Lets say that HFT never showed up, and instead there were just computer programs executing trades like a normal person would. Then lets say something outside of the scope of most of the programs occurred, stocked moved too fast or something, so all the computer programs bailed out. The exact same thing would happen if it was real people actually trading and they withdrew from the market. When people see something *different* and *frightening* occur, they panic. Panic generally comes with a sell order.
Uh, I don't think you have the foggiest clue about how the 'public' stock market works. They can just keep their stock private if they wanted to do that.
Nasdaq was totally F*d when Facebook opened, and yes it is thought that tons of HFTs pouring in caused this. What effects not being able to sell or buy correctly on opening day had on the stock are unknowable. It might have tanked faster, or it may have went up, but when the market acts spooky traders get spooked.
Now, personally, I do believe the facebook stock was a turd ready to tank and any position long held long enough would lose money, but there were serious execution problems on opening that could have very well caused his losses.
I do believe Taleb calls such things Black Swan Events. Whenever people start saying something will always to continue to happen and they begin to invest like it will always continue to happen, it will stop happening. Usually these events are spectacular.
--Did the sale clerk confirm that the Iranian citizen lived in Iran and not in the US or some other country with no trade embargoes?
If the person said, "I'm going to buy this and send it to my Uncle in Iran", then yea that's all that needs to be said. In firearms sales if you have any reason to believe the weapon could before someone else, even as a gift, you cannot sell it. When dealing with computer exports to banned countries, the computer is treated like a weapon in the eyes of the law, and rather harsh punishments can be given.
Bky, man you are a clueless fucking idiot. Here is a sample of Oklahoma law, first I could dig up, but every state has similar laws.
35:30-29-37.1. Ammonium
Nitrate Security
(a) Ammonium nitrate storage shall be secured to provide reasonable
protection against vandalism, theft, or
unauthorized access.
(b) Fertilizer retailers shall obtain the followi ng regarding any sale of ammonium nitrate:
(1) Date of sale; (2) Quantity purchased; (3) License number of the purc haser's valid state or federal driver’s license, or other picture identification card number approved for purchaser identi fication by the Board; and (4) The purchaser's name, current physical address, and telephone number.
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(c) Records created pursuant to this rule s hall be maintained for a minimum of two years on a form or using a format set forth by the Board.
(d) Any retailer of ammonium nitrate may refuse to sell to any person attempting to purchase ammonium nitrate out
of season, in unusual quant ities, or under suspect purchase patterns.
Go to Dell's website and check out just some random laptop. Put a check in that you are going to export it.
Firearms dealers cannot under penalty of law sell you a firearm if they have any reason to believe that it is not for you, or may be exported in a manner not in accordance law.
Apple's responsibility may not end where you think. On an individual level the Feds don't care (unless they are actively following a subject already), but in the case where sold a large number of units that were illegally exported, yes Apple would be investigated, and if they employees where knowing selling unit in said manner there would be legal consequences.
You have obviously never exported anything out of the states.
http://www.bis.doc.gov/hpcs/default.htm Contains a lot of information regarding computers directly. One thing you notice in reading, it says things like this in many places.
(ii) Technology and source code. Technology and source code eligible for License Exception APP may not be released to nationals of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria.
Computers may not be accessed either physically or computationally without prior authorization by the U.S. Government by nationals of Cuba , Iran , , Libya , N. Korea , Sudan , Syria . However, commercial consignees as described in Supplement 3 to Part 742 of the EAR are prohibited only from giving such nationals user-accessible programmability.
From dell's website. Trade Compliance
I WILL NOT export this order outside the United States.
I WILL export this order outside the United States. The export of any product and software purchased from Dell must be made in accordance with all relevant laws of the United States, including and without limitation, the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. This may require that you obtain a formal export license or make certain declarations to the United States Government regarding product(s) to be exported, their destination or their end-use.
We have all kinds of trade restrictions with Iran. Selling someone a computer for export to Iran may constitute a straw purchase and may very well get any number of federal agencies investigating you.
