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Our trueWidgets are directly contributing to an impressive increase in fan exposure for the band and the brand – not to mention distributing albums of 'free' music for the fan.
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trueAnthem (http://www.trueAnthem.com), a breakthrough online music label focused on the monetization of social networking, today announced it has completed its angel round of funding, raising $2 million. trueAnthem first launched in April and quickly tapped into the social, online music scene with its trueWidget technology. Early metrics released demonstrate an impressive 500+ percent increase in fan exposure with 5,000 active
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"It is no secret that the music industry is changing. Today, the artist has become the brand and free is the revenue model of the future. The key has been how to monetize this emerging dynamic. With our angel round complete and early metrics proving our business concept, trueAnthem is clearly demonstrating a viable, new music promotion and distribution model that leverages the viral nature of social networking sites," said Brad Barnes, trueAnthem CEO. "Our trueWidgets are directly contributing to an impressive increase in fan exposure for the band and the brand – not to mention distributing albums of 'free' music for the fan."
trueWidgets live on the social networking web pages of new and emerging artists, and will contain musical content they created. Fans simply "grab" the trueWidget and drop it onto their own websites, thus bringing online music and advertising content to life on their own pages. In doing this, bands harness the power of their friends and fans to fuel their popularity and further distribute their music – this not only benefits the artist, but a sponsoring brand.
In the 100 days since trueAnthem debuted its first trueWidget, the company's offering has expanded to include the industry's first live concert widget (Hootie & The Blowfish's Homegrown tour). trueWidgets from such online music sensations as Ultraviolet Sound, Nick Black, Celldweller, Ryan Huston, Hootie & The Blowfish, among others, have been repeatedly passed across the Internet's countless social networking sites, including MySpace, Facebook, etc., with active impressions in the millions.
The sleek trueWidget and its proprietary technology capture data on the widget's total exposure via social networking, including views, listening data, as well as demographics and song downloads. An artist's song can be streamed or downloaded for listening offline, and the fan can choose either a free song with an embedded advertiser-sponsored trueAd or an ad-free version for .99 cents.
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Samurai Shodown 2 comes with a wee bit of sticker shock: $8.99 for a port of a decades-old fighting game?
Well, it kind of makes sense: It's a Neo-Geo fighting game, and hey, the Neo-Geo was known for its very expensive games. But considering that the platform also had games with some of the finest 2D animation around, it was at least moderately justified. So, let's work on the operating theory that if it's deserving, Samurai Shodown 2 is worth $8.99, disregarding that even premium content for mobile rarely gets above $6.99.
Well, I don't think it is. The port job is just too poor to recommend it, especially at this price point.
The game itself uses some familiar language to the Street Fighter series, with lots of quarter-circle motions, so it should be familiar, at least roughly, for fighting game veterans who may not be aware of what the series entails. The dynamic zooming view is definitely different, but definitely works. The art looks great, still – the animation is top-notch. As well, there's aspect ratio and scanline options to make the game look exactly to players' specifications.
The game is extremely challenging, so come in with patience. There's decent virtual controls, but I recommend using a physical gamepad with this if possible. There's also Bluetooth multiplayer, because fighting with friends is more fun than the computer. Support for multiple gamepads on one device would be welcome, though.
At its core, Samurai Shodown 2 seems worth it. It's probably best for hardcore fighting fans, but that's probably who the game, at its price point, is targeting. But what about that gamepad support? That could make or break this game. There's a lot of support at its core, compatible with the Xperia Play (still ticking!), the built-in Android HID gamepad protocol, and MOGA controllers.
Unfortunately the functionality issues break this game. The HID support is flawed. Only sword attacks (the A & C Neo-Geo buttons) are mapped to the face buttons. I think one of the kicks is mapped to the right joystick. There's no ability to reconfigure the button mappings. Frankly, this is inexcusable. This is an $8.99 port/emulation of a fighting game. Fighting game fans are some of the most demanding poeple when it comes to features, and to not properly support the controllers that they will want to use, especially when asking for a premium price for the game, is a mistake. This needs to be fixed.
This is especially so because the Moga controllers just aren't up to snuff for this game. The Moga Pro remains my favorite gamepad, but this game shows the key flaw that the controller has. It's a bit stiff and the arrows are somewhat thin. This is great for most precision platformers and for FPS-type games where commands are on the d-pad but for a fighting game with rotation motions, it's flawed. I liked the joystick-only Moga Pocket better than the Pro to play the game!
So really, after examining every aspect of the port, I have to say: no, it's not worth $8.99. I could see a universe in which a port could be worth it, but it would require higher standards than this.


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Chapter 7: Pointers
What's in Chapter 7?
Definitions of address and pointer
Declarations of pointers define the type and allocate space in memory
How do we use pointers
Memory architecture of the 6811 and 6812
Pointer math
Pointer comparisons
FIFO queue implemented with pointers
I/O port access
The ability to work with memory addresses is an important feature of the C language. This feature allows programmers the freedom to perform operations similar to assembly language. Unfortunately, along with the power comes the potential danger of hard-to-find and serious run-time errors. In many situations, array elements can be reached more efficiently through pointers than by subscripting. It also allows pointers and pointer chains to be used in data structures. Without pointers the run-time dynamic memory allocation and deallocation using the heap would not be possible. We will also use a format similar to pointers to develop mechanisms for accessing I/O ports. These added degrees of flexibility are absolutely essential for embedded systems.
