Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541712e7e...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com, on 12/29/2010 at 08:54 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com said: Casinos have rules. 1. Never give a sucker an even break 2. Take the money and run 3. The house always wins. 4. If there is inadvertently an element of

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-29 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) What? You don't like the stock market being just another

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown What? You don't like the stock market being just another casino? [ snip ] Umm. . . Casinos have rules. . . . -jc- -- For

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-29 Thread HUTCHISON Gregory
...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 5:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) What? You don't like the stock market being just another casino? How unAmerican! I totally agree. But greed rules. There is no more

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-29 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:54 -0600 on 12/29/2010, Chase, John wrote about Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic): -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown What? You don't like the stock market being just another casino? [ snip ] Umm

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-29 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
hal9...@panix.com (Robert A. Rosenberg) writes: Such as you are not allowed to use a skill to win their games when you are playing against them. IOW: In Poker against other players it is ok to use your skill at the game. Card Counting to keep track of what cards have been dealt is banned

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-29 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip Also, I would like to see that you can't buy a commodity without taking delivery. They drove the crude prices up to $100 a barrel in 2008 despite oil tankers unable to load due to the storage tanks being full.

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread Rick Fochtman
://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#37 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) as previously referred to, high-speed computerized trading can turn enormous profit (easily justifying the best

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip They did not get quite the best thief that money could buy. Maybe if they were more concerned with quality rather than sheer profit, they might have gotten a more honest reliable programmer. If they still have that

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread Scott Ford
your personal life, its all about values.   Scott J Ford   From: Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, December 28, 2010 3:28:20 PM Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
, it is much more important to have transparency and visibility ... somewhat related to my prior post about being asked by NSCC to look at improving the integrity of trading transactions: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#44 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) note that sarbanes-oxley

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread Chase, John
of as a pittance to the people who think stock brokering is worth what they get. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#37 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) as previously

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread Mike Schwab
I would like to see the day traders and market timers be put out of business. I would like to see that you place a buy order for a certain price or lower, and a sell order for a certain price or higher for a defined period of time, then satify the orders during a certain time period by sorting

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes: Also, I would like to see that you can't buy a commodity without taking delivery. They drove the crude prices up to $100 a barrel in 2008 despite oil tankers unable to load due to the storage tanks being full. re:

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread John McKown
What? You don't like the stock market being just another casino? How unAmerican! I totally agree. But greed rules. There is no more ethics in business other than maximize profit. Workers don't matter. Quality doesn't matter. As as long as you can con them, the consumer (not to be considered a

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread Martin Packer
Yeah, I tweeted about the tears typo. The funniest part of the whole thing. :-) Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread Howard Brazee
On 25 Dec 2010 23:06:40 -0800, ps2...@yahoo.com (Ed Gould) wrote: The programmer joined Goldman Sachs in May, 2007, and was paid an annual salary of $400,000, according to records.He was apprehended after Goldman Sachs noticed large amounts of data being uploaded from its servers via HTTPS

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread Jim Wangler
I guess they have an opening now?? I'd apply for that Jim Wangler 214-502-6445 jim_wang...@osianainc.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu writes: But it appears that the salary was normal. Probably thought of as a pittance to the people who think stock brokering is worth what they get. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) http

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread Thomas Kern
they get. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#36 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#37 Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) as previously referred to, high-speed computerized trading can turn enormous profit (easily justifying

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread HUTCHISON Gregory
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Anne Lynn Wheeler Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 9:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu writes: But it appears that the salary was normal. Probably thought

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-27 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com (Thomas Kern) writes: They did not get quite the best thief that money could buy. Maybe if they were more concerned with quality rather than sheer profit, they might have gotten a more honest reliable programmer. If they still have that opening, I can come up with a team

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-26 Thread John McKown
Man, I will never get anywhere near that salary. Complaint was that he downloaded the source to a software system which did their trades. I guess to sell it to other companies. Or maybe to examine to see if any flaws could be exploited. The article doesn't say. The source code to which I have

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-26 Thread J R
Sergei Aleynikov faces a sentence of up to 15 tears ... Uh-oh, they're gonna make him cry! Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:05:38 -0800 From: ps2...@yahoo.com Subject: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic) To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu The programmer joined Goldman Sachs in May

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) writes: Man, I will never get anywhere near that salary. Complaint was that he downloaded the source to a software system which did their trades. I guess to sell it to other companies. Or maybe to examine to see if any flaws could be exploited. The article

Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-26 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
oh ... and in the early 90s ... when we were doing ha/cmp product and talking to some number of trading operations (including SIAC which ran datacenter operations for NYSE) ... with respect to what would the impact of an outage be. One computer in tall skyscraper in LA supposedly earn more money

Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-25 Thread Ed Gould
The programmer joined Goldman Sachs in May, 2007, and was paid an annual salary of $400,000, according to records.He was apprehended after Goldman Sachs noticed large amounts of data being uploaded from its servers via HTTPS transfers. The uploads, 32 MB in total, were ultimately traced to