Speaking of a social and political problem, AI assisted and/or taxied driving won't become mainstream. Not because of technology, but because of liability. So tell me, when one of these units is involved in the death of a fellow motorist or pedestrian, who's to blame? Who do you think the lawyers are going to go after? The group that has the most money, that's who.
Agreed! Stamping a SSD controller chip on the MB has got to be the dumbest fucking idea. That, and the use of -yet- another interface connector. What makes the SSD market so competitive and advanced are three primary components. NAND chips, the controller, and firmware. Call it the holy SSD trinity if you like, but there you go. Also, because they're already using SATA connectors, data retrieval, portability, and standardization makes the use of SSD drives available to non-PC applications. Game consoles and other DIY applications come to mind.
No, the idea of monopolizing this immature SSD market is to grease the palm of whomever is involved by forcing a select view controller chips to be used. Focus on the I/O and interoperability, not how to control the damn things.
That's his response in regards to the mortgage industry. You can thank government mandates and regulation to provide the poor low-income housing. Which most likely would never have been a problem in the first place had we not got off the gold standard generations ago. Not that the free market is without sin, but anytime you find a cluster-F of a situation, government is at the heart of the problem via laws of unintended consequences. When you plan command-and-control of society via legislation, you will distort the laws of supply and demand. Make no mistake about that!
Here's something to think about. Have you ever wondered why the housing market played a major part in or US economy? Because it's considered an investment. A boat to ride the tide of inflation. Inflation caused by the federal government. The idea being that in periods of inflation, you invest in a home. It's the type of debt that you want to be in as the payoff is much better. Trouble is, unemployment is high, wealth is evaporating, and many people are now up-side-down on their mortgage. To this day, there is a standoff between potential buyers and sellers in the housing market. The only true factor in the drop in housing is after people have defaulted and foreclosed on their home.
Again. ALL of this can be traced back to our fiat currency system.
I'm going to repost a few quotes from Alan Greenspan back in 1966. Basically, all our current societal problems are ancillary to our current fiat monetary system. The US Dollar has been the world reserve currency of choice. But any economist worth his/her salt knew the system was unstable and would eventually implode. And it did. We (the US) was a giant star that just imploded into a black hole. All other nations are getting drawn to the event horizon as a result. Really, the global depression is the fault of US fiscal policy and the vast debt we've accumulated.
It was only a matter of time before nations such as China, India, and Africa started producing and exporting products cheaper once their governments reformed. Now that they have, the US and the rest of the west is hemorrhaging wealth. We cannot fix our problem with trickle-up or trickle-down policies. That's because we are (and have been) facing a *trickle-out* of wealth. Both conservatives and liberals do not yet understand this. They're fighting over government concepts and policies that are now moot to the real issue at hand. It's also because of the fiat system in place that we have huge gaps in wealth between the rich and poor. The very policies used to answer class-warfare in fact are the very enablers of that behavior.
While I don't agree that we should be exclusively on the Gold Standard again, we do need to tie our system back to stuff more tangible. Until that happens, this perfect storm we are all in will only continue to leave a path of misery in its wake.
Gold and Economic Freedom 1966 “Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.” -Alan Greenspan
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. -Alan Geenspan
"under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation" -Alan Greenspan
I know enough to know that politicians need to stay the hell away from civil micro-management of our lives.
Gold and Economic Freedom 1966 “Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.” -Alan Greenspan
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. -Alan Geenspan
"under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation" -Alan Greenspan
US politicians have been social architecting for generations via the tax code. It's used to create dependents so as to harvest their votes come election time. It's how political parties remain in perpetual power.
Of course, I would recommend the Fair Tax system for the sole purpose of nullifying this political behavior.
SMB2 communications occur when you have a Windows Vista (and above) communicating with Server 2008. If you're using XP or Server 2003 in any combination with the newer OS, it steps down to SMB1. The thing to realize is that SMB2 doesn't handle oplocks well. So legacy file-based databases will break and become corrupted when communicating over SMB2.
I can't find the KB, but per Microsoft, they highly recommend using SQL and not files for future databases as SMB2 will most likely break that functionality. I can vouch for this advice as I've seen some strange shit in this regard.
Perhaps for now. But eventually he will die and thus the monarch will be run by someone else. There's no way to know if the next in line will be a complete asshole or not. Power changes people. That is why monarchs are so unstable and shouldn't be trusted as a viable form of governance.
