you have to deal with the people who have been stopping the building of trains, for the past 100 years. there are many different groups that oppose trains, but they are in general, on the conservative side of the spectrum model of political opinions.
there is no way a @#$ robot can judge what to do about oncoming accidents, like a pedestrian, a deer, a squirrel, a semi jackknifing, an ambulance passing, a crash ahead of you, a gigantic pothole, a box full of dishes that fell off a truck, a big tree branch, a patch of black ice, a tire blowing out, a semi weaving in a strong wind, etc etc etc.
the solution to the 'i dont want to waste my time driving' problem is to build more trains, and make cities more walkable. to do that, you first have to win over the 'trains = communism' crowd using some kind of distributed jobs program (like the military does for its socialist money wasting mega-projects) and through targeting conservative locations for building up the rail infrastructure so they will get pork from it.
to throw off tyranny and start a new, better society.
he wound up creating just about the poorest country on the planet, causing millions to migrate so that they could find food to eat, while his political opponents are brutally oppressed.
in Devil Take the Hindmost , by Chancellor, he deals specifically with the question and lays out the definitions proferred by students of the question in the past.
speculation, gambling, hedging, and business activity are four distinct endeavors. some bleed into the others but there are definite features of each that the other lacks.
there is plenty of evidence that a large amount of the theory behind modern academic economics is based on payola and a religious belief, not on empiricism or on any sort of scientific rigor
i hate to tell you but 'wall street' is not even home to that many 'wall street firms'. it is mostly in cyberspace now.
even the big banks have moved up town. but besides that.
the electronic trading has taken over. hedge funds are built in people's spare rooms, they trade in their underwear.
the center of AIG's credit default swap business was in London at AIG Financial Products division. Not in the US, not in America.
the Chinese banks owned massive amounts of Fannie and Freddie debt, and were leaning on the Bush adminsitration not to default (even though the Russian govt tried to team up with them and crash us even harder). More info on this in 'on the brink' buy Hank Paulson.
One of the biggest customers of CDO tranches was Germany. but it was spread over the world. Norway, Australia, etc.
And Deutschebank, one of the biggest 'wall street banks', is not headquartered in the US. Nor is Credit Suisse, both of these hugely involved in the synthetic CDO market. In "the big short" one of the major characters works for deutschebank.
That is the whole point of the elimination of glass-steagall in the first place, the Europeans never had a law separating commercial and investment banking like the US did. Thus the US banks claimed it was hard for them to compete against their gargantuan European rivals.
When Lehman and Bear Stearns were both in crisis, they were both reaching out to asian banks. Morgan Stanley, if not for a Japanese bank, would quite probably not exist today. You can read about all this in The Sellout, Too Big to Fail, On the Brink, Devils Casino, House of Cards, etc etc etc.
The most pertinent to the topic is "The End of Wall Street" by Roger Lowenstein.
All of the classic activity thought of as 'wall street activity' doesnt exist on wall street. There are no major american banks that are classified as Investment Banks anymore.
Morgan Stanley - now regulated as a holding company (ie. regulated by the Fed)
Goldman Sachs - same as Morgan
Merrill Lynch - bought by Bank of America, which is regulated by the Fed
Bear Stearns - bought by JP Morgan Chase, regulated by the Fed
Lehman Brothers - bankrupt
There are no American 'investment banks' operating on an 'investment bank model'. the functions they performed in the economy are now performed by other entities, either hedge funds, private equity firms, funds of funds, venture capitalists....
This doesnt even address what this means for European banks like Credit Suisse, Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, etc, who work under European regulation, not US regulation. Are those now going to take over 'investment banking' business in the US? Then there are the Japanese banks, and the new Chinese banks, which are an absolutely fascinating entity in that the communist party controls them, and people are believing the numbers coming out of them pretty uncritically.
Wall Street is everywhere. Wall street is in your 401k. It is in your iphone. It is in your mortgage. It is in your credit card. It is in your student loan. It is in every last piece of debt you will ever have. It has been sliced up, and resold, and someone took a cut. That someone could be anywhere on the planet.
the only reason it went against scientology is because scientology was attacking random people all over the internet with lawsuits. that is why anonymous fought back.
anonymous is never going to go after drug lords or human traffickers or etc. they go after people who @#$$ with them. The HBGary guy was going after them directly, trying to 'out' them by scraping facebook etc. that is why they went at him.
