What surprises me is how much absolute shit these things are. I wish I could get a good model Compaq iPaq from the late 90s. Where is PocketLibreOffice with handwriting recognition? I used to write literature--solid--on a 3.5 inch TFT at real-time scribble speeds.
What attempts to improve peoples' security are we talking about here? Long-term data retention and warrantless police review of the data? 'cause that's pretty bad.
Also the 'details' are often not the whole story. Additional 'details' are secret or creep in--like the license plate cameras being used to find stolen cars. Those are also being used to build databases of where people are, which are cross-referenced with speed limits and time, determining that person X got 5 blocks really fast so must be speeding. (Yes, the police are databasing where non-stolen cars are, but "only to give speeding tickets," when the cameras were put there "only to find stolen cars").
People are more afraid of what's not being said and of demonstrated pattern behavior. Basically we're afraid of the Kazi.
The fact is there are still only 15 buyers and sellers. There are 10,000 HFTs but they don't 'provide liquidity' unless they're screwing someone out of their money.
Same problem though. You're outsourcing critical systems (software). The software S&P and TradeKing run, for example, is a multi-layer application with a backend, middleware (in Java!), and frontend with so many security holes it's hilarious. The vendor hired their own security analyst--a direct hire, not a contractor--who basically wanders around doing a Dunning-Kruger, thinking he knows what he's doing and not realizing just how broke-as-fuck their software is. They tell their clients they have a specialized security guy; they're more oblivious than fraudulent, they have a guy who's supposed to be doing a job he's not doing.
I worked at a place that built its internal financial system. PCI2 compliant, SAS70, the works. I basically hacked it by accident--wanted to cancel a service I had, didn't feel like jumping through the hoops so I set my credit card to something invalid and let it auto-expire. When I set it to the invalid value, it gave me an SQL statement dump and a DB error... it passed all that crap verbatim and basically sent me a response like, 'Put a quote here, a select statement, and a;--, and enjoy all credit card numbers' (enough debug that in one second I already knew the layout of the database and how to slip in an SQL injection AND that it would work--I didn't follow through, but that's a SIGNIFICANT amount of recon, something most hackers try to dig out intentionally). It ran the update, too, btw, but broke the shit out of their system until they fixed it. That much brokenness was standard--duct tape and chewing gum technology here.
Take your pick. IT outsourcing works better because system administration, basic engineering, networking, and security grow experience. Programming is often more a grind fest because it's a dog-and-pony show: if it works, it works, and minor problems (runs like shit, crashes sometimes, etc) aren't important. Other IT tasks not so much, information blindness (audit system doesn't cover everything) and poorly loaded networks (90% on switch A and 10% on switch B is wrong) get attention, analysis, and fixes. Also they're just easier (programming is HARD).
We could continue this back and forth, but really, I think I'll defer the question: why are you outsourcing your software? Can't you just hire a software team to write an operating system and in-house control software for your financials? Surely it's better to have your own techs write your encryption implementation than to use the mess that is OpenSSL?
The 'liquidity' line is firm bullshit. 'liquidity' means something to actually move. If it's advantageous to sell, you sell and make money, there's your liquidity; if it's not advantageous to sell, "creating liquidity" means losing money. Wall Street bankers are a bastion of philanthropy and outflow cash into the market constantly, right?
Well, you have a small shop of specialized people to handle a handful of sparkly-resume folks to hopefully do the job right. To hopefully improve chances of doing the job right, you hire a guy who seems pretty smart and has a sparkly resume to act as a manager of these sparkly-resume college kids. For all this, you get to cover logistics and take on the liability of managing them; and when things get out of hand, they outsource to the Internet or friends from college, leaking hints of your internal operations to untrusteds trying to get a grasp on things--which may be wobbly.
Or, you pay someone whose small shop of specialized people handles payroll for a big shop of IT people. They have specialized legal department that knows more than YOUR legal department about YOUR requirements for SOX and HIPPA and SAS70. They not only handle the logistics of finding you a sparkly-resume college kid, but they supply wide-spanning, far-reaching technical expertise comprising both management and consulting to make sure the sparkly-resume college kid is either REALLY good or can be collared and handled properly; if he's kind of fresh they'll put him somewhere less-critical and give support.
Speaking of support, even the veterans have a fallback that's legally bound to contract and confidentiality--grabbing some help from coworkers from your parent contracting agency is better than blabbing around on Web forums. Even when you're a fully-placed shop (i.e. hired to give site support, you don't know your coworkers), your contracting manager can find you people to talk to--mine hooked me up with some Windows guys and Unix guys under the same contract in other parts of the building, once upon a time, when I needed specialized help.
