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Hedge Funds Semantics

2006-08-25 01:48:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...conventional trading strategies, and are usually greatly leveraged... All for the pursuit of extraordinary profits. A lot of hedge funds have come and gone and the survival rate is not encouraging. So why are they called "hedge" funds in the first place When we hear the word "hedge" we usually think of protection and safety. In finance, a...
 
Tags: hedge, hedge funds, hedge funds act, funds, conventional funds, assets result, assets, risky investments, conventional assets
 
 
 
 
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In Next-Gen Bullets and Bombs, Even the Casing Explodes

2008-05-07 01:00:00 by David Hambling in Wired Security
 
...conventional explosives, RMs cannot be set off by fuses. Technically, they are classified as flammable solids, and they are less hazardous to transport and store than explosives While they're more energetic than explosives, RMs are not intended to be a substitute. Instead, they will replace warhead components normally made of metal An...
 
Tags: amounts, release explosive amounts, release, metal, hollow metal cone, explosive, energy, reliably release energy, metal liner
 
 
 
 
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The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-07 05:48:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Conventional wisdom holds that terrorism is inherently political, and that people become terrorists for political reasons. This is the "strategic" model of terrorism, and it's basically an economic model. It posits that people resort to terrorism when they believe -- rightly or wrongly -- that terrorism is worth it; that is, when they believe...
 
Tags: ineffective, highly ineffective terrorists, terrorists, people join, people join hamas, people join al-qaida, terrorist organizations, organizations, al-qaida
 
 
 
 
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More Details on McAfee's Artemis

2008-09-19 11:25:41 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...conventional sense. It occurs to me that this could lower false-positives, compared with conventional behavioral analysis, because it subjects suspicious threats to more extensive analysis in the cloud. It all depends on how aggressive McAfee is at that stage. Another thought I had is that since Artemis kicks in as a result of behavioral...
 
Tags: artemis, analysis, conventional behavioral analysis, artemis servers, artemis kicks, extensive analysis, behavioral analysis, artemis technology, fingerprint
 
 
 
 
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Losing Money When There is No Volatilty

2007-01-29 09:40:00 by Jomni in Risk Management Quant
 
...conventional convertible bond offers lower interest rates but gives the investors an option to call a company's stock. The bondholder is effectively the owner of the option and the issuer is the option writer. A reverse convertible bond gives investors higher interest rates but gives the issuer the right to put shares to the investor. In this...
 
Tags: option prices increase, option, option buyer, option writer, investments valuation volatility, valuation, volatility, decrease option, volatility increases
 
 
 
 
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Article: Analytics Brief: Securing The New Data Center

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2008-01-07 05:28:32 by Editor in Security Links
...conventional operating systems, no tools exist to detect their presence in the hypervisor ETTING SECURE Help will probably come in two forms. First, its likely that as virtualization becomes more mainstream, hardware vendors will design end-user systems from the ground up to provide administrator-controlled VM partitions and hypervisor...
 
Tags: virtual environment, environment, virtual appliances range, virtual appliances, security, tools, security tools, develop security, security holes
 
 
 
 
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My 2008 Security Predictions!

2008-01-09 15:42:00 by Dr Anton Chuvakin in Anton Chuvakin Blog -
 
...conventional" viruses and worms in the whole malware universe decreases, so will the popularity of "legacy" AV vendors Facebook malware/malicious app = yes . This one will be fun to see ( others agree ), and current malware defenses will definitely not stop this "bad boy."On the flip side, there is not that much to steal off Facebook...
 
Tags: security, security predictions, broader information security, information security, smb security, virtual security appliances, security market, security solutions, security software
 
 
 
 
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The First Step on the Road to More Secure Software is admitting you have a Problem

2008-02-21 14:26:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...Conventional wisdom (which is often wrong, especially when it becomes urban legend) tends to suggest that the more lines of code you have the more bugs you have. That might very well be true, and Windows Vista is certainly larger than Windows XP SP2; yet right now, we are on track for an approximately 50% reduction in vulnerabilities compared...
 
Tags: vulnerabilities, reduce security vulnerabilities, fewer security vulnerabilities, security vulnerabilities, source security bugs, bugs, major microsoft products, microsoft products, security
 
 
 
 
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TippingPoint goes 10GBPS, but do people want just IPS or UTM?

2008-03-03 21:18:06 by HASH0x8b486f4 in StillSecure, After All These Years
 
...conventional Tipping Point boxes and than puts the flow back together and passes it on. Sounds cool, but I would like to see the latency involved in doing this. Sounds like a lot of moving parts. It also sounds a lot like the way Hoff used to do things over at Crossbeam Systems The real question for me though is not whether or not this new...
 
Tags: ips, line ips, line speed ips, mike, utm, mike rothman, sounds, sounds cool, core controller appliance