The Raspberry Pi is not that different in this regard from the original BBC Micro, Sinclair ZX or Commodore C-64. They were all targeted at novice programmers. The intent was to provide a cheap self contained hardware platform for software development. Just like the Pi. They used a common household TV for the display, just the the Pi. The Pi requires an external power supply, keyboard and possibly a USB hub. For the intended audience that is the only difference.
The quoted article is a troll. It is also whining and elitist. Do we want to encourage programming as a skill, or support a cult of purity? Is a lack of low level open source drivers for the Pi going to have any impact on novices? If you want complete open source platforms, they exist. Just not for $35.
When you treat your customers, or in Romney's case potential voters, with such contempt I propose we call it Pulling a Romney.
Definition: Pulling a Romney. When you publicly reveal such contempt for your stakeholders that you render your entire enterprise meaningless. It is as if you are the captain of the Titanic, and of your own volition you create the iceberg that sinks your ship. You are not just shooting yourself in the foot, you are negating your entire existence.
XP is like that car from the 80's. It gets crappy gas mileage, and pollutes like crazy, but it has been paid for and it just works. You can get parts and the local mechanic can fix it for cheep. The seats are frayed and the paint is peeling, but so what. You only drive it around town anyway.
Windows 8 is the brand new fancy high tech super cool car. It has every conceivable gadget: GPS, satellite radio, power heated seats, and so many buttons and digital displays that even the people who sell it don't know what they all do. (Can you say Metro?) It is expensive, and it looses 30% of it's value as soon as you drive it off the lot. It goes like a bat out of hell and gets excellent gas millage. This does not translate into getting to the mall any faster then the old car. The road speed limit is the same. (Your ISP is not giving you more bandwidth just because you have a cool new computer,) All the extra stuff makes it a lot more expensive. The fancy stuff is all prone to break, and when it does is is insanely expensive to fix. (My friends with the Volvo wagon have had to replace the door window control unit multiple times, and since it is a module with a embedded controller it's expensive and so is the labor charge to install it.) Unlike the 1984 dog, which is still usable, the cool car will be unusable 30 years later because the electronic spares will be insanely expensive and there will be no alternative suppliers. (You have no recovery disk because floppies are gone and optical drives are so old school 20th century that they are the one gadget that is left off.)
So go out and buy that new car RIGHT NOW!!! Microsoft needs the money.
The AG, Cuccinelli, is conspiring with extremest political groups to suppress scientific research. To say the work was "publicly funded", therefore research personal have no private communications, is bullshit. It was and is a gross political smear.
Lets put the shoe on the other foot. I propose that Michael Mann sue the AG and the American Tradition Institute for slander. As a first step he should request all communications between the AG and ATI to see if they conspired to wreck his career. Remember, the AG's work is "paid for with government money", so all the AG correspondence should all be "public". How does that shoe feel now?
If these records became public, Cuccinelli would clearly be found to be misusing his office. He invested significant resources in a purely political effort. This is misappropriation of public funds, along with a conspiracy to break the law with a non-governmental political organization. He clearly shared information with ATI that should have been not allowed outside his office. (This is exactly what Ken Starr did during the Clinton witch hunt. During the Watergate probe they planted insane smears in the press, none of which were true. Starr's office also broke confidentiality with the Republican operatives who were working the civil side of the conspiracy.)
The AG deserves to be sent to jail. That will never happen. When conservatives break the law they always get away with it, because law and order only applies to minorities and Democrats. The last time a conservative insider got put away was Scooter Libby, and he was taking a bullet for Chaney's leaking Valery Plame's status as a CIA operative. Chaney put the lives of CIA assets at risk. I would not be surprised if people died from this. If it did happen, we'll never know. The coverup was successful.
I'm always struck by how consistently Slashdot comments go extremely negative on new technology. According to Slashdot everything new is already a failure. This is a true knee jerk response.
This is just like the whining about the Raspberry Pi. It was pronounced an utter failure on Slashdot before it shipped, and they have now sold 200,000 units. Demand is still high enough that there are complaints about delivery times.
Did it take over the educational market for tiny computers? It's too soon to tell. It has to get into the hands of early adopting teachers first. Then it has to get wider acceptance in the educational domain, which can take time. Even if it doesn't have the impact they were hoping for in education, it can be a success in other areas. Success is success.
