Why are they illegal? What did he do that was not done by the bankers in 2009?
Both used complex instruments that their clients did not understand, derivatives, tranches, bitcoints...
They both talked a lot of mumbo jumbo. But it was clear the bankers did not believe in the crap they were selling. It emerged they were actively betting that their customers are going to lose a ton of money in the same deal they were selling them. They rated the mortgage backed securities in the same class as US T-bill but were willing to pay 1 percent or two above T-Bill rates. If they believed the ratings there could not be this big a spread. It shows not just the bankers but the whole damned corrupt bond trading market knew the ratings given by S&P was crap.
They gambled, gave themselves bonuses when the bets come through, when the bets go bad, they left the public holding the bag.
It is a grave injustice the bankers remain free to wreck havoc in the financial system.
Acknowledgment. I first read of the possibility of such
a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique [4] of the security
of an early implementation of Multics. I cannot find
a more specific reference to this document. I would
appreciate it if anyone who can supply this reference
would let me know.
Did anyone find the original document? May be Snowdon did?
If storage has even an 50% loss rate, then daily price variation should be limited to 50% because otherwise storage batteries would make a profit.
50% loss rate energy storage is easy and it exists. It is simply a hydro electric dam with pumps to pump water upstream behind the dam. I have read about using such a scheme to even out the difference between peak and base load in a grid. I read about one such project back in 1980s
. The Chief Minister who inaugurated the project was a ex-movie actor, who completely misunderstood the project. He said it would generate power when the water flowed down, then they will pump the water back up and make energy again and again, effectively a perpetual motion machine!
This plane would take 2.5 hours to go up and come back minimum. Crossing the half the globe at the higher atmosphere is just 25 minutes. So the flight times are like: 2hr 30 min for Brussels to Brussels, 2 hr 35 min for Doha, 2hr 40 min for Delhi, 2hr 45 min for Manila, 2hr 50 min for Sydney!
No, it does not shield the object from all directions. The invisibility is available is possible for only one viewing direction, possibly with with narrow angular limits. In that sense it is more like David Copperfield, mirrors and things like railroad cars or jetliners "disappearing". But the impressive thing is that though it reflects light like a plane mirror, it is a cloth that is draped over an arbitrary shape. We have seen reflective patches on jogging suits and jackets of people working near highways. But this one seems to be behave like a virtual plane mirror despite being draped over objects.
Quite interesting, seems to be using diffraction patterns of these bricks. Reminds me of the Material Science 201 class where they talk about X-Ray diffraction pattern of crystalline structure, the Bragg's equation, 2 d sin(theta) = n lambda from the dim recesses of my memory. I could not get it then how the powdered substance with structures oriented in all the planes could be understood by the neat rows of dots, one incident and one reflected ray shown in the diagram. I don't get it now how this cloth could create that diffraction pattern.
Concorde is based on very old obsolete technologies, It is probably not worth reviving it. But fossil fuel prices are set to crash in the next 20 years, It would take 20 years to create a current generation technology supersonic passenger plane. Small ones between 20 and 40 seats, to get a decent load factor for traffic, might succeed. Aerospatial was showing off such a concept design recently.
The practice of AT&T and other carriers to force people who have completed the contract and paid off all the subsidies they got when they signed on is malafide. They make people jump through hoops to use something they have bought and paid for. This software that unlocked the phones is reversing the bad action by the carriers. This software is bona fide. So we need to coin a word for software that is the antonym of malware, May be bonaware or goodware or niceware. Or Ghandhiware because this software is a freedom fighter.
Darwin was moving away from theistic explanations of natural world for quite sometime. But despite rejecting Biblical explanations of natural sciences, he still believed on God. One of the things that pushed him towards full fledged atheism was the observation that these wasps would lay eggs and paralyze the caterpillars. So that the caterpillars do not die and decay, they stay alive to provide food for the hatched wasp larvae. The caterpillars being eaten alive revolted him and he could not believe a merciful God would that to His creatures. Death of his 10 year old daughter also pushed him away from God. But still, out of deference to his wife he desisted publishing the Origin of species, till his hand was forced by Wallace.
