Using the roulette wheel analogy, I would say HFT is like all of us normal people having to place our bets before the wheel spins while the HFT guys (or at least whichever one has the the least latency/best algorithm) gets to place the bet just as the ball is about to stop moving.
Ah, but this isn't like rolling up in a wheel chair, this is a company requiring you to disclose information as part of the hiring process.
If the information is required as part of the actual selection process, it is inherently discriminatory.
There is a list of questions that companies are not supposed to ask. Under normal circumstances this is rather difficult to enforce for the reasons you stated. In this case there should be a paper trail as according to other laws, they should need authorization in order to obtain the data.
From ADA:
"Employers can use medical entrance examinations for applicants, after making the job offer, only if all applicants (regardless of disability) must take it, and if it is treated as a confidential medical record."
So... if a company starts yanking job offers out from under cancer patients they most certainly would wind up in court.
The biggest point of contention would be the following definition of disability:
"a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity."
I don't really see lesser items causing an issue in the first place, it will be the big ticket ones like AIDS/HIV, cancer, etc. Big Bad Co. vs poor bald chemo patient that got his job offer revoked after medical records released and now can't pay medical bills... I know which party I would put my money on.
I if built a building - and allowed kids to come in and hang out, decorate, dance, whatever... Under the law I'd sure as hell be liable if a adult or older child was preying on younger children in my building - but the transport system they used to get there wouldn't be. (Check out the legal concepts of in loco parentis and attractive nusiance.) Why should MySpace be any different? Both the original analogy and yours are both off. What you describe sounds like a day care center or place specifically for kids to hang out. You ask the question of "why should MySpace be any different?"
Well, the answer to this is because it is different. It is a place for *anybody* to hang out. Kids, adults, goatherder from Somalia, Eskimo after a seal hunt, and I suspect even my pet cat on a particularly creative day. If you leave your kid unattended at a local recreation center pool, or county fair, or shopping mall and he/she gets chatted up by some perv who gets his/her phone number, then calls and arranges to meet him/her at a later date at a different location are you going to sue the rec center, fair, or mall?
MySpace is a public forum. And just like any other public area out there, real or virtual, the owner of the space does not suddenly become responsible for parenting your children the moment they set foot in it.
He justifies the electoral college based on everybody having greater value to their vote AND everybody's vote having equal value. Doesn't seem to work that way to me, people in extremely close states have a relatively high value to their individual votes as opposed to those in a not very close state. In the case of this election, a block of 2000 voters in florida are immensely more powerful that a block of 2000 voters some other state that is fairly one sided. Therefore the electoral college does not adhere to the principle of everybody's vote being of equal power, it allows some people votes to carry more weight than others.
This guy is supposed to have a phd in physics or something. Basic math dude, check it out. If every individual person has an equal amount of "voting power", then does it shouldn't matter if you rate such voting power as x or x+1. the RELATIVE voting power remains the same. Studied physics and mathematics eh? check out frame of reference, studied engineering and learned it my freshman year. The only way to increase any one person's RELATIVE VOTING POWER is to decrease somebody elses (hmm . . . closed system?). Almost makes you think of that basic of physics laws often referred to as conservation of energy. It also makes me think about the whole set of equality issues that the constitution and bill of rights is supposed to address.
Personally, I do not like being given the shaft in favor of somebody else based upon geographical location and the circumstances of how other people in that region vote.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/service/Help/abc_contact us.html I just got done writing a three page essay pointing out that Mr. Moody's column has erroneous statistics contained within it (counting red hat twice) and also smacking it around for the various other flaws in his analysis. Use the above link! write your own mail that calmly and intelligently (withouth every other word being profanity) rips Moody to shreds. Demand that the column to be retracted or at the very least that they should post a correction of the statistics that he botched.
The setup they are going to is w2k and IIS. They are currently running off of dual proc boxes with apache 1.something, the backend is (and will remain) on solaris. They have done quite a bit of testing that has produced results showing that w2k will be able to handle more traffic. My guess is that they just have winblows 2k and IIS set up to use the second proc more effeciently.