Mozilla has already shown that it can run on the Raspberry PI, which is a very cheep device. I can see an opportunity for a Chinese manufacturer to bring out a dirt cheep smart phone/tablet for their domestic market and not worry about Apple/Google/Motorola or other patent parasites. Since they practice Real Capitalism in China (unlike the monopolistic pseudo-capitalism here in the US) I expect to see someone try this.
Maybe Firefox OS will be a dud. I honestly don't know. I am very interested to see how the effort turns out.
I do know that this kind of bashing is a form of public masturbation that is extremely popular on Slashdot. It's boring and stupid. Can't you go somewhere else when you decide to wank off in public?
You've got it backwards. The Occupy movement has had a significant real world impact. It brought the issue of effective tax rates for the rich into the presidential race, including the obscenely low 15% tax rate paid by Romney.
Now that Mitt Romney's confirmed what we've long suspected about his effective federal tax rate -- "It's probably closer to the 15 percent rate than anything" -- we have a fact worth contextualizing. Though it could easily be less, assume Romney effectively pays 15 percent in taxes on all his income to the federal government. How does he stack up to the rest of us, most of whom are regular wage earners? When you account for the fact that most people also pay payroll taxes, and don't enjoy enormous deductions, credits or other benefits, you see that Romney's making out about as well as a taxpayer who makes $50,000 a year. Not bad for a man whose net worth is estimated to be in the neighborhood of a quarter billion dollars.
Meanwhile, the Republican controlled House has voted 33 times in 18 months to repeal Obamacare.
Breaking news!! The House of Representative voted to repeal all of Obamacare – for the 33rd time.
In a recurring political ritual, Republicans in the chamber denounced the law as a government takeover and said that all of it has to go. Then they backed up their statements with a vote.
The action has virtually no chance of becoming law. The Democratic majority in the Senate is certain to block it. And if for some reason it does not, Obama has promised to veto it.
So who is acting more like a troupe of cognitively impaired monkeys? I would bet that after so many failed attempts the monkeys would have given up and moved on to something more useful.
Score: Monkeys 1, Republicans 0. It's not fair to compare either monkeys or Republicans to the Occupy movement because they are not playing in the same league.
Those with an axe to grind will always find an excuse to ban books to promote their cause. Pretending that some things are excluded because they are "literature" is no barrier.
Naked Lunch is considered Burroughs' seminal work, and one of the landmark publications in the history of American literature. Extremely controversial in both its subject matter and its use of obscene language (something Burroughs recognized and intended), the book was banned in Boston and Los Angeles in the United States, and several European publishers were harassed. It was one of the most recent American books over which an obscenity trial was held. The book was banned in Boston in 1962 due to obscenity (notably child murder and acts of pedophilia), but that decision was reversed in 1966 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The Appeals Court found the book did not violate obscenity statutes, as it was found to have some social value. The hearing included testimony in support of the work by Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer.
I read all of these books by the time I finished high school with no apparent harm. I don't expect Naked Lunch to be on any high school reading list, but is a prime target for censorship because it is obscene. It is also great literature.
The Federal and State governments will deal with this immediately. New laws will be passed and significant resources will be allocated in law enforcement to keep corporate identity theft from occurring. Those caught will be given significant jail time and fines.
If you as an individual have your identity stolen you will still be shit of of luck. No authority will be looking for individuals using your identity. You will have to spend huge amounts of time and effort proving to federal, state and business entities thaqt you are a victim. And once the bad information gets in to large information systems it will never get out. There are not mechanism for fixing these problems and allowing someone to clear their name.
So it's not about corporate person hood. Corporations are important, you are meaningless. You are a disposable commodity, and you are easily replaced.
Until corporations are held fiscally responsible for damaging incorrect information nothing will change. Since corporate interests can buy any legislation they want, nothing will change. They can legally bribe their way out of responsibility. Don't expect change any time soon.
This technology was designed to find infringement. It was not designed to find cute images of puppies. There is nothing in the code to recognize fair use. The technology is intrinsically broken. Perhaps it could be fixed, but there is no incentive to make it work fairly.
A lot of technology is like OxyContin: it is very easy to abuse. The manufacturers/deployers make money and never suffer the negative effects. It's disingenuous to say that the technology is neutral and does not embody an business/political agenda. In this case allowing fair use would make the system much more complex, and might render it useless. For example if there were meaningful fines for false positives then those using this technology would have to act differently. Hell will freeze over before that happens.