Addresses and Pointers
Addresses that can be stored and changed are called pointers. A pointer is really just a variable that contains an address. Although, they can be used to reach objects in memory, their greatest advantage lies in their ability to enter into arithmetic (and other) operations, and to be changed. Just like other variables, pointers have a type. In other words, the compiler knows the format (8-bit 16-bit 32-bit, unsigned signed) of the data pointed to by the address.
Not every address is a pointer. For instance, we can write &var when we want the address of the variable var. The result will be an address that is not a pointer since it does not have a name or a place in memory. It cannot, therefore, have its value altered.
Other examples include an array or a structure name. As we shall see in Chapter 8, an unsubscripted array name yields the address of the array. In Chapter 9, a structure name yields the address of the structure. But, since arrays and structures cannot be moved around in memory, their addresses are not variable. So, although, such addresses have a name, they do not exist as objects in memory (the array does, but its address does not) and cannot, therefore, be changed.
A third example is a character string. Chapter 3 indicated that a character string yields the address of the character array specified by the string. In this case the address has neither a name or a place in memory, so it too is not a pointer.
Pointer Declarations
The syntax for declaring pointers is like that for variables (Chapter 4) except that pointers are distinguished by an asterisk that prefixes their names. Listing 7-1 illustrates several legitimate pointer declarations. Notice, in the third example, that we may mix pointers and variables in a single declaration. I.e., the variable data and the pointer pt3 are declared in the same statement. Also notice that the data type of a pointer declaration specifies the type of object to which the pointer refers, not the type of the pointer itself. As we shall see, all ICC11 and ICC12 pointers contain 16-bit unsigned absolute addresses. This means that the ICC12 compiler does not provide for direct support of the extended memory available on the MC68HC812A4 microcomputer. There is an example from Valvano's Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing shown in Chapter 9, which, while illustrating structures, implements an extended address mechanism for the MC68HC812A4.
short *pt1; /* define pt1, declare as a pointer to a 16-bit
integer */
char *pt2; /* define pt2, declare as a pointer to an 8-bit character */
unsigned short data,*pt3; /* define data and pt3,
declare data as an unsigned 16-bit integer and
declare pt3 as a pointer to a 16-bit unsigned integer */
long *pt4; /* define pt4, declare as a pointer to a 32-bit integer */
extern short *pt5; /* declare pt5 as a pointer to an integer */
The best way to think of the asterisk is to imagine that it stands for the phrase "object at" or "object pointed to by." The first declaration in Listing 7-1 then reads "the object at (pointed to by) pt1 is a 16-bit signed integer."
Pointer Referencing
We can use the pointer to retrieve data from memory or to store data into memory. Both operations are classified as pointer references. The syntax for using pointers is like that for variables except that pointers are distinguished by an asterisk that prefixes their names. Figures 7-1 through 7-4 illustrate several legitimate pointer references. In the first figure, the global variables contain unknown data (actually we know Metrowerks will zero global variables). The arrow identifies the execution location. Assume addresses 0x0810 through 0x081A exist in RAM.Figure 7-1: Pointer Referencing
The expression &buffer[1] returns the address of the second 16 bit element of the buffer (0x0816). Therefore the line pt=&buffer[1]; makes pt point to buffer[1].
When the *pt occurs on the left-hand-side of an assignment statement data is stored into memory at the address. Recall the *pt means "the 16-bit signed integer at 0x0816". I like to add the parentheses () to clarify that *and pt are one object. In this case the parentheses are not needed. Later when we perform address arithmetic, the parentheses will be important. Therefore the line (*pt)=0x1234; sets buffer[1] to 0x1234.
When the *pt occurs on the right-hand-side of an assignment statement data is retrieved from memory at the address. Again, I like to add the parentheses () to clarify that * and pt are one object. Therefore the line data=(*pt); sets data to 0x1234 (more precisely, it copies the 16-bit information from buffer[1] into data.)
The following 6812 assembly was generated by Metrowerks Version 3.1 when the above pointer example (figure 7-1) was compiled. Notice that the Metrowerks compiler is highly optimized.
Memory Addressing
The size of a pointer depends on the architecture of the CPU and the implementation of the C compiler. Both the 6811 and 6812 employ an absolute memory addressing scheme in which an effective address is composed simply of a single 16-bit unsigned value. In particular the 6811 and 6812 registers are shown in Figure 7-5. The MC68HC812A4 does provide for extended addressing. For more information on this feature see Chapter 9 of Valvano's Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing.
Most embedded systems employ a segmented memory architecture. From a physical standpoint we might have a mixture of regular RAM, battery-backed-up RAM, regular EEPROM, flash EPROM, regular PROM, one-time-programmable PROM and ROM. RAM is the only memory structure that allows the program both read and write access. The other types are usually loaded with object code from our S19 file and our program is allowed only to read the data. Table 7-1 shows the various types of memory available in the 6811 and 6812 microcomputer. The RAM contains temporary information that is lost when the power is shunt off. This means that all variables allocated in RAM must be explicitly initialized at run time by the software. If the embedded system includes a separate battery for the RAM, then information is not lost when the main power is removed. Some Freescale microcomputers have EEPROM. The number of erase/program cycles depends on the memory technology. EEPROM is often used as the main program memory during product development. In the final product we can use EEPROM for configuration constants and even nonvolatile data logging. For more information on how to write C code that dynamically writes EEPROM see Chapter 1 of Valvano's Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing. The one-time-programmable PROM is a simple nonvolatile storage used in small volume products that can be programmed only once with inexpensive equipment. The ROM is a low-cost nonvolatile storage used in large volume products that can be programmed only once at the factory.
