one man found to be guilty of the crime, a 25 year old Ukrainian by the name of Maksym Yastremskiy, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Yastremskiy, who went by the name of Maksik, is thought to have sold hundreds of thousands of stolen credit card numbers following the theft which in turn caused tens of millions of dollars worth of losses for retailers and banks. Maksik will serve his time in a Turkish prison, following his arrest along with other gang members there last year.
An advent of a price rebound in both DRAM and NAND flash contract markets is finally unfolding, signifying that capacity cuts are proving to be the sole solution to reverse pricing, according to memory research firm inSpectrum. DRAM contract prices remained static and NAND flash contract prices posted a significant surge in the first half of January.
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From the table at the bottom of the article:
Spot price for mainstream DRAM and NAND flash chips, 2009 (US$)
Date NAND flash 1Gb DDR2-667/800
8Gb 16Gb Branded White box
2008/12/08 1.11 1.78 0.60 0.59
2009/01/08 1.88 2.51 0.85 0.98
Something I have not seen pointed out yet (in articles and discussions over the preceding many years) is the fact that CAPTCHA tests are essentially Gestalt Completion tests. A Gestalt Completion test is a type of IQ test. As CAPTCHA tests get progressively more difficult to solve, they might weed out progressively larger portions of the population - the human population, that is.
Perhaps, as a side-effect, the quality of web-based discussion will rise.
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From Arthur Jensen's 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (pp157-158):
Gestalt Completion. Familiar words and objects are shown in various degrees of "mutilation" and the subject must infer what the word or object is. Performance is scored according to the average time taken per item or the number of items completed within a given time limit. The difficulty of any given item is a function of its familiarity and the extent of the "mutilation"; these can be varied independently in making up items. ... Gestalt completion items, which are known to be a good measure of the general intelligence factor (as well as of a small group factor labeled speed of closure), merit further experimental investigation in their own right.
These things would be great for romantic dates between shy people. Imagine: two telepresence robots, in a car at a drive-in movie -- or taking a long roll on a beach, or in a park.
Mr Bewley’s theory has some interesting implications. Pay cuts are more likely at firms whose demand for labour is price-sensitive, such as those in highly competitive industries. Since many markets are becoming more competitive, wages may also be getting more flexible—and unemployment may rise less in recessions. Wages are also likely to be less rigid in short-term jobs, where workers do not become attached to their firm.
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Mr Bewley’s book is not the last word on sticky wages. Some of his findings are probably specific to the north-eastern United States in the early 1990s.
> Mr Bewley’s book is not the last word on sticky wages. Some of his findings are probably specific to the north-eastern United States in the early 1990s.
That's probably true.
His book consists of interviews with managers etc. It makes for an interesting read.
The Danes believe Denmark is the best country in the world, that Danish beer is the best in the world, and that anything they do is better than anywhere else in the world. But however contradictory it may seem, between them, they don't like to see others being successful. Thus, they do everything they can to bring down the brightest amongst them. The communist tax system that has brought the highest overall taxation level in the world is an effective way of doing so.
That article is a bit on the edge, it should be said. But, by and large, his points are valid.
Most importantly, most parties aren't communist, they are "social democratic", definitely very left leaning compared to anything. There is a general (far from thorough) respect for private property, something you wouldn't expect from communists.
The subsidy programs give farmers extra money for their crops, as well as guarantee a price floor. For instance in the 2002 Farm Bill, for every bushel of wheat sold farmers were paid an extra 52 cents and guaranteed a price of 3.86 from 2002–03 and 3.92 from 2004–2007.[2] That is, if the price of wheat in 2002 was 3.80 farmers would get an extra 58 cents per bushel (52 cents plus the $0.06 price difference).
one man found to be guilty of the crime, a 25 year old Ukrainian by the name of Maksym Yastremskiy, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Yastremskiy, who went by the name of Maksik, is thought to have sold hundreds of thousands of stolen credit card numbers following the theft which in turn caused tens of millions of dollars worth of losses for retailers and banks. Maksik will serve his time in a Turkish prison, following his arrest along with other gang members there last year.