a society whose laws and principal customs have been contrived to serve the special interests of the financial community,"
I mean, arranging things to their benefit and everyone else's detriment requires a certain amount of power or control.
As far as your vague assertion that I don't understand what is going on, that paper doesn't make any accusations that fall outside what I described; the specialist is indeed cheating their customers, but each time they cheat, there is a genuine bid on the other side of the cheating (and as described in the inter-positioning, their are in fact two genuine orders involved in the cheating). It is quite likely that the genuine bids reflect the market price.
So they are indeed running a scam and committing fraud and cheating their customers, but it isn't particularly massive compared to the overall volume of money that trades on the NYSE, and most of the time, it involved trades completing several hundred dollars away from fair (but only trades involving thousands of shares and millions of dollars).
A big fucking scam and bullshit? Absolutely. Evidence that the system is completely rigged against everybody else? Not really.
The behavior talked about in the SEC link is certainly improper, but it is a little overboard to speak about it as if it is controlling society, each of the alleged fraudulent trades likely had a genuine market order on one side of it.
The thing about the people that buy $20 shoes is that plenty of them do lots of smoking and drinking. And a lot of them spend a lot of money drinking at bars. Now, I'm not saying that those people don't deserve to relax and have fun, I'm just saying that when your vices run to $20 or $50 a week, it isn't actually that hard to scrape together $100 if you really want to do it.
So sure, there are a few people with good sense that have very low incomes and are restricted in what they can buy because of their income, but usually, that good sense helps them get past the very low income problem.
My point was more that stores have to pay for providing the wifi, whether they explicitly charge customers for it or not. That might not show up much in the purchase price, but the accounting has to get pretty magical for it to not show up at all.
It's a non-profit organization. That doesn't make it a charity, it just means it has a special tax status.
The fact that they accept donation gives some credence to the idea of calling them a charity; that they make far more money from their business activities at least makes it questionable.
So when I unpack "AI research will have finished." I am supposed to realize that the statement is qualified to humans doing AI research and that the research itself will really have just gotten started?
Actually, it could be of use to reCAPTCHA, they can just pass their test words through this system before they make them public and then use the output to help prevent similar attacks.
Yeah, that's why I quietly pointed out the meaning of the word he did use instead of ranting about what a stupid-face he was (also, I said its instead of it's, so I shouldn't get too uppity).
Actually, I don't really know anything about UW. Sorry.
And I don't know why you are going back to storage over and over, I'm tiresome-internet-guy picking apart your silly statement about the organic molecules used in OLEDs making them biological, not someone objecting to the idea that it may be possible to create practical systems for storing information in DNA (or some similar thing).
(And I get that DNA or RNA is used by every known living organism to store information, I mean stuff like movies)
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a society whose laws and principal customs have been contrived to serve the special interests of the financial community,"
I mean, arranging things to their benefit and everyone else's detriment requires a certain amount of power or control.
As far as your vague assertion that I don't understand what is going on, that paper doesn't make any accusations that fall outside what I described; the specialist is indeed cheating their customers, but each time they cheat, there is a genuine bid on the other side of the cheating (and as described in the inter-positioning, their are in fact two genuine orders involved in the cheating). It is quite likely that the genuine bids reflect the market price.
So they are indeed running a scam and committing fraud and cheating their customers, but it isn't particularly massive compared to the overall volume of money that trades on the NYSE, and most of the time, it involved trades completing several hundred dollars away from fair (but only trades involving thousands of shares and millions of dollars).
A big fucking scam and bullshit? Absolutely. Evidence that the system is completely rigged against everybody else? Not really.
You're getting some good mileage out of that rant:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1697252&cid=32679752
The behavior talked about in the SEC link is certainly improper, but it is a little overboard to speak about it as if it is controlling society, each of the alleged fraudulent trades likely had a genuine market order on one side of it.
If they can't prove it without decrypting the data, you'll be dead enough not to care.
In the U.S., premium numbers are area code 900 and international calls require dialing 011 before the phone number, so it is also quite obvious here.
You mean like when Glenn Beck goes on Fox News's morning program and calls the president a racist?
There are lots of problems with the media, but you are grasping at a straw there.
They went to war, not us.
The Skype founders got their pretty cars when Ebay payed $1 billion for the company.
That's the record Meg Whitman is running for governor of California on.
The beneficiaries of the current IPO will be the private equity group that picked up the pieces from Ebay.
Which album(s)?
The thing about the people that buy $20 shoes is that plenty of them do lots of smoking and drinking. And a lot of them spend a lot of money drinking at bars. Now, I'm not saying that those people don't deserve to relax and have fun, I'm just saying that when your vices run to $20 or $50 a week, it isn't actually that hard to scrape together $100 if you really want to do it.
So sure, there are a few people with good sense that have very low incomes and are restricted in what they can buy because of their income, but usually, that good sense helps them get past the very low income problem.
Why not just trade it for a nice box of crayons?
There is no group of people that "can only afford to shop at Walmart".
Wait, what did Walmart do to Snapper after they refused to do what they wanted?
Oh, so it is Walmart, their customers and their suppliers that are responsible for what you are talking about, not just Walmart.
My point was more that stores have to pay for providing the wifi, whether they explicitly charge customers for it or not. That might not show up much in the purchase price, but the accounting has to get pretty magical for it to not show up at all.
Do you somehow think that the free wifi offered by stores is not included in the purchase price?
It's a non-profit organization. That doesn't make it a charity, it just means it has a special tax status.
The fact that they accept donation gives some credence to the idea of calling them a charity; that they make far more money from their business activities at least makes it questionable.
So when I unpack "AI research will have finished." I am supposed to realize that the statement is qualified to humans doing AI research and that the research itself will really have just gotten started?
But probably less than you think.
Right, because human level intelligence is the obvious upper limit.
Actually, it could be of use to reCAPTCHA, they can just pass their test words through this system before they make them public and then use the output to help prevent similar attacks.
You really think they are ever going to take special status away from Notre Dame and implement a playoff?
The 'remote' part of the exploit sort of shits all over the 'feature' argument.
So 2012 is going to be a sinkhole?
Yeah, that's why I quietly pointed out the meaning of the word he did use instead of ranting about what a stupid-face he was (also, I said its instead of it's, so I shouldn't get too uppity).
Its a minor quibble, but paraplegic specifically refers to someone who has lost the use of their lower body, they generally can use their hands.
Actually, I don't really know anything about UW. Sorry.
And I don't know why you are going back to storage over and over, I'm tiresome-internet-guy picking apart your silly statement about the organic molecules used in OLEDs making them biological, not someone objecting to the idea that it may be possible to create practical systems for storing information in DNA (or some similar thing).
(And I get that DNA or RNA is used by every known living organism to store information, I mean stuff like movies)