Yes, they do. Every trade is supposed to be monitored. Even if it means a few bad trades get through, they can and are supposed to review the accounts, timing, etc that go in to every trade to determine legitimacy and adherence to trading rules.
It's one thing to say you can't check an instantaneous trade. It's quite another to say you can't look at multiple trades your traders make and not pick up on improprieties.
This comes down to willful ignorance. So long as the guy was doing well, it didn't matter if the both internal and external rules were being violated. It is only when trades go bad that, "Oh my! How could that have happened?" comes into play.
For a short time I worked at a brokerage firm and I can tell you, everything you do is watched.
about how much NASA costs, I just posted this same link on another site. It shows an outstanding graph of the overall federal budget for 2011 broken down by Agency.
As the Bad Astronomer says in his writing, find NASA's budget.
I was going to say Windows 7 as the ribbon, while a chore to relearn and definitely not as intuitive or informative as every previous version, isn't as bad as some have made out.
Windows 7 itself, on the other hand, is akin to Bob in usability. It's as if the programmers got together and said, "How can we make it more difficult for people to find what they need? How can we hide every usable function and feature by burying it in the most obscure and non-logical place? How many ways can we change what we've done for the last two decades so that people have to relearn everything?"
you should let the content of your site drive its design, rather than shoehorning the content into whatever gizmos seem coolest.
Thank you for demonstrating what Rule #2 of IT is all about: never let the web designer design your web page.
Web designers, by default, will give you the wildest, flashiest, monkey-punchiest web page they can manage to show off how l337 they are without regard to whether the site is usable or offers the visitor a good experience.
We all made fun of Geocities pages which were nothing but a cacophony of blinkin lights, yet, we have no problem with accepting the same from current pages, claiming they are new, modern and "interactive".
Fuck interactive. I don't need to see a video of a bunch of smiling people for you to tell me about your product.
how hard was it to find shoes in the correct color then add all those sequins? I mean, I've seen the pair at the Smithsonian but it's my understanding there were others made as well.
all of our medical costs are paid for by the government.
False. Your medical costs are paid for with your taxes and the taxes of your neighbors. That is partially why your tax rate is so high compared to the U.S.
For a quick comparison of the differences in tax rates between the two countries, the following link shows that Davor Sutija, in 2009, had an effective tax rate in Norway of 43.9%, compared to 33% in Massachusetts (a high tax state) and 28.3% in Florida (a low tax state).
What the hell do they need to use Flash to display images? What moron thought a simple picture file would be enhanced by embedding it within another piece of software?
Rule #2 of IT that should never be broken: Never let a web designer design your web page.
"why should I pay into a single payer healthcare system so that Joe Sixpack next door who is unemployed and smokes and drinks can get a free lung transplant at my expense!"
The reason people bring this point up, me included, is because these type of people go out of their way to not take basic care of themselves, relying instead on everyone else to pick up the tab.
It's one thing to say a national healthcare program will help the less fortunate. It's quite another to say we need it and people who deliberately abuse their bodies should be given a free ride.
It's called personal responsibility. If you can't be bothered to take care of yourself, why should I have to do it for you?
Yeah right. Compared to the private sector those of us in the public sector do pay a smaller percentage, but I can assure you, our healthcare is not free.
free social services
What social services? You mean day care? Mental help? I can't speak to either, but I highly doubt day care is free. Mental help, maybe.
stable wage
You obviously haven't been paying attention. Of late, public sector employees, mainly at the state level, have either had wage freezes, for years in some cases, or in some cases, reduction of wages.
No risk of ever getting fired
If only that were true. While it is somewhat more difficult to fire people in the public sector, with the push to save money, people who screw up are used to save those costs.
While government work does have some advantages, it's worse if you're trying to improve yourself or get ahead because your efforts are rarely rewarded. In most cases, it's who you know, not what you know.
Dammit, blew my last mod point in an earlier discussion.
This is my point as well. When people say that women should not be allowed to have an abortion, they are using the power of the government to force women to have children, whether they want to have a child or not.
For all the talk about cutting the size of government, the right is perfectly happy to use big government to dictate to women what they can or cannot do with their own bodies.