An editor for Katz? I don't care. Maybe you should read the post a couple more times. There are many obvious benefits to being wired, some of which are in the post. You asked "Why does everyone have to be wired? Why is it so important?" Well, funny you should ask! here's a quote from you that might make it a little easier for you to figure out: "Early adopters will have an edge in the tech jobs market, but that's going to mean absolutely nothing in a few years, once society catches up to itself" The internet has become part of society and companies are taking steps to introduce their employees to this society. So that once "society catches up with itself" their employees won't be left behind. "It's only useful for breeding into the society to which it belongs. The wired society" Any idea of how much of an elitist you sound like? Just like any other elite group that has something that others don't, they want to keep it to themselves. When it is embraced by society as a whole, they no longer have that "something" that sets themselves apart. Ooohhh . . . I'm wired and most other people aren't, I'm special! What?! everybody else is going to be wired also?!? Well its not good for very much and you won't get much out of it. Being wired is boring. Is that the kind of attitude we wish to have? Grow up. I used mind games like that on my brother when he was five and I was ten. Maybe instead we should say "Good for you! Nice of you to join us." Hell, maybe we, as the community of people that have been here for awhile, should throw something together that tells them how to sort out the crap and go straight to the cool stuff.
Um . . . these guys are employed by companies like IBM . . . You are not talking about people in cardboard shacks here. The people that are on the recieving end are not the people you see on the posters over the caption "feed the hungry". The main problem is getting a decent computer at all in a third world country. Exchange rates and (depending on the country) tarrifs make it extremely pricey. That is the problem that these companies have addressed. Although you seem to believe contrary, the average run of the mill non us IBM employee actually can afford to have such things as electrically powered lights telephones and microwave ovens as well as electricity to power a computer.
If it is the Exodus facility in Jersey City, I assure you that there are quite a few cameras there. Several very obvious digital video cams, and of course a few cleverly hidden ones.
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I've known a few criminals. Never seen a smart one.
...and you never will. Smart criminals don't get caught. Prisons are filled with the stupid ones.
Really? So ..... you think that people like Frank Abagnale Jr., Ted Kaczynski and Kevin Mitnick are stupid? Wow, your IQ must be off the charts then.
Using the roulette wheel analogy, I would say HFT is like all of us normal people having to place our bets before the wheel spins while the HFT guys (or at least whichever one has the the least latency/best algorithm) gets to place the bet just as the ball is about to stop moving.
Can't help but post this, just yesterday the McCain "my fellow prisoners" slip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mBi7d6e5KI
Ah, but this isn't like rolling up in a wheel chair, this is a company requiring you to disclose information as part of the hiring process.
If the information is required as part of the actual selection process, it is inherently discriminatory.
There is a list of questions that companies are not supposed to ask. Under normal circumstances this is rather difficult to enforce for the reasons you stated. In this case there should be a paper trail as according to other laws, they should need authorization in order to obtain the data.
From ADA:
"Employers can use medical entrance examinations for applicants, after making the job offer, only if all applicants (regardless of disability) must take it, and if it is treated as a confidential medical record."
So... if a company starts yanking job offers out from under cancer patients they most certainly would wind up in court.
The biggest point of contention would be the following definition of disability:
"a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity."
I don't really see lesser items causing an issue in the first place, it will be the big ticket ones like AIDS/HIV, cancer, etc. Big Bad Co. vs poor bald chemo patient that got his job offer revoked after medical records released and now can't pay medical bills... I know which party I would put my money on.
Says you can't discriminate against those with disabilities as long as they can perform the job with reasonable accommodations.
"It's not just for insurers, either; employers who check applicants' credit scores will surely be interested in their health scores as well."
Any employer with over 15 employees that tries to require health screening as part of the hiring process will find themselves in court rather quickly.
Well, the answer to this is because it is different. It is a place for *anybody* to hang out. Kids, adults, goatherder from Somalia, Eskimo after a seal hunt, and I suspect even my pet cat on a particularly creative day. If you leave your kid unattended at a local recreation center pool, or county fair, or shopping mall and he/she gets chatted up by some perv who gets his/her phone number, then calls and arranges to meet him/her at a later date at a different location are you going to sue the rec center, fair, or mall?
