Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>Who's going to download and run an app which might order them to stay isolated at home
Somebody living in a country where they knew the govt would deliver food while you were home, your employer would keep paying you and you knew every other person was doing the same and so the economy would return in a month ?
Average = mode
I suspect this consists of a select bunch of "consultants" who were paid 10x that due to sharing a surname with people in government, and another bunch of people paid half that actually doing the work, and a much larger bunch of people paid bugger-all while manning call-centers to clean up the mess and to bring the average down.
At some point Dec were selling Alphas with NT for 1/2 the price they wanted to charge for the same Alpha running VMS. So we bought loads of them and installed Linux.
The only tricky part IIRC was that the screen was single frequency and so you had to login with a serial terminal to get the xconfig right before you could see anything.
>Why is the only remedy to charge Apple more tax? Why couldn't they give these other Irish phone makers a better tax deal?...... etc.,
Because it becomes a race to the bottom for Eu countries to offer lower tax rates and lighter regulations to foreign corporations. It's a problem if you are allowed to count sales anywhere in the Eu in one country.
It becomes really risky when it comes to things like safety - although you don't have to be a small country to be regulatory captured - as VW proved.
It also has the potential to get much worse.
The new Eu member state "Dutchy of Grand Fenwick" offers to allow drug companies to register in it's delightful capital and as well as offering only 1% corporation tax it guarantees approval for all their drugs with the hour and promises not to look too closely at the test data.
Hey boss you know when bob retired last week ?
yes
Well he setup the original master CVS (*) repository for Oracle
yes
Well all his stuff got auto-deleted when his account was closed
* They are planning migrating to SVN any day now
** Seriously we have a vital service account that was registered with an email address for our initial company name, we don't own that domain anymore. If we ever need to reset that password we are fscked.
I meant they use frequencies closer to AM radio bands. A magnetic field at a few 100Khz isn't going to deposit very much energy into you compared to a microwave.
On the downside a regular tinfoil hat isn't going to shield you from such long wavelengths.
Back in my days of trying to make super sensitive particle detectors in a world full of badly built CRT flyback transformers radiating like mad, I can suggest that the only effective shielding is something like the magazine armour on a battleship.
>Robinhood, as required by SEC regulations, had to have a certain amount of liquid equity on-hand to cover every trade (trade volume) that they are responsible for
Really?
So Vanguard and Blackrock must have roughly the US GDP, sitting in cash in their vaults to cover their AUM.
Are you sure you aren't confusing this with the plot of Ocean's 11 ?
>P.S. I really didn't understand how hedge funds worked before all of this, now I know more than I want to.
Just like casinos, loan-sharks and organised crime - if the casinos, loan-sharks and organised crime bosses also sat on the committee regulating casinos, loan-sharks and organised crime
>More importantly, Robinhood can take the hit for “the team” because it can go under in a lawsuit, the customers get almost nothing, and the execs can be compensated by the hedge funds, who just want the trading to stop.
Robinhood will get off, although it will go bust/be-quietly-renamed when all it's users realise that they aren't paying and so aren't the customers they're the product.
A few of the Wall St bets crowd will be convicted of illegally offering financial advice because their posts of diamond hands emojis didn't have the correct legal disclaimer.
Millions of ordinary people will continue to get poorer because they will 'invest' their money in zero interest savings accounts, because the market is all rigged
You mean instead of pressing the deceptively named "Program Manager" to manage programs you now intuitively shake the device anti-clockwise 3 times, then draw a pentagram on the touch screen then hum
a Rick Astely song to access the settings page ?
The nice thing about work from home is that everybody's 8year old kid is available on zoom to explain how to work the latest Windows/Android UI nonsense should I ever have to step away form the command line
Follwoign our freedom from oppresive Belgian overlords - the new Mondeo sovereignty will be built in Britain. It won't have any Microsoft computer stuff, or an engine.
It will be pulled by a couple of unemployed northeners, self driving is an option if you buy the add-in whip option package.
>Students are getting their lectures online, so why do they have to get them from second rate lecturers in second rate universities
A cynical person could suggest that this is why places like MIT / Stanford put all their lectures online for free - even before all the mooc/covid hype.
It isn't going to affect their student demand but why am I paying $$$$ to take CS at Podunk State U when I can watch SICP 6.001 lectures online?
So you don't have to keep it patched against the latest vulnerabilities so someone doesn't turn it into a cheese-pizza repository or insert crypto miners into the downloads.
And occasionally reinstall everything when the OS you are using runs out of security updates or the HW is no longer supported.
Then pay somebody to deal with the 1000s of DMCA orders when somebody claims that the name of a 30year old DOS utility sounds like their new song/movie/tik-tok video
It's a benefit for the company not you, Since it only covers non-emergency stuff it's for the sot of things that would take the NHS ages to deal with in otherwise healthy staff,
You're getting it so they don't have you below 100% at work for weeks/months when a bit of physio or some minor surgery can fix you up this weekend - think of it as a maintenance contract