|When power is removed
|Ability to Read/Write
|Program cycles
|random and fast access
|battery-backed RAM
|random and fast access
|easily reprogrammed
|10,000 times
|easily reprogrammed
|100 times
|can be easily programmed
|programmed at the factory
From a logical standpoint we define implement segmentation when we group together in memory information that has similar properties or usage. Typical software segments include global variables (data section), the heap, local variables, fixed constants (idata section), and machine instructions (text section). Global variables are permanently allocated and usually accessible by more than one program. We must use global variables for information that must be permanently available, or for information that is to be shared by more than one module. We will see the first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue is a global data structure that is shared by more than one module. Imagecraft and Metrowerks both allow the use of a heap to dynamically allocate and release memory. This information can be shared or not shared depending on which modules have pointers to the data. The heap is efficient in situations where storage is needed for only a limited amount of time. Local variables are usually allocated on the stack at the beginning of the function, used within the function, and deallocated at the end of the function. Local variables are not shared with other modules. Fixed constants do not change and include information such as numbers, strings, sounds and pictures. Just like the heap the fixed constants can be shared or not shared depending on which modules have pointers to the data.
In an embedded application, we usually put global variables, the heap, and local variables in RAM because these types of information can change during execution. When software is to be executed on a regular computer, the machine instructions are usually read from a mass storage device (like a disk) and loaded into memory. Because the embedded system usually has no mass storage device, the machine instructions and fixed constants must be stored in nonvolatile memory. If there is both EEPROM and ROM on our microcomputer, we put some fixed constants in EEPROM and some in ROM. If it is information that we may wish to change in the future, we could put it in EEPROM. Examples include language-specific strings, calibration constants, finite state machines, and system ID numbers. This allows us to make minor modifications to the system by reprogramming the EEPROM without throwing the chip away. If our project involves producing a small number of devices then the program can be placed in EPROM or EEPROM. For a project with a large volume it will be cost effective to place the machine instructions in ROM.
Pointer Arithmetic
A major difference between addresses and ordinary variables or constants has to do with the interpretation of addresses. Since an address points to an object of some particular type, adding one (for instance) to an address should direct it to the next object, not necessarily the next byte. If the address points to integers, then it should end up pointing to the next integer. But, since integers occupy two bytes, adding one to an integer address must actually increase the address by two. Likewise, if the address points to long integers, then adding one to an address should end up pointing to the next long integer by increasing the address by four. A similar consideration applies to subtraction. In other words, values added to or subtracted from an address must be scaled according to the size of the objects being addressed. This automatic correction saves the programmer a lot of thought and makes programs less complex since the scaling need not be coded explicitly. The scaling factor for long integers is four; the scaling factor for integers is two; the scaling factor for characters is one. Therefore, character addresses do not receive special handling. It should be obvious that when define structures (see Chapter 9) of other sizes, the appropriate factors would have to be used.
A related consideration arises when we imagine the meaning of the difference of two addresses. Such a result is interpreted as the number of objects between the two addresses. If the objects are integers, the result must be divided by two in order to yield a value which is consistent with this meaning. See Chapter 8 for more on address arithmetic.
When an address is operated on, the result is always another address of the same type. Thus, if ptr is a signed 16-bit integer pointer, then ptr+1 is also points to a signed 16-bit integer.
Precedence determines the order of evaluation. See a table of precedence. One of the most common mistakes results when the programmer meglects the fact the * used as a unary pointer reference has precedence over all binary operators. This means the expression *ptr+1 is the same as (*ptr)+1 and not *(ptr+1). This is an important point so I'll mention it again, "When confused about precedence (and aren't we all) add parentheses to clarify the expression."
Pointer Comparisons
One major difference between pointers and other variables is that pointers are always considered to be unsigned. This should be obvious since memory addresses are not signed. This property of pointers (actually all addresses) ensures that only unsigned operations will be performed on them. It further means that the other operand in a binary operation will also be regarded as unsigned (whether or not it actually is). In the following example, pt1 and pt2[5] return the current values of the addresses. For instance, if the array pt2[] contains addresses, then it would make sense to write
short *pt1; /* define 16-bit integer pointer */
short *pt2[10]; /* define ten 16-bit integer pointers */
short done(void){ /* returns true if pt1 is higher than pt2[5] */
if(pt1>pt2[5]) return(1);
which performs an unsigned comparison since pt1 and pt2 are pointers. Thus, if pt2[5] contains 0xF000 and pt1 contains 0x1000, the expression will yield true, since 0xF000 is a higher unsigned value than 0x1000.
It makes no sense to compare a pointer to anything but another address or zero. C guarantees that valid addresses can never be zero, so that particular value is useful in representing the absence of an address in a pointer.
Furthermore, to avoid portability problems, only addresses within a single array should be compared for relative value (e.g., which pointer is larger). To do otherwise would necessarily involve assumptions about how the compiler organizes memory. Comparisons for equality, however, need not observe this restriction, since they make no assumption about the relative positions of objects. For example if pt1 points into one data array and pt2 points into a different array, then comparing pt1 to pt2 would be meaningless. Which pointer is larger would depend on where in memory the two arrays were assigned.