It's very expensive to do it right once or twice. Some of these places do it right hundreds or thousands of times a month. 'Doing it right' means hiring or properly training the right people, something that is logistically hard. How do you find a manager you know knows IT? You must know IT to know he's not a moron. A shop that specializes in IT is, by nature, well prepared to weed out the morons.
In the US, it's $35-$60/hr plus the cost of benefits plus compliance with EEO laws plus payroll taxes plus you actually have to run payroll and accounting for all that instead of dumping a brick of cash into a line-item on your accounting.
It is a gross failure of responsibility not to maintain IT in-house when your entire business is built on IT, which is the case in banking today.
Why? Contractors are still people, just their payroll department is elsewhere. They live in your building, sit at your desks, use your computers. I mean hell, I worked at the Social Security Administration and most people at the NSA are contractors. Some of my coworkers WERE NSA at one job for a while; we worked in the same office, I wasn't cleared and they didn't work on secret projects in the same office because that office wasn't a secure room or else, you know, I wouldn't be allowed in it.
genetically engineered food is good and desirable, since mankind has yet to grasp the whole 'birth control' concept, and likely never will.
The best part is that if we have a population decline, we get by reduced issued credit, which is reduced money in circulation. What happens then is people can't pay off their debts (the money isn't there), hell there's less consumer base so less salary going out. This is a "credit crunch," and it causes defaults, further deflation, further crunch, and then an economic collapse into recession.
If we don't stop making babies, the economy bubbles until it bursts, then collapses. That's what's happening now. Notice that, with housing popping and tuition coming next (people are realizing tuition has become devalued, since a college degree doesn't promise great salary to pay off school, and getting a job is better), loans are defaulting and new loans aren't being made. There's a lot of mortgage debt issued to the banks, but not a lot of mortgages being made to people--money sitting at the banks trying to get loaned out. Unnecessary money. Deflation, default, credit crunch, recession. Tuition will have the same problem.
And how exactly would that actually work? Right now everybody who copies takes the risk; you're instead talking about setting up a system by which a very few people take the risk, and once the gates are open they not only cannot be closed again but also you can't even swing a sword at the Romans coming through.
Why don't you just come out and say you're against copyrights at all? Oh wait you did, and then suggested that ultra-restrictive dial-home DRM with exotic hardware-based decoder systems needs to be put in place so it's physically impossible to crack without a molecular lab (acid-clearing the epoxy destroys the decoder chip, and even then you'd need an electron microscope to analyze it).
I mean, they stockpile it when prices are low (keeping prices up), then sell it when prices rise (taking massive profit) "to protect the consumer". Sounds like what I do with securities, but I call it "robbing old peoples' retirement accounts."
Seriously, if she has signal, she can stream talk radio from... I don't know, RADIO?
Your wife sounds like a psycho. Anyone addicted to talk radio inevitably becomes a liberal asstard freak or a neocon asstard freak. Addiction to politics causes, besides extreme assholism, high levels of stress leading to sickness and heart problems. As the damage increases from prolonged exposure, symptoms such as all-your-friends-are-morons and get-new-friend-that-agree-with-you appear, eventually leading to advanced cases of divorce-your-husband-because-he-licks-Obama's-asshole-but-he's-still-not-as-liberal-as-you-are and a severe case of all-your-friends-are-assholes.
You should stage an intervention before she divorces you and indoctrinates your kids. Or worse, runs your cell phone bill up.
T-Mobile is the company being bought, or they're doing the buying this round? In either case, it's already announced, so most of the fluctuation has happened. If there's a delay, the prices will normalize again until the merger is eminent.
If she has an android phone, tell her to get Amazon MP3 and transfer all her shit from Amazon Cloud Player to the SD card or internal storage. Then she doesn't need to stream. Also why can't she stream from her work PC?
Yeah starts not being worth it once you get to the $20 for 10GB plans. Still, $30 unlimited on T-Mobile vs $30 2GB + pay money for overrun on Verizon (and on T-Mobile it's $10 2GB + slow shit after 2GB at no extra charge, WTF Verizon)
What are you, Rush Limbaugh? I bet you denied Global Cooling before Global Warming came along. Now you're trying to claim Global Shaking is a good thing?!
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Thermostatic mixing valve. Look it up.
What surprises me is how much absolute shit these things are. I wish I could get a good model Compaq iPaq from the late 90s. Where is PocketLibreOffice with handwriting recognition? I used to write literature--solid--on a 3.5 inch TFT at real-time scribble speeds.