If you feel that way then why are you even looking at this topic? If you think that the system is unacceptable because it's not "open" enough then don't waste your time on it.
Personally I like it. I haven't bought one but I will at some point when I have some time to play with it. There are 200000 people who feel like I do and have shelled out real money to get one. They, and people who are thinking about buying one have a reason to comment on board changes, you don't.
One question: are you a professional whiner, or do you whine needlessly for your own egotistical amusement?
The IBM 7030 (Stretch) initially shipped with oil cooled magnetic core memory int 1957-58. The oil temperature control had both heating and cooling capabilities.
This was in the days when IBM employees all wore white shirts and ties, and I head stories that the techs would not bother to roll up their sleeves when they worked on these units, because they knew that they would get soaked in oil not matter what they did.
Can we replace the rats who currently infest our airports with actual four legged rats? It would be an obvious improvement that would be welcomed by the general public.
Plus, many fewer people would mind if a rodent saw them naked.
Are you sure that you're not talking about the USA? Lets revise that last paragraph.
The crooks and thieving bankers who run the USA don't actually need any science or technology. They just need to be in the close proximity to government bailouts to saw off their share while nobody is looking.
The large concentration of deaths is Compton/Watts where there is a lot of illegal activity (gangs) and lots of illegal weapons. Random people get shot there all the time. It doesn't even make the headlines, unless it's a child.
Your are a privileged right wing arrogant asshole. You have no idea what it's like to live with real world gun violence in you community. The gang bangers make the cops look good, and the cops are not very trustworthy here in LA.
Without the government guns that you despise, the US would be like Mexico, with drug cartels routinely doing mass killings. You think you're tough, but your toy gun collection wouldn't protect you against professional gangsters. You depend on a system that you disrespect. You are as stupid as you look.
The Tuesday night session at the Republican National Convention will be themed "We Built This!" in a dual effort to celebrate American entrepreneurship and attack President Obama's infamous comments to business owners.
However, the Daily Dolt reports the stadium was financed primarily with public funds. "The Tampa Bay Times Forum arena, which houses the Tampa Bay Lightning, was built in 1996 as the 'Ice Palace' with 62% government funds. The total budget for the project was $139 million, of which public money accounted for $86 million and team money accounted for $53 million.
Perhaps the RNC should change their slogan to "Someone else built this with mostly government money".
I'll hold you to the same standard: you show me the peer reviewed articles that there is not a problem. It's easy to impugn someone's else's reference when you don't have anything to back up your assertion either.
Frankly this was just the first reasonably close reference I could find. I could have spent more time looking, but I wanted to make the point that just looking at cancer rates was not he end of the issue.
You didn't even bother to find any website to back up your position. So my off the cuff quick web search has, in a simplistic sense, 100% more credibility then your response.
So when are you putting your ass on the line and moving to Fukushima or Chernobyl? It's easy to talk about there being no risk when you are literally on the other side of the globe.
There is significant evidence that long term health problems from exposure to low levels of radioactivity is not limited to cancer. People in the Chernobyl region, both children and adults, have many other diseases, including heart disease and shortened life expectancy. The psychological effects are also very bad. In Japan even people who moved away are shunned and have trouble with employment and in school. This can be just as devastating as physical conditions.
Here is a link to some of the other health problems of Chernobyl survivors.
Diseases of the cardio-vascular system and blood are one of the most common consequences of the Chernobyl radioactive pollution:- anaemia, illnesses of the blood circulation system, arterial hypertensia or hypotensia, disturbances of heart rhythm and digestive systems, macrocitosis of lymphocytes, diseases of the blood and circulatory organs in adults, early atherosclerosis and ischemic heart disease, leucopenia, infringement of the blood supply in legs, changes in abundance and activity of leukocytes.
There is much evidence correlating fallout levels with endocrine/hormone diseases, e.g. incidence rate for Type 1 diabetes mellitus in Belarus. Similarly thyroid gland diseases (autoimmune thyroiditis, thyrotoxicosis, diabetes etc.). In 1993 more than 40 % of the surveyed children in the Gomel area of Belarus had an enlarged thyroid gland. Experts think up to 1.5 million people in Belarus are at risk of pathology of the thyroid gland.
