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  1. Re:Reason: Security on Industry Open-Sources Model For Infamous CDS · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because the main problem with Credit Default Swaps is that the pricing code used internally in banks wasn't distributed under an open source license, not (among other things) that the distribution of risk of default away from those making lending decisions encouraged those making the lending decisions to commit and encourage others to commit frauds which made the inputs into any pricing model unreliable.

    The fact that every bank had it's own implementation of the pricing model was a problem - banks would trade these with each other because of the pricing differences that arose.

    Of course this wasn't the only problem..

  2. Re:I'm sorry to the XP-hater on Which Distro For an Eee PC? · · Score: 1

    Dude, try installing the right codecs

  3. Re:What's the contingency for these missions? on NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission Fails · · Score: 1

    I did a unit in Project Management back at uni. We had two lecturers. One of them told us that the other had been PM of the payload on Ariane 5 Flight 501. She added that he didn't like to talk about it, so we shouldn't ask..

  4. Re:My Predictions on Game Technology To Watch In 2009 · · Score: 1

    Nobody wants to sit in front of a PC wearing glasses.

    I wear spectacles you insensitive clod!