In the coming weeks, you'll see thousands of municipal bonds be downgraded, as many, many state and local budgets are intimately dependent on federal spending.
Of course, since all the ratings agencies have a history of deliberately overstating the risk of municipal bonds, that may have less to do with the actual risk of default and more to do with what makes the ratings agencies money. (They profit from private-sector bond issuers when they rate their bonds and investments highly, but for municipal bonds they make money from rating them low so that local governments are forced to overpay various bond insurers in order to make their bonds acceptable to purchasers, from which the ratings agencies get a cut. There are even internal memos staring this as the reason.)
Pro-Israeli sentiment is quite common amongst the far-right these days from what I can tell, especially in Europe - Muslims are the current populist target of hate. (Though it's anyone's guess whether this is what they actually believe or just a matter of political convenience.) "White" has a very flexible definition...
You won't gain anything from Wayland, but you'll lose the ability to run any apps that require Wayland without using window compositing anymore, including losing the ability to run on hardware that doesn't support OpenGL, as well as stuff like network transparency...
If the MITM has been in place since day one, you're screwed anyway. It's vanishingly unlikely that the attacker won't have been able to compromise the server somehow at that point...
Certificate revocation doesn't work, though. An attacker capable of doing a man-in-the-middle attack on unencrypted data can quite easily stop browsers from finding out the certificate's been revoked, and the last browser to attempt to detect this attack (Chrome) gave up long ago because it couldn't distinguish it from the annoyingly frequent actual failures of SSL certificate authorities to answer requests for revocation information.
The trouble is that a lot of them are crazy - you kind of have to be in order to think you stand a chance of getting into power that way, aside from anything else - and they're generally not as maverick as you might think either. Especially once the money starts rolling in...
Yeah, and they're planning to basically relaunch it under a new name once all the fuss has died down in a few months - except more profitably because it'll share staff with the existing Sun daily.
Google's problem right now isn't patent trolls, it's major players in the industry that are threatened by Android and using their patents to try and destroy it.
WebM was not developed within an ISO recognized standards development organization. It never had a hope of being patent-free: the process was not open, not due-process, and for that reason and others the folks who might have been willing to donate their IP to the effort were not properly motivated.
On the contrary, that's why WebM stood a chance. ISO are generally not interested in royalty-free; they're generally quite happy for members to inject requirements into standards that require everyone to license their patents. (Also, remember that very few people use JPEG 2000 - that's probably the only reason we haven't seen massive patent lawsuits over it it. Wavelets are much more of a patent minefield than DCT-based codecs.)
Yeah, the KDE developers have spent a lot of time chasing after compatibility with Gnome's latest NIH ideas (badly thought out new methods of hadling system tray items, changing how to handle shutdowns every other release...)
Not every newspaper, certainly - the Guardian didn't, despite Rebecca Brooks' attempts to smear them to a parlimentary committee. Also I'm not aware of any evidence the other papers interfered with police investigations in the same way as the News of the World did, and they certainly didn't have the same close ties to the Government.
That's because GOG is run by the same company that created The Witcher 2, so they make a lot more money if you buy it from there. There's no conceivable anti-piracy benefit of DRM only on physical copies that couldn't be provided by copy protection that was removed by a patch on release day. (They eventually did release a patch to remove it, but mostly because it broke the game for many users - and thanks to the non-copy protected digital releases anyone that found out about this could easily just pirate it instead.)
This has the... interesting side effect of increasing the wealth of rich people that haven't actually contributed to the economic expansion at the expense of the people that did actually contribute. (It also doesn't work in practice from what I can recall.)
As far as I can tell there aren't any LWRs in the UK. We have one PWR reactor (Sizewell B) and a bunch of AGR and Magnox reactors. Sizewell B was apparently supposed to be AGR too originally...
That assumes that the race to the bottom caused by removing the minimum wage will stop at some relatively reasonable level. I see no reason to assume this - there are costs associated with employing someone other than just wages. (The cost of finding workers, managing them and giving them work, and then paying them; the risk of them stealing from you or screwing up in a way that damages the company; and so on.)
