That depends on the BMC having such PSI or I2C interfaces. Did the Elemental server BMC have such interfaces? Given the complexity and cost of such a hack, I would say a firmware hack would have been much simpler and harder to detect. Simply code in a weakness in the firmware to allow for external code injection, then you're done. It'd be much cheaper and harder to detect.
THAT is the big assumption. Do you think the unemployed coal miners and truck drivers can retrain to become youtube stars?
Many have become permanently unemployed and there is a costs to that. When the buggy whip maker lost their jobs, they can learn to make wheel barrel or what ever. The exponential changes in technologies make it very difficult for people trained in per-computer era to adapt.
I disagree with this view: "Capital Input" is the same thing as corp-to-corp contracting of labor.
Capital in developed economy is held in the form of money, which is a claim on FUTURE products and services. Automation means more money has to be spent up front to buy robots so that the business can spend less money over time to pay workers. Even if the robot is no more productive than people i.e. earn the same gross profit each year, the accelerated depreciation provides an up front tax subsidy so that much less or no income tax is paid up front. When the taxes are paid at the end of the productive life of the robot, it costs much less due to inflation.
You're pointing to an alternate approach. Using robot is substituting capital input for labor input. It may increase efficiency, but definitely more capital will be required. Current law favors capital investments by allowing accelerated depreciation (or even immediate depreciation under Trump tax proposal). So by changing the depreciation schedule to the natural life of the robot or even longer, we can remove the current subsidy which accelerates automation. But this need to be done on the national level.
Wifi upload is the best. But failing that, steganography is second best. Take lots of photo of parades and landscape. There should be ample extra bits to save the photo/video that you wish to hide amongst the bland photos.
According to news reports: 7 of these e-mails pertained to CIA Drone strikes news which we insist on classifying even though they have been reported by news paper and news wires. The 8th one pertains to a visit from the new Malawi President. Matters related to foreign head of states are always classified as a rule.
I've said this several years ago, All this metadata collection is easily defeated when the culprits uses burner phone or sim cards. That is exactly what they did in Brussels. Just because one has a lot of data doesn't mean you can make sense of them. Think of the Internet Search Engines before Google. You get TONS of useless hits. Google's result were better due to massive amount of other people's usage pattern. Here the terror acts are so few, that they offer little to help train any software. It is a very difficult problem that may not be solvable by Big Data.
" Unfortunately the kid did not follow these instructions and kept showing it around. "
According to the news report, the clock alarm sounded so the English teacher asked him what it was. THUS, he had to show the clock to her. The English teacher than alerted the Principal. I do not expect the English teacher to know the technical details. But I DO expect the Principal and Police to be more knowledgeable.
The Police did NOT evacuate the school indicating that they knew the device was NOT a threat. So the remaining question is WHY they feel it was a hoax bomb. It's hard to see the same thing happening to a white kid in the 50's.
It was a CLOCK. It was counting UP. Not Down as one would expect in a timer. More IMPORTANTLY, where is the explosive !!!!!! What good is a counter without explosives and detonator ???
Any Vet with bomb training would instantly recognize that it is a clock not a hoax bomb.
What an incredibly MYOPIC article. It purports to evaluate the benefits of using computers in school based on some undefined performance metrics. The ONLY specific metric applied is 'reading skill'.
What if computer use improved the student's MATH skills? (Khan Academy) What if it improved critical thinking, because the student has to identify what's nonsense and what's reliable on the net? What if we can use animated dissections to teach biology? What if we are still discovering the best use of computer in education?
Why not lament the bad penmanship of children today, since they are all typing instead of practicing freehand loops, etc. ? Trying to use last century's metrics to plan for the education of our future generation is naive at best, and reactionary at worst.
Did you like the Mission Impossible movies? tv series? Was it COOL how US spies manipulate the politics and economies of foreign countries? Did you know that Panama was created SOLELY because US wanted to build the Panama canal?
