I've worked in a company that makes online trading software, and this kind of abuse is as old as stock exchanges, also without high speed networks. It's called "front running":
1 - Customer sees stock offer X at nice price of, say $ 90. 2 - Customer ask broker: "Buy X for me at the *current best* price" 3 - Broker quickly buys X at $90 for *himself*, the next best offer for X on the exchange is now $95. 4 - Broker then sells *own* X to Customer for the current best market offer of $95 >>> And steals $5 profit without taking any risk.
De prevent this the Customer should do two things: A - Always specify the price at which you want to buy. B - Check the counterparty you are buying from. If you notice that your 'nice price' is often gone just after you have placed your order, something is wrong...
The reason people (us) are not outraged as right now is that TV doesn't matter much anymore.
Just keep you filthy paws off our internet freedom. The rest is marginal.
And Google is "evil" enough as it is right now...
Cheers, Richard
Hate to break it here; but since 1990 I've been storing *all* my mail (and calendar and SMSes) in a plain old Outlook PST archive file.
It is a fairly good and fexible database format with lots of import / export en search options. Future compatibility is well guaranteed.
To keep it snappy, I've been systematically removing big attachments (documents and pictures), possibly replacing them
with a texttual reference to where they are elswhere stored on disk.
.
I know, I know, low tech and the Borg, but future proof for now:-).
Finally, perfecting this technology will be the final introduction of *true* 3D (2.5D). (Without the need for extra glasses;-) And it will be the end of big TV screens sucking up power and manufacturing resources. As a bonus, in games I can really look around with my head. Can't wait...
I agree. Why would I want to sit behind my fine 3 Ghz PC to click on some slowly refreshing web pages?
Google: Nice going, but you'll have to make some applications that run *locally* at full speed.
(And are installed automatically, of course...)
Cheers, Richard
The best and most pretty urinal in Amsterdam is De Krul (the Curl) http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Krul2.jpg The design dates back to 1880 and it is very airy above *and* below to facilitate inspection for inappropriate use. Cheers, Richard (Amsterdam)
The current business model is just fine for customers like myself. I get X amount of peak capacity, which I use fully a few times a day. De price of X is low, because I'm expected to make 'fair use' of the service and not fully use up X. *Much* to be preferred to a more expensive and smaller X.
Yes, they preserve the current situation, in this case net neutrality. But additionally we must strike ComCast where it really hurts: in the wallet. Leave them. Now. Eject, eject, eject! Make them a fearsome example for other 'straying' ISPs.
And it has been said by everyone, but i *have* to say it too, to get it out of my system: Sighhhhhh!, more money down the toilet (= to laywers) and more drain on everybodys energy (mostly ours:-).
Well, I was there for the hate party. (I was even there for their surprise let's-bring-this-cool-UNIX-thingy-to-PCs-so everybody-can-use-it-and-call-it-XENIX party). But thanks for these execellent and readable summaries.
Errr, providing the hardware actueally works: - how to back it all up > On another one or two - how to secure it > Using RSA crypto & blowfish Nuf said.
Fortunately, the translation in my native tongue is easy and literal: "leedvermaak". I used to use a nice UNIX dialect called SCO XENIX, which could support 13 simultaneous users on a 386 with 8 MB RAM, plus FAX, Telex, Email and News connections. I wondered why anyone could use this piece of crap called Windows. Now I know better...... (controversy intended)
Well, take heart: There won't be any computer soon that can create a solution for a hard problem like this *from scratch*. To put it another way: The humans in this project did all the hard thinking, programming and optimization. The computer was just a fairly simple combination tree traversal tool. Checkers is not an intelligent game. Like go, chess, four-in-a-row, sudoku and tic-tac-toe it's just a biggish to small tree traversal problem with simple and fixed game rules. Kudo's for the researchers and I hope chess will be next soon!
Well, they could argue that the turnpike is a theater for performing spectacular car crashes... That way, they'd have the required creative input for claiming copyright;-)
Funny, I came up with the exact same one. (but alright, in 2.5 seconds)
The essence of the net is the ability of computers worldwide to communicate. The ever expanding _uses_ of this, and why these have mega-big-f*ck*ng social and economic implications is another story.
Describing that is a single sentence in a useful way seems impossible. You end up with something generic like the first post, which, incidentally, could also apply to a world wide smoke signalling system because it does not mention computers:-).
From TFA:
".... That exposed one of the batteries to direct sunlight, causing it to overheat."
So, also a small naviation error or small mechanical failure could already cause this
thing to overheat. It should have been constructed more robust.
Haha, good one!
I'm a bit nervous about the fragility and economy of such
a supersized plane, but hey, it's cool that it could be built.
I don't read that nearly enough in the replies.
Don't worry, your precious trees will be saved when the high-contrast e-paper reader panels become omnipresent (soon). The only environtmental pollution will be trashed PoD vending machines...
Damn, you beat me to it stating the obvious:-). Electronic distrbution costs the distributers nothing other than a sales rep signing the contract and an accountant raking in the cash. De telco's, iTunes', etc. and the *customer* pay for the distribution. Artists shoud seriously wonder what the added value of the distributors is here.
If this hacked Kapersky removes all other malware from the infected system. The user only needs to run *one* other removal tool to end up with a clean system again. (OK, OK, for a while then...)
While I wholehartedly support all the yabs about his movie making...
If you read the artice, you'll see he says that: - On-line distribution, including pay per view, will be the way of the future. - A good, working financial business model ("monetization") is not there yet.
So, basically, he is in _favor_ of on-line distribution, but wants somebody else to pave the way financially. And he does not call his future customers rats.
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I've worked in a company that makes online trading software, and this kind of abuse is as old as stock exchanges,
also without high speed networks. It's called "front running":
1 - Customer sees stock offer X at nice price of, say $ 90.
