For the truly ultra-paranoid conspiracy theorists of you.
No, the ultra-paranoid are thinking about the back doors built into hardware/firmware. Hacking into your network chip without it even reporting activity to you, and silently scanning your computer underneath the OS. Rootkits/backdoors in the OS itself are not only a possibility, they are likely - no matter how much Microsoft denies it. Certainly there is documentation claiming they can at least grab anything in your "Outlook". But once you're in - you're in.
WHAT sea level rise? Oh yeah 2 mm per year. So in 500 years we're talking about 3 feet. In 500 years. Venice has survived much more than 3 feet. I challenge you to build a "defensive" structure that will last that long, in an earthquake area, with a bankrupt state. Surely there are other things to waste limited funds on rather than this witch hunt?
Yup I mean you can absorb as much energy as you want with deformation and the like, but at the end of the day you are going from velocity v to velocity 0 in very little time indeed. So you can build safety devices all day long and that won't stop your heart from ripping itself off of your aorta, despite the fact you may have no external cuts and bruises...
Except the weapons get bigger and the collateral damage gets greater. Right now the West thinks it's being really smart with its thumb on the scale. The problem is that it's not the only player on the field. Complacency at having "won" the Cold War makes them think they're they only ones still in the game, and they don't realize, just like the GP, that the game never really ends. The US is master of the world's oceans. Today. The UK was not so long ago. Who will be tomorrow? Tomorrow is coming quickly. In fact it's coming at 7-10% per year, every single year...
Please explain to me how I could drown in rights and personal freedom.
I don't need to explain anything to you. Take a look around you. As for "all worker rights are a Bad Thing" - those are your words. I simply point out the reality that work (and life) is cheaper in China. There's no magical reason why they can turn out 500 of an item for what it costs you to make a single one in the West. In no way did I ever take a moral position on this. Good, bad, it doesn't really matter, because when China is no longer cheap then someone else will be providing the labor. C'est la vie, and if you don't like it, absolutely no one cares. And if you don't believe it, well, you need to take off those rose tinted glasses.
There are rights and there are rights. Too much of anything is a bad thing. If you don't agree I can dump you in the middle of one of the Great Lakes and as you drown you'll realize that even too much water, that substance absolutely essential for life, can kill you.
There were riots before that, in Iran. Before Manning. I'm not saying that the wikileaks release was orchestrated - it was not. It was taken advantage of though. I'm sure that the flames have been fanned here and there. It was a - convenient - leak that gave rise to many opportunities.
But they are world affairs. You try making an oil pipe-line from the heart of the middle east to China without going through Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Now make one that goes to Europe through Turkey and see how important Syria and/or Iraq are. Iraq and Syria are key to blocking the oil from both Russia and China and forcing it to continue being shipped out via the maritime route, like it has been all along, or by pipeline to Europe. And if you have the biggest navy in the world (ie, the US), then you control maritime shipping and you can cut Russia and China off whenever you want. That's one hell of a bargaining chip.
Of course Russia has newly discovered vast oil reserves, massive natural gas reserves, and also a willing buyer right in the form of China right on its border. So nothing can be done about that. They can build other pipelines elsewhere. But at the rate China is growing, it's going to need far more than just Russian oil. It's going to soon need ALL the oil. And what's more, unlike the US, it can afford to pay. It has cheap labor and isn't hindered by countless anti-business or protectionist laws and unions that are the reason manufacturing fled the West in the first place. This has the US and its allies running scared and is driving their foreign policy - from the recent Georgian/Russian war, a complete failure for the US who was covertly backing Georgia, to setting the entire middle east on fire except, conveniently, Saudi Arabia and the small states near the entrance to the Persian Gulf.
Don't think for one minute that this "arab spring" is a spontaneous event. Remember that in politics absolutely nothing happens by "chance". Nothing. This is not about Saddam. Assad. Khaddafi. Mubarak. They are irrelevant. It's about controlling the direction of the flow of oil, and making it harder for "the other guy" to get at it unless he plays ball with you on your terms.
In order for such an organization to work, it would be great if some of the biggest players on the global stage actually submitted themselves to it, instead of using it as a bully pulpit when convenient, and ignoring it when not (ie, most of the time).
