You may have heard that these days, banks are no longer able to fly blind. They need to know the risk exposure of their financial positions in near to real time. This gobbles CPU. Particularly because some of them are coded in Excel or VBA!!!!!
There is no doubt that Kanatjan Alibekov knows a lkt about bio weapons. It is also clear that the island of Vozrozhdeniye is contaminated to hell and that Biopreperat was involved with the nasties. I think that he is exaggerating though because of his involvement with the bioweapons detection and defense industry.
It is hard to make truely autonomous vehicles for landing many months journey away across a very inhosbitable environment. You cannot land an RPV on Mars because the lag is too high.
Even Apollo 11 had problems landing that were not foreseen (priority inversion causing the lander's computer to be overloaded). It took flying by hand (also to avoid a ground hazard) to get the thing down.
If people can get past the hazards of interplanetery space (think of soemthing with lots of fairly dense hydrogen to act as a shield), the people would be more adaptable to failures like microswitches falsely triggering or whatever.
That is why each ATM macine has a camera. In Germny many ATMs have three operation lights in a small oval at the top. The middle one doesn't look like there is a led behind it - there isn't it - is a camera.
The thing is that when a bank accepts a payment instruction, it is up to them to use a secure method to verify that instruction. If the method is insecure, then you can repudiate the debit.
Most bank machines have cameras and time stamp the videos. The banks like to use FUD to protect their systems, which tend to be quite weak, however it can be (and has been) defeated in court.
The problem of trading back from a point in the past (as in more than one business day previously) is that you have to reverse settlements that have happened. Shares tend to stay on the depository system so they are easier to deal with (although this would need some hacking at the registrar as well), but cash gets transferred out of the control of market participants. For the shares, well generally, you are just a beneficiary name on a computer somewhere and the shares exist just as a global 'certificate' with the nominee set to the depositary account holder. Cash gets moved, generally very quickly and also internationally. For example, I sell GM for dollars at the NYSE, switch the dollars to Eoros and then use the proceeds to buy VW in Germany on Xetra. Two distinct markets, and a forex transaction.
Clancy was a bit simplistic there - it would be a hell of a rollback.
In reality, you place as little as possible in recovery units because they are slow. Generally the only thing that will be transaction protected are the orders and the trades. A trade once committed on a database level can not be undone, it can only be reversed.
The easiest way isn't a database rollback because a lot of things take place that never result in a trade. The usual technique is to create trade adjustments, which are in essence just reverse trades.
Once the bad trades are 'undone' another pre-opening auction is needed to refix the price as the existing historical data (bids and offers) is hosed.
About three years ago, a small swiss bank were probably messing around and tried to sell 20 DAX futures at 5000 (the then price). Regrettably, they screwed up price and quantity and were selling 5000 DAX futures at 20. Whoops, big difference and this is clearly a mistrade byt the Eurex regulations. However the order promptly went through all the buys in the book (including the stop orders). Now the German DAX index is composed of thirty shares, if the future goes down, the tail wags the dog and the underlying shares will also be sold on another market (also operated by Deutsche Boerse, but a separate market).
The ripple effect probably took about 100 million Euros off German Market capitalisation for some time while all the trades were unwound.
Ok the functional side was clear - the market should be stopped and the trades unwound, but some damage was done in any case as shares remained depressed for the rest of the day. I guess there were also some margining issues that evening.
No. An open market is the best way we have of finding out how much something is worth. Remember that we aren't talking about intrinsic worth, we are talking about the real value as can be realised selling the securities.
The regulatory framework may be suboptimal, as may be trading and markets, but essentially it is the very best we have.
What some markets (for example, Xetra and Eurex) do is if the prices on a product change more than a set amount, continuous trading is suspended and the market moves to a mode akin to the usual pre-trading auction. At this point a new price can be set which is way below current limits, but in a process which allows supervision.
At the same time, it is relatively easy to catch straight keying by requiring confirmation.
There was a really neet unit from a Finnish company, Benefon (the other less well known Finnish mobile manufacturer) which combined some higher functionality, i.e. with two phones, how do I get to phone A's current position from Phone B. That could be quite useful, but cost about 730 Euros a piece without a contract. They have come down since last time I looked. Actually, the equivalent handheld GPS would probably cost about 2-300 Eur. The problem is that GPS is relatively high drain, and it has problems between high buildings or in deep/narrow valleys. If you can 'see' a GSM/PCS station, it knows which sector you are in and has a range.
The company even have a device for dog tracking. Apparently, many Finns are avid hunters but those pine forests are dense and dogs can get lost, they can get several km away.
In the first Gulf War I was working at a place that made avionics. We produced a GPS combo unit. Our test unit went down to less than 10 cm CPE when SA was disabled. This was a standard unit for sale for commercial aviation - definitely not survey grade although the antenna/front-end was on the building roof.
I realise that the faster equipment moves, the less accurate the position calculation is but agricultural equipment tends to move very slowly.
