tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-271328982011-04-21T14:46:50.765-04:00When the homeland domain is under assault, the tough move their operations offshore.Blind Tangerine Joneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09336223442433692024noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27132898.post-1150898814326039422007-06-21T10:06:00.000-04:002007-01-03T12:40:40.153-05:00

Emergency procedures during NMM server outage: Tune your solar battery powered radio todel.icio.us/marketmachineand stay tuned. RSS is here. IRC channel is #marketmachines on FreeNode. AIM: blindtangerine. I'm trying out a demonstration of WetPaint here.And see this update.I'm actually less insufferable when limited to 25 words or less.

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Ms. Purple & Ms. Blue: Schnorrers straight out of Reservoir Dogs. It is not normally my procedure to use this blog for settling purely personal scores, but in this case I might make an exception.Actually, I mean both to settle somebody else's personal score, on behalf of a good friend, and at the same time derive more provisional NMM-Brasil Maxims for the Martian enterprise anthropologist

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Interesting: Denial of service attacks seem to be following me around, this time to my blog at WordPress.com.It is beginning to seem like someone really does not like what I have to say.

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NMM Business Continuity has weathered the first onslaught of the DoS attack against it and has relocated to cushier quarters. Read more at cbrayton.wordpress.com/

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Well, it's official: The NMM is the target of a denial of service attack.I kind of figured.I'm honored, in a way. I had a more or less useless PHP-Nuke test installation defaced once by crazy Turkish hackers--not that it was difficult; I don't know why they were so proud of themselves--but this is fairly industrial-strength.Do you think maybe They came to the same resolution as Mussolini did

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Ruling Sets Back Effort to Regulate Hedge Funds | New York Times:A federal appeals court today set back efforts to regulate hedge funds, the highly secretive investment pools for wealthy and institutional investors, by striking down a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that tightened government oversight of the funds.Under the rule, the funds would have been required to register with the

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AlterNet | MediaCulture | Dan Rather's Raw Deal:They finally put Dan Rather out of his misery at CBS. CEO Leslie Moonves put on his best mourning face, offering upon Rather's departure, 'He had a very distinguished career. I'm sorry he's leaving us.' However sorry Moonves may be, he still sent Rather to the glue factory -- all for reporting the truth. But not all of it.Rather's 'unsubstantiated

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CCH Wall Street:A district judge in Vermont has ordered Terry F. Allen $220,000 in disgorgement and fines for running Terry's Tips, Inc. an autotrading program. According to the SEC’s case, Terry’s Tips neglected to tell investors of the risks involved, or the actual, and disappointing, returns delivered by the program.When investors sign on to an autotrading program, they effectively give an

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Wall Street banks take stake in Chicago Stock Exchange:Wall Street banks take stake in Chicago Stock ExchangeThe Chicago Stock Exchange (CHX) has confirmed that Bank of America, Bear Stearns, E*Trade Financial and Goldman Sachs are making a combined $20 million equity investment in its business.The news follows reports earlier this year that CHX was in talks with a number of banks about selling a

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Astroturf Marketing | SourceWatch:Teri Cox from the New Jersey-based Cox Communication Partners expressed similar enthusiasm in a September 2002 issue of Pharma Executive. Industry-patient 'partnerships,' she wrote, could 'influence changes in healthcare policy and regulations to expand patient access to, and coverage for, earlier diagnoses and treatments . . . recruit participants for clinical

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Euronext Talks Up Milan Target (W$J): Pan-European stock-exchange operator Euronext said it plans to step up merger talks with Borsa Italiana amid industry talk that Deutsche Boerse could make a rival approach.The play for the Milan stock-exchange operator comes as Euronext and Deutsche Boerse already are facing off over Euronext's recent agreement to join with NYSE Group, operator of the New

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Digital Straight Talk: ‘Fiery Missives’ and Other Emotional Tactics Driving Net Neutrality Debate... Last week, Google’s top Washington lobbyist disclosed that the company had configured its search engine to return paid links that support Google’s position on net neutrality after the entry of certain key words" ...Digital Straight Talk isproduced by Cox Communications, the third-largest cable TV

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CME chooses Hong Kong (Finance Asia):Chicago Mercantile Exchanges establishes Asia-Pacific hub in Hong Kong on the back of planned China futures products.Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has rolled into Hong Kong, opening its new Asia-Pacific headquarters in the SAR on the back of expanded products offerings, its proximity to China business opportunities and its self-proclaimed increasing focus

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HYBRID MARKET IMPLEMENTATION: SPECIALIST ALGORITHMIC QUOTING ("S QUOTES") RULE 104:Among the NYSE Rule Changes leading to full implementation of the Hybrid Market: a new rule, with a pilot program starting today, to insulate the information that flows into proprietary specialist trading from any information the specialist picks up in the course of trading on behalf of clients.Information

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Dealbook: Why the World Needs Private Equity:Far from being vultures who do not care what gets destroyed in their single-minded pursuit of profits, private equity firms, rather, see their role as “empowering business leaders as they seek to make change,” wrote Marek Gumienny, managing director of Candover, in what amounted to an industry apologia published Tuesday by the Web site of BBC News.

