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  1. 500 ms on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Thats half a second in laymans terms

    If you need to sell some stock or commodity within a second of buying it, then something is wrong

  2. They are extending support on Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP? · · Score: 1

    They are extending support (for the UK Gov) so they should be required to offer those (patches etc) to other customers that are willing to pay for it.

    They don't (currently) sell a replacement product that would work on thst old hardware. (AFAIK the oldest windows you can buy is 7)

    Anyway XP has been out for so long that all existing security problems should be fixed by now (as long as you have a current Antivirus and Firewall from a 3rd party)

  3. Microsoft's security products? on Microsoft's Security Products Will Block Adware By Default Starting On July 1 · · Score: 1

    Does that include the standard windows firewall?

  4. Car analogy on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    So you would be OK if cars made before the turn of the century were not allowed on the roads anymore?

  5. Re:Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab on It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom · · Score: 1

    "the same James McDonnell who created both the foundation and the aerospace company, not that the foundation itself is owned or controlled by the company."

    Wasn't it (the aerospace company) taken over by Boeing?

  6. Re:The best example of pseudoscience on It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom · · Score: 1

    Climate Change is real - the climate has changed in the past and is still changing...

  7. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1

    " But for most things where the subject is clearly a single person and not in public"

    But in many of these cases the "subject" is not "a single person" but was in fact married to the image poster at ther time the photograph was taken.

    Anyway the whole thing is moot if the revenge porn website is hosted outside the jurisdiction of the country involved (I presume the USA in this case)

  8. Occam's Razor on Most Expensive Aviation Search: $53 Million To Find Flight MH370 · · Score: 1

    Didn't they confiscate it on check in? Or is it only in the USA (TSA)

  9. While driving? on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    Or parked

  10. Morning sunlight on Study: Exposure To Morning Sunlight Helps Managing Weight · · Score: 1

    Yes I do get to see the sun rise at this time of the year, as I walk home from work.
    (I work Nights you insensitive clods)

  11. 300 million years on New US Atomic Clock Goes Live · · Score: 1

    " it will lose or gain only one second every 300 million years"

    Will it keep going for that long?

    Whats the point of time that accurate, when its going to be + or - an hoir every six months

  12. Re:All cars should be required to make a Vrrumm so on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just add a beep ... beep... sound like a commercial vehicle makes when reversing.?..

  13. Re:Not only for Tesla or videos on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    Even the current generation of F1 cars don't have the noise they used to. People are complaining...

  14. Re:Cool, but on New MU-MIMO Standard Could Allow For Gigabit WiFi Throughput · · Score: 0

    But it was still fast enough to get first psot

  15. Cool, but on New MU-MIMO Standard Could Allow For Gigabit WiFi Throughput · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WE have a combined Wifi Router and cable modem that is owned by the cable company, but at least they fix it when there is a problem

    Anyway it means we have to wait for them to update us to new WiFi standards. Which of course they will charge more for...
     

  16. Reversable? on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 3, Funny

    But if you plug it in the other way round won't the phone charge the car's battery, and the 1's become 0's on the data?

  17. Re:Why can't we all... on Senate Report Says CIA Misled Government About Interrogation Methods · · Score: 1

    Where does "Coca Cola" come into it?

  18. April Fools stories are gay on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 3, Funny

    I look forward to the 2nd or April

  19. 2014/04/01 on Nature Publisher Requires Authors To Waive "Moral Rights" To Works · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah yeah April Fools...

  20. Re:why only vehicles under 10,000 pounds? on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 1

    Maybe because vehicles over 10,000 lbs are commercial vehicles, and probably already have some requirements, (like the beeping in reverse thing)

  21. Fmr Gov of VA on West Nile Virus May Have Met Its Match: Tobacco · · Score: 1

    Maybe Bob Mcdonnell was onto something after all (it wasn't just the loans and ther ride in the Ferrari, snd the watch...

  22. Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    Lucy in the sky with diamonds

  23. What do the cartridges cost? on The 3D Economy — What Happens When Everyone Prints Their Own Shoes? · · Score: 2

    I gave up Inkjet printers years ago because of the cost, I can't see how 3d printers will have cheaper cartridges...

  24. Wait a moment on Classified X-37B Space Plane Breaks Space Longevity Record · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Space longevity record"

    Theres been (unmanned) stuff up in space for longer than a few years before, what record?

    How about those Voyagers now in (or not) interstellar space? Their missions have beem over 30 years and still going

  25. Looking for on Classified X-37B Space Plane Breaks Space Longevity Record · · Score: 1

    a Malaysian airliner perhaps