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The author needs to take a history class. The traditional relationship has not been for love! Less than 60 years ago women didn't marry for love, they usually married much older men who expected sex from them in the way of 'wifely duties'.
Wade similarly faults male customers for falling into blackmail schemes. DuPont heir Stephen Dent used Seeking Arrangement to find women he called "slaves" and paid $15,000 for hotel sex sessions. Three women blackmailed him in 2008 and 2009, threatening to send photos and emails to his wife and employees unless he forked over some of his $100 million fortune. Dent eventually went to the police, and the women were caught.
"He was asking for it," Wade says. "At the end of the day, you tend to attract what you are looking for."
Wade points out that these problems aren't limited to Seeking Arrangement. Indeed, earlier this year, a Las Vegas man met what he thought was a hot, blond, Florida coed on sugardaddyforme.com. They exchanged nude photos, and the man sent her $7,000 to help pay for school.
In reality, however, Stephanie Starling was neither hot nor blond. Instead, she had sent photos of a porn star she found online. And when the sugar daddy stopped sending her money, Starling threatened to send his dick pics — which were real — to his wife and boss. The man sent another $1,200, but Starling demanded even more. "I will never fucking stop until I get my money or you die," she texted him.
The sugar daddy finally went to the FBI, who tracked Starling's emails to her house in Jacksonville and arrested her. Her trial has yet to begin, but in a four-page, handwritten confession, Starling explained that she had taken to catfishing men because she was "struggling to pay bills and feed" her child. "I'm in college aspiring to become a dentist," she wrote.
Rachel has had a few close calls, often when hard drugs are involved. "One older white guy asked me if I wanted to do crack with him," she says. "When I didn't, he called on the phone and told me I was a 'nappy-haired bitch' and the n-word.
"If you are really playing with people, there can be a good ending or a bad ending," she says. "If you don't cut it off before it gets too serious, you're in trouble."
Now, she carries a bottle of Mace with her on dates and always texts the address to a friend. "I have homeboys," she says. "Let's just say, if anything happened to me, that person would be paid a visit."
Florida law defines prostitution as "the giving or receiving of the body for sexual activity for hire." Courts have ruled, however, that as long as the women on sites like Seeking Arrangement are providing services other than sex — even something as ambiguous as "companionship" — then Brandon Wade has nothing to worry about. His quickly expanding internet empire may be ethically questionable, but it's legally legit. Wade is simply matching supply and demand, he argues. And what could be more American than that?
But sugar babies say Wade's website takes a subtle toll. Sooner or later, the sweet life turns bitter.
Becoming a sugar baby is "probably financially a much better decision than taking on huge student loans," says Laurie Essig, the Middlebury professor. "Although emotionally, the costs may be too high."
Brittney, for instance, recently met a man outside of the website whom she adores. But she has to hide her secret life.
"The worst part is that I'm actually in love with him, but I can't tell him the truth," she says. "It's like this big ball of fire in my life. He still hasn't found out about it. I don't know if it's him not paying attention or if he just trusts me completely."
And yet, Brittney still won't give up the game. "I keep on doing it and doing it," she says. "This is how I am working my way toward a house or ice cream or dinner.
"Being a sugar baby does make you feel like you can select whatever millionaire you want," she admits. "But I don't feel like it's the type of power someone should have. It's an immoral power."
Perhaps it's no surprise that in a city with 10 percent unemployment, where college graduates need 20 years to pay off their student loans, Brittney has chosen practicality over principles. She says she'd be stupid to stop sugar babying, but she still longs for an era in which she never had to start. "I wish it was the '70s, when you could still meet someone in normal places," she says, "like the library."
Jenny, the pre-med student, has also given up on romance. "I feel like a boyfriend wouldn't understand that I needed space and time," she says. "I'm just too busy with school and work. I kind of don't give anyone a chance."
Instead, she sticks to her sugar daddies, even when she has to share them with other women. "I just want to finish school," Jenny says. "They are the only ones who could help me do that.
"I wouldn't be doing this if school weren't so expensive," she adds. "But I have this future planned out for myself. If anything comes between me and that, all hell will break loose."
"Obviously, if these women had access to higher education at reasonable rates and livable wage jobs, they might not be sugar babies," argues Essig. "Just as obviously, if we didn't live in a culture where women are considered commodities to be bought and sold, there wouldn't be such a website. So yes, [it's] patriarchy. But also a society where the American Dream has disappeared to anyone who is not born wealthy."
The author needs to take a history class. The traditional relationship has not been for love! Less than 60 years ago women didn't marry for love, they usually married much older men who expected sex from them in the way of 'wifely duties'.
