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  1. Re:Ok then on One Year Since John McAfee Fled Belize · · Score: 1

    I thought someone made a page about all of OJ Simpson's continued efforts to find Nicole's and Ron's murderer.

    Last I heard he hasn't yet completed his mansion-to-mansion search.

  2. Re:could not care less on Google Bots Doing SQL Injection Attacks · · Score: 1

    What about "try and do something" instead of try to? Seems to me try and is as common as should of.

  3. Re:God forbid someone proposes something useful on TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint · · Score: 1

    None of these idiotic American crap, made up spellings.

    Aren't all spellings "made up"? All languages evolve; English more than most. Certainly the English you speak today is markedly different from the English spoken a few hundred years ago. Go back just a bit further and the English spoken then would be nearly incomprehensible by you and me.

  4. Re:Only 32GB, no storage expansion on Android KitKat Released · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Just give me that badass storage capacity and an uncluttered OS!

    What are you storing on your phone that you need such boundless capacity? Do you carry around an SD Caddy like people used to do with floppies?

  5. Re:Blunders Ahoy! on Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam · · Score: 0

    Low ID's don't mean anything any more. They're obviously selling them or giving them to "friends" now.

    Damn. If I knew they were worth money I'd have signed up sooner. And more often.

  6. Re:Milhouse is now a meme! on How I Compiled TrueCrypt For Windows and Matched the Official Binaries · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't download a babby, would you?

    The extra b is a parenty check.

  7. Re:Should be a tax on every transaction on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1
    It seems to me that that rule is imposed only when entering into a second transaction that effectively cancels the other one. And it would be imposed on a per-item basis.

    It also appears that traders can choose to mark to market, but once they begin they have to continue to do so.

    But if I read it correctly I believe the original claim in this thread is not supported by that document.

  8. Re:Should be a tax on every transaction on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1
    I believe it's the broker passing along a fee. If I take the bid or offer I am reducing liquidity in the market, if I create one I am increasing it.

    As for getting a better broker, I don't think I can find a better deal. Trades adding liquidity are less than a dollar, and often less than 50 cents. Trades taking liquidity are typically more than a dollar.

  9. Re:Doesn't matter. on Can the iPhone Popularize Fingerprint Readers? · · Score: 1

    The phone has the owners fingerprints all over it.

    And apparently Apple's DNA, as they keep saying.

  10. Re:Should be a tax on every transaction on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    "Trading Positions" are taxed on their unrealized loss at the end of every year.

    They are? Under what circumstances? It's certainly not normal.

  11. Re:Should be a tax on every transaction on Flash Mobs of Trading Robots Coalescing To Rule Markets · · Score: 1

    you can always just buy at their prices immediately, rather than putting up an offer for a bit less.

    If I simply take the bid or offer I pay a significantly higher commission than if I put in my own. And of course I'm also taking a slightly worse price.

  12. Re:from the wired article: on Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's the wrong 'he". It's Rocky Wood who has the disease. (Unless of course you mean Wood was also hit by a car.)

  13. This is why people should not use the word "awesome" when they simply want to say that they like something. Because now saying this is awesome means little more than "Hey that's a nice pair of socks."

  14. Re:OUCH on Man Killed By His Own Radio-Controlled Helicopter In Brooklyn · · Score: 2

    Ah, but he died doing something he enjoyed. Isn't that the dream of every man?

    Sure, but just not yet.

  15. Re:I still want one on Drone Hunters Lining Up and Paying Out In Colorado · · Score: 2

    "That's not a drone license. It's a dog license with the word dog crossed out and the word drone written in."
    "The man didn't have the proper form."

  16. Re:Ummm, ya on Jury Finds Google Guilty of Standards-Essential Patents Abuse Against MS · · Score: 1

    Why would the total cost even enter into it? Makes no sense at all.

  17. Re:Tim Cook? on Elop Favored By Gamblers As Microsoft's Next Chief Executive · · Score: 1

    So you agree that what you wrote was wrong.

  18. Re:Probably not on Elop Favored By Gamblers As Microsoft's Next Chief Executive · · Score: 1

    That's because Ballmer was trying to renege on the deal and stay, so Elop said "Lookit, if you're not going to step down then I'm going to start actually turning things around here." And so Ballmer had to acquiesce.

  19. Re:Probably not on Elop Favored By Gamblers As Microsoft's Next Chief Executive · · Score: 2

    Maybe Nokia was always supposed to be Elop's training company?

    No, coming back as Microsoft CEO was the deal he was given when he was sent to Nokia to destroy all its value.

  20. Re:Tim Cook? on Elop Favored By Gamblers As Microsoft's Next Chief Executive · · Score: 2

    Apple has lost half it's value since Tim Cook took over

    Completely wrong. Apple is worth much more than it was when he took over.

  21. Re:Tim Cook? on Elop Favored By Gamblers As Microsoft's Next Chief Executive · · Score: 1

    More like a million to one. Seriously, under what circumstances could you imagine Tim Cook

    Well if he could get down enough action at a million to 1 he might call them up himself. That'd be one circumstance.

  22. Re:If you haven't seen the paintings in person... on Van Gogh Prints In 3D: Almost the Real Thing For $34,000 · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of when the PE teachers used to say, "don't carry the ball like a loaf of bread" and I had no idea what they were trying to tell me

    :-) That one never did make sense, as nobody would ever carry a loaf of bread that way.

  23. Re:multiple-guess?? on 100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam · · Score: 1

    Questions have multiple choices but only one guess, so why would the Brits prefer to call it that? Maybe because choice has no letter u in it?

  24. Re:If you haven't seen the paintings in person... on Van Gogh Prints In 3D: Almost the Real Thing For $34,000 · · Score: 1

    Which is why I wrote "Seems like a 'man in the moon' phenomenon."

  25. Re:If you haven't seen the paintings in person... on Van Gogh Prints In 3D: Almost the Real Thing For $34,000 · · Score: 1

    Try as I might, I see no dragon.

    It's there, but seems to me like a "man in the moon" phenomenon. The dragon's body is snake-like, flying and banking almost straight up, with the gap making the eye, a black spot the pupil, followed by a large snout. A single small wing points straight up (from the body).

    It helps to zoom in close enough to see all the texture in the paint.