The actual indicators of fraud don't need micro-second timing.
To the contrary, accepting some delay makes fraud harder.
Example - rather than writing balances to temporary storage, then reconciling them with persistent storage, accepting a second or two while the canonical database is doing it's thing means that you can't "re-play" a credit card transaction.
If you think you need faster than that, you're looking at the problem wrong.
And at $11,000 per incident (page view), it would quickly send Facebook into Chapter 11.
Sure it would. Facebook would simply exit Canada. Users would complain, but who gives a shit about them, right? But advertisers would also complain that they don't have access to that market anymore. And advertisers are just another word for business. Stoddard may really be anti-business, but I wonder if her bosses are, or if her new bosses would be.
Don't kid yourself. Facebook isn't going anywhere, not until the users stop using it.
There are always other companies ready to fill in the gap. That's the nature of the beast, and Facebook knows it - just like they know that their user statistics are totally cooked.
You can buy facebook followers at the rate of 5 for a penny. The only ones who would be impacted are the "social media directors" who would be shown to be totally superfluous.
.. and that can't happen soon enough. Them and the "SEO" scammers.
Fraud detection doesn't need microsecond timing. Fraud detection is based on good data, not "fast data"
Behavioral tracking is illegal in several countries. Expect to see more governments giving advertisers a choice - stop, have all behavioral tracking stripped at the borders, be sued into bankruptcy, or just be blocked.
Governments? Give me a break. Show me one government that has the spine to stand up to ad agencies, either the snarfers at the front line like Phorm, or the data-miners. Ain't gonna happen. Even the EU is running scared and has backed down, showing that they pretty much have zero interest in privacy, even though the lessons in privacy were taught very brutally during WWII.
Jennifer Stoddard, Canada's Privacy Commissioner. She's the one who forced Facebook to change their procedures the last time, and she's got them in her sights again.
And at $11,000 per incident (page view), it would quickly send Facebook into Chapter 11.
Especially since the last time, the Europeans quickly joined in.
Oh, revenue transfer tax... also not going to happen. Especially with the Tea Party here in the US having a stranglehold on the government this year. Expect to see government just give a rubber stamp to any business practices, no matter how unethical.
Several states and many local governments won't be able to roll over their bonds. Likely candidates include California, Nevada, New York, Michigan, etc. At that point, Uncle Sam has 4 choices:
let them default - for individual states, this actually has a very high probability, since individual states cannot be petitioned into bankruptcy. They'll just pay with state-issued IOUs.
guarantee their loans - with more than 40 out of 50 states with problems, this is one of those "too big to bail out" scenarios. The US credit rating is already under review - this would guarantee a quick downgrade.
bail them out - yeah, with what money?
Taxes have to go up. Either before a US credit downgrade, or after. Before is less painful.
Anyone has the right to talk to a judge without a lawyer present if they want
That's not what you wrote.
Read it again.
There's a big difference between someone voluntarily talking to a judge, and a judge interrogating someone who has been arrested, without benefit of counsel.
Good one - except that in this case, a lot of the so-called "work" is BS, consumers are pushing against being data-mined, regulators are getting into the act, and if your business model is so dependent on being a rude invasive pr*ck, perhaps you deserve to die...
And the same thing will happen when revenue-strapped governments slap a transfer tax and/or minimum hold periods on stocks - something that should have been done a long time ago.
Personally, I think the worst part of all this is that they still lie to us and tell us we're free. We aren't and weren't, and at this rate, never will be.
The lies never stop at any level of authoritarianism. Hence the popularity of words like "Democratic" and "People's" in the names of totalitarian hellholes everywhere.
"Homeland Security". Sounds like something from Mother Russia.
About 15 years ago, I had some surgery where I ended up in the OR pretty much awake, but dopey. So, after hearing the surgeon give everyone heck for not prepping me properly, I *heard* him jam the IV in, accompanied by a crunch, in the crook of my right elbow.
Managed to get all the way down from 10 to 1, but for a LONG time my right ring and pinky just didn't work at all. Nerve damage, but I wasn't going to complain. They *did* save my life, after all.
So for the first few years thereafter, I had to type with only two fingers and the thumb on my right hand, and even then, I'd get spasms in the ring and pinky when the numbness would leave.