1. they hate their job, the compromises they must make to survive it, therefore anything involving profit = evil, because their own workplace requires them to be such heartless turds.
2. they live in their parents basement and dont understand the emotional weight of a lack of an income stream
3. they believe any sort of corporation involvement will pollute the thoughtspace of linux (nevermind the fact that linux exists because of massive corporate donations)
4. speculation... maybe they are scammers themselves, who see in others the evil they know is within them?
websites take input from users. like when i log in to slashdot, it asks me for input.
it will run the input through a program, which will talk to a database.
how does it talk to the database? it runs an SQL command, like 'SELECT * FROM TABLE USERS WHERE NAME=$username'
$username for me is 'decora' because thats what i type into my little login box.
but lets say i uhm, type into the 'username' box something like 'decora OR name=cmdrtaco'.
now, instead of just getting my info, it might spit back all of cmdrtacos info too! maybe even his hashed password.
to protect against this, most programs will take measures like:
0. validate input (does the username have spaces in it? reject if so) 1. check the SQL query to make sure its 'safe' and contains no parsable SQL commands. 2. dont write stuff like 'SELECT * FROM', only read stuff you need. 3. validate data returned from the SQL query before printing it to an html page.
ie. if yr supposed to get one 5 datums back per user and instead you get 10, somethings wrong.
then again all that takes time and money and effort to do. why bother, if nobody will ever care? the company that made the CMS for HBGary probably contracted out the programming to some other company that hired people off a website, (i have no evidence of course).
Slashdot Mirror
you have to deal with the people who have been stopping the building of trains, for the past 100 years. there are many different groups that oppose trains, but they are in general, on the conservative side of the spectrum model of political opinions.
the 'individualists' would
wow.
you accuse me of a lot of things, with no evidence.
it is very easy for rich kids with nice jobs to scream free libya on the internet.
they are not the ones who will have to go die to make it happen.
there is no way a @#$ robot can judge what to do about oncoming accidents, like a pedestrian, a deer, a squirrel, a semi jackknifing, an ambulance passing, a crash ahead of you, a gigantic pothole, a box full of dishes that fell off a truck, a big tree branch, a patch of black ice, a tire blowing out, a semi weaving in a strong wind, etc etc etc.
the solution to the 'i dont want to waste my time driving' problem is to build more trains, and make cities more walkable. to do that, you first have to win over the 'trains = communism' crowd using some kind of distributed jobs program (like the military does for its socialist money wasting mega-projects) and through targeting conservative locations for building up the rail infrastructure so they will get pork from it.
to throw off tyranny and start a new, better society.
he wound up creating just about the poorest country on the planet, causing millions to migrate so that they could find food to eat, while his political opponents are brutally oppressed.
remember that while you are chanting 'free libya'
in Devil Take the Hindmost , by Chancellor, he deals specifically with the question and lays out the definitions proferred by students of the question in the past.
speculation, gambling, hedging, and business activity are four distinct endeavors. some bleed into the others but there are definite features of each that the other lacks.
there is plenty of evidence that a large amount of the theory behind modern academic economics is based on payola and a religious belief, not on empiricism or on any sort of scientific rigor
i hate to tell you but 'wall street' is not even home to that many 'wall street firms'. it is mostly in cyberspace now.
even the big banks have moved up town. but besides that.
the electronic trading has taken over. hedge funds are built in people's spare rooms, they trade in their underwear.
the center of AIG's credit default swap business was in London at AIG Financial Products division. Not in the US, not in America.
the Chinese banks owned massive amounts of Fannie and Freddie debt, and were leaning on the Bush adminsitration not to default (even though the Russian govt tried to team up with them and crash us even harder). More info on this in 'on the brink' buy Hank Paulson.
One of the biggest customers of CDO tranches was Germany. but it was spread over the world. Norway, Australia, etc.
And Deutschebank, one of the biggest 'wall street banks', is not headquartered in the US. Nor is Credit Suisse, both of these hugely involved in the synthetic CDO market. In "the big short" one of the major characters works for deutschebank.
That is the whole point of the elimination of glass-steagall in the first place, the Europeans never had a law separating commercial and investment banking like the US did. Thus the US banks claimed it was hard for them to compete against their gargantuan European rivals.
When Lehman and Bear Stearns were both in crisis, they were both reaching out to asian banks. Morgan Stanley, if not for a Japanese bank, would quite probably not exist today. You can read about all this in The Sellout, Too Big to Fail, On the Brink, Devils Casino, House of Cards, etc etc etc.