Spot on article. In my recent experience as a SB looking for a SD it is much like attempting to walk through a minefield. I am attempting to pay off student loan debt and felt this is the only way to help do just that. The men DO have all the power and even with my rules and standards, I even get the garbage-cans bugging me. There are ALOT of toads out there using this service
Sugar Dating is soo legal that Newt Gingrich and Anna Nicole Smith did it with no legal consequence. There are members of law enforcement, judges, lawyers, politicians, 40,000 public school teachers+ etc. that are into the sugar lifestyle. If they got into trouble during sugar dating, a team of dream team lawyers may argue that it is a gift, not a payment, and the relationship is noncommercial. They will most likely get off if the dream team lawyers with political cloud argue that. Here are some of the cases the dream team lawyers may uses in such cases. The court overturned the conviction of a woman who attempt to trade tickets for sex based on the fact that the court ruled her actions were not commercial sex so the attempt prostitution laws do not apply (See Commonwealth v. Finkelstein and Commonwealth v Stephanie Ann Danko 281 Pa.Super. 97 (1980) 421 A.2d 1165 ).In this court case, the court in this case declares payment mistress-lovers relationship to be gifts and not prostitution income. (See UNITED STATES of America, v. Lynnette HARRIS and Leigh Ann Conley 942 F.2d 1125 ) Also the NY court ruled that it was not the legislators' intent to outlaw mistress-lover's relationship when they enacted the prostitution statutes. (See Cherry v. Koch 129 Misc. 2d 346, 491 N.Y.S.2d 934 ). These rulings don't apply to escorts because they are in commercial relationships with their clients. (SeeIDK, INC., v. COUNTY OF CLARK836 F.2d 1185).
i've met a bunch of these kids selling themselves acting as ambassadors at various charity golf tournaments and i still remember the one particular exchange some years back where she told me she was working on the o-ring problem from NASA in grad school
here is the deal - these kids if as so inclined, would otherwise be working on the pole at some club for a sleezy management that steals from them and abuses them - at least they may find a more discreet and sympathetic one-on-one relationship here as described - rather than be forced to entertain a bachelor party of drunks for tips shared with the house - so to a greater extent they themselves control their environment and IMHO actually reduce their risks by the relationship being more personalized and private
these aren't you fathers play-toys these are modern day business appointments
firstly MANY of the johns are indeed from elsewhere rather than soFLA and MANY of the students come from elsewhere and stay for the lifestyle
secondly this is ONLY SEX people and if it was good enough for henry Viii and cleopatra and lolita then why not ordinary people - the guy doesn't have to be berlusconi nor the woman madonna
lastly for what its worth theses same guys who spend on fancy cars can't drive them so i don't think the SEX part here is any big deal either - its more the power to tell someone what to do and they do it
i think the hook here is the access to and abuse of DRUGs either as an escape from the reality of it or a casual party favor becoming a very bad and and expensive and unbreakable habit
There is nothing wrong with being a slut as long as you slut voluntarily. In this horrible world we need sluts. Sluts have been around long before there was life as we know. Ah yes the slut, I do not prefer those hairless sluts. Although some imbeciles do. I have taken a closer look at the sluts around town in south Florida, I must say there are with out a doubt the most sluttiest sluts in America.
However we must give credit where credit is due. New York is the Slut Capital of the World. There are more hairless sluts in New York than the entire world or universe. So NY tell Bloomberg the make a special day for all the sluts in NYC.
This is horrible! Miami has one of the highest concentrations of crazy women unfit for marriage!
Its quite comical that the writer, the women and the website owner like to remind people that the proceeds go to tuition or book payment or some other collegiate-related expense. Who gives a shit? It doesn't matter where they money is spent, what matters is how it is obtained. Attempting to justify or legitimize the act in the name of a presumed well-respected endeavor ("I'm going to college! I'm getting a degree to better myself!") is the stupidest thing I ever heard of. Besides, we all know these sluts are spending the money on purses, shoes and shit like that. Tuition payments?! Yeah right.
Cheap, lazy and misleading reporting. This does not make any sense considering that the unemployment rate is much higher for men and women have a much higher percentage of educational attainment. Bad reporting and just another cheap excuse to continue to call women whores. New Times (and Villag Voice Media) you really are failing us, there are plenty of pressing things happening in SF and this is what you're wasting ink/server space with?
This is a timely Pop Culture issue and a discussion aimed at opportunity .... wherever the chips may fall.
Capitalism at its finest something neither a Republican or Democrat do not understand! Their is a buyer and seller sounds like a efficient market to me! If you do not like do not participate!
