I'd suggest finding another word with better connotations. Hippyware is clever, and it has the connotations you speak of, but it also connotes lower quality/shabbier quality software. And last I've checked, free software is not just ideologically-driven, it's also ego-driven, so if you want some buy-in from most of the "free software" developers (now, I'm not saying all of them would reject your suggestion) the new name would have to be not only usable -- but also at least be a little more palatable to their ego.
NewYorkCountryLawyer, This isn't the clearest summary you've written. I'd suggest that next time, you just give us the facts, for instance the first sentence of your summary would have been enough, and then you just let us do our part and let us add the outrage, the anger, the guessing, and the confusing remarks, all by ourselves.
I have no desire to pay you to start up a competing company
A *competing* company? Yeah, sure. That's a reasonable request. What about a non-competing piece of software?
I don't care if you want to build a PHP thingie that keeps track of your MP3 collection
I have to ask because a "PHP thingie" for personal use is one thing, but what about a useful piece of software which is clearly not related to your business in any way shape or form.
Also, the assertion that GameStop is enjoying a 48% profit margin is a bit disingenuous.
GameStop has employees and stores located in high-priced malls. That cost money. And if that so-called supposed "48% profit margin" is enough to go after them, then they should go after Walmart, Barnes & Nobles, and Borders for buying new books and new DVDs at 40% of their actual retail prices -- and therefore making a supposed profit of 60% each time.
As much as I'd like to agree with you, this one sentence is not exactly true.
Some ISPs do specialize in hosting porn content. I know because I looked into this myself when I looked into starting a porn web site. I did whois searches on a couple of popular porn web sites, and that gave me the name of their ISPs. And from those results, many ISPs did look like standard cookie-cut run-of-the-mill ISPs, but a few were advertising the fact that they were porn-specific ISPs (which was actually reassuring to me because they specifically addressed many of the concerns that a porn-site operator would have).
The thing is. Many GSM-netbooks (with sim-card slots) are coming out (or are about to come out). This means they're a hybrid between a laptop and a cell phone. Now I'm not saying the result is (or is going) to be pretty, but this is going to be a new class of devices that's about to get a massive penetration rate -- since many cell operators are gearing up to heavily subsidize their initial purchase.
Or if you have a Nokia, you can get Joiku (its freeware lite version is limited to http traffic only, and it takes at least 2 minutes to first start really working -- thought I have no idea why. And on the unlimited data plan of T-Mobile it will still be slow when you're browsing with it, but it's still a nice piece of freeware to have just in case you ever in need of a hot-spot).
http://joiku.com/
They were caught with weapons in hand in combat or with large weapon caches.
Read their stories genius. Some were, but some were definitely NOT picked up with any weapons. Many of them were delivered by warlords for rewards of up to $5,000 which is a lot fucking money over there.
What about color blindness? Stuttering? And loss of language functions due to certain types of brain damage? What about ADD? The ratio for colorblindness is 1 out of 10 males, but something like 1 out of 100 for females (sorry for the round numbers, but if anyone wants me to look them up -- I certainly can). Stuttering, the difference is also very high, favoring females who are not only less likely to stutter, but they're also much more likely to stop stuttering once they reach adulthood. And same goes for brain injuries and loss of language functions, women lose less, and they almost always recover more quickly than men.
Now if the political correctness movement can bury these indisputable quantifiable numbers, think of what it can do to the numbers that are actually subject to interpretation and more difficult to quantify. That's right, the PC angry mob has actually stopped us from honestly exploring those possibilities. And it's preventing us from improving education for either gender, because right now, the school system is geared to teach girls and it's designed to drive out any innate masculine traits the boys have (instead of drawing on those innate qualities to make them better students).
What the hell!?! This is so wrong in so many ways. I'm not even sure where to start.
I say charge a good amount for lending out the laptop, more than market average (it's both an hassle and a risk). This guy is an Art student for Christ's sake! Telling an Art student to forego his personal boundaries, be nice, and they'll like you, is the surest way to make sure -- he remains unappreciated and hungry for the rest of his life. As an artist, people will ask him for his time, his work, his talent, his equipment, and his expertise all the freaking time, and I can guarantee you -- that 99% of those people won't even be ready to pay him -- even the most modest of minimum wages (not to mention, taxes or insurance or whatever else he might want/need).
