I froze my Equifax account on Saturday Sep 9, got the bogus timestamp PIN, and was charged $5 to do it.
Just now (2 days later) froze my spouse's Equifax file, and was NOT charged $5 and got an apparently random 10-digit PIN (no numbers with any relation to date or time in there).
Question of the day:
Over the weekend, did Equifax get shamed into doing something right: a) using random PINs, and b) not charging $5 per freeze?
Really? Frozen pizzas are configured with default toppings; low probability that they could carry *every* permutation of desired frozen pizzas.
So add in a robotic refrigerator for the fresh toppings that someone *may* want added to their pizza (after thawing, before cooking). Plus, there needs to be a robotic, on-demand topping-distribution method that works properly for every possible topping kept on hand (or robot claw).
So now you have a freezer, a robotic pizza oven and a robotic refrigerator in the same back seat to fight it out, environmentally (HVAC) speaking.
I see no difficulties at all./s
In Los Angeles, I had a 90-min three-bus trip from Hollywood to work a bit south. Normally it would take me 40 minutes by moped or 30 minutes by car.
Why even take the bus? The LA Air Quality Mgmt District gave out perks to bus commuters (and some tax credit to the employers); in my case, being single, I took the 2 movie passes each week perk for at least three commutes/week.
Cons: waiting at bus stop, running if the bus was early, noise, smelly, crazy people, timing the departure to make connections just right, bus pass cost;
Pros: bus stop 1/2 block away, drop off across street from work, could read or do bills or just zone out, no parking or fuel costs, could buy a discount bus pass at work.
After I moved away, the Green Line light rail was built, which would have sped up the commute to one bus + one rail line, again, the station was right where I worked.
Now we both work at home, me in my casual clothes and bare feet.
If we replaced Congress with these brains, perhaps putting them in large, bubbling jars with nametags, we could get much better throughput of congressional workload, much less whining, and less likelihood of leaving on vacation on a moment's notice, just before an important vote.
We'd need voting output lights, perhaps like Captain Christopher Pike (Yes, No, Low Battery).
And if one acts up? Dump out the jar and refill it with another. Problem solved.
Tepples, I noticed that you are using the standard 8-bit bytes in your calculations.
Did telcos/ISPs actually do away with the 10-bit bytes (1 start bit + 8 bits data +1 stop bit) when dial-up modem went away?
On a side note, are ISPs that display GB (and really mean GigaBIT, instead of using "Gb") trying to trick us so we think GigaBYTE and believe their service is 8-10x faster than it really is?
...minimum holding time of, say, 7 days. If you aren't investing in the company, you shouldn't be buying its shares.
Yeah...no, AC. Traders AREN'T Investors. We rarely care about company fundamentals, only price movement. Some idiotic move like this would hamstring the entire stock market. Oops, what? There's a global market that wouldn't do this, and only the U.S. loses big-time? Again, B.S. on you.
A simple transaction cost of maybe 1cent per share wouldn't affect a normal buyer at all,
Oh, yes it would. Say I'm a small trader with a small account of $10,000. No margin. I'm trading stocks under $2.00, and I buy 1000-2000 shares at a time (that's $2000-$4000 per position). I get charged $8 to buy or sell, so that's $16 in fees for one round-trip (buy and sell) trade.
Adding a $0.01 fee PER SHARE (not per transaction) adds in a $10 (1000x0.01) to $20 (2000x0.01) fee, so that's $20-$40 in extra fees per trade, plus the $16 per trade = $36-$56 just for ONE round-trip trade.
With fees like that, I might as well telephone in each trade to a broker and hand them the fees, and give up on individual trading altogether. I'd have to make that up in higher and higher profit for every trade that I make. Sometimes I'm only making $50 gross on a trade, and $34 net profit after the broker fees. That's not a lot.
There isn't any way for an HFT company to see an order "on its way" to an exchange.
Leaked info? No, try sold your information, and it's not insider trading. It's called Payment for order flow where brokers sell your intent to buy or sell to HFT companies. Before the trade takes place.
Quote from WSJ posting on 4/6/2014:
"Shares of E*Trade Financial Corp. ETFC +0.05% , Charles Schwab Corp. SCHW +0.27% and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. AMTD +0.26% tumbled last week amid concerns that regulators would ban a practice that allows brokerages to collect hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue by selling orders to middlemen who use high-frequency strategies to trade with the brokers' customers.
The practice, called payment for order flow, has gained more attention since the release of "Flash Boys," a book by Michael Lewis that argues the markets are "rigged" to benefit high-frequency traders, allegations that are stirring up long-running questions about the fairness of markets."
Sounds like you should move to Colorado or Washington state, and take up on the now-legal pastime of vaporizing the local herb. That will definitely increase your appetite.
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We need more private industry and less big government incompetence.
Perhaps AC means we need more private industry incompetence?
Question of the day:
Over the weekend, did Equifax get shamed into doing something right: a) using random PINs, and b) not charging $5 per freeze?
Really? Frozen pizzas are configured with default toppings; low probability that they could carry *every* permutation of desired frozen pizzas. So add in a robotic refrigerator for the fresh toppings that someone *may* want added to their pizza (after thawing, before cooking). Plus, there needs to be a robotic, on-demand topping-distribution method that works properly for every possible topping kept on hand (or robot claw). So now you have a freezer, a robotic pizza oven and a robotic refrigerator in the same back seat to fight it out, environmentally (HVAC) speaking. I see no difficulties at all. /s
In Los Angeles, I had a 90-min three-bus trip from Hollywood to work a bit south. Normally it would take me 40 minutes by moped or 30 minutes by car. Why even take the bus? The LA Air Quality Mgmt District gave out perks to bus commuters (and some tax credit to the employers); in my case, being single, I took the 2 movie passes each week perk for at least three commutes/week. Cons: waiting at bus stop, running if the bus was early, noise, smelly, crazy people, timing the departure to make connections just right, bus pass cost; Pros: bus stop 1/2 block away, drop off across street from work, could read or do bills or just zone out, no parking or fuel costs, could buy a discount bus pass at work. After I moved away, the Green Line light rail was built, which would have sped up the commute to one bus + one rail line, again, the station was right where I worked. Now we both work at home, me in my casual clothes and bare feet.