The most pertinent to the topic is "The End of Wall Street" by Roger Lowenstein.
All of the classic activity thought of as 'wall street activity' doesnt exist on wall street. There are no major american banks that are classified as Investment Banks anymore.
Morgan Stanley - now regulated as a holding company (ie. regulated by the Fed)
Goldman Sachs - same as Morgan
Merrill Lynch - bought by Bank of America, which is regulated by the Fed
Bear Stearns - bought by JP Morgan Chase, regulated by the Fed
Lehman Brothers - bankrupt
There are no American 'investment banks' operating on an 'investment bank model'. the functions they performed in the economy are now performed by other entities, either hedge funds, private equity firms, funds of funds, venture capitalists....
This doesnt even address what this means for European banks like Credit Suisse, Societe Generale, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, etc, who work under European regulation, not US regulation. Are those now going to take over 'investment banking' business in the US? Then there are the Japanese banks, and the new Chinese banks, which are an absolutely fascinating entity in that the communist party controls them, and people are believing the numbers coming out of them pretty uncritically.
Wall Street is everywhere. Wall street is in your 401k. It is in your iphone. It is in your mortgage. It is in your credit card. It is in your student loan. It is in every last piece of debt you will ever have. It has been sliced up, and resold, and someone took a cut. That someone could be anywhere on the planet.
Wall Street is us.
as "Devil takes the hindmost" (by Edward Chancellor) points out, many traders will be offended by your vulgar terminolgoy.
they are 'hedging', they are 'creating efficiencies', they are 'earning', they are absolutey not, in no way, gambling.
thats the type of drug lords im referring to.
the only reason it went against scientology is because scientology was attacking random people all over the internet with lawsuits. that is why anonymous fought back.
anonymous is never going to go after drug lords or human traffickers or etc. they go after people who @#$$ with them. The HBGary guy was going after them directly, trying to 'out' them by scraping facebook etc. that is why they went at him.
just kidding
go to the archive of their emails and do a keyword search for MMO
a couple possibilities.
1. they hate their job, the compromises they must make to survive it, therefore anything involving profit = evil, because their own workplace requires them to be such heartless turds.
2. they live in their parents basement and dont understand the emotional weight of a lack of an income stream
3. they believe any sort of corporation involvement will pollute the thoughtspace of linux (nevermind the fact that linux exists because of massive corporate donations)
4. speculation... maybe they are scammers themselves, who see in others the evil they know is within them?
whining about how everything should be free in life.
ya know ubuntu gives away it's OS. where is the income?
have you donated to them lately? you just downloaded it and expect them to keep making it for free? for you?
with an alpha channel
repression... that was easy!
like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Carmille did.
well i didn't mean it to be rude, i meant to point out that if nothing has changed in 10 years, and we keep having the same arguments,
then maybe there is something wrong with the premise of our arguments.
jesus all the same stuff keeps coming back. linux game threads are like groundhog's day.
Okay campers, rise and shine! And don't forget your booties, cause its COLD out there today!
ok actually.
websites take input from users. like when i log in to slashdot, it asks me for input.
it will run the input through a program, which will talk to a database.
how does it talk to the database? it runs an SQL command, like 'SELECT * FROM TABLE USERS WHERE NAME=$username'
$username for me is 'decora' because thats what i type into my little login box.
but lets say i uhm, type into the 'username' box something like 'decora OR name=cmdrtaco'.
now, instead of just getting my info, it might spit back all of cmdrtacos info too! maybe even his hashed password.
to protect against this, most programs will take measures like:
0. validate input (does the username have spaces in it? reject if so)
1. check the SQL query to make sure its 'safe' and contains no parsable SQL commands.
2. dont write stuff like 'SELECT * FROM', only read stuff you need.
3. validate data returned from the SQL query before printing it to an html page.
ie. if yr supposed to get one 5 datums back per user and instead you get 10, somethings wrong.
then again all that takes time and money and effort to do.
why bother, if nobody will ever care? the company that made the CMS for HBGary probably
contracted out the programming to some other company that hired people off a website,
(i have no evidence of course).
fear of a robot planet.
the conspiracies are thousands of times worse in the bond market, and people get away with hundreds of times more stuff there.
when they were selling blueboxes?
"future millionaire" hackers?
that was used by slashdot moderators in the early days of the site.
slashdot used to be pretty wild and wooly.