Why was this modded down? "Inflation Protection" and US Treasury don't go together any more. The official inflation numbers are bogus. The Fed and Treasury have painted themselves into a corner, there is no way they can ever admit to inflation, lest interest rates rise and cause our debt to crush us.
The main reason for HFT is to "front run" the market, to game the traditional customers of the price discovery mechanism, and make a risk-less profit. This dis-incentivises the market for everyone else, who see it as corruption and move their money elsewhere.
The big picture though is one of a big liquidity event, in which the velocity of money is rapidly falling as everyone tries to save up enough cash to ride out the oncoming greater depression. The rapid printing of money is showing up in the 17% growth of the M3 Money Supply, but is getting hoarded up by banks and corporations as rapidly as it's getting created. This is the only thing keeping inflation from at bay, for now.
Once the Tsunami of dollars starts to find its way to main street, and chasing goods and services, an inflationary wave will hit us all, and we'll learn to get used to $10/gallon gasoline, and they start to remember it fondly not much later.
It's not outsourcing, developers, lazy users, the Chinese or any other of the above mentioned causes that are at the root here. The root cause is the operating systems we all run aren't secure by design.
Linux, OS_X, Windows, Android, and all the phones run systems which are based on the idea of users who can be trusted. This is a great idea for computer science departments of the 1970s, prior to wide scale networking and mobile code. The idea is just stupid in todays environment, and has just lead to a ton of patches over a ship made of sponge.
Capability based security reverse the bad assumption that you should base everything on trusting (or not) the user. The user isn't the problem. The software the user uses should be the problem, and focus of attention. Linux, OS_X, Windows, Android, etc. ALL trust a program with the resources of the user in question, which is NUTS (and has been quite a foolish thing to do since 1980)
The Genode project is working to bring a full-on capabilities based system together on top of an L4 secure kernel. In this OS, the user selects the resources to make available to the program at run time. This is better than App_Armor in that it's more flexible, and easier to work with. The best part is that capabilities already match the way we deal with non-computer based parts of our life.
Owe someone $15? You had them a $20, and they give you $5 back. The $20 bill was a capability, and the maximum you could lose. They can't trojan horse your money, and steal the rest out later.
Want to let someone borrow your car? You hand them the keys, and it gets them into your car... not all cars of that model, not your house, not your bank account. It's a capability, which accesses that one resource, not all of them.
Capabilities offer a way to fix computer security for good if enough people "get it" and push for its adoption.
I spent 15 years being the IT staff for a small marketing company. Last November they decided to save a ton of money and outsource IT, which is working ok for them. They have some issues which will now never be resolved (like form letters with wrong contact names hard-coded into them), but on the whole they can work with the slowly self-crippling mess they have. It's worth the hassle for the savings, and the cheaper, outsourcing people will at least keep it running.
For them, it's all about money... and they aren't unique by any stretch. The days of the small IT shop, or the lone IT guy are fast coming to an end. Microsoft's push to kill the PC (aka Windows 8) isn't helping matters either.
I'll probably end up doing something in manufacturing or agriculture instead of IT now. It'll be fun and interesting, I'm sure.
Yes, this is just like a plenoptic (light field) camera. If you want to experiment yourself, all you need is non-moving subject material, a digital camera, and time. Take photos from slightly shifted viewing positions of a subject. Then use Hugin or Photoshop to align them on a chosen subject (or focal plane). Average all the frames together, and you'll have a synthetic focus image of your subject.
With some care and effort, you can even supersample the pool of images and get super-resolution output, where the result is more pixels than any source image (but far less than the sum of all the images).
Extruder based 3d printers are far too slow, inconsistent, and expensive to recommend to anyone other than an enthusiast. You have to learn the 3d design software, slicer software, and then spend a few hundred hours getting to know your printer.
If you're building prototypes or something, they can be a useful alternative to subtractive machining. They can not be used to replace an existing plastic part without a really good 3d scanner, and far more tweaking than most people are willing to endure.
Some day non-trivial parts will emerge from these things in sub-workday time frames, without the need for constant nursing, but that's not here yet.
I'm beginning to suspect that Plymouth Notch, Vt. isn't an actual location. The zip code locator can't find it, neither can Zillow. I'd be happy to move to a little hole in the wall in Vermont, if I could get gigabit internet.
