You can think of it as short term investing. Sure, an investor produces nothing and earns money seemingly from nothing, but you're ignoring the fact that he's supplying the investee with the ability to produce a product/start a business, etc.
Day trading's the same on a micro scale. Any consential transaction benefits all parties. So in the end it's positive.
It's not the same though. Day trading almost exclusively consists of stocks that have already provided any benefit they will ever provide to the people who needed the investment -- indeed, after the point of IPO, stocks are a financial liability for a company.
Unlike buying stock in an IPO, you are not providing investment funds to anybody-- indeed, you're trying to get funds from other investors by betting on the right time to buy/sell. They're doing the same thing to you... the net result is that one of you comes out ahead, and the other behind. But financially, this is of no benefit to society, or the companies whose stock you're trading.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If the URI standard said "protocol:" was used to identify the transport protocol, and was not followed by slashes, then that's what it would be. Port number wouldn't be used (random tidbit: IE 6 actually refused to load things that specified port number, if you didn't prefix with http:/// because that would/still/ use the protocol as it does today. If a different port was provided.. it would be used with the named protocol. The only thing we're talking about is removing "//", not removing the protocol indicator....
Indeed. The problem here is that whenever you have to communicate something, there's no way to be 100% sure that 100% of your users will see what you intended, in the way that you intended it. You can explain everything perfectly clearly and concisely - but because humans don't read minds, all words and visual cues are subject to interpretation by indviduals.
I thought the target audience of the article was small businesses and consumers running Windows who need something simple. For many medium and large businesses, the things that you describe are becoming common practice anyway.
First, what if it is? You're not going ANYWHERE but your bank's web site with that browser. Whether or not it's up to date only matters if your bank desupports an older browser. Second: a USB flash drive is changeable - so if the user gets stupid and does something/other/ than go to their bank site, any change is persisted for all future reboots. I suppose a "ro" mount option could take care of that- but then you're not saving your ISP info either, defeating the purpose.
Instead, Washington Post gives a false generalization that a Linux live CD will defeat all Phishing attempts.
How is that a false generalization? If you are using the LiveCD (any OS), and do not use it for ANY purpose other than directly logging into your banking web site... then you're immune to phishing simply because you are not exposed to it on that LiveCD.
exist. Some forms of technology are obsolete and have been replaced by better forms, like direct recordings from far-off places.
This is as to singing around the piano as family-friendly hotels are to campgrounds.
The former does not obviate the latter. There's much to be said for such pastimes that engage the family as a family - and this has nothing to do with technology. In this case, such a pastime goes beyond people just listening to music, but actively participating in and performing it.
While I'm as much a fan the apple hate club as anyone, this his no basis in historical fact as far as I know. From what I recall, Apple was the one who forced the labels to drop DRM, and who forced them into limited fixed pricing options. They have far more leverage than the labels do here - they are/the/ place that millions of people go to for all of their music purchases. All Apple would have to do is call the labels' bluff, and that would be the end of that.
A coupel years ago, TaxCut (H&R block) told me I was due a nice refund. I checked everything, and it was all in order, so I took the federal refund. This year, I get a "you owe us!" nastygram from the federal government.
I contacted H&R block and they said, "Oh, I see what you did (looking @ web-based filing records)... checked option "X" instead of "Y"". Of course, I've filed with that software before and after that year, and always checked "Y" (as evidenced by no massive refund). I can even comfortably say I distinctly/remember/ checking "Y". Nonetheless - I have no proof, while they can make any proof they need to show how it wasn't their fault.
Net result: H&R block will have cost me about $800 in fees, plus a couple thousand dollars in refunded money that I no longer have. Needless to say, I will be taking screenshots of every page this year... and/hoping/ that they again make the same mistake so I can catch them at it. Then I'll get/my/ revenge...
Are you implying that the great advertising circle jerk is any way productive? The act of selling the selling of things that [most] people aren't buying... great for making money, fairly useless in terms of helping society. Hmm... maybe NY state is just taking a stand against the inundation of Internet media with advertisements!
Exactly, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog (or a boy!).
Probably because nobody is questioning the fact that the majority of OSS developers are male (sometimes by loose definitions of the word). The issue here is the one that we are quick to call out in other situations: correlation is not causation.
Just because there are relatively few women in OSS does not and cannot serve as proof that OSS developers as a community are sexist. If you're going to make that claim, you'll need better evidence than "only 1.5% of OSS developers are female" -- because that number in itself is attributable to a huge array of possible causes.
This doesn't touch on the possibility that it may not be accurate- of the (tens? hundreds?) of thousands of developers, how many never mention their gender at all? So where, exactly, does 1.5% come from?