In some of the Chernobyl-polluted territories immune systems are compromised, with changes to cellular and humoral immunity, decreased maintenance T- and B- lymphocytes, reduced resistance to infections and other diseases, raised frequency and expressiveness of tonsillitis, lymphadenopathies and lowered resistance to cancer.
In the radioactively polluted territories the typical consequence of infringement of the immune system appears as an immuno-deficiency. An increase in frequency and intensity of both acute and chronic diseases is observed everywhere in the Chernobyl polluted territories. Sometimes the weakening of the immune system in these radioactively polluted territories is referred to as Chernobyl AIDS.
There is accelerated ageing among the people in radioactively polluted territories in the Ukraine: their biological age exceeds their actual age by 7 - 9 years. In highly polluted territories in Belarus the mean age of men and women who died from heart attacks was 8 years younger than the average across Belarus.
The array of diseases commonly considered exclusive to the elderly is now typical for children in all of the heavily polluted territories. The immune system activity of these children is similar to the type of immune system activity experienced in old age. The pathology of the digestive system epithelium in children from the polluted areas of Belarus also shows similarities with elderly people.
This is only a partial list from the linked page.
So I have a suggestion for all of you who claim there is no problem in these radiation polluted areas: move to Fukushima or Belarus. Put you life, and that of your family, where you mouth is. It's real easy to say it's not a problem when it's not you ass on the line.
USB has legal problems that are far more serious them NASDAQ's inability to make timely trades. I can't help but wonder if this suit is partly an attempt to distract people from how much trouble USB is facing.
USB, along with Barkley's and RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) are all under investigation for rigging LIBOR. This is potentially the largest currency fraud in the history of the world. Literally 100 of TRILLIONS of US dollars may have been influenced by rigging interest rates.
Soon, the trading had crossed to the euro rate markets, according to the settlement documents filed in the Barclays investigation. And by 2007, traders at RBS and UBS were seeking to influence the yen rate market, according to documents filed in 2011 in Singapore's High Court and in Canada's Ontario Superior Court.
Traders at Barclays are believed to have participated in manipulating the rate for the dollar and the rate for the euro known as Euribor, according to documents filed in the Barclays settlement last month.
RBS and UBS traders are a focus of the global investigation because of their alleged involvement in seeking to influence yen-denominated rates.
Two RBS traders in London, Brent Davies and Will Hall, are alleged to have agreed to help a trader at UBS, Thomas Hayes, to manipulate yen Libor, according to court documents filed by the Canadian Competition Bureau.
So USB getting press about how unfair NASDAQ is acting could be an attempt at a smokescreen while they deal with their own problems. It's been reported that these banks are willing to do almost anything to settle with regulators because they are terrified of the potential liability if any more information comes out. Bankruptcy is not out of the question, and neither is jail time.
One can only hope that this time these evil bastards finally get some small measure of what they deserve.
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The quoted article is a troll. It is also whining and elitist. Do we want to encourage programming as a skill, or support a cult of purity? Is a lack of low level open source drivers for the Pi going to have any impact on novices? If you want complete open source platforms, they exist. Just not for $35.
Parasites can destroy a system, whether it be an economy or an organism. We live in an era of massive institutionalized corruption.
Definition: Pulling a Romney. When you publicly reveal such contempt for your stakeholders that you render your entire enterprise meaningless. It is as if you are the captain of the Titanic, and of your own volition you create the iceberg that sinks your ship. You are not just shooting yourself in the foot, you are negating your entire existence.
XP is like that car from the 80's. It gets crappy gas mileage, and pollutes like crazy, but it has been paid for and it just works. You can get parts and the local mechanic can fix it for cheep. The seats are frayed and the paint is peeling, but so what. You only drive it around town anyway.
Windows 8 is the brand new fancy high tech super cool car. It has every conceivable gadget: GPS, satellite radio, power heated seats, and so many buttons and digital displays that even the people who sell it don't know what they all do. (Can you say Metro?) It is expensive, and it looses 30% of it's value as soon as you drive it off the lot. It goes like a bat out of hell and gets excellent gas millage. This does not translate into getting to the mall any faster then the old car. The road speed limit is the same. (Your ISP is not giving you more bandwidth just because you have a cool new computer,) All the extra stuff makes it a lot more expensive. The fancy stuff is all prone to break, and when it does is is insanely expensive to fix. (My friends with the Volvo wagon have had to replace the door window control unit multiple times, and since it is a module with a embedded controller it's expensive and so is the labor charge to install it.) Unlike the 1984 dog, which is still usable, the cool car will be unusable 30 years later because the electronic spares will be insanely expensive and there will be no alternative suppliers. (You have no recovery disk because floppies are gone and optical drives are so old school 20th century that they are the one gadget that is left off.)