The sense of numbness is still partly there on the right side of my right palm. and radiates to the end of my pinky, and along one side of my arm to the elbow, but I've regained full functionality, mobility, and even some sense of contact through the tingling, but... I just use whatever finger happens to be closest - sometimes the middle finger, sometimes the ring finger...
It's not like I have to think about typing - it's just something I do...
No matter how fast you can type, you still have to hit those curly braces with your right pinky and that grinds you straight to a halt!
No you don't. I learned touch-typing in high school. I don't need to look at the keyboard, but I also don't need to keep my fingers strictly on the home keys.
And there's nothing in that act that says we have to purchase renewable energy at any cost.
Plus, new equipment is now cheaper than what Pickens bought (China has moved into wnd manufacturing in a big way)
Plus, you have the additional costs of dismantling and shipping, as well as inspection and repair of all the used equipment to make sure it's in good shape.
There is NO indication that the government got one red cent over and above the fine. There are plenty of indications (his new mansion, his many luxury cars, etc.) that they didn't.
The so-called patent is a joke. If you read the blog post, a "method patent".. "issued long ago" - hint for the clueless, these things expire, so this is just someone having random fun at your expense.
You should also consider that the playoffs are already owned by someone, as in, the patent for resolving the FBS championship by way of a playoff was issued long ago. It’s called a method patent, so be careful not to infringe it.
Anyway, if you want to know who owns assets in this field, let me know. I can put you in touch with one of my attorneys who can let you know what you’re in for. It’s much more complex that it’s commonly understood to be.
Unlike most crimes, murder is rarely a repeat offense, especially if you exclude drug-related killings, which would also go down if the "war on drugs" was replaced with treating drugs like a social problem.
Part of that is the high amount of false convictions to begin with.
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-- Barbie
The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5"
For those who STILL don't get that this is a joke (see other comments), MD5 has been cracked.
I'm not trying to Godwin the discussion but to me it sounds like something out of Nazi Germany (Heimatland).
It's not a Godwin if it's true.
To the contrary, accepting some delay makes fraud harder.
Example - rather than writing balances to temporary storage, then reconciling them with persistent storage, accepting a second or two while the canonical database is doing it's thing means that you can't "re-play" a credit card transaction.
If you think you need faster than that, you're looking at the problem wrong.
And at $11,000 per incident (page view), it would quickly send Facebook into Chapter 11. Sure it would. Facebook would simply exit Canada. Users would complain, but who gives a shit about them, right? But advertisers would also complain that they don't have access to that market anymore. And advertisers are just another word for business. Stoddard may really be anti-business, but I wonder if her bosses are, or if her new bosses would be.
Don't kid yourself. Facebook isn't going anywhere, not until the users stop using it.
There are always other companies ready to fill in the gap. That's the nature of the beast, and Facebook knows it - just like they know that their user statistics are totally cooked.
You can buy facebook followers at the rate of 5 for a penny. The only ones who would be impacted are the "social media directors" who would be shown to be totally superfluous.
-- Barbie
Governments? Give me a break. Show me one government that has the spine to stand up to ad agencies, either the snarfers at the front line like Phorm, or the data-miners. Ain't gonna happen. Even the EU is running scared and has backed down, showing that they pretty much have zero interest in privacy, even though the lessons in privacy were taught very brutally during WWII.
Jennifer Stoddard, Canada's Privacy Commissioner. She's the one who forced Facebook to change their procedures the last time, and she's got them in her sights again.
And at $11,000 per incident (page view), it would quickly send Facebook into Chapter 11.
Especially since the last time, the Europeans quickly joined in.
Oh, revenue transfer tax... also not going to happen. Especially with the Tea Party here in the US having a stranglehold on the government this year. Expect to see government just give a rubber stamp to any business practices, no matter how unethical.
Several states and many local governments won't be able to roll over their bonds. Likely candidates include California, Nevada, New York, Michigan, etc. At that point, Uncle Sam has 4 choices:
Taxes have to go up. Either before a US credit downgrade, or after. Before is less painful.
Anyone has the right to talk to a judge without a lawyer present if they want
That's not what you wrote.
Read it again.
There's a big difference between someone voluntarily talking to a judge, and a judge interrogating someone who has been arrested, without benefit of counsel.
