Because there is more than one exchange. New York, London and Tokyo run the big ones. If you can get faster inter-exchange communication than anyone else, you can exploit the small differences in prices between them.
eg: Someone buys a ton of stock in Widgets, Inc in New York. This causes the price of that stock to suddenly rise, in a matter of miliseconds. Information reporting this is sent out as fast as the fiber will carry it towards London. Meanwhile, your sneaky neutrino communicator sends out the news too to your London end. Upon arrival, your neutrinos arrive a few miliseconds ahead - that gives your London trader enough time to buy as much Widgets, Inc stock as possible. Miliseconds later the news of that big purchase arrives for everyone else, and the stock prices surges in London too - at which point you sell, and pocket your profits.
Those high-end graphics cards have some more noble uses too.
MRI scanners, for a start. It takes a huge amount of processing power to turn a tangle of radio signals into a rendered image of the patient. The early machines took hours to produce an image - with optimised hardware today, it's possible to generate them almost in real time mid-surgery.
Venturing isn't 'scouts proper.' It's just a small division within the scouts.
The scouts did not permit any non-Christians to join until 1920. They have since broadened their standards to accept all major religions, but *a* religion is still a requirement: If you don't believe in some form of God, you can't be a member of the scouts. As previously stated, the official policy is ignored by many local troops - so long as you don't go around acting like Dawkins and say the oath when asked, they'll not pry.
This is the UK, so the next-up for banning is going to be either content 'harmful to minors' like extreme dieting or suicide promotion sites, or else 'hate speech' - a vaguely-defined class that mostly includes plain old racism, but can also cover anything insulting or mocking a religion.
Hash list or image fingerprint. The number of such images in circulation is small enough and slow enough in growing that it's practical for a few organisations around the world, working together, to monitor and catalog them all into an 'index of child abuse' that can then be fed into an image recognition engine.
Trying to do that for piracy would be as effective as trying to drain the ocean with a bucket.
It helps if you think of the sides as fans of rival sports teams. There's no real distinction between the teams, but their supporters don't see it that way.
China's ambitions of world domination are quite open. They just follow the old doctrine of communism: There's no need to conquer by force. Communism is the natural end state, all they need do is wait and victory will come peacefully.
They are officially communist still, even though their economy has adopted so many elements of the free market system now there isn't lot of actual communism left.
As computers shifted to a position of greater importance in society, the potential damage even a playful hacker could do increased. Enforcement an penalties increased correspondingly.
A bit of online mischief has long been part of learning to be a good computer engineer, whatever the exact role. It's just that the chances of getting caught, prosecuted, jailed and/or financially ruined have increased too. The bumbling beginner, whatever their potential, won't have learned properly how to mask their identity.
It wasn't an article, it was just a tweet, put out over the Associated Press channel after a hacker briefly took control. As it was the AP channel, stock-trading bots monitor it. It wiped $130 billion dollars off the stock market in the space of seconds - but it came back almost as fast.
There was an incident some months ago when an article was published claiming Obama had been assasinated, just as some sort of joke. I can't remember the details. It caused a minor crash as the bots picked it up and started selling off stock in major American companies before operators realised and manually corrected the programs.
Not the best idea. The BSA isn't entirely united right now. Their leadership is terribly conservative - they still do not permit atheists to join, because their official position is that it is impossible for a person to be morally right without faith. They only reluctantly allow non-Christians in, but many local chapters adopt an unofficial 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on that, and there is little chance of them allowing girls to join in the forseeable future.
Techies understand it in a way a little different from lawyers. They tend to see it as they would a computer program: Clear, unambiguous, and occasionally exploitable if you can find something the law allows even if the writers obviously didn't intend to.
In the real world, judges tend to frown upon people exploiting technicalities like that and rule against them regardless.
One of my favorite legal 'exploits' is OFFSystem - a p2p file sharing network which functions only by transmitting random data. As no copyrighted information is ever stored or transmitted, the creators think it should be legally safe. Somehow I cannot imagine a judge agreeing, but it's too obscure to have been sued yet.
Nasty overhead, though. It works by creating blocks of random data, then creating a new block by XORing that with the copyrighted file. Both blocks are thus random, of maximum entropy in themselves. The copyrighted data doesn't reappear until the two blocks are XORed together again, something that can only be done by the recipient who knows which blocks pair together.