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FederalTimes.com:Business groups were worried this spring when Congress demanded greater scrutiny of foreign entities buying U.S. companies. But now they say they’re satisfied that legislation moving through the House increases oversight without being overbearing.Good legislative analysis of the House and Senate versions of the CFIUS reform measure, I thought. For a dummy like me, at least, that

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Neural Nets Invade Hedge Fund Industry:LONDON (Reuters) - Imagine a mathematical system that works like a human brain, can absorb thousands of bits of information in seconds, learn from its mistakes, adapt to new environments and help a manager allocate money to hedge funds.No, it's not Hal from the film 2001 Space Odessey or the Terminator, a robot played by Arnold Schwarzenegger -- both

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I've long suspected that Waters--which has a former Reuters CEO on its board--and especially its Inside Market Data, is a quasi-independent subsidiary of Reuters. This e-mail "news alert" makes me suspect that even more strongly.This is a breaking news story from Inside Market Data. This story is normally only sent to our requested email alert recipients - but you have

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As I get a chance today, I'll be working on organizing some topics from the old research file, using my WetPaint Wiki and Google Notebook.I'm finding three topics from the management and organizational studies literature to be very useful to my thinking right now on "the second superpower," "new nonprofit organizations," "the death of competition" and "business ecosystems": interlocking

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NYSE Chief John Thain Attacks “Excessive” Regulation:Speaking at the second annual NYSE Regulation conference in New York, NYSE Group CEO John Thain took on what he called “excessive” regulation as being one of the factors responsible for driving capital-raising activity outside the U.S.Twenty-three of the 25 largest initial public offerings that took place in 2005 were not registered in the U.S.

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I allot myself one blog-style personal rant on this e-mail from the DCCC.If there's one thing dirtier and uglier than Karl Rove and the Republican propaganda machine, it's Karl Rove and the Republican propaganda machine backed into a corner. I happen to agree with that. The only problem? Receiving that message from James Carville and Paul Begala, along with a pitch for donations, tends to

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US CFTC looks at foreign-based electronic trading: This is quite a different line than the SEC is taking with respect to regulatory concerns over the NYSE-Euronext equities and derivatives merger. Or is it?WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold a public hearing next week to discuss when a foreign-based board of trade or exchange offering electronic

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NMM is most probably being hacked. I'm having the host redirect to here. Any assistance you can offer gratefully accepted.

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When you promise Harvard, you give Harvard...Or else:Hmmmm … when Harvard University gets left in the lurch, word has a way of getting out and faces turn bright red. Case in point: Larry Ellison, chairman of software group Oracle, who has failed to make good on a $115m (€91m, GBP62m) donation 10 months after academics believed they could count on the money.The Ellison Institute for World Health,

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Pulitzer Prize winner tests Chinese censors | Tech News on ZDNet:A New York Times columnist has created Chinese-language blogs on two of China's most popular Web portals to test the limits of the Internet in China, but one of them could not be accessed on Wednesday.In new blogs on Sohu and Sina, Nicholas Kristof denounced the imprisonment of his Chinese colleague, Zhao Yan, and called for

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I'm back on the backup blog today. What could be causing this CPU overusage by WordPress? Last 24 hours.xxxxxx blogalization.nu 2.11 0.24 0.1Top Process %CPU 99.9 /usr/bin/phpTop Process %CPU 97.0 /usr/bin/phpTop Process %CPU 60.0 [php ]

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Crying Foul In Short-Selling Land (Forbes):An issue once relegated to conspiracy theorists and boiler-room insiders is about to get its 15 minutes in the sun when the Senate Judiciary Committee takes up naked short-selling in a hearing next Wednesday.The hearing, which was postponed a week because of scheduling (and what was said to be overwhelming media interest), will focus on a brewing

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Silent dealers set deadly pace in derivatives trade Analysis | Times Online: a thorough and well-researched layman's backgrounder on the black-box trading scene, from New York City's newest tabloid, the Times of London.The juxtaposition of "silent" and "deadly" in the same phrase has a raucous connotation in American English that it does not in the mother tongue.TODAY marks the start of