Miami is reaching a new level of grime. This is prostitution. Instead of using these men and selling your body there are other options like get a job and support yourself. Yes these jobs do not pay a lot and they suck but that doesn't mean 1. that it is impossible to support yourself and 2. the answer to your problems is to sell your body. I mean when people ask you in ten years how did you support yourself in college don't you want a story you can be proud of and tell your daughter's and son's that you worked all night and studied all day and made it where you are today with hard work, drive and dedication. Tell them that its not easy but when its over the amount of pride you will feel in yourself no one else can give you. Instead of saying go to suggah daddies . com and find a stranger that has money to support you. If you teach the future generations to use each other in such a ill manner how can we ever advance together. This should bring big issues into view though 1. how expensive college is and how prices keep going up. 2. How financial aid for students is needed. 3. how bad the job market is for college students and 4. How backwards is florida that instead of helping these people who are out of options and beginning to drown in debt at a young age we offer a convient suggah daddy website that allows you to prostitute yourself and be on faceboook at the same time. I know everyone has a different story so you never know someones situation but I went to nursing school in a private university (so it wasn't cheap) and I had single mothers in my class who worked, studied, went to class, took care of their children and went to 12 hr clinical days or nights and never did I see them turn to selling themselves to take the easy way out.Instead they worked harder then anyone else to show their daughters how strong they will have to be to survive in this world and the reality of how hard making yourself is. On graduation I think I saw all my classmates cry , not because of a mental breakdown, but because no one got them to this point but themselves. I just think success through sex is not the way. It's why a lot of men don't respect women. It's why men and women in the workplace aren't equal.
my only question is-- why do they say black businessmen and old white men? cus there are no white businessmen or old black men on the site?
Not much different from being married. Only difference is you can walk away from this easily.
Not only the women but A lot Boys 2. Miami it's a beautiful place but A Dirt City !
Its a system where only the rich stay rich and whores stay whores. Ill gladly play the system and get my share that way. All these people waiting to inheret shit and never earn it.
Sugar code it how ever you'd like but it's prostitution!! Everyone should just learn to work do whatever it is you want!!
The same girls you can pick up at Blue Martini, Dolores, or any of the other "Fancy Bars" lol. Love this superficial Miami culture
Old news, before the real estate crash almost every women I met in South Beach was 'sponsored', every women I meet now has a job and a career, this story should have been written 6 years ago :) or maybe the increase in 'sponsorships' is a good indicator of an improving economy for at least those on those at the top, lol!
In my next life I am going to be a money hungry whore that uses people and takes and takes. Apparently its what men like. Being nice doesn't cut it.
Future scum bags of America and the weak so called "men" who support it. Way to go ladies and gents, you are failing in life. What an abomination.
love the mentality of so many sofl women thinking they are deserved something because they bought boobs. not sure if this is because of the "quality" of guys here or guys are just as bad because of many women having that mentality. either way find a significant other out of state or at least out of sofl.
I have news for "Rachel."
It could sound like prostitution because that's exactly what it is. Exchanging sex for money IS prostitution.
That said, it is HER body. She can do with it whatever she wants, as long as I am concerned. But please, let's call a spade a spade.
@lisalisalou777 After all, some people will jump out of the secular,If you are finding SB,If you are attempting to pay off student loan debt,you should try enter sugarsmingle.com,on SugarsMingle.com haveing many College girl need help
@isntthatwild personally, i'm wondering why the women get all the flack and the men are just "purchasing a service." these comments are ridiculous. slut this, slut that. what about "the oldest profession in the world"? This shit wouldn't exist if men weren't willing to buy it...some people, my god. ;)
@anonymous That's actually a lie. Once a whore, always a whore. The young women who do this for 'thrills and college tuition' will never have a stable home life as the only men foolish enough to marry a 'retired' whore is a guy with serious issues of his own.
And today nothing will stay hidden forever. So an eighteen year old selling 'companionship' will be unable to keep her former occupation secret. Sooner or later the truth will be revealed.


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And bloodied hero Danny Livesey will also have his head assessed before the Blues go back into battle.
Robson was kept out of Saturday's draw with MK Dons due to his groin injury and Abbott said: "I would say Matty is now genuinely 50-50 for the Walsall game.
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Defender Livesey needed extensive treatment to a head wound after a collision with Dons' Dean Lewington, having to leave the pitch twice before being subbed in the second half.
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo declared a state of emergency in six counties, including Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence, suffering from moderate to significant flooding.
While the floods are now receding in some areas, I urge New Yorkers in impacted counties to stay safe, heed the advice of their local emergency first responders and look out for their friends and neighbors, Gov. Cuomo said in a news release.
Runoff from snowmelt combined with heavy rainfall over the past two days is causing significant flooding in low-lying areas and waterfront communities.
Several roads in Jefferson County had to be closed to traffic due to flooding today. West Main Street in Watertown has been closed from Bradley Street to VanDuzee Street due to flooding at the Rail Road Bridge.