Can someone please explain the significance of this finding? I'm reading into a log of big assumptions here. So I have a few basic questions.
A.) Does that mean that life here on Earth most likely have been boot-strapped from meteorites? B.) Such compounds are so common in the universe that finding them floating in space is trivial? Thus leading to the idea of life being more common than we think.
We (the US) are already collapsing and have been for quite some time. Our monetary system, fiscal policy, and civilian culture of not saving (and not being able too) has led to the systemic problems. Most people are only becoming aware of it because now it's reached a crescendo. It was too late then, and by far too late now to fix it with the status-quo.
Let me re-word that for everyone here on Slashdot. What you're witnessing is a slow-moving train wreck of the US financial system collapsing. The futile attempt to prevent it is only a mental exercise form of masterbation.
So what can *you* do as an individual? Two words. Jack and Shit. Except for one thing, hold on for your dear life. The "suck" has only begun.
Ha. HA! Never in a bajillion years would that happen. If the government owns it, the government can damn well censor it and tap your communications. Because that's exactly what would happen. In fact, they've been trying to do it for the longest time except the private industry has been putting up roadblocks in its way. Progress be damned, Big Brother WILL put you under its thumb.
This right here. I'm willing to do the same (accept a lower paycheck) if that means staying employed. I assume most Americans would do the same all while grumbling about the whole process. But you know what? The cost of goods would also come down because no one can afford them. Technically, this would be deflation. However, we are in a period of inflation at this moment. At some point, all fiat monetary were bound to have their weaknesses exposed. If you ask me politics only accelerated the inevitable to come.
I can't speak for McAfee's research. However, I can speak with professional authority that their products have caused me more problems then they solved. Now we can talk about the pitfalls of any AV solution, but McAfee rolls out by far the biggest steaming pile of shit to grace my workstations and servers. Screw them, and screw anyone else that peddles their shit on to me.
You know what, some people gave their LIVES for the first amendment
And they still do, and will continue to do so. The idea of freedom being a "set it and forget it" feature is BS. It must ALWAYS be defended against evil. Especially the kind of evil conducted under the guise of good intentions.
Oh shit. You just KNOW the IRS will be getting involved here. Anytime you have money moving from person-to-person or business-to-person, the Feds will get their pound of flesh. This could get quite ugly for gamers.
It helps from a civic point of view, but DUI laws are reactionary (no pun intended), not pro-active. When they're drunk, do you think that idiot gives a flying fuck. No, they just want to sleep it off. It's only after they sober up does the reality of it all set into place. Too late by then as they should never been behind the wheel drunk in the first place.
Maybe this is how they should pass a bill to keep us from defaulting. Say "But the children will starve!!! Think of the Children" BAM!! Bill passes. Obama, Reid and Boehner, are you all listening and taking notes?
Back when I worked at Time Warner sometime in 2005, we kept public IP logs to modem MAC addresses for billing purposes and abuse (infected PCs identification). But as far as I know, Internet traffic was never logged. So when the MPAA files a subpoena for the public IP records, the ISP has no choice but to comply with the law. It was up to MPAA to track IPs via their own honeypot.
If I'm not mistaken, this law now requires the ISP to keep records of what IPs you're routing through and terminating into. That's a HUGE game changer if true. Oh, and they would pass on the cost to the consumer to upgrade their infrastructure be in compliance.
And thank God for that! I'll be asking my Republican's to repeal this smelly turd and replace it with something better. If you really want to tackle the MPG efficiency standards, you mandate maximum weight. The problem isn't the ICE, quite the opposite in fact. Engines have gotten far and away more efficient over the years that would have seemed impossible in the 1980s. You can thank computer controlled ignition and advanced sensors for that. No, the problem is that engine efficiency has been off-set by an arms race in weight for safety. Its basically the bigger your tank, the less of an impact you'll feel. The smaller cars however get the blunt of impact. Weight, is by far the first thing that needs to be regulated. That single aspect will improve you MPG numbers, less wear and tear on the roads (requiring less taxes to fix them), and improved safety for all parties involved in an accident. Not to mention better handling and improved reaction time by the driver.
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Speaking of a social and political problem, AI assisted and/or taxied driving won't become mainstream. Not because of technology, but because of liability. So tell me, when one of these units is involved in the death of a fellow motorist or pedestrian, who's to blame? Who do you think the lawyers are going to go after? The group that has the most money, that's who.