2 - Customer ask broker: "Buy X for me at the *current best* price"
3 - Broker quickly buys X at $90 for *himself*, the next best offer for X on the exchange is now $95.
4 - Broker then sells *own* X to Customer for the current best market offer of $95
>>> And steals $5 profit without taking any risk.
De prevent this the Customer should do two things:
A - Always specify the price at which you want to buy.
B - Check the counterparty you are buying from.
If you notice that your 'nice price' is often gone just after you have placed your order, something is wrong...
The reason people (us) are not outraged as right now is that TV doesn't matter much anymore. Just keep you filthy paws off our internet freedom. The rest is marginal. And Google is "evil" enough as it is right now... Cheers, Richard
Just saw the movie yesterday. What times we live in. Zuckerberg will ROFLOL.
Hate to break it here; but since 1990 I've been storing *all* my mail (and calendar and SMSes) in a plain old Outlook PST archive file. It is a fairly good and fexible database format with lots of import / export en search options. Future compatibility is well guaranteed. To keep it snappy, I've been systematically removing big attachments (documents and pictures), possibly replacing them with a texttual reference to where they are elswhere stored on disk. . I know, I know, low tech and the Borg, but future proof for now :-).
Finally, perfecting this technology will be the final introduction of *true* 3D (2.5D). ;-)
(Without the need for extra glasses
And it will be the end of big TV screens sucking up power and manufacturing resources.
As a bonus, in games I can really look around with my head.
Can't wait...
Yes. End of topic. :-)
I agree. Why would I want to sit behind my fine 3 Ghz PC to click on some slowly refreshing web pages? Google: Nice going, but you'll have to make some applications that run *locally* at full speed. (And are installed automatically, of course...) Cheers, Richard
The best and most pretty urinal in Amsterdam is De Krul (the Curl)
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:Krul2.jpg
The design dates back to 1880 and it is very airy above *and* below
to facilitate inspection for inappropriate use.
Cheers, Richard (Amsterdam)
The current business model is just fine for customers like myself.
I get X amount of peak capacity, which I use fully a few times a day.
De price of X is low, because I'm expected to make 'fair use' of the service
and not fully use up X.
*Much* to be preferred to a more expensive and smaller X.
Yes, they preserve the current situation, in this case net neutrality.
But additionally we must strike ComCast where it really hurts: in the wallet.
Leave them. Now. Eject, eject, eject!
Make them a fearsome example for other 'straying' ISPs.
Spot on.
:-).
And it has been said by everyone, but i *have* to say it too,
to get it out of my system:
Sighhhhhh!, more money down the toilet (= to laywers) and more drain
on everybodys energy (mostly ours
Well, I was there for the hate party. (I was even there for their surprise let's-bring-this-cool-UNIX-thingy-to-PCs-so everybody-can-use-it-and-call-it-XENIX party). But thanks for these execellent and readable summaries.
Errr, providing the hardware actueally works:
- how to back it all up > On another one or two
- how to secure it > Using RSA crypto & blowfish
Nuf said.
Fortunately, the translation in my native tongue is easy and literal: "leedvermaak".
I used to use a nice UNIX dialect called SCO XENIX, which could support 13
simultaneous users on a 386 with 8 MB RAM, plus FAX, Telex, Email and News connections.
I wondered why anyone could use this piece of crap called Windows.
Now I know better...... (controversy intended)
Well, take heart:
There won't be any computer soon that can create a solution for a hard problem like this *from scratch*.
To put it another way: The humans in this project did all the hard thinking, programming and optimization. The computer was just a fairly simple combination tree traversal tool. Checkers is not an intelligent game. Like go, chess, four-in-a-row, sudoku and tic-tac-toe it's just a biggish to small tree traversal problem with simple and fixed game rules.
Kudo's for the researchers and I hope chess will be next soon!
Well, they could argue that the turnpike is a theater ;-)
for performing spectacular car crashes...
That way, they'd have the required creative input for claiming copyright
Funny, I came up with the exact same one.
:-).
(but alright, in 2.5 seconds)
The essence of the net is the ability of computers worldwide to communicate.
The ever expanding _uses_ of this, and why these have mega-big-f*ck*ng social
and economic implications is another story.
Describing that is a single sentence in a useful way seems impossible.
You end up with something generic like the first post, which, incidentally,
could also apply to a world wide smoke signalling system because it does not
mention computers
From TFA: ".... That exposed one of the batteries to direct sunlight, causing it to overheat." So, also a small naviation error or small mechanical failure could already cause this thing to overheat. It should have been constructed more robust.
Haha, good one! I'm a bit nervous about the fragility and economy of such a supersized plane, but hey, it's cool that it could be built. I don't read that nearly enough in the replies.
Don't worry, your precious trees will be saved when the high-contrast e-paper reader panels become omnipresent (soon). The only environtmental pollution will be trashed PoD vending machines...
Damn, you beat me to it stating the obvious :-).
Electronic distrbution costs the distributers nothing other than a sales rep signing the contract and an accountant raking in the cash. De telco's, iTunes', etc. and the *customer* pay for the distribution. Artists shoud seriously wonder what the added value of the distributors is here.
I really, really liked it!
If this hacked Kapersky removes all other malware from the infected system. The user only needs to run *one* other removal tool to end up with a clean system again. (OK, OK, for a while then...)
Here, Here!
While I wholehartedly support all the yabs about his movie making...
If you read the artice, you'll see he says that:
- On-line distribution, including pay per view, will be the way of the future.
- A good, working financial business model ("monetization") is not there yet.
So, basically, he is in _favor_ of on-line distribution, but wants somebody else
to pave the way financially. And he does not call his future customers rats.