Survey grade uses multiple passes to get down to a cm or better but the multiple pass thing means that the only thing allowed to move is the earth.
No the idea is that someone notices a particularly bad area, typically police. They call in and you can see which equipment is nearby and radio them to see if they can help out. They may not be but at least you have an idea.
A snow-plough route may be somewhat long and it may be a problem to ascertain where a particular operator is at a given point in time. Even with the best possible intetion, a schedule can vary a lot because of conditions. Having radio control (ie. comms *and* position) allows the best use of equipment and allows for reports of conditions to be instantly linked to location.
There are plenty of things being done for tractors and combines to allow semi-automatic or automatic operations. Fields being by definition open spaces, GPS will will easily work down to a few centimeres.
Is it actually GPS, or just trackable by triangulation from the base stations? There are GPS phones around but they are still relatively expensive. If it was GPS enabled, then they would know where you are down to a couple of feet.
A GPS/mobile combo, which permits tracking costs somewhat more. However, we are still talking about a grand rather than two.
Other aspect, if a plough driver gets into trouble (or comes across other people in trouble) - quite possible in a remote area with heavy drifting, the driver can get help.
Unlike rain which usually comes down relatively evenly over an area, snow doesn't. It blows around and some areas get much more than others. Knowing where there are problems with drifting and where the ploughs are, allows the highways dept to put the two together more effectively.
This is as much the case as the Time and Motion aspect.
Funnily enough I was at a presentation by the FSB about security for high tech startups in Russia. They recommended the use of interviewing staff with a polygraph. The bosses of the high-tech companies were horrified because they knew how long they would keep their staff if they knew they could be polygraphed.
The funniest thing is that it was a KGB defector who first explained how easy such machines were to defeat by trained people.
Show me the source, I will inspect it. MS tried this on the German Bundestag, but the moment that they said they would invite competent programmers to check out their security (as opposed to the politicians that MS could buy off), MS ducked out. What are they frightened of? OS technology isn't that radical. They admit themselves that opening their sources is a major security risk.
Um, I was referring to XP pro. However, why should you care about the legions of robots that XPinsecurity is unleashing against the Internet? Regrettably my networks have to sometimes interconnect via the networks flooded with messsages from the failed Microsoft programmers.
As for your link, yep, sure but we aren't talking about Windows 2K. We are talking about the pile of shit that MS has been forcing down everyone's throats for the last two years called XP.
Here is a challenge for you, what are the minimum nuumber of services a Windows 2K or XP system needs to run? It seems that even MS doesn't know according to their memos on the conversion of hotmail.
Oh and as for the Spb release, they had rewritten the sutorun to install one or the other. It didn't help me though, I needed an O2K disk urgently because a security update to Outlook demanded the original. Small problem, it was an urgent update and my official original was several thousand miles away. Thanks MS, thanks a bundle. This is when I moved critical stuff to Linux.
The official release from MS (not the specials for corporate customers or MSDN subscribers) is bare. No SP.
The OEM release (prerecorded onto HD) is exactly what MS provide, no SP. They are not permitted by their license to offer anything else. The only time this changes is when something like 98SE comes out.
Seriously, how many dollars would it cost for MS to give customers a roll up release or a set of patches on CD when they but their OS? How much does rematering cost? Are they really that cheap?
Note that the Spb release I saw was from the local pirates. I know this because who else would bundle Office-XP on the same disk?
I used XP-pro and 2K. I found the latter more mature (it has been around for a long time). XP-pro's gee whiz bits seems to have added unnecessary feature and thus instability. The home version totally sucks though.
I had a erfectly legal version of Win95. I had a lot of problems (including a trashed boot partition) and I tried to report them. Next moment, I get a piece of paper from the BSA about software audits.
Ok, demand your money back - you paid for it didn't you?
No, Microsoft have cut their own throats. Even The Economist is talking about liability now. Between installation of XP and downloading the 45MB+ of patches comes 1000 skr1pt k1dd1ez all queueing up to 0wn your machine.
My Linux was cut less than six months ago so I have some holes to fix. I haven't found one remastered copy of XP with the patches rolled up and it has been out for over 18 months!
Christ, I have seen pirate editions of XP in the market near Metro Avtovar, St. Petersburg) with the patches rolled up -- why the hell can't Microsoft do it?
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You may have heard that these days, banks are no longer able to fly blind. They need to know the risk exposure of their financial positions in near to real time. This gobbles CPU. Particularly because some of them are coded in Excel or VBA!!!!!
There is no doubt that Kanatjan Alibekov knows a lkt about bio weapons. It is also clear that the island of Vozrozhdeniye is contaminated to hell and that Biopreperat was involved with the nasties. I think that he is exaggerating though because of his involvement with the bioweapons detection and defense industry.
Even Apollo 11 had problems landing that were not foreseen (priority inversion causing the lander's computer to be overloaded). It took flying by hand (also to avoid a ground hazard) to get the thing down.