A FIFO Queue Example
To illustrate the use of pointers we will design a two-pointer FIFO. The first in first out circular queue (FIFO) is also useful for data flow problems. It is a very common data structure used for I/O interfacing. The order preserving data structure temporarily saves data created by the source (producer) before it is processed by the sink (consumer). The class of FIFO's studied in this section will be statically allocated global structures. Because they are global variables, it means they will exist permanently and can be shared by more than one program. The advantage of using a FIFO structure for a data flow problem is that we can decouple the source and sink processes. Without the FIFO we would have to produce 1 piece of data, then process it, produce another piece of data, then process it. With the FIFO, the source process can continue to produce data without having to wait for the sink to finish processing the previous data. This decoupling can significantly improve system performance.
GETPT points to the data that will be removed by the next call to GET, and PUTPT points to the empty space where the data will stored by the next call to PUT. If the FIFO is full when PUT is called then the subroutine should return a full error (e.g., V=1.) Similarly, if the FIFO is empty when GET is called, then the subroutine should return an empty error (e.g., V=1.) The PUTPT and GETPT must be wrapped back up to the top when they reach the bottom.
Figure 7-3: Fifo example showing the PUTPT and GETPT wrap.
There are two mechanisms to determine whether the FIFO is empty or full. A simple method is to implement a counter containing the number of bytes currently stored in the FIFO. GET would decrement the counter and PUT would increment the counter. The second method is to prevent the FIFO from being completely full. For example, if the FIFO had 100 bytes allocated, then the PUT subroutine would allow a maximum of 99 bytes to be stored. If there were already 99 bytes in the FIFO and another PUT were called, then the FIFO would not be modified and a full error would be returned. In this way if PUTPT equals GETPT at the beginning of GET, then the FIFO is empty. Similarly, if PUTPT+1 equals GETPT at the beginning of PUT, then the FIFO is full. Be careful to wrap the PUTPT+1 before comparing it to GETPT. This second method does not require the length to be stored or calculated.
/* Pointer implementation of the FIFO */
#define FifoSize 10 /* Number of 8 bit data in the Fifo */
#define START_CRITICAL() asm(" tpa\n staa %SaveSP\n sei")
#define END_CRITICAL() asm( ldaa %SaveSP\n tap")
char *PUTPT; /* Pointer of where to put next */
char *GETPT; /* Pointer of where to get next */
/* FIFO is empty if PUTPT=GETPT */
/* FIFO is full if PUTPT+1=GETPT */
char Fifo[FifoSize]; /* The statically allocated fifo data */
void InitFifo(void) {unsigned char SaveSP;
asm sei /* make atomic, entering critical section */
PUTPT=GETPT=&Fifo[0]; /* Empty when PUTPT=GETPT */
asm cli; /* end critical section */
int PutFifo (char data) { char *Ppt; /* Temporary put pointer */
unsigned char SaveSP;
asm sei
; /* make atomic, entering critical section
Ppt=PUTPT; /* Copy of put pointer */
*(Ppt++)=data; /* Try to put data into fifo */
if (Ppt == &Fifo[FifoSize]) Ppt = &Fifo[0]; /* Wrap */
if (Ppt == GETPT ){
asm cli; /* end critical section */
return(0);} /* Failed, fifo was full */
asm cli; /* end critical section */
return(-1); /* Successful */
int GetFifo (char *datapt) {unsigned char SaveSP;
if (PUTPT== GETPT){
return(0);} /* Empty if PUTPT=GETPT */
asm sei
; /* make atomic, entering critical section
if (GETPT == &Fifo[FifoSize])
GETPT = &Fifo[0];
asm cli
; /* end critical section */
Since these routines have read modify write accesses to global variables the three functions (InitFifo, PutFifo, GetFifo) are themselves not reentrant. Consequently interrupts are temporarily disabled, to prevent one thread from reentering these Fifo functions. One advantage of this pointer implementation is that if you have a single thread that calls the GetFifo (e.g., the main program) and a single thread that calls the PutFifo (e.g., the serial port receive interrupt handler), then this PutFifo function can interrupt this GetFifo function without loss of data. So in this particular situation, interrupts would not have to be disabled. It would also operate properly if there were a single interrupt thread calling GetFifo (e.g., the serial port transmit interrupt handler) and a single thread calling PutFifo (e.g., the main program.) On the other hand, if the situation is more general, and multiple threads could call PutFifo or multiple threads could call GetFifo, then the interrupts would have to be temporarily disabled as shown.
I/O Port Access
Even though the mechanism to access I/O ports technically does not fit the definition of pointer, it is included in this chapter because it involves addresses. The format used by both the Imagecraft and Metrowerks compilers fits the following model. The following listing shows one 8-bit and two 16-bit 6811 I/O ports. The line TFLG1=0x08; generates an 8-bit I/O write operation to the port at address 0x1023. The TCNT on the right hand side of the assignment statement generates a 16-bit I/O read operation from the port at address 0x100E. The TOC5 on the left hand side of the assignment statement generates a 16-bit I/O write operation from the port at address 0x101E. The TFLG1 inside the while loop generates repeated 8-bit I/O read operations until bit 3 is set.
#define TFLG1 *(unsigned char volatile *)(0x004E)TC5
#define TCNT *(unsigned short volatile *)(0x0044)
*(unsigned short volatile *)(0x005A)}
void wait(unsigned short delay){
TFLG1 = 0x20; /* clear C5F */
TC5 = TCNT+delay; /* TCNT at end of wait */
while((TFLG1&0x20)==0){}; /* wait for C5F*/
Listing 7-5: Sample Metrowerks Program that accesses I/O ports
It was mentioned earlier that the volatile modifier will prevent the compiler from optimizing I/O programs. I.e., these examples would not work if the compiler read TFLG1 once, the used the same data over and over inside the while loop.