As I said in a previous Fx story, not all of us WANT the latest and greatest. Not all of us WANT to be forced to upgrade because we can't turn auto update off.
It should not be up to the developers to dictate how I use software on MY system. Maybe YOU want to be on the bleeding edge and have the bells and whistles, I don't.
For a large group of people who rail against authority and being forced to do something by the government, it's amazing how many bend over and take it from the OSS/Free software community when they force shit down people's throats willy nilly.
Again, rule #1 of IT: Never let a programmer program your application*.
*Rule #2 is never let a web designer design your web site so it would be redundant to use the word design twice.
I'm sure Comcast appreciates it when they see my viewing habits in the morning:
6:30 AM Local CBS channel 6:30:02 Local NBC channel 6:30:10 Local Fox channel 6:30:15 BBC on local NPR channel 6:30:30 CNN Headline News 6:30:52 CNBC 6:31:02 CNN 6:31:18 Music Choice 6:31:20 Music Choice (next channel in series) 6:31:22 Music Choice (next channel in series) 6:32:18 CNN Headline News 6:32:20 CNBC 6:34:23 MSNBC
Paul Newman put a clause in his will that prohibits any "virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the universe."
So no Paul Newman dancing with a vacuum cleaner a la Fred Astaire.
it's simply not important what version you're using as long as it's the latest version....
Not all of us WANT to run the latest version. Not all of us WANT to update every time you push your supposed "latest and greatest".
This, next to Linux, is the clearest example of Rule #1 of IT: Never let a programmer program your application.
This constant push to have "shiny" shoved down everyone's throats without regard to what the end user wants must stop. People have no idea what they're running now so your dictatorial forcing of upgrades does nothing to make people feel comfortable with the software they're using.
Maybe YOU want to have the latest version, but I don't. And as is said on here on a daily basis, once it's on my machine, I'll do what I want with it.
It looks like it's time to move to another browser and stop suggesting people move from IE to Fx. Congratulations you arrogant pricks, you've jumped the shark.
each major version bump since takes more useful features away from the user, leaving behind some half-baked philosophical notion of how the developers think you "should" work in their place.
So what you're saying is the developers of GNOME have followed the lead of the folks who did Windows 7?
Dude, Missouri is the fattest state in the country,
Sorry, you're not. You don't even make the top ten. The fattest (i.e. most obese) state is Mississippi. Don't believe me? See the results for yourself.
One word of warning: The pictures they show of fat people may put you off your lunch.
That's fine except for one big issue: size. To get the same amount of space in a chest refrigerator as a conventional one would mean either you make it deep or long.
If it's deep, you run into issues with people not being able to reach to the bottom without leaning in, like one does with a current chest freezer, or you have to make it long to accommodate the same internal space.
Either way, this type of device would require nearly everyone to redo their kitchen to accommodate this new device as it will not fit in the space currently used by normal fridges.
I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, I'm merely pointing out why people would be resistant to using this type of fridge.
Also, what about the freezer portion? Nearly every fridge made has a separate freezer section. Adding that into the equation would, again, increase the overall size.
Apparently I'm the only person in the entire world who doesn't have their speakers turned on 24/7 because I never hear sounds.
Granted, I don't run Chrome, but regardless, every time I hear someone complaining about the sound from an ad on a web page I can't resist posing the rhetorical question, "You do realize you don't have to have your speakers turned on, don't you?"
This is another example of a solution looking for a problem.
"I can't figure out why companies want to make things harder for their customers. Are they stupid or what?"
It's because the programmers think they need to program shiny into everything. It would be a waste of their "talent" to make something that is simple to use and just works.
I can't believe no one has mentioned the most important device ever sketched on a napkin. Its importance cannot be stressed enough.
I am speaking of the Smelloscope, a device which allows one to smell the odors of distant objects in the universe.
It also comes in handy for detecting large balls of garbage which have been floating around in space for a few hundred years and which is about to crash into Earth.
If one looks at the 21 century information society, books have no place in it.
Congratulations on tossing aside thousands of years of human history. The written word is necessary in a society where not everyone has the ability to purchase a digital device which may or make not work depending on the whim of the manufacturer and the ability of electricity.
any human on the planet with an internet connection will be able to access them.
