I've noticed that news articles (and commenters thereof), have had a *really* hard time with units on this story. "Barrels" and "gallons" get conflated with really annoying regularity.
For example, in my workplace gym there used to be people who would stay on the treadmills for hours at a time and prevent others from using them.
Seems to me that your workplace has some other, perhaps more pressing, problems if people have nothing else to do but walk the treadmills for hours at a time without anyone noticing they're not getting any work done.
Re: Music stores. It's sad, because there's something very satisfying on a tactile level when you go through bins of records/cds (CDs less after they stopped doing the long boxes:( ).
The best part is that this story plays nicely with one opinion about such institutions, popular here and there - that working for any sort of security or law enforcement agency appeals to people who need to compensate for their emotional insecurity.
My current (non-expert) opinion is that this *was* like Black Monday, but the systems instead of freaking out, triggered all their stop-losses and then when the market was 1000 down (or whatever percentage for the equities they were monitoring) automatically started buying again (deals of a lifetime!). So instead of having to restrict trade the day after Black Monday (since the floor to that event happened on Tuesday), we saw in intraday, instead.
I agree. It smells like a narrative cooked up to soothe investor fears and prevent a broader sell-off.
Eh, I don't think its a conspiracy based on some sort of "hidden true valuation" of the market as a whole. I think it was a system error, just not a typo (the situation is very similar to Black Monday, after all).
Well, I(nor does anyone right now, really) have no idea of the details of the trading platform being used (if, indeed, its even relevant). However, I've never seen (nor heard of, nor have the folks who I've talked to who have worked with institutional investing) a system where you type in the amount of stock you want and then put a letter after it.
It may have been a system problem, that's quite possible. But institutional traders don't type in "b" or "m" next to some number they type in of stock they want.
But even in some strange world where they did, entering in a standard lot quantity that required an "m" (much less a "b") for the stock that is suspected to be the issue at hand (PG), would result in an order that exceeded the 30-day avg vol for PG by a factor of 10.
And that's not even considering that the firm's risk management would, in theory, have caught the issue already.
"Losing the grip on PDF"? Sort of alarmist there, don't you think?
The only reason it seems like this is because, perhaps unconsciously (but perhaps not), editors tend to clear stories that seem to form a narrative. Regardless of the narrative existing or not.
Unlikely. Apple almost certainly pays for those product placements (or gets paid, as the case may be). No branding makes it into a major (or minor) studio movie by accident.
Eh, I interpreted it "powering on" as it just lacked the power source that the aliens used to run it. They seemed perfectly able to interface with the ship itself once it was powered on.
I'd also hope that the rate of OS bug appearance would have slowed in a very advanced spacefaring race, so that the Roswell ship would have been more or less compatible with the current mothership OS. As for security, well, I suspect that the aliens are no better than we are when it comes to social engineering.
So, you cannot fathom that this has the potential to be a tremendous tragedy? You cannot imagine how a gushing oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has the potential to pollute the entire Atlantic Ocean. Explain to me how this is not a terrible thing--or do you work for an Oil company, perhaps?
You have some issues with regards to numbers and rates, I imagine.
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You use a different value of "confirmed" than most people do, I see.
Pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is 15,750 psi.
So it's 1/10th what this guy is claiming. What's your point?
hee hee
Did this ever get green lit? Put your hands up, and step slowly away from the crack pipe....
Normally I wouldn't agree with you, as Slashdot has often greenlit articles of dubious value
But man, someone sure went off the deep end on this one and needs a good dick punching.
that dude is full of shit
This event seems to be attracting a lot of those folks these days.
I've noticed that news articles (and commenters thereof), have had a *really* hard time with units on this story. "Barrels" and "gallons" get conflated with really annoying regularity.
Oh, well, it's obvious to me that this is, indeed, a black hole being flung out into intergalactic space. The imagery plainly shows that... that...
hmmm...