What goest aroud comes around - in the real world. Smart Charlie Wilson sent arms to help the Afghans fight those Soviet Commies - Oops. They became the Taliban...
It doesn't make the hacking right - even if everyone is doing it. The question is what can we do about the open nature of our internet and what COST there is to close up the security caverns...
Bill Gross said: " if we continue down the current road and don't address our "fiscal gap." IF is the key word here. No one dispute that US government bond will be less attractive (not bankrupt) if the US doesn't fix its fiscal problem in some undefined number of years in the future. Let us look at what Bill Gross is ACTUALLY doing with his clients' money.
Go to here: http://investments.pimco.com/products/pages/346.aspx and click on Portfolio Statistics. You will see that 20% of their investments are in US Treasury securities, 3% US agencies securities and another 49% in mortgages. The mortgages are almost entirely in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities which are ALSO guaranteed by the US Government. In contrast, investments in other developed governments' bonds are less than 10%. Gold doesn't even show up. In total, his fund has 70% plus in US government guaranteed securities and no one is forcing his investment choices.
In other words, he overhwhelmingly trusts the US Government to pay back his clients' investments.
In simple terms, we're on a boat headinng toward a shoal IF we don't turn away. IF we hit the shaol, the boat may leak. You are claiming that the boat is already leaking and ready to sink. It may be fun to pretend to be Cassandra, but only real data will anchor you to the real world instead of a fantasy world that makes you feel superior. Please don't just read hermetic Austrian theories, look at what real people are doing with real money.
Please take a look at this: http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/longterm/debt/ownership.html
The Federal Reserve ownership of long term US bonds is only 16% as of end of 2011, even after QE 1 and 2. Foreign ownership of US government bond actually increased in the last 10 years to 46%. That they are willing to lend to the US government at negative real interest rate SHOULD tell you that they trust their money with the US government than with anyone else (including themselves). This is exactly the reverse of your RISKY claim.
Do you really believe that the world insititutional investors are all more stupid then yourself?
Credit agency down grading the US rating was a non-event. Neither the bond market nor the interest rate swap market paid any attention to it; US agencies continue to pay the same rate to borrow before and after. PLEASE study some real data and don't just imagine conspiracy everywhere.
7 year US treasury bond is yielding 1%. 7 year Australia goverment bond is yielding 5.25% 7 year German government bond is yielding 3.5%
Why do the world investors accept a lower yield for US government bond that German government bond? Because they trust the US government MORE than German government to pay back their money.
Don't live in a 'Gold Bug' world view seeing inflation around every corner. You must look at the entire economy of each country one by one and learn the facts, not blindly follow theoretical fantasies.
You are ignoring the Execution aspect of trading. Thus your comments are wrong on several counts: " its really only transfer between Wall Street Entities" As others have pointed out, the Wall Street Entities include your pension fund, 401k, etc. So you are very likely to be affected.
"HFT machines may have moved the share price up or down a few pennies. That might just as easily work for your as against you"
This is only true if you can execute at the posted prices. When you want to sell at $2.00 and there's interest to buy at $2.05. HFT will buy it from you at $2.02 and sell it at $2.05, thus pocketing $0.03 that you might have been able to earn. On the return trip, the same thing happens. The round trip does not wash out, otherwise the HFT CANNOT make any money!
' you can protect yourself easily just use limit orders"
This is only partly true. If the market only has 1,000 shares to offer and you want to buy 1,000. The HFT will always be able to buy ahead of you and you may not be able to buy any at all. Thus, you will not be able to buy the dip or sell at a top unless there is enough depth.
While HFT is clearly legal, it is still worth asking how it contributes to the market place or if it's just parasitic. One SEC proposal to charge for cancelled orders might be appropriate to curb excessive trading if HFT has no added benefits to the market.