Money spend on pharmaceuticals might actually be used to create something useful.
yes, like more commercials with half-hour long disclaimers -- those are great comedy acts! "This allergy medicine. May have serious side effects, such as sore throat, runny nose, and death.In very rare cases, there have been reports of gender swapping."
ne of the arguments that people on the far right have tried to use to convince the public that Iran is trying to build bombs and not energy is: "Iran has so much oil, why would they care about nuclear energy?"
Wow, that was classic.
A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position
What's interesting about this is that the only sources I can find (in a 2 min google search) for your statement that "people on the far right" are using this argument are various blog posts from people on the far left.
The problem there will be the non-savvy person's geek friends who say "What? No, that's invasive and pointless crap, you don't need that. Here, it's easy to opt out..."
Sub ms latency in trading is a critical requirement for this application and.net on windows just wasn't up to the task.
Well -we don't know that, do we? We know that a) the new software runs on linux and not windows and b) the new software is not written on the.net platform. The failing could be in the underlying OS, it could be in the.net stack, or it could be (and I find this most likely) that the old application was poorly written.
"Rejects windows for open source" would have been a more appropriate headline
Not even that - it's just that the new (proprietary) software runs on a linux stack and costs less. There's really nothing that explains the cost difference; the performance difference could be because of the OS, or it could be because the MilleniumIT software is just better designed.
All in all, TFA blows things out of proportion. -- but not as much as the summary did. More accurate summary:
"London Stock exchange switches to a cheaper and faster software package. "
But hey, "rejects.net for open source" sounds much better -- who needs accuracy when you can have page hits.
Let me guess, you also sing along with "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and maybe "the girl with colitis goes by."?
The term "colitas" in the first stanza of the song is a desert flower, also known as Antelope sage or Colita de Rata [9]. Both Don Henley and Don Felder have repeatedly and publicly stated that Colitas are "heady desert flowers."[citation needed] Others assert that "colitas" is a Spanish term for "little tails" or "little bottoms", and a reference to the buds of the Cannabis plant.[10]
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Don't write another tip calculator (are there really that many people who cannot calculate 15% of the total before tax?).
For $1.99 I'll tell you.
You can think of it as short term investing. Sure, an investor produces nothing and earns money seemingly from nothing, but you're ignoring the fact that he's supplying the investee with the ability to produce a product/start a business, etc.
Day trading's the same on a micro scale. Any consential transaction benefits all parties. So in the end it's positive.
It's not the same though. Day trading almost exclusively consists of stocks that have already provided any benefit they will ever provide to the people who needed the investment -- indeed, after the point of IPO, stocks are a financial liability for a company.
Unlike buying stock in an IPO, you are not providing investment funds to anybody-- indeed, you're trying to get funds from other investors by betting on the right time to buy/sell. They're doing the same thing to you... the net result is that one of you comes out ahead, and the other behind. But financially, this is of no benefit to society, or the companies whose stock you're trading.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If the URI standard said "protocol:" was used to identify the transport protocol, and was not followed by slashes, then that's what it would be. Port number wouldn't be used (random tidbit: IE 6 actually refused to load things that specified port number, if you didn't prefix with http:/// because that would /still/ use the protocol as it does today. If a different port was provided.. it would be used with the named protocol. The only thing we're talking about is removing "//", not removing the protocol indicator....
As long as people are involved in some way, no.
Indeed. The problem here is that whenever you have to communicate something, there's no way to be 100% sure that 100% of your users will see what you intended, in the way that you intended it. You can explain everything perfectly clearly and concisely - but because humans don't read minds, all words and visual cues are subject to interpretation by indviduals.
I thought the target audience of the article was small businesses and consumers running Windows who need something simple. For many medium and large businesses, the things that you describe are becoming common practice anyway.
First, what if it is? You're not going ANYWHERE but your bank's web site with that browser. Whether or not it's up to date only matters if your bank desupports an older browser. Second: a USB flash drive is changeable - so if the user gets stupid and does something /other/ than go to their bank site, any change is persisted for all future reboots. I suppose a "ro" mount option could take care of that- but then you're not saving your ISP info either, defeating the purpose.
Instead, Washington Post gives a false generalization that a Linux live CD will defeat all Phishing attempts.
How is that a false generalization? If you are using the LiveCD (any OS), and do not use it for ANY purpose other than directly logging into your banking web site... then you're immune to phishing simply because you are not exposed to it on that LiveCD.
exist. Some forms of technology are obsolete and have been replaced by better forms, like direct recordings from far-off places.
This is as to singing around the piano as family-friendly hotels are to campgrounds.
The former does not obviate the latter. There's much to be said for such pastimes that engage the family as a family - and this has nothing to do with technology. In this case, such a pastime goes beyond people just listening to music, but actively participating in and performing it.
