It is this fear, as much as any desire for a weak client state at its back, which the Afghan government blames for Pakistan's continuous promotion of various Pushtun Islamist protégés over the past 30 years.The most recent, the Afghan Taliban and their spiritual brethren in Pakistan, have helped dampen separatist sentiment on the Pakistan side of the border.
Consider a weak client that wishes to delegate a computation to an untrusted server, and then verify the correctness of the result.
Its weaker client, Austria, was always fretting about its relative demographic decline amid a hostile Slavic sea -- does that sound familiar?
Part of Deutsche's strategy is keeping its flexibility to rein in lending to weaker clients, especially as the European economy contracts.
Soon we will be able to write filters directly to that middle layer buffer where state is stored, with business rules that let some things through to compliant apps and push data from weaker clients to second class citizenship.
In spite of the marked client orientation of research projects as evidenced by source of project funding, only 46% of institutions target special databases or publications to policy makers, suggesting a rather academic orientation of final products and a weak provider-client relationship even when projects are government-financed.
The culprit of the sharp decline was a big drop in income from fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) trading, due to weak client activity and a sharp pullback in risk taking.
In the context of outsourced computation, computationally weak clients (or devices) can outsource their computation and data to a server in the cloud.
But Stephen Gillers, an expert in legal ethics at the New York University law school, said the firm caved in, adding that the "firm's timidity here will hurt weak clients, poor clients and despised clients".
The capital infusion granted to Daiei, as well as the strong likelihood that Mitsui Construction's request for debt waivers would be granted, suggests that Japan's system of convoy capitalism, in which banks are expected to buoy weak clients regardless of their future prospects for recovery, is still alive and well.
