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“I’m trying to play GTA Online, but it won't let me get into PSN. Says "You have been signed out... Error 8002A537" one user confirms. |
It appears that PS3 owners have been affected by tonight’s outage, with the 8002a537 error code known as an old issue for the console. |
Right now, Sony has not changed the server status of the PSN on their official site. |
So it’s hard to say what might be causing tonight’s problems and how long they might last. |
Hopefully, this will remain a blip, and PSN users will be able to get back to their gaming activities soon enough. |
If these sign-in issues do continue, a new Sony PlayStation update should be shared through officials channels very soon. |
From the current outage reports coming in, it appears that PlayStation Network users in the United States are the most affected. |
Tonnes of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from a defunct Serbian research reactor arrived safely in Russia on Wednesday (December 22nd), marking the completion of a major eight-year multinational project co-ordinated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). |
The top-secret operation to transport about 2.5 metric tonnes of nuclear waste, including 13kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU), from the Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences outside Belgrade to Russia’s reprocessing facility at Mayak started on November 18th. |
The shipment, consisting of more than 8,000 spent fuel elements, was the largest of this kind to have ever been made under an international programme to return such material to the countries that originally supplied it, the IAEA said in a statement Wednesday. |
The mission to move the dangerous cargo from Serbia to the Russian reprocessing facility in the Urals was conducted among tight security measures and kept secret until its completion, in view of the “potential security and environmental threats” it posed. |
The nearly 11,300km-long journey began in the very early hours of November 19th, when 16 heavy cargo trucks carrying the material, packaged into specially-designed transportation casks and secured in specialised shipping containers, pulled out of Vinca. |
Thousands of Serbian police were involved in the convoy’s protection during its 200km drive to the Hungarian border, where the cargo was moved to a train and headed to Slovenia’s seaport of Koper. On November 21st, a cargo ship carrying the containers set sail for a three-week voyage to the Russian port of Murmansk. On... |
According to the head of the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog, HEU can be very dangerous because, if such material is stolen, it could be used for “dirty bombs, or even nuclear weapons”. |
IAEA Special Programme Manager John Kelly told the BBC that the Vinca fuel rods are only about 15cm long and their radioactivity has lessened over time. |
The Vinca Institute was established in 1948 and its Russian-made nuclear research reactor operated from 1959 until 1984, collecting all of the former Yugoslavia’s radioactive waste. |
The programme to repatriate Serbia’s nuclear fuel and nuclear waste was launched in August 2002, when the first shipment of more than 48kg of HEU fresh fuel, said to be enough for the development of at least two nuclear bombs, was flown to Russia. |
The latest one made the Balkan country the sixth nation in the world to have eliminated all of its HEU since April 2009, US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which was involved in the project, said on Wednesday. |
Archivist, born at Berwick-on-Tweed, 27 Nov., 1806; died in London, 8 Feb., 1895. Though his parents were Presbyterians, he was educated at Durham under the historian, James Raine, and afterwards at the University of Glasgow. Coming to London he found work, first among the Government records, then in the British Museum... |
Published: Aug. 9, 2013 at 06:58 p.m. |
Updated: Aug. 9, 2013 at 07:47 p.m. |
Player safety is the top priority for the NFL. Since its earliest days, the league has continuously taken steps to ensure that the game is played as fairly as possible without unnecessary risk to its participants, including making changes and enhancements to game safety rules. |
In recent years, the NFL has modified its playing rules to sharply reduce contact to the head and neck of players. These modifications were made separate from, and in addition to, the league's longstanding prohibitions against helmet to helmet contact. |
At the start of the training camp each season, the NFL distributes its League Policies for Players manual to all players and coaches as a quick reference guide for some of the most commonly applicable League policies. Topics in the document include player safety equipment guidelines and disciplinary measures for violat... |
To view the review process for on-field rule violations, click here. |
For a timeline of rule changes related to health and safety, click here. |
The NFL Competition Committee, currently chaired by Rich McKay, president and former general manager of the Atlanta Falcons, reviews suggested rule changes and presents recommendations to the team owners. While the Committee examines rules and regulations covering all aspects of the game -- from player numbering system... |
In 2009, several key rule changes were approved by NFL team owners which eliminated many unnecessary hits on defenseless players and linemen. These changes included making it illegal for a defensive player to hit a defenseless receiver in the head or neck area with a hit using the forearm or shoulder, in addition to th... |