Before we jump on to the bandwagon condemning this teacher, imagine the other case. Some student brings an actual homemade bomb to the school. The teacher trusts the student saying it is just a clock. It turns out to be false. How many of the people here would rise to defense of the teacher who made a honest mistake? How many of us in the past have realized someone made a honest mistake, the best dictated by common sense? Most of the media would go, "a student named mohammad ahamed made a bomb, showed it to the teacher and the dumb teacher believed him".
Anytime anything goes wrong, we all get into this frenetic search to find a scapegoat, "if only this bureaucrat had done this instead of that..." We have trained the whole system to act in the CYA mode.
I am not saying the teacher made a honest mistake. I am saying we all share a little of the blame. We had a part in creating this system, this CYA mentality. Let us remember this incident next time some bureaucrat makes a common sense decision that blows up on his/her face.
So it looks like they defined advanced civilization as the ones that will use energy at galactic levels at such a proportion and emit IR radiation that could be detected across the local galaxy clusters.
Most old religions imagine God to be some supersized version of some human known to them. These people think advanced civilization to be something that wastes energy like we do, but at some galactic scale.
That is nothing man, nothing. There is a planet with a huge subsurface ocean of iron! Yes, iron in liquid form, molten iron. It is roiling too. And because iron is magnetic the oceanic currents of this iron ocean creates a powerful magnetic field. The magnetic field powerful enough to deflect the charge particle wind from its parent star several at a distance of several planetary diameters away. The entire planet behaves as thought it has a permanent bar magnet placed along its axis! Further more these iron ocean current weaken over time, change directions and flip the polarity of the planetary magnet.
This ocean of molten iron exists just 1% of the planetary radius below the surface. Most people don't realize how close they are to this bizarre weird incredible iron ocean.
The model aero club determined that only 27 constitutes near misses. It is not FAA that investigated the reports and dismissed 96.5% of the report as not near misses.
FAA rules on aircraft separation is quite strict. 1000 meters, horizontal separation and 1000 feet of vertical separation between aircraft. Any violation of this rule will be deemed to be an incident. It does not matter whether it results in any kind of accident or near misses. Any violation of separation has to be reported to the FAA and investigated by FAA. Not sure how the hobbyist organization determined separation. Also not sure if the hobbyists understand the significance of the rules and compliance by FAA.
It looks like some kind of lobbying, astro-turfing and pressure to be applied to FAA to go lenient on the drone industry. 20 pound soft birds do enormous damage to airplanes, 50 pound hard metal drones are really a serious threat.
Likely to be around 150K USD. Given the typical Porche production runs and amortization schedules and past pricing policy.
800 Volt motor is quite unusual for an automobile. Wondering what the cost/benefit is for such an voltage. For the same power, the current will be low, so the conductors can be thinner. The motor could be made more compact. But insulation and isolation could be a head ache. Wondering how they would provide safety in crashes.
Most computers now a days use LED screens which emit bright light. Using it a lot and staring at it for extended period of time will damage all parts of the eye, the cornea, the retina too, not merely the pupils. So it is understanda..
wait, you are not talking about these pupils, right?
Before we teach these kids anything, we need to teach the local politicians to stop renaming everything in sight. This state used to be called Orissa and the language Oriya. Now they call themselves Odisha and Odiya. Bombay became Mumbai, Madras became Chennai, Calcutta became Kolkotta, Bangalore became Bengaluru. And these politicians with straight face list this name change as a great achievement in campaign speeches.
They rename streets too. Streets named after British civil service officers ages ago get renamed after Indian dignitaries. These narrow short streets in the middle of town totally overwhelmed by population growth get renamed. At the same time in the suburbs roads named imaginatively 120 feet road, 80 feet road, 18th main road, 14th cross road, HAL Third Stage etc retain their difficult to remember names. A guy named A Brito used to write letters to the editor in Indian Express, Bangalore edition a lot when I was there. He got really fed up when they renamed yet another tiny street. He proposed to rename the Queen Victoria statue as Mayor Butte Gowda statue.
