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Baltimore Digital Commerce Society-- Korhammer on Lava Trading, Nov 6
by Peter Wayner 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

This event was originally scheduled for October 2nd, but it is being pushed back to November 6th because Lava Trading used to be located on the 83rd floor of the WTC. Richard Korhammer's office was only 50 feet away from where the plane hit. Miraculously all of the company survived. Korhammer was across the street with a client during the entire event. But please come to listen to hear about their company not about the WTC. They're almost back on-line after having their entire office destroyed. These guys are building a very cool, cross-exchange tool. It constantly keeps track of the bids and asks on a number of exchanges letting you send your business to where the prices are best. It's fascinating to watch the screen update the quotes in real time. This kind of semi-automated, trading assistance is bound to become more and more prevalent. I think Lava Trading is doing some of the most interesting stuff around. -Peter Baltimore Digital Commerce Society Tuesday November 6, 12:30 Speaker: Richard Korhammer, CEO of Lava Trading (www.lavatrading.com) Topic: Networks as Markets-- Why Exchanges are Becoming Virtual Richard Korhammer is the CEO of LavaTrading, one of the startup companies in New York diving into cross-market arbitrage. Their network links together all of the important market makers in ECNs and keeps track of all bids and offers. Buyers and sellers using the technology automatically get pointers to the best price possible. Traders with large blocks of stock do substantially better because Lava Trading will break up their block to match it with the best price available across all of the markets. This cross-market arbitrage improves liquidity for the market and makes it simpler for traders with large blocks of stock to wade into the marketplace without leaving a wake. In his talk, Korhammer will explore how fast networking and sophisticated servers can supplement and potentially replace the old fashioned stock exchange. Traders won't need to come to one place or one exchange to search for the best price because the network can constantly sort through all buyers and sellers. Korhammer believes that adding intelligence to the network and the servers supporting is more efficient than requiring traders to manually manage an otherwise complicated marketplace. Will these cross-exchange tools supplant the exchange? Will they eventually become the exchange? Will the disintermediation eventually make all trading a transparent event? Location: 11 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD Directions: The Engineering Society lies in the shadow of Baltimore's Washington monument in the center of town. From downtown, take Charles St north to the monument. The Society is to the left on Monument Street. From the north, take 83 south to Maryland Avenue exit. Follow Maryland Avenue south until Monument Street. The Society is to the left. Or look at this map: http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&add r=11+Mount+Vernon+Place&csz=Baltimore%2C+MD+21201&country=us&Get%07Map=Get+M ap Cost: $14 for a lunch buffet Questions: pcw(a)flyzone.com Write me (pcw(a)flyzone.com) to tell me if you're coming. Reservations are required.

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Re: Re: America needs therapy
by mmotyka＠lsil.com 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

>"James B. DiGriz" <jbdigriz(a)dragonsweb.org> wrote : > <snip> Declan's note about ADM hogs at the trough with lots of other hogs... > >A far more productive application of corporate welfare would be if that >money were spent on engineering research and development of >geosynchronous solar power microwave relays, fusion and advanced fission >reactors, permanent manned statons on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, etc. >The planet and its politics would likely be a lot cleaner. Just one >beneficial side effect. > Just wait until some orbiting uwave controller goes bonserk and boils a slice of America from DC to San Franciso. Oops. How about picking some of the low-hanging fruit first? Start with greed and waste and work your way up to the Buck Rogers stuff. After all, if we can't get the simple shit right what hope is there that we can handle anything that requires brains and responsibility? >If govts. didn't insist on scarfing up so much in taxes and thwarting >markets at the behest of vested interests, private parties probably >would already be doing most of this by now. > >But what else is new? > >jbdigriz > Until there is a crisis nothing will be done. It will require widely accepted evidence of a problem ( read : widespread domestic starvation ) before action will be taken and then the only parties in a position to take that action will be those same private parties ( the dreaded vested interests ) that you complain about. I think that our technology is one of our greatest strengths and our faith in that technology is one of our greatest weaknesses. We avoid basic remedies in the hopes that techology will offer some sort of ultimate cure that will not inconvenience us one bit and the net result is that we raise the stakes unnecessarily. Am I wrong or doesn't there seem to be an implicit assumption in our *SOVSUV-mad rush to consume petroleum that technology has the solution to a shortage just about ready to roll when the need arises? Myself, I highly doubt it in spite of Bush's reassuring words that "there are no limits" to what technology can accomplish. Sorry, I don't commute to work in an F350 King Cab Dualie, Mike ( pessimistic techie and closet Luddite ) *SOV - Single Occupancy Vehicle as opposed to HOV SOV is not my own - thanks to DB in Madison.