It's single axis of ranking that make it hard to sort out things, and find the signal amid the noise. If there were ways to flag a point of view, for example, you could find things you agree with (or don't) and want to read, and filter out all the rage post crap.
As it's strictly a popularity contest at present... stuff that appeals to the usual crowd self reinforces over time, and you end up with the crowd that stays here.
The current work around is to scatter our attention at a bunch of broken sites, looking for one that better matches our view... and always being disappointed.
It used to be you could buy a new computer, and use it. Now to do that, you have to find an operating system, figure out how to get it to work with the new (unsupported on older OSs) hardware. Why bother? I'm dreading the task when this laptop finally dies.
I bought a Windows 8 machine on Black Friday, it lasted 4 hours before I gave up and returned it.
Windows 8 sucks so much, it can lift matter back past the event horizon of a black hole.
Your money isn't even that.... it's the banks money, which they promise to give back to you, if you ask nicely for it, and haven't been naughty in the sight of any government.
Your money was they used as the justification for lending 10 times that amount in loans, each bearing interest for the bank. (The factor of 10 is approximately what happens with 10% reserve requirements, which don't apply to really big banks that are too big to fail)
For every $1000 in deposits, that means they can lend $10,000 at 5% above their costs and payouts, or more, yielding a $500 profit... wow!
This $500 is spent by them eventually, and helps dilute the value of your original $1000 by inflation... so your "savings" loses value, as they leverage against it in multiple manners....
A digital fountain emits a stream of packets, consisting of a packet number, which selects a pseudo-random set of pieces of a file to be sent all XORED together. If you collect enough packets, no matter what order, you can derive the whole file (using Gaussian elimination to un-XOR it). Put everything you want to send to the past into a huge ZIP file, then use a digital fountain to send it, and it get there eventually, no matter what the time shift involved.
Here, let me tweak what you said a bit to increase cognitive dissonance a bit, and hopefully reveal hidden assumptions which might be wrong.
FRNs (Federal Reserve Notes) are already regulated by somebody, so it is only a question of who gets to write the rules. It's a bit like PayPal - they do all the things a bank does, but they escape bank regulations by not calling themselves a bank - I don't think I need to reiterate all the complaints against PayPal, so I won't, but they are getting away with these things because they don't follow the normal banking rules.
<Assumption>The reason we have laws and standards regulating the handling and production of money is to protect society, ie mostly ordinary people.</Assumption> And the reason the rules have to be written by the legislature is that self-regulation never works in favour of people, it only works for the said industry. At least the government has to consider all the industries, and who knows, maybe even the people sometimes.
As far as I can see, somewhere behind FRNs there's a group of people who are making a profit from it, and whose profit would be diminished by having to follow rules meant to protect the ordinary user. I haven't been able to find out who they are; IMO, you should never trust a business who doesn't want to look you in the eye. There is nothing wrong with wanting to make money out of something, so why hide behind anonymity? It is certainly not because they are saintly idealists who only want the best for you. Remember the old saying: "If it's too good to be true..."
The system is protecting itself, not use. The reason there checks and balances throughout the constitution is to try to hold on to democracy as long as they could. The bankers won in 1913, and are obviously running us all into the ground in spite of the losses to the rest of us, so they can keep extracting resources from us.
I would strongly advise against putting anything with that many germs on it into any body orifice, even that one. One little scratch anywhere, and you're going to get a nasty infection.
Ultraconductors got killed in the 2008 market crash. Had they not got killed, they were making superconductors out of plastic, they called it Ultraconductor. (Not to be confused with the speaker cables of the same name). This stuff conducted at room temperature a million times better than silver! I have no doubt they could have done it, had the economy not killed them. Here are the relevant patents.
US Patent 5,777,292 - Materials having high electrical conductivity at room teperatures and... US Patent 6,804,105 - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high...
Here's a 2005 interview (.pdf, sorry), which may give some insight about Ultraconductor.
US Patent 7,014,795 discusses the growth of crystalized electron pairs (otherwise referred to as polarons in other places), the diagrams are especially helpful.
I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace to eventually create polymer cables which are 10 to 10 million times better than silver at conducting electricity.
I'm glad this project is getting positive attention. It's my main source of hope that computer security will get fixed, for real. I won't miss virus scanners, having to worry about visiting web sites, opening email, etc. When my laptop can run it as a primary OS, I'm switching and never looking back.