Congratulations again. You've just excluded at least one third of the world's population, most likely closer to half, who don't have a net connection and will probably not have one in the foreseeable future for various reasons. Cost and infrastructure being the two biggest culprits.
A physical book is what reminds us that not everything has to be available at an instant, that we can take our time to sit down and enjoy ourselves without the worry of glare off a screen, our batteries running out or spilling our Dew on the device and shorting it.
While books may be perishable, they are far more durable than any electronic device. Excluding fire and lack of light, a book is available at any time and any place. Not so with an e-book. In addition to spilling a liquid on it, one can crack the device if misplaced in a bag, scratch or otherwise damage the screen, lose power, bake it in the sun, and a whole host of other issues, including mold.
People have always looked back when something we took for granted was replaced by something which was supposed to be "new and better". To quote Barney Stinson, "New is always better." To which Ted asked, "So those new Star Wars movies, are they better than the old ones?"
Ted then asks Wendy what their newest Scotch is, to which the answer is, Jimbo Jim's Grape Scotch. Oh, and don't let it touch your skin.
New is not always better. If you feel the need to rush through your day, go for it. But don't tell others they won't be able to sit down and take their time to read a physical book because you think they are a waste. There's a reason the few copies of the Guttenberg Bible, the works of Shakespeare and Darwin's works are so valuable. They are the physical manifestation of the author writ for all humanity. If a book is sufficient for Jean Luc Picard, it is sufficient for everyone.
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They don't have time to do checks,
Yes, they do. Every trade is supposed to be monitored. Even if it means a few bad trades get through, they can and are supposed to review the accounts, timing, etc that go in to every trade to determine legitimacy and adherence to trading rules.
It's one thing to say you can't check an instantaneous trade. It's quite another to say you can't look at multiple trades your traders make and not pick up on improprieties.
This comes down to willful ignorance. So long as the guy was doing well, it didn't matter if the both internal and external rules were being violated. It is only when trades go bad that, "Oh my! How could that have happened?" comes into play.
For a short time I worked at a brokerage firm and I can tell you, everything you do is watched.
there are tens of thousands of robots in the sky, all looking down on us.
Up here in space,
I'm looking down on you.
My lasers trace,
Everything you do.
You think you've private lives,
Think nothing of the kind.
There is no true escape,
I'm watching all the time.
I'm made of metal,
My circuits gleam.
I am perpetual,
I keep the country clean.
Yes, we know. Thx Rob
about how much NASA costs, I just posted this same link on another site. It shows an outstanding graph of the overall federal budget for 2011 broken down by Agency.
As the Bad Astronomer says in his writing, find NASA's budget.
The link.
*Ok, I'm a bit late as the ranting has already begun
I was going to say Windows 7 as the ribbon, while a chore to relearn and definitely not as intuitive or informative as every previous version, isn't as bad as some have made out.
Windows 7 itself, on the other hand, is akin to Bob in usability. It's as if the programmers got together and said, "How can we make it more difficult for people to find what they need? How can we hide every usable function and feature by burying it in the most obscure and non-logical place? How many ways can we change what we've done for the last two decades so that people have to relearn everything?"
It seems they found answers to these questions.
you should let the content of your site drive its design, rather than shoehorning the content into whatever gizmos seem coolest.
Thank you for demonstrating what Rule #2 of IT is all about: never let the web designer design your web page.
Web designers, by default, will give you the wildest, flashiest, monkey-punchiest web page they can manage to show off how l337 they are without regard to whether the site is usable or offers the visitor a good experience.
We all made fun of Geocities pages which were nothing but a cacophony of blinkin lights, yet, we have no problem with accepting the same from current pages, claiming they are new, modern and "interactive".
Fuck interactive. I don't need to see a video of a bunch of smiling people for you to tell me about your product.
It's the only way to be sure to get rid of those damn hippies - Eric Cartman
how hard was it to find shoes in the correct color then add all those sequins? I mean, I've seen the pair at the Smithsonian but it's my understanding there were others made as well.
Also, did Dorothy get to keep a pair?
all of our medical costs are paid for by the government.