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Your Final Chance to Save For Gartner's WLAN Summit
by ashley.pearce＠gartner.com 02 Oct '01

02 Oct '01

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SMART DUST
by Jim Choate 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pister/SmartDust/ -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Nov-L: St Louis Post-Dispatch - DEA [iso-8859-1] WON�T PUNISH AGENTS WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE LYING BY INFORMER CHAMBERS (fwd)
by measl＠mfn.org 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:58:47 -0700 From: Nora Callahan <nora(a)november.org> To: november-l(a)november.org Subject: Nov-L: St Louis Post-Dispatch - DEA [iso-8859-1] WON^�T PUNISH AGENTS WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE LYING BY INFORMER CHAMBERS Pubdate: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO) Copyright: 2001 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Contact: letters(a)post-dispatch.com Website: http://home.post-dispatch.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/418 Author: Michael D. Sorkin, The Post-Dispatch DEA WON�T PUNISH AGENTS WHO FAILED TO DISCLOSE LYING BY INFORMER CHAMBERS Nobody will be disciplined for letting St. Louis-based drug snitch Andrew Chambers lie under oath throughout 16 years of government testimony, Asa Hutchinson, the new head of the DEA, disclosed in an interview with the Post-Dispatch. But he vowed that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration would never again give informers the free rein that Chambers abused. ". . . It hurts the agency," Hutchinson said, referring to Chambers� lying in testimony about his background and arrest record. The testimony has compromised dozens of DEA investigations. Hutchinson said no agents have been punished because an investigation determined that it was the DEA�s own policies that failed. Chambers, 44, grew up in University City. Before his suspension last year, he was the most active�and one of the highest paid�undercover operatives in the DEA�s history. "Chambers abused his position with us, and we didn�t have the systems in place to keep the checks and balances on that," Hutchinson said last week. He said he�s confident the right checks are now in place: * The DEA has set up a central registry to keep track of informers who testify in more than one place. Beginning in 1984, when Chambers was recruited at the agency�s Clayton office, he helped arrest more than 400 drug suspects in 31 cities. He also lied under oath at least 16 times, but the DEA says its agents either didn�t know or, if they did, didn�t tell their colleagues elsewhere. * * All agents have been ordered to turn over the complete records of their snitches to prosecutors and defense attorneys. Some agents were in courtrooms when Chambers lied but never reported it. Others did, but the agency kept a lid on it. How could no one be punished after years of courtroom lying? The DEA�s own records show that senior officials at headquarters fought a two-year court fight to keep secret Chambers records: that he repeatedly lied in court when he claimed he had never been arrested or convicted, inflated his educational background and claimed he paid taxes on his DEA earnings - more than $1.8 million. The DEA spent months investigating itself. The report of that investigation, obtained by the Post-Dispatch in May, concluded that at least one DEA supervisor in the field should have done more to report Chambers� courtroom lying. In July, a DEA spokesman said two employees were under investigation. They are now identified only as an agent and a supervisor. "A thorough investigation was done, and there was no finding that would result in a disciplinary action," DEA spokesman Michael Chapman said Friday. Critics see a cover-up "I�m stunned that so much government wrongdoing meant so little to the government," said Dean Steward. He�s a former federal public defender in California who led a three-year effort to make the Justice Department disclose the extent of Chambers� lying - and the Justice Department�s complicity. "Had this been a major corporation, heads would roll," Steward added. Hutchinson acknowledged that the scandal had hurt the DEA: "Whenever you lose the credibility of an informant . . . it hurts the agency." But in the end, he said, it appeared to be "a failure of policy versus a failure of personnel." He said he wasn�t familiar with all of the details because he became DEA administrator just over a month ago. He reports to Attorney General John Ashcroft, who also took office months after Chambers was suspended, after disclosures in the Post-Dispatch. Hutchinson said undercover snitches are crucial, both to his agency in the war on drugs, as well as to the country�s new war on terrorism. "You�ve got to use informants. . . . Otherwise, you can�t get the job done." He said the DEA won�t use Chambers again in any capacity - despite accolades from dozens of agents who considered him the best. Here�s how the DEA investigation describes Chambers: ". . . Motivated by money, thrill, camaraderie and a sense of self-righteousness." The DEA chief disagreed with those who say Chambers is too valuable to lose. "You don�t lose anything by cutting that out," Hutchinson said. "You want to balance proper accountability and checks and balances with getting the job done." -------- November-L is a voluntary mailing list of the November Coalition. To unsubscribe, visit http://www.november.org/lists/ or send a message to november-L-request(a)november.org containing the command "unsubscribe"

