? Really?
I should also mention that, since my house is equipped with solar panels, I am generally selling electricity to the grid at 44c/kWh and buying it back at 12c/kWh.
In my part of CA, if you have an electric vehicle, you can sign up for a rate plan whereby electricity during summer afternoons is 44c/kWh and 12c/kWh at night.
That will never happen: for too many of them, birth control is merely an excuse for their real motive: control of the bodies of young people. The real goal is not to prevent birth, but to prevent sex taking place.
Please, don't do any investments in stocks: you clearly don't understand this well enough.
The question you have to ask is: why did the stock price go down? The answer to which is that investors in the stock market expect that future profits (the bottom line) will be lower. In other words, no, stock prices don't affect the bottom line (but see note), instead, the expected future of the bottom line affects the stock price.
Note: a high stock price can improve a company's ability to raise capital for investment, so in this way a high stock price can affect the bottom line.
That sucks. But I would argue that he made two bad decisions. I think that most Silicon Valley property is worth considerably more than at the peak just before the recent recession. Hence, apart from timing his purchase badly, the decision to buy in Morgan Hill was spectacularly bad.
It's my guess that cities that are on the outer reaches of commuting distance to the heart of Silicon Valley experience greater swings in value than those closer in. From a purely financial perspective, he should have realized this and compromised with a smaller house closer in.
I have seen peaks and troughs before, in the UK, one year, my house went up in value by approximately twice my annual salary and then, the following year, down by about my annual salary. I ended up OK, but some of my colleagues bought houses at the peak and were stuck with an underwater mortgage ("negative equity" as it was known in the UK) for many years. Having seen this, I was perhaps more cautious. Perhaps too cautious: I could have bought a house in Silicon Valley earlier and be sitting on more equity now.
Yes, it's a shame it didn't go down more. Until lack of security affects the bottom line, companies won't make secure devices.
Quite likely, it'll be worse than before. Many of those machines will be browsing the web without the benefit of all the updates from Microsoft, so a very high infection rate is to be expected.
I live in a nice 4-bedroom house in Silicon Valley, which, when I sell it, I expect it to pay back every penny that I have spent in mortgage interest, property taxes, maintenance, insurance, etc.. I expect its net cost over 15 years to be zero. Even if house prices drop dramatically in the next few years, I can still expect it to have cost less per year than your little box.
So basically, you are OK until the next big rent increase?
That's a pretty terrible story, but technically, she did not have a valid visa to enter the country. How do you think someone attempting to enter the USA without a suitable visa would be treated?
On the flip side, I would have thought that a rule that would have allowed her to enter if she were being paid by a UK company but did not allow entry because she was paid by a German country would be in violation of EU rules.
Mod parent up.
I am disgusted by the US media that they have not picked up this story. It's an absolute disgrace, both by the police and the media.
Citation? And one that doesn't simply show crime numbers reducing, because reduced lead in the environment explains the reduction
Let's face it, even the police don't believe this. The police are able to get away with misconduct with insignificant or no consequences.