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The latest Sunday sermon from the mountaintop by the NYSE Group delivers a real curveball:The NYSE Group would consider creating a new London exchange to compete with the London Stock Exchange if its acquisition of Paris-based Euronext does not deliver the international share listings business it expects, chief executive John Thain said in a Financial Times interview.Alternatively, Mr Thain said,

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Now that I think I've zeroed in some of the key sources and evangelizers of this notion of the "business ecosystem"--and related ideas like the "new non-profit organization (NNPO)"--I'm finding it useful to read deeply in the literature on "interorganizational systems," "interorganization dynamics," and the like, from the point of view of instutitional economics.For instance: Gulati, Ranjay &

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New York City and Tri-State News from WABC-TV: (New York-AP, June 18, 2006) -- U.S. officials received intelligence that al-Qaida operatives had been 45 days from releasing a deadly gas into the New York City subways when the plan was called off by Osama bin Laden's second-in-command in 2003, according to a book excerpt released Sunday on Time magazine's Web site.According to the investigative

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Live blogging Brazil v. Australia.0:00: The Brazilian national anthem is ridiculously hard to sing, crazy Gongoristic in its lyrics, and so ridiculously long that the TV limits them to one verse. I explain to Neuza that Australia's national anthem used to be "Waltzing Matilda," a song about a bum living off the land. Why did they change it? That was the best. The new one sounds like the wedding

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When you get the impression that a disparate group of people are all reading from the same script, it is often because they are reading the same book. So you start trying to trace the thinking of the people who evangelize those ideas until you find the most influential author.In the area I've been thinking about, that author is Dr. James F. Moore of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society,

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Gretchen Morgenstern of the Times, syndicated in the Lakeland (Fla.) Ledger:AFTER a Long Island charity that provides financial support for 190 current or former firefighters lost $614,036 in the stock market during the Internet bubble several years ago, it eventually did what many aggrieved investors do: it filed an arbitration case against its former broker, Andrew Sirico, contending that he

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'Complete nonsense': click to zoomPrint/online revenue and the inflection point (yelvington.com):Peter Krasilovsky and Jay Small have some thoughts about local online revenue growth and the inflection point at which a web operation outsells the print operation.I've run those numbers, too, guessimating the future. It's total nonsense, of course; you cannot predict the future by extrapolating from

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New York Times, June 17, 2006:At least 90 officials at the Department of Homeland Security or the White House Office of Homeland Security — including the department's former secretary, Tom Ridge; the former deputy secretary, Adm. James M. Loy; and the former under secretary, Asa Hutchinson — are executives, consultants or lobbyists for companies that collectively do billions of dollars' worth of

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Extra! Extra!: June 2006 Archives: "Bob Mahlburg of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reviewed state financial disclosure records to show Florida's weak ethics laws and how state and local officials with real estate investments walk a tightrope between their public posts and personal profits. 'State Sen. Mike Bennett has made more than $2 million renting office space to a state agency he helps oversee.

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The New Market Machines is in disaster recovery mode ... and I am a bit peeved at my normally excellent Web host.I had a misbehaving PHP script that was overrunning the server in May, so they moved me off the production server so I could work on the problem.I thought the problem was resolved. I located what I thought was the offender, removed it, and wrote asking if the problem was solved. No

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Press release:Technorati, Inc., the leading authority on the global blogosphere, and The Associated Press, the world's oldest and largest news organization, have announced an agreement to provide up-to-the-minute links helping readers navigate between AP news coverage and recent blogs about stories on AP's Hosted Custom News service for Web sites.Just this week, Technorati announced another major

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Can blogs affect politics and society? (Matthew Ingram of the Globe & MailAs a lead-up to mesh in May, the Gang of Five — that is me, Rob Hyndman, Mark Evans, Mike McDerment and Stuart “call me Chairman Mao” MacDonald — have been talking a lot (not surprisingly) about the themes we want to look at, and crawling the blogosphere for evidence of how Web 2.0 and blogs are — or aren’t — affecting

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Ipanema Originally uploaded by mistca. Rio 40 graus: It may well be our home starting sometime this year, though the accuracy of forward-looking statements are contingent upon unforeseen eventualities.

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Open Source License Survives Challenge: Doubts About GPL Enforceability Continue to Wane (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, on Mondaq): A recent antitrust challenge to the Free Software Foundation bites the dust. Mondaq has the blow-by-blow.Some legal scholars (and open source critics) have questioned the enforceability of open source licenses, including the widely used GPL license. The Free

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The New Market Machines is offline today thanks to some misbehaving PHP plugin for WordPress or other ... whether thanks to one of those automated PHP trojan spiders or not, I can't tell. I'm researching, just out of curiosity. My blog started taking up 80% of the server cpu cycles, up from an average of 5%, the tech support lads said. But of course, the real cognoscenti know to ignore my

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