I always lumped Kazakhstan in with Mongolia. They don't even border, but they are similarly rural with nomadic roots.
Part of the issue with the former soviet republics is that Russia shuffled the locals around. Russia liked the idea of a winter retreat Crimea, so they shipped in Russians, and move the others out.
99% of redundancy I've seen comes down to a single line of config in a single box. Redundancy is great, but a delicate cluster of a single type of gear that requires that single vendor proprietary redundancy protocol work perfectly 100% of the time is redundant in theory only.
That and I've seen great cost for redundancy for redundancy's sake where the complexity added to get redundancy made the whole network less stable. 1 box with a MTBF of 10,000 hours means one outage every year. 4 boxes with the same MTBF means 4 outage incidents a year, though hopefully without a network down incident. Replacing the 1 box with another 1 box with a 100,000 MTBF would see a better increase in MTBF-related downtime, and the 4-box solution has full outages on a regular basis from the delicacy of the clustering used.
So I wouldn't put it down to malice and KGB. All the population is in Baku, and it is easier to have one place to go. They had lots of redundancy, just not physically separate. Every place I've seen with multiple power feeds all had a single point of failure. One went so far as to have 3 power feeds from 2 carriers at 3 building entry points, 2 generators, 3 UPSs, and all that, with the 3 UPSs in the same small room, and the power from them out to the facility through a single power panel. Though the feeds alternated A B and C, a single event at that one panel could bring down the entire facility, regardless of the state of the 3 UPSs and 2 generators.
The Internet doesn't exist within most countries. There are a few POPs to the Internet, one or two, but two people on different networks usually don't change carriers at the tiny POPs. NTT and TI might not peer at that POP, so two people would have their traffic leave the country to come back. I've seen that happen with Pacific islands with a single POP. That means that the Internet starts one hop out of the country.
The Internet routes around the damage. Nobody outside Azerbaijan noticed the outage. But the people inside are on the Internet the same way as someone on Comcast is on the Internet when Comcast goes down.
When I worked for a US company with an office there, we got training on how to bribe. The issue is that bribing a foreign government is illegal. And in Azerbaijan, so much is still owned by the government. The government workers are so poor that they use their power to work for tips. In my case, we had a microwave link in a government owned tower. The equipment was up on the top floor. If we wanted access, we had to pay an "elevator fee" bribe paid to a government worker for access to a government building. It was illegal, but the options were down to "don't do business in Baku, or do so in violation of US law".
Yet, pre Snowden, 9/11 attackers were not discovered before attacks.
The system doesn't work to prevent attacks, only place blame after. The pattern was there, but nobody was looking for it until after the attacks. You could use billboards to spread unencrypted messages for terrorist cells, and it'd be ignored until after an attack. Not from malice, but from the lack of ability to process all the data collected.
With end-to-end encryption as is used on services like Apple's iMessage, the data exists only on the devices at either end of the communication, and the keys exist only there.
But with central keys and a proprietary system, it'd be quite easy for Apple to read everything. End to End encryption shouldn't also include massive amounts of trust.
So why do the corporations pay taxes to government if they control it?
Have you missed the millions of complaints about corporations legally not paying taxes?
Why have business executive been going to jail?
Don't forget, Ken Lay was found innocent in court. How many bank execs went to jail for the fraudulent credit swaps? http://www.mintpressnews.com/i...http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/...http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05... The only banking exec sent to jail was one immigrant. The hate of immigrants exceeded the protection of bankers, and served up a single exception, so nobody could say "nobody" went to jail. Though his crime was in internal fraud to get a bonus, not defrauding anyone outside the company.
So the number of business execs who went to jail for defrauding customers is still zero. One exec went to jail for defrauding shareholders.
As that was defrauding shareholders, I think we can say that nobody went to jail for causing the largest recession ever recorded.
Fear of the name increases the fear of the thing itself. ISIL, ISIS, Daesh. I don't care, and I'll use the word that's most likely to be recognized, not the one that is misunderstood and used to drive a political agenda. I leave that linguistic gymnastics to the Republicans.
If they pay $1 for it, the creditors would refuse the deal, opting instead to sell the parts individually. The price is one both Pandora and Rdio think is reasonable, yet everyone on Slashdot knows better than the paid professionals.
Bankruptcy is about cashflow, not assets. Most people would sell assets to prevent the bankruptcy, but that becomes a cashflow when you sell them.
Looks like Rdio has lots of debts, and no means to pay them off, but something worth $75M, so Pandora is buying something for $75M and that payment will go to the creditors of Rdio. Those creditors could stop the sale, but in practice never do, as their share of $75M is much higher than their share of the bankrupt company if it were divided and sold off in smaller pieces.
