Even the fact that an internal organ has or needs wireless capabilities baffles me. There are so many ways to abuse them! You can be tracked, for instance. Does Google have all the details of the pacemakers among the router data? Why not create a plug just under the skin so it is easily reached when needed? Wireless pacemakers literally are an unnecessary evil.
I worked for a company that does medical test (for the approval of new medicines) and there were quite a few rules for writing the software needed. This is "secondary" software in the sense that it only captures data and no life depends on it directly. I would expect unencrypted communication channels to prosthetics to be severely outlawed.
Dash also suggests 'changing the conversation about recruiting technologists from the existing narrow priesthood of highly-skilled experts constantly chasing new technologies to productive workers getting the most out of widely-deployed platforms and frameworks.
Wait, no more bleeding edge hacking? What in the world is left for the sales drones to do?
If you really don't know what you are talking about, please don't post. Composting toilets usually smell of sawdust. So if you use pine or cedar, they smell quite good. Don't use elm, as it smells like piss by itself.
Eventually, the energy is converted to heat, which can leak out into space. Our planet is not a closed system. The good thing is that there is also energy coming in into our system (solar energy, for example).
With ultrafast transactions only we would have the stock markets crash every few minutes
And the bad thing is? The stock markets are perfectly capable of crashing without Bitcoins and have done so many time in the past. High Frequency Trading is an evil anyway that should have been stopped before it started.
Or that there HAS BEEN a better system. And our money system has deteriorated tremendously since the second world war. Especially the finance firms were given far too much freedom to just commit fraud, which caused bubbles and the inevitable following crises. In the "first" 18th century, at least a steam engine made things that represented some value. In this "second 18th century", data centres don't produce anything of value, yet almost all money is sucked into them.
If you are from the USA, Roosevelt has placed some half-way decent measures to keep the money system stable. Starting with Nixon, all those measures were dropped. And when the bubble tended to burst even more measures were dropped, postponing and aggravating the resulting crisis. And absolutely NOTHING has been done to stabilize the system again. On the contrary.
So if you do something poorly and something else well (maybe on purpose), it follows that the thing done well would be better by itself and not by how you did it? What a load of nonsense.
The mainstream thought about markets in general, and therefore also the stock trading market, is that it is self-stabilizing. There are nice books about the nonsense of that theory, but HFT purely exist to syphon off the "correcting" movements of the markets. So even if the stock trading market were as stable as the theory said, it would just bleed dry under HFT.
Also, I guess (but this is a wild personal guess) that these automated traders are so big that they do not only react to fluctuations, but are capable of causing their own and then reaping the upward ripples.
Anyway, nothing of value is produced here. It is only a process being reaped. HFT is crime. Nothing less.
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Even the fact that an internal organ has or needs wireless capabilities baffles me. There are so many ways to abuse them! You can be tracked, for instance. Does Google have all the details of the pacemakers among the router data? Why not create a plug just under the skin so it is easily reached when needed? Wireless pacemakers literally are an unnecessary evil.
I worked for a company that does medical test (for the approval of new medicines) and there were quite a few rules for writing the software needed. This is "secondary" software in the sense that it only captures data and no life depends on it directly. I would expect unencrypted communication channels to prosthetics to be severely outlawed.
... he discovered no obfuscation efforts and even found usernames and passwords ...
How come such pacemakers were ever approved by the FDA?
Google can use politicians to avoid obvious outcome. This only makes such an investigation more urgent.
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+++ Insert discworld in drive A: +++
Dash also suggests 'changing the conversation about recruiting technologists from the existing narrow priesthood of highly-skilled experts constantly chasing new technologies to productive workers getting the most out of widely-deployed platforms and frameworks.
Wait, no more bleeding edge hacking? What in the world is left for the sales drones to do?
If you really don't know what you are talking about, please don't post. Composting toilets usually smell of sawdust. So if you use pine or cedar, they smell quite good. Don't use elm, as it smells like piss by itself.
Eventually, the energy is converted to heat, which can leak out into space. Our planet is not a closed system. The good thing is that there is also energy coming in into our system (solar energy, for example).
I would call it the Federal Bacon Institute.
Add spam, spam, no bacon, and spam?
USA elects Don Quixote for president!
So we might really grow Wub fur in the future! (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_by_Its_Cover)
Sorry, I am not a native English speaker, and a quick web search does not yield anything on the word "Inquity". Can somebody explain the word?
As the curator of Greece is Goldman Sachs, I don't think any money will really go to Greece.
And then? Sell your soul to G? No thanks!
I thought the magic word was "shibboleet"? (see http://xkcd.com/806/)
With ultrafast transactions only we would have the stock markets crash every few minutes
And the bad thing is? The stock markets are perfectly capable of crashing without Bitcoins and have done so many time in the past. High Frequency Trading is an evil anyway that should have been stopped before it started.
Ergo: the transaction has not completed yet.
Or that there HAS BEEN a better system. And our money system has deteriorated tremendously since the second world war. Especially the finance firms were given far too much freedom to just commit fraud, which caused bubbles and the inevitable following crises. In the "first" 18th century, at least a steam engine made things that represented some value. In this "second 18th century", data centres don't produce anything of value, yet almost all money is sucked into them.
If you are from the USA, Roosevelt has placed some half-way decent measures to keep the money system stable. Starting with Nixon, all those measures were dropped. And when the bubble tended to burst even more measures were dropped, postponing and aggravating the resulting crisis. And absolutely NOTHING has been done to stabilize the system again. On the contrary.
So if you do something poorly and something else well (maybe on purpose), it follows that the thing done well would be better by itself and not by how you did it? What a load of nonsense.
"Not supported" is very different from "Can't run Linux". I would call this monopoly abuse.
Or combine things. In a flat area, you could combine wind and hydro, and use water as your buffer to generate dependable energy.
The mainstream thought about markets in general, and therefore also the stock trading market, is that it is self-stabilizing. There are nice books about the nonsense of that theory, but HFT purely exist to syphon off the "correcting" movements of the markets. So even if the stock trading market were as stable as the theory said, it would just bleed dry under HFT.
Also, I guess (but this is a wild personal guess) that these automated traders are so big that they do not only react to fluctuations, but are capable of causing their own and then reaping the upward ripples.
Anyway, nothing of value is produced here. It is only a process being reaped. HFT is crime. Nothing less.
Yes. No (Well, OK. Sometimes). Yes (but the equilibrium is situated near the "no poverty" point). Any other questions?
"Who cares?"
That is the real question.