Unless it is a routine run of the mill thing to transfer a million bucks from this account to that account, one does not transfer 1 million dollars based on email instruction.
It is high time the Government investigate if there is a pattern of getting instruction through email and transferring money without asking questions to allow the rich guy deniability. Scenario like this: Rich guy hires goons to do stuff, sends email to financial advisor cryptically pay x $ to account Y. Financial advisor deliberately avoids getting any written instruction, phone calls, oral verification. Even if the police catch the perps, sniff up the money trail of the goons, it would stop at this "financial advisor". Who would again claim victim of fraud.
They should find ALL the money transfers by that accountant, and see if any of it can be tied to funding illegal activity.
Ads on TVs are as irritating and distracting too. But before DVRs and TiVO there was no way to skip them. And people put up with it. People will tolerate a lot of shit if there is no other way to get the content they want to watch at the price they are willing to pay
Facebook probably spent tons of money doing focus group research to find how much shit they can heap up on their user ^H^H^H^H product.
Remember the old joke,
Thesis Guide: "What does the research sponsor think the incident rate would be?"
PhD student: "About six percent".
Thesis Guide: "Bear that in mind when you collect data".
The focus group testing companies try to figure out what Facebook wants to hear, and they massage the data to suit. So the executives have some way to lie to themselves their rubes can be abused this much.
60% of Amazon orders are filled by thirdparties, Amazon is just a storefront. All of them are offering identical products in Walmart, Home Depot and Best Buy storefronts. Already there are people making money in arbitrage, and the indications are that Amazon is more expensive than these competing store fronts. Google can scrape the site and show the product offered in all these sites.
Vendors too do not want to let Amazon grow too big for them to handle, and they don't want to depend too much on Amazon. Walmart is prohibiting its vendors from using Amazon cloud services for their inventory management and such stuff. It claims, fairly or unfairly, Amazon snoops on the cloud data.
Amazon is quite vulnerable, and at some point it might spin off the profit making Cloud services and detach it from the low margin retail sales.
Press and newspapers are essential for a Democracy to survive.
We need to find a way to fund them collectively. If not, trolls will own the elections.
Google and Facebook are effectively monopolies. Might as well formally recognize that status
and use the monopoly regulation tools to find some sort of funding to the news papers. It is not
a great solution, not even a good solution. But it is still better than the alternative, direct government
subsidy from tax payers.
The striking nugget of info I got while touring Monticello was that, Thomas Jefferson rationed half a pound of meat per week per slave/worker. They also grew some 40 different vegetables, but they ate pathetically little meat.
Letters from immigrants to Ameica sent back home to Bavaria, Italy, Greece etc were recovered from dusty attics and long forgotten chests. They mention being able to eat meat/chicken every day as an astonishing thing.
Even in America 100 years ago middle class had horses and a few rich people had cars. Now middle class has cars and few rich people own horses!
They will have some plea deal and will be actively recruited by hedge funds, high frequency traders and banks. This level of criminal thinking is a highly sought after in those circles. They will properly trained on how to do it under the protection of these firms with big team of lawyers and lobbyists.
That is the fundamental flaw in his argument. He is thinking about what is good for the ISPs in the long term, and naively believes they will act in their long term interest.
No ISPs are managed by MBAs. They compete with other ISPs. It is so very tempting to squeeze 1$ more revenue this quarter, even if it means losing 3$ next year or 30 $ over the next decade. The managers know their stock options, the vesting schedule, the exercise price and bonus trigger stock price. Meeting that is of paramount importance for the C?O crowd. Getting 1$ more in their personal pay is a lot more important to them than causing 50$ worth of damage to the company and its long term assets. These managers have an average tenure of about 3 years. There are very very few managers who stick with the same company for decades.
If by chance one company decides to go for the long term play, Wall Street will immediately punish it. Its stock will plunge, its revenue will be compared to its competitors. The pressure is relentless and there is no way for a public company to recover. Moderate size companies will manipulate their stock price downwards, and make it attractive enough for Private Equity. Usually by dumping their insiders' stock and negative guidance in the quarterly calls. The true viability and strength will be disclosed to private investors, and once the public stock holders are paid off at the fire sale prices, the private equity firms will richly reward the executives who got them the plum. But these ISPs are too big for private equity. Even at fire sale prices, the market valuation would be so high it is off limits for private equity. Making them bankrupt intentionally would help them take it private, but bankruptcy is a public court managed affair, not the hush hush under the table dealings with private equity. So it is not likely to happen.