To understand this syntax we break it into parts. Starting on the right is the absolute address of the I/O port. For example the 6811 TFLG1 register is at location 0x1023. The parentheses are necessary because the definition might be used in an arithmetic calculation. For example the following two lines are quite different:
TheTime=*(unsigned char volatile *)(0x1023)+100;
TheTime=*(unsigned char volatile *)0x1023+100;
In the second (incorrect) case the addition 0x01023+100 is performed on the address, not the data. The next part of the definition is a type casting. C allows you to change the type of an expression. For example (unsigned char volatile *) specifies that 0x1023 is an address that points at an 8-bit unsigned char. The * at the beginning of the definition causes the data to be fetched from the I/O port if the expression exists on the right-hand side of an assignment statement. The * also causes the data to be stored at the I/O port if the expression in on the left-hand side of the assignment statement. In this last way, I/O port accesses are indeed similar to pointers. For example the above example could have be implemented as:
unsigned char volatile *pTFLG1;TC5
unsigned short volatile *pTCNT;
unsigned short volatile *p
void wait(unsigned short delay){
pTFLG1=(unsigned char volatile *)(0x004E);
pTCNT=(unsigned short volatile *)(0x0044);
=(unsigned short volatile *)(0x005A);}
Listing 7-6: Metrowerks Program that accesses I/O ports using pointers
This function first sets the three I/O pointers then accesses the I/O ports indirectly through the pointers.
There is a problem when using pointer variables to I/O ports on the 6812. The null pointer typically is defined as address 0, and PORTA also has address 0. On the 6811, address 0 is RAM, so a similar confusion may arise if a pointer variable is set to access RAM location 0, then this pointer will look like a null pointer.
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S&P Says Civil Suit Threatend by DoJ 'Without Legal Merit and Unjustified'
Standard & Poor's Rating Services ("S&P"), a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE: MHP) today disclosed that the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice ("DOJ") has informed the Company that it intends to file a civil lawsuit against S&P focusing on its ratings in 2007 of certain U.S. collateralized debt obligations ("CDOs"):
"A DOJ lawsuit would be entirely without factual or legal merit. It would disregard the central facts that S&P reviewed the same subprime mortgage data as the rest of the market – including U.S. Government officials who in 2007 publicly stated that problems in the subprime market appeared to be contained – and that every CDO that DOJ has cited to us also independently received the same rating from another rating agency. S&P deeply regrets that our CDO ratings failed to fully anticipate the rapidly deteriorating conditions in the U.S. mortgage market during that tumultuous time. However, we did take extensive rating actions in 2007 – ahead of other ratings agencies – on the residential mortgage-backed securities ("RMBS") which were included in these CDOs. As a result of these actions, more collateral or other protection was required to support AAA ratings on CDOs. With 20/20 hindsight, these strong actions proved insufficient – but they demonstrate that the DOJ would be wrong in contending that S&P ratings were motivated by commercial considerations and not issued in good faith.
"Before 2007, and increasingly during 2007, S&P downgraded a record number of RMBS and repeatedly warned of deteriorating conditions in the housing market and potential additional downgrades to come, in many cases before our peers. For example:
o In 2006, S&P downgraded 400 RMBS ratings – more than in any prior year in history – mostly in the subprime sector. o In February 2007, S&P was the first rating agency to take negative ratings actions against new transactions even though the pools underlying those transactions had at that time experienced no actual losses. o Between February and July of 2007 alone, S&P took 637 negative actions on ratings (250 downgrades and 387 CreditWatch negative actions) on 2006 vintage subprime RMBS.
"S&P analysts worked diligently to keep up with an unprecedented, rapidly changing and increasingly volatile environment, while acting to ensure changes to their ratings reflected robust analysis and deliberation. In fact, throughout this time, S&P included in its analysis the possibility that a rise in mortgage delinquencies would result in bondholder losses and, as a result, required substantially more RMBS collateral as protection against such potential losses to support AAA CDO ratings. Regrettably, the breadth, depth, and effect of what ultimately occurred were greater than we – and virtually everyone else – predicted. As former SEC Chairman David S. Ruder testified before the U.S. House of Representatives:
'None of the primary market participants predicted the collapse. The risk management systems of most banks, investment banks, rating agencies, and credit default swap insurers did not predict the collapse. Regulators, including the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Department of the Treasury, the SEC, and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission did not predict the collapse.'
"A number of court rulings have dismissed challenges made with 20/20 hindsight to a credit rating agency's opinions of creditworthiness. In an attempt to end run well-established legal precedent, the DOJ plans to use a questionable legal strategy by suing S&P under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA) – a statute enacted in 1989 to stabilize and reform the savings and loan industry. If DOJ does bring suit, we will vigorously defend our Company against such meritless litigation.
"Clearly, we must all do a better job identifying economic trends that could lead to future crises. For their part, governments have established new institutions to identify risks to financial stability, such as the Financial Stability Oversight Council in the U.S. At S&P we have taken to heart lessons learned from the financial crisis and made extensive changes that reinforce the integrity, independence and performance of our ratings, including compliance with today's enhanced regulatory oversight.