I didn't mean to say a secular state leads to genocide of Jews.
I meant to say that a secular state *in the middle east*, where much of the local population is seeped in generations of anti-semitism, leads to a genocide of Jews. Without some form of selective immigration policy to maintain the majority Jewish rule, immigration will eventually turn them into a minority even in Israel. Their numbers are simply too small: As important as they have been in the history of religion (The big two being effectively mutated offshoots), even their global population is only about 14M. Tiny.
The people of the US, and members of congress, still hold the constitution dear - even those that don't cannot openly say as much, for fear of being seen as unpatriotic. Treaties, however, may be violated without much domestic political opposition.
There's a lot of religious tension in the region though. 1. Ends with the Jews a hated and loathed minority, subject to beatings in the street, businesses smashed, children attacked, etc. Many would then flee the region... again. This has happened before. 2. Can only be sustained by the reverse situation: In order to keep Israel jewish, they'd need to continue the use of openly racist policies in settlement and immigration - otherwise the situation would degenerate to 1. 3. Likewise, eventually turns into 1.
So the only way to avoid the oppression of 1 is counter-oppression in the other way. Hardly a desirable solution. There is really no way out of it: Two thousand years of historical inertia are going to make coexistence very difficult.
In the early days of the internet, only those involved with academia were online. Even the least-educated were at the very least students in higher education.
Make sure you know everything there is to know about not just xenapp, but how windows handles profiles too - because they will eventually give you problems, and you'd better be equipped to fix them.
Because 'intelligent design' was never a real theory. It was a legal dodge. An attempt to say 'God poofed everything into existence' without actually sounding religious.
What they describe sounds very much like a slowworm. The article itsself lists the charactistics that differentiate snakes from lizards. It's about more than just limb count.
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Because there is more than one exchange. New York, London and Tokyo run the big ones. If you can get faster inter-exchange communication than anyone else, you can exploit the small differences in prices between them.
eg: Someone buys a ton of stock in Widgets, Inc in New York. This causes the price of that stock to suddenly rise, in a matter of miliseconds. Information reporting this is sent out as fast as the fiber will carry it towards London. Meanwhile, your sneaky neutrino communicator sends out the news too to your London end. Upon arrival, your neutrinos arrive a few miliseconds ahead - that gives your London trader enough time to buy as much Widgets, Inc stock as possible. Miliseconds later the news of that big purchase arrives for everyone else, and the stock prices surges in London too - at which point you sell, and pocket your profits.
Those high-end graphics cards have some more noble uses too.
MRI scanners, for a start. It takes a huge amount of processing power to turn a tangle of radio signals into a rendered image of the patient. The early machines took hours to produce an image - with optimised hardware today, it's possible to generate them almost in real time mid-surgery.
Venturing isn't 'scouts proper.' It's just a small division within the scouts.
The scouts did not permit any non-Christians to join until 1920. They have since broadened their standards to accept all major religions, but *a* religion is still a requirement: If you don't believe in some form of God, you can't be a member of the scouts. As previously stated, the official policy is ignored by many local troops - so long as you don't go around acting like Dawkins and say the oath when asked, they'll not pry.
This is the UK, so the next-up for banning is going to be either content 'harmful to minors' like extreme dieting or suicide promotion sites, or else 'hate speech' - a vaguely-defined class that mostly includes plain old racism, but can also cover anything insulting or mocking a religion.
Hash list or image fingerprint. The number of such images in circulation is small enough and slow enough in growing that it's practical for a few organisations around the world, working together, to monitor and catalog them all into an 'index of child abuse' that can then be fed into an image recognition engine.
Trying to do that for piracy would be as effective as trying to drain the ocean with a bucket.
It helps if you think of the sides as fans of rival sports teams. There's no real distinction between the teams, but their supporters don't see it that way.
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It's more the legislators that do the exploiting, trying to get around the judges.
China's ambitions of world domination are quite open. They just follow the old doctrine of communism: There's no need to conquer by force. Communism is the natural end state, all they need do is wait and victory will come peacefully.