So go out and buy that new car RIGHT NOW!!! Microsoft needs the money.
The AG, Cuccinelli, is conspiring with extremest political groups to suppress scientific research. To say the work was "publicly funded", therefore research personal have no private communications, is bullshit. It was and is a gross political smear.
Lets put the shoe on the other foot. I propose that Michael Mann sue the AG and the American Tradition Institute for slander. As a first step he should request all communications between the AG and ATI to see if they conspired to wreck his career. Remember, the AG's work is "paid for with government money", so all the AG correspondence should all be "public". How does that shoe feel now?
If these records became public, Cuccinelli would clearly be found to be misusing his office. He invested significant resources in a purely political effort. This is misappropriation of public funds, along with a conspiracy to break the law with a non-governmental political organization. He clearly shared information with ATI that should have been not allowed outside his office. (This is exactly what Ken Starr did during the Clinton witch hunt. During the Watergate probe they planted insane smears in the press, none of which were true. Starr's office also broke confidentiality with the Republican operatives who were working the civil side of the conspiracy.)
The AG deserves to be sent to jail. That will never happen. When conservatives break the law they always get away with it, because law and order only applies to minorities and Democrats. The last time a conservative insider got put away was Scooter Libby, and he was taking a bullet for Chaney's leaking Valery Plame's status as a CIA operative. Chaney put the lives of CIA assets at risk. I would not be surprised if people died from this. If it did happen, we'll never know. The coverup was successful.
So like I said at the beginning: Fuck You.
This is just like the whining about the Raspberry Pi. It was pronounced an utter failure on Slashdot before it shipped, and they have now sold 200,000 units. Demand is still high enough that there are complaints about delivery times.
Did it take over the educational market for tiny computers? It's too soon to tell. It has to get into the hands of early adopting teachers first. Then it has to get wider acceptance in the educational domain, which can take time. Even if it doesn't have the impact they were hoping for in education, it can be a success in other areas. Success is success.
Consider Firefox OS. When it gets going it will be considerably less encumbered then Android. Look at what Google did to Acer when then tried to bring out a smart phone: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/09/13/1916211/alibaba-says-google-threatened-acer-with-banishment-from-android. It will also be intrinsically much less vulnerable to the ridiculous patent wars.
Mozilla has already shown that it can run on the Raspberry PI, which is a very cheep device. I can see an opportunity for a Chinese manufacturer to bring out a dirt cheep smart phone/tablet for their domestic market and not worry about Apple/Google/Motorola or other patent parasites. Since they practice Real Capitalism in China (unlike the monopolistic pseudo-capitalism here in the US) I expect to see someone try this.
Maybe Firefox OS will be a dud. I honestly don't know. I am very interested to see how the effort turns out.
I do know that this kind of bashing is a form of public masturbation that is extremely popular on Slashdot. It's boring and stupid. Can't you go somewhere else when you decide to wank off in public?
http://media.talkingpointsmemo.com/slideshow/mitt-romney-taxes
Meanwhile, the Republican controlled House has voted 33 times in 18 months to repeal Obamacare.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/healthcare/Republicans-Vote-to-Repeal-Obamacare--Again-and-Again.html
So who is acting more like a troupe of cognitively impaired monkeys? I would bet that after so many failed attempts the monkeys would have given up and moved on to something more useful.
Score: Monkeys 1, Republicans 0. It's not fair to compare either monkeys or Republicans to the Occupy movement because they are not playing in the same league.
Banning Adventures of Huckleberry Finn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckelberry_finn#Controversy
Banning The Diary of Anne Frank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Anne_Frank#Banning
As for the difference between literature and pornography, look no further then Naked Lunch by W. S. Burroughs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch#Literary_significance_and_reception
I read all of these books by the time I finished high school with no apparent harm. I don't expect Naked Lunch to be on any high school reading list, but is a prime target for censorship because it is obscene. It is also great literature.
Goodby Lord of the Flies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
Feel free to say goodby to other great books. Add them to the list.
It's OK, it for the good of the children...