Oh, and there's another problem: in order for this to work we'd want a reduction in wages to cause a decrease in the supply of people wanting work. The trouble is that people need to eat and keep a roof over their head; just saying "screw this, the wages aren't high enough to make it worth working" isn't an option for most people, especially if they're near or below the poverty line. In fact, many people will end up needing to get a second job that they wouldn't otherwise have found worthwhile, causing a decrease in wages to lead to an increase in labour availability which will cause further downward pressure on wages...
Also: Shortly before the whole mess exploded, back when homes were still being flogged to unsuspecting marks as great investments that could only go up in value and absurd mortgage terms were being offered by all the banks, various banks paid off the US government to make it harder for people to get out of debts via bankrupcy. At the time this made no sense - the number of people declaring bankrupcy was absolutely tiny, and the problem the banks used as justification (people deliberately choosing bankrupcy as a way of avoiding debts they could repay) was non-existent. Then the house price bubble went pop and suddenly masses of people ended up in a dire financial situation and were looking to declare bankrupcy - except the bankers had already got the law changed to thwart them!
Do you really think they believed their own claims that homes were a good investment and house prices would continue to go up forever?
Some people thought that homes were a good investment. Others that were saying so... well, not so much (see for example Goldman Sachs). What's more, even if as an individual you realised the entire housing bubble was a bubble - and for social reasons very few people are willing to go against something all their peers believe based on just a hunch, so few people did - there was no way to opt out because you still needed somewhere to live and renters were still at risk too.
Of course, this doesn't seem to be how the policy's been enforced... if your name doesn't resemble a real name, there's a good chance you'll get banned even if that is the name everyone knows you by.
Actually, probably not on looking closer, though the fact I actually had to read the prior art references to figure this out isn't a good sign. One of the references is to a Mac program that converts documents to web pages, including automatically inserting links.
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In the coming weeks, you'll see thousands of municipal bonds be downgraded, as many, many state and local budgets are intimately dependent on federal spending.
Of course, since all the ratings agencies have a history of deliberately overstating the risk of municipal bonds, that may have less to do with the actual risk of default and more to do with what makes the ratings agencies money. (They profit from private-sector bond issuers when they rate their bonds and investments highly, but for municipal bonds they make money from rating them low so that local governments are forced to overpay various bond insurers in order to make their bonds acceptable to purchasers, from which the ratings agencies get a cut. There are even internal memos staring this as the reason.)
Pro-Israeli sentiment is quite common amongst the far-right these days from what I can tell, especially in Europe - Muslims are the current populist target of hate. (Though it's anyone's guess whether this is what they actually believe or just a matter of political convenience.) "White" has a very flexible definition...
You won't gain anything from Wayland, but you'll lose the ability to run any apps that require Wayland without using window compositing anymore, including losing the ability to run on hardware that doesn't support OpenGL, as well as stuff like network transparency...
If the MITM has been in place since day one, you're screwed anyway. It's vanishingly unlikely that the attacker won't have been able to compromise the server somehow at that point...
Certificate revocation doesn't work, though. An attacker capable of doing a man-in-the-middle attack on unencrypted data can quite easily stop browsers from finding out the certificate's been revoked, and the last browser to attempt to detect this attack (Chrome) gave up long ago because it couldn't distinguish it from the annoyingly frequent actual failures of SSL certificate authorities to answer requests for revocation information.
The trouble is that a lot of them are crazy - you kind of have to be in order to think you stand a chance of getting into power that way, aside from anything else - and they're generally not as maverick as you might think either. Especially once the money starts rolling in...
That and there's some surprisingly nasty patent traps in there...
Yeah, and they're planning to basically relaunch it under a new name once all the fuss has died down in a few months - except more profitably because it'll share staff with the existing Sun daily.
Google's problem right now isn't patent trolls, it's major players in the industry that are threatened by Android and using their patents to try and destroy it.
WebM was not developed within an ISO recognized standards development organization. It never had a hope of being patent-free: the process was not open, not due-process, and for that reason and others the folks who might have been willing to donate their IP to the effort were not properly motivated.
On the contrary, that's why WebM stood a chance. ISO are generally not interested in royalty-free; they're generally quite happy for members to inject requirements into standards that require everyone to license their patents. (Also, remember that very few people use JPEG 2000 - that's probably the only reason we haven't seen massive patent lawsuits over it it. Wavelets are much more of a patent minefield than DCT-based codecs.)
