I'm sorry, is Due Process inconvenient for you? We'll just get rid of it and replace it with "If he was charged, then he must by guilty and if he's guilty then he has no rights so let's go all wild west on his ass."
Oh, and by the way, there's an armed mob outside who would like to talk with you about some unpaid parking tickets.
Okay, I am holding 500 shares of ABCD. At 10:01:32.0512 I buy 500 more shares at 10.12. At 10.01:32.7691 I sell the original 500 shares at 10.13, but am still holding on to the new 500 I just bought. Have I just broken your simple rule?
I have? Then how about this: Firm A buys, and then firm B sells the same thing less than a second later. X hours after the original buy, Firm A sells the same stocks to firm B. While both firms are owned and run by different people, they share the same address and make a large number of trades with one another. Are either of these firms breaking your rule which easily stops HFT?
Concepts are easy. Making rules is hard, especially for a game which is played by the biggest rules-lawyering munchkins on the planet.
now I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was accessible to everyone, for example if anyone could buy machine time from vm's that were all given the information at the same time(artificially arranged, wouldn't work otherwise!) at the stock exchange.
Sure you would. You might not think so, but suppose that the exchange set up a perfectly equitable system in which identically configured were made available to every firm and provided with identical market feeds all perfectly synchronized so that no single trading VM has any advantage over any other.
I would give that system about three hours of run time before you discover that:
- Your competitor has just acquired seventeen different vms through deals with other firms and is using them to dominate the market, pushing out firms using only one or two vms,
- Your market feed is being saturated with bogus bids and offers which reduce your ability to see real market data, but somehow one of your competitors is able to filter it all out and trade ahead of you,
- Other VMs on the same host as yours suddenly start running at 100% of their CPU and I/O capacity, causing slowdowns for you, and
- A mysterious and completely untraceable hardware fault causes all vms except for the first seven to experience periods of unexplained latency at key times during the day.
So, for instance, a trader in NY can send buy/sell orders to Japan by beaming neutrinos through the Earth and have them arrive faster than orders sent via optical fiber over the surface of the Earth (which is a longer path, and the speed of light in optical fiber is less than c in a vacuum), or via satellite.
But even if they were using tachyons for communication, their orders would never arrive before the ones which come from a rack that is only five metres away from the exchange and connected directly to it with a straight optical cable. Even if the trader is sitting in NYC, they can still run their algos in Tokyo and get the jump on any other traders who don't.
Why resort to science fiction when there is already a better way?
Stop that. When you start bringing "facts" into a Slashdot discussion you get in the way of the raw, unbridled slacktivist faux-outrage that makes life worth living.
You know who else talked about what Alphamosaic did? Hitler.
People were creating artwork long before copyright was invented...
All copyright has done, is encourage the greedy by allowing someone to continue getting paid for work they did long ago.
Tell me again how a lack of international copyright helped Georges Méliès create art and discouraged greedy douchebags from stealing it.
With anything under EA's umbrella not available on Steam anymore - since they have their own Origin - the number of [EA] titles available will be significantly limited.
Isn't it great when the undesirables weed themselves out for you?
What is required to address this is an official government domain that hosts static screencaptures of web pages, provides PURLs to point to them, and ideally uses a URL-shortening function like goo.go [sic] or bit.ly.
Indeed. Nothing lends more credence to a US Government document then putting all of its external references under the control of Greenland (.gl) and Lybia (.ly).
Slashdot Mirror
Let's stick to stereotypes that have some basis in reality.
"We spend more money by 9 AM than most countries do all year"
Sorry about that.
Ok; Take a 1/3 pie slice. Enlarge it by 50%. It is still a 1/3 pie slice, in value and visually.
Okay, I'll bite. Take that 1/3 pie slice and move it from the front of the pie to the back. Is it still a 1/3 pie slice visually?
Now draw two Tootsie Rolls, one twice as long as the other. Does that accurately represent the values of each roll, or is the longer one one big Twinkie?
Learning to use tools lie pie charts and bar graphs is just as important to students as reading their first copy of How to Lie With Statistics.
65k books should be enough for anybody.
And what if I wanted to read a book that was _newer_ than Steamboat Willie, and not written by Cory Doctorow?
Anything else is just a made up number.