In such a scenario, even a Miranda isn't enough.
And the same thing will happen when revenue-strapped governments slap a transfer tax and/or minimum hold periods on stocks - something that should have been done a long time ago.
If there was any question then the judge could go talk to the person directly.
Absolutely not. That alone would be enough to get the case tossed. Think for two seconds.
There's way more than one reversal over the course of a career.
And we never hear about the ones that weren't reversed because the parties settled out of court after one side threatened to appeal.
And those judgments that one party didn't have the means to appeal.
What subtle legal arguments would there be that could mean a warrant should not have been issued at a DUI checkpoint?
Independence of the judiciary. A judge who is "on call" expressly for this sort of service is not independent. That violates due process.
Look at how many decisions get reversed on appeal.
According to the Supreme Court, most judges don't know the law, because most judges have at least one judgment reversed.
What next - do posting while drinking? (like anyone would notice the difference :-)
Happy New Year.
-- Barbie.
Personally, I think the worst part of all this is that they still lie to us and tell us we're free. We aren't and weren't, and at this rate, never will be.
The lies never stop at any level of authoritarianism. Hence the popularity of words like "Democratic" and "People's" in the names of totalitarian hellholes everywhere.
"Homeland Security". Sounds like something from Mother Russia.
Not my fault if you're a sloppy coder.
About 15 years ago, I had some surgery where I ended up in the OR pretty much awake, but dopey. So, after hearing the surgeon give everyone heck for not prepping me properly, I *heard* him jam the IV in, accompanied by a crunch, in the crook of my right elbow.
Managed to get all the way down from 10 to 1, but for a LONG time my right ring and pinky just didn't work at all. Nerve damage, but I wasn't going to complain. They *did* save my life, after all.
So for the first few years thereafter, I had to type with only two fingers and the thumb on my right hand, and even then, I'd get spasms in the ring and pinky when the numbness would leave.
The sense of numbness is still partly there on the right side of my right palm. and radiates to the end of my pinky, and along one side of my arm to the elbow, but I've regained full functionality, mobility, and even some sense of contact through the tingling, but ... I just use whatever finger happens to be closest - sometimes the middle finger, sometimes the ring finger ...
It's not like I have to think about typing - it's just something I do ...
-- Barbie
No matter how fast you can type, you still have to hit those curly braces with your right pinky and that grinds you straight to a halt!
No you don't. I learned touch-typing in high school. I don't need to look at the keyboard, but I also don't need to keep my fingers strictly on the home keys.
Plus, new equipment is now cheaper than what Pickens bought (China has moved into wnd manufacturing in a big way)
Plus, you have the additional costs of dismantling and shipping, as well as inspection and repair of all the used equipment to make sure it's in good shape.
Give him 5 cents on the dollar ...
The shiv in the skull that follows just seconds later.
I think they'd have more pressing concerns, and be pretty much incapacitated for a few seconds after being "Bobbitt'ed".
Forget the HCL. Nitrogen oxides in the air are not "environmentally friendly".
There is NO indication that the government got one red cent over and above the fine. There are plenty of indications (his new mansion, his many luxury cars, etc.) that they didn't.
There IS no patent.
There IS no "Washington legal firm"
The IS a troll. Just not a patent troll. And Cuban probably threw that in knowing that slashtards would just RTFS and not RTFA.
-- Barbie
You should also consider that the playoffs are already owned by someone, as in, the patent for resolving the FBS championship by way of a playoff was issued long ago. It’s called a method patent, so be careful not to infringe it.
Anyway, if you want to know who owns assets in this field, let me know. I can put you in touch with one of my attorneys who can let you know what you’re in for. It’s much more complex that it’s commonly understood to be.
It's a joke, people.
Then again, so is college football.
Then again, so is American football.
$1.5 million profit. $100,000 Euro fine and 20 months free room and board.
There are millions of people who would sign up for that sort of deal.
If Germany has anything like the Proceeds of Crime act then its likely the fine was on top of seizing the profit from this.
The "Proceeds of Crime Act" is a joke. When's the last time a white-collar criminal actually paid all the money back?
It's what one street-walker did to a priest in Italy.
(okay, she was having an epileptic seizure at the time, but you get my point)
Part of that is the high amount of false convictions to begin with.