That very much depends on the subject being evaluated. I can easily assign you an open book exam where your memory is completely useless, and you will still fail. But in the memory based test there will be absolutely no complaints - the right answer was "x" and you put "z", whereas in the latter test I expect a line of at least 30 parents wanting to see my outside my office about how "unfair" my test was...
No, even then you can't guarantee it. There was an article by Dennis Ritchie (yes, one of the co-authors of the C language) that pretty much proved how there could already be back doors in compilers which are slipping in back doors to executable files without anyone knowing it. You can't stop with reading the source code. You would actually have to go through the machine code, line by line.
You are assuming that when you tell your computer to turn off the WiFi, the WiFi stays off. Now if cell phones that are "off" can record the conversations of mobsters without them knowing it, what makes you trust your computer all of a sudden? It would have to be an "air gap" somewhere in the countryside away from any wifi signal...
The rest of the comment is irrelevant. If I bought a value stock 10 years ago, I am most certainly not "competing against Deep Blue", or any other "algorithm" or "program". That's exactly what value investing is NOT. It's buy and HOLD. And the idea is to hold "forever". Versus day trading or swing trading where you buy and SELL within a time period for small but frequent profits. It's in the latter that you'll find computerization, not in the former.
Yep, because they know how to trade. HFT won't guarantee a winning trade however, when the market moves the other way. And believe me it happens often. There's more to it than just having a fast connection. For an example I can point to KCG (Knight Capital Group), whose HFT programs lost them what was it, 400+ million in a few minutes when FB was launched? It broke the company, anyway. HFT is not always "good". You have to know how to use it, too.
No luck involved. You are merely keeping up with the devaluation/loss of purchasing power of the US dollar, whereas others (bond people, gold, etc) are not.
I don't understand the problem. Being first in line is not always advantageous. It just makes you first in line. First to make a good deal. But first to make a bad deal too. Nothing "magical" about it that generates you magical profits.
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For the truly ultra-paranoid conspiracy theorists of you.
No, the ultra-paranoid are thinking about the back doors built into hardware/firmware. Hacking into your network chip without it even reporting activity to you, and silently scanning your computer underneath the OS. Rootkits/backdoors in the OS itself are not only a possibility, they are likely - no matter how much Microsoft denies it. Certainly there is documentation claiming they can at least grab anything in your "Outlook". But once you're in - you're in.
How does one fail an IQ test?
WHAT sea level rise? Oh yeah 2 mm per year. So in 500 years we're talking about 3 feet. In 500 years. Venice has survived much more than 3 feet. I challenge you to build a "defensive" structure that will last that long, in an earthquake area, with a bankrupt state. Surely there are other things to waste limited funds on rather than this witch hunt?
Yup I mean you can absorb as much energy as you want with deformation and the like, but at the end of the day you are going from velocity v to velocity 0 in very little time indeed. So you can build safety devices all day long and that won't stop your heart from ripping itself off of your aorta, despite the fact you may have no external cuts and bruises...
This is why you don't hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.
"You don't reason with intellectuals, you shoot them." - Napoleon Bonaparte.
It only happens when the NSA is scooping your data.
Except the weapons get bigger and the collateral damage gets greater. Right now the West thinks it's being really smart with its thumb on the scale. The problem is that it's not the only player on the field. Complacency at having "won" the Cold War makes them think they're they only ones still in the game, and they don't realize, just like the GP, that the game never really ends. The US is master of the world's oceans. Today. The UK was not so long ago. Who will be tomorrow? Tomorrow is coming quickly. In fact it's coming at 7-10% per year, every single year...
Please explain to me how I could drown in rights and personal freedom.
I don't need to explain anything to you. Take a look around you. As for "all worker rights are a Bad Thing" - those are your words. I simply point out the reality that work (and life) is cheaper in China. There's no magical reason why they can turn out 500 of an item for what it costs you to make a single one in the West. In no way did I ever take a moral position on this. Good, bad, it doesn't really matter, because when China is no longer cheap then someone else will be providing the labor. C'est la vie, and if you don't like it, absolutely no one cares. And if you don't believe it, well, you need to take off those rose tinted glasses.
There are rights and there are rights. Too much of anything is a bad thing. If you don't agree I can dump you in the middle of one of the Great Lakes and as you drown you'll realize that even too much water, that substance absolutely essential for life, can kill you.
