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  1. Nanex: Knightmare on Wall Street on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    It is surprising that the best article on KCG's trades was not shared yet. Check out http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/3522.html for a fascinating look at the trades. Chart 3 shows a millisecond interval chart with around 40 trades happening in under a second, each buying at the offer and immediately selling at the bid. As Nanex put it "you now have a system that's very efficient at burning money".

  2. Re:How hard is it to have something like this in U on China Debuts the World's Fastest Train · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, it's not SF to LA via Sacramento. It's two branches from Fresno to SF and Sacramento. You can see the proposed map here.

  3. Re:People will like it on Initial Reviews of Google Wave; Neat, But Noisy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Leonard: We need to widen our circle.
    Sheldon: I have a very wide circle. I have 212 friends on myspace.
    Leonard: Yes, and you've never met one of them.
    Sheldon: That's the beauty of it.

  4. Re:Not impressed so far on New Search Engine Cuil Takes Aim At Google · · Score: 1

    Not only slashdotted but also featured on Digg, CNN, Mashable, LifeHacker, etc. Wonder how the Cuil folks orchestrated all that?!

  5. Re:Pound? on Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them · · Score: 5, Informative

    Their phone would ring too. This service is supposed to avoid that.

    I just tested out SlyDial against my cell phone and the phone did ring once. The caller ID also revealed the number as the one I used to call SlyDial. Not so sly after all.

  6. Re:Okay... on The Night the IETF Shut Off IPv4 · · Score: 1

    Only config that I found was "network.dns.disableIPv6" but the default is already "false".

  7. Re:Haven't flown since before 9/11 on TSA Opens Blog — You Can Finally Complain · · Score: 1

    They are not doing it to improve safety, they are doing it to provide the perception of safety. ... and that sentiment is best described by Sir Humphrey Appleby in this clip.
  8. Re:Mirror list on Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released · · Score: 1

    There's a torrent up on Mininova - http://www.mininova.org/tor/1128409

  9. Re:Not if you have a brain... on Does Comcast Hate Firefox? · · Score: 1

    This has been my experience as well. All they need is cable modem's MAC address. What's annoying is that their billing site had some issues with Firefox (because of not doing a redirect after login). One could work around it by manually refreshing the page after a few seconds. However of late (last two billing cycles), it's no longer working with Firefox.

  10. Re:Phone Numbers? on Google Purchases GrandCentral Web Phone Service · · Score: 1

    This page sorta gives out phonenumbers to some important people... Wonder if/when they'll take it down... Or have the numbers been faked?
    http://www.grandcentral.com/home/one_addressbook
    They are not the phone numbers of the individuals listed. The number attributed to Jeff Bezos is 206-266-1000 is Amazon.com's local phone number in Seattle. The number attributed to Sergey Brinn 650-253-0000 is Google's local phone number in Mountain View. The next two with 555 are fake numbers.
  11. Re:I bet the software development cost a pretty pe on iPhone Interest Still Going Strong · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Apple clearly spent a lot on development of the device and on the software especially... not to mention all of the prime-time ads. I bet it will take a while before those costs are covered and they start raking in the big bucks with the $380 'mark-up'. Well, Apple's hoping to sell 10 million iPhones by 2008 which only gets them a 1% share of the mobile phone market. Let's say the parts cost $220 exactly as per the Business Week article. Then Apple's making 10 million phone X $300/phone approx. = $3 billion (yes, billion with a b). Even if they spend a couple of billion (that's a high end estimate) on R&D, software development, advertising, packaging, shipping, etc. they are going to make a cool billion in profits.
  12. Re:No SIM? on Walt Mossberg Reviews the iPhone · · Score: 1

    I am wondering about that statement as well. Does it simply mean that the phone is locked?

  13. Re:It's possible... on Intel Shows Off 80-core Processor · · Score: 1

    The Intel presentation clarifies this to some extent. Look at slide 7. The core is simply a compute element with a router. They have put stacked memory as future implementation. Also here's Intel's Teraflop site.

  14. Re:Horeshit.....javascript is crap but....horeshit on AJAX May Be Considered Harmful · · Score: 1
    Javascript is nothing related to Java

    It didn't use to be (apart from both of them having C-related syntax and Interweb-related hype), but it is now if you're using Firefox. For example, the following works:

    <script> document.write(new java.lang.String("I'm here")); </script>

    Don't forget Netscape LiveConnect which allowed Javascript to invoke Java code way back in the 90s.

  15. VHD Specs on Microsoft to Give Away Software · · Score: 1

    The VHD specs mentioned in the article are available here.

  16. Re:hosted gmail on GMail and Sourceforge E-mail Bouncing Saga · · Score: 1
    gmail also has a hosted solution. you sign up, point your dns to gmail's mail servers, and can have all your email go through email. You can even create accounts, mailing lists, etc. Right now they appear to be limiting me to 25 users per domain. Works really well. you can pop3 off their system too.
    Wow - that's cool! I didn't know about Google's free hosted apps for domains. For those looking to signup, check out https://www.google.com/a/
  17. Re:Yet nothing is changin.... on Tales From Behind Microsoft's Firewall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... and TweakUI is unsupported by Microsoft who wrote the app in the first place!

  18. Re:Thank you! on AT&T Rewrites Privacy Policy · · Score: 1

    What?! You want a middle-aged Maradona to take on AT&T. He was great at his prime but I doubt he can do anything against AT&T ;-)

  19. Re:Proposed Strategy on Government May Help Bells Defend Against Wiretap Suits · · Score: 1
    Sometimes keeping secret the fact that information is being collected is as important, or even more important, than the information itself.
    Or as Sir Humphrey put it:
    He that hath a secret to keep must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep.
  20. Participate in IPO? on Trolltech Going Public · · Score: 1

    Anyone know how non-Norwegians can participate in the IPO?

  21. Re:Not too bad..... on Slashdot CSS Redesign Contest Update · · Score: 1

    The same thing happens with the most recent Minefield nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060511 Minefield/3.0a1 ID:2006051106 [cairo]

  22. Re:Had to be said. on What is UNIX, Anyway? · · Score: 1
    The Unix Hater's Handbook attributes that quote to Grace Murray Hopper. From pp9:
    "The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from"
    -- Grace Murray Hopper
  23. Re:Cool on Mozilla Firefox 1.02 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I like KDE's integration of Kontact, Kmail, Konqueror, Kopete, Akregator, Kpilot, etc. That's a nice Internet Suite with everything - browser, email, news, RSS, IM, address book, calendar, etc.

  24. Re:Google needs to toss its cookies... on Gmail Accounts Vulnerable to XSS Exploit · · Score: 0, Redundant
    What I don't like about it is that it doesn't use SSL after you log in.

    That's not true. You can use SSL all throughout. Simply start at https://gmail.google.com/gmail or even just manually change it to https after login.

  25. Re:Write to Penguin. Write to Pearson. Or call. on The Saga of Katie.com · · Score: 1

    I also just noticed that the domains penguinsucks.com and boycottpenguin.com are available for registration. Perhaps someone could host online protests there as well.