It seems to me like any potential for exploiting millisecond delays in transaction transmission will be consumed and defeated by the time it takes a human operator to interpret the information and hit the "confirm purchase/sale" button.
Your comment just violated my sarcasm patent for "making a comment worded in such a way that it sounds positive while still carrying an implied negative meaning opposite of the actual wording used."
Oh right, I forgot the contemporary approach to politics. If you have real problems you don't solve them, you distract your people by making up problems where there are none.
He's only doing it so he'll stop bending the professor's spine in his sleep. After the cheerful optimistic outlook that gave him the first time, who wants that to ever happen again, even by accident?
"No worries precious, I'm sure your birthday party can wait a few moments longer until the dreadful pointlessness of existance crushes your youthful hopes and dreams like mine have been two decades ago, leaving me a hollow broken shell of a man seeking solace in cheap whores and nickel whiskey shots on hungarian hobos."
"Who the hell are you?"
"Hannigan's the name, and I'm here to offer you a great product - it's Peer to Peer Protocol Poison, or 'Pee Pee Pee Pee', from Doc Poison's computer destroyers. When there's traffic that needs destroying, it's Doc Poison or arson!"
A democratic republic is the most consistantly beneficial to the greatest number of citizens of a country. Democracy is good in small numbers, but very quickly it breaks down and becomes unwieldy.
Most people forget the we do not live in a pure democracy, but rather a democratic republic where the minority is protected from the excesses of the majority. A true democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for lunch.
Just because it looks like a huge Pump and Dump red flag doesn't mean we have to assume that Zer01 is just out to bilk out customers of their money with promises of service that just can't be delivered. Just look at the Phantom console from Infinium Labs, sure it took forever, but they delivered on the goods eventua- oh wait.
I wanted to patent the process through which a person digests food into fecal matter, but clearly Prometheus already owns the patent on that one.
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Having our collective heads in the cloud, as it were, will run into a much more pragmatic barrier pretty fast, probably faster than privacy issues that are certain to also rise. When ALL of our software becomes streamed through data cable, how much of a DSL or cable bill are we going to receive monthly from providers who will have long since rescinded and phased out unlimited bandwidth contracts in favor of nickel-and-diming their consumers into oblivion?
If they blocked the study for fear of angering congress, boy are the mythbusters in trouble! They've proven that distracted cell phone driving is as driving hampering as drunk driving years ago.
So shall we arrest all anarchists then? Or all government conspiracy types? Cause surely if some psycho thinks that the ideas justify violence they are just as responsible?
Can you name one instance of someone talking about how the government is harassing people, or how The Man is conceiling evidence about the moon landing or area 51 where a group of people spontaneously rose up and screamed "You're right!" and beat up to death a nearby elected official or civil servant? I can pick up any newspaper, however, and find an article of a gay or transexual people beaten and killed in anger.
Yes it's the unfortunate truth damn I feel bad just typing this because it may be minimising a life but that law against bad mouthing homosexuality (if it truly does ban speaking against it in all circumstances) is bad because it is essentially saying that if you say something bad against it you might also kill the person so we stop you from saying it. Cue thoughtcrime.
Don't you just love anyone who cries wolf and says thoughtcrime! whenever discrimination laws are mentionned? The simple fact is that if you allow hurtful speech to be used at someone pointing out how different their are (sex, religion, ethnicity, orientation, etc) there's always a chance that someone will go beyond words and actually pick up a weapon and attack the victim physically. It's not just a thought crime anymore, it's outright aggresion. And hurling the insults that egged the criminal into hurting people makes you as guilty as those doing the deed... just ask the former president of Kenya who went on a crime against humanity trial for inciting the kenyan ethnic majority to murder and slaughter the minority. It was just words he said, but he might as well have held the machette himself.
Whatever happened to Winnie the Pooh in Canada? I remember a big deal was made of the fact that Canadian copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author, which would put Winnie in the Canadian PD sometime in 2006, but I never heard anything after the fact.
