Yeah in the early 80's I made a fortune in the Middle East based on Sun, support, training and consulting. Ever since then it has been a long slow spiral down earnings wise. I guess I never got over the shift:-(
The vast majority of airplanes crash in an obvious place. Very very few black boxes have never been found (10? 12?). People want cleap flights, and the cost benefit of real time satellite is dubious. It is more to satisfy the curious in the tiny tiny set of edge cases like this.
Possibly to head to the closest runway available....... Note the Fex Ex Dubai crash, the smoke was so bad the pilots could not see the instruments, and in the end, the fire burned the oxygen lines. The pilot left the cockpit to seek an oxygen bottle but never returned, presumably overwhelmed by fumes. The co-piot crashed alone in the cockpit. Fire indicates getting down to the nearest runway......
Gemalto generate a master SIM key with batches of cards shipped to each Mobile Operator. I work on a project for mobile payments, mediated with a STK loaded on each card. A HSM is loaded with all the master keys. If you have the master key, you can decrypt all the communications with the STK app on the SIM card. If the Master key leaks, all payment operations/transactions are fucked.
You cannot be serious. I live between UK and France. I work every day in france in my local cafe with Wifi. Everywhere I go there is free wifi. I live over a greek restaurant in the uk - free WiFi. Most cafe's in UK and france have free wifi. UK airports - Free WiFi, Franch Airports - free wifi, Swiss Airports - Free WiFi etc etc.
European MacDonalds, free wifi, European Starbucks - free Wifi etc etc.
The Uber policy is a scam. There is another case where the passengers were injured, but again they are in court trying to force Uber to pay as the drivers private insurance declined coverage.
"The collision occurred at approximately 8:00 p.m. as the Liu family was heading home and was lawfully crossing, with a green light, when they were struck by a right turning vehicle. Sofia was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where she died. Her mother was hospitalized for an extensive period with life threatening injuries requiring delicate, extensive, surgery. Anthony, who suffered serious injuries was released to his grieving father Ang.
Uber acknowledged that Muzzaraf was a "Uber partner" but stated that he was not providing transportation services for Uber at the time of the collision. Uber has also stated that its oft touted $1,000,000.00 in insurance coverage for its drivers is not available to pay for the medical expenses, funeral bills, or the other damages suffered by the Liu family because there was not a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the collision. In addition to losing Sofia, her mother Huan, and her brother Anthony, were seriously injured requiring extensive hospitalization.
The Dolan Law Firm has filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court against Uber, its business partners, and Muzzaraf claiming that Uber is responsible for Muzarraf's conduct, and the Liu's losses, based on the fact that Muzzaraf was logged on to the Uber app.
At the time of the collision and was, therefore, working for Uber whether or not he had a passenger in the car.
Obviously the author of the article never heard of Mobile Payment systems like MPESA, which are already very successful in other countries, and do not require a bank account, or a smart card, just a SIM card and an ID document.
Smart cards on their own can't succeed, the key is reusing the vast african system of agents associated with mobile operators. Smart cards need infrastructure t accept payments. An MPESA merchant only needs a mobile phone with SMS or USSD capability.
So I see this as just more banking hype, banks hate MPESA..........
So when you can't monitor the obvious threats you already know about the solution is to add more and more to the pile ? Really? Why not ask for more manpower to monitor the known threats? Or are they busy monitoring politicians and journalists ? Who the fuck knows how they are burning manpower but the Paris incident shows that they can't do threat assessments nor properly monitor who they know about.
If they knew these guys were a threat, then they can get a warrant already an scoop up everything. Phone locations etc. No one objects to monitoring via a legal process known threats. But with current powers available, they did not. So adding more and more powers leading to more and more data is in my opinion not a solution.
Potentially the whole world flies under the radar.
I split time between France and the UK. We have hot desks so when in the UK there are never desks. Hence I rarely go to the office but work from my apartment and walk to the office a couple of times a week fork meetings. In France, I work at home or my local cafe where I get the real work done, as in a cafe there is a little noise but no one talks to me, and I get automatic coffee refills. Everyone now knows that a certain table is my office. I have Skype, Lync, a phone and email. I deal with China, Albania, Kenya, Germany, Ghana, romania and DRC. So it is impossible to have real meetings mostly. Over Christmas I have been at home for a month now.
