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EES beta release of EES MetaSync client software

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US lacks enough doctors

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304506904575180331528424238.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

As Ranks of Insured Expand, Nation Faces Shortage of 150,000 Doctors in 15 Years

EES Robust Systems Engineering

Systems are failing.

We take for granted what goes on behind the scenes in medicine, banking, retail, automotive, and all sectors of the economy. A recent inquiry into the Toyota recall has found that actually the accelerator problem is not a mechanical failure but a software bug.

Since the .com bust, the amount of new graduates with I.T. or mathematics degrees has dropped drastically. DARPA is even concerned that this is a threat to national security. DARPAS numbers have a decline as steep as 43%:

A "significant national decline" in the number of U.S. college graduates with science, technology, engineering and mathematics degrees is "harming our national security," according to a recent report from the Department of Defense. According to DARPA, the Pentagon's research agency, the issue is of "national importance" and "affects our capacity to maintain a technological lead in critical skills and disciplines" on the international stage. The report (.pdf) cites a pronounced downward trend in computer science degrees and underlines the importance of them in an age of increased adoption of the Internet. There were 43 percent fewer graduates and 45 percent fewer CS degree enrollments in 2006-2007 than in 2003-2004, according to the Computer Research Association.

This may partially explain the current "I.T. Crisis," but it is not the entire story. A combination of factors, economic, political, and social, have created an opportunity that the internet exists at all, but at the same time have restricted it's development in certain markets. How is it that South Korea is outperforming the United States in internet download speeds and costs?

Manhattan project for banks

Joseph Menn, cyber security expert for the Financial Times, claims we need a new "Manhattan Project" for banking systems. In an article on wtop.com, he states:

WASHINGTON - Ask your bank how safe it is to do business online and it may tell you it's more secure than traditional banking. But cyber security experts would disagree. "That's a lie," says Joseph Menn, who reports on cyber security for the Financial Times. "The banks are stuck because they've been telling people it's safe, and the fraud they're on the hook for has gone up four-fold in six months," Menn says. "The banks have been kidding people about all this because they save money when people bank online." Menn says the Internet was not designed with security in mind. He says it's fine for YouTube. "But anything financial, anything commercial, anything government needs to be on a different network. Technologically, we need a Manhattan Project," Menn says. "We can keep our current computers and chips, but we need different protocols, different ways for computers to talk to each other that do not rely on openness and trust."

Banking is a good example, because it is obviously a well funded industry that should be leading the technology development curve. Instead, massive data loss, theft, and other issues occur and are growing on a daily basis.

The Gap

Companies like Intel, IBM, and others, have spent billions researching and designing very sophisticated processors and computer systems in general. Mostly, this equipment has been placed in the hands of the consumer (even if that consumer is a business). Exceptions are rare, such as mainframe environments such as IBM System Z, as there has been a trend even in large enterprise applications to client-server solutions vs. mainframes and robust systems administered by companies such as IBM.

While technology is exploding exponentially in terms of processing power and sophistication, computer education and understanding is declining, creating a 'knowledge gap' that is getting wider and wider. On a macro level, this gap can explain commonplace system meltdowns that are occurring more and more, comparing with 10, 20, or 30 years ago.

Instead of using the internet as a means of collecting information not available through traditional media such as TV, consumers have driven a trend to move TV to the internet and wireless devices.

Possible Trend toward serviced computing

This problem may lead to a trend toward fully serviced computing, such as SAS on a consumer level, which is seen in cloud computing and web services. Users may have their power stricken from them, as they continue to damage their own systems and in the case of businesses, cause losses and general economic chaos.

For example, systems could be automatically backed up, for a fee, instead of relying on the user to backup their own data. Robust devices such as the Ironkey may grow faster in popularity vs. 'cool' devices such as the iPad.

As enterprise, consumer, and business systems begin to fail, without a shift to centralized, serviced computing, we may face an I.T. crisis.

Why should we notice?

EES has found that the majority of client issues in our business are in fact I.T. related not trading related. In fact, if you examine most businesses, they are in fact I.T. businesses rather than their supposed business. For example, with the integration of electronic banking systems, banking is 95% I.T. and it could be argued that many businesses are in the same category: I.T. systems that run the businesses are increasingly more important than their core businesses. Wal-Mart, clearly not in the I.T. business, attributes its success to a computer system that tracks pricing, inventory, and customer demand on a large scale.