So it will be a race to the bottom. So they will race to the bottom. Some eagerly, some reluctantly, but it is to the bottom they will race.
At some point, the big traders are running out of coins to sell, and the market can go back to its normal value.
And the normal value will be determined by people who are willing to accept it, who are not the "real believers" of bit coin, who has seen how the value has been manipulated downwards by other big players.
We all know people that have grown far less tolerant and far more angry, I'm talking both left and right
No we are just going back to the basics. Human emotional response evolved to handle extended family level social units. Stoneage cultures that survived long enough to be documented shows this clearly. The natural tendency of a human being encountering a stranger is hostility. When people can not be distinguished on appearance, we fragment language and use speech to identify friend or foe. The Old Testament mentions Ephramites pronounced "Shibboleth" as "Sibboleth", and were slain on the banks of river Jordan, 42,000 of them and the river ran red with blood. The word shibboleth means passphrase in English.
After the domestication of dog, then cattle, sheep, goat, wheat, rice, pigs, the food supply and population explosion stratified the society. Those who learned to coexist with larger group, coalesced to form larger and larger units and formed tribes, races, nations, states and Empires. Many cultures never learned. But those who did expanded and assimilated those who did not. But their genes survive. This is just the last 5000 years. Hardly 200 generations. All those genes of assimilated people, who were normally downtrodden and poor and without rights, those who were subjegated exist today.
Given a choice, we find people who are most like us, collect around them and try to form the later neolithic extended clan. The weapons we use changed from stones to nuclear arsenal, the tools we use changed from simple seeding stick or a plough to John Deere tractor with A/C and GPS. But the brain that uses all this is driven by the same emotional machinery that drove the neolithic hunter-gatherers.
What makes you think many people around you are chatterbots, just waiting for positive or negative reinforcement in order to engage predetermined responses?
but it said neither Synaptics nor HP had access to customer data as a result of the flaw.
It is like Yale announcing that its locks, made since 1929, could be opened by any pentalobulous screw driver, but neither Yale, nor the screwdriver maker, got any share of the loot taken by any burglar taking advantage of the flaw.
It is very common to read out lessons to help memorize passages in India. I found it to be distracting and slow. But all my neighbors and my cousins are "reading aloud" rote memorizers. It was very difficult to beat them in exams till school final. Test scores are not confidential there, you will be ranked in the class even in minor weekly quizzes. All through high school the tests did not distinguish between memorize-regurgitate students from people who struggle to understand and write answers on their own. In competitive examns and aptitude tests, we beat them hollow.
So I *know* memorizing techniques and I have seen it work and I have struggled without it. I think setting some kind of cadence, rhythm and tune would help you memorize even better.
Gene drives are a genetic engineering approach with huge implications. They're meant to seed genetic traits -- one that stops mosquitoes from carrying malaria, for instance, or hampers invasive rodents' ability to reproduce -- in a population, and with terrifyingly high odds of inheritance. [snip]. (So far, they've only been applied to yeast, fruit flies, and mosquitoes in a lab setting.)
Fiddlestocks! yeast, fruit flies.... yikes!
Just imagine letting it lose among the terrorists and criminals. No body would object to fighting terrorists and criminals, right? And then, get this Pinky, this is where my genius idea comes in. We just have to mark any one opposed to us as criminals, and wow! We will get the world dominating thing done before the first commercial break!
But Brain, who would oppose this? We will take over the world, like we always do
What's the we you are talking about Kemo Sabe? Anyone who might oppose would be next. Any lab rat with less gray matter and more pink skin...
Bangaladesh is suing Phillipines banks for purely political cover and to white wash the affair.
It was pulled off with insiders in the bank. They knew the exact process. Orders and acknowledgements were printed and kept track of. They first disabled the printer with some innocuous manner. It is possible they caused the same failure a few times before to stop them from getting suspicious. Then on a Friday, sent the money transfer orders. Acknowledgement was stuck in the print spool. NY Fed released the funds after giving enough time for Bangaladesh to countermand or correct errors.
It was NYFed noticing the typos and errors in the order that stopped the bleeding at 80 million dollars. If not, they would have drained ALL the funds of the government of Bangaladesh.
Now they are opening a dog and pony show by suing Phillipines to distract the local population, politicians and the press. It was done with the complicity of the highest level officers in Bangaladesh.
When the hard won rights of individuals are given to corporations, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and courts rule corporations spending money to influence elections is same as individual freedom of speech... you know which party you should vote for. If you find some reason to even consider the party beholden to corporations... There is no hope.