Since the course is for a general student, I don't see a focus on programming or computer hardware as most appropriate. As an alternate, I would suggest SCALC, the open office spreadsheet program, as a good platform for several activities: 1. Learning to compute numerically - calculate sales tax, etc. 2. Learning how algoritum work - sort, binary search can be visually illustrated beautifully within a spreadsheet 3. Real life program solving tool - Post a real life problem to the student; have them analyze it; rephrase it to put in a spreadsheet; check the answers. 4. Graphs and formulae - links direclty to analytic geometry classes 5. Macro - automation which starts to provide motivation into programming for those interested. 6. Statistics - for advanced students
This is much for useful for the avearge student than any narrowly focused programming course.
If you are doing type setting, by all means use 1 spaces. But as you cut and paste your texts into different programs, you may be pasting into different default type faces. Sometimes it's proportional and sometimes it's monospaced. So why not use 2 spaces to be on the safe side? It's simple to programmatically replace 2 spaces by 1 space any way, if necessary. Let's be considerate of our readers rather than swear allegiance to a rule learnt in our youth.
GWB is only the latest proponent of deregulation and the view of 'government is the source of all problems' which you perhaps subscribe to.
As for the Community Reinvestment Act, it was intended to reduce discrimination in bank lending. These was NO requirement to lend specific kinds of products to specific groups of people. In fact, prudent lending was required. See a nice historical summary in this congressional testimony:
Where GWB is most culpable is in the lax (intentional?) enforcement of existing regulations. Fundings for many regulatory agencies were cut. Anti-regulatory heads of departments were appointed, etc..
Of course, I DO agrees that the prime drivers were private enterprises that loaded up too much risk without adequtae compensation.
is on the minds of MANY people including the Manhattan project scientists. The fear is that they would get the bomb before any one else. It was a well founded fear.
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That depends on the BMC having such PSI or I2C interfaces. Did the Elemental server BMC have such interfaces?
Given the complexity and cost of such a hack, I would say a firmware hack would have been much simpler and harder to detect.
Simply code in a weakness in the firmware to allow for external code injection, then you're done.
It'd be much cheaper and harder to detect.
Do you accept 'security updates' from Microsoft or Apple? They have the exact same power.
"transitional unemployment"
THAT is the big assumption.
Do you think the unemployed coal miners and truck drivers can retrain to become youtube stars?
Many have become permanently unemployed and there is a costs to that.
When the buggy whip maker lost their jobs, they can learn to make wheel barrel or what ever.
The exponential changes in technologies make it very difficult for people trained in per-computer era to adapt.
I disagree with this view: "Capital Input" is the same thing as corp-to-corp contracting of labor.
Capital in developed economy is held in the form of money, which is a claim on FUTURE products and services.
Automation means more money has to be spent up front to buy robots so that the business can spend less money over time to pay workers. Even if the robot is no more productive than people i.e. earn the same gross profit each year, the accelerated depreciation provides an up front tax subsidy so that much less or no income tax is paid up front. When the taxes are paid at the end of the productive life of the robot, it costs much less due to inflation.
Timing is important.
More like Person of Interest...
You're pointing to an alternate approach. Using robot is substituting capital input for labor input. It may increase efficiency, but definitely more capital will be required. Current law favors capital investments by allowing accelerated depreciation (or even immediate depreciation under Trump tax proposal). So by changing the depreciation schedule to the natural life of the robot or even longer, we can remove the current subsidy which accelerates automation. But this need to be done on the national level.
Wifi upload is the best. But failing that, steganography is second best. Take lots of photo of parades and landscape. There should be ample extra bits to save the photo/video that you wish to hide amongst the bland photos.
According to news reports: 7 of these e-mails pertained to CIA Drone strikes news which we insist on classifying even though they have been reported by news paper and news wires. The 8th one pertains to a visit from the new Malawi President. Matters related to foreign head of states are always classified as a rule.
YAWN.
I've said this several years ago, All this metadata collection is easily defeated when the culprits uses burner phone or sim cards. That is exactly what they did in Brussels. Just because one has a lot of data doesn't mean you can make sense of them. Think of the Internet Search Engines before Google. You get TONS of useless hits. Google's result were better due to massive amount of other people's usage pattern. Here the terror acts are so few, that they offer little to help train any software. It is a very difficult problem that may not be solvable by Big Data.