I believe slaves in the US often got surnames based on their owning family's surname...
Yeah, the KDE developers have spent a lot of time chasing after compatibility with Gnome's latest NIH ideas (badly thought out new methods of hadling system tray items, changing how to handle shutdowns every other release...)
Not every newspaper, certainly - the Guardian didn't, despite Rebecca Brooks' attempts to smear them to a parlimentary committee. Also I'm not aware of any evidence the other papers interfered with police investigations in the same way as the News of the World did, and they certainly didn't have the same close ties to the Government.
For example if the voltage falls outside the safe range, then the battery disables itself from getting a charge (to stop it exploding/going on fire).
It will also prevent the battery from being completely discharged (which kills the battery).
Both of those can be - and probably are - controlled by hardware. (They certainly are in smaller lithium ion batteries.)
That's because GOG is run by the same company that created The Witcher 2, so they make a lot more money if you buy it from there. There's no conceivable anti-piracy benefit of DRM only on physical copies that couldn't be provided by copy protection that was removed by a patch on release day. (They eventually did release a patch to remove it, but mostly because it broke the game for many users - and thanks to the non-copy protected digital releases anyone that found out about this could easily just pirate it instead.)
This has the... interesting side effect of increasing the wealth of rich people that haven't actually contributed to the economic expansion at the expense of the people that did actually contribute. (It also doesn't work in practice from what I can recall.)
As far as I can tell there aren't any LWRs in the UK. We have one PWR reactor (Sizewell B) and a bunch of AGR and Magnox reactors. Sizewell B was apparently supposed to be AGR too originally...
That assumes that the race to the bottom caused by removing the minimum wage will stop at some relatively reasonable level. I see no reason to assume this - there are costs associated with employing someone other than just wages. (The cost of finding workers, managing them and giving them work, and then paying them; the risk of them stealing from you or screwing up in a way that damages the company; and so on.)
Oh, and there's another problem: in order for this to work we'd want a reduction in wages to cause a decrease in the supply of people wanting work. The trouble is that people need to eat and keep a roof over their head; just saying "screw this, the wages aren't high enough to make it worth working" isn't an option for most people, especially if they're near or below the poverty line. In fact, many people will end up needing to get a second job that they wouldn't otherwise have found worthwhile, causing a decrease in wages to lead to an increase in labour availability which will cause further downward pressure on wages...
Also: Shortly before the whole mess exploded, back when homes were still being flogged to unsuspecting marks as great investments that could only go up in value and absurd mortgage terms were being offered by all the banks, various banks paid off the US government to make it harder for people to get out of debts via bankrupcy. At the time this made no sense - the number of people declaring bankrupcy was absolutely tiny, and the problem the banks used as justification (people deliberately choosing bankrupcy as a way of avoiding debts they could repay) was non-existent. Then the house price bubble went pop and suddenly masses of people ended up in a dire financial situation and were looking to declare bankrupcy - except the bankers had already got the law changed to thwart them!
Do you really think they believed their own claims that homes were a good investment and house prices would continue to go up forever?
Some people thought that homes were a good investment. Others that were saying so... well, not so much (see for example Goldman Sachs). What's more, even if as an individual you realised the entire housing bubble was a bubble - and for social reasons very few people are willing to go against something all their peers believe based on just a hunch, so few people did - there was no way to opt out because you still needed somewhere to live and renters were still at risk too.
Like, for example, their propaganda wing the Wall Street Journal?
Of course, this doesn't seem to be how the policy's been enforced... if your name doesn't resemble a real name, there's a good chance you'll get banned even if that is the name everyone knows you by.
Wait, what? They already have an undo close tab feature - right-click the tabs bar and find it in the menu or just hit Ctrl-Shift-T...
Well, or do something like Firefox on Mac, which involves shipping two copies of the code so the plugin-container process can be 32-bit...
Which is what the article's talking about doing.
Actually, probably not on looking closer, though the fact I actually had to read the prior art references to figure this out isn't a good sign. One of the references is to a Mac program that converts documents to web pages, including automatically inserting links.