Agreed! Stamping a SSD controller chip on the MB has got to be the dumbest fucking idea. That, and the use of -yet- another interface connector. What makes the SSD market so competitive and advanced are three primary components. NAND chips, the controller, and firmware. Call it the holy SSD trinity if you like, but there you go. Also, because they're already using SATA connectors, data retrieval, portability, and standardization makes the use of SSD drives available to non-PC applications. Game consoles and other DIY applications come to mind.
No, the idea of monopolizing this immature SSD market is to grease the palm of whomever is involved by forcing a select view controller chips to be used. Focus on the I/O and interoperability, not how to control the damn things.
That's his response in regards to the mortgage industry. You can thank government mandates and regulation to provide the poor low-income housing. Which most likely would never have been a problem in the first place had we not got off the gold standard generations ago. Not that the free market is without sin, but anytime you find a cluster-F of a situation, government is at the heart of the problem via laws of unintended consequences. When you plan command-and-control of society via legislation, you will distort the laws of supply and demand. Make no mistake about that!
Here's something to think about. Have you ever wondered why the housing market played a major part in or US economy? Because it's considered an investment. A boat to ride the tide of inflation. Inflation caused by the federal government. The idea being that in periods of inflation, you invest in a home. It's the type of debt that you want to be in as the payoff is much better. Trouble is, unemployment is high, wealth is evaporating, and many people are now up-side-down on their mortgage. To this day, there is a standoff between potential buyers and sellers in the housing market. The only true factor in the drop in housing is after people have defaulted and foreclosed on their home.
Again. ALL of this can be traced back to our fiat currency system.
I'm going to repost a few quotes from Alan Greenspan back in 1966. Basically, all our current societal problems are ancillary to our current fiat monetary system. The US Dollar has been the world reserve currency of choice. But any economist worth his/her salt knew the system was unstable and would eventually implode. And it did. We (the US) was a giant star that just imploded into a black hole. All other nations are getting drawn to the event horizon as a result. Really, the global depression is the fault of US fiscal policy and the vast debt we've accumulated.
It was only a matter of time before nations such as China, India, and Africa started producing and exporting products cheaper once their governments reformed. Now that they have, the US and the rest of the west is hemorrhaging wealth. We cannot fix our problem with trickle-up or trickle-down policies. That's because we are (and have been) facing a *trickle-out* of wealth. Both conservatives and liberals do not yet understand this. They're fighting over government concepts and policies that are now moot to the real issue at hand. It's also because of the fiat system in place that we have huge gaps in wealth between the rich and poor. The very policies used to answer class-warfare in fact are the very enablers of that behavior.
While I don't agree that we should be exclusively on the Gold Standard again, we do need to tie our system back to stuff more tangible. Until that happens, this perfect storm we are all in will only continue to leave a path of misery in its wake.
Gold and Economic Freedom 1966
“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.” -Alan Greenspan
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. -Alan Geenspan
"under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation" -Alan Greenspan
I know enough to know that politicians need to stay the hell away from civil micro-management of our lives.
Gold and Economic Freedom 1966
“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.” -Alan Greenspan
“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. -Alan Geenspan
"under the gold standard, a free banking system stands as the protector of an economy's stability and balanced growth... The abandonment of the gold standard made it possible for the welfare statists to use the banking system as a means to an unlimited expansion of credit... In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation" -Alan Greenspan
US politicians have been social architecting for generations via the tax code. It's used to create dependents so as to harvest their votes come election time. It's how political parties remain in perpetual power.
Of course, I would recommend the Fair Tax system for the sole purpose of nullifying this political behavior.
SMB2 communications occur when you have a Windows Vista (and above) communicating with Server 2008. If you're using XP or Server 2003 in any combination with the newer OS, it steps down to SMB1. The thing to realize is that SMB2 doesn't handle oplocks well. So legacy file-based databases will break and become corrupted when communicating over SMB2.
I can't find the KB, but per Microsoft, they highly recommend using SQL and not files for future databases as SMB2 will most likely break that functionality. I can vouch for this advice as I've seen some strange shit in this regard.
Perhaps for now. But eventually he will die and thus the monarch will be run by someone else. There's no way to know if the next in line will be a complete asshole or not. Power changes people. That is why monarchs are so unstable and shouldn't be trusted as a viable form of governance.
Can someone please explain the significance of this finding? I'm reading into a log of big assumptions here. So I have a few basic questions.
A.) Does that mean that life here on Earth most likely have been boot-strapped from meteorites?