If there was ever a time to learn how to learn to ask for money, or to learn how to say "no", being in Art school is that time. Do it. Be an asshole if you have to be. The mature people will understand. The immature people won't. In fact, I can guarantee you that your friendships will become absolutely rock solid and much more healthier that way.
For further reading on this, I'd recommend the book "When I Say No, I Feel Guilty" by Manuel J. Smith (not to be confused with similar titles, and do wait to read its first chapter until you've finished the rest of the book if you can, its first chapter makes more sense as its final chapter), and another book called "The Trick to Money is Having Some" by Stuart Wilde (crazy author, but worth the read -- at least this book). Also as another option, you could make a bumper sticker or a sign that says "No, you can't borrow my computer." and stick it to the back of your screen. Or if you feel bad about asking for cash, ask for favors instead (like a car ride to Safeway, or an helping hand moving, or whatever...). And if he/she doesn't have any cash on him/her, but swears they're going to give you some, ask for their iPod or something else of value as collateral (the collateral can be just a token item/amount, but even a token item can help you in some case. It can help you get compensated for your time -- or it can help make sure they understand that they'll probably want to bring their own laptop next time around).
Actually, many manual farmers don't have good fingerprints. Fingerprints are actually remarkably easy to rub off.
I think DNA should be a good alternative if fingerprints are not available.
That's because you've been watching too many CSI movies. Think of the outcome you want to achieve before you start cataloging everything. There is an actual cost to every measure we want to take.
Your question has three possible answers (but just like you, my assertions will have to be verified, or contradicted, because I really haven't kept up with the iPhone news lately). 1. This is a corporate agreement outside of the terms of the public SDK contract. 2. Background processes are allowed in the newest generations of iPhones. 3. This is Japan. 80% of the phones over there are unlocked. May be the terms are going to be different over there since they're not being held hostage by their carriers like we are here in the US where 80% of our cell phones are actually locked.
"There is nothing that would persuade me to remain in a partnership with someone as stupid, duplicitous and untrustworthy as you have proved yourself to be. As we discussed, I shall make arrangements for your exit from this firm at the earliest convenient opportunity."
Jonathan Kinlay to Ron Henley, July 20, 2004
"How like a game of chess this is. Except you are toying, not with wooden pieces, but with people's lives. And you are about to discover in this game it is I who am the grandmaster."
Jonathan Kinlay to Ron Henley, July 25, 2004
"White's attack has been successfully put down. Black sacrifices the terminally weakened pawn in order to open lines for the coming counter-attack. Meanwhile, the white knight has been neutralised and lies isolated and vulnerable at the edge of the board, waiting to be picked off by the black forces at their leisure."
Jonathan Kinlay to Ron Henley and Paul Wilmott, August 15, 2004
THE BRAIN'S WHO FELL OUT
JONATHAN KINLAY
The chief executive of Investment Analytics, a mathematical research firm that develops software programmes to exploit volatile stock markets.
He started his career at NatWest in the early 1980s but had left long before the investment bank found an £80 million black hole in its options trading book.
After a spell at Chase Manhattan, he joined the proprietary trading desk of EMC International, a European hedge fund, specialising in privately negotiated derivatives contracts. He is well known on the lecture circuit and has taught financial engineering at Carnegie Mellon in New York and at Oxford and Cambridge.
RON HENLEY
Few people span the diverse worlds of chess and high finance, and fewer rise to the top of both. Ron Henley is a chess grandmaster, but he is best known for training Anatoly Karpov, the former chess world champion. His interest in derivatives dates back to 1985, when he became a member of the American Stock Exchange.
He soon earned himself a reputation as a derivatives whizz kid, rising to become a specialist options trader for Cohen, Duffy & McGowan, one of the top options markets makers on the exchange floor. He is a regular chess commentator and runs an internet site that raises funds to sponsor young US players, including Irena Krush.
JONATHAN KINLAY
The chief executive of Investment Analytics, a mathematical research firm that develops software programmes to exploit volatile stock markets.
He started his career at NatWest in the early 1980s but had left long before the investment bank found an £80 million black hole in its options trading book.