While I'm as much a fan the apple hate club as anyone, this his no basis in historical fact as far as I know. From what I recall, Apple was the one who forced the labels to drop DRM, and who forced them into limited fixed pricing options. They have far more leverage than the labels do here - they are /the/ place that millions of people go to for all of their music purchases. All Apple would have to do is call the labels' bluff, and that would be the end of that.
I contacted H&R block and they said, "Oh, I see what you did (looking @ web-based filing records)... checked option "X" instead of "Y"". Of course, I've filed with that software before and after that year, and always checked "Y" (as evidenced by no massive refund). I can even comfortably say I distinctly /remember/ checking "Y". Nonetheless - I have no proof, while they can make any proof they need to show how it wasn't their fault.
Net result: H&R block will have cost me about $800 in fees, plus a couple thousand dollars in refunded money that I no longer have. Needless to say, I will be taking screenshots of every page this year... and /hoping/ that they again make the same mistake so I can catch them at it. Then I'll get /my/ revenge...
Are you implying that the great advertising circle jerk is any way productive? The act of selling the selling of things that [most] people aren't buying... great for making money, fairly useless in terms of helping society. Hmm... maybe NY state is just taking a stand against the inundation of Internet media with advertisements!
Exactly, on the internet nobody knows you're a dog (or a boy!).
Probably because nobody is questioning the fact that the majority of OSS developers are male (sometimes by loose definitions of the word). The issue here is the one that we are quick to call out in other situations: correlation is not causation.
Just because there are relatively few women in OSS does not and cannot serve as proof that OSS developers as a community are sexist. If you're going to make that claim, you'll need better evidence than "only 1.5% of OSS developers are female" -- because that number in itself is attributable to a huge array of possible causes.
This doesn't touch on the possibility that it may not be accurate- of the (tens? hundreds?) of thousands of developers, how many never mention their gender at all? So where, exactly, does 1.5% come from?
Microsoft/Danger has stated that they cannot recover the data but are still trying. CC.
There will be closed captioning on the recovery attempt? What channel?!
So do hurricanes, earthquakes, vandals, and murderers. That doesn't them good things either...
Money spend on pharmaceuticals might actually be used to create something useful.
yes, like more commercials with half-hour long disclaimers -- those are great comedy acts! "This allergy medicine. May have serious side effects, such as sore throat, runny nose, and death.In very rare cases, there have been reports of gender swapping."
I'd like to choose door number two, please.
ne of the arguments that people on the far right have tried to use to convince the public that Iran is trying to build bombs and not energy is: "Iran has so much oil, why would they care about nuclear energy?"
Wow, that was classic.
A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position
What's interesting about this is that the only sources I can find (in a 2 min google search) for your statement that "people on the far right" are using this argument are various blog posts from people on the far left.
The problem there will be the non-savvy person's geek friends who say "What? No, that's invasive and pointless crap, you don't need that. Here, it's easy to opt out..."
My ISP just blocked me for getting conficker.. by Anonymous Coward
I'd post anonymously too, if that happened to me.
but any sort of cap for an advertised unlimited service is a bit ridiculous.
People keep trotting this out, but I haven't seen /any/ [wired] broadband provider advertising "unlimited usage" for a at least 2-3 years now.
As long as *no notification came with "auto shutoff the account", that would be spiffy!
i read the article ...
I'm sorry, you must be looking for some other web site. We don't like your kind here.
Sub ms latency in trading is a critical requirement for this application and .net on windows just wasn't up to the task.
Well -we don't know that, do we? We know that a) the new software runs on linux and not windows and b) the new software is not written on the .net platform. The failing could be in the underlying OS, it could be in the .net stack, or it could be (and I find this most likely) that the old application was poorly written.
"Rejects windows for open source" would have been a more appropriate headline
Not even that - it's just that the new (proprietary) software runs on a linux stack and costs less. There's really nothing that explains the cost difference; the performance difference could be because of the OS, or it could be because the MilleniumIT software is just better designed.
All in all, TFA blows things out of proportion. -- but not as much as the summary did. More accurate summary: "London Stock exchange switches to a cheaper and faster software package. "
But hey, "rejects .net for open source" sounds much better -- who needs accuracy when you can have page hits.
y would be "the warm smell of coitus".
Let me guess, you also sing along with "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and maybe "the girl with colitis goes by."?
The term "colitas" in the first stanza of the song is a desert flower, also known as Antelope sage or Colita de Rata [9]. Both Don Henley and Don Felder have repeatedly and publicly stated that Colitas are "heady desert flowers."[citation needed] Others assert that "colitas" is a Spanish term for "little tails" or "little bottoms", and a reference to the buds of the Cannabis plant.[10]