Um, no. When a solider goes out of country they are not becoming a citizen of whatever country they are going to. That said, the soldiers are expected not to sell their computer hardware to jurisdictions that are not allowed to have it.
I'm not sure how it works with other products, but licensed firearm dealers have strict rules on straw purchases. With the lack of clarity and sometimes insanity of American law, if I heard the client say they were going to buy a product to be used in an illegal manner, I would NOT sell them the product. There can be a legal liability if you knowingly sell a product in that manner.
Lost office sales must have convinced them to do this as a way to push people to cloud services, once they're on the cloud MS can find some way to wring cash out of them. I've seen a large number of people that just need Word and Excel use the Starter and never buy a full version, that can't be good for the earnings.
--There probably should be some sort of hazing ritual in IT.
We used to use WinNuke on the 'SalesTech' trying to sell new computers and internet service. Nothing like hearing them almost having the sale wrapped up, then bang BSOD!
A machine like this is the perfect place for a small OS that weighs in at a few hundred MB at the most. It is also a legitimate place for UEFI encryption, encrypt and sign the bootloader, and have all the executable content on the machine signed and unsigned stuff wouldn't run. In this case a voting machine is not a general purpose computer and doesn't need a full OS that can run anything. WhyTF does it need windows, WhyTF does it need virus scanning. A much simpler system of checking the TPM and the signatures on the filesystem, then having a bloody fit of one of them fails to pass is much more secure and a whole lot easier to verify.
The only problem with doing that, it would require some work and a few smart people. What they have now sounds like some cobbled together shit done as cheaply as possible, marked up as much as possible to extract as much revenue from the state as possible.
A while back all the Monitizers figured out if you don't hide the data behind an app, anybody with a bit of sense could make a better program than you and take all your business, hell someone might even open source it and kill a lot of the profit in the market. At one time many software providers had a lockin on their customers with binary software and undocumented file formats. With the rising of the internet a lot of closed file formats died along with their parent companies and a era of openness ensued. Now again we have a new form of lock-in called the cloud where a black-box app sends data off to the twisted nether. If they don't give you a way to export your data to an open format of some type, you've taken a step back in many ways.
'Why in the hell prompted the break from the former "standard, trustworthy players separated from the content they play" ' This. "non-standard apps separate customers from their money, pay to play."
If you wanted to catch women in a scam like this you'd have to do it a little differently. Instead of straight porn, have the scam work in a erotic novel that women like to read. When you get to a steamy part, pop up an add saying that you'll send 'Mr McStud' to their house. If they fall for it, have the scam be that they need to pay $1200 so they don't tell husband+world that she ordered a male prostitute.
I'm guessing you've never ran virtual hosts. It's really pretty easy to tell by the hardware list. See, lots of the hardware can use virtualized drivers that would be a pretty big tip off right there. Also, at least under Xen, both Windows and Linux can run the Xen tools that do things like keep the clock in sync with the host under it.
Also, the hacker could just try to escape even if it didn't look virtual.
So you're glad your master only beats you one day a week and not four? That's kinda what you sound like with what you say. When I was a kid I remember school lunches being very hit or miss, some were ok, and others were bottom of the barrel crap. The difference between now and then is technology allows us to easily share this fact with the rest of the world. This sharing allows for accountability, don't be so damn apathetic. If you went to a shop and 20% of the meals were total crap I'm sure you either be very vocal about it, or you'd stop going there. Our children don't really have that option, yes you can send a sack lunch, but the kids that aren't taking lunches are still getting crapped on.
UPNP has any number of serious issues dealing with security so hopefully whatever automated system for IPv6 becomes standardized deals with issues like
host $x is really host $x and not host $y trying to open a port to host $x. host $g belongs to security group $a with access to features $f while host $h belongs to security group $b and only has the limited features of $b.
If this oxygen atmosphere were touching nothing else it couldn't combust, but in most situations a normal rooms content would begin to oxidize and produce volatiles that may reach autoignition temperature.
A friend of mine told me about all the oxygen safety he was taught in the air force, once you are outside the regular bounds of pressure and concentration, oxygen is a significant threat to your life and safety.