Show up to vote. Be fanatical. Show up to the most insignificant local election to the dog catcher, ask the candidate if they support "net neutrality". It will percolate up.
Be like NRA members. They are a force to be reckoned with. Organize under a banner, and show that you believe. In a democracy only voters count.
Protests don't help. Showing up at a campaign for the Municipality Sanitation board candidate and pester that candidate about net neutrality. If they think you are a voter they will pay attention. If they know you will definitely show up to vote they will court you.
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It is high time the Government investigate if there is a pattern of getting instruction through email and transferring money without asking questions to allow the rich guy deniability. Scenario like this: Rich guy hires goons to do stuff, sends email to financial advisor cryptically pay x $ to account Y. Financial advisor deliberately avoids getting any written instruction, phone calls, oral verification. Even if the police catch the perps, sniff up the money trail of the goons, it would stop at this "financial advisor". Who would again claim victim of fraud.
They should find ALL the money transfers by that accountant, and see if any of it can be tied to funding illegal activity.
Facebook probably spent tons of money doing focus group research to find how much shit they can heap up on their user ^H^H^H^H product.
Remember the old joke,
Thesis Guide: "What does the research sponsor think the incident rate would be?"
PhD student: "About six percent".
Thesis Guide: "Bear that in mind when you collect data".
The focus group testing companies try to figure out what Facebook wants to hear, and they massage the data to suit. So the executives have some way to lie to themselves their rubes can be abused this much.
Hopefully now they'll stop artificially preventing their Amazon
Why attribute to malice something perfectly explained by incompetence?
On the other hand, sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Vendors too do not want to let Amazon grow too big for them to handle, and they don't want to depend too much on Amazon. Walmart is prohibiting its vendors from using Amazon cloud services for their inventory management and such stuff. It claims, fairly or unfairly, Amazon snoops on the cloud data.
Amazon is quite vulnerable, and at some point it might spin off the profit making Cloud services and detach it from the low margin retail sales.
We need to find a way to fund them collectively. If not, trolls will own the elections.
Google and Facebook are effectively monopolies. Might as well formally recognize that status and use the monopoly regulation tools to find some sort of funding to the news papers. It is not a great solution, not even a good solution. But it is still better than the alternative, direct government subsidy from tax payers.
Letters from immigrants to Ameica sent back home to Bavaria, Italy, Greece etc were recovered from dusty attics and long forgotten chests. They mention being able to eat meat/chicken every day as an astonishing thing.
Even in America 100 years ago middle class had horses and a few rich people had cars. Now middle class has cars and few rich people own horses!
It still is not.
That is exactly the formula followed by Bahubali -- The conclusion. What would have traditionally been the interval, became the ending of one movie.
They will have some plea deal and will be actively recruited by hedge funds, high frequency traders and banks. This level of criminal thinking is a highly sought after in those circles. They will properly trained on how to do it under the protection of these firms with big team of lawyers and lobbyists.
No ISPs are managed by MBAs. They compete with other ISPs. It is so very tempting to squeeze 1$ more revenue this quarter, even if it means losing 3$ next year or 30 $ over the next decade. The managers know their stock options, the vesting schedule, the exercise price and bonus trigger stock price. Meeting that is of paramount importance for the C?O crowd. Getting 1$ more in their personal pay is a lot more important to them than causing 50$ worth of damage to the company and its long term assets. These managers have an average tenure of about 3 years. There are very very few managers who stick with the same company for decades.
If by chance one company decides to go for the long term play, Wall Street will immediately punish it. Its stock will plunge, its revenue will be compared to its competitors. The pressure is relentless and there is no way for a public company to recover. Moderate size companies will manipulate their stock price downwards, and make it attractive enough for Private Equity. Usually by dumping their insiders' stock and negative guidance in the quarterly calls. The true viability and strength will be disclosed to private investors, and once the public stock holders are paid off at the fire sale prices, the private equity firms will richly reward the executives who got them the plum. But these ISPs are too big for private equity. Even at fire sale prices, the market valuation would be so high it is off limits for private equity. Making them bankrupt intentionally would help them take it private, but bankruptcy is a public court managed affair, not the hush hush under the table dealings with private equity. So it is not likely to happen.
So it will be a race to the bottom. So they will race to the bottom. Some eagerly, some reluctantly, but it is to the bottom they will race.
me too. I mourn loss of that password than most bitcoin buyers who forgot the keys for their wallets.
At some point, the big traders are running out of coins to sell, and the market can go back to its normal value.