You have to use vector potential communications if you want to be able to transmit from a stealth fighters / bombers without the use of a conventional radio signal.
There are more variables in electromagnetism than you learned about in Maxwell's equations. They were edited out by Heaviside because they don't normally have any measurable effect in real world experiments. They only show up in things like a SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device) used to detect faint magnetic fields. (The SQUID actually detects the A field, which the B field is the curl of).
Because the knowledge of these additional values (there were 20 original equations, all in quaternion notation) has pretty much been lost, we're missing out on a lot of cool tech. It's my hope that we pick these things back up as this becomes more widely known.
You can transmit a signal that no normal radio will pick up. It needs an actively powered plasma antenna to be received.
Having other people who uniformly agree with you would enable such a system to work, but reality is more fine grained than that.
What you really want is to be able to flag/score things according to some specific dimension, like "truth", "humor", "spam", "creationism", "logic", "propaganda", etc.
If those dimensions were chosen by all of us, and consistently scored/flagged/applied,/. would be a lot more powerful.
I see how you may have come to that conclusion, but you're wrong. SELinux has you build profiles for applications. It would be like programming your car to only be able to take you to/from work in order to prevent it being stolen. This is why nobody wants to use SELinux.
Genode offers honest to goodness capabilities on top of a number of microkernels. I'm looking forward to the day I can switch my laptop over to it. I'll not miss all the worry about virii, java bugs, etc.
That isn't going to protect you from everything. You still have to code proactively with security in mind. If I have a website that needs to access a database it may be perfectly locked down so that the program can only touch that database. That doesn't prevent a hacker from finding a bug in my program and exploiting it to get a copy of that database. I'm not talking about things like buffer overflows or other system exploits, I'm talking about simple logic errors. There is nothing the OS can do to protect against things like that.
True enough, but at least you get to decide what you risk in such a system, instead of the unlimited risk which we all live with now.
Here's a virtual focus photo I did a few years ago, placing the focal plane on a skew.
If you take photos from a large enough set of positions with a normal camera and some time, you can get the same thing lytro does, but only with still subjects.
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Why was this modded down? "Inflation Protection" and US Treasury don't go together any more. The official inflation numbers are bogus. The Fed and Treasury have painted themselves into a corner, there is no way they can ever admit to inflation, lest interest rates rise and cause our debt to crush us.
The main reason for HFT is to "front run" the market, to game the traditional customers of the price discovery mechanism, and make a risk-less profit. This dis-incentivises the market for everyone else, who see it as corruption and move their money elsewhere.
The big picture though is one of a big liquidity event, in which the velocity of money is rapidly falling as everyone tries to save up enough cash to ride out the oncoming greater depression. The rapid printing of money is showing up in the 17% growth of the M3 Money Supply, but is getting hoarded up by banks and corporations as rapidly as it's getting created. This is the only thing keeping inflation from at bay, for now.
Once the Tsunami of dollars starts to find its way to main street, and chasing goods and services, an inflationary wave will hit us all, and we'll learn to get used to $10/gallon gasoline, and they start to remember it fondly not much later.
It's not outsourcing, developers, lazy users, the Chinese or any other of the above mentioned causes that are at the root here. The root cause is the operating systems we all run aren't secure by design.
Linux, OS_X, Windows, Android, and all the phones run systems which are based on the idea of users who can be trusted. This is a great idea for computer science departments of the 1970s, prior to wide scale networking and mobile code. The idea is just stupid in todays environment, and has just lead to a ton of patches over a ship made of sponge.
Capability based security reverse the bad assumption that you should base everything on trusting (or not) the user. The user isn't the problem. The software the user uses should be the problem, and focus of attention. Linux, OS_X, Windows, Android, etc. ALL trust a program with the resources of the user in question, which is NUTS (and has been quite a foolish thing to do since 1980)
The Genode project is working to bring a full-on capabilities based system together on top of an L4 secure kernel. In this OS, the user selects the resources to make available to the program at run time. This is better than App_Armor in that it's more flexible, and easier to work with. The best part is that capabilities already match the way we deal with non-computer based parts of our life.
Owe someone $15? You had them a $20, and they give you $5 back. The $20 bill was a capability, and the maximum you could lose. They can't trojan horse your money, and steal the rest out later.
Want to let someone borrow your car? You hand them the keys, and it gets them into your car... not all cars of that model, not your house, not your bank account. It's a capability, which accesses that one resource, not all of them.