Dell XPS has the features your looking for, just got an I7, 256GB SSD, and 17" screen for around $1300 or so. And no the manufactures websites are tangled messes of models with no easy way to compare features between different classes of laptops, it's even better when price differ wildly between models with almost the exact same features.
Apple does make it easier by giving you far fewer choices in a case like this (unless they don't have what you want).
Oh, I'd love to have gig fiber at a number of businesses that run intra-city VPNs. Any number of businesses have sites that generate more data then can easily be sent with current broadband, just across town. I could switch from any number of fixed wireless links, or at least leave them around just for backup.
Trusting Apple with your data is like trusting the Catholic Church with your young boys, Islam with your woman's rights, and the TSA with your passenger safety.
People seemed to have forgot that Apple just about died in between Jobs (and he ain't coming back this time). They had a history of denying hardware problems. Though I think Apple will do good financially for a while, then they'll Balmer in charge at some point and the reality distortion field will collapse.
I'd say stripping down the engine is a pretty good example. If $car_manufacture started shipping their cars with the hood welded shut, you as a person who understood what was going on under the hood might feel offended by that. It doesn't affect your car use and the welded hood cars are pretty good so over time the number of auto repair shops drops drastically. You can actually buy welded hood car for far lower then it's cost since they have a deal with all the gas stations to charge everybody more for gas to subsidize the upfront cost of your car. For your safety before the car starts it electronically checks that every part on your car that is accessible is manufacture approved and has not been replaced by a dangerous 'aftermarket' part. And I'm sure that the problem with Gen 10.8 welded hood car where you press on the accelerator and the breaks stop working for one minute will eventually get fixed, if they would just quit deleting for forum posts about it.
When a customer becomes a sheep they tend to get treated like one.
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Lets say that HFT never showed up, and instead there were just computer programs executing trades like a normal person would. Then lets say something outside of the scope of most of the programs occurred, stocked moved too fast or something, so all the computer programs bailed out. The exact same thing would happen if it was real people actually trading and they withdrew from the market. When people see something *different* and *frightening* occur, they panic. Panic generally comes with a sell order.
Uh, I don't think you have the foggiest clue about how the 'public' stock market works. They can just keep their stock private if they wanted to do that.
http://www.nanex.net/aqck/3099.html
Nasdaq was totally F*d when Facebook opened, and yes it is thought that tons of HFTs pouring in caused this. What effects not being able to sell or buy correctly on opening day had on the stock are unknowable. It might have tanked faster, or it may have went up, but when the market acts spooky traders get spooked.
Now, personally, I do believe the facebook stock was a turd ready to tank and any position long held long enough would lose money, but there were serious execution problems on opening that could have very well caused his losses.
I do believe Taleb calls such things Black Swan Events. Whenever people start saying something will always to continue to happen and they begin to invest like it will always continue to happen, it will stop happening. Usually these events are spectacular.
--Did the sale clerk confirm that the Iranian citizen lived in Iran and not in the US or some other country with no trade embargoes?
If the person said, "I'm going to buy this and send it to my Uncle in Iran", then yea that's all that needs to be said. In firearms sales if you have any reason to believe the weapon could before someone else, even as a gift, you cannot sell it. When dealing with computer exports to banned countries, the computer is treated like a weapon in the eyes of the law, and rather harsh punishments can be given.
Bky, man you are a clueless fucking idiot.
Here is a sample of Oklahoma law, first I could dig up, but every state has similar laws.
35:30-29-37.1. Ammonium
Nitrate Security
(a) Ammonium nitrate storage shall be secured to provide reasonable
protection against
vandalism, theft, or
unauthorized access.
(b) Fertilizer retailers shall obtain the followi
ng regarding any sale of ammonium nitrate:
(1) Date of sale;
(2) Quantity purchased;
(3) License number of the purc
haser's valid state or federal
driver’s license, or other
picture identification card number approved
for purchaser identi
fication by the
Board; and
(4) The purchaser's name, current
physical address, and telephone number.