Would you be behind an upgrade to Cyanogenmod to negotiate encryption over voice connections based on PKI?
What attempts to improve peoples' security are we talking about here? Long-term data retention and warrantless police review of the data? 'cause that's pretty bad.
Also the 'details' are often not the whole story. Additional 'details' are secret or creep in--like the license plate cameras being used to find stolen cars. Those are also being used to build databases of where people are, which are cross-referenced with speed limits and time, determining that person X got 5 blocks really fast so must be speeding. (Yes, the police are databasing where non-stolen cars are, but "only to give speeding tickets," when the cameras were put there "only to find stolen cars").
People are more afraid of what's not being said and of demonstrated pattern behavior. Basically we're afraid of the Kazi.
Companies aren't whiter than white? You mean they're little black kids that steal your bicycle?
The fact is there are still only 15 buyers and sellers. There are 10,000 HFTs but they don't 'provide liquidity' unless they're screwing someone out of their money.
Same problem though. You're outsourcing critical systems (software). The software S&P and TradeKing run, for example, is a multi-layer application with a backend, middleware (in Java!), and frontend with so many security holes it's hilarious. The vendor hired their own security analyst--a direct hire, not a contractor--who basically wanders around doing a Dunning-Kruger, thinking he knows what he's doing and not realizing just how broke-as-fuck their software is. They tell their clients they have a specialized security guy; they're more oblivious than fraudulent, they have a guy who's supposed to be doing a job he's not doing.
I worked at a place that built its internal financial system. PCI2 compliant, SAS70, the works. I basically hacked it by accident--wanted to cancel a service I had, didn't feel like jumping through the hoops so I set my credit card to something invalid and let it auto-expire. When I set it to the invalid value, it gave me an SQL statement dump and a DB error... it passed all that crap verbatim and basically sent me a response like, 'Put a quote here, a select statement, and a ;--, and enjoy all credit card numbers' (enough debug that in one second I already knew the layout of the database and how to slip in an SQL injection AND that it would work--I didn't follow through, but that's a SIGNIFICANT amount of recon, something most hackers try to dig out intentionally). It ran the update, too, btw, but broke the shit out of their system until they fixed it. That much brokenness was standard--duct tape and chewing gum technology here.
Take your pick. IT outsourcing works better because system administration, basic engineering, networking, and security grow experience. Programming is often more a grind fest because it's a dog-and-pony show: if it works, it works, and minor problems (runs like shit, crashes sometimes, etc) aren't important. Other IT tasks not so much, information blindness (audit system doesn't cover everything) and poorly loaded networks (90% on switch A and 10% on switch B is wrong) get attention, analysis, and fixes. Also they're just easier (programming is HARD).
We could continue this back and forth, but really, I think I'll defer the question: why are you outsourcing your software? Can't you just hire a software team to write an operating system and in-house control software for your financials? Surely it's better to have your own techs write your encryption implementation than to use the mess that is OpenSSL?
The 'liquidity' line is firm bullshit. 'liquidity' means something to actually move. If it's advantageous to sell, you sell and make money, there's your liquidity; if it's not advantageous to sell, "creating liquidity" means losing money. Wall Street bankers are a bastion of philanthropy and outflow cash into the market constantly, right?
Well, you have a small shop of specialized people to handle a handful of sparkly-resume folks to hopefully do the job right. To hopefully improve chances of doing the job right, you hire a guy who seems pretty smart and has a sparkly resume to act as a manager of these sparkly-resume college kids. For all this, you get to cover logistics and take on the liability of managing them; and when things get out of hand, they outsource to the Internet or friends from college, leaking hints of your internal operations to untrusteds trying to get a grasp on things--which may be wobbly.
Or, you pay someone whose small shop of specialized people handles payroll for a big shop of IT people. They have specialized legal department that knows more than YOUR legal department about YOUR requirements for SOX and HIPPA and SAS70. They not only handle the logistics of finding you a sparkly-resume college kid, but they supply wide-spanning, far-reaching technical expertise comprising both management and consulting to make sure the sparkly-resume college kid is either REALLY good or can be collared and handled properly; if he's kind of fresh they'll put him somewhere less-critical and give support.
Speaking of support, even the veterans have a fallback that's legally bound to contract and confidentiality--grabbing some help from coworkers from your parent contracting agency is better than blabbing around on Web forums. Even when you're a fully-placed shop (i.e. hired to give site support, you don't know your coworkers), your contracting manager can find you people to talk to--mine hooked me up with some Windows guys and Unix guys under the same contract in other parts of the building, once upon a time, when I needed specialized help.
