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  1. also on Tech Leaders Encourage Teaching Schoolkids How To Code · · Score: 1

    Music experts think kids should be taught music, history experts think kids should be taught history, and stamp collectors think school kids should be taught philately.

  2. Re:Bit premature on Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System · · Score: 1

    If you voted for this, yes, please hold your breath.

  3. Fucking idiots on Trekkies Vote 'Vulcan' Into the Solar System · · Score: 2

    These are the same idiots that did a write in campaign to have the first shuttle names Enterprise..even though it would never fly into orbit.

    Oh look, it a references to a TV show I enjoy, we must mindlessly vote for it even though it is only a moon and nothing like the planet in my TV show.

    Disgusting. If it was an extra solar planet? that would have been fine.

    I say this and I am a Trekkie...just not a mindless one.

  4. Re:Oh, OK... on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    Really? This is BETTER then bringing the dead back to life?

  5. Re:I Don't Understand the Conclusion on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    "...subjects responded more aggressively to the mount during wing waving trials than during stationary trials. A second experiment demonstrated that this effect cannot be attributed simply to increased attention to movement. Less expectedly, subjects did not alter their own display behavior in response to wing waving as compared to a static mount. We conclude that the wing wave display in the context of singing is a signal that functions in male–male aggressive communication. Questions remain, including whether wing waving functions as a signal in the absence of singing and whether wing waving and song are redundant signals or communicate different information."

  6. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Drones are cheap, send a 1000. they cost about 5K + Ordinance .
    Drones are armed, so they can shoot other aircraft
    You do not need GPS to find a location. You know the terrain. We deliver missiles using terrain mapping very effectively now.
    Spread spectrum(and other technology) will prevent jamming. I suspect you don't really know much about jamming and military communications.

    Drones can stay in the air, carry on board system to respond autonomously to change.

    Also, as alluded to in the post, there will be delivery drones, and fighter drones. So we will have aircraft do 15 G Turns designed to take out enemy aircraft. Send 100.

  7. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    A) Automated systems are already in place. you don't need constant contact.
    B) We currently use ground imagining for locating targets. We can still use that without GPS.
    C) We can link sever aircraft together for targeting acquisition, location, and enemy fire detection.
    D) Blocking the signal isn't as easy as you seem to think. Spread spectrum is highly resistant to jamming. The drones would also use a modern version of the "VINSON"

  8. Re:Been there, Done that! on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 0

    Then how do you explain the 04 manipulation? And when the markets get bigger, how should we deal with that?

  9. Re:No one gives a shit. on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    PROTIP: If they are still taking bets on the 2012 election, I will KEEP making bets on it.

    Also, if you know anyone taking bets on the 2010 Superbowl, I'd like in.

  10. Re:No one gives a shit. on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    I give a shit.

    1 - wrong, and they are having more of an impact every cycle.

    Markets can get bigger, so thinking about their impact now is the smart thing to do.

    I know, you would rather wait until it's a serious problem so you can complain about why no one did anything. Cause complaining is all you do.

  11. Re:This is a completely invented problem on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    Actual, it doesn't change who someone votes for, it changes who comes out to vote. Mostly reporting X candidate has more votes means fewer of Y candidates will go out and vote.

  12. Re:Who Cares? on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    Great question.

    Accurate predictive markets influences every other market.
    So as a predictive market begin getting to a certain percentage, people can use that information to make decisions in other markets, like the NYSE.

    And by people, I mean computers.. in milliseconds.

    It can also lead information to get out , for example '70% likely hood person X will become president.' That in turn influences voter turnout.

    Another issue
    You are also rewarding people who can influence outcomes for the outcome of a predictive market.
    Lets say their is a predictive market for the super bowl winner. Well if my reward is high enough, then it's in my best interest to disrupt them game. Say by running over a QB. If the reward is high enough, then any jail time I may serve might be outweighed by the reward.

  13. Re:Easier soulution on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    The news letter is called:
    "Things I don't agree with should all be crimes."

  14. Re:Easier soulution on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    What crime?

  15. Re:We took this guy apart last time. on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    He talks about complex things I don't understand therefore he is wrong and a moron..said 70% of /.

    sad, but true.

  16. Re:We took this guy apart last time. on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    YOU conclusions are wrong.

    Big markets get manipulate often, and sometime without nearly as much money as you think.

    Dumping a lot of information can change markets, even if it's wrong, and removed seconds later.

    You aren't thinking big picture. You can use a prediction market to hedge NYSE orders.
    That, right there, tells us that they are worth manipulating, especially in less regulated areas.

    When we are talking about decisions made in a millionth of a second, in several second bursts throughout the day, taking in a market prediction means more money.

  17. Re:tl;dr? on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    It's complex, and that IS the short version. Just move along, or jump in and spend time learning.

  18. Re:tl;dr? on How To Stop Prediction Market Manipulation · · Score: 1

    It's not based on absurdities at all. Don't let your ego assume things you don''t understand are absurd.

  19. Re:Duh...OK. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    I remember when I was 12.

  20. Re:99% blame on system administrators. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    Its actually a good question.

    Make it 12 characters long. Now you don't need case sensitivity.

  21. Re:99% blame on system administrators. on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    His password:
    " I_Like_To_Play_Misic_4_u."

  22. Re:There should be a limit to password retries. !0 on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    You can compare the hash of what the entered to a rainbow table of most common hashes and not allow those.

  23. Re:no solution on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    Shoulder surfing? please that's such a tiny problem. Far less the 1% of attempts are based on that. Where are you where someone is shoulder surfing and you don't know? Cause that, literally, need to be watching you fingers.

    If the trade off for people not being able to sit across the world and get into your bank is I have to be aware someone isn't stand right next to me, then that would be great.

    " People will start to write passwords down,"
    train them to use a personal; formula, with a site specific addon.
    Really fucking secure.

  24. Re:not my problem on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    Passwords do work. You just need a plan.

    Example: a hard password, with the site name added backwords. easy peasy
    First Dog-street I grew up-site name.

    Sp0t_M4ine_t0dhs4ls

    no, that isn't may password, it isn't the formula for my passwords, I never had a dog named sport, and I didn't grow up on Maine, although I did live on a Maine st once. yes, like the state.
    8 characters? yeah, that's broke.

  25. Re:Bank of Montreal's password must be exactly 6 c on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    That's one way to prevent people from using 'Password' as their password.