Capabilities offer a way to fix computer security for good if enough people "get it" and push for its adoption.
I spent 15 years being the IT staff for a small marketing company. Last November they decided to save a ton of money and outsource IT, which is working ok for them. They have some issues which will now never be resolved (like form letters with wrong contact names hard-coded into them), but on the whole they can work with the slowly self-crippling mess they have. It's worth the hassle for the savings, and the cheaper, outsourcing people will at least keep it running.
For them, it's all about money... and they aren't unique by any stretch. The days of the small IT shop, or the lone IT guy are fast coming to an end. Microsoft's push to kill the PC (aka Windows 8) isn't helping matters either.
I'll probably end up doing something in manufacturing or agriculture instead of IT now. It'll be fun and interesting, I'm sure.
Yes, this is just like a plenoptic (light field) camera. If you want to experiment yourself, all you need is non-moving subject material, a digital camera, and time. Take photos from slightly shifted viewing positions of a subject. Then use Hugin or Photoshop to align them on a chosen subject (or focal plane). Average all the frames together, and you'll have a synthetic focus image of your subject.
With some care and effort, you can even supersample the pool of images and get super-resolution output, where the result is more pixels than any source image (but far less than the sum of all the images).
I've been doing experimentation along these lines for a few years, and here are the resulting photos of scenes from the Chicago area. I was inspired by the work of Marc Levoy, and his Stanford Multi-Camera array.
Extruder based 3d printers are far too slow, inconsistent, and expensive to recommend to anyone other than an enthusiast. You have to learn the 3d design software, slicer software, and then spend a few hundred hours getting to know your printer.
If you're building prototypes or something, they can be a useful alternative to subtractive machining. They can not be used to replace an existing plastic part without a really good 3d scanner, and far more tweaking than most people are willing to endure.
Some day non-trivial parts will emerge from these things in sub-workday time frames, without the need for constant nursing, but that's not here yet.
I'm beginning to suspect that Plymouth Notch, Vt. isn't an actual location. The zip code locator can't find it, neither can Zillow. I'd be happy to move to a little hole in the wall in Vermont, if I could get gigabit internet.
AMEN
Maybe he'll have Google join of the Genode project, and finally fix computer security for all of us.
It's single axis of ranking that make it hard to sort out things, and find the signal amid the noise. If there were ways to flag a point of view, for example, you could find things you agree with (or don't) and want to read, and filter out all the rage post crap.
As it's strictly a popularity contest at present... stuff that appeals to the usual crowd self reinforces over time, and you end up with the crowd that stays here.
The current work around is to scatter our attention at a bunch of broken sites, looking for one that better matches our view... and always being disappointed.
It used to be you could buy a new computer, and use it. Now to do that, you have to find an operating system, figure out how to get it to work with the new (unsupported on older OSs) hardware. Why bother? I'm dreading the task when this laptop finally dies.
I bought a Windows 8 machine on Black Friday, it lasted 4 hours before I gave up and returned it.
Windows 8 sucks so much, it can lift matter back past the event horizon of a black hole.
Your money isn't even that.... it's the banks money, which they promise to give back to you, if you ask nicely for it, and haven't been naughty in the sight of any government.
Your money was they used as the justification for lending 10 times that amount in loans, each bearing interest for the bank. (The factor of 10 is approximately what happens with 10% reserve requirements, which don't apply to really big banks that are too big to fail)
For every $1000 in deposits, that means they can lend $10,000 at 5% above their costs and payouts, or more, yielding a $500 profit... wow!
This $500 is spent by them eventually, and helps dilute the value of your original $1000 by inflation... so your "savings" loses value, as they leverage against it in multiple manners....
The best way to rob a bank is to own it. 8)
A digital fountain emits a stream of packets, consisting of a packet number, which selects a pseudo-random set of pieces of a file to be sent all XORED together. If you collect enough packets, no matter what order, you can derive the whole file (using Gaussian elimination to un-XOR it). Put everything you want to send to the past into a huge ZIP file, then use a digital fountain to send it, and it get there eventually, no matter what the time shift involved.
Here, let me tweak what you said a bit to increase cognitive dissonance a bit, and hopefully reveal hidden assumptions which might be wrong.