Commissioner Roger Goodell appointed Hall of Fame NFL coach and legendary broadcaster John Madden and Hall of Fame player Ronnie Lott as the co-chairs of a new panel of coaches formed to explore ways of improving player safety. Panel members include former players, coaches and NFL executives. The Panel's mission is to ... |
The NFL recognizes that safety cannot be promoted exclusively through interpretation of existing rules or adoption of new legislation, and that the participants on the field must assume responsibility for ensuring safe play. Accordingly, to give further force and effect to player safety rules, the league will impose fi... |
The process for a play to be reviewed for potential disciplinary action starts with the NFL Officiating Department reviewing every play of every game. Any play involving a violation that needs to be reviewed for possible discipline, whether flagged on the field or not, is referred to Executive Vice President of Footbal... |
The player has the right to appeal league discipline. The Collective Bargaining Agreement specifies that appeals of fines or suspensions of players for unnecessary roughness or unsportsmanlike conduct are determined by the Commissioner's designee. The decision on persons appointed as the Commissioner's designee for on-... |
Fine money from on-field and some off-field player fines is donated through NFL Charities to programs for retired players via the NFL Player Care Foundation and the NFLPA's Players Assistance Trust. This fine money has netted an average of approximately $4 million per year over the last four years for distribution to t... |
The NFL has a firmly established policy concerning the treatment of concussions. In 2009, the NFL adopted a stricter statement on return-to-play for a player who sustains a concussion. |
The stricter 2009 statement on return-to-play was developed by the NFL's medical committee on concussions in conjunction with team doctors, outside medical experts, and the NFL Players Association in order to provide more specificity in making return-to-play decisions. The new guidance supplemented the 2007 statement o... |
"Once removed for the duration of a practice or game, the player should not be considered for return-to-football activities until he is fully asymptomatic, both at rest and after exertion, has a normal neurological examination, normal neuropsychological testing, and has been cleared to return by both his team physician... |
Any other persistent signs or symptoms of concussion. |
The NFL substance abuse policy protects player health by clearly defining substance abuse, and providing an intervention program for players in need. |
Players are prohibited from the use, possession, or distribution of illegal drugs, as well as the abuse of prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs and alcohol. |
The cornerstone of the NFL's substance abuse policy is its confidential, three-stage intervention program designed to assist players. Each stage is comprised of varying levels of treatment, evaluation, testing and discipline as needed. Players enter the intervention program if they test positive for substance abuse, ex... |
Each NFL team has a Team Substance Abuse Physician who oversees the progress of all intervention program participants. The intervention program is reviewed quarterly to ensure that the program successfully meets player needs. |
Performance enhancing drugs are a threat to the fairness and integrity of athletic competition. The use of these substances can lead to health risks, on-the-field injuries, alienation of fans, diminished job performance and personal hardship. Steroid use has been linked to a number of physiological, psychological, orth... |
In order to protect players and maintain the integrity of the game, the NFL prohibits the use of anabolic/androgenic steroids (including exogenous testosterone), stimulants, human or animal growth hormones, whether natural or synthetic, and related or similar substances. This policy extends to coaches, trainers, physic... |
The parties confirm that the Program on Anabolic Steroids and Related Substances will include both annual blood testing and random blood testing for human growth hormone, with discipline for positive tests at the same level as for steroids. Over the next several weeks, the parties will discuss and develop the specific ... |
Language adapted from 2011 League Policies for Players. |
* UPDATE: In December 2012, the NFL announced the creation of the National Football League Foundation (NFL Foundation) following an update to the structure of the NFL’s philanthropic organizations. The NFL Youth Football Fund was merged with NFL Charities and then renamed NFL Foundation. For more information about th... |
Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposed introduction of new provisions in the tax laws over the taxation of virtual and digital sectors, such as Facebook, Google, Youtube, on their incomes earned in Bangladesh. |
"Such measures shall expand our tax base," he said. |
Muhith mentioned that the volume and the nature of cross-border transactions have significantly changed with the progression of economic globalisation and virtual-plus digital economy. |
"Our economy is far more open now. As a result, the risk of tax avoidance has significantly increased. Many foreign entities are earning income in Bangladesh through virtual and digital transactions, but we aren't getting adequate tax from them," he added. |