I really don't understand why people are tied to offices anymore. The work gets done, or it is obvious when people are docking off. I do my 6:00 AM conf calls in bed with my laptop....... on my lap. I am often on conf calls 7 hours a day, impossible to do them in the office with the noise, and if everyone else is on calls it is too distracting. Worse when people are in the offices andn join calls, there is always too much noise when they are not muted.
Fact is, phones or not people talk on airplanes. But current American culture being fearful and intolerant and all about "me" will result in yet more disputes. Want to sleep in a public place? Earplugs or noise cancelling head phones. And no one needs to shout at 85 dB to be heard with a person in the next seat or for a phone conversation.
People already sit with other and blabber. They even bring kids that..... Cry. Music leaks out of headphones. Fact is an airplane is not an optimal place for quiet. Oh yeah people scream in air pockets.
Well I'm on a project with a very large Chinese network supplier. Their team with Cantonese and Mandarin use English to communicate. It's only via English they can communicate. So they tell me.
Unlike a phone call, a text message has the expectation to be read when the receiver chooses. I send text messages to people I know are driving so the message is there when they stop.
Thank you, well said. I myself went to Afghanistan in 2003 but to help not to kill. Since the CIA created and funded Osama, would it not have been cheaper to bomb CIA headquarters? 99% of Afghans want help from anywhere - they will accept the Taliban ( as they did ) to get minimal security. The Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. The ongoing struggle between Pashtun and Northern Alliance has nothing to do with us. Osama was our chicken coming home to roost.
cockroaches are dominant in numbers, but this is no reason that they will dominate the internet. The intnernet is about power as much as anything else. A billion poor Chinese do not wield enough influence yet to change the world.
Iran is favored in Afghanistan, except the US with their aid budget precludes buying for example farsi software. We like to ship them English Windows. Mac OS X could be used with a pashtun and dari and uzbeck but no wat in 2003 was the US going to buy Mac's.
Pakistan is pretty much hated by the average Afghan. They had to escape to Pakistan but they don't forget how badly they were treated.
China has been all over Afghanistan for 8 years now seeking to win tenders and gain influence.
".....The sharing of family wealth has been a critical component in maintaining the semblance of a united front within the royal family. An essential part of family wealth is the Kingdom in its physical entirety, which the Al Saud view as a totally owned family asset. Whether through the co-mingling of personal & state funds from lucrative government positions, huge land allocations, direct allotments of crude oil to sell in the open market, segmental controls in the economy, special preferences for the award of major contracts, outright cash handouts, and astronomical monthly allowances, - all billed to the national exchequer - all told, the financial impact may have exceeded 40% of the Kingdom's annual budget during the reign of King Fahd. Over decades of oil revenue-generated expansion, estimates of royal receipts have varied, ranging as low as an unlikely $50 billion and as high as well over $1 trillion. [5]. This method of wealth distribution has allowed many of the senior princes & princesses to accumulate largely unauditable wealth and, in turn, pay out, in cash or kind, to lesser royals and commoners, and thereby gaining political influence through their own largesse. During periods of high oil prices as were the late 70s, early 80s, and again, immediately after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, national income has outpaced the developmental needs & social obligations of the Saudi government and the effects of royal skimming were diminished. From the mid 80s through the 90s, when international crude oil prices dropped to the teens and below, the subsequent shortfall in income, and the availability of surprisingly limited financial reserves (when compared to such countries as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates which continued to grow during crude price droughts because of dividends generated from years of prudent investments.)[6]. According to well-publicized but unsubstantiated reports, King Abdullah has intentions to reduce the Al Saud share of the budget, an act which may sow discontent within the royal family, but would be popular with the Kingdom's citizenry."
Fact is no one knows really how much the Royal family keep and how much gets shared.
Saudi Arabia has the wealth to never export oil but to process it all on shore. INstead that potential excess to invest in expensive downstream processing goes in to the royal family.
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Yeah in the early 80's I made a fortune in the Middle East based on Sun, support, training and consulting. Ever since then it has been a long slow spiral down earnings wise. I guess I never got over the shift :-(
The vast majority of airplanes crash in an obvious place. Very very few black boxes have never been found (10? 12?). People want cleap flights, and the cost benefit of real time satellite is dubious. It is more to satisfy the curious in the tiny tiny set of edge cases like this.