Black River remains well above its 10-foot flood stage at 13 feet as of 10 a.m. this morning.
The National Weather Service expects water levels to rise another 6 inches and crest near 13.5 feet by Thursday evening.
Significant flooding will occur along the Black River through Friday, the weather service said.
Local traffic will be permitted for access to residences and businesses but all other traffic will be detoured to Coffeen Street, according to a city Department of Public Works news release.
Route 3 from the village of Herrings down to Carthage and from Carthage up to Wilna has been closed to traffic this morning due to flooding.
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ANSYS, Inc. develops and markets engineering simulation software and services used by engineers, designers, researchers, and students in the aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, electronics, biomedical, energy, and defense industries, as well as academia worldwide. Its products include ANSYS Workbench, a framework upon which the companys engineering simulation technologies are built; Multiphysics that creates virtual prototypes of designs; Structural Mechanics, which offers simulation tools for product design and optimization; Fluid Dynamics that provides modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena; and Explicit Dynamics, which simulates physical events. The company also offers Electromagnetics, which provides field simulation software for designing electronic and electromechanical products; System Simulation, a collaborative environment that leverages multiphysics, multibody dynamics, circuit, and embedded software simulation capabilities; and ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager, a solution for simulation-based process and data management. In addition, it provides academic product suite with a portfolio of academic products based on associate, research, and teaching; and high-performance computing (HPC) product suite delivering cross-physics parallel processing capability for the companys simulation software by supporting structural, fluids, thermal, and electromagnetic simulations. Further, the company offers SCADE for developing critical systems and automatic generation of embedded software; geometry handling solutions for engineering simulation; meshing technology that transforms a physical model into a mathematical model; and a suite of Apache software, which delivers power analysis and optimization platforms along with integrated methodologies for managing the power budget, power delivery integrity, and power-induced noise in an electronic design. ANSYS, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
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St. Christopher School, under the leadership of the Sisters of the Precious Blood, opened its doors in the fall of 1959. For more than fifty years, children have received a spiritually rich and academically strong education in a nurturing environment. As a Sister of the Precious Blood and an alumni of Catholic education, it has been my pleasure to have the opportunity to be part of this vibrant school community since 1993. Over the years, I have seen the student body nearly double in size and the physical plant mushroom with the addition of two new wings and major renovations that provide for a modern, well-equipped computer lab, science lab, new library and a dining hall. This growth has been cultivated and nurtured through the strong support of the parish community, caring and involved parents, and dedicated teachers and staff.
With feet firmly rooted in faith and tradition, and an eye on the twenty first century, I look forward to the continued growth of St. Christopher School. This growth will stretch us and mold us to provide for the academic and spiritual needs of children who are facing a rapidly changing and technologically savvy world. The following pages provide just a snapshot of St. Christopher School. I invite you to come see the St. Christopher difference for yourself. Give me a call or drop me an e-mail with your questions or to schedule a tour.
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US 7634678 B2 Abstract An instruction, processor, system, and method allow application level software to explicitly request a temporary performance boost, from computing hardware. Advanced management of a working frequency of a processor achieves the performance boost. Preferably, a processor with that advanced management and performance boost is implemented in an electronic exchange or another application where peak periods may occur.
Claims(23) 1. Apparatus comprising:
a processor arranged to operate in a user mode in which a user level application process may directly execute a user mode hardware instruction without having to issue a software program call,
a frequency generating unit for generating a variable working frequency for operating the processor, and
a memory for storing a user mode hardware instruction for increasing the working frequency of the frequency generating unit to an increased working frequency, and
wherein the user mode hardware instruction for increasing the working frequency to the increased working frequency is activatable by the user level application process and is executable by the processor to directly control the frequency generating unit without the user level application process having to issue a software program call to increase the working frequency of the frequency generating unit.
2. The apparatus according to
3. The apparatus according to
4. The apparatus according to
5. The apparatus according to
6. The apparatus according to
7. An electronic device comprising an apparatus according to
8. An electronic exchange comprising an apparatus according to
9. The apparatus according to
wherein the processor is arranged to execute another user mode hardware instruction for decreasing the working frequency of the frequency generating unit after the increased work load is finished without the user level application process having to issue a call to the operating system.
10. The apparatus according to
11. An apparatus according to
12. An apparatus according to
13. An apparatus according to
14. A user level trading application stored on a computer readable storage medium, the user level trading application comprising program instructions which when executed by a computer controls the computer to execute a user level hardware instruction from the user level trading application to directly control a frequency generating unit in order to increase a working frequency at which a processor of the computer performs processing tasks without the user level trading application having to issue a software program call.
15. A computer readable storage medium storing a user level trading application according to
a server application, and
a user application.