MySpace is a public forum. And just like any other public area out there, real or virtual, the owner of the space does not suddenly become responsible for parenting your children the moment they set foot in it.
Enjoy your all expenses paid vacation in scenic Cuba after watching the video.
He justifies the electoral college based on everybody having greater value to their vote AND everybody's vote having equal value. Doesn't seem to work that way to me, people in extremely close states have a relatively high value to their individual votes as opposed to those in a not very close state. In the case of this election, a block of 2000 voters in florida are immensely more powerful that a block of 2000 voters some other state that is fairly one sided. Therefore the electoral college does not adhere to the principle of everybody's vote being of equal power, it allows some people votes to carry more weight than others. This guy is supposed to have a phd in physics or something. Basic math dude, check it out. If every individual person has an equal amount of "voting power", then does it shouldn't matter if you rate such voting power as x or x+1. the RELATIVE voting power remains the same. Studied physics and mathematics eh? check out frame of reference, studied engineering and learned it my freshman year. The only way to increase any one person's RELATIVE VOTING POWER is to decrease somebody elses (hmm . . . closed system?). Almost makes you think of that basic of physics laws often referred to as conservation of energy. It also makes me think about the whole set of equality issues that the constitution and bill of rights is supposed to address. Personally, I do not like being given the shaft in favor of somebody else based upon geographical location and the circumstances of how other people in that region vote.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/service/Help/abc_contact us.html I just got done writing a three page essay pointing out that Mr. Moody's column has erroneous statistics contained within it (counting red hat twice) and also smacking it around for the various other flaws in his analysis. Use the above link! write your own mail that calmly and intelligently (withouth every other word being profanity) rips Moody to shreds. Demand that the column to be retracted or at the very least that they should post a correction of the statistics that he botched.
The setup they are going to is w2k and IIS. They are currently running off of dual proc boxes with apache 1.something, the backend is (and will remain) on solaris. They have done quite a bit of testing that has produced results showing that w2k will be able to handle more traffic. My guess is that they just have winblows 2k and IIS set up to use the second proc more effeciently.
An editor for Katz? I don't care. Maybe you should read the post a couple more times. There are many obvious benefits to being wired, some of which are in the post. You asked "Why does everyone have to be wired? Why is it so important?" Well, funny you should ask! here's a quote from you that might make it a little easier for you to figure out: "Early adopters will have an edge in the tech jobs market, but that's going to mean absolutely nothing in a few years, once society catches up to itself" The internet has become part of society and companies are taking steps to introduce their employees to this society. So that once "society catches up with itself" their employees won't be left behind. "It's only useful for breeding into the society to which it belongs. The wired society" Any idea of how much of an elitist you sound like? Just like any other elite group that has something that others don't, they want to keep it to themselves. When it is embraced by society as a whole, they no longer have that "something" that sets themselves apart. Ooohhh . . . I'm wired and most other people aren't, I'm special! What?! everybody else is going to be wired also?!? Well its not good for very much and you won't get much out of it. Being wired is boring. Is that the kind of attitude we wish to have? Grow up. I used mind games like that on my brother when he was five and I was ten. Maybe instead we should say "Good for you! Nice of you to join us." Hell, maybe we, as the community of people that have been here for awhile, should throw something together that tells them how to sort out the crap and go straight to the cool stuff.
Um . . . these guys are employed by companies like IBM . . . You are not talking about people in cardboard shacks here. The people that are on the recieving end are not the people you see on the posters over the caption "feed the hungry". The main problem is getting a decent computer at all in a third world country. Exchange rates and (depending on the country) tarrifs make it extremely pricey. That is the problem that these companies have addressed. Although you seem to believe contrary, the average run of the mill non us IBM employee actually can afford to have such things as electrically powered lights telephones and microwave ovens as well as electricity to power a computer.
If it is the Exodus facility in Jersey City, I assure you that there are quite a few cameras there. Several very obvious digital video cams, and of course a few cleverly hidden ones.