Possibly to head to the closest runway available ....... Note the Fex Ex Dubai crash, the smoke was so bad the pilots could not see the instruments, and in the end, the fire burned the oxygen lines. The pilot left the cockpit to seek an oxygen bottle but never returned, presumably overwhelmed by fumes. The co-piot crashed alone in the cockpit. Fire indicates getting down to the nearest runway ......
Gemalto generate a master SIM key with batches of cards shipped to each Mobile Operator. I work on a project for mobile payments, mediated with a STK loaded on each card. A HSM is loaded with all the master keys. If you have the master key, you can decrypt all the communications with the STK app on the SIM card. If the Master key leaks, all payment operations/transactions are fucked.
If I fly from France to Germany, I do not need a passport. There is no passport check. Just some form of ID when checking in. Voila.
You cannot be serious. I live between UK and France. I work every day in france in my local cafe with Wifi. Everywhere I go there is free wifi. I live over a greek restaurant in the uk - free WiFi. Most cafe's in UK and france have free wifi. UK airports - Free WiFi, Franch Airports - free wifi, Swiss Airports - Free WiFi etc etc.
European MacDonalds, free wifi, European Starbucks - free Wifi etc etc.
Your statement is bullshit.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/v...
Attempt to fly at 100,000 feet, which is about I suspect the same density as martian atmosphere.
The Uber policy is a scam. There is another case where the passengers were injured, but again they are in court trying to force Uber to pay as the drivers private insurance declined coverage.
"The collision occurred at approximately 8:00 p.m. as the Liu family was heading home and was lawfully crossing, with a green light, when they were struck by a right turning vehicle. Sofia was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where she died. Her mother was hospitalized for an extensive period with life threatening injuries requiring delicate, extensive, surgery. Anthony, who suffered serious injuries was released to his grieving father Ang.
Uber acknowledged that Muzzaraf was a "Uber partner" but stated that he was not providing transportation services for Uber at the time of the collision. Uber has also stated that its oft touted $1,000,000.00 in insurance coverage for its drivers is not available to pay for the medical expenses, funeral bills, or the other damages suffered by the Liu family because there was not a passenger in the vehicle at the time of the collision. In addition to losing Sofia, her mother Huan, and her brother Anthony, were seriously injured requiring extensive hospitalization.
The Dolan Law Firm has filed suit in San Francisco Superior Court against Uber, its business partners, and Muzzaraf claiming that Uber is responsible for Muzarraf's conduct, and the Liu's losses, based on the fact that Muzzaraf was logged on to the Uber app.
At the time of the collision and was, therefore, working for Uber whether or not he had a passenger in the car.
Obviously the author of the article never heard of Mobile Payment systems like MPESA, which are already very successful in other countries, and do not require a bank account, or a smart card, just a SIM card and an ID document.
Smart cards on their own can't succeed, the key is reusing the vast african system of agents associated with mobile operators. Smart cards need infrastructure t accept payments. An MPESA merchant only needs a mobile phone with SMS or USSD capability.
So I see this as just more banking hype, banks hate MPESA..........
So when you can't monitor the obvious threats you already know about the solution is to add more and more to the pile ? Really? Why not ask for more manpower to monitor the known threats? Or are they busy monitoring politicians and journalists ? Who the fuck knows how they are burning manpower but the Paris incident shows that they can't do threat assessments nor properly monitor who they know about.
If they knew these guys were a threat, then they can get a warrant already an scoop up everything. Phone locations etc. No one objects to monitoring via a legal process known threats. But with current powers available, they did not. So adding more and more powers leading to more and more data is in my opinion not a solution.
Potentially the whole world flies under the radar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I split time between France and the UK. We have hot desks so when in the UK there are never desks. Hence I rarely go to the office but work from my apartment and walk to the office a couple of times a week fork meetings. In France, I work at home or my local cafe where I get the real work done, as in a cafe there is a little noise but no one talks to me, and I get automatic coffee refills. Everyone now knows that a certain table is my office. I have Skype, Lync, a phone and email. I deal with China, Albania, Kenya, Germany, Ghana, romania and DRC. So it is impossible to have real meetings mostly. Over Christmas I have been at home for a month now.
I really don't understand why people are tied to offices anymore. The work gets done, or it is obvious when people are docking off. I do my 6:00 AM conf calls in bed with my laptop ....... on my lap. I am often on conf calls 7 hours a day, impossible to do them in the office with the noise, and if everyone else is on calls it is too distracting. Worse when people are in the offices andn join calls, there is always too much noise when they are not muted.