Jared Diamond, in Guns, Diamonds and Steel argues that the poor hygiene of Europe is one of the reasons why it was able to conquer the world. Just before the age of exploration Europe was filthy beyond belief. Worse that what India is right now. The exploring Europeans were carriers of so many devastating diseases they were immune to themselves. Their diseases destroyed some 90% of the population of the New World, enabling them to conquer it with much ease.
So brace yourself buddies. If there is a systemic collapse of the current world order, may be due to climate change, may be due to financial instability or a global war, 90% of slashdotters will die of diseases leaving the world free to be conquered by the Indians. That is why I visit India every year to reinforce what little immunity I still have left.
I just got back from India yesterday. My brother uses the Indian public sector ISP called BSNL. Either the router supplied by them is so pathetic it gets hacked by dark side of the internet. OR the ISP itself is abusing DNS hijacking process to serve adware and malware.
Whatever the case may be, only https traffic seems to be safe. All http traffic gets hijacked. From my non-jailbroken standard Google Nexus 5 android phone chrome browser, any link I access via http would randomly redirect to some redirec.xxx.yyy site from there another redirect and then another and I would get pop ups warning that there are viruses in my phone, something is out of date and random apk files get downloaded into the download folder. Lots of prompts to install. Happens to both Chrome and firefox in android.
From Windows 7 PC, a tab gets opened and random ads keep playing on it. Since there are pop-up blockers no warning pops up. But unless that random tab is left to exist, no other tab works. My brother's family have learned to leave that tab alone and use other tabs to browse. Most of the apps of my nephew does not work because any http request goes to such random malware sites
I reset the router and cleared the cache, changed the router password to non default values. Still the bad behavior continues. In the net tons and tons of complaints about this DNS hijacking.
Looks like the ISP is abusing a standard protocol used by hotels and other wifi providers who make you click on "I agree to the terms" before handing you over to a clean DNS server. Looks like BSNL never lets you off. It acts as man in the middle for all http traffic and injects its own ads and scripts into the requested pages. And what it injects seem to be the worst of the worst.
I got really scared when I found a fresh download of an apk file in Abu Dhabi airport wifi on my way back. I had done several reboots and cache clearing before. So far no new bad behavior on my phone. So I think I have not picked up any infection. Wondering how to really make sure.
It is very common for women to enter IT side in India. In the recent years more women are graduating from college, more women are getting engineering and medical degrees than men in India.
Why is this obsession with AM? Have you looked at the medical reps from pharmaceuticals? All reps assigned to female doctors are young good looking men, and all reps assigned to male doctors are good looking young women. If any extra marital flings happen because of this, it is not likely to be any more than general population in the average. All businesses gauge how far their target (doctors in this case) is likely to go, and find people (reps in this case) willing to let them go exactly that far. The targets of AM were willing to really far. AM could have hired the women who work on phone sex lines to post and milk their chumps. It is possible they did that too. And all this software is to weed out the really serious targets from spammers and scammers.
According to Islamic beliefs Koran has always existed and it is eternal. It was revealed to Mohammad by Arch Angel Gabriel. And these revelations were recorded by his scribe (also father-in-law and the second Caliph) Abu Bucr. So Koran pre-existing Mohammad does not conflict with Islam.
However the written form of Koran known to humans was the revelations as recorded by Abu Bucr. If there were versions of written documents that pre existed Koran it would cause a stir and most Muslims will just ignore the finding and whatever else needed to be ignored.
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If the car fails emissions test or a crash test, they will simply say, "you are not holding it right" and resolve the defect as "not a bug".
Both used complex instruments that their clients did not understand, derivatives, tranches, bitcoints...