False. Your medical costs are paid for with your taxes and the taxes of your neighbors. That is partially why your tax rate is so high compared to the U.S.
For a quick comparison of the differences in tax rates between the two countries, the following link shows that Davor Sutija, in 2009, had an effective tax rate in Norway of 43.9%, compared to 33% in Massachusetts (a high tax state) and 28.3% in Florida (a low tax state).
Link
Healthcare isn't free. Someone has to pay for it and that someone is you.
What the hell do they need to use Flash to display images? What moron thought a simple picture file would be enhanced by embedding it within another piece of software?
Rule #2 of IT that should never be broken: Never let a web designer design your web page.
"why should I pay into a single payer healthcare system so that Joe Sixpack next door who is unemployed and smokes and drinks can get a free lung transplant at my expense!"
The reason people bring this point up, me included, is because these type of people go out of their way to not take basic care of themselves, relying instead on everyone else to pick up the tab.
It's one thing to say a national healthcare program will help the less fortunate. It's quite another to say we need it and people who deliberately abuse their bodies should be given a free ride.
It's called personal responsibility. If you can't be bothered to take care of yourself, why should I have to do it for you?
Free healthcare
Yeah right. Compared to the private sector those of us in the public sector do pay a smaller percentage, but I can assure you, our healthcare is not free.
free social services
What social services? You mean day care? Mental help? I can't speak to either, but I highly doubt day care is free. Mental help, maybe.
stable wage
You obviously haven't been paying attention. Of late, public sector employees, mainly at the state level, have either had wage freezes, for years in some cases, or in some cases, reduction of wages.
No risk of ever getting fired
If only that were true. While it is somewhat more difficult to fire people in the public sector, with the push to save money, people who screw up are used to save those costs.
While government work does have some advantages, it's worse if you're trying to improve yourself or get ahead because your efforts are rarely rewarded. In most cases, it's who you know, not what you know.
Or how much leg you show.
"dangle them out of a window until they agree to release the accounts? We're talking about software engineers here,"
That's an awfully big crane you'd need to do this. Are you sure you want to go through with that kind of expense?
Dammit, blew my last mod point in an earlier discussion.
This is my point as well. When people say that women should not be allowed to have an abortion, they are using the power of the government to force women to have children, whether they want to have a child or not.
For all the talk about cutting the size of government, the right is perfectly happy to use big government to dictate to women what they can or cannot do with their own bodies.
As I said in a previous Fx story, not all of us WANT the latest and greatest. Not all of us WANT to be forced to upgrade because we can't turn auto update off.
It should not be up to the developers to dictate how I use software on MY system. Maybe YOU want to be on the bleeding edge and have the bells and whistles, I don't.
For a large group of people who rail against authority and being forced to do something by the government, it's amazing how many bend over and take it from the OSS/Free software community when they force shit down people's throats willy nilly.
Again, rule #1 of IT: Never let a programmer program your application*.
*Rule #2 is never let a web designer design your web site so it would be redundant to use the word design twice.
I'm sure Comcast appreciates it when they see my viewing habits in the morning:
6:30 AM Local CBS channel
6:30:02 Local NBC channel
6:30:10 Local Fox channel
6:30:15 BBC on local NPR channel
6:30:30 CNN Headline News
6:30:52 CNBC
6:31:02 CNN
6:31:18 Music Choice
6:31:20 Music Choice (next channel in series)
6:31:22 Music Choice (next channel in series)
6:32:18 CNN Headline News
6:32:20 CNBC
6:34:23 MSNBC
Guess where the commercials are.
Paul Newman put a clause in his will that prohibits any "virtual performance or reanimation of any performance by me by the use of any technique, technology or medium now in existence or which may be known or created in the future anywhere in the universe."
So no Paul Newman dancing with a vacuum cleaner a la Fred Astaire.
Which is a good thing.
it's simply not important what version you're using as long as it's the latest version. ...
Not all of us WANT to run the latest version. Not all of us WANT to update every time you push your supposed "latest and greatest".
This, next to Linux, is the clearest example of Rule #1 of IT: Never let a programmer program your application.
This constant push to have "shiny" shoved down everyone's throats without regard to what the end user wants must stop. People have no idea what they're running now so your dictatorial forcing of upgrades does nothing to make people feel comfortable with the software they're using.