"Since 2007, we have invested approximately $400 million in our systems, governance, analytics and the methodologies that we use to rate securities. We brought in new leadership, instituted new governance and enhanced risk management. We have taken substantive actions to:
o Strengthen independence from issuer influence: We have long had policies in place to manage potential conflicts of interest, including a separation of analytic and commercial activities, a ban on analysts from participating in fee negotiations, and de-linking analyst compensation from the volume of securities they rate or the type of ratings they give out. Post-crisis, we further strengthened analytical independence by rotating the analysts assigned to a particular issuer and enhancing analyst training on issuer interactions. o Improve the integrity and validity of our methodologies and models: We reassessed the principles underlying the way we rate all debt. Based on what we learned, we changed the way we rate almost every type of security that was affected by the financial crisis including U.S. RMBS, CMBS, CDOs, banks and insurers. For all mortgage-related securities we have significantly increased the credit enhancement required to achieve a AAA rating and have made it more difficult in general for securities to achieve high ratings. We also strengthened our risk management including instituting a Model Validation Process independent of any commercial interests. o Increase analytical focus on interpreting and responding to global credit changes: We established Credit Conditions Committees around the world to identify and monitor risks to the interconnected global credit systems across all asset classes and create a coordinated credit risk perspective across the company. o Enhance regulatory compliance and quality: We significantly increased staffing in order to strengthen compliance and analytical quality, including documentation of procedures and ratings actions, and quality reviews of ratings.
"We will continue to enhance our governance, training, quality control, analytic models and investor education. For more information about the extensive enhancements to our business – both completed and ongoing – please go to www.standardandpoors.com/changes.
"It is also important to note that credit rating agencies became regulated in the United States in the fall of 2007 with the enactment of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act, and the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 which further strengthened accountability, transparency and oversight for credit rating agencies. We are now also regulated in Europe, Japan, Australia and other countries.
"S&P currently issues ratings on more than $45 trillion in debt globally across all asset classes issued by companies, financial institutions, countries, state and local governments and others. We will not be distracted from our core mission. As always, we are committed to providing investors and the markets with the highest-quality ratings available and the tools to navigate an increasingly complex global financial marketplace."
© 2018 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.


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Photobucket has collaborated with Microsoft to build Photobucket Visual Search (http://photobucket.com/visualsearch), making use of Silverlight, Windows Live Services and Photobucket's Open API platform. Photobucket Visual Search uses Silverlight to provide a rich and entertaining search experience, by displaying photos and videos in an easy-to-browse interface. The experience shows up search results, as well as related terms, helping users to find images they might not have in the past.
Recognizing that photos are about sharing a social experience, Photobucket decided to use Microsoft's new Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit to socially enable this Visual Search experience. Windows Live Messenger has over 320 Million active users, with over 32 billion social relationships between them. Sharing an image with friends on Windows Live is as easy as a click of a button with Photobucket Visual Search.
Photobucket is a very popular site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Photobucket is usually used for personal photographic albums, remote storage of avatars displayed on internet forums, and storage of videos. Photobucket's image hosting is often used for eBay, MySpace (now a corporate cousin), Bebo, Neopets and Facebook accounts, LiveJournals or other blogs, and message boards. Users may keep their albums private, allow password-protected guest access, or open them to the public.
Below are some statistics (circa 2007) regarding the Photobucket.com website.
- 30+ million searches processed / day
- 25 million unique site visitors/month in the US, and over 46 Million unique site visitors/month worldwide
- Over 7 billion images uploaded
- #31 in Top 50 Sites in the US
- #41 top 100 Global Sites
- 18th Largest Ad supported site in the US
- 41.4% share of U.S. visits to photography web sites
- 56% of users are under 35, and 52% are female
This project is intended to enhance Photobucket's user experience while mapping specific objectives to the following core business goals:
- Leverage rich software to create a fun and engaging experience
- Social communication features that provide increased web traffic
- Encourage users to add their own tags and collect metadata in the process
- Improve user acquisition and retention to the Photobucket website
Richer visualization and interaction, plus social networking capabilities, were chosen as the means to achieve the goals of improving user acquisition and retention. Consequently, Silverlight and Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit were chosen as the components from the Microsoft platform that can be leveraged for the Photobucket Visual Search project. Photobucket's existing open API's (HTTP/REST-based) are used directly to support the search client application.
The project architecture consists of Photobucket's existing server infrastructure, which provides the open REST-based API's, images, albums, thumbnails, groups (featured, most active, most recent, most contributions, contests, etc.), static content, etc. The Photobucket.com website itself is a user interaction/presentation layer on top of the thousands of servers deployed as part of the content infrastructure. The Photobucket.com website manages all the metadata associated with the massive amount of content, such as tags, descriptions, comments, image ownerships and relationships, user memberships, etc. Searches done on the Photobucket website is performed on the metadata and indexes; and the search results point to actual locations of content and assets across the massively parallel content infrastructure.
The content infrastructure consists of multiple farms of thousands of servers, each manages different types of content, with user data partitioned horizontally across servers in each group. The content servers can be accessed directly using sub-domains on photobucket.com, such as i98.photobucket.com for one of the image clusters, t104.photobucket.com for one of the thumbnail clusters.
Application requests are managed by the photobucket.com website, and the open API's are managed via api.photobucket.com servers. Search queries retrieve an XML response, which represent search hits, with associated metadata, and actual image locations potentially pointing to hundreds of different servers where they physically reside.
The Silverlight search client implementation is designed to fully leverage the search service as part of Photobucket.com's open API's. It captures the search queries from the user, then sends it to api.photobucket.com for processing, then interprets the returned XML, renders the result, and downloads individual thumbnails from actual server locations in the thumbnails server farm.
The Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit implementation is mostly client-side. Photobucket hosts some of the files such as static images for branding the messenger interface, but most of the files are retrieved directly from the messenger service in the Live Services platform. Integration with the Silverlight Visual Search application is done through the JavaScript bridge.