Ironically, many people aren't clear on what "ironic" means.
So this time, someone other than Peter Loshin paid for the review.
Kindles retail substantially less than an iPad, so in what universe would kindles cost more and have less software?
That would be the universe in which you are trying to sell a billion dollars worth of iPads to the LAUSD.
In that universe, Kindles are also made by terrorists and are prone to exploding if you hold them wrong.
(Alternatively you could set it to "With Authorization" and set a profile removal password.)
Just don't make it "Password" or "YourSchoolNameHerePass".
Nice try teacher. Fact is, AI will be teaching kids in the future. They will do it better, will work 24/7, and work for free.
And I'm sure the kids will love it.
Put up or shut up, so to speak...
Okay, I'll bite.
Do you want to ask any other questions with really obvious answers?
He's guilty. We all know it.
I'm sorry, is Due Process inconvenient for you? We'll just get rid of it and replace it with "If he was charged, then he must by guilty and if he's guilty then he has no rights so let's go all wild west on his ass."
Oh, and by the way, there's an armed mob outside who would like to talk with you about some unpaid parking tickets.
Aside from the question of who gets to act as producer, how is this different from using CNN to do the same thing?
Okay, I am holding 500 shares of ABCD. At 10:01:32.0512 I buy 500 more shares at 10.12. At 10.01:32.7691 I sell the original 500 shares at 10.13, but am still holding on to the new 500 I just bought. Have I just broken your simple rule?
I have? Then how about this: Firm A buys, and then firm B sells the same thing less than a second later. X hours after the original buy, Firm A sells the same stocks to firm B. While both firms are owned and run by different people, they share the same address and make a large number of trades with one another. Are either of these firms breaking your rule which easily stops HFT?
Concepts are easy. Making rules is hard, especially for a game which is played by the biggest rules-lawyering munchkins on the planet.
Just think of the expenses that could be involved if one of these programs screws up.
This has already happened. The screw-ups in question lost over $400,000,000 in half an hour.
now I wouldn't have a problem with it if it was accessible to everyone, for example if anyone could buy machine time from vm's that were all given the information at the same time(artificially arranged, wouldn't work otherwise!) at the stock exchange.
Sure you would. You might not think so, but suppose that the exchange set up a perfectly equitable system in which identically configured were made available to every firm and provided with identical market feeds all perfectly synchronized so that no single trading VM has any advantage over any other.
I would give that system about three hours of run time before you discover that:
Just look at the tricks that players in the game are already using, and ask yourself how changing the rules is going to stop them.
So, for instance, a trader in NY can send buy/sell orders to Japan by beaming neutrinos through the Earth and have them arrive faster than orders sent via optical fiber over the surface of the Earth (which is a longer path, and the speed of light in optical fiber is less than c in a vacuum), or via satellite.
But even if they were using tachyons for communication, their orders would never arrive before the ones which come from a rack that is only five metres away from the exchange and connected directly to it with a straight optical cable. Even if the trader is sitting in NYC, they can still run their algos in Tokyo and get the jump on any other traders who don't.
Why resort to science fiction when there is already a better way?
Stop that. When you start bringing "facts" into a Slashdot discussion you get in the way of the raw, unbridled slacktivist faux-outrage that makes life worth living.
You know who else talked about what Alphamosaic did? Hitler.
People were creating artwork long before copyright was invented... All copyright has done, is encourage the greedy by allowing someone to continue getting paid for work they did long ago.
Tell me again how a lack of international copyright helped Georges Méliès create art and discouraged greedy douchebags from stealing it.
Okay. I'm sure you can cite many examples of copyrighted child porn to back up your argument.
I think I know someone who can help you with that.
Credit as in real $.
These are grad students. The last time they saw real dollars they were paying them as tuition.
With anything under EA's umbrella not available on Steam anymore - since they have their own Origin - the number of [EA] titles available will be significantly limited.
Isn't it great when the undesirables weed themselves out for you?
What is required to address this is an official government domain that hosts static screencaptures of web pages, provides PURLs to point to them, and ideally uses a URL-shortening function like goo.go [sic] or bit.ly.
Indeed. Nothing lends more credence to a US Government document then putting all of its external references under the control of Greenland (.gl) and Lybia (.ly).