16. A computer readable storage medium storing a user level application for trading according to
17. A computer readable storage medium storing a user level application for trading according to
18. A method for increasing performance of a processor based on a prediction of a future change in workload, the processor comprising an instruction stored in a memory, the method comprising the steps of:
predicting a future increase in a workload of the processor,
in response to the prediction, a user level application sends a user mode hardware instruction from an application process directly to a frequency generating unit for changing a working frequency of the processor, and
wherein the user mode hardware instruction directly controls the frequency generating unit to increase the working frequency of the processor,
wherein the user mode hardware instruction is sent and executed without the user level application process having to issue a software program call.
19. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program which when executed by a computer performs the steps according to
20. A method according to
21. A method according to
22. A method according to
23. A method according to
automatically reducing the increased working frequency when a measured temperature associated with the processor exceeds a predetermined temperature.
Description The present invention relates generally to management of processor working frequency in computer systems and electronic devices. There exist many different kinds of computer systems ranging from individual computers to distributed computer systems interconnected by one or more networks. An important problem for these systems and computers is that they may, at one point or another experience peak periods, which they may have a hard time handling. Usually the systems are designed to handle peak periods up to a certain level. This level is usually based on a prediction of a future traffic scenario in the system weighted against the hardware cost. Thus, when trying to estimate the capacity for a system there is a risk for underestimating the future traffic in the system which may result in a shut down of the system. An example of an incident where the capacity of the system was not enough happened at the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) on 18 Jan. 2006. According to the article "Temporary Suspension of All Transactions" (TSE news), the stock exchange had to close in order to prevent a system crash. Thus, there may be situations when the capacity of the system is not enough. Hence the systems are not able to, or have a hard time to handle for example all the requests sent by the users using the systems, or a hard time to send out a large amount of information. As a result of this, users may experience long waiting times for their requests to be processed and may become very frustrated because of this, or even worse the system may have to be shut down in order to avoid a crash. Financial trading systems (electronic exchanges) receive many quotes/orders from traders and/or brokers trading in financial instruments, energy contracts and so forth. Examples of when peak periods can occur are during the auction period before opening of an exchange, or when a task is sent that may result in a processor demanding change in an orderbook, or information dissemination, or because something else happened such as a political statement or rumor in the news or any happening that can trigger an increase of quotes/orders sent from traders. Other applications having heavy transactions and peak periods are bank systems, warehouse systems and Internet broker services. One way to achieve increased performance of a computer is to hard-wire a processor so that it statically runs on a clock-speed higher than normal. (this is commonly referred to as "over-clocking"). This typically leads to heat problems since the computer system is operated continuously at this higher speed and is therefore not suitable for commercial systems that need to have a certain level of security. Hobbyists are often statically "over-clocking" their systems in order to increase the performance for gaming and so forth. Another problem with this approach is that it is not possible to lower the frequency in an easy way since it is done manually by hard-wiring. Some computer systems use "variable" (clock) speed in order to preserve energy, reduce heat and related noise. One such technology is Intel's "speed step". However this technology has been applied to battery powered "lap top" computers and office space "desktop" computers for saving battery power and for noise reduction. In these examples it is the operating system and/or the "BIOS" which detects some level of inactivity by the user, and "slows" down the clock by a supervisor state instruction. Supervisor state instructions are instructions only executable in "supervisor state" or some similar mode which is reserved for the operating system. Hence, most computer chips can operate at a higher rate than specified by the manufacturer. However the above described techniques increases the risk for failure, mainly because of heat-related problems, but also because it is necessary to make physical changes to the mother-board of a computer in order to statically over-clock a processor. The speed of a working frequency for a processor may be statically increased for example when a processor has slowed down the clock due to inactivity, and when it experiences activity, the OS speeds up the working frequency. However it only speeds up the frequency to a maximum rate specified by the manufacturer and only at times specified by manufacturers, and only after it experienced an increase in workload. This is an inefficient way of managing the working frequency of a processor since it takes a while for the processor to realize that it is under a heavy workload. The time for the processor to realize this may be rather long from a processor point of view. Thus processors are managed very inefficiently which results in low capacity usage compared to what processors actually could deliver. Thus it is an object to provide at least a partial solution to some of the problems mentioned above. It is further an object to provide a solution that increases the capacity usage of a processor. It is further an object to provide a solution that brings about a performance increase of underlying hardware. It is further an object to provide a solution so that application level software can request a performance increase from the underlying hardware. It is further an object to provide a solution that changes the working frequency of a processor. It is further an object to provide a solution that saves time for a user. It is further an object to provide a solution that cuts the time for processor demanding executions. It is further an object to provide a solution increasing the working frequency of a processor just before a processor demanding request arrives. It is further an object to provide a solution that decrease the response time. According to a first aspect, the above and other objects are fulfilled by a processor comprising:
Thus the processor is programmed to:
The above processor has the advantage that a user level application may directly request a performance increase, such as increasing the work frequency of the processor. Usually an operating system when initiating a hardware operation has to progress through: user mode to OS mode transition, the OS executes the hardware instruction and then transition back to user mode (which may involve a scheduling decision, and possible dispatch of an other process). These steps may be referred to as overhead cost such as cost in time and cost in processor power and so forth. The above described transition process slows down a computer or a computer system. Therefore a processor according to the invention may be able to cut overhead and in this way make use of processor capacity currently not utilized and thereby deliver results faster compared to other processors. For most computer systems a user level application may be the first line of early warning systems for e.g. a change in workload, since it is in the user application where users requests different operations/functionalities to be executed. A user level application may detect the need for speed-up in several different ways, for example when known processor demanding operations/functions are requested. In the case the user level application is a server application the need for speed-up may be detected by for example an increase of the input queue. Thus if a processor demanding operation/functionality is requested by a user, the user level application can send a speed-up user instruction to the processor and in this way prepare the processor for an upcoming increase in workload, by increasing the working frequency. Preferably the user instruction is triggered and sent in the user application based on a user action. A user action may be any kind of action that a user may perform, either directly via an interface or indirectly based on the user action. For example a user action can be an action such as: trade action, delete action, amend action, screen update action, direct request of speed up action, this is not an exhaustive list, other actions not mentioned here may also be added in the list. In an embodiment the user instruction may be triggered and sent by a user action belonging to a list, e.g. a "top-ten" list comprising the ten most processor demanding actions. Thus when a user executes an action, the system checks whether this action belongs to the list and if it does the system sends a speed-up user instruction. This list may be continuously updated and may be based on statistics from the system. Thus in a further embodiment, the invention may comprise a self learning function that updates the "top-ten" list. The "top-ten" list may comprise an arbitrary number of processor demanding actions and is thus not limited to ten. The length of the list may thus be decided by the context wherein the present invention will be used. Preferably this function would be application software controlled. A user action can also be an action that is automatically executed by a server application. Thus when a server receives a task that has been sent from a user level application by a user, the server application on the server may request a change of the working frequency of the processor such as a speed-up request. Thus a user level application can also be a server application. However in this case the server based user level application preferably has a software function that receives data from client computers and thereafter analyses the data in order to see if it comprises processor demanding tasks or instructions, and if it does, the server based user level application may request a speed-up of the working frequency of the processor that will handle the workload. The processor preferably comprises a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of the processor in order to optimize the working frequency based on the temperature and based on the user instruction. In this way it is possible to control the working frequency so that the processor performs at an optimal speed in relation to the temperature. The processor may further comprise a counter for counting the number of instructions that has been executed in speed-up mode, and when the number of instructions executed in speed-up mode, reaches a predetermined threshold, the speed-up mode is "canceled" or lowered. In this way the temperature problem can be avoided since the threshold would preferably be set to a number that would not overheat the processor. Thus, this may be an alternative and/or complementary to heat sensing. Hence, it would be possible to optimize the working frequency in such a way that if the user instruction would normally trigger a speed-up of the working frequency to e.g. 95% of its maximum potential, due to the temperature the increase would only be up to 90% of its maximum potential. This may be based on a function, for example a linear function or exponential function and so forth. Thus, instead of certain thresholds, a continuous control of the speed-up would be possible to achieve in this way. The frequency generating unit may comprise two or more frequency generating devices producing different frequencies in order to generate the variable working frequency. In this embodiment the frequency generating unit preferably comprises a switch for selecting one of the different frequencies in order to generate the variable working frequency. The frequency generating device may be a crystal that vibrates at a regular frequency when an electrical current is applied to it and in this way produces a clock frequency. However any other device able to produce a clock frequency that can be used in a processor may be used. Furthermore the frequency generating unit may comprise a frequency generating device generating a frequency and a divisor for changing the frequency to the variable working frequency. Preferably the instruction according to the invention changes the working frequency by changing a divisor factor. The divisor factor may be an integer or a floating point number by which the divisor can be controlled in order to obtain a variable working frequency. The frequency generating unit may comprise a frequency generating device generating a frequency and control means for direct control of the frequency generating device in order to output a variable working frequency. For example the control means could be a device generating a variable pressure to the crystal, or a device generating a temperature