For example, in my workplace gym there used to be people who would stay on the treadmills for hours at a time and prevent others from using them.
Seems to me that your workplace has some other, perhaps more pressing, problems if people have nothing else to do but walk the treadmills for hours at a time without anyone noticing they're not getting any work done.
Allow me to tell you about the "pizza" we were served and its lovely asbestos-like topping.
Re: Music stores. It's sad, because there's something very satisfying on a tactile level when you go through bins of records/cds (CDs less after they stopped doing the long boxes :( ).
Eh. It only delays the inevitable. "A system that an attacker has physical access to is already compromised" doesn't just apply to computers.
The best part is that this story plays nicely with one opinion about such institutions, popular here and there - that working for any sort of security or law enforcement agency appeals to people who need to compensate for their emotional insecurity.
FTFY
My current (non-expert) opinion is that this *was* like Black Monday, but the systems instead of freaking out, triggered all their stop-losses and then when the market was 1000 down (or whatever percentage for the equities they were monitoring) automatically started buying again (deals of a lifetime!). So instead of having to restrict trade the day after Black Monday (since the floor to that event happened on Tuesday), we saw in intraday, instead.
My $.02, anyway.
I agree. It smells like a narrative cooked up to soothe investor fears and prevent a broader sell-off.
Eh, I don't think its a conspiracy based on some sort of "hidden true valuation" of the market as a whole. I think it was a system error, just not a typo (the situation is very similar to Black Monday, after all).
Well, I(nor does anyone right now, really) have no idea of the details of the trading platform being used (if, indeed, its even relevant). However, I've never seen (nor heard of, nor have the folks who I've talked to who have worked with institutional investing) a system where you type in the amount of stock you want and then put a letter after it.
I haven't heard the PPT thing since 2008, I missed references to them so much.
The likely real explanation (that everyone's buy orders kicked in when their systems saw stupidly good deals) is so much more boring.
Many of the things you typed are correct and *are* in place. Which is why this explanation we're hearing right now is, to me, suspect.
It may have been a system problem, that's quite possible. But institutional traders don't type in "b" or "m" next to some number they type in of stock they want.
But even in some strange world where they did, entering in a standard lot quantity that required an "m" (much less a "b") for the stock that is suspected to be the issue at hand (PG), would result in an order that exceeded the 30-day avg vol for PG by a factor of 10.
And that's not even considering that the firm's risk management would, in theory, have caught the issue already.
I am, obviously, doubtful of this explanation.
Amateur websites will look like ass. Professional websites will look good. Just the same as always.
I think you miss the point that "funding development" is not the same as "making a profit". Some people like to make profits.
So fonts cost so much?
Anyone can make a font. Not many people can make a good font.
Even fewer can make a good font that has an extensive supported character set.
Even fewer than that can make the font with typefaces that don't look like ass
And even fewer can make digital fonts that antialias in a way that makes them readable at relatively small sizes.
"Losing the grip on PDF"? Sort of alarmist there, don't you think?
The only reason it seems like this is because, perhaps unconsciously (but perhaps not), editors tend to clear stories that seem to form a narrative. Regardless of the narrative existing or not.
Unlikely. Apple almost certainly pays for those product placements (or gets paid, as the case may be). No branding makes it into a major (or minor) studio movie by accident.
Eh, I interpreted it "powering on" as it just lacked the power source that the aliens used to run it. They seemed perfectly able to interface with the ship itself once it was powered on.
I'd also hope that the rate of OS bug appearance would have slowed in a very advanced spacefaring race, so that the Roswell ship would have been more or less compatible with the current mothership OS. As for security, well, I suspect that the aliens are no better than we are when it comes to social engineering.
So, you cannot fathom that this has the potential to be a tremendous tragedy? You cannot imagine how a gushing oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has the potential to pollute the entire Atlantic Ocean. Explain to me how this is not a terrible thing--or do you work for an Oil company, perhaps?
You have some issues with regards to numbers and rates, I imagine.