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Text of Ashcroft Anti-Terrorism act?
by Karsten M. Self 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know if the updated text of the proposed Anti-Terrorism act has been published? The NYT reports Ashcroft urging a vote by "next week": http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/national/01SECU.html No substance on the bill itself. Peace. - -- Karsten M. Self <kmself(a)ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7uPSwOEeIn1XyubARAhlOAJ9nwMEbAflsEosg6gbGHTXDT6vb5QCdHFk9 cdcIK3NoTCMTUi6tkBno+U0= =Xlov -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Cringely on PBS: electronic money (fwd)
by Jim Choate 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:54:55 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah(a)shipwright.com> To: dcsb(a)ai.mit.edu, cryptography(a)wasabisystems.com, e$(a)vmeng.com Subject: Cringely on PBS: electronic money --- begin forwarded text

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An apt lyric for today\'s situation in America
by keyser-soze＠hushmail.com 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

Don't Dream It's Over Written by: Neil Finn Performed by: Crowded House There is freedom within, there is freedom without Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost But you'll never see the end of the road While you're travelling with me Chorus Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof In the paper today tales of war and of waste But you turn right over to the T.V. page Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win Now I'm walking again to the beat of a drum And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart Only the shadows ahead barely clearing the roof Get to know the feeling of liberation and relief Hey now, hey now Don't dream it's over Hey now, hey now When the world comes in They come, they come To build a wall between us Don't ever let them win

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Just Say "So?"
by Tim May 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

When confronted with calls to "Do something!" or "We can't just stand by and watch!," I think of one word: "So?" "If we don't intervene in Yakistan, the Pothurden minority will be brutalized!" "So?" "If we don't subsidize the production of ethanol, it will not succeed." "So?" "If we as a nation don't launch a major effort to land a man on Mars, it won't happen!" "So?" "We need to rebuild the World Trade Center, else America will have been defeated by the terrorists." "So?" "If we don't do something about online porn, it will get worse." "So?" Asking "So?" is a powerful antidote to what frequently crops up as a kind of debating error. (It may even have some Latin name, but I don't know it.) This error can be summarized as: Assumes a solution is required. Implies that there is some problem which must be resolved, which agreement must be reached on. Thus, we must solve the problem in Yakistan, or the problem of ethanol cost, or Mars colonization, online porn, etc. Asking "So?" says succinctly that the problem posed is not accepted as a problem which needs collective (or taxpayer-funded) solving. It also causes the other party, at least in some cases, to step back and attempt to explain why the "ethanol problem" or the "pornography problem" needs to be solved, instead of simply assuming it's a problem requiring collective solving with the only argument being how best to solve it. I find it refreshing to think this way. I believe I first heard this point of view articulated in this simple form by Chip Morningstar, but it certainly is consistent with the libertarian points of view of Harry Browne, P.J. O'Rourke, and others. Just Say "So?"

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NYPOST.COM World News: DATA POURING IN FASTER THAN NSA CAN DECIPHER IT By GREG SEIGLE
by Jim Choate 01 Oct '01

01 Oct '01

http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/5334.htm -- -- ____________________________________________________________________ The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke (1784) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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