They are officially communist still, even though their economy has adopted so many elements of the free market system now there isn't lot of actual communism left.
As computers shifted to a position of greater importance in society, the potential damage even a playful hacker could do increased. Enforcement an penalties increased correspondingly.
A bit of online mischief has long been part of learning to be a good computer engineer, whatever the exact role. It's just that the chances of getting caught, prosecuted, jailed and/or financially ruined have increased too. The bumbling beginner, whatever their potential, won't have learned properly how to mask their identity.
Here we go,
http://business.time.com/2013/04/24/how-does-one-fake-tweet-cause-a-stock-market-crash/
It wasn't an article, it was just a tweet, put out over the Associated Press channel after a hacker briefly took control. As it was the AP channel, stock-trading bots monitor it. It wiped $130 billion dollars off the stock market in the space of seconds - but it came back almost as fast.
There was an incident some months ago when an article was published claiming Obama had been assasinated, just as some sort of joke. I can't remember the details. It caused a minor crash as the bots picked it up and started selling off stock in major American companies before operators realised and manually corrected the programs.
Not the best idea. The BSA isn't entirely united right now. Their leadership is terribly conservative - they still do not permit atheists to join, because their official position is that it is impossible for a person to be morally right without faith. They only reluctantly allow non-Christians in, but many local chapters adopt an unofficial 'don't ask, don't tell' policy on that, and there is little chance of them allowing girls to join in the forseeable future.
Techies understand it in a way a little different from lawyers. They tend to see it as they would a computer program: Clear, unambiguous, and occasionally exploitable if you can find something the law allows even if the writers obviously didn't intend to.
In the real world, judges tend to frown upon people exploiting technicalities like that and rule against them regardless.
One of my favorite legal 'exploits' is OFFSystem - a p2p file sharing network which functions only by transmitting random data. As no copyrighted information is ever stored or transmitted, the creators think it should be legally safe. Somehow I cannot imagine a judge agreeing, but it's too obscure to have been sued yet.
Nasty overhead, though. It works by creating blocks of random data, then creating a new block by XORing that with the copyrighted file. Both blocks are thus random, of maximum entropy in themselves. The copyrighted data doesn't reappear until the two blocks are XORed together again, something that can only be done by the recipient who knows which blocks pair together.
I didn't mean to say a secular state leads to genocide of Jews.
I meant to say that a secular state *in the middle east*, where much of the local population is seeped in generations of anti-semitism, leads to a genocide of Jews. Without some form of selective immigration policy to maintain the majority Jewish rule, immigration will eventually turn them into a minority even in Israel. Their numbers are simply too small: As important as they have been in the history of religion (The big two being effectively mutated offshoots), even their global population is only about 14M. Tiny.
The people of the US, and members of congress, still hold the constitution dear - even those that don't cannot openly say as much, for fear of being seen as unpatriotic. Treaties, however, may be violated without much domestic political opposition.
There's a lot of religious tension in the region though.
1. Ends with the Jews a hated and loathed minority, subject to beatings in the street, businesses smashed, children attacked, etc. Many would then flee the region... again. This has happened before.
2. Can only be sustained by the reverse situation: In order to keep Israel jewish, they'd need to continue the use of openly racist policies in settlement and immigration - otherwise the situation would degenerate to 1.
3. Likewise, eventually turns into 1.
So the only way to avoid the oppression of 1 is counter-oppression in the other way. Hardly a desirable solution. There is really no way out of it: Two thousand years of historical inertia are going to make coexistence very difficult.
In the early days of the internet, only those involved with academia were online. Even the least-educated were at the very least students in higher education.
Beginning?
Google 'E Z Jackster.'
Make sure you know everything there is to know about not just xenapp, but how windows handles profiles too - because they will eventually give you problems, and you'd better be equipped to fix them.
'Never look at the bottom half of the internet.'
Because 'intelligent design' was never a real theory. It was a legal dodge. An attempt to say 'God poofed everything into existence' without actually sounding religious.
What about using a much larger cutout, much further from the light? They don't have to be attached unless you need to point it.
Now if we just put a few of those in a beowolf cluster...
What they describe sounds very much like a slowworm. The article itsself lists the charactistics that differentiate snakes from lizards. It's about more than just limb count.