After a spell at Chase Manhattan, he joined the proprietary trading desk of EMC International, a European hedge fund, specialising in privately negotiated derivatives contracts. He is well known on the lecture circuit and has taught financial engineering at Carnegie Mellon in New York and at Oxford and Cambridge.
A FORMER Oxford University professor, a chess grandmaster and a software developer are locked in a court fight in New York over ownership of a £172 million hedge fund in which top City names such as Gavyn Davies have invested tens of millions of pounds.
Paul Wilmott, Ron Henley and Jonathan Kinlay, who set up a secretive hedge fund, Caissa Capital, accuse each other of trying to lure top investors to rival funds after the partnership collapsed in acrimony earlier this year.
The dispute erupted in September when Mr Kinlay, who has developed a computer program that highlights profitable trading strategies in volatile markets, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against his two former partners. Mr Kinlay is seeking $800,000 (£414,000) in damages for alleged breaches of intellectual property rights.
Mr Wilmott, a former Oxford University professor, and Mr Henley, who trained the former chess world champion Anatoly Karpov, hit back with a $10 million counter-suit, claiming that Mr Kinlay had tried to wind up Caissa by luring investors to a new fund that he was secretly trying to set up without their knowledge.
The dispute flared up after Mr Kinlay returned from a holiday in Italy in August to find that Mr Wilmott and Mr Henley had given back $40 million to Caissa's biggest investor, Prisma Capital Partners. Prisma is run by Gavyn Davies, former Chairman of the BBC, Girish Reddy, former head of derivatives for Goldman Sachs, and Tom Healey, a star banker.
Mr Wilmott and Mr Henley claim that Prisma demanded the return of its money after Mr Kinlay approached its backers with a proposition to invest in his new venture, the Proteom hedge fund. It is understood that the partners were sceptical of the strategy Mr Kinlay planned to use, which essentially involved using the same technology that looks for patterns in genes to predict stock and bond market moves.
Mr Kinlay, meanwhile, alleges it was his two former partners who were trying to lure Prisma into a new fund that they were also trying to set up. Both sides deny the allegations.
After the initial dispute, the trio decided to go their separate ways and arrangements were made to write a separation agreement in August. On the basis of this agreement, Mr Kinlay agreed to sell his interests in Caissa Capital and Caissa Capital International, an overseas offshoot, to Mr Wilmott and Mr Henley. He also agreed to terminate software licences granting access rights to his trading program. He collected $377,759 from his former partners under the deal.
However, court papers allege that the separation agreement negotiated by Mr Kinlay was just a smokescreen while he asked a bank, which was helping him to set up the Proteom fund, to find a legal "rottweiler . . . who would sue his two partners and Caissa's investors".
It is alleged Mr Kinlay began to plot against his former partners almost a year earlier after deciding that neither "had the time nor the skill set to make a meaningful contribution".
Court documents allege that Mr Kinlay set up the Proteom fund because, as a minority partner in Caissa, he could not force Mr Henley and Mr Wilmott out. Mr Kinlay denies the allegations.
From 2001 to 2005 he ran a $170 million hedge fund that returned an average of 15 percent a year.
Nice job Newsweek (someone take a screenshot before the article gets pulled/corrected).
His hedge fund didn't even exist in 2001. And it's not a $170 million fund, it's roughly a 170 million British Pounds fund.
I would add more, but his hedge fund was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange in January 2005 right after this fiasco (and it's funny, except for one cryptic note about taking counsel in their official news section, one wouldn't know that the fund got liquidated and delisted four years ago for its shenanigans).
It might be easier just to steal some electricity (with a long ass wire), than to bother with solar panels. You can also do the same with Internet, at least that's what some file-sharers in France are preparing themselves for -- in case the government black lists from getting Internet.
I finally got fed up and lived out of my car for a summer. I had more spending cash since I was employed, and I even went to school while living out of the car.
Oh give me a break. You had summer school. You had money. You had a job. And you selected just the right season to be homeless. It sounds more like you were on vacation. If that counts as being homeless, then I was homeless also. I did my share of sleeping outside on pavements and in parking lots while I was staying on some of the Greek Islands (sleeping outside was actually far more comfortable than sleeping inside the non air-conditioned hotels).