change of the crystal, and in this way the frequency of the crystal could be changed. The processor may be implemented in an electronic device such as computers, servers or hand held and portable devices such as mobile phones, palm pilots, cameras or in any other electronic device where it may be necessary to obtain a performance increase during peak periods or for processor demanding instructions. Such an electronic device has the advantage that it may request a performance increase of the underlying hardware in order to execute a processor demanding task. Thus it may deliver a result faster to a user since it is able to at a very early stage identify a processor demanding task that the user has requested. In a preferred implementation the processor is used in an electronic exchange systems, examples of such systems are OMX systems CLICK™, SAXESS™ or in clearing systems such as SECUR™. Thus an electronic exchange using a processor according to the above has the advantage that it may request a performance increase of the underlying hardware if/when it receives a processor demanding request. An example of such a processor demanding request may be a delete all order request for a trading firm or any other processor demanding request that may occur in an electronic exchange environment. In a second aspect, the above objects are achieved by providing an instruction controlling working frequency in a processor, the instruction is stored in a memory of the processor and is activatable by a user level application for changing the working frequency. Thus the above instruction has the advantage that it provides a solution that directly dramatically cuts overhead such as superfluous steps which causes additional cost such as cost in time and so forth. Thus the instruction makes it possible to, at an early stage, request a hardware performance change. In this way capacity currently not being used can be accessed. Since the instruction doesn't have to be activated by the operating system when controlling the clock frequency it is possible to achieve for example an earlier speed-up of the processor. Preferably the change of the working frequency is a temporary increase of the working frequency in order to handle a future increase in work load. However it may also be a decrease of the working frequency. The frequency may be controlled in a way so as to optimize the usage of a processor. For example the speed of the processor may thus be decided based on a request sent from a user level application. However an additional functionality may optimize the usage of the processor even further based on heat generated from the processor. Hence, means for measuring the temperature may be necessary to use. Thus in order to avoid overheating of the processor the frequency can be decreased for a while and in this way keep the heat at an allowable level but at the same time running the processor at a maximum speed. In a third aspect, the above and other objects are fulfilled by a user level application for trading, the user level application comprising program instructions for:
The above user level application is preferably a trading application such as CLICK Trade™ for trading of commodities and/or financial instruments. Thus a software module installed in the front-end of a computer system, such as in a client computer. However the user level application may also be any software module in an electronic exchange, such as matching module software or any other server based application. Thus a software module installed in the back-end of a computer system. Some of the user actions that occur when a user trades by using a user level application, can result in a very processor demanding task being sent to the electronic exchange. When such a task is selected by a user, the user level application for trading may select a function comprising a speed-up request and send it together with the task, and in this way ask for a performance increase in order to execute the task faster. In a fourth aspect illustrated generally in
The above method has the advantage of requesting a performance increase of underlying hardware in order to achieve a faster execution of a processor demanding request. Thus allowing the application to execute this particular instruction directly dramatically cuts the overhead. Usually user mode applications are prevented from direct hardware access for integrity reasons, however in this particular case the instruction would not change the result of a calculation, it would just deliver the result faster by changing the working frequency of a processor, thus it is safe to allow the application program to invoke this instruction directly without Operating System intervention. The user level application may be a computer program product loaded on to a computer-readable data carrier or a computer program product downloadable via a network such as the Internet. The technology can be used to design system which allows higher absolute peak loads, beyond the current maximum achieved. The invention may also improve cost efficiency by not having to design computer systems quite as large, because the system will be able to handle short term peak loads which are significantly higher than the sustained load capacity. It also allows the computing system to maintain reasonable response times even for costly transactions. Figures are preferably schematically drafted in order to facilitate understanding. Therefore other designs that could be drafted in the same schematic way are implicitly also disclosed in this document. Two new hardware instructions are proposed that are preferably accessible directly by application level software (SW), as opposed to access by BIOS/Operating system (OS) and device drivers. A user mode instruction is an instruction which an application process may execute directly without assistance of the operating system. Usually hardware related instructions are only executable in "supervisor state" or some similar mode which is reserved for the operating system. Thus for an application to initiate a hardware operation one usually has to progress through:
The first instruction may be a Speed_Up(x %) instruction. This instruction preferably requests the hardware to speed up x % of the maximum possible speed-up for a preferred time. A maximum time would typically be determined by increased temperature of the CPU or surrounding chips, e.g. once a preset maximum temperature is reached, the speed-up is "canceled" or lowered. The maximum time could also be determined by a counter that counts the number of instructions that has been executed in speed-up mode, and when the number of instructions executed in speed-up mode reaches a predetermined threshold, the speed-up mode is "canceled" or lowered. The second instruction may be a reset instruction, for example Speed_Up_release( ), as means to allow the application to voluntarily reset to normal mode of execution. These two instructions are preferably user mode instructions. In a multitasking, multi-CPU (Symmetric Multi-Processing—SMP) environment, it is envisioned that any Application level process or thread should be allowed to request Speed_up( ). Normally, it should not relinquish control of the CPU by issuing an OS and/or I/O call before it calls Speed_Up_Release( ). However, it could possibly be preempted by the operating system before it is finished. In these cases, the speed up state applies to the OS and/or other thread dispatched on this CPU until a heat limit, time limit, or other limit is reached. The % argument to the Speed_Up( ) instruction allows the application to voluntarily request, e.g., just 50% of the possible speed up, with the assumption that it may be sustained for approximately twice as long, and/or that the next request will be able to get a speed up. The following non-limiting example comes from the domain of "electronic" securities trading. In order to facilitate understanding of the example, some terms will first be defined:
Usually most hardware related instructions are only executable in "supervisor state" or some similar mode which is reserved for the operating system. Thus for an application to initiate a hardware operation one usually has to progress through
Usually user mode applications are prevented from direct hardware access for integrity reasons. But in this particular case the instruction does not change the result of the calculation. Rather, it just delivers the result faster. Thus, it is safe to allow the application program to invoke this instruction directly without operating system intervention. This scenario envisions that an external event causes, e.g., a market maker to request a delete of all his quotes in all orderbooks. The application software maintaining the order books calls the Speed_Up(100) function, iterates through the order books, and once it is done, calls Speed_Up_Release( ). Using these two instructions, this delete operation can finish in 20% less absolute time as compared to being handled by the OS, which is a very significant improvement. Even if the Speed_Up( ) state is canceled before the wild card delete finishes, e.g., due to thermal reasons, it would still be a beneficial improvement. Market maker firms using automated quote engines are very sensitive to increased response times; in fact, they may treat increased response time as an external event which causes them to issue "wildcard delete" transactions. Indeed, if Market Maker firm 1 issues a wild card delete, and this causes response times to deteriorate, this may cause other market maker firms to also issue "wildcard delete" transactions, aggravating the issue. Online auction for an instrument. In this case, it is a highly CPU intensive job to scan the order book for matching orders and quotes, and thus, it is ideal for use of Speed_Up(100) followed by Speed_Up_release( ) once done. In some exchanges the order books may be filled with large amounts of "retail" orders (each with low volume). Suddenly, a large participant e.g. a bank decides to buy/sell a huge volume of a particular instrument such that one deal can generate thousands of trades. This requires a burst of CPU intensive work to finish this processing, and thus, is also ideally suited to Speed_Up( )/Speed_Up_Reset( ). An instruction 16 such as that shown in The central computer 9 may perform different types of server applications. As an example, the central computer 9 comprises an electronic exchange comprising a common database that further comprises market, product, user and transaction information necessary to operate an electronic exchange. Furthermore the central computer 9 may comprise other subsystems that are useful for an electronic exchange. Some example subsystems are an information dissemination system that processes and broadcasts information about trades and deals, a market place subsystem that manages the exchange's central order book, and so forth. An example of an electronic exchange is the CLICK™ system manufactured by OMX Technology. The number of frequency generators is not limited to two; an arbitrary number of generators may be used. In a further example embodiment, a divisor may also be connected to at least one of the lines which would provide the possibility of changing either the F1 or F2 or F3 or all of them depending on where the divisor(s) is placed in the system. In a further example embodiment, the system may comprise a counter 15 for counting the number of instructions that is executed by the processor 12 as described earlier in the text. In the above description the term "comprising" does not exclude other elements or steps and "a" or "an" does not exclude a plurality. Furthermore the terms "include" and "contain" does not exclude other elements or steps. Patent Citations
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Heartbleed was "so last week." Maybe that's why the tech gods decided to send us another little thunderbolt. And this one may not be that little.
The security firm that first discovered the flaw said that hackers are primarily concentrating their efforts on IE 9 through 11 though no version of Explorer is exempt from attack.
To exploit the flaw, the hacker requires the user's cooperation. That is, the user must click on a link or open an attachment. Once inside, the hacker can install malware, which, Microsoft explained, makes it possible for the hacker to "gain the same user rights as the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights."
According to a piece on washingtonpost.com by Gail Sullivan, Microsoft says once it finishes its investigations "it will issue a fix for the problem, either in a monthly security update or a special security update."
Till the fix is available, Microsoft suggests downloading its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit version 4.1 to help guard against attacks.
FireEye, which discovered the flaw, suggested disabling the Adobe Flash plugin (the attacks won't work without it) and running IE in enhanced protection mode (only available in IE 10 and 11) for maximum protection.
If you're still running XP, the best advice is to cross your fingers and hold your breath or use Firefox, Chrome or another browser. That's because short-term solutions don't work and Microsoft won't be releasing patches.
If your OS is a later version that will be covered by a patch, you're still not out of the proverbial woods. You see, about 10 percent of government computers still run XP. That, according to the Washington Post's Craig Timberg and Ellen Nakashima, includes thousands of computers on classified military and diplomatic networks.
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