Both parties are equally stupid and responsible - or rather irresponsible when it comes to this.
This is a result of the election system that the US has that is far from proportional - it is a "winner takes it all" system which works for the president, but not when you are going to get people representing the people. There is also another failure in the constitution - there's no obvious clause that takes care of things like the current situation.
Of course - the constitution was written in a different time, and they could probably never conceive the idea that the congress was working against the best of the country and instead resort to blackmail. Notice that the best of the country isn't necessarily the best of the people. Taxes come and go and if a decree doesn't work out - like RomneyObamacare it can be changed later.
The point here is that not all micromanaging is bad, and not all is good.
And if you are the head of a company you should be aware of what's happening on the floor too. In large companies the awareness of day to day problems is also important because you may actually be able to figure out as a head manager that the organization structure is causing problems. What is good for one department may not be good for the company or the product that the company produces.
Mid level management do have their specific interests, and their responsibility is to look for the good of their department, but that may not be the good for the company.
Working inside a large organization myself I see that the top level management are essentially invisible and trusts their department managers too much. But sitting in the top level management positions it is important to know the core of the company - even informal channels that exists due to necessity. Knowing the existence of informal channels also means that you as a top level manager knows what impact a downsize may have. Cutting the wrong parts to get to the fat may make the company slower.
Just have a number of servers that the requests are routed through at a round-robin schedule and each with a different random number generator for the delay of 20 minutes to 2 hour range. That would make it very hard to crack even if you have one or two flawed RNG:s.
Possible RNG:s, all with their own flaws and problems (who's going to feed the hamsters this week?).
Decay captured of a radioactive sample.
1000 radio receivers capturing 1000 different channels trigging counters when a certain sound level threshold is passed.
A hall full of hamsters in hamster wheels.
CRC on received spam messages in 1000 mailboxes.
Data traffic from 100 different porn servers.
Overtones on the power grid.
Drops of water falling on a surface in a fountain.
The 20 minutes to 2 hour interval is the time a human needs to properly evaluate a buy/sell situation. Notice that the point is to whack the robot traders. You may of course still have robot traders, but they will need to take a much longer perspective on the stocks instead.
Another question is - how do you solve the 10 minute batches? Which is going to be served first if you have transactions A, B and C in that batch? It may make a difference. You still need to do the random pick and execute them one by one at some point, and if there are 10 shares and A orders 5, B orders 10 and C orders 2 the outcome will be different depending on execution order.
But I like the fee idea on placed orders, but make it one dollar right away - and close the ability to withdraw an order.
How a culture is clustered depends on the habits of the species of that culture.
Humans have the ability to utilize any means possible, and before the 19th century oceans and rivers were the motorways of the world. Roads were at best two tracks with the width of two horse asses. That caused important points to get a denser population.
During the 19th century the railroads became the important way of transportation on land and some additional centers did grow up, especially where major rivers and railroads did cross. Sometimes for other reasons as well.
The 20th century became the century of the car. And all the time the coastal centers have prospered since changing from one mode of transportation to another makes them a hotspot even in our time.
However if you look at another species on another planet things may be completely different. Another species may be more attracted to climbing trees than water - much like cats on Earth.
Ctrl+Alt+Del - is the worst mistake in computer history. Anyone who have been programming in C or Assembly on MS-DOS has experienced more than not that it wasn't doing crap and since the logic from the higher beings stated that you don't need a reset button because you have... Ctrl+Alt+Del... - it meant that power cycling was the only way to revive the computer. So count how many power cycles that occurred in a day... Bad programmer you think - well, considering that this was the 80's and there were few good tools for MS-DOS at the time that was how it was. At least it was good in the way that you did learn to really check your code by hand to avoid a crash - and develop certain coding habits.
That installs Truecrypt, encrypts all disks, changes ALL passwords including the Truecrypt passwords with random-generated ones and then shuts down everything.
Good luck with figuring out the responsible behind that timebomb.
Company intranets suffers also from link rot, and some are doing it worse by using tools that inherently promote link rot.
The point is that files are moved around on filesystems now and then "for better structure", "making it easier to find" and other lame excuses, but if every file had an unique ID that could be used to link with then they could move around the files as much as they like without causing harm.
Essentially it comes down to statistics - there's more junk floating around in the center of the spiral arm than at the edges so more risk of hitting something on the way through. Or having an asteroid or comet disturbed by a passing item.
In general meteorites hitting Earth have a speed of about 11 to 15 km/s, but that's only applicable for those that follows basically the same trajectory as Earth. If you meet something extrasolar then the speed can be a lot higher, which means that a smaller rock can cause great effects and still not be traced as an impact causing an extinction event due to insufficient evidence.
That - and the fact that the artists are seeing competition from many other sources today than they did a few decades ago.
Leisure time over the decades: 60's - Drinking beer and listening to The Beatles. 70's - Drinking beer and listening to Grateful Dead. 80's - Drinking beer and listening to Michael Jackson. 90's - Drinking Jolt Cola and Playing computer games. 00's - Smoking weed and surfing the web. 10's - Smoking weed and watching cat videos on YouTube or Teens on Redtube.
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Both parties are equally stupid and responsible - or rather irresponsible when it comes to this.
This is a result of the election system that the US has that is far from proportional - it is a "winner takes it all" system which works for the president, but not when you are going to get people representing the people. There is also another failure in the constitution - there's no obvious clause that takes care of things like the current situation.
Of course - the constitution was written in a different time, and they could probably never conceive the idea that the congress was working against the best of the country and instead resort to blackmail. Notice that the best of the country isn't necessarily the best of the people. Taxes come and go and if a decree doesn't work out - like Romney Obamacare it can be changed later.
