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  1. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    I still don't get it. How can you possibly end up trading on margin only with long positions and no borrowing or leveraging? If you go short, of course I see how that can happen.

  2. Re:Truth or dare... on Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, in very few cases it does affect the prices directly, such as in the 2010 flash crash, when some equities traded for as low as one cent and as high as $100,000.

  3. Re:Too soon? on Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises · · Score: 1

    Too soon, why?

    This is a horrible tragedy, but it's not like the movie is to blame.

    Rottentomatoes.com contains 200-odd reviews (mostly positive), quite a few of them posted after the shooting. Another question, of course, is whether a movie review belongs on Slashdot's front page, and not even on the Idle section.

  4. Re:So we now we can't even write... on HTC Is Paying Microsoft $5 For Every Android Phone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or maybe Google detects you're in Alabama and makes an assumption.

  5. Re:Posting from IE8... on W3C Says IE9 Is Currently the Most HTML5 Compatible Browser · · Score: 1

    Try the "power" button.

  6. Re:Open office != MS Office on Why Microsoft Is So Scared of OpenOffice · · Score: 1

    importing arbitrary data (not comma separated but separated by words/spaces/newlines/various) is a pain in the ass in Excel

    Hm. No it isn't.

  7. Re:And i am sure. on NY Times Confident of 'First Click Free' Paywalls · · Score: 1

    They hope to make money not just from the news, but also from the editorial, analysis and opinion pieces.

  8. Re:Lets ask in different context on Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? · · Score: 1

    I don't think you should worry that much. Spotting a botnet is easy for an ISP; finding negative posted opinions is not.

  9. Re:"mass hysteria"? on Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime · · Score: 1

    And if it becomes unavailable for 2 hours, I do the dirty business on the street.

  10. Re:Texting on AT&T Introduces Satellite-Enabled Smart Phone · · Score: 1

    Uhm. Because it was invented at a time when a constant internet connection was prohibitively expensive land-based, or downright unavailable on many cell networks?

  11. Re:not long for his job on Microsoft's Chief Exec For Latin America Says 'Open' Means 'Incompetent' · · Score: 1

    Open can be an excuse, rather than a mask, for incompetence, but open does not necessarily mean incompetent.

  12. Re:Shurikens on a Plane on Steve Jobs Tries To Sneak Shurikens On a Plane · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, or jobs in Java coding.

  13. Re:Reversed Rolls on Girls Bugged Teachers' Staff Room · · Score: 1

    I stayed at college student dorms in Scotland for some time; they did have shared bathroom including showers. Of course showers were individual and had doors or curtains.

  14. Re:I Too Am a Victim ... on NCsoft Sued For Making Lineage II 'Too Addictive' · · Score: 1

    No, merely that a point which applies to tobacco addiction isn't necessarily valid for games because they are different kinds of addiction. What is essential to physical substance dependence is that with chronic usage, the brain adapts to the substance in such a way that the it becomes necessary not to get high but to perform normally, and withdrawal has symptoms ranging from nervousness to anxiety to death, depending on the substance and level of dependence.

  15. Re:Can't enforce what is ignored. on Building a Traffic Radar System To Catch Reckless Drivers? · · Score: 1

    This means the government willfully ignores the laws

    Not necessarily; maybe they just don't have the resources to enforce them. Making laws is cheap, enforcing them is expensive.

  16. Re:I Too Am a Victim ... on NCsoft Sued For Making Lineage II 'Too Addictive' · · Score: 1

    Physical dependence (what tobacco, alcohol, etc. cause) is one thing and psychological addiction (to a game, to a TV show...) is a different thing.

  17. I am more interested in the inverse process. on Scottish Scientists Develop Whisky Biofuel · · Score: 1

    Let me know when I can turn fuel from the gas station into Laphroaig.

  18. Ahead of its time? on 1979 Apple Graphics Tablet vs. the iPad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hardly. Digitizing tables date back to the 1950s.

  19. Re:Wow, man. on id Software Demos Rage On iPhone, Releases Source Code For Two Games · · Score: 1

    Native code is also a possibility.

  20. What is the bug again? on Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos · · Score: 1
    From TFA:

    "We have technical systems in place to prevent people's names and photos from showing to unrelated users upon login, but a recently introduced bug temporarily prevented these from working as intended," a company spokeswoman said in an e-mail message. "We are already working on a fix and expect to remedy the situation shortly."

    If by "upon login" they mean when a wrong password is entered, I don't understand what the bug is, since the "Is that you?" screen is the intended behavior, not a buggy one. By the way, it only happens if the email address matches the account which was last logged in on the browser, and it forgets it if you wipe the cookies (maybe the "bug" is already fixed?). But even if that page was shown for any email, that's not the only or even the easiest way to get the name and picture matching an email; that's as easy as searching users by email.

    Of course it's easy to build a phishing site that replicates the "wrong password" screen, but anyone who falls for such a phishing attempt has worse problems on the internet.

  21. Amusing... on Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers · · Score: 1

    ... except if you happen to responsible for XYZ consultancy or XYZ restaurant.

  22. A plane is very much like the Internet... on Ted Stevens and Sean O'Keefe In Plane Crash · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...in the sense that it's not a big truck, it's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you are flying, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

    Seriously though, rest in peace.

  23. Re:Wake Up on Kmart Briefly Offers $149 Android Tablet · · Score: 1

    In your jurisdiction maybe it's illegal (Pete knows why) - but it's perfectly legal, and common practice, in many places.

    There's absolutely no technical reason that it shouldn't be legal. You may not be able to be use all of your phone's functionality if it requires a frequency that the carrier doesn't provide, but that's it.

  24. Re:My eye's... on ReCAPTCHA.net Now Vulnerable to Algorithmic Attack · · Score: 1
    Not only that, look at the email address - 0xn3on@gmail.com.

    D4t b t3h stuff h4x0rz 1z m4d3 0f.

  25. Just a spam List on 100 Million Facebook Pages Leaked On Torrent Site · · Score: 2, Informative

    Indeed, just a spam list but with facebook names instead of email addresses.

    Shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody, really. The moment you create a searchable profile, you know that is bound to happen.