23
(c)
Records created pursuant to this rule s
hall be maintained for a minimum of two years
on a form or using a format
set forth by the Board.
(d) Any retailer of ammonium nitrate may refuse to sell to any person attempting to
purchase ammonium nitrate out
of season, in unusual quant
ities, or under suspect
purchase patterns.
Go to Dell's website and check out just some random laptop. Put a check in that you are going to export it.
Firearms dealers cannot under penalty of law sell you a firearm if they have any reason to believe that it is not for you, or may be exported in a manner not in accordance law.
Apple's responsibility may not end where you think. On an individual level the Feds don't care (unless they are actively following a subject already), but in the case where sold a large number of units that were illegally exported, yes Apple would be investigated, and if they employees where knowing selling unit in said manner there would be legal consequences.
How about this.
http://article.wn.com/view/2012/05/16/Businessman_faces_prison_term_for_scheme_to_illegally_export_6/
You have obviously never exported anything out of the states.
http://www.bis.doc.gov/hpcs/default.htm Contains a lot of information regarding computers directly. One thing you notice in reading, it says things like this in many places.
(ii) Technology and source code. Technology and source code eligible for License Exception APP may not be released to nationals of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria.
Computers may not be accessed either physically or computationally without prior authorization by the U.S. Government by nationals of Cuba , Iran , , Libya , N. Korea , Sudan , Syria . However, commercial consignees as described in Supplement 3 to Part 742 of the EAR are prohibited only from giving such nationals user-accessible programmability.
From dell's website.
Trade Compliance
I WILL NOT export this order outside the United States.
I WILL export this order outside the United States.
The export of any product and software purchased from Dell must be made in accordance with all relevant laws of the United States, including and without limitation, the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. This may require that you obtain a formal export license or make certain declarations to the United States Government regarding product(s) to be exported, their destination or their end-use.
We have all kinds of trade restrictions with Iran. Selling someone a computer for export to Iran may constitute a straw purchase and may very well get any number of federal agencies investigating you.
Um, no. When a solider goes out of country they are not becoming a citizen of whatever country they are going to. That said, the soldiers are expected not to sell their computer hardware to jurisdictions that are not allowed to have it.
I'm not sure how it works with other products, but licensed firearm dealers have strict rules on straw purchases. With the lack of clarity and sometimes insanity of American law, if I heard the client say they were going to buy a product to be used in an illegal manner, I would NOT sell them the product. There can be a legal liability if you knowingly sell a product in that manner.
Lost office sales must have convinced them to do this as a way to push people to cloud services, once they're on the cloud MS can find some way to wring cash out of them. I've seen a large number of people that just need Word and Excel use the Starter and never buy a full version, that can't be good for the earnings.
--There probably should be some sort of hazing ritual in IT.
We used to use WinNuke on the 'SalesTech' trying to sell new computers and internet service. Nothing like hearing them almost having the sale wrapped up, then bang BSOD!
A machine like this is the perfect place for a small OS that weighs in at a few hundred MB at the most. It is also a legitimate place for UEFI encryption, encrypt and sign the bootloader, and have all the executable content on the machine signed and unsigned stuff wouldn't run. In this case a voting machine is not a general purpose computer and doesn't need a full OS that can run anything. WhyTF does it need windows, WhyTF does it need virus scanning. A much simpler system of checking the TPM and the signatures on the filesystem, then having a bloody fit of one of them fails to pass is much more secure and a whole lot easier to verify.
The only problem with doing that, it would require some work and a few smart people. What they have now sounds like some cobbled together shit done as cheaply as possible, marked up as much as possible to extract as much revenue from the state as possible.
I really think this guy was wanting to say nitromethane not TNT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitromethane#As_an_engine_fuel
Which is followed by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitromethane#Explosive_properties
A while back all the Monitizers figured out if you don't hide the data behind an app, anybody with a bit of sense could make a better program than you and take all your business, hell someone might even open source it and kill a lot of the profit in the market. At one time many software providers had a lockin on their customers with binary software and undocumented file formats. With the rising of the internet a lot of closed file formats died along with their parent companies and a era of openness ensued. Now again we have a new form of lock-in called the cloud where a black-box app sends data off to the twisted nether. If they don't give you a way to export your data to an open format of some type, you've taken a step back in many ways.