There were riots before that, in Iran. Before Manning. I'm not saying that the wikileaks release was orchestrated - it was not. It was taken advantage of though. I'm sure that the flames have been fanned here and there. It was a - convenient - leak that gave rise to many opportunities.
But they are world affairs. You try making an oil pipe-line from the heart of the middle east to China without going through Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. Now make one that goes to Europe through Turkey and see how important Syria and/or Iraq are. Iraq and Syria are key to blocking the oil from both Russia and China and forcing it to continue being shipped out via the maritime route, like it has been all along, or by pipeline to Europe. And if you have the biggest navy in the world (ie, the US), then you control maritime shipping and you can cut Russia and China off whenever you want. That's one hell of a bargaining chip.
Of course Russia has newly discovered vast oil reserves, massive natural gas reserves, and also a willing buyer right in the form of China right on its border. So nothing can be done about that. They can build other pipelines elsewhere. But at the rate China is growing, it's going to need far more than just Russian oil. It's going to soon need ALL the oil. And what's more, unlike the US, it can afford to pay. It has cheap labor and isn't hindered by countless anti-business or protectionist laws and unions that are the reason manufacturing fled the West in the first place. This has the US and its allies running scared and is driving their foreign policy - from the recent Georgian/Russian war, a complete failure for the US who was covertly backing Georgia, to setting the entire middle east on fire except, conveniently, Saudi Arabia and the small states near the entrance to the Persian Gulf.
Don't think for one minute that this "arab spring" is a spontaneous event. Remember that in politics absolutely nothing happens by "chance". Nothing. This is not about Saddam. Assad. Khaddafi. Mubarak. They are irrelevant. It's about controlling the direction of the flow of oil, and making it harder for "the other guy" to get at it unless he plays ball with you on your terms.
In order for such an organization to work, it would be great if some of the biggest players on the global stage actually submitted themselves to it, instead of using it as a bully pulpit when convenient, and ignoring it when not (ie, most of the time).
That very much depends on the subject being evaluated. I can easily assign you an open book exam where your memory is completely useless, and you will still fail. But in the memory based test there will be absolutely no complaints - the right answer was "x" and you put "z", whereas in the latter test I expect a line of at least 30 parents wanting to see my outside my office about how "unfair" my test was...
300k miles is not really a good safety record
Oh? How many miles have you driven since your last accident?
No, even then you can't guarantee it. There was an article by Dennis Ritchie (yes, one of the co-authors of the C language) that pretty much proved how there could already be back doors in compilers which are slipping in back doors to executable files without anyone knowing it. You can't stop with reading the source code. You would actually have to go through the machine code, line by line.
You are assuming that when you tell your computer to turn off the WiFi, the WiFi stays off. Now if cell phones that are "off" can record the conversations of mobsters without them knowing it, what makes you trust your computer all of a sudden? It would have to be an "air gap" somewhere in the countryside away from any wifi signal...
The rest of the comment is irrelevant. If I bought a value stock 10 years ago, I am most certainly not "competing against Deep Blue", or any other "algorithm" or "program". That's exactly what value investing is NOT. It's buy and HOLD. And the idea is to hold "forever". Versus day trading or swing trading where you buy and SELL within a time period for small but frequent profits. It's in the latter that you'll find computerization, not in the former.
Yep, because they know how to trade. HFT won't guarantee a winning trade however, when the market moves the other way. And believe me it happens often. There's more to it than just having a fast connection. For an example I can point to KCG (Knight Capital Group), whose HFT programs lost them what was it, 400+ million in a few minutes when FB was launched? It broke the company, anyway. HFT is not always "good". You have to know how to use it, too.
Value investing != day trading. Read more books before you try to sound smart about something you know nothing about.
No luck involved. You are merely keeping up with the devaluation/loss of purchasing power of the US dollar, whereas others (bond people, gold, etc) are not.
LOL! I see it as the Fed had trouble re-starting their buying programs after a couple days off, so they stopped the market for a while for the reboot.
I don't understand the problem. Being first in line is not always advantageous. It just makes you first in line. First to make a good deal. But first to make a bad deal too. Nothing "magical" about it that generates you magical profits.
pray God exists and is about to end it all.
Translation: we're fucked.
Smart people read at -1 instead of judging the book by its cover.
I swear to you that my fake name is a real fake name.