" Unfortunately the kid did not follow these instructions and kept showing it around. "
According to the news report, the clock alarm sounded so the English teacher asked him what it was. THUS, he had to show the clock to her.
The English teacher than alerted the Principal. I do not expect the English teacher to know the technical details.
But I DO expect the Principal and Police to be more knowledgeable.
The Police did NOT evacuate the school indicating that they knew the device was NOT a threat. So the remaining question is WHY
they feel it was a hoax bomb. It's hard to see the same thing happening to a white kid in the 50's.
It was a CLOCK. It was counting UP. Not Down as one would expect in a timer.
More IMPORTANTLY, where is the explosive !!!!!!
What good is a counter without explosives and detonator ???
Any Vet with bomb training would instantly recognize that it is a clock not a hoax bomb.
What an incredibly MYOPIC article.
It purports to evaluate the benefits of using computers in school based on some undefined performance metrics. The ONLY specific metric applied is 'reading skill'.
What if computer use improved the student's MATH skills? (Khan Academy) What if it improved critical thinking, because the student has to identify what's nonsense and what's reliable on the net? What if we can use animated dissections to teach biology? What if we are still discovering the best use of computer in education?
Why not lament the bad penmanship of children today, since they are all typing instead of practicing freehand loops, etc. ? Trying to use last century's metrics to plan for the education of our future generation is naive at best, and reactionary at worst.
Did you like the Mission Impossible movies? tv series?
Was it COOL how US spies manipulate the politics and economies of foreign countries?
Did you know that Panama was created SOLELY because US wanted to build the Panama canal?
What goest aroud comes around - in the real world.
Smart Charlie Wilson sent arms to help the Afghans fight those Soviet Commies - Oops. They became the Taliban...
It doesn't make the hacking right - even if everyone is doing it.
The question is what can we do about the open nature of our internet and what COST there is to close up the security caverns...
now that "Labors" will be put into production. Who else can stop a rampaging mecha ?
Bill Gross said: " if we continue down the current road and don't address our "fiscal gap."
IF is the key word here. No one dispute that US government bond will be less attractive (not bankrupt) if the US doesn't fix its fiscal problem in some undefined number of years in the future. Let us look at what Bill Gross is ACTUALLY doing with his clients' money.
Go to here: http://investments.pimco.com/products/pages/346.aspx and click on Portfolio Statistics.
You will see that 20% of their investments are in US Treasury securities, 3% US agencies securities and another 49% in mortgages. The mortgages are almost entirely in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securities which are ALSO guaranteed by the US Government. In contrast, investments in other developed governments' bonds are less than 10%. Gold doesn't even show up. In total, his fund has 70% plus in US government guaranteed securities and no one is forcing his investment choices.
In other words, he overhwhelmingly trusts the US Government to pay back his clients' investments.
In simple terms, we're on a boat headinng toward a shoal IF we don't turn away. IF we hit the shaol, the boat may leak. You are claiming that the boat is already leaking and ready to sink. It may be fun to pretend to be Cassandra, but only real data will anchor you to the real world instead of a fantasy world that makes you feel superior. Please don't just read hermetic Austrian theories, look at what real people are doing with real money.
Please take a look at this: http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/longterm/debt/ownership.html
The Federal Reserve ownership of long term US bonds is only 16% as of end of 2011, even after QE 1 and 2.
Foreign ownership of US government bond actually increased in the last 10 years to 46%.
That they are willing to lend to the US government at negative real interest rate SHOULD tell you that they trust their money with the US government than with anyone else (including themselves). This is exactly the reverse of your RISKY claim.
Do you really believe that the world insititutional investors are all more stupid then yourself?
Credit agency down grading the US rating was a non-event. Neither the bond market nor the interest rate swap market paid any attention to it; US agencies continue to pay the same rate to borrow before and after. PLEASE study some real data and don't just imagine conspiracy everywhere.