It's very expensive to do it right once or twice. Some of these places do it right hundreds or thousands of times a month. 'Doing it right' means hiring or properly training the right people, something that is logistically hard. How do you find a manager you know knows IT? You must know IT to know he's not a moron. A shop that specializes in IT is, by nature, well prepared to weed out the morons.
In the US, it's $35-$60/hr plus the cost of benefits plus compliance with EEO laws plus payroll taxes plus you actually have to run payroll and accounting for all that instead of dumping a brick of cash into a line-item on your accounting.
It is a gross failure of responsibility not to maintain IT in-house when your entire business is built on IT, which is the case in banking today.
Why? Contractors are still people, just their payroll department is elsewhere. They live in your building, sit at your desks, use your computers. I mean hell, I worked at the Social Security Administration and most people at the NSA are contractors. Some of my coworkers WERE NSA at one job for a while; we worked in the same office, I wasn't cleared and they didn't work on secret projects in the same office because that office wasn't a secure room or else, you know, I wouldn't be allowed in it.
genetically engineered food is good and desirable, since mankind has yet to grasp the whole 'birth control' concept, and likely never will.
The best part is that if we have a population decline, we get by reduced issued credit, which is reduced money in circulation. What happens then is people can't pay off their debts (the money isn't there), hell there's less consumer base so less salary going out. This is a "credit crunch," and it causes defaults, further deflation, further crunch, and then an economic collapse into recession.
If we don't stop making babies, the economy bubbles until it bursts, then collapses. That's what's happening now. Notice that, with housing popping and tuition coming next (people are realizing tuition has become devalued, since a college degree doesn't promise great salary to pay off school, and getting a job is better), loans are defaulting and new loans aren't being made. There's a lot of mortgage debt issued to the banks, but not a lot of mortgages being made to people--money sitting at the banks trying to get loaned out. Unnecessary money. Deflation, default, credit crunch, recession. Tuition will have the same problem.
This is why Jews had laws against usury.
I don't get the changing logos. WTF is going on with that?
And how exactly would that actually work? Right now everybody who copies takes the risk; you're instead talking about setting up a system by which a very few people take the risk, and once the gates are open they not only cannot be closed again but also you can't even swing a sword at the Romans coming through.
Why don't you just come out and say you're against copyrights at all? Oh wait you did, and then suggested that ultra-restrictive dial-home DRM with exotic hardware-based decoder systems needs to be put in place so it's physically impossible to crack without a molecular lab (acid-clearing the epoxy destroys the decoder chip, and even then you'd need an electron microscope to analyze it).
I mean, they stockpile it when prices are low (keeping prices up), then sell it when prices rise (taking massive profit) "to protect the consumer". Sounds like what I do with securities, but I call it "robbing old peoples' retirement accounts."
You use raspberry to jam radar.
producers can have the reserve buy up excess inventory, then later sell it when prices rise, to protect consumers.
T... what?
Seriously, if she has signal, she can stream talk radio from ... I don't know, RADIO?
Your wife sounds like a psycho. Anyone addicted to talk radio inevitably becomes a liberal asstard freak or a neocon asstard freak. Addiction to politics causes, besides extreme assholism, high levels of stress leading to sickness and heart problems. As the damage increases from prolonged exposure, symptoms such as all-your-friends-are-morons and get-new-friend-that-agree-with-you appear, eventually leading to advanced cases of divorce-your-husband-because-he-licks-Obama's-asshole-but-he's-still-not-as-liberal-as-you-are and a severe case of all-your-friends-are-assholes.
You should stage an intervention before she divorces you and indoctrinates your kids. Or worse, runs your cell phone bill up.
T-Mobile is the company being bought, or they're doing the buying this round? In either case, it's already announced, so most of the fluctuation has happened. If there's a delay, the prices will normalize again until the merger is eminent.
If she has an android phone, tell her to get Amazon MP3 and transfer all her shit from Amazon Cloud Player to the SD card or internal storage. Then she doesn't need to stream. Also why can't she stream from her work PC?
Yeah starts not being worth it once you get to the $20 for 10GB plans. Still, $30 unlimited on T-Mobile vs $30 2GB + pay money for overrun on Verizon (and on T-Mobile it's $10 2GB + slow shit after 2GB at no extra charge, WTF Verizon)
Doing stupid shit to piss off lawyers is pretty stupid.
That should pass in court. Law enforcement isn't enforcing laws and behavior is detrimental to you.
What are you, Rush Limbaugh? I bet you denied Global Cooling before Global Warming came along. Now you're trying to claim Global Shaking is a good thing?!