He said since these virtual and digital business transactions are comparatively new, the tax laws of the country were not sufficiently up-to-date to bring all virtual transactions into tax net. |
ROUGH CUT. NO REPORTER NARRATION. Dozens of people gathered outside the U.S. consulate on Sunday (February 5) to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. The protesters, many of them appearing to be of South East Asian origin, held banners reading "Islam is not terrorism" and "love ... |
Citrix Systems has started to detail the future of Windows desktops and applications in its virtual environments with tech previews of Excalibur and Merlin, the first versions of its Project Avalon. |
Project Avalon, which Citrix announced in May, aims to transform any Windows application or desktop into a service that runs on either a private or public cloud and is delivered across any network, to any device. |
Excalibur and Merlin will make up the core of Project Avalon, Citrix announced on Wednesday at its Synergy user conference in Barcelona. |
The Excalibur release of Project Avalon includes FlexCast 2.0 technology, and aims to address the challenges of managing Citrix environments. |
For the first time, Windows administrators will have a common management console to configure any mix of virtual applications and desktops in a Citrix environment, and deliver them to end users with a delivery technology of their choice. |
"We have unified the XenDesktop and XenApp in one common codebase," said Krishna Subramanian, vice president of marketing and business development at Citrix. "Even though customers will be able to buy them separately its all tightly integrated, and the management is also integrated and simplified so we can do cloud-sca... |
Getting the management right is incredibly important for Citrix, according to Nathan Hill, research director at Gartner. |
"The complexity of managing Citrix environments has historically been a big challenge for organizations. As the diversity of what Citrix is trying to offer increases, they need to make sure the different delivery mechanisms are as simple as possible to manage ," said Hill. |
Excalibur will also include an improved implementation of Citrix's HDX, which is made up of features that aim to enhance multimedia performance on virtual desktops. Upgraded versions of technologies such as HDX Broadcast, RealTime and MediaStream will help improve video playback, according to Citrix. |
Using Excalibur, enterprises will be able to deploy Windows 8, Windows 7 and Windows XP virtual desktops. |
The Merlin release will focus on delivering Windows as a cloud service. The platform will run Citrix's own CloudPlatform and public clouds such as Amazon Web Services' EC2 and Microsoft's Azure, according to Citrix. |
The move to the cloud also adds a layer of automation and orchestration when managing applications or desktops. |
"The way we see it, IT [departments] have to do more with less, and we see that trend continuing. Merlin will make them far more efficient," Subramanian said. |
The move to the cloud will give IT staff more flexibility. Enterprises will be able to simultaneously run a mix of different Windows versions on servers and clients, and different versions of XenApp and XenDesktop as well. This will, for example, simplify migrations, Citrix said. |
The Excalibur release of Project Avalon will be available as a tech preview to Citrix customers on Nov. 1, while the tech preview of Merlin will arrive during the first half of next year. The company isn't providing any details on when they will become generally available, according to Subramanian. |
"This is a journey Citrix is going on, and I think are being quite transparent in the fact that it is going to take time to bring it together," Hill said. |
Moving both Windows desktops and application to the cloud is a big step, and enterprises need time to prepare. |
Citrix also made announcements that will have a more immediate effect for users, including new versions of XenClient Enterprise and VDI-in-a-Box, as well as new devices based on the HDX SoC architecture. |
The HDX SoC (system-on-a-chip) architecture was announced by Citrix last year, and aims to cut the cost of thin clients and by extension the cost of using virtual desktops. |
By using optimized ARM-processors for hardware acceleration rather than decoding and rendering virtual desktop traffic on general-purpose processors in software, clients based on the architecture can deliver the user experience of thin client hardware that costs twice as much or more, while reducing power consumption, ... |
New devices from Atrust, Centerm, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IGEL, LG Electronics and NComputing will all be on display at Synergy. |
While virtual desktops and thin clients can be found in enterprise data centers, Citrix also sees an opportunity for virtualization technology at small and medium-size companies, and the product that will help them adopt it is VDI-in-a-Box. |
The upcoming version 5.2 of VDI-in-a-Box will be optimized for Microsoft's unified communications platform Lync, and also include support for hypervisors such as Citrix' own XenServer 6.1, Microsoft's Windows 2012 Hyper V and vSphere 5.1 from VMware. |
A tech preview of VDI-in-a-Box 5.2 will come soon, according to Citrix. The company didn't elaborate on when general availability can be expected. |
Last but not least, XenClient is a so-called bare-metal hypervisor for desktop virtualization. |