This smells like old SPAM (both kinds).
If you as an individual have your identity stolen you will still be shit of of luck. No authority will be looking for individuals using your identity. You will have to spend huge amounts of time and effort proving to federal, state and business entities thaqt you are a victim. And once the bad information gets in to large information systems it will never get out. There are not mechanism for fixing these problems and allowing someone to clear their name.
So it's not about corporate person hood. Corporations are important, you are meaningless. You are a disposable commodity, and you are easily replaced.
Until corporations are held fiscally responsible for damaging incorrect information nothing will change. Since corporate interests can buy any legislation they want, nothing will change. They can legally bribe their way out of responsibility. Don't expect change any time soon.
A lot of technology is like OxyContin: it is very easy to abuse. The manufacturers/deployers make money and never suffer the negative effects. It's disingenuous to say that the technology is neutral and does not embody an business/political agenda. In this case allowing fair use would make the system much more complex, and might render it useless. For example if there were meaningful fines for false positives then those using this technology would have to act differently. Hell will freeze over before that happens.
Personally I like it. I haven't bought one but I will at some point when I have some time to play with it. There are 200000 people who feel like I do and have shelled out real money to get one. They, and people who are thinking about buying one have a reason to comment on board changes, you don't.
One question: are you a professional whiner, or do you whine needlessly for your own egotistical amusement?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7302
This was in the days when IBM employees all wore white shirts and ties, and I head stories that the techs would not bother to roll up their sleeves when they worked on these units, because they knew that they would get soaked in oil not matter what they did.
Plus, many fewer people would mind if a rodent saw them naked.
Finally, a way for Christian fundamentalists to solve their problem with human evolution: human extinction.
I think we are well along on the way to this end point...
Here's an interactive map maintained by the LA Times showing homicides in the greater LA area.
http://projects.latimes.com/homicide/map/?year=All+years
The large concentration of deaths is Compton/Watts where there is a lot of illegal activity (gangs) and lots of illegal weapons. Random people get shot there all the time. It doesn't even make the headlines, unless it's a child.
Your are a privileged right wing arrogant asshole. You have no idea what it's like to live with real world gun violence in you community. The gang bangers make the cops look good, and the cops are not very trustworthy here in LA.
Without the government guns that you despise, the US would be like Mexico, with drug cartels routinely doing mass killings. You think you're tough, but your toy gun collection wouldn't protect you against professional gangsters. You depend on a system that you disrespect. You are as stupid as you look.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/22/gop_convention_held_in_stadium_built_with_public_funds.html
Perhaps the RNC should change their slogan to "Someone else built this with mostly government money".
Frankly this was just the first reasonably close reference I could find. I could have spent more time looking, but I wanted to make the point that just looking at cancer rates was not he end of the issue.
You didn't even bother to find any website to back up your position. So my off the cuff quick web search has, in a simplistic sense, 100% more credibility then your response.
So when are you putting your ass on the line and moving to Fukushima or Chernobyl? It's easy to talk about there being no risk when you are literally on the other side of the globe.
Here is a link to some of the other health problems of Chernobyl survivors.
http://www.llrc.org/health/subtopic/ecrrchapteronesynopsis.htm
This is only a partial list from the linked page.
So I have a suggestion for all of you who claim there is no problem in these radiation polluted areas: move to Fukushima or Belarus. Put you life, and that of your family, where you mouth is. It's real easy to say it's not a problem when it's not you ass on the line.
You realize that since this is classical music that the composers are dead, right? So this whole starving thing is a bit off topic...
Yep. That will work just fine.
I donate this idea to the open source hardware community.
Glad to fixt that up for you. Get back to work.
USB, along with Barkley's and RBS (Royal Bank of Scotland) are all under investigation for rigging LIBOR. This is potentially the largest currency fraud in the history of the world. Literally 100 of TRILLIONS of US dollars may have been influenced by rigging interest rates.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-07-28/news/32906786_1_libor-global-benchmark-interest-rates-credit-card-rates
So USB getting press about how unfair NASDAQ is acting could be an attempt at a smokescreen while they deal with their own problems. It's been reported that these banks are willing to do almost anything to settle with regulators because they are terrified of the potential liability if any more information comes out. Bankruptcy is not out of the question, and neither is jail time.
One can only hope that this time these evil bastards finally get some small measure of what they deserve.