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  1. Re:Bubble on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 1

    I'm not planning on high-frequency stuff specifically. I'd set up the program to trade quickly if it would be profitable, but I don't plan on putting any emphasis on speed and certainly not trading at speeds where lag becomes a factor.

  2. Re:Catalytic converters on Low Levels of Toxic Gas Found To Encourage Plant Growth · · Score: 1

    They don't cut much power and you can get a performance cat that will create no restriction. Their weight has a bigger performance effect than the exhaust restriction they create.

  3. Re:Why? on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 0

    Or, you know, reasonable countries that don't like a free-for-all of money laundering and/or international currency exchange...just saying.

  4. Re:Bubble on Bitfloor Indefinitely Suspends Bitcoin Trading · · Score: 1

    It'll recover, and burst again, and so on...

    I've been thinking about setting up a program to algorithmically trade bitcoins for me...seems easy enough to buy low and sell high, it's just a matter of watching the prices and being patient (two things I don't have time for, thus the program).

    Say I write a program that will do some calculations and then place an order for some bitcoins, or sell some that I have. Is there a program out there that can handle the execution of these trades through some kind of API or CLI interface? I understand the concepts behind Bitcoin but I don't have any experience actually using it.

  5. Re:Look at it the other way on Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet" · · Score: 1

    And if you're l33t you still "download" in the colloquial sense, so you can keep it ;-)

  6. Re:Fiat Currency on Steve Forbes: Bitcoin Not Money · · Score: 1

    I find it helps to think in terms of data to put astronomical amounts of money in perspective.

    It's also interesting to think in terms of human life incomes (1-2m) or life productivity (6-7m).

  7. Re:What? on Did Tech Websites Exploit the Boston Marathon Bombing? · · Score: 1

    Modern news? This is all very old news. Disasters and wars have been great for the media at least since the invention of the printing press.

  8. Re:what eats them? on Giant Snails Invade Florida · · Score: 1

    Really? Well then China's in for a nasty surprise when all those dudes start reproducing together.

  9. Re:Worth it? on Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock · · Score: 1

    I have one like that right now...it's not so good with the money part though.

  10. Re:Worth it? on Trader Pleads Guilty To Illegal Purchase of Nearly $1B In Apple Stock · · Score: 1

    ME FIRST!

  11. Re:Sony will figure out a way on Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    My first thought. Getting your Internet connection from a pro-DRM media company with a fetish for proprietary tech rivaled only by Apple's, what could possibly go wrong?

  12. Re:Netflix is one of the places where DRM makes se on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    I know that, but it's still adding support for a DRM scheme in the HTML5 specification, even if there is no DRM included. Why not let the 3rd party plugin handle all of the DRM itself? This keeps stupid crap out of the official spec and makes it harder for the use of DRM to spread via a convenient universal API.

  13. Now software specs on Google Glass Specs Hit the Web · · Score: 1

    If I could completely change out the software on this to make it report to me instead of Google it might be useful...still a bit dorky to wear in public though. I'm sure the next hardware model could be made to look like regular glasses.

  14. Re:so what am i supposed to do with them again? on Google Glass Specs Hit the Web · · Score: 1

    You can already get "camera spy glasses" for $200-$300 and they don't stand out as much as Google Glass.

  15. They didn't? Why not? on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    Given the situation I think shutting down the cell networks would have been reasonable. They shut them down for G20 meetings and various protests but not in the middle of a bombing incident where there's a good chance cellular detonators are being used? Huh?

  16. Re:Netflix is one of the places where DRM makes se on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    A reasonable argument, and I support your right to use DRM. But you can install whatever DRM'ed client software Netflix requires yourself and keep that junk out of the HTML specification where it's not welcome.

  17. Re:W3C DRM proposal is OPEN! on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    Then why condone it in any way? Don't help it, don't recognize it, don't allow for it. If some closed 3rd-party DRM software is unavoidable then let it carry out its dirty task unassisted.

  18. Re:W3C DRM proposal is OPEN! on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    Fair point, but I'm not even sure it's right to legitimize the concept of DRM by adding these channels for DRM negotiation. It's a lot like a government laying out safe and responsible guidelines for negotiating with terrorists rather than refusing to do it.

  19. Re:Whats the alternative? on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    How much good has come from the consumer space? Some kickbacks from Android? That's basically it. It seems that Linux has to become the enemy to beat the enemy in the consumer space.

  20. Re:Whats the alternative? on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hope the "distro wars" never end, that's when Linux will be dead.

  21. Re:But does Netcraft confirm it? on ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over" · · Score: 1

    Came here to check this. Netcraft confirms it or it didn't happen.

  22. Re:Nearly the speed of light? on Supernova Left Its Mark In Ancient Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Still it's a pretty good speed. I was thinking about propelling tiny probes by placing them near a supernova, but then if you can get them near one in any reasonable amount of time it's not much better than your own sun blowing up...

  23. Re:don't hurt the terrorists on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't speak too soon, this could be a right-wing militia group for all we know.

  24. Re:Explosions on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    I think they'll need one of those fancy surgical robots to rip it up any smaller.

  25. Re:radiation on Explosions at the Boston Marathon · · Score: 1

    Possible dirty bomb...highly unlikely but worth checking, just in case.