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  1. Re:Defend flash trading? on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 4, Informative

    IIRC it also provides price stabilization as well. Companies don't dump huge amounts of stock all at once they trickle it out little by little as it sells. Apparently that's also part of the reason for that flash crash a few years back. They just dumped all the stock on the market and the algorithms all freaked out.

    The above is all hearsay, my brother is into that stuff and this is what I remember of what I was told.

  2. Re:A mech with wheels... on Giant Mech Robots From Japan · · Score: 2

    Someone has obviously never seen Ghost in the Shell.

  3. Re:Smiling? on Giant Mech Robots From Japan · · Score: 1

    This isn't funny it is insightful, I'm smiling just thinking about it.

  4. Re:Not true on Flight 4590 Didn't Kill the Concorde; Costs Did · · Score: 1

    Was it noticeably louder or did it have a noticeably different sound to the engines, which is why you noticed it?

  5. Re:Wrong trend in two dimensions on Don't Super-Size My Smartphone! · · Score: 1

    Agreed, if they doubled the thickness with batteries that would be amazing.

  6. Re:"Reliably better" on Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-character Password In Your Subconscious Mind · · Score: 2

    Dammit, the AC I copied the lyrics from got it wrong, confidant not cosmonaut.

  7. Re:"Reliably better" on Unbreakable Crypto: Store a 30-character Password In Your Subconscious Mind · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know your password,

    Thank you for being a friend
    Traveled down the road and back again
    Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.

    And if you threw a party
    Invited everyone you ever knew
    You would see the biggest gift would be from me
    And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.

  8. Re:Cheaper? Nope, this is Sony we're talking about on Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know about the rest of you but I have to buy a new tube every time I have a new CPU, the old tube always disappears.

  9. Is Google Making Us Stupid? on How Google Is Becoming an Extension of Your Mind · · Score: 5, Informative
  10. Re:One small caveat on Nukes Are "The Only Peacekeeping Weapons the World Has Ever Known," Says Waltz · · Score: 1

    Field testing.

  11. Re:One of the more famous recent cases on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Old Commercial Software To Be Open-Sourced? · · Score: 1

    Wow, back to the bad old days where you pressed ctrl-a to highlight all the text so you can actually read it.

  12. Alternatives to Higgs Boson? on CERN Announcing New LHC Results July 4th · · Score: 2

    Are there any alternative theories to higgs boson, what's the status of them?

  13. Re:useful.... on US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm · · Score: 1

    You know what has a larger cross-section than a stealth aircraft?

    HARM

  14. Re:Well first... on Julian Assange Served With Extradition Notice By British Police · · Score: 1

    Do you have a citation on this? Not doubting you but it seems that a good 1/3 of the posts in these threads are all about how he hasn't been charged, and if this is true it seems like this needs to be the top post. All I know about the Swedish Justice system is it is not "Anglo Saxon" tradition. The Swedish system is not bound by precedent which my degree in law I got from Law and Order U, makes me say WTF.

  15. Re:This is stupid. How easy is it for Al Qaeda or on Details of the Second Controversial Mutant Bird Flu Study Finally Published · · Score: 1

    Didn't someone (?Iran?) do this in a Tom Clancy book? IIRC they used aerosol distribution put it into AC system at trade shows who then all got onto airplanes.

  16. Re:Probably not very useful on The World's First Supercavitating Boat? · · Score: 1

    Not really supercavitation is loud and that is bad.

  17. Re:Seriously... on DarwinTunes Iterates, Mixes And Culls To Create Listenable Music From Noise · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No you're not. However, I have found that /. has better conversations than other sites.

  18. Re:Sure.... on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 1

    What State do you live in? I'm in Indiana and we have the national Do Not Call list and Indiana also passed some very strict laws as well, all calls have stopped.

  19. Re:December 21, 2012 on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    I thought it went through a black hole?

  20. Re:Which case was this one? on Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 0

    I guess a more important question is who is a bigger moron me (through -> threw) or a lawyer who pisses off a judge?

  21. Which case was this one? on Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 0

    Was this the one where the defendant through their family under the bus or the one where the defendant's lawyer was a moron and pissed off the judge?

    RIAA did a great job at picking people to actually take to court.

  22. Re:why not? on Apple Yanks Toddler's Speech-Enabling App · · Score: 1

    Yeah didn't they do this in one of the Meet the Parents movies?

  23. Re:Not rare, deBeers is hording on Sprint Moves To Eliminate 'Blood Minerals' From Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    Does you wife know you got her cubic zirconium?

  24. Re:Hard sci fi or Soft sci fi? on Ask the Space Command Team About All Things Sci-Fi · · Score: 1

    Might be useful for discussion. Search Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness at TVTropes, I'd direct link it but I don't want to be a dick.

  25. Re:IQ? on The Real-Life Doogie Howser · · Score: 2

    True it isn't the best but there is a rather nice coordination between smart people and higher IQs.