We are now forced to learn, adapt, and integrate; or suffer the fate of Enron, a billion dollar company run on an excel spreadsheet, or worse.

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Oanda FX Activity measure of FX Volatility

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DARPA: ‘Significant decline’ in U.S. science, tech degrees ‘harming national security’

http://www.smartplanet.com/business/blog/smart-takes/darpa-significant-decline-in-us-science-tech-degrees-harming-national-security/3412/

DARPA: 'Significant decline' in U.S. science, tech degrees 'harming national security'

 

Linus Torvalds signs with Microsoft, Internet in US declines, FSA Raids DBFX execs, online banking needs ‘manhattan project’, sec watches porn, and other news

http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/the-linux-distillery/38031 linux signs with Microsoft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/7508945/Facebook-linked-to-rise-in-syphilis.html facebook rise in syphillis

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/31/broadband.south.korea/?hpt=C2 internet in US sucks

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7086719.ece Staff at Disneyland Paris, the most popular tourist attraction in Europe, are considering industrial action to improve their working conditions after the suicides of three employees since the start of the year.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/big-secs-porn-problem/story?id=10193518 sec watches porn as economy tanks

http://consumerist.com/2010/03/delta-erroneously-charged-my-credit-card-wont-give-me-refund.html Delta Erroneously Charged My Credit Card, Won't Give Me Refund

http://consumerist.com/2010/03/my-mcdonalds-sets-30-minute-dine-in-time-limit.html 30 minute limit at mcdonalds

http://www.tampabay.com/features/consumer/pinellas-womans-verizon-fight-shows-why-pins-should-be-shared/1076677 It should go without saying, but the last thing a grieving daughter should have to do is battle the phone company over disconnecting her deceased father's service.

http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/03/06/controversy_clouds_new_rules_on_lead_removal/ 90% of contractors did not pass epa lead removal test

http://wtop.com/?nid=111&sid=1894237 online banking isn't as safe as you think

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article7072942.ece fsa raids homes od dbfx execs

http://att.pissedconsumer.com/att-overbilling-20100116168007.html att overbilling

British notice tent cities in US as byproduct of housing crisis

Europe unlikely to join any new yuan offensive

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62S2L520100329

Europe unlikely to join any new yuan offensive

'Hedge Fund' Took Them for $8M, Family Says

http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/03/30/25973.htm SACRAMENTO (CN) - A family says three men ran a bogus hedge fund that cheated them of $8 million. They say the Black Card Group may never have existed at all, that if it did exist it's in default, and that its directors, Ethan Conrad, Frank Sim and Harrold Pressly, spent their money on luxury vehicles and resort property.

It's Official - America Now Enforces Capital Controls

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/its-official-america-now-enforces-capital-controls It couldn't have happened to a nicer country. On March 18, with very little pomp and circumstance, president Obama passed the most recent stimulus act, the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (H.R. 2487), brilliantly goalseeked by the administration's millionaire cronies to abbreviate as HIRE. As it was merely the latest in an endless stream of acts destined to expand the government payroll to infinity, nobody cared about it, or actually read it. Because if anyone had read it, the act would have been known as the Capital Controls Act, as one of the lesser, but infinitely more important provisions on page 27, known as Offset Provisions - Subtitle A—Foreign Account Tax Compliance, institutes just that. In brief, the Provision requires that foreign banks not only withhold 30% of all outgoing capital flows (likely remitting the collection promptly back to the US Treasury) but also disclose the full details of non-exempt account-holders to the US and the IRS. And should this provision be deemed illegal by a given foreign nation's domestic laws (think Switzerland), well the foreign financial institution is required to close the account. It's the law. If you thought you could move your capital to the non-sequestration safety of non-US financial institutions, sorry you lose - the law now says so. Capital Controls are now here and are now fully enforced by the law.

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Dollar Losing Carry-Trade ‘Allure,’ Morgan Stanley’s Leven Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601083&sid=aYsCpvi9m4H8 March 31 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar is losing its popularity as a funding currency in the carry trade, in which investors buy higher-yielding assets with amounts borrowed in nations with low interest rates, according to Ronald Leven, a senior currency strategist at Morgan Stanley.