If we replaced Congress with these brains, perhaps putting them in large, bubbling jars with nametags, we could get much better throughput of congressional workload, much less whining, and less likelihood of leaving on vacation on a moment's notice, just before an important vote.
We'd need voting output lights, perhaps like Captain Christopher Pike (Yes, No, Low Battery). And if one acts up? Dump out the jar and refill it with another. Problem solved.
Did telcos/ISPs actually do away with the 10-bit bytes (1 start bit + 8 bits data +1 stop bit) when dial-up modem went away?
On a side note, are ISPs that display GB (and really mean GigaBIT, instead of using "Gb") trying to trick us so we think GigaBYTE and believe their service is 8-10x faster than it really is?
Hey, where are you going? (time passes...)
Uhh, is that a standalone fax you just bought? Aww, gee...
I don't miss the Bzzzt... Rarararar... Merrrrt.... Merrrrt..... Merrrrt... Nytnytnytnytnyt.... S$@t still lines missing on my print.
Did you buy your printer at Three Stooges Office Supply? ;-)
...minimum holding time of, say, 7 days. If you aren't investing in the company, you shouldn't be buying its shares.
Yeah...no, AC. Traders AREN'T Investors. We rarely care about company fundamentals, only price movement. Some idiotic move like this would hamstring the entire stock market. Oops, what? There's a global market that wouldn't do this, and only the U.S. loses big-time? Again, B.S. on you.
HST works the same way.
HST: "The Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) is a consumption tax in Canada. It is used in provinces where both the federal Goods and Services Tax (GST) ..."
How does that fit into trading??
Exactly WHO here is the FDA, since they are the authority
Geekmux, I think the OP might have meant that WHO = World Health Organization. That's why it was in capital letters three times.
Mmmm...melamine. Tastes like chicken. With poison. Mmmm...poison chicken.
No conversation on earth is private. Everything youve seen on Startrek has already been done all by Lockhead Skunk Wor
Try Star Trek and Lockheed instead.
Here it is:
Monsanto using MPAA and RIAA tactics (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Tue Apr 08, '14 06:24 PM (#46700087)
Monsanto and Cargil do some really shitty things with their IP when it comes to their seeds - like suing farmers for having Monsanto's crops growing in their fields when they weren't purchased and suing seed washers for alleged violations of IP.
A simple transaction cost of maybe 1cent per share wouldn't affect a normal buyer at all,
Oh, yes it would. Say I'm a small trader with a small account of $10,000. No margin. I'm trading stocks under $2.00, and I buy 1000-2000 shares at a time (that's $2000-$4000 per position). I get charged $8 to buy or sell, so that's $16 in fees for one round-trip (buy and sell) trade.
Adding a $0.01 fee PER SHARE (not per transaction) adds in a $10 (1000x0.01) to $20 (2000x0.01) fee, so that's $20-$40 in extra fees per trade, plus the $16 per trade = $36-$56 just for ONE round-trip trade.
With fees like that, I might as well telephone in each trade to a broker and hand them the fees, and give up on individual trading altogether. I'd have to make that up in higher and higher profit for every trade that I make. Sometimes I'm only making $50 gross on a trade, and $34 net profit after the broker fees. That's not a lot.
There isn't any way for an HFT company to see an order "on its way" to an exchange.
Leaked info? No, try sold your information, and it's not insider trading. It's called Payment for order flow where brokers sell your intent to buy or sell to HFT companies. Before the trade takes place.
Quote from WSJ posting on 4/6/2014: "Shares of E*Trade Financial Corp. ETFC +0.05% , Charles Schwab Corp. SCHW +0.27% and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. AMTD +0.26% tumbled last week amid concerns that regulators would ban a practice that allows brokerages to collect hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue by selling orders to middlemen who use high-frequency strategies to trade with the brokers' customers. The practice, called payment for order flow, has gained more attention since the release of "Flash Boys," a book by Michael Lewis that argues the markets are "rigged" to benefit high-frequency traders, allegations that are stirring up long-running questions about the fairness of markets."
But, not for people who know how big a fucking Oreo is.
That would have to be a pretty big Oreo. And have special attachments or plug-ins.
Sounds like you should move to Colorado or Washington state, and take up on the now-legal pastime of vaporizing the local herb. That will definitely increase your appetite.
If you like that BOOM, then I think you'd enjoy this picture: What is a Bastard?, too.
Large trucks, heavy equipment, aircraft, ships aren't likely EVER to be electric.
Most modern freight trains ARE electric; hybrid, to be exact. They use diesel generators to power the electric motors that move the wheels.
...flight dwarfs?
Does their dimunitive size make them immune to the radiation?
You pay for your DVDs and have the audacity to want to watch them too?
No, with Audacity, you can only listen to them.
I heard the same "joke", except with baby diapers.
high-performance brake pads that are loaded with known carcinogens
You mean like the Raybestos company that doesn't--heh-heh--sell their asbestos brake pads over the counter anymore?
An SHA-512 hash of my luggage combination?
That would be SHA512(12345), right?