This problem needs to be addressed from the bottom-up, not from the top-down. We don't need a "Czar", we don't need a branch of the military, we need someone more like the "Surgeon General" (and even that title sounds too military).
We need someone who explains and educates us, not someone who barks orders at us. We need to look at computer security as a public health issue. People need to be taught about basic computer hygiene (just like we were taught about normal body and sanitary hygiene after finding out about germ theory).
In the end, you can appoint a Czar and give him billions of dollars to raise an army, but we all know that's going to do squat if the idiots, the misinformed, and the technophobes among us -- still don't know why it's a bad idea to give just one piece of information to an unauthenticated person over the phone, or why it's a bad idea to plug in some random usb thumb drive they just found in the parking lot.
The internet as we know now is already the "renegade internet", that's why it became so successful in the first place. I left France to come to the United States in 1987. By the time I left France, almost every French household had a network computer in it. It was called the Minitel and one year it was handed out for *free* instead of phone books. When I say this to Americans, I'm not even sure they can imagine the massive scale of what I'm talking about.
In any case, my point is that at least, some countries had their chance at building the internet (as we know it now), and in the case of France they can at least claim an extremely high penetration rate -- with an extremely rich set of features -- very early on, but the thing is that France completely messed up their own efforts in that regard.
The Minitel was centralized. People could develop on its network, and they could make money on it, but before they could publish anything -- they had to get permission. It was very much like publishing an app for the iPhone. The French government had done a great job, it had invested a great deal of money, but it just couldn't let go of wanting to control everything. You can rest assured that if they had been willing to let go, just a little bit, it would have become the Internet at the time -- dominating the arpanet (but they simply chose not to go that route). And still to this day (I am french by the way) French politicians talk of controlling the Internet, censoring it, banning people from it, etc. -- all for the good of the people of course, but not clearly understanding what the Internet is really about.
So as a French citizen, I say no. Don't do it. The Internet grew out of a fertile soil. It could have grown elsewhere, but didn't. Transplanting its roots now could potentially cause some irreparable damage. Do not take the risk.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually no, there are several providers who provide unlimited SMS for a small fixed price.
I'd suggest finding another word with better connotations. Hippyware is clever, and it has the connotations you speak of, but it also connotes lower quality/shabbier quality software. And last I've checked, free software is not just ideologically-driven, it's also ego-driven, so if you want some buy-in from most of the "free software" developers (now, I'm not saying all of them would reject your suggestion) the new name would have to be not only usable -- but also at least be a little more palatable to their ego.
NewYorkCountryLawyer, This isn't the clearest summary you've written. I'd suggest that next time, you just give us the facts, for instance the first sentence of your summary would have been enough, and then you just let us do our part and let us add the outrage, the anger, the guessing, and the confusing remarks, all by ourselves.
A *competing* company? Yeah, sure. That's a reasonable request. What about a non-competing piece of software?
I have to ask because a "PHP thingie" for personal use is one thing, but what about a useful piece of software which is clearly not related to your business in any way shape or form.
Also, the assertion that GameStop is enjoying a 48% profit margin is a bit disingenuous.
GameStop has employees and stores located in high-priced malls. That cost money. And if that so-called supposed "48% profit margin" is enough to go after them, then they should go after Walmart, Barnes & Nobles, and Borders for buying new books and new DVDs at 40% of their actual retail prices -- and therefore making a supposed profit of 60% each time.
As much as I'd like to agree with you, this one sentence is not exactly true. Some ISPs do specialize in hosting porn content. I know because I looked into this myself when I looked into starting a porn web site. I did whois searches on a couple of popular porn web sites, and that gave me the name of their ISPs. And from those results, many ISPs did look like standard cookie-cut run-of-the-mill ISPs, but a few were advertising the fact that they were porn-specific ISPs (which was actually reassuring to me because they specifically addressed many of the concerns that a porn-site operator would have).
The thing is. Many GSM-netbooks (with sim-card slots) are coming out (or are about to come out). This means they're a hybrid between a laptop and a cell phone. Now I'm not saying the result is (or is going) to be pretty, but this is going to be a new class of devices that's about to get a massive penetration rate -- since many cell operators are gearing up to heavily subsidize their initial purchase.