The ISIS links are manufactured. The terrorists were French citizens before ISIS started. Every stubbed toe will be ISIS. ISIS wants it to make them appear powerful and the "other side" wants the same thing because the stronger ISIS looks, the easier it is to get funding to bomb the Middle East.
Yet you don't name any CAD software from the '60s. That you haven't plainly given an answer, but asserted others are wrong, one can only conclude you don't know what you are talking about.
It's a hurdle that nobody will trip over. I'd buy a Ferrari, but I don't have any money, and the dealership is on the other side of town. Which one of those is the bigger hurdle? Not all hurdles are equal. Most mobile data is still WiFi, from the last numbers I saw, so someone could enter without even using cellular data.
The algorithm locks on to a face, and rotates, sizes and such to make the faces line up. The thing is that the faces averaged look very human, not like a cat, or smiley face. Is that the algorithm, or the way we build faces into our objects?
That, and checking MangoFlix after posting, MangoFlix doesn't exist, which is why I've not heard of it (or it's an online-only company with no online presence, same effect).
No small player will ever start up, much like no independent TV station will ever start up. The market is full, and there's no room left for a tiny startup.
Now - have you ever heard of MangoFlix? No, you haven't, because all these entrenched services have locked up deals with content providers, and now connectivity providers, making it impossibly expensive to start up a competitive service. You know, like a competitive service that actually streams a decent collection of Movies, and not just stale TV series and in-house produced content.
The primary issue being the content, not the zero rating. If MangoFlix had all the content you wanted, and HBO-Go didn't, would you really pay for HBO-Go, even if it was zero-rated for data use?
Yeah, except that the US military is deployed in the wrong places, killing the wrong people. World peace would cost the military too much, so we make sure we'll always have enemies. Lots of enemies. It's better for the economy.
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I always lumped Kazakhstan in with Mongolia. They don't even border, but they are similarly rural with nomadic roots.
Part of the issue with the former soviet republics is that Russia shuffled the locals around. Russia liked the idea of a winter retreat Crimea, so they shipped in Russians, and move the others out.
Can't route around a horrible network design. 90% of the country's network was all routed to a single building with evidently no redundant links.
The Internet routed around Baku without issue. And there were redundant links. They just all went into the same building.
99% of redundancy I've seen comes down to a single line of config in a single box. Redundancy is great, but a delicate cluster of a single type of gear that requires that single vendor proprietary redundancy protocol work perfectly 100% of the time is redundant in theory only.
That and I've seen great cost for redundancy for redundancy's sake where the complexity added to get redundancy made the whole network less stable. 1 box with a MTBF of 10,000 hours means one outage every year. 4 boxes with the same MTBF means 4 outage incidents a year, though hopefully without a network down incident. Replacing the 1 box with another 1 box with a 100,000 MTBF would see a better increase in MTBF-related downtime, and the 4-box solution has full outages on a regular basis from the delicacy of the clustering used.
So I wouldn't put it down to malice and KGB. All the population is in Baku, and it is easier to have one place to go. They had lots of redundancy, just not physically separate. Every place I've seen with multiple power feeds all had a single point of failure. One went so far as to have 3 power feeds from 2 carriers at 3 building entry points, 2 generators, 3 UPSs, and all that, with the 3 UPSs in the same small room, and the power from them out to the facility through a single power panel. Though the feeds alternated A B and C, a single event at that one panel could bring down the entire facility, regardless of the state of the 3 UPSs and 2 generators.
The Internet doesn't exist within most countries. There are a few POPs to the Internet, one or two, but two people on different networks usually don't change carriers at the tiny POPs. NTT and TI might not peer at that POP, so two people would have their traffic leave the country to come back. I've seen that happen with Pacific islands with a single POP. That means that the Internet starts one hop out of the country.
The Internet routes around the damage. Nobody outside Azerbaijan noticed the outage. But the people inside are on the Internet the same way as someone on Comcast is on the Internet when Comcast goes down.
When I worked for a US company with an office there, we got training on how to bribe. The issue is that bribing a foreign government is illegal. And in Azerbaijan, so much is still owned by the government. The government workers are so poor that they use their power to work for tips. In my case, we had a microwave link in a government owned tower. The equipment was up on the top floor. If we wanted access, we had to pay an "elevator fee" bribe paid to a government worker for access to a government building. It was illegal, but the options were down to "don't do business in Baku, or do so in violation of US law".
Or, perhaps more likely, the erudite reporter merely salted their story for street creds.
