Actually you broke it. People who short based on reality (as they see it) rather than what they figure a panic and delusion driven market will do tend to go broke.
Except that the thing that triggers people to short need not have any connection to reality. You short a stick if you believe that market PERCEPTION might change. Including, in many cases, the belief that if you say enough bad things, you can shift the perception.
A sell recommendation, OTOH is a signal.
For an example, based on current conditions, one might think I should short bitcoin. But I'm not stupid enough to do that, not because I believe it is valued correctly, but because I believe people will continue ober-valuing it for the foreseeable future. OTOH, if I believe that it is fundamentally sound BUT that the idiots in the market will soon panic over nothing, it's a great time to short.
That's the crux of the problem. People short based on what they think the market will do, not based on what it should do (even in their own humble opinion). At least if they don't want to lose money.
Just to top it off, if they take a big enough short position, they can cause a dip in the market followed by a bounce when they exit their position.
Actually, I just don't tend to buy into hand waving. Which is all I have ever seen to explain why short selling is a good thing. If you could explain it, you would have.
Of course, simply announcing that you think it's full of holes would do the same thing without fleecing everyone you sold the borrowed stock to at full current price (that you honestly believe is way too high).
How do they fix market overvalue? When they borrow and sell shares, they sell at current market value (otherwise, there's nothing in it for them). In many cases, they do a sort of reverse pump and dump, call it a "dump and dis" if you will. Anything beyond that is rationalization.
Their success requires either a successful "dump and dis" or predicting a market correction that is already going to happen with or without them.
In the former case, they don't care if the stock was actually overvalued as long as they can create the temporary belief that it was overvalued. In the latter, they don't contribute, they just profit off of anyone who didn't get the memo.
If it's process control, a VM probably won't do. The software will likely be talking directly to some bit of hardware and any stuttering on the part of a VM passing things through to real hardware would be a problem.
Best you can do is keep the prosess control machines on an air-gapped LAN and hope it doesn't get cooties if you have to temporarily connect to the outside or connect a laptop fpr updates.
Nor do they fix anything but their own bank balance, much as in my scenario, I did not cause the security holes in the web platform, nor did I patch them.
The problem isn't that people will run out and buy things proudly featuring asbestos. It's that they will unknowingly buy products that quietly and shamefully include asbestos because it bumps the profit margin up a tiny bit.
Those statistics demonstrate that curbing the use of asbestos was an effective measure that has actually saved lives. The people still suffering were exposed prior to the restrictions.
It also suggests that loosening the restrictions will likely show up as an increase in deaths years from now.
If the VR really catches on this time, someone will write a virus that makes the user throw up.
We'll see AV programs especially boasting that they block "tilt-a-hurl" and "Mary-go-ralph". Some kids will deliberately infect a copy of a game so they can try for a day out of school.
It's not like I could send message that looks like you sent it. It's just that I could craft a fake quote claiming to be from you and send that to someone, but they'll know I am the one that sent the "quote".
So it's like every other communication method out there.
If they suspect a problem, they should be looking at your repo commits not how many keys you hit. If the data is being collected, even "just in case", then the mentality is there. You will get peanuts.
No gun, but you can bet they're hoping to soak up the potential alternatives until it's the tracker or "want fries with that?"
If schemes such as these go away, the need for work to be done won't go away, it's just that the people doing the work will be offered less creepy conditions to work under.
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AAAANNND, more hand waving just happened.
Actually you broke it. People who short based on reality (as they see it) rather than what they figure a panic and delusion driven market will do tend to go broke.
VFIO is helpful for performance nd security, but still might cause problems if there are hard deadlines.
Except that the thing that triggers people to short need not have any connection to reality. You short a stick if you believe that market PERCEPTION might change. Including, in many cases, the belief that if you say enough bad things, you can shift the perception.
A sell recommendation, OTOH is a signal.
For an example, based on current conditions, one might think I should short bitcoin. But I'm not stupid enough to do that, not because I believe it is valued correctly, but because I believe people will continue ober-valuing it for the foreseeable future. OTOH, if I believe that it is fundamentally sound BUT that the idiots in the market will soon panic over nothing, it's a great time to short.
That's the crux of the problem. People short based on what they think the market will do, not based on what it should do (even in their own humble opinion). At least if they don't want to lose money.
Just to top it off, if they take a big enough short position, they can cause a dip in the market followed by a bounce when they exit their position.
Actually, I just don't tend to buy into hand waving. Which is all I have ever seen to explain why short selling is a good thing. If you could explain it, you would have.
Of course, simply announcing that you think it's full of holes would do the same thing without fleecing everyone you sold the borrowed stock to at full current price (that you honestly believe is way too high).
How do they fix market overvalue? When they borrow and sell shares, they sell at current market value (otherwise, there's nothing in it for them). In many cases, they do a sort of reverse pump and dump, call it a "dump and dis" if you will. Anything beyond that is rationalization.
Their success requires either a successful "dump and dis" or predicting a market correction that is already going to happen with or without them. In the former case, they don't care if the stock was actually overvalued as long as they can create the temporary belief that it was overvalued. In the latter, they don't contribute, they just profit off of anyone who didn't get the memo.
Given the cost to change vendors, probably not.
If it's process control, a VM probably won't do. The software will likely be talking directly to some bit of hardware and any stuttering on the part of a VM passing things through to real hardware would be a problem.
Best you can do is keep the prosess control machines on an air-gapped LAN and hope it doesn't get cooties if you have to temporarily connect to the outside or connect a laptop fpr updates.
Nor do they fix anything but their own bank balance, much as in my scenario, I did not cause the security holes in the web platform, nor did I patch them.
By that logic, if I hack amazon and hold an unofficial but binding 90% off sale on everything, they will thank me?
If you RTFA you will see that the patent hinted at it's presence and then he found it on real hardware by fuzzing.
Can't have the Chinese government thinking Google supports routing around censorship, now can we?
But I'm already voting against the walled garden with my wallet.
I have been using Linux on the Desktop since the mid '90s.
So name the half decent device that isn't loaded with crapware they should have bought instead?
Too often voting with your wallet is like voting in the old Soviet Union, you can choose any member of the Communist party you want.
The problem isn't that people will run out and buy things proudly featuring asbestos. It's that they will unknowingly buy products that quietly and shamefully include asbestos because it bumps the profit margin up a tiny bit.
You forgot that mesothelioma is just one way asbestos can kill you.
Those statistics demonstrate that curbing the use of asbestos was an effective measure that has actually saved lives. The people still suffering were exposed prior to the restrictions.
It also suggests that loosening the restrictions will likely show up as an increase in deaths years from now.
Most people are smart enough to realize that a ban on a naturally occurring substance means a ban on using that substance in a manufactured product.
If the VR really catches on this time, someone will write a virus that makes the user throw up.
We'll see AV programs especially boasting that they block "tilt-a-hurl" and "Mary-go-ralph". Some kids will deliberately infect a copy of a game so they can try for a day out of school.
It's not like I could send message that looks like you sent it. It's just that I could craft a fake quote claiming to be from you and send that to someone, but they'll know I am the one that sent the "quote".
So it's like every other communication method out there.
We must do something to fix this spam issue.
-- Abraham Lincoln
If they suspect a problem, they should be looking at your repo commits not how many keys you hit. If the data is being collected, even "just in case", then the mentality is there. You will get peanuts.
It is an election year after all.
No gun, but you can bet they're hoping to soak up the potential alternatives until it's the tracker or "want fries with that?"
If schemes such as these go away, the need for work to be done won't go away, it's just that the people doing the work will be offered less creepy conditions to work under.