Or if you have a Nokia, you can get Joiku (its freeware lite version is limited to http traffic only, and it takes at least 2 minutes to first start really working -- thought I have no idea why. And on the unlimited data plan of T-Mobile it will still be slow when you're browsing with it, but it's still a nice piece of freeware to have just in case you ever in need of a hot-spot). http://joiku.com/
Read their stories genius. Some were, but some were definitely NOT picked up with any weapons. Many of them were delivered by warlords for rewards of up to $5,000 which is a lot fucking money over there.
Overwhelming? Are you kidding me?
What about color blindness? Stuttering? And loss of language functions due to certain types of brain damage? What about ADD? The ratio for colorblindness is 1 out of 10 males, but something like 1 out of 100 for females (sorry for the round numbers, but if anyone wants me to look them up -- I certainly can). Stuttering, the difference is also very high, favoring females who are not only less likely to stutter, but they're also much more likely to stop stuttering once they reach adulthood. And same goes for brain injuries and loss of language functions, women lose less, and they almost always recover more quickly than men.
Now if the political correctness movement can bury these indisputable quantifiable numbers, think of what it can do to the numbers that are actually subject to interpretation and more difficult to quantify. That's right, the PC angry mob has actually stopped us from honestly exploring those possibilities. And it's preventing us from improving education for either gender, because right now, the school system is geared to teach girls and it's designed to drive out any innate masculine traits the boys have (instead of drawing on those innate qualities to make them better students).
Let me guess, you forgot to turn on your referrer logging?
What the hell!?! This is so wrong in so many ways. I'm not even sure where to start.
I say charge a good amount for lending out the laptop, more than market average (it's both an hassle and a risk). This guy is an Art student for Christ's sake! Telling an Art student to forego his personal boundaries, be nice, and they'll like you, is the surest way to make sure -- he remains unappreciated and hungry for the rest of his life. As an artist, people will ask him for his time, his work, his talent, his equipment, and his expertise all the freaking time, and I can guarantee you -- that 99% of those people won't even be ready to pay him -- even the most modest of minimum wages (not to mention, taxes or insurance or whatever else he might want/need).
If there was ever a time to learn how to learn to ask for money, or to learn how to say "no", being in Art school is that time. Do it. Be an asshole if you have to be. The mature people will understand. The immature people won't. In fact, I can guarantee you that your friendships will become absolutely rock solid and much more healthier that way.
For further reading on this, I'd recommend the book "When I Say No, I Feel Guilty" by Manuel J. Smith (not to be confused with similar titles, and do wait to read its first chapter until you've finished the rest of the book if you can, its first chapter makes more sense as its final chapter), and another book called "The Trick to Money is Having Some" by Stuart Wilde (crazy author, but worth the read -- at least this book). Also as another option, you could make a bumper sticker or a sign that says "No, you can't borrow my computer." and stick it to the back of your screen. Or if you feel bad about asking for cash, ask for favors instead (like a car ride to Safeway, or an helping hand moving, or whatever...). And if he/she doesn't have any cash on him/her, but swears they're going to give you some, ask for their iPod or something else of value as collateral (the collateral can be just a token item/amount, but even a token item can help you in some case. It can help you get compensated for your time -- or it can help make sure they understand that they'll probably want to bring their own laptop next time around).
Take away a man's porn, and you better have it repaired damn quickly!
There is definitely no honor and no pajamas in the UK.
It's targeted advertisement based on your distinct psychological profile. I personally don't see anything.
Actually, many manual farmers don't have good fingerprints. Fingerprints are actually remarkably easy to rub off.
That's because you've been watching too many CSI movies. Think of the outcome you want to achieve before you start cataloging everything. There is an actual cost to every measure we want to take.
Your question has three possible answers (but just like you, my assertions will have to be verified, or contradicted, because I really haven't kept up with the iPhone news lately). 1. This is a corporate agreement outside of the terms of the public SDK contract. 2. Background processes are allowed in the newest generations of iPhones. 3. This is Japan. 80% of the phones over there are unlocked. May be the terms are going to be different over there since they're not being held hostage by their carriers like we are here in the US where 80% of our cell phones are actually locked.
Here is the second page:
"There is nothing that would persuade me to remain in a partnership with someone as stupid, duplicitous and untrustworthy as you have proved yourself to be. As we discussed, I shall make arrangements for your exit from this firm at the earliest convenient opportunity."