'Why in the hell prompted the break from the former "standard, trustworthy players separated from the content they play" '
This. "non-standard apps separate customers from their money, pay to play."
If you wanted to catch women in a scam like this you'd have to do it a little differently. Instead of straight porn, have the scam work in a erotic novel that women like to read. When you get to a steamy part, pop up an add saying that you'll send 'Mr McStud' to their house. If they fall for it, have the scam be that they need to pay $1200 so they don't tell husband+world that she ordered a male prostitute.
I'm guessing you've never ran virtual hosts. It's really pretty easy to tell by the hardware list. See, lots of the hardware can use virtualized drivers that would be a pretty big tip off right there. Also, at least under Xen, both Windows and Linux can run the Xen tools that do things like keep the clock in sync with the host under it.
Also, the hacker could just try to escape even if it didn't look virtual.
So you're glad your master only beats you one day a week and not four? That's kinda what you sound like with what you say. When I was a kid I remember school lunches being very hit or miss, some were ok, and others were bottom of the barrel crap. The difference between now and then is technology allows us to easily share this fact with the rest of the world. This sharing allows for accountability, don't be so damn apathetic. If you went to a shop and 20% of the meals were total crap I'm sure you either be very vocal about it, or you'd stop going there. Our children don't really have that option, yes you can send a sack lunch, but the kids that aren't taking lunches are still getting crapped on.
UPNP has any number of serious issues dealing with security so hopefully whatever automated system for IPv6 becomes standardized deals with issues like
host $x is really host $x and not host $y trying to open a port to host $x.
host $g belongs to security group $a with access to features $f while host $h belongs to security group $b and only has the limited features of $b.
There is this, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bnss-v6ops-upnp-01 , but I can't say that I've read it all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen#Combustion_and_other_hazards
If this oxygen atmosphere were touching nothing else it couldn't combust, but in most situations a normal rooms content would begin to oxidize and produce volatiles that may reach autoignition temperature.
A friend of mine told me about all the oxygen safety he was taught in the air force, once you are outside the regular bounds of pressure and concentration, oxygen is a significant threat to your life and safety.
Dell XPS has the features your looking for, just got an I7, 256GB SSD, and 17" screen for around $1300 or so. And no the manufactures websites are tangled messes of models with no easy way to compare features between different classes of laptops, it's even better when price differ wildly between models with almost the exact same features.
Apple does make it easier by giving you far fewer choices in a case like this (unless they don't have what you want).
Oh, I'd love to have gig fiber at a number of businesses that run intra-city VPNs. Any number of businesses have sites that generate more data then can easily be sent with current broadband, just across town. I could switch from any number of fixed wireless links, or at least leave them around just for backup.
Trusting Apple with your data is like trusting the Catholic Church with your young boys, Islam with your woman's rights, and the TSA with your passenger safety.
People seemed to have forgot that Apple just about died in between Jobs (and he ain't coming back this time). They had a history of denying hardware problems. Though I think Apple will do good financially for a while, then they'll Balmer in charge at some point and the reality distortion field will collapse.
I'd say stripping down the engine is a pretty good example. If $car_manufacture started shipping their cars with the hood welded shut, you as a person who understood what was going on under the hood might feel offended by that. It doesn't affect your car use and the welded hood cars are pretty good so over time the number of auto repair shops drops drastically. You can actually buy welded hood car for far lower then it's cost since they have a deal with all the gas stations to charge everybody more for gas to subsidize the upfront cost of your car. For your safety before the car starts it electronically checks that every part on your car that is accessible is manufacture approved and has not been replaced by a dangerous 'aftermarket' part. And I'm sure that the problem with Gen 10.8 welded hood car where you press on the accelerator and the breaks stop working for one minute will eventually get fixed, if they would just quit deleting for forum posts about it.
When a customer becomes a sheep they tend to get treated like one.