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  1. Re:This is why on "Back Door" Cheating Scandal Rocks Online Poker · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually, if you follow the markets wisley: 1. you'll learn how to leverage options and futures properly. 2. you'll buy your home at the height of a recession 3. you'll never invest emotionally 4. you'll never put all your eggs in one basket. 5. you'll retire at 40 on a salary that would be akin to a small countries GDP. All investment involves risk, the inherent risk to reward ratio is what drives people to stock's, bonds, T-bills, options, futures, money markets and other commodities. Markets are cyclical, this is a bad part of the cycle when things are overvalued and we'll hit a huge correction and some banks may go bankrupt (with mitigating factors including the banks willingness to risk the fed's money). And that's fine. Oddley enough the markets are like poker, except there's 4 billion people sitting at the table and they are all jostling for position; that and every time i play hand with a prop-trader I get fleeced, they play both the table and the game.

  2. Re:Stop the insanity! on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    Actually I outsource most of my programming work to places where I can get really talented people that won't bitch and complain about fromalized requirements, hell i don't even need to approve the budget for the "Aeron Chairs".... ;) Unless there's a security requiement, in which case I go local. Either way I'm still signing some programmers paycheque / finding them contracts. Then again, I didn't go to university.

  3. Re:passionless technician on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    Irony alert, the richest people on the planet are the biggest nerds and geeks ;)

  4. Re:Damnit!!! on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    Shhh, most MBa students like hookers and blow!

  5. Re:Damnit!!! on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 1

    Canada would like to thank the U.S. college generations for continually supporting backwoods Ontario and Quebec, not to mention Asian immigration in Vancouver. National consumption of weed in Canada alone is estimated at 7 billion dollars, that's for what they catch which on the limited police budgets may be 5%. Sine the United states has a far larger educated population (especially those lawyers and plumbers), your national consumption of black market goods has been keeping south American rebels well armed, the Taliban in power and a number of Malaysian regimes committing genocide. Now that being said, people will do what they want regardless of law, there fore learn from Amsterdam take the money and you could have free health care, safe use cites, treat addiction as a medical issue and watch the gang violence die as the result of added urban renewal (of course you'd have to start amalgamating your cities).

  6. Re:Pointless on Windows 7 Beta Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 1

    And in other news, Delloite has now slashed it's IT Budget by handing out Abacui (Abacus) to it's auditors. We've seen a 5% rise in stock value as a result.

  7. Re:Doesn't matter on Homeland Security Department Testing "Pre-Crime" Detector · · Score: 1

    Well if I was planning something nasty I would act as if i was not planning anything at all, most suicide bombers are taught to infiltrate then gain confidence then blow themselves up, and since they are committing sueicide you might find that they will not appear any different than their targets. And what about people with dis-orders? like say someone prone to agoraphobia? or panic attacks? (that's a full 1/3 of the population by the way).

  8. Re:PvP/RvR on Mythic Launches Warhammer Online · · Score: 1

    Damn, there goes my masters :/

  9. Re:Please, it's "Native American" on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 1

    What this isn't the west indies? Aw crap I've already named the indigenous peoples! (you mean the savages sir?) No no no...

  10. Re:namaste on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 1

    They are educated in Canada!

  11. Re:What! Even NASA is outsourcing to India? on Indian Moon Mission To Launch Next Month · · Score: 1

    Well they found that the liliputions there were cheper, and 7.7 Million is a pittance compared to the standard let's make a new radio antenna budget.

  12. Trading Software on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    Brokers usually supply the software that you may be looking for. My personal preference is Interactive they are the cheapest and have the widest selection of investment options, also their client operates on any OS and is available via the WEB: http://www.interactivebrokers.ca/en/general/education/highlights.php?p=s&ib_entity=ca As for charting and forecasting well, that depends on what kind of investor you are; some economist friends of mien use adobe frame maker with custom software to model economies (I'm talking nation based GDP estimates used to determine things like CPI). Depending on what and where you are looking you'll need to find good "Charting" software as for the methods you'll need to educate yourself with regards to the methods you wish to use and then implement those theories (including back-testing). Oh and NEVER EVER FORGET to BACK test your ideas, if it made you money in the past i may work in the future. As always IANAL, IANAFA, IANACGA, YMMV, TIRIAI (There's inherent risk in all investing).

  13. Re:Hmmm on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    You want capitolisam; well according to Mieses you have to take the good medicine with the bad. Just because it tastes bad now don't blame everyone, don't blame anyone, the Market does not Care and the market is run by human animus, it is an extension of ourselves. Bad decisions become a bad market. Regulation is not the awnser, nor is corporate welfare since ultimately neither work.

  14. Re:Hmmm on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    No no, the JSF will operate in hover mode and now has pain rays. Or they could just contract it to Raytheon?

  15. Yarrh! Give us your subnets or face the wrath of on Today Is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! · · Score: 1

    The RBF kraggon!

  16. Is it better than This? on Breakthrough In Use of Graphene For Ultracapacitors · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEStor It's going to hit the market next year; 1513W/h per L of power at about $2100 / unit @ 682WH/kg that's far higher than any other tech out there.

  17. Re:The part you missed... on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 1

    mandatory Monty reference: No really that net burst architecture was fine when I sold it to you....
    Sir it has left the land of the living, turned it's toes up to the daises...

  18. Re:On the plus side... on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 4, Funny

    During the course of my career I've signed enough Non-Disclosure agreements that it's illegal for me to think; Anecdotes often result in law suits.

  19. Re:... and AMD wouldn't even touch the info on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 1

    Stolen Practices are a whole different ball of wax.

  20. Re:geek viagra on CERN, the Big Bang and Impact On the IT Industry · · Score: 1

    Now all you need is a brain jack and they could stream all of p0rn directly to your bunk.

  21. Re:Terrabytes on CERN, the Big Bang and Impact On the IT Industry · · Score: 1

    -ducks-And the trolls only come out at night-runs-

  22. Re:Sys Admin at CERN on CERN, the Big Bang and Impact On the IT Industry · · Score: 1

    So did they turn up in WWII? Or have they been launched into a parallel Kazula & Klien dimension? That being said have you decided upon a nomenclature for these extra dimensions that are just laying around? Personally I like rainbows.

  23. Re:Oh! I can't wait until they do a study like thi on Why Email Has Become Dangerous · · Score: 1

    Even then it's soured by taxes :P

  24. Re:Oh! I can't wait until they do a study like thi on Why Email Has Become Dangerous · · Score: 1

    But work is only rarely rewarding ;)

  25. Re:What... the... hell on Teens and Steroids · · Score: 1

    By dealing crack and pot, jeez don't you know anything.