A diagram representing the logical architecture is shown below.
The overall end-to-end architecture consists of these components
- Client – Silverlight 2, Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, etc.
- Server (Photobucket) – Linux, Apache 2.2.4 (EL4), PHP 5.2.6, MySql
- Server (Live Services) – IIS 6, ASP.NET 2.0.50727
- Tools – Visual Studio 2008, Expression Studio
Silverlight Visual Search Development
The default target dimensions for the application are 1024 X 768. However, the application supports browser resizing and will adjust accordingly when the user changes browser window size dynamically.
The application has two primary states:
- Main View (Search & Explore) – This is the state the user will be in initially and for a majority of the search and explore functionality. The main view displays thumbnails of the image results. It also allows users to modify their searches, or explore further using alternative searches.
- Zoom View – The secondary state of the application brings the user into a view where the focus is on the viewing aspect of the large image and the image options, including sharing with Live Services.
The project team went through many data visualization designs for the search results. In the end, a simplistic one that represented a similar model to the rest of the Photobucket site was chosen.
Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit Integration
While in Zoom View, a user can share the photo via IM using Live Messenger. Doing so will prompt the user to sign in or register to sign up for Live Messenger. If the user is already signed in, this will trigger the user's Windows Live contact list to pop up.
Signing in will link a user's Windows Live ID with the Photobucket.com website, granting an authentication consent (as a site-wide stored consent token) to Photobucket so that web pages generated from Photobucket can reuse this session with Live Messenger, and not have to require the user to sign-in on each page.
The project team decided to leverage Live Messenger's Delegated Authentication method because it provides the most unobtrusive method to the existing Photobucket's membership system, as well as simplicity in implementation as the identity federation approach would be significantly more complex.
The Messenger Web Bar is a single UI Control that contains a full Windows Live Messenger experience. The Messenger Web Bar has the following functionality:
- Contact list—The contact list enables the user to manage contacts and interact with them.
- Conversation list—The conversation list contains all active conversations.
- User area—The user area shows the user's presence and enables the user to update this information
- Cross-page navigation—Cross-page navigation enables the user to stay signed in to Live Messenger while navigating from page to page within your application Web site.
This functionality is encapsulated within a small bar at the bottom of the page. Because the Live Messenger Web Bar works across pages, conversations that start on a page on the application Web site can continue on another page of the application Web site. This functionality enables an application Web site to use the Live Messenger Web Bar as a platform to deeply integrate Live Messenger functionality and data into the site. Making an application Web site more social with the Messenger Web Bar and UI Controls can significantly increase user engagement.
Shown below is a picture of the Messenger Web Bar used as part of the Visual Search experience.
Once the user is logged into the Windows Live Messenger service, the user can view and interact with the list of contacts managed in the Windows Live service. The user can see also see presence information in terms of who among the contacts is online or offline at the moment. An IM conversation can then be initiated just by selecting a contact. If the user initiates an IM conversation while in Zoom View, Visual Search will automatically insert a link that says "Check this photo" with a URL to the actual image.
Application Scenario
This project demonstrated how Silverlight can be leveraged to add value to a website completely built on the LAMP stack. It also showed how Live Services can be leveraged, without any significant custom development effort, to add social computing capabilities to any website. The combination of rich clients, and composition of multiple cloud-based services on the Web, represents a Software Plus Services implementation approach, and how it enhances existing Web browsing models and improves user acquisition and retention.


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It looks like recent activism about telecom fraud is having some effect. If you're a Rogers telecom customer you probably got a letter entitled "An Important Message from Rogers" with your bill this month. Subtitled "Helping to protect your business from telecommunications fraud," the letter certainly starts out on a positive note. We're in the business of telecom expense management and cost reduction services, so the fraud issue – and resolving it so that our clients avoid paying fraudulent charges – is very important to us. Let's see how Rogers is helping us. (Get the letter and read along if you have it!)
The first three paragraphs summarize the issue. Most cases of telecom fraud involve a third party breaching your phone system to use expensive, unauthorized services, such as offshore pay-per-call operations. They say the most effective defense is "knowledge." The end user is responsible for monitoring authorization codes and "equipment." (Why the quotes? Read on.) Rogers will "attempt" to monitor its network traffic.
What does Rogers recommend? The advice is superficially useful. Change your passwords. Educate your staff. Restrict long distance calling. That's all good. If Rogers believes so strongly in this, why don't they provide more secure default settings, or a setup checklist with a stronger security focus? Simply put: They have no economic motive to help. Thanks to a lack of regulation Rogers passes most fraud costs on to the consumer, so either way, the carrier gets paid. That's what we wrote the CRTC about recently. See our CEO talk about the issue on video here (Youtube).
The letter really starts to get odd when it recommends that you "Monitor continuously" – something most end users cannot actually do in any meaningful sense. The average consumer learns about usage patterns through monthly billing. They have no form of real time or daily access to traffic or billing, so unless the fraud stretches across multiple months there is no way to detect activity at "the earliest stages," as the letter puts it. Fraudsters who want to take you to the cleaners know they'll get caught, so they often hit your lines for a brief, intense burst of billable activity before moving on.
Who can monitor usage patterns quickly enough to matter? If you answered "Rogers," you're correct – except that the letter takes pains to let you know that Rogers won't commit to that – it will only "attempt" to monitor its network. Rogers also believes that your responsibility for "equipment" – hardware – includes all of the intangible information that passes through it. This is kind of like saying that when the phone rings, you pick it up and someone hits you with a harassing phone call, it's your fault for picking up the phone.