If people can get past the hazards of interplanetery space (think of soemthing with lots of fairly dense hydrogen to act as a shield), the people would be more adaptable to failures like microswitches falsely triggering or whatever.
Crypt the utility used something similar to the enigma machine. crypt() the library was based on a modified des.
That is why each ATM macine has a camera. In Germny many ATMs have three operation lights in a small oval at the top. The middle one doesn't look like there is a led behind it - there isn't it - is a camera.
Most bank machines have cameras and time stamp the videos. The banks like to use FUD to protect their systems, which tend to be quite weak, however it can be (and has been) defeated in court.
Clancy was a bit simplistic there - it would be a hell of a rollback.
In reality, you place as little as possible in recovery units because they are slow. Generally the only thing that will be transaction protected are the orders and the trades. A trade once committed on a database level can not be undone, it can only be reversed.
Once the bad trades are 'undone' another pre-opening auction is needed to refix the price as the existing historical data (bids and offers) is hosed.
The ripple effect probably took about 100 million Euros off German Market capitalisation for some time while all the trades were unwound.
Ok the functional side was clear - the market should be stopped and the trades unwound, but some damage was done in any case as shares remained depressed for the rest of the day. I guess there were also some margining issues that evening.
The regulatory framework may be suboptimal, as may be trading and markets, but essentially it is the very best we have.
At the same time, it is relatively easy to catch straight keying by requiring confirmation.
The company even have a device for dog tracking. Apparently, many Finns are avid hunters but those pine forests are dense and dogs can get lost, they can get several km away.
I realise that the faster equipment moves, the less accurate the position calculation is but agricultural equipment tends to move very slowly.
Survey grade uses multiple passes to get down to a cm or better but the multiple pass thing means that the only thing allowed to move is the earth.
A snow-plough route may be somewhat long and it may be a problem to ascertain where a particular operator is at a given point in time. Even with the best possible intetion, a schedule can vary a lot because of conditions. Having radio control (ie. comms *and* position) allows the best use of equipment and allows for reports of conditions to be instantly linked to location.
So your mistake was quite a reasonable one!!!
Is it actually GPS, or just trackable by triangulation from the base stations? There are GPS phones around but they are still relatively expensive. If it was GPS enabled, then they would know where you are down to a couple of feet.
Other aspect, if a plough driver gets into trouble (or comes across other people in trouble) - quite possible in a remote area with heavy drifting, the driver can get help.
This is as much the case as the Time and Motion aspect.
Funnily enough I was at a presentation by the FSB about security for high tech startups in Russia. They recommended the use of interviewing staff with a polygraph. The bosses of the high-tech companies were horrified because they knew how long they would keep their staff if they knew they could be polygraphed.
The funniest thing is that it was a KGB defector who first explained how easy such machines were to defeat by trained people.
Um, I was referring to XP pro. However, why should you care about the legions of robots that XPinsecurity is unleashing against the Internet? Regrettably my networks have to sometimes interconnect via the networks flooded with messsages from the failed Microsoft programmers.
As for your link, yep, sure but we aren't talking about Windows 2K. We are talking about the pile of shit that MS has been forcing down everyone's throats for the last two years called XP.
Here is a challenge for you, what are the minimum nuumber of services a Windows 2K or XP system needs to run? It seems that even MS doesn't know according to their memos on the conversion of hotmail.
Oh and as for the Spb release, they had rewritten the sutorun to install one or the other. It didn't help me though, I needed an O2K disk urgently because a security update to Outlook demanded the original. Small problem, it was an urgent update and my official original was several thousand miles away. Thanks MS, thanks a bundle. This is when I moved critical stuff to Linux.
The OEM release (prerecorded onto HD) is exactly what MS provide, no SP. They are not permitted by their license to offer anything else. The only time this changes is when something like 98SE comes out.
Seriously, how many dollars would it cost for MS to give customers a roll up release or a set of patches on CD when they but their OS? How much does rematering cost? Are they really that cheap?
Note that the Spb release I saw was from the local pirates. I know this because who else would bundle Office-XP on the same disk?
I used XP-pro and 2K. I found the latter more mature (it has been around for a long time). XP-pro's gee whiz bits seems to have added unnecessary feature and thus instability. The home version totally sucks though.
I had a erfectly legal version of Win95. I had a lot of problems (including a trashed boot partition) and I tried to report them. Next moment, I get a piece of paper from the BSA about software audits.
No, Microsoft have cut their own throats. Even The Economist is talking about liability now. Between installation of XP and downloading the 45MB+ of patches comes 1000 skr1pt k1dd1ez all queueing up to 0wn your machine.
My Linux was cut less than six months ago so I have some holes to fix. I haven't found one remastered copy of XP with the patches rolled up and it has been out for over 18 months!
Christ, I have seen pirate editions of XP in the market near Metro Avtovar, St. Petersburg) with the patches rolled up -- why the hell can't Microsoft do it?