Jonathan Kinlay to Ron Henley, July 20, 2004
"How like a game of chess this is. Except you are toying, not with wooden pieces, but with people's lives. And you are about to discover in this game it is I who am the grandmaster."
Jonathan Kinlay to Ron Henley, July 25, 2004
"White's attack has been successfully put down. Black sacrifices the terminally weakened pawn in order to open lines for the coming counter-attack. Meanwhile, the white knight has been neutralised and lies isolated and vulnerable at the edge of the board, waiting to be picked off by the black forces at their leisure."
Jonathan Kinlay to Ron Henley and Paul Wilmott, August 15, 2004
THE BRAIN'S WHO FELL OUT
JONATHAN KINLAY
The chief executive of Investment Analytics, a mathematical research firm that develops software programmes to exploit volatile stock markets.
He started his career at NatWest in the early 1980s but had left long before the investment bank found an £80 million black hole in its options trading book.
After a spell at Chase Manhattan, he joined the proprietary trading desk of EMC International, a European hedge fund, specialising in privately negotiated derivatives contracts. He is well known on the lecture circuit and has taught financial engineering at Carnegie Mellon in New York and at Oxford and Cambridge.
RON HENLEY
Few people span the diverse worlds of chess and high finance, and fewer rise to the top of both. Ron Henley is a chess grandmaster, but he is best known for training Anatoly Karpov, the former chess world champion. His interest in derivatives dates back to 1985, when he became a member of the American Stock Exchange.
He soon earned himself a reputation as a derivatives whizz kid, rising to become a specialist options trader for Cohen, Duffy & McGowan, one of the top options markets makers on the exchange floor. He is a regular chess commentator and runs an internet site that raises funds to sponsor young US players, including Irena Krush.
JONATHAN KINLAY
The chief executive of Investment Analytics, a mathematical research firm that develops software programmes to exploit volatile stock markets.
He started his career at NatWest in the early 1980s but had left long before the investment bank found an £80 million black hole in its options trading book.
After a spell at Chase Manhattan, he joined the proprietary trading desk of EMC International, a European hedge fund, specialising in privately negotiated derivatives contracts. He is well known on the lecture circuit and has taught financial engineering at Carnegie Mellon in New York and at Oxford and Cambridge.
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Ok, the link didn't work. I'll try again:
December 9, 2004
Caissa founders in court battle
By Joe Morgan and Richard Irving
A FORMER Oxford University professor, a chess grandmaster and a software developer are locked in a court fight in New York over ownership of a £172 million hedge fund in which top City names such as Gavyn Davies have invested tens of millions of pounds.
Paul Wilmott, Ron Henley and Jonathan Kinlay, who set up a secretive hedge fund, Caissa Capital, accuse each other of trying to lure top investors to rival funds after the partnership collapsed in acrimony earlier this year.
The dispute erupted in September when Mr Kinlay, who has developed a computer program that highlights profitable trading strategies in volatile markets, filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against his two former partners. Mr Kinlay is seeking $800,000 (£414,000) in damages for alleged breaches of intellectual property rights.
Mr Wilmott, a former Oxford University professor, and Mr Henley, who trained the former chess world champion Anatoly Karpov, hit back with a $10 million counter-suit, claiming that Mr Kinlay had tried to wind up Caissa by luring investors to a new fund that he was secretly trying to set up without their knowledge.
The dispute flared up after Mr Kinlay returned from a holiday in Italy in August to find that Mr Wilmott and Mr Henley had given back $40 million to Caissa's biggest investor, Prisma Capital Partners. Prisma is run by Gavyn Davies, former Chairman of the BBC, Girish Reddy, former head of derivatives for Goldman Sachs, and Tom Healey, a star banker.
Mr Wilmott and Mr Henley claim that Prisma demanded the return of its money after Mr Kinlay approached its backers with a proposition to invest in his new venture, the Proteom hedge fund. It is understood that the partners were sceptical of the strategy Mr Kinlay planned to use, which essentially involved using the same technology that looks for patterns in genes to predict stock and bond market moves.
