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NedIsakoff··on Hedge funds listened to Bank of England briefings a few seconds earlier
In that case, why not delay both?
NedIsakoff··on Hedge funds listened to Bank of England briefings a few seconds earlier
The issue is did anyone trade based on the information. Then it would be considered insider trading.

For example, lets say that you work at Apple. Walking down the hallway one day you see Tim Cook trip and fall on the way to the lunch area. The fall is really bad and he is unconscious and bleeding heavily. If you immediately sell your Apple stocks based on that, that would be insider trading.

NedIsakoff··on Hedge funds listened to Bank of England briefings a few seconds earlier
The article doesn't say so and I haven't found an explanation. Why was the audio only feed 8 seconds faster then the video feed? Why is this time difference needed?
NedIsakoff··on Lawyers for users of QuadrigaCX seek exhumation of founder
Or he had the fake death certificate and bought a fake body in Jaipur. Then did plastic surgery and scooted out of there.
NedIsakoff··on Lawyers for users of QuadrigaCX seek exhumation of founder
That’s assuming the widow is involved.
NedIsakoff··on 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
I thought of that, but we have a really bad AD/Mac setup where changing your password takes 30-60 minutes to propagate. During the time you try both your old and new passwords until they work.

If you try to change it again during the 30-60 minutes propagation time, then you need to try even more passwords passwords. Too complex to deal with.

NedIsakoff··on 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
The company I work for requires a password change every 60 days and a history of 9 passwords. Every other password I have in my 1Password so its ultra strong and secure (I use a 5 word passphrase). For my login password I just change the last digit in a loop between 0 and 9.
NedIsakoff··on API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
I really liked Strip's API version scheme and how well done it is.

Recently I'm writing code that interacts with API of a Enterprise Product (fairly new, less then 3 years old) and its driving me crazy. They version every single API endpoints separately. So endpoint A to create a user is at version 7 but endpoint B to assign a group to a user is at version 4.

WTF?

NedIsakoff··on Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible way to measure NGO effectiveness
Solution Privileged?
NedIsakoff··on The Great Cannon has been deployed again
Probably because the government asked them not to.
NedIsakoff··on The Great Cannon has been deployed again
The question is, you know I'm using it. Besides some words, what the heck are you going to do?
NedIsakoff··on Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible way to measure NGO effectiveness
I feel really woke reading that, "Solutions Privilege" and "white norms of data and evaluation". I identify as cisgender non-white male if the data is relevant.

Before the Solutions Privilege people write me with “Well, what’s YOUR way to measure nonprofit effectiveness, huh?!” I already wrote about this in “How the concept of effectiveness has screwed nonprofits and the people we serve.” It boils down to challenging established white norms of data and evaluation

Can we talk about this without being so judgemental?

NedIsakoff··on Apple’s Activation Lock Will Make It Difficult to Refurbish Macs
I'm sure there will be tons of "Legit" refurbishers that will unlock for a "donation".
NedIsakoff··on Chinese telecoms must use "AI and other technical means" to identify phone users
I live in China for over 10 years and I don't see the purpose of this.

Remember that this doesn't apply to roaming users or people buying Travel SIM for China, but those people are not a big worry.

To get a SIM card right now in China you need to have valid identification. The only ones that are acceptable are: 1) China Resident Identity Card; or 2) non-Chinese passport. Both of these already have photos.

NedIsakoff··on Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit
I call this a fake. Look at the photos and focus on the keyboard. What is it missing? The space bar. How the hell do you use a keyboard without a space bar?
NedIsakoff··on [dead]
Xi: Obey our nine dashed line or no power for you.

China is being very smart here, they have leverage in this over the Philippines. The Philippines will eventually accept the nine dashed line and obey China on it. I mean they even won at The Hague and it changed nothing.

NedIsakoff··on FortiGuard XOR Encryption in Multiple Fortinet Products
That's why you pay your legal time extra money to write a good "Terms of Services".
NedIsakoff··on USS Pueblo
I went there with YPT last year. Highly recommended: https://www.youngpioneertours.com/
NedIsakoff··on Some Blizzard employees are dreading BlizzCon
People's Republic of China did not vote for the declaration of human rights, the Republic of China did
NedIsakoff··on Amazon Workers May Be Watching Your Cloud Cam Home Footage
I run a NEST Hello and Nest Cam Indoor/Outdoor IQ system. Everything is streamed to the cloud. I was able to catch the local criminal breaking into homes.

One of the neighbours has an 12 camera setup with a NVR. They just took the NVR.

NedIsakoff··on Hong Kong student leaders and their families face anonymous threats
They don't need to, the search itself is intimidation.
NedIsakoff··on Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike
I work for $COMPANY, we just became a Microsoft Partner. Our CTO has deemed that we move all products from AWS to Azure, with a 2 year time frame.
NedIsakoff··on CEO of Marriott Statements About Hotel Fees Customers Loathe
The government calls it a deposit. The law that collects it and refunds it refers to it as a deposit. The charge on my receipt says deposit. The refund I get back is called deposit refund.

Except when I buy a can of Cola I pay 10 cents deposit. When I return it I get 5 cents deposit refund.

NedIsakoff··on CEO of Marriott Statements About Hotel Fees Customers Loathe
Depending on where you live. I live in Canada and my region you don’t get all your deposit back.
NedIsakoff··on Librem 5 July Update
Which is my I'm not pre-ordering, I'm waiting till the final specs are released. Also I need to be able to view PDF documents, so probably gonna be a while.
NedIsakoff··on Russian nuclear submarine: Norway finds big radiation leak
Different sub.
NedIsakoff··on Google Exec: If you break us up, we can't stop Trump
I would have gone with Baidu. I don't see anyone breaking up Baidu. How will Google compete with Baidu if its broken up?
NedIsakoff··on Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters
What most people call Hong Kong consists of three major areas: Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and New Territories.

Hong Kong Island (where majority of people live) was given to UK with no lease limits. Kowloon and New Territories were leased to UK for 99 years in 1898. So, in theory UK only needed to return Kowloon and New Territories. Of course, this wasn’t practical. It’s like giving Manhattan to another country but keeping Queens and Brooklyn. So in 1994 UK agree to return all 3 (Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and New Territories) in 1997.

NedIsakoff··on Hong Kong Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters
The agreement between China and UK was for 50 years, so by right China can start changing things totally in 2047. So the issue is China is 28 years too early.

Why the downvote? The Wikipedia article even backs it up: "The Basic Law ensured Hong Kong will retain its capitalist economic system and own currency (the Hong Kong Dollar), legal system, legislative system, and people's rights and freedom for fifty years, as a special administrative region (SAR) of China." -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems

NedIsakoff··on The PS1 Game Spongebob Squarepants: Supersponge Violates the GPL
Money
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