In short, the letter has some good advice, some advice you probably can't, and clarifies the ways in which Rogers won't help you, making this a decidedly mixed communication from the Canadian telecom giant.
The truth is that once you've taken reasonable security precautions, there's a point at which the provider should use best practices to maintain network security. The government should provide carriers with an incentive to do so and protect consumers, because end users are not "responsible" for fraud. Criminals are.


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Additionally, if an individual were sentenced to the maximum term of 10 years of imprisonment for a crime in 1999, and in 2002 the maximum sentence for that crime changed to 20 years, the sentence of that individual cannot be changed retroactively to conform to the new law.
However, in order for a retroactive law to violate the ex post facto clause, the legal consequence that is changed retroactively must be "punitive" (i.e., considered to be punishment), as opposed to civil, remedial, or a collateral consequence.
Although it may be hard to imagine, some high courts have ruled that sex offender registration requirements are not punitive, but are instead collateral consequences. Williams,129 Ohio St.3d 344, 2011-Ohio-3374, the Ohio Supreme Court concluded that the requirements of Ohio's new sex offender laws based upon the Adam Walsh Act had transformed the law from remedial to punitive.
Their decision was not based upon a single requirement, but instead was based upon the totality of the requirements.
The Court cited the various new requirements, and also stated two other factors that influenced their decision: 1) the procedures for registration and classification of sex offenders were placed within Ohio's criminal code, and 2) failure to comply with certain registration requirements subjected an offender to criminal prosecution. 10, as applied to defendants who committed sex offenses prior to its enactment, violates Section 28, Article II of the Ohio Constitution, which prohibits the General Assembly from passing retroactive laws." In a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court case (Commonwealth v.
On December 20, 2012, Pennsylvania will begin enforcing its new changes to Megan's Law.
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Uncontrollably Fond is definitely a raw depiction of life. Nothing is sugar-coated as the characters openly express their feelings in each scene. Episode three is filled with Shin Joon Young and No Eul (Suzy)'s interaction during his college years, and the secret life of Shin's father is revealed. Of course, it wouldn't be a proper K-drama without a heart-stopping cliffhanger. I wonder how episode four with find time for Kim's ab-flaunting with all the drama unfolding. That's the magic of K-drama!
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US Senate Minority Leader, Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor, this morning to blast Democrats for attempting to change the subject from the devastating consequences of Obamacare to changing the Senate rules regarding filibusters.
He reminded the chamber how the Obama administration and Democrats were willing to do and say anything in order to force ObamaCare on the public.
"The president and his Democratic allies were so determined to force their vision of healthcare on the public, they assured them up and down that they wouldn't lose the plans they had, that they'd save money instead of losing it, and that they'd be able to use the doctors and hospitals they were already losing. But of course, we know, that rhetoric doesn't match reality," McConnell said.
After making note of the unmitigated disaster ObamaCare has become, he taunted "I'd be running for the exits, too, if I'd supported this law. I'd be looking to change the subject!"
He continued, "it doesn't distract people from ObamaCare – it reminds them of ObamaCare. It reminds them of all the broken promises, it reminds them of the power grabs, it reminds them of the way Democrats set up one set of rules for themselves, and another, for everybody else.
One set of rules for them – and another for everybody else. Actually, this is all basically the same debate, and rather than distract people from ObamaCare, it only reinforces the narrative of a party that is willing to do and say just about anything to get its way."


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Never knew til today that you could get kicked out a league.
Keeper league? I'm in...so much for promising my wife that I would only be in one league with some old college buddies.
I have been in that league since the late 1980's. It was called Rotisserie (Roto) Football back then and we used the USA Today for stats. Thats where Rotoworld got its name.
Draft was multiple pitchers of beer and pizza, the weekly stats session on Tuesday was also vast pitchers of beer and arguing, been doing it with the same group (more or less) all these years. My first pick ever was Marcus Allen (5th pick 1st Round 1986 draft) holly crap I am old...This was on the heals of his 1985 MVP season and I was thrilled to death he fell to me at #5.
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If you guys want we can make this league a Keepers.
I like rotisserie in Basketball leagues. And you're only as old as you feel brother! I'm 30 and everyone thinks I'm around 21
Anyways, this should be a great year, enjoy gents!!!
I'm down for keepers in our league!
Never said I felt old, I have let my workout regime slide last couple of years but started doing P90X a few weeks back and am back in the saddle.
Trying to figure out who we need to give the Al Davis Memorial Homer Award to on this years draft board.
Good times, thanks again Bro...
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A recent gathering of researchers at UMass Amherst focused on improving security and privacy of RFID and electronic payments. Radio frequency identification is the next-generation technology, which allows consumers to pay for purchases by swiping their mobile phones. Concerns primarily focus around the fact that it's equally possible for fraud to occur by anyone who can get close enough to your phone to pick up the frequency. The workshops June 26 to 28 at the Hotel Northampton will focus on the security and privacy concerns and are the first to take place in the United States.
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Like bar codes, RFID technology permits contactless payments simply by waving a cell phone at a cash register or other device; the concern comes when fraudsters intentionally intercept the radio waves for the purpose of recording bogus transactions.
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Contemporary Parisian dandies are not legion but they are everywhere. Up to them to peruse these haute façon accessories to find their own. Tying is optional, do-it-yourself or pre-tied, some bows will fête the most special occasions and others will add spank to a simple denim shirt.
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