They both talked a lot of mumbo jumbo. But it was clear the bankers did not believe in the crap they were selling. It emerged they were actively betting that their customers are going to lose a ton of money in the same deal they were selling them. They rated the mortgage backed securities in the same class as US T-bill but were willing to pay 1 percent or two above T-Bill rates. If they believed the ratings there could not be this big a spread. It shows not just the bankers but the whole damned corrupt bond trading market knew the ratings given by S&P was crap.
They gambled, gave themselves bonuses when the bets come through, when the bets go bad, they left the public holding the bag.
It is a grave injustice the bankers remain free to wreck havoc in the financial system.
Acknowledgment. I first read of the possibility of such a Trojan horse in an Air Force critique [4] of the security of an early implementation of Multics. I cannot find a more specific reference to this document. I would appreciate it if anyone who can supply this reference would let me know.
Did anyone find the original document? May be Snowdon did?
They don't have a choice. They wont get emissions test sticker if their ECM is out of date.
If storage has even an 50% loss rate, then daily price variation should be limited to 50% because otherwise storage batteries would make a profit.
50% loss rate energy storage is easy and it exists. It is simply a hydro electric dam with pumps to pump water upstream behind the dam. I have read about using such a scheme to even out the difference between peak and base load in a grid. I read about one such project back in 1980s
. The Chief Minister who inaugurated the project was a ex-movie actor, who completely misunderstood the project. He said it would generate power when the water flowed down, then they will pump the water back up and make energy again and again, effectively a perpetual motion machine!
This plane would take 2.5 hours to go up and come back minimum. Crossing the half the globe at the higher atmosphere is just 25 minutes. So the flight times are like: 2hr 30 min for Brussels to Brussels, 2 hr 35 min for Doha, 2hr 40 min for Delhi, 2hr 45 min for Manila, 2hr 50 min for Sydney!
Quite interesting, seems to be using diffraction patterns of these bricks. Reminds me of the Material Science 201 class where they talk about X-Ray diffraction pattern of crystalline structure, the Bragg's equation, 2 d sin(theta) = n lambda from the dim recesses of my memory. I could not get it then how the powdered substance with structures oriented in all the planes could be understood by the neat rows of dots, one incident and one reflected ray shown in the diagram. I don't get it now how this cloth could create that diffraction pattern.
Concorde is based on very old obsolete technologies, It is probably not worth reviving it. But fossil fuel prices are set to crash in the next 20 years, It would take 20 years to create a current generation technology supersonic passenger plane. Small ones between 20 and 40 seats, to get a decent load factor for traffic, might succeed. Aerospatial was showing off such a concept design recently.
The practice of AT&T and other carriers to force people who have completed the contract and paid off all the subsidies they got when they signed on is malafide. They make people jump through hoops to use something they have bought and paid for. This software that unlocked the phones is reversing the bad action by the carriers. This software is bona fide. So we need to coin a word for software that is the antonym of malware, May be bonaware or goodware or niceware. Or Ghandhiware because this software is a freedom fighter.
And no, there was no deathbed conversion.
Fire all air traffic controllers, and we don't need no replacements!
Anytime anything goes wrong, we all get into this frenetic search to find a scapegoat, "if only this bureaucrat had done this instead of that ..." We have trained the whole system to act in the CYA mode.
I am not saying the teacher made a honest mistake. I am saying we all share a little of the blame. We had a part in creating this system, this CYA mentality. Let us remember this incident next time some bureaucrat makes a common sense decision that blows up on his/her face.
Most old religions imagine God to be some supersized version of some human known to them. These people think advanced civilization to be something that wastes energy like we do, but at some galactic scale.
Thanks for the correction. Confused magma with the iron core. Still such an ocean of iron is closer than most people think.
This ocean of molten iron exists just 1% of the planetary radius below the surface. Most people don't realize how close they are to this bizarre weird incredible iron ocean.
