y our so-called Lords and Masters, as a result of
appropriately acting in accordance with the climate change evidence, which has been discussed now at 26 annual COP conferences, since Severin Suzuki addressed the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio.
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lications around the world. To support this adoption, v2.1 of the Enterprise Solid Server includes significant improvements to its robust scaling, availability, and performance capabilities. Additionally, v2.1 represents an exciting milestone for Inrupt and Solid’s developer community. The release includes Beta support for Java client libraries, an expansion of our free developer tier in Asia Pacific, and a new Solid Developer training program specifically for large organizations.
To support Solid's mission-critical deployments around the world, v2.1 includes improvements to ESS's robust scaling, availability, and performance capabilities. Additionally, v2.1 enhances Inrupt and Solid's developer community, including:
Solid client libraries for Java
An expansion of our free developer tier in Asia Pacific
A new Solid Developer training workshop for large organizations
As a part of our commitment to helping developers create their best work, Inrupt is proud to announce a Solid Hackathon from April 10–28. If you’re interested in building new Solid experiences for your users, kickstart your new app idea and learn from a great community of developers. Register today!
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at it had reached its $16.4 trillion (£10 trillion) borrowing limit.
Disclosing the news with just hours of 2012 left was not the only devilry in the timing.
While the American public cheered in the new year, the country's press was busy tracking whether politicians in Washington would prevent the economy falling off the so called "fiscal cliff" - at the stroke of midnight.
Although they did not quite manage that, a deal was reached on New Year's Day that avoided the worst of the $600bn of tax increases and spending cuts that had been scheduled to take effect.
Since the ceiling was reached 12 days ago, the US government has resorted to what it calls "extraordinary measures" to keep paying its bills without slapping any more on its credit card. This hotchpotch of measures includes the temporary suspension of interest payments owed to the Civil Service Retirement System.
An analysis by the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington estimates these measures will be exhausted sometime during the last two weeks of February. If Congress has not agreed to raise the debt ceiling by then, the US government will have to decide which of its financial obligations to meet and which, well, not to.
The choices will be invidious and legally questionable. Will teachers' salaries be paid or America's national parks maintained? Will interest payments to the holders of US government bonds be put above funding for the FBI? Neglect any of the first three and there will be a public outcry.
Choose NOT to make coupon payments to the latter,
and the US government will default on its debt for the first time.
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a New York prison mainly as a result of receiving $81m in purportedly unauthorized bonuses whilst he was CEO of US conglomerate Tyco. He admitted at his trial that his $100m annual pay package was ‘almost embarrassingly big.’ This fat, bald fraudster became a poster boy for early noughties excess after it emerged that he’d spent $6000 on a shower curtain!
9) Elliot Spitzer – this former New York state attorney became the scourge of bankers as a result of his attempts to clean up Wall Street in the early noughties. However, his Mr Clean image was tarnished irreparably in 2008 after he was exposed as a regular customer of a prostitute ring. Gets a place for sheer hypocrisy.
8) Adam Applegarth – Mr Applegarth’s reckless risk-taking resulted in the first run on a British bank (Northern Rock) for over a century and played a significant role in worsening Britain’s credit crunch. He’s more of a dullard than a crook but any sympathy may be offset by the over £1m payoff he received after his fall.
7) Conrad Black – Baron Black of Crosshabour was once the third biggest newspaper magnate in the world. He was convicted of diverting funds for personal benefit from his company Hollinger International and is now serving a 6½ year sentence. He and his wife Amiel’s extraordinary notorious extravagance were neatly summed up by an infamous picture of them dressed as Cardinal Richelieu and Marie Antoinette.
6) Bernie Ebbers – this bearded, born-again Christian ex-bouncer was a good old boy who built up a telecoms company worth $180bn. He turned many of the locals from his town of Brookhaven, Mississippi into millionaires but when the tech boom fizzled out he decided to cook the books and got his company into a right stew. Worldcom went bankrupt and Bernie’s doing 25 years.
5) Fred ‘The Shred’ Goodwin – Sir Frederick Goodwin is one of the least popular bankers around … and that’s really saying something! His extraordinary mismanagement of Royal Bank of Scotland was only rivalled by his willingness to sack employees and his seemingly boundless megalomania. After his bank was nationalized Goodwin cemented his bogeyman status by accepting a £700K annual pension.
4) Jerome Kerviel – This geeky 32 year old rogue trader almost destroyed one of France’s major banks, Societe Generale, after he allegedly lost €4.9bn in early 2008 (over six times our own Nick Leeson’s efforts of 1995.) Ironically, this ex-banker has become something of a hero to anti-capitalist French groups.
3) Jeffrey Skilling/Andy Fastow – these two crazy guys created the house of cards that was Enron. Through accounting trickery they pretended Enron made profits when in fact it was a heavily-indebted illusion that fell apart in 2001. They are serving 24 and 6 years respectively though their boss, Ken Lay, died before his sentencing.
2) Dick Fuld – this pit-bull of a man oversaw the destruction of Lehman Brothers and, in so doing, ensured that the world entered the worst financial crisis since The Great Depression. His unwillingness to listen to others, bombastic manner (he once publically declared he’d eat the still beating heart of hedge fund managers that dared short his stock!) and sheer bloody mindedness are legendary.
1) Bernie Madoff – A late entrant, but without doubt the king of the crop! The renowned investor Warren Buffet famously said ‘you only find out who’s swimming naked when the tide goes out’ and that is exactly what happened to Bernie as the financial crisis took hold. His Ponzi scheme may have cost investors $65bn and is now officially the biggest ever fraud. In June 2009 this former pillar of New York society was sentenced to 150 years in prison.
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underway
on terahertz bands for indoor wireless, localization
studios, and gigabyte Wi-Fi networks.
The terahertz band (0.3 THz to 10 THz) is the next frontier in wireless communications for its ability to unlock significantly wider segments of unused bandwidth. Though radio channels above 100 GHz are little known, several high-speed terahertz communication links have been demonstrated in recent years.
There is not much talk about terahertz communications because the industry is currently preoccupied with mmWave frequency bands (30 to 300 GHz) to offer multi-gigabit-per-second (Gbps) data rates for 5G mobile devices. Moreover, terahertz communication takes the problem that mmWave bands are currently facing to a whole new level: propagation loss caused by a tremendous amount of signal attenuation due to molecule absorption of electromagnetic waves.
Like mmWave communications, terahertz bands can be used as mobile backhaul for transferring large bandwidth signals between base stations. Another venue for fiber or copper replacement is point-to-point links in rural environments and macro-cell communications.
More importantly, terahertz bands can be employed in close-in communications, also known as whisper radio applications. That includes wiring harnesses in circuit boards and vehicles, nanosensors, and wireless personal area networks (PANs).
Then, there are applications like high-resolution spectroscopy and imaging and communication studies that require short-range communications in the form of massive bandwidth channels with zero error rate in crucial areas like coding, redundancy, and frequency diversity.
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Added by Michael Grove at 15:50 on February 22, 2021