Maybe YOU want to have the latest version, but I don't. And as is said on here on a daily basis, once it's on my machine, I'll do what I want with it.
It looks like it's time to move to another browser and stop suggesting people move from IE to Fx. Congratulations you arrogant pricks, you've jumped the shark.
each major version bump since takes more useful features away from the user, leaving behind some half-baked philosophical notion of how the developers think you "should" work in their place.
So what you're saying is the developers of GNOME have followed the lead of the folks who did Windows 7?
Dude, Missouri is the fattest state in the country,
Sorry, you're not. You don't even make the top ten. The fattest (i.e. most obese) state is Mississippi. Don't believe me? See the results for yourself.
One word of warning: The pictures they show of fat people may put you off your lunch.
That's fine except for one big issue: size. To get the same amount of space in a chest refrigerator as a conventional one would mean either you make it deep or long.
If it's deep, you run into issues with people not being able to reach to the bottom without leaning in, like one does with a current chest freezer, or you have to make it long to accommodate the same internal space.
Either way, this type of device would require nearly everyone to redo their kitchen to accommodate this new device as it will not fit in the space currently used by normal fridges.
I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, I'm merely pointing out why people would be resistant to using this type of fridge.
Also, what about the freezer portion? Nearly every fridge made has a separate freezer section. Adding that into the equation would, again, increase the overall size.
Apparently I'm the only person in the entire world who doesn't have their speakers turned on 24/7 because I never hear sounds.
Granted, I don't run Chrome, but regardless, every time I hear someone complaining about the sound from an ad on a web page I can't resist posing the rhetorical question, "You do realize you don't have to have your speakers turned on, don't you?"
This is another example of a solution looking for a problem.
"I can't figure out why companies want to make things harder for their customers. Are they stupid or what?"
It's because the programmers think they need to program shiny into everything. It would be a waste of their "talent" to make something that is simple to use and just works.
1,000 meters high is a kilometer, yet the length is given in miles.
Didn't NASA have a problem when they didn't convert from metric to standard?
I can't believe no one has mentioned the most important device ever sketched on a napkin. Its importance cannot be stressed enough.
I am speaking of the Smelloscope, a device which allows one to smell the odors of distant objects in the universe.
It also comes in handy for detecting large balls of garbage which have been floating around in space for a few hundred years and which is about to crash into Earth.
If one looks at the 21 century information society, books have no place in it.
Congratulations on tossing aside thousands of years of human history. The written word is necessary in a society where not everyone has the ability to purchase a digital device which may or make not work depending on the whim of the manufacturer and the ability of electricity.
any human on the planet with an internet connection will be able to access them.
Congratulations again. You've just excluded at least one third of the world's population, most likely closer to half, who don't have a net connection and will probably not have one in the foreseeable future for various reasons. Cost and infrastructure being the two biggest culprits.
A physical book is what reminds us that not everything has to be available at an instant, that we can take our time to sit down and enjoy ourselves without the worry of glare off a screen, our batteries running out or spilling our Dew on the device and shorting it.
While books may be perishable, they are far more durable than any electronic device. Excluding fire and lack of light, a book is available at any time and any place. Not so with an e-book. In addition to spilling a liquid on it, one can crack the device if misplaced in a bag, scratch or otherwise damage the screen, lose power, bake it in the sun, and a whole host of other issues, including mold.
People have always looked back when something we took for granted was replaced by something which was supposed to be "new and better". To quote Barney Stinson, "New is always better." To which Ted asked, "So those new Star Wars movies, are they better than the old ones?"
Ted then asks Wendy what their newest Scotch is, to which the answer is, Jimbo Jim's Grape Scotch. Oh, and don't let it touch your skin.
New is not always better. If you feel the need to rush through your day, go for it. But don't tell others they won't be able to sit down and take their time to read a physical book because you think they are a waste. There's a reason the few copies of the Guttenberg Bible, the works of Shakespeare and Darwin's works are so valuable. They are the physical manifestation of the author writ for all humanity. If a book is sufficient for Jean Luc Picard, it is sufficient for everyone.
The same cannot be said for a bunch of electrons.