The technology holds the promise of allowing desktop virtualization to work without a network connection and letting the IT department issue laptops that come with one OS for corporate use and one for personal use. |
Version 4.5 of XenClient Enterprise is compatible with the third-generation Core and Core vPro processors from Intel, making it possible to use XenClient on the latest desktops, laptops and tablets, according to Citrix. |
It will also be possible to run Windows 8 on top of XenClient. |
Existing XenClient users will soon be able to download a tech preview, and general availability is planned for December. |
Woodland Pizza Guys owner Scott Caster first thought it would be a good addition to sales, but then decided to take a turn toward those in need. |
California is in a historic drought, and with that has come devastating wildfires. Because fires like those in Lake and Butte counties were nearby he combined his efforts with a group that he is associated with, First In Relief Efforts, and collected donations at his three owned locations. |
In addition, Caster drove the mobile pizza kitchen staffed with volunteers, including his wife Danielle Caster, to the Butte and Valley Fire Evacuation Centers providing free pizza to those who were displaced from their homes. |
Caster and his team traveled to the Valley Fire evacuation center at Napa County Fairgrounds on Sept. 14 and served 110 pizzas. On Sept. 17, he and the volunteers went to the Butte Fire evacuation centers located at two different churches and a reservoir camp site where another 110 pizzas were provided. |
Caster started out as a pizza maker in 1994 and worked his way up to now owning three Pizza Guys restaurants in Woodland, Napa, and Davis. |
Apple is reportedly working to introduce a new pilot scheme that will provide customers with the opportunity to place orders online and then pick them up at a local Apple Store, Macrumors reports. |
According to reports, Apple’s new program – known internally as Sherwood – will see any item available on the online store made available for in-store pickup, regardless of whether it is an iPad or a custom-ordered Mac. |
Customers placing online orders will be offered the ability to select an Apple retail store for pickup, with standard configurations and accessories generally being available on a same-day basis as store stocks allow. Other items may take a few days to be delivered to the store. |
In-store pickup of items purchased online will reportedly require proof of purchase and an ID, with one major benefit of the program being the ability to designate one additional person to be eligible to pick up the order. One of our sources also notes that the program offers the benefit of being able to avoid home del... |
With Sherwood available to Apple Store employees, retail stores will also be able to accept returns of online orders, reducing time for both the customer and Apple’s logistical staff as they will not have process product returns and shipments. |
SCOOP: Select Apple retail stores will be set up to allow customers to order online and then pick-up in store! |
The availability of an in-store pickup will delight many gift buyers, allowing them to pay and reserve items so that they can pick them up from an Apple retail store instead of revealing the gift if it was delivered to a home address. |
For the past decade, astronomers have been waiting for a remarkable new instrument to enter the world. The James Webb Space Telescope will be launched to 1 million miles beyond Earth’s orbit, further than any telescope yet, where it can observe the deepest corners of the universe. Once there it will unfurl a sunshield ... |
But scientists will have to wait still longer to zoom into Jupiter’s great red spot, or hunt for exoplanets circling distant solar systems. On Wednesday, NASA officials released findings of a review panel looking at construction and testing of the James Webb Space Telescope. There were lots of problems—delicate propuls... |
“The complexity and difficulty cannot be overstated,” Thomas Young, chairman of the review panel, said during a call with reporters. “Too much optimism was built into the schedule.” Young, an aerospace executive, added that the new estimated launch date of March 30, 2021 assumes nothing else goes wrong. “No allowance h... |
When conceived in the 1990s, James Webb was supposed to be completed by 2007 for a measly $500 million. When that ballooned to $5 billion by 2011, a House committee voted to cancel the project. Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski got the funding restored—as long as NASA could guarantee it would contain project costs at n... |
Then last year, things sort of got out of control. The review board found problems in testing and integration of the spacecraft and its big sunshield by primary contractor Northrop Grumman. These problems were the result of human errors, embedded systems, a lack of experience, excessive optimism, and the overall comple... |
It's the first time that NASA has designed and built both a sunshield and actively segmented telescope mirrors. The first time a NASA spacecraft has been shipped to French Guiana through the Panama Canal by boat for launching. The first time NASA will fly on an European Ariane 5 rocket (which may turn into Ariane 6 by ... |
Making things worse, NASA can't fly an astronaut up to the telescope to fix it if anything goes wrong—it will just be too far away. |
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