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  1. bad algorithm ran 30 minutes without notice on Algorithmic Trading Glitch Costs Firm $440 Million · · Score: 1

    Non-Kinght people noticed the huge volume increase on the NYSE, but not the Knight people, Maybe they gave the job to a summer intern.

  2. about 1 in 200 are "inter-sex" on The Tricky Science of Olympic Gender Testing · · Score: 1

    Several dozen different conditions cause ambiguity from dual.missing genes, gene over or under expression, and so on. The default starting gender is female. There may be male genes, but not fully expressed. And a lot do not know it until they seek infertility treatment or become an Olympic contender.

  3. Battle of Dol Guldor too on Peter Jackson Announces Third Hobbit Movie · · Score: 1

    When Sauron was expelled from Mirkwood forest. There is only reference to this concurrent event in the Hobbit. But Peter could flesh it out.

  4. could it be terrorism? on Half of India Without Electricity As Power Grid Crisis Deepens · · Score: 2

    One of the worst mass murders in recent times was in Mumbai a few years ago. Some people claim hacking the power grid should not be too difficult.

  5. I'd thought auto insurance use them first on ACLU Questions Privacy of License Plate Scanners · · Score: 1

    I'd think some enterprising vendor would collect license plat location data and sell it to insurance companies. They have an insatiable appetite for rate-rising data.

  6. Obama's birth certificate is in the supply pouch on Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing · · Score: 1

    Somehow it got mixed up with NASA paperwork when he was eight years old and living in Indonesia.

  7. 1957 may have been the scariest on Is China's Space Race An Opportunity For the US? · · Score: 1

    The US felt safe until 1957 protected by thousands of miles of oceans. Maybe a few subs or balloons snuck in during the world war. But the first orbiting satellite in 1957 showed there was no place on Earth out of reach. Plus something going over you every hour and a half possibly spying on you. People felt very unsafe then.

  8. low achievers like Hacker bore me on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    So what if 99.5% of jobs never use algebra. There is more to life than working and money. I have always wanted to know things whether it was free or cost a MIT tuition. And want to to associate with like-minded people.

  9. sequence soma or germ cells? on Contest To Sequence Centenarians Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    After a century the soma cells are going to accumulate a significant number of mutation errors. The bad mutation become cancer or sencenence cells.

  10. I'd claim Gore as much as anyone else on Who Really Invented the Internet? · · Score: 0

    Int he 1980s there were several broadband networks: ArpaNet, NSFnet, Milnet, dialup bboards. Its was a pain to send email and files between them. In the late 1980s there was a real effort to standardize naming, use of TCP/IP, etc. And the US Congress financed the first couple of rounds fiber optic broadband among universities. And Gore pushed this financing really hard.
    The Internet graphical User Interface had to wait another few years until it exploded circa 1993 with Mosaic and html. Moasic came out of the US Supercomputer Centers, but was rapidly commercialized.

  11. How about the "Shelly Prize"? on "G-Prize" To Recognize Innovation In Synthetic Biology · · Score: 2

    After the the author of Frankenstein, arguably the first novel in the science fiction genre.

  12. extension of Street View paranoia on Man Physically Assaulted At McDonald's For Wearing Digital Eye Glasses · · Score: 1

    Much of Europe went ballistic over Google's Street View. They are suing Google over privacy invasion and made a big thing of it the press. Perhaps any strange camera devices triggers angers people now.

  13. Edison recommended 46 fps on Hollywood Acts Warily At Comic-Con · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Edison was one of the inventors of motion pictures. The cynic might say that would double his company's film stock sales. But Edison said the film viewing experience improved to that point. Hollywood decided on the less costly half-rate standard.

  14. The Toklien family hates Hollywood on Hollywood Acts Warily At Comic-Con · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Thought Hollywood had butchered the books aiming at teenage action movies and introducing new characters and subplots. Also a terrible fight over royalties.

    I admire the one son who spent decades publishing his father's voluminous papers. This may be the son's only major press interview in his life. The rest of family has gotten a free ride on royalties. Especially through the efforts of Jackson.

  15. billionaire Phil Ansultz bought lots of newspapers on The Fate of Newspapers: Farm It, Milk It, Or Feed It · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Most notable the San Francisco Examiner. Several of his papers are distributed as free dailies in major cities.
    Anshultz media group also owns about a third of US movie theaters (Regal) and show production company that was putting on Michael Jacksons final tour.
    He has not publicly stated what his goals are. His earlier investments were oil and gas, railroads, and fiber cable.

  16. correct interpretation of "1984" commercial on When Art, Apple and the Secret Service Collide · · Score: 1

    Apple was replacing the old "Big Brother" with the new one- themselves.

  17. always ask for some cash in a big deal on How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything · · Score: 1

    10% of the deal or $10M, whichever is lower

  18. me, spacesuits, some beers less than 225 killos on Virgin Galactic Announces New Satellite Launch Vehicle · · Score: 1

    Personal space travel?

  19. slashdot style human editing necessary on Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 · · Score: 1

    Digg pretty much just floated the most popular stories like Google News. I want to read the quirky nerd stuff. Slashdot and Wired with human editors are much better for that.

  20. what are the next incremental follow-ons? on Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I heard they may want to check several other decay paths for energy resonances.
    I also heard there could be a family of Higgs bosons, so we may look for others?

  21. Amazon & Apple make 30% on Media/App sales on Google Nexus 7 Parts Cost $18 More Than Kindle Fire · · Score: 1

    The make 30% of each book, movie, song, and app sold. So Amazon can essentially give its tablets away at cost and still make lots of money. I wonder if GooglePlay has similar profitability.

  22. Apple & Amazon have own retail channels on Google Nexus 7 Parts Cost $18 More Than Kindle Fire · · Score: 1

    Google will have to pay its retailers about 20% retail markup and definitely lose on each sale. Apple and Amazon wont have to pay the retail markup.

  23. Europe is warmed by Gulf Stream on Nature: Global Temperatures Are a Falling Trend · · Score: 1

    There are some climate change models that Gulf Stream could change or stop. Then Europe would cool despite the rest of the world growing warmer. Some of this may be happening already.

  24. 5) spend 10 years hiding in embassies on FDA Approves HIV Home-Use Test Kit · · Score: 1

    If you do this in Sweden

  25. water is much lighter than rock on Sea Level Rise Can't Be Stopped · · Score: 1

    And we are just redistributing water already there: from the poles to the whole ocean.