B.) Such compounds are so common in the universe that finding them floating in space is trivial? Thus leading to the idea of life being more common than we think.
We (the US) are already collapsing and have been for quite some time. Our monetary system, fiscal policy, and civilian culture of not saving (and not being able too) has led to the systemic problems. Most people are only becoming aware of it because now it's reached a crescendo. It was too late then, and by far too late now to fix it with the status-quo.
Let me re-word that for everyone here on Slashdot. What you're witnessing is a slow-moving train wreck of the US financial system collapsing. The futile attempt to prevent it is only a mental exercise form of masterbation.
So what can *you* do as an individual? Two words. Jack and Shit. Except for one thing, hold on for your dear life. The "suck" has only begun.
When you buy a surge protector, what you're really buying is that little insurance policy that you're supposed to fill out. That's it.
Ha. HA! Never in a bajillion years would that happen. If the government owns it, the government can damn well censor it and tap your communications. Because that's exactly what would happen. In fact, they've been trying to do it for the longest time except the private industry has been putting up roadblocks in its way. Progress be damned, Big Brother WILL put you under its thumb.
This right here. I'm willing to do the same (accept a lower paycheck) if that means staying employed. I assume most Americans would do the same all while grumbling about the whole process. But you know what? The cost of goods would also come down because no one can afford them. Technically, this would be deflation. However, we are in a period of inflation at this moment. At some point, all fiat monetary were bound to have their weaknesses exposed. If you ask me politics only accelerated the inevitable to come.
I can't speak for McAfee's research. However, I can speak with professional authority that their products have caused me more problems then they solved. Now we can talk about the pitfalls of any AV solution, but McAfee rolls out by far the biggest steaming pile of shit to grace my workstations and servers. Screw them, and screw anyone else that peddles their shit on to me.
They found trees. No?
*shrug* It helps with the pre-buffering of streaming video. For example, Netflix and Youtube. YMMV.
Be careful not to misinterpret the readings if you have Comcast. Chances are that you may have the PowerBoost feature they provide.
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/14520
Good idea. Take it further with a 3D model made of foam and that would make for some easy lost-foam casting.
You know what, some people gave their LIVES for the first amendment
And they still do, and will continue to do so. The idea of freedom being a "set it and forget it" feature is BS. It must ALWAYS be defended against evil. Especially the kind of evil conducted under the guise of good intentions.
Oh come on, Pitch Black and CoR wasn't that bad. In fact, I actually enjoyed the series.
Oh shit. You just KNOW the IRS will be getting involved here. Anytime you have money moving from person-to-person or business-to-person, the Feds will get their pound of flesh. This could get quite ugly for gamers.
It helps from a civic point of view, but DUI laws are reactionary (no pun intended), not pro-active. When they're drunk, do you think that idiot gives a flying fuck. No, they just want to sleep it off. It's only after they sober up does the reality of it all set into place. Too late by then as they should never been behind the wheel drunk in the first place.
Maybe this is how they should pass a bill to keep us from defaulting. Say "But the children will starve!!! Think of the Children" BAM!! Bill passes. Obama, Reid and Boehner, are you all listening and taking notes?
Back when I worked at Time Warner sometime in 2005, we kept public IP logs to modem MAC addresses for billing purposes and abuse (infected PCs identification). But as far as I know, Internet traffic was never logged. So when the MPAA files a subpoena for the public IP records, the ISP has no choice but to comply with the law. It was up to MPAA to track IPs via their own honeypot.
If I'm not mistaken, this law now requires the ISP to keep records of what IPs you're routing through and terminating into. That's a HUGE game changer if true. Oh, and they would pass on the cost to the consumer to upgrade their infrastructure be in compliance.
And thank God for that! I'll be asking my Republican's to repeal this smelly turd and replace it with something better. If you really want to tackle the MPG efficiency standards, you mandate maximum weight. The problem isn't the ICE, quite the opposite in fact. Engines have gotten far and away more efficient over the years that would have seemed impossible in the 1980s. You can thank computer controlled ignition and advanced sensors for that. No, the problem is that engine efficiency has been off-set by an arms race in weight for safety. Its basically the bigger your tank, the less of an impact you'll feel. The smaller cars however get the blunt of impact. Weight, is by far the first thing that needs to be regulated. That single aspect will improve you MPG numbers, less wear and tear on the roads (requiring less taxes to fix them), and improved safety for all parties involved in an accident. Not to mention better handling and improved reaction time by the driver.