The system is protecting itself, not use. The reason there checks and balances throughout the constitution is to try to hold on to democracy as long as they could. The bankers won in 1913, and are obviously running us all into the ground in spite of the losses to the rest of us, so they can keep extracting resources from us.
I would strongly advise against putting anything with that many germs on it into any body orifice, even that one. One little scratch anywhere, and you're going to get a nasty infection.
making the SNR ratio way too high to be useful.
I'm picking a nit here... I admit it...
SNR = Signal / (Signal + Noise)
You want good numbers, like 30db or more.. higher SNR is better.
The spammers, sock puppets and shills are LOWERING the S(S+N) ratio asymptotically to zero.
The way to combat this is with well designed and run forums, and other computer mediated systems.
A competent jurist would have nullified the verdict, having found the law injust.
We NEED jury nullification to be wide-spread and stop this shit.
Once Genode is done enough, we can start building secure systems that don't have the systemic weakness that comes from a default permissive paradigm.
Capability based security offers a way forward, up and out of this quagmire. We can just build systems that don't have holes, and eliminate cyber-war.
Topological Superconductors - 300K and higher, but still not usable
The relevant google search.
A relevant result from Joint Quantum Institute
Ultraconductors got killed in the 2008 market crash. Had they not got killed, they were making superconductors out of plastic, they called it Ultraconductor. (Not to be confused with the speaker cables of the same name). This stuff conducted at room temperature a million times better than silver! I have no doubt they could have done it, had the economy not killed them. Here are the relevant patents.
US Patent 5,777,292 - Materials having high electrical conductivity at room teperatures and ... ...
US Patent 6,804,105 - Enriched macromolecular materials having temperature-independent high
Here's a 2005 interview (.pdf, sorry), which may give some insight about Ultraconductor.
The 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf) offers some good info about conductive polymers.
US Patent 7,014,795 discusses the growth of crystalized electron pairs (otherwise referred to as polarons in other places), the diagrams are especially helpful.
I believe it is well within the capabilities of any non-chemistry adverse hackerspace to eventually create polymer cables which are 10 to 10 million times better than silver at conducting electricity.
I'm glad this project is getting positive attention. It's my main source of hope that computer security will get fixed, for real. I won't miss virus scanners, having to worry about visiting web sites, opening email, etc. When my laptop can run it as a primary OS, I'm switching and never looking back.
You have to use vector potential communications if you want to be able to transmit from a stealth fighters / bombers without the use of a conventional radio signal.
There are more variables in electromagnetism than you learned about in Maxwell's equations. They were edited out by Heaviside because they don't normally have any measurable effect in real world experiments. They only show up in things like a SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device) used to detect faint magnetic fields. (The SQUID actually detects the A field, which the B field is the curl of).
Because the knowledge of these additional values (there were 20 original equations, all in quaternion notation) has pretty much been lost, we're missing out on a lot of cool tech. It's my hope that we pick these things back up as this becomes more widely known.
You can transmit a signal that no normal radio will pick up. It needs an actively powered plasma antenna to be received.
Having other people who uniformly agree with you would enable such a system to work, but reality is more fine grained than that.
What you really want is to be able to flag/score things according to some specific dimension, like "truth", "humor", "spam", "creationism", "logic", "propaganda", etc.
If those dimensions were chosen by all of us, and consistently scored/flagged/applied, /. would be a lot more powerful.
You have apparently never heard of SELinux
I see how you may have come to that conclusion, but you're wrong. SELinux has you build profiles for applications. It would be like programming your car to only be able to take you to/from work in order to prevent it being stolen. This is why nobody wants to use SELinux.
Genode offers honest to goodness capabilities on top of a number of microkernels. I'm looking forward to the day I can switch my laptop over to it. I'll not miss all the worry about virii, java bugs, etc.
That isn't going to protect you from everything. You still have to code proactively with security in mind. If I have a website that needs to access a database it may be perfectly locked down so that the program can only touch that database. That doesn't prevent a hacker from finding a bug in my program and exploiting it to get a copy of that database. I'm not talking about things like buffer overflows or other system exploits, I'm talking about simple logic errors. There is nothing the OS can do to protect against things like that.
True enough, but at least you get to decide what you risk in such a system, instead of the unlimited risk which we all live with now.
Here's a virtual focus photo I did a few years ago, placing the focal plane on a skew.
If you take photos from a large enough set of positions with a normal camera and some time, you can get the same thing lytro does, but only with still subjects.