Amadeus. Owned by Airlines.
Fact is, phones or not people talk on airplanes. But current American culture being fearful and intolerant and all about "me" will result in yet more disputes. Want to sleep in a public place? Earplugs or noise cancelling head phones. And no one needs to shout at 85 dB to be heard with a person in the next seat or for a phone conversation.
Aircraft interior 85 dB
Speech: 65-70 dB
Ask the pilot to switch off the engines while you sleep.
I've sent iMessages at 5000 meters over Ghana. Record. Kenya was 2500 meters. Heathrow sucks. Nice is ok. Zurich terrible - 600 meters
My trivial hobby.
People already sit with other and blabber. They even bring kids that ..... Cry. Music leaks out of headphones. Fact is an airplane is not an optimal place for quiet. Oh yeah people scream in air pockets.
Well I'm on a project with a very large Chinese network supplier. Their team with Cantonese and Mandarin use English to communicate. It's only via English they can communicate. So they tell me.
Veronica?
Unlike a phone call, a text message has the expectation to be read when the receiver chooses. I send text messages to people I know are driving so the message is there when they stop.
Thank you, well said. I myself went to Afghanistan in 2003 but to help not to kill. Since the CIA created and funded Osama, would it not have been cheaper to bomb CIA headquarters? 99% of Afghans want help from anywhere - they will accept the Taliban ( as they did ) to get minimal security. The Taliban had nothing to do with 9/11. The ongoing struggle between Pashtun and Northern Alliance has nothing to do with us. Osama was our chicken coming home to roost.
For solitary porn viewing, incase you need BOTH hands free.
cockroaches are dominant in numbers, but this is no reason that they will dominate the internet. The intnernet is about power as much as anything else. A billion poor Chinese do not wield enough influence yet to change the world.
This is not just about raw numbers.
Iran is favored in Afghanistan, except the US with their aid budget precludes buying for example farsi software. We like to ship them English Windows. Mac OS X could be used with a pashtun and dari and uzbeck but no wat in 2003 was the US going to buy Mac's.
Pakistan is pretty much hated by the average Afghan. They had to escape to Pakistan but they don't forget how badly they were treated.
China has been all over Afghanistan for 8 years now seeking to win tenders and gain influence.
fact is you can gain influence by bribing people.
Corruption is endemic.
".....The sharing of family wealth has been a critical component in maintaining the semblance of a united front within the royal family. An essential part of family wealth is the Kingdom in its physical entirety, which the Al Saud view as a totally owned family asset. Whether through the co-mingling of personal & state funds from lucrative government positions, huge land allocations, direct allotments of crude oil to sell in the open market, segmental controls in the economy, special preferences for the award of major contracts, outright cash handouts, and astronomical monthly allowances, - all billed to the national exchequer - all told, the financial impact may have exceeded 40% of the Kingdom's annual budget during the reign of King Fahd. Over decades of oil revenue-generated expansion, estimates of royal receipts have varied, ranging as low as an unlikely $50 billion and as high as well over $1 trillion. [5]. This method of wealth distribution has allowed many of the senior princes & princesses to accumulate largely unauditable wealth and, in turn, pay out, in cash or kind, to lesser royals and commoners, and thereby gaining political influence through their own largesse.
During periods of high oil prices as were the late 70s, early 80s, and again, immediately after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, national income has outpaced the developmental needs & social obligations of the Saudi government and the effects of royal skimming were diminished. From the mid 80s through the 90s, when international crude oil prices dropped to the teens and below, the subsequent shortfall in income, and the availability of surprisingly limited financial reserves (when compared to such countries as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates which continued to grow during crude price droughts because of dividends generated from years of prudent investments.)[6]. According to well-publicized but unsubstantiated reports, King Abdullah has intentions to reduce the Al Saud share of the budget, an act which may sow discontent within the royal family, but would be popular with the Kingdom's citizenry."
Fact is no one knows really how much the Royal family keep and how much gets shared.
Saudi Arabia has the wealth to never export oil but to process it all on shore. INstead that potential excess to invest in expensive downstream processing goes in to the royal family.
Afghanistan will be the same.
Have a read of :
http://www.amazon.com/Plowing-Sea-Nurturing-Sources-Developing/dp/0875847617