The point here is that not all micromanaging is bad, and not all is good.
And if you are the head of a company you should be aware of what's happening on the floor too. In large companies the awareness of day to day problems is also important because you may actually be able to figure out as a head manager that the organization structure is causing problems. What is good for one department may not be good for the company or the product that the company produces.
Mid level management do have their specific interests, and their responsibility is to look for the good of their department, but that may not be the good for the company.
Working inside a large organization myself I see that the top level management are essentially invisible and trusts their department managers too much. But sitting in the top level management positions it is important to know the core of the company - even informal channels that exists due to necessity. Knowing the existence of informal channels also means that you as a top level manager knows what impact a downsize may have. Cutting the wrong parts to get to the fat may make the company slower.
Just have a number of servers that the requests are routed through at a round-robin schedule and each with a different random number generator for the delay of 20 minutes to 2 hour range. That would make it very hard to crack even if you have one or two flawed RNG:s.
Possible RNG:s, all with their own flaws and problems (who's going to feed the hamsters this week?).
The 20 minutes to 2 hour interval is the time a human needs to properly evaluate a buy/sell situation. Notice that the point is to whack the robot traders. You may of course still have robot traders, but they will need to take a much longer perspective on the stocks instead.
Another question is - how do you solve the 10 minute batches? Which is going to be served first if you have transactions A, B and C in that batch? It may make a difference. You still need to do the random pick and execute them one by one at some point, and if there are 10 shares and A orders 5, B orders 10 and C orders 2 the outcome will be different depending on execution order.
But I like the fee idea on placed orders, but make it one dollar right away - and close the ability to withdraw an order.
How a culture is clustered depends on the habits of the species of that culture.
Humans have the ability to utilize any means possible, and before the 19th century oceans and rivers were the motorways of the world. Roads were at best two tracks with the width of two horse asses. That caused important points to get a denser population.
During the 19th century the railroads became the important way of transportation on land and some additional centers did grow up, especially where major rivers and railroads did cross. Sometimes for other reasons as well.
The 20th century became the century of the car. And all the time the coastal centers have prospered since changing from one mode of transportation to another makes them a hotspot even in our time.
However if you look at another species on another planet things may be completely different. Another species may be more attracted to climbing trees than water - much like cats on Earth.
That will kill one feature that I have in an application, and that feature is for company-internal use only, so self-signed is sufficient.
Ctrl+Alt+Del - is the worst mistake in computer history. Anyone who have been programming in C or Assembly on MS-DOS has experienced more than not that it wasn't doing crap and since the logic from the higher beings stated that you don't need a reset button because you have... Ctrl+Alt+Del... - it meant that power cycling was the only way to revive the computer. So count how many power cycles that occurred in a day... Bad programmer you think - well, considering that this was the 80's and there were few good tools for MS-DOS at the time that was how it was. At least it was good in the way that you did learn to really check your code by hand to avoid a crash - and develop certain coding habits.
Just insert a random delay on all trades. The delay shall range from 20 minutes to 2 hours. That would make automated trading useless.
Think Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz instead.
That installs Truecrypt, encrypts all disks, changes ALL passwords including the Truecrypt passwords with random-generated ones and then shuts down everything.
Good luck with figuring out the responsible behind that timebomb.
Company intranets suffers also from link rot, and some are doing it worse by using tools that inherently promote link rot.
The point is that files are moved around on filesystems now and then "for better structure", "making it easier to find" and other lame excuses, but if every file had an unique ID that could be used to link with then they could move around the files as much as they like without causing harm.
Essentially it comes down to statistics - there's more junk floating around in the center of the spiral arm than at the edges so more risk of hitting something on the way through. Or having an asteroid or comet disturbed by a passing item.
In general meteorites hitting Earth have a speed of about 11 to 15 km/s, but that's only applicable for those that follows basically the same trajectory as Earth. If you meet something extrasolar then the speed can be a lot higher, which means that a smaller rock can cause great effects and still not be traced as an impact causing an extinction event due to insufficient evidence.
Stating charging cable would be more correct.
And denying use completely would be incorrect because that will just irritate everyone trying to charge their device through USB outlets in cars etc.
What they can do is to instead have a blacklist of known bad/dangerous devices combined with a warning for unknown.
And it will just raise the stakes for Chinese copies to use cloned ID chips too.
Otherwise you don't have a chance reading them in the right order when restoring the backup.
That could prove interesting - create a game that's actually the post processing of the movie.
Ah! The irony is strong with this one!
That would only work for objects with low complexity. Any object with a higher complexity would be printed in parts.
AdBlock Plus is a great thing when it comes to ads, patent trolls needs a good gang rape instead.
That - and the fact that the artists are seeing competition from many other sources today than they did a few decades ago.
Leisure time over the decades:
60's - Drinking beer and listening to The Beatles.
70's - Drinking beer and listening to Grateful Dead.
80's - Drinking beer and listening to Michael Jackson.
90's - Drinking Jolt Cola and Playing computer games.
00's - Smoking weed and surfing the web.
10's - Smoking weed and watching cat videos on YouTube or Teens on Redtube.
They are worried about the critical mass.
I was a late adopter of hdtv, but then I realized that it can go a week or two between the times I watch TV.
I take the fifth amendment on that.
Unfortunately the NSA has enough on every individual in the government to make such a move extremely dangerous for the single individual.
NSA, CIA, FBI and DoD have their own life and nobody that is sane would want to challenge them. We have to wait for the insane savior.
I would love to hack those plates.
That would be the most toothless law ever.
No prosecutor would even think of trying to go against the NSA unless he's willing to spend the rest of his life somewhere in the outback of Alaska.
With a built in cafeteria and ass-wiper.