The reporter should have hashed it after salting.
Yet, pre Snowden, 9/11 attackers were not discovered before attacks.
The system doesn't work to prevent attacks, only place blame after. The pattern was there, but nobody was looking for it until after the attacks. You could use billboards to spread unencrypted messages for terrorist cells, and it'd be ignored until after an attack. Not from malice, but from the lack of ability to process all the data collected.
With end-to-end encryption as is used on services like Apple's iMessage, the data exists only on the devices at either end of the communication, and the keys exist only there.
But with central keys and a proprietary system, it'd be quite easy for Apple to read everything. End to End encryption shouldn't also include massive amounts of trust.
So why do the corporations pay taxes to government if they control it?
Have you missed the millions of complaints about corporations legally not paying taxes?
Why have business executive been going to jail?
Don't forget, Ken Lay was found innocent in court. How many bank execs went to jail for the fraudulent credit swaps? http://www.mintpressnews.com/i... http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05... The only banking exec sent to jail was one immigrant. The hate of immigrants exceeded the protection of bankers, and served up a single exception, so nobody could say "nobody" went to jail. Though his crime was in internal fraud to get a bonus, not defrauding anyone outside the company.
So the number of business execs who went to jail for defrauding customers is still zero. One exec went to jail for defrauding shareholders.
As that was defrauding shareholders, I think we can say that nobody went to jail for causing the largest recession ever recorded.
So a long list of ACs say there was, but no names, no confirmation. Just assertions I'm wrong. What are you, my wife?
And someone, somewhere is muttering "256 cores should be enough for anyone".
Fear of the name increases the fear of the thing itself. ISIL, ISIS, Daesh. I don't care, and I'll use the word that's most likely to be recognized, not the one that is misunderstood and used to drive a political agenda. I leave that linguistic gymnastics to the Republicans.
Yes, and the US government wants them strong. It's better for the Military Industrial Complex if we have 10 perpetual wars at all times.
If they pay $1 for it, the creditors would refuse the deal, opting instead to sell the parts individually. The price is one both Pandora and Rdio think is reasonable, yet everyone on Slashdot knows better than the paid professionals.
Bankruptcy is about cashflow, not assets. Most people would sell assets to prevent the bankruptcy, but that becomes a cashflow when you sell them.
Looks like Rdio has lots of debts, and no means to pay them off, but something worth $75M, so Pandora is buying something for $75M and that payment will go to the creditors of Rdio. Those creditors could stop the sale, but in practice never do, as their share of $75M is much higher than their share of the bankrupt company if it were divided and sold off in smaller pieces.
The ISIS links are manufactured. The terrorists were French citizens before ISIS started. Every stubbed toe will be ISIS. ISIS wants it to make them appear powerful and the "other side" wants the same thing because the stronger ISIS looks, the easier it is to get funding to bomb the Middle East.
Yet you don't name any CAD software from the '60s. That you haven't plainly given an answer, but asserted others are wrong, one can only conclude you don't know what you are talking about.
You do realize you are posting on an American web site, right?
It's a hurdle that nobody will trip over. I'd buy a Ferrari, but I don't have any money, and the dealership is on the other side of town. Which one of those is the bigger hurdle? Not all hurdles are equal. Most mobile data is still WiFi, from the last numbers I saw, so someone could enter without even using cellular data.
A car grill that looks like a face is averaged with a toaster and others and it comes out looking very human. That's the issue.
The algorithm locks on to a face, and rotates, sizes and such to make the faces line up. The thing is that the faces averaged look very human, not like a cat, or smiley face. Is that the algorithm, or the way we build faces into our objects?
That, and checking MangoFlix after posting, MangoFlix doesn't exist, which is why I've not heard of it (or it's an online-only company with no online presence, same effect).
No small player will ever start up, much like no independent TV station will ever start up. The market is full, and there's no room left for a tiny startup.
Now - have you ever heard of MangoFlix? No, you haven't, because all these entrenched services have locked up deals with content providers, and now connectivity providers, making it impossibly expensive to start up a competitive service. You know, like a competitive service that actually streams a decent collection of Movies, and not just stale TV series and in-house produced content.
The primary issue being the content, not the zero rating. If MangoFlix had all the content you wanted, and HBO-Go didn't, would you really pay for HBO-Go, even if it was zero-rated for data use?
Then which military are you recommending the Americans on this American site go join?
The OP, the site, and TFA are all US.
Yeah, except that the US military is deployed in the wrong places, killing the wrong people. World peace would cost the military too much, so we make sure we'll always have enemies. Lots of enemies. It's better for the economy.