FAA rules on aircraft separation is quite strict. 1000 meters, horizontal separation and 1000 feet of vertical separation between aircraft. Any violation of this rule will be deemed to be an incident. It does not matter whether it results in any kind of accident or near misses. Any violation of separation has to be reported to the FAA and investigated by FAA. Not sure how the hobbyist organization determined separation. Also not sure if the hobbyists understand the significance of the rules and compliance by FAA.
It looks like some kind of lobbying, astro-turfing and pressure to be applied to FAA to go lenient on the drone industry. 20 pound soft birds do enormous damage to airplanes, 50 pound hard metal drones are really a serious threat.
800 Volt motor is quite unusual for an automobile. Wondering what the cost/benefit is for such an voltage. For the same power, the current will be low, so the conductors can be thinner. The motor could be made more compact. But insulation and isolation could be a head ache. Wondering how they would provide safety in crashes.
wait, you are not talking about these pupils, right?
They rename streets too. Streets named after British civil service officers ages ago get renamed after Indian dignitaries. These narrow short streets in the middle of town totally overwhelmed by population growth get renamed. At the same time in the suburbs roads named imaginatively 120 feet road, 80 feet road, 18th main road, 14th cross road, HAL Third Stage etc retain their difficult to remember names. A guy named A Brito used to write letters to the editor in Indian Express, Bangalore edition a lot when I was there. He got really fed up when they renamed yet another tiny street. He proposed to rename the Queen Victoria statue as Mayor Butte Gowda statue.
It is not going to be a big deal. People are disgusted and have stopped voting anyway.
So brace yourself buddies. If there is a systemic collapse of the current world order, may be due to climate change, may be due to financial instability or a global war, 90% of slashdotters will die of diseases leaving the world free to be conquered by the Indians. That is why I visit India every year to reinforce what little immunity I still have left.
Whatever the case may be, only https traffic seems to be safe. All http traffic gets hijacked. From my non-jailbroken standard Google Nexus 5 android phone chrome browser, any link I access via http would randomly redirect to some redirec.xxx.yyy site from there another redirect and then another and I would get pop ups warning that there are viruses in my phone, something is out of date and random apk files get downloaded into the download folder. Lots of prompts to install. Happens to both Chrome and firefox in android.
From Windows 7 PC, a tab gets opened and random ads keep playing on it. Since there are pop-up blockers no warning pops up. But unless that random tab is left to exist, no other tab works. My brother's family have learned to leave that tab alone and use other tabs to browse. Most of the apps of my nephew does not work because any http request goes to such random malware sites
I reset the router and cleared the cache, changed the router password to non default values. Still the bad behavior continues. In the net tons and tons of complaints about this DNS hijacking.
Looks like the ISP is abusing a standard protocol used by hotels and other wifi providers who make you click on "I agree to the terms" before handing you over to a clean DNS server. Looks like BSNL never lets you off. It acts as man in the middle for all http traffic and injects its own ads and scripts into the requested pages. And what it injects seem to be the worst of the worst.
I got really scared when I found a fresh download of an apk file in Abu Dhabi airport wifi on my way back. I had done several reboots and cache clearing before. So far no new bad behavior on my phone. So I think I have not picked up any infection. Wondering how to really make sure.
It is very common for women to enter IT side in India. In the recent years more women are graduating from college, more women are getting engineering and medical degrees than men in India.
Why is this obsession with AM? Have you looked at the medical reps from pharmaceuticals? All reps assigned to female doctors are young good looking men, and all reps assigned to male doctors are good looking young women. If any extra marital flings happen because of this, it is not likely to be any more than general population in the average. All businesses gauge how far their target (doctors in this case) is likely to go, and find people (reps in this case) willing to let them go exactly that far. The targets of AM were willing to really far. AM could have hired the women who work on phone sex lines to post and milk their chumps. It is possible they did that too. And all this software is to weed out the really serious targets from spammers and scammers.
However the written form of Koran known to humans was the revelations as recorded by Abu Bucr. If there were versions of written documents that pre existed Koran it would cause a stir and most Muslims will just ignore the finding and whatever else needed to be ignored.