I checked on Bloomberg today.
7 year US treasury bond is yielding 1%.
7 year Australia goverment bond is yielding 5.25%
7 year German government bond is yielding 3.5%
Why do the world investors accept a lower yield for US government bond that German government bond?
Because they trust the US government MORE than German government to pay back their money.
Don't live in a 'Gold Bug' world view seeing inflation around every corner. You must look at the entire economy of each country one by one and learn the facts, not blindly follow theoretical fantasies.
You are ignoring the Execution aspect of trading. Thus your comments are wrong on several counts:
" its really only transfer between Wall Street Entities" As others have pointed out, the Wall Street Entities include your pension fund, 401k, etc. So you are very likely to be affected.
"HFT machines may have moved the share price up or down a few pennies. That might just as easily work for your as against you"
This is only true if you can execute at the posted prices. When you want to sell at $2.00 and there's interest to buy at $2.05. HFT will buy it from you at $2.02 and sell it at $2.05, thus pocketing $0.03 that you might have been able to earn. On the return trip, the same thing happens. The round trip does not wash out, otherwise the HFT CANNOT make any money!
' you can protect yourself easily just use limit orders"
This is only partly true. If the market only has 1,000 shares to offer and you want to buy 1,000. The HFT will always be able to buy ahead of you and you may not be able to buy any at all. Thus, you will not be able to buy the dip or sell at a top unless there is enough depth.
While HFT is clearly legal, it is still worth asking how it contributes to the market place or if it's just parasitic.
One SEC proposal to charge for cancelled orders might be appropriate to curb excessive trading if HFT has no added benefits to the market.
Since the course is for a general student, I don't see a focus on programming or computer hardware as most appropriate.
As an alternate, I would suggest SCALC, the open office spreadsheet program, as a good platform for several activities:
1. Learning to compute numerically - calculate sales tax, etc.
2. Learning how algoritum work - sort, binary search can be visually illustrated beautifully within a spreadsheet
3. Real life program solving tool - Post a real life problem to the student; have them analyze it; rephrase it to put in a spreadsheet; check the answers.
4. Graphs and formulae - links direclty to analytic geometry classes
5. Macro - automation which starts to provide motivation into programming for those interested.
6. Statistics - for advanced students
This is much for useful for the avearge student than any narrowly focused programming course.
If you are doing type setting, by all means use 1 spaces. But as you cut and paste your texts into different programs, you may be pasting into different default type faces. Sometimes it's proportional and sometimes it's monospaced. So why not use 2 spaces to be on the safe side? It's simple to programmatically replace 2 spaces by 1 space any way, if necessary. Let's be considerate of our readers rather than swear allegiance to a rule learnt in our youth.
Jesus ...
Gandhi
Genghis Khan ( in spite of european propaganda, he had lasting influces in Asia )
Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther King Jr.
I think you have too narrow a view of politics.
Almost by definition, great leaders must be politically savvy. Afterall, politics is no more than convincing people to go where you want them to go.
"I love you. You love me and we're a happy family ..."
So you prefer the bottomless pits of the Bush-Cheney regime?
Do you actually have a better solution?
GWB is only the latest proponent of deregulation and the view of 'government is the source of all problems' which you perhaps subscribe to.
As for the Community Reinvestment Act, it was intended to reduce discrimination in bank lending. These was NO requirement to lend specific kinds of products to specific groups of people. In fact, prudent lending was required. See a nice historical summary in this congressional testimony:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/braunstein20080213a.htm
Where GWB is most culpable is in the lax (intentional?) enforcement of existing regulations. Fundings for many regulatory agencies were cut. Anti-regulatory heads of departments were appointed, etc..
Of course, I DO agrees that the prime drivers were private enterprises that loaded up too much risk without adequtae compensation.
is on the minds of MANY people including the Manhattan project scientists. The fear is that they would get the bomb before any one else. It was a well founded fear.