And the normal value will be determined by people who are willing to accept it, who are not the "real believers" of bit coin, who has seen how the value has been manipulated downwards by other big players.
So what do you think the new normal will be?
We all know people that have grown far less tolerant and far more angry, I'm talking both left and right
No we are just going back to the basics. Human emotional response evolved to handle extended family level social units. Stoneage cultures that survived long enough to be documented shows this clearly. The natural tendency of a human being encountering a stranger is hostility. When people can not be distinguished on appearance, we fragment language and use speech to identify friend or foe. The Old Testament mentions Ephramites pronounced "Shibboleth" as "Sibboleth", and were slain on the banks of river Jordan, 42,000 of them and the river ran red with blood. The word shibboleth means passphrase in English.
After the domestication of dog, then cattle, sheep, goat, wheat, rice, pigs, the food supply and population explosion stratified the society. Those who learned to coexist with larger group, coalesced to form larger and larger units and formed tribes, races, nations, states and Empires. Many cultures never learned. But those who did expanded and assimilated those who did not. But their genes survive. This is just the last 5000 years. Hardly 200 generations. All those genes of assimilated people, who were normally downtrodden and poor and without rights, those who were subjegated exist today.
Given a choice, we find people who are most like us, collect around them and try to form the later neolithic extended clan. The weapons we use changed from stones to nuclear arsenal, the tools we use changed from simple seeding stick or a plough to John Deere tractor with A/C and GPS. But the brain that uses all this is driven by the same emotional machinery that drove the neolithic hunter-gatherers.
What makes you think many people around you are chatterbots, just waiting for positive or negative reinforcement in order to engage predetermined responses?
Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice. (mod on Arthur C Clarke.)
but it said neither Synaptics nor HP had access to customer data as a result of the flaw.
It is like Yale announcing that its locks, made since 1929, could be opened by any pentalobulous screw driver, but neither Yale, nor the screwdriver maker, got any share of the loot taken by any burglar taking advantage of the flaw.
Manually joining 10000 chromebooks? There are 10,000 students and their care givers. Teach them to join wi-fi. It is a school! Teach them!.
So I *know* memorizing techniques and I have seen it work and I have struggled without it. I think setting some kind of cadence, rhythm and tune would help you memorize even better.
Then... we will make manure from clean energy!
The Pinky and the Brain who have their hands on this technology would not care.
Is your claim just your personal opinion or backed by some investigation.
ALL my claims are personal opinion. Sometimes it will be based on some trustworthy news source. Other times not.
Gene drives are a genetic engineering approach with huge implications. They're meant to seed genetic traits -- one that stops mosquitoes from carrying malaria, for instance, or hampers invasive rodents' ability to reproduce -- in a population, and with terrifyingly high odds of inheritance. [snip]. (So far, they've only been applied to yeast, fruit flies, and mosquitoes in a lab setting.)
Fiddlestocks! yeast, fruit flies.... yikes!
Just imagine letting it lose among the terrorists and criminals. No body would object to fighting terrorists and criminals, right? And then, get this Pinky, this is where my genius idea comes in. We just have to mark any one opposed to us as criminals, and wow! We will get the world dominating thing done before the first commercial break!
But Brain, who would oppose this? We will take over the world, like we always do
What's the we you are talking about Kemo Sabe? Anyone who might oppose would be next. Any lab rat with less gray matter and more pink skin...
It was pulled off with insiders in the bank. They knew the exact process. Orders and acknowledgements were printed and kept track of. They first disabled the printer with some innocuous manner. It is possible they caused the same failure a few times before to stop them from getting suspicious. Then on a Friday, sent the money transfer orders. Acknowledgement was stuck in the print spool. NY Fed released the funds after giving enough time for Bangaladesh to countermand or correct errors.
It was NYFed noticing the typos and errors in the order that stopped the bleeding at 80 million dollars. If not, they would have drained ALL the funds of the government of Bangaladesh.
Now they are opening a dog and pony show by suing Phillipines to distract the local population, politicians and the press. It was done with the complicity of the highest level officers in Bangaladesh.
When the hard won rights of individuals are given to corporations, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and courts rule corporations spending money to influence elections is same as individual freedom of speech ... you know which party you should vote for. If you find some reason to even consider the party beholden to corporations... There is no hope.
Be like NRA members. They are a force to be reckoned with. Organize under a banner, and show that you believe. In a democracy only voters count.
Protests don't help. Showing up at a campaign for the Municipality Sanitation board candidate and pester that candidate about net neutrality. If they think you are a voter they will pay attention. If they know you will definitely show up to vote they will court you.