Disney made Pooh movies, remember? It's a pretty safe bet that even if canadian copyright laws enable you to use him, the House of Mouse will sick its flying monkeys to tear you to pieces in court.
So my question is, how is this different than shielding from "hate speech" about... say, homosexuality? Go look at Canada's laws. It's pretty much against the law to say anything bad about homosexuality up there, from what I understand from some Canadian friends that I have.
The difference is that casual swearing rarely ever leads to someone of that particular religious inclination to being beaten or killed by an angry mob.
You also have to spot someone at random in the store and take away their wallet, claiming that since they are thieves they must pay thousands of dollars in damages to make up for the cost of the item they had probably stolen last time they were here. That's the RIAA way!
Aren't these the people who told us that the law suits were over? Call me paranoid, but I can't trust them.
I suspect the only reason the RIAA are presenting a softer image on things like the lawsuit threats and DRM is because they believe (or know) that they're going to get their way with the ACTA treaty and we'll all end up being subject to outrageous three-strikes laws.
Seems like not trusting them is the smart thing to do. When they say they're not going to sue any more people, it's just something to make us relent while they prepare more subpoenas and gather mediasentry "evidence". Expect your ten year old kid to be getting a multi-million dollar lawsuit any day now.
DRM can't be dead! Everyone knows that the BEST way to counter shoplifting is to harass, insult and severely beat up your paying consumers before they ever think of commiting the crime!
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Hey, as long as the limits are reasonable, there's nothing intrinsically wrong with it.
Yeah, that's true, I guess that's why our economy is going so goo- oh wait.
The algorithms trade on their own, all the humans do is define the mechanism to evaluate trades and set limits
Human arbitrary decisions applied blindly by a machine thousands of times per seconds. That sounds like a real winner to me.
It seems to me like any potential for exploiting millisecond delays in transaction transmission will be consumed and defeated by the time it takes a human operator to interpret the information and hit the "confirm purchase/sale" button.
Your comment just violated my sarcasm patent for "making a comment worded in such a way that it sounds positive while still carrying an implied negative meaning opposite of the actual wording used."
Oh right, I forgot the contemporary approach to politics. If you have real problems you don't solve them, you distract your people by making up problems where there are none.
Where's a state-wide brushfire when you need one?
He's only doing it so he'll stop bending the professor's spine in his sleep. After the cheerful optimistic outlook that gave him the first time, who wants that to ever happen again, even by accident?
*knock on Pirate Bay's office door*
"What the hell is that?"
*Hannigan the traveling salesman enters*
"Good evening, little girl, is your mommy home?"
"Dude, this is the pirate bay office."
"No worries precious, I'm sure your birthday party can wait a few moments longer until the dreadful pointlessness of existance crushes your youthful hopes and dreams like mine have been two decades ago, leaving me a hollow broken shell of a man seeking solace in cheap whores and nickel whiskey shots on hungarian hobos."
"Who the hell are you?"
"Hannigan's the name, and I'm here to offer you a great product - it's Peer to Peer Protocol Poison, or 'Pee Pee Pee Pee', from Doc Poison's computer destroyers. When there's traffic that needs destroying, it's Doc Poison or arson!"
Who says they're not angling for both at once?
A democratic republic is the most consistantly beneficial to the greatest number of citizens of a country. Democracy is good in small numbers, but very quickly it breaks down and becomes unwieldy.
Most people forget the we do not live in a pure democracy, but rather a democratic republic where the minority is protected from the excesses of the majority. A true democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to eat for lunch.
Tsera also holds the patent for male bovines digesting grass into fecal waste matter.
Just because it looks like a huge Pump and Dump red flag doesn't mean we have to assume that Zer01 is just out to bilk out customers of their money with promises of service that just can't be delivered. Just look at the Phantom console from Infinium Labs, sure it took forever, but they delivered on the goods eventua- oh wait.
I wanted to patent the process through which a person digests food into fecal matter, but clearly Prometheus already owns the patent on that one.