Mr Kinlay, meanwhile, alleges it was his two former partners who were trying to lure Prisma into a new fund that they were also trying to set up. Both sides deny the allegations.
After the initial dispute, the trio decided to go their separate ways and arrangements were made to write a separation agreement in August. On the basis of this agreement, Mr Kinlay agreed to sell his interests in Caissa Capital and Caissa Capital International, an overseas offshoot, to Mr Wilmott and Mr Henley. He also agreed to terminate software licences granting access rights to his trading program. He collected $377,759 from his former partners under the deal.
However, court papers allege that the separation agreement negotiated by Mr Kinlay was just a smokescreen while he asked a bank, which was helping him to set up the Proteom fund, to find a legal "rottweiler . . . who would sue his two partners and Caissa's investors".
It is alleged Mr Kinlay began to plot against his former partners almost a year earlier after deciding that neither "had the time nor the skill set to make a meaningful contribution".
Court documents allege that Mr Kinlay set up the Proteom fund because, as a minority partner in Caissa, he could not force Mr Henley and Mr Wilmott out. Mr Kinlay denies the allegations.
PARTNERSHIP BREAKDOWN SEEN AS CHESS CONFLICT
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Nice job Newsweek (someone take a screenshot before the article gets pulled/corrected). His hedge fund didn't even exist in 2001. And it's not a $170 million fund, it's roughly a 170 million British Pounds fund. I would add more, but his hedge fund was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange in January 2005 right after this fiasco (and it's funny, except for one cryptic note about taking counsel in their official news section, one wouldn't know that the fund got liquidated and delisted four years ago for its shenanigans).
It might be easier just to steal some electricity (with a long ass wire), than to bother with solar panels. You can also do the same with Internet, at least that's what some file-sharers in France are preparing themselves for -- in case the government black lists from getting Internet.
Oh give me a break. You had summer school. You had money. You had a job. And you selected just the right season to be homeless. It sounds more like you were on vacation. If that counts as being homeless, then I was homeless also. I did my share of sleeping outside on pavements and in parking lots while I was staying on some of the Greek Islands (sleeping outside was actually far more comfortable than sleeping inside the non air-conditioned hotels).
This problem needs to be addressed from the bottom-up, not from the top-down. We don't need a "Czar", we don't need a branch of the military, we need someone more like the "Surgeon General" (and even that title sounds too military).
We need someone who explains and educates us, not someone who barks orders at us. We need to look at computer security as a public health issue. People need to be taught about basic computer hygiene (just like we were taught about normal body and sanitary hygiene after finding out about germ theory).
In the end, you can appoint a Czar and give him billions of dollars to raise an army, but we all know that's going to do squat if the idiots, the misinformed, and the technophobes among us -- still don't know why it's a bad idea to give just one piece of information to an unauthenticated person over the phone, or why it's a bad idea to plug in some random usb thumb drive they just found in the parking lot.
Also, I think calling their Garbage Collector G1 is a not so subtle message to Google.
The internet as we know now is already the "renegade internet", that's why it became so successful in the first place. I left France to come to the United States in 1987. By the time I left France, almost every French household had a network computer in it. It was called the Minitel and one year it was handed out for *free* instead of phone books. When I say this to Americans, I'm not even sure they can imagine the massive scale of what I'm talking about.
In any case, my point is that at least, some countries had their chance at building the internet (as we know it now), and in the case of France they can at least claim an extremely high penetration rate -- with an extremely rich set of features -- very early on, but the thing is that France completely messed up their own efforts in that regard.
The Minitel was centralized. People could develop on its network, and they could make money on it, but before they could publish anything -- they had to get permission. It was very much like publishing an app for the iPhone. The French government had done a great job, it had invested a great deal of money, but it just couldn't let go of wanting to control everything. You can rest assured that if they had been willing to let go, just a little bit, it would have become the Internet at the time -- dominating the arpanet (but they simply chose not to go that route). And still to this day (I am french by the way) French politicians talk of controlling the Internet, censoring it, banning people from it, etc. -- all for the good of the people of course, but not clearly understanding what the Internet is really about.
So as a French citizen, I say no. Don't do it. The Internet grew out of a fertile soil. It could have grown elsewhere, but didn't. Transplanting its roots now could potentially cause some irreparable damage. Do not take the risk.