Having our collective heads in the cloud, as it were, will run into a much more pragmatic barrier pretty fast, probably faster than privacy issues that are certain to also rise. When ALL of our software becomes streamed through data cable, how much of a DSL or cable bill are we going to receive monthly from providers who will have long since rescinded and phased out unlimited bandwidth contracts in favor of nickel-and-diming their consumers into oblivion?
2. Ability to request changes. If I invest in a game, this should give me a certain degree of voting rights.
This sounds like a good idea - until you start reading the World of Warcraft class forums.
If they blocked the study for fear of angering congress, boy are the mythbusters in trouble! They've proven that distracted cell phone driving is as driving hampering as drunk driving years ago.
So shall we arrest all anarchists then? Or all government conspiracy types? Cause surely if some psycho thinks that the ideas justify violence they are just as responsible?
Can you name one instance of someone talking about how the government is harassing people, or how The Man is conceiling evidence about the moon landing or area 51 where a group of people spontaneously rose up and screamed "You're right!" and beat up to death a nearby elected official or civil servant? I can pick up any newspaper, however, and find an article of a gay or transexual people beaten and killed in anger.
Yes it's the unfortunate truth damn I feel bad just typing this because it may be minimising a life but that law against bad mouthing homosexuality (if it truly does ban speaking against it in all circumstances) is bad because it is essentially saying that if you say something bad against it you might also kill the person so we stop you from saying it. Cue thoughtcrime.
Don't you just love anyone who cries wolf and says thoughtcrime! whenever discrimination laws are mentionned? The simple fact is that if you allow hurtful speech to be used at someone pointing out how different their are (sex, religion, ethnicity, orientation, etc) there's always a chance that someone will go beyond words and actually pick up a weapon and attack the victim physically. It's not just a thought crime anymore, it's outright aggresion. And hurling the insults that egged the criminal into hurting people makes you as guilty as those doing the deed... just ask the former president of Kenya who went on a crime against humanity trial for inciting the kenyan ethnic majority to murder and slaughter the minority. It was just words he said, but he might as well have held the machette himself.
Whatever happened to Winnie the Pooh in Canada? I remember a big deal was made of the fact that Canadian copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author, which would put Winnie in the Canadian PD sometime in 2006, but I never heard anything after the fact.
Disney made Pooh movies, remember? It's a pretty safe bet that even if canadian copyright laws enable you to use him, the House of Mouse will sick its flying monkeys to tear you to pieces in court.
So my question is, how is this different than shielding from "hate speech" about... say, homosexuality? Go look at Canada's laws. It's pretty much against the law to say anything bad about homosexuality up there, from what I understand from some Canadian friends that I have.
The difference is that casual swearing rarely ever leads to someone of that particular religious inclination to being beaten or killed by an angry mob.
You also have to spot someone at random in the store and take away their wallet, claiming that since they are thieves they must pay thousands of dollars in damages to make up for the cost of the item they had probably stolen last time they were here. That's the RIAA way!
Aren't these the people who told us that the law suits were over? Call me paranoid, but I can't trust them. I suspect the only reason the RIAA are presenting a softer image on things like the lawsuit threats and DRM is because they believe (or know) that they're going to get their way with the ACTA treaty and we'll all end up being subject to outrageous three-strikes laws.
Seems like not trusting them is the smart thing to do. When they say they're not going to sue any more people, it's just something to make us relent while they prepare more subpoenas and gather mediasentry "evidence". Expect your ten year old kid to be getting a multi-million dollar lawsuit any day now.
DRM can't be dead! Everyone knows that the BEST way to counter shoplifting is to harass, insult and severely beat up your paying consumers before they ever think of commiting the crime!
Replace step 1 with "???" and you have the internet business model that has prevailed since the mid-nineties!
Mentats are already on sale, but due to a bizarre legal trademark dispute has to be rebranded as Menthos.
Shylock also wanted his pound of flesh from Antonio, except that I wouldn't trust any RIAA lawyer to understand the compulsion of mercy from Portia.