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  1. Word Play on Wrong Number: Why Phone Companies Overcharge For Data · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Overcharged". What a sweet word to use instead of other words like fraudulently charged or stolen. No, you were simply "overcharged". Don't worry about it. And your bill is due by the 1st.

  2. Whole room? on Microsoft Patent Details Whole-Room Projection Game Environment · · Score: 1

    What like the ones currently being used by the military?

  3. Re:Here's The Thing on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    The most interesting thing is that if you look at the actual market numbers over the past few years, the total volume (number of transactions/time) is actually less than what it used to be say, 5 years ago, meaning FEWER trades are getting made on average. So this "High Frequency Trading" phenomenon is purely political. It certainly is not "controlling" the market. The chumps forget that no HFT algorithm in the world will force them to click the "buy" or "sell" button. The minute they did that, they consented to a trade at a price.

  4. Re:Here's The Thing on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    The implication is that the little investor loses out on his rightful chance to screw the other guy.

    Looking at it another way, the little investor should be happy that a lot of the time he is spared the chance of being screwed by the other guy. Being first in line is not always a good thing.

  5. Re:Here's The Thing on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 0

    HFT is very bad for the little guy, especially the individual investor.

    How?

    it's a straight up money printing machine for the big boys

    Again - how?

    The internet is full of people who have strong opinions about things they have absolutely no knowledge of.

  6. But don't fforget on MediaFire Restores Virus Researcher's Account But Not Individual Files · · Score: 1

    "Cloud computing is the future", or at least that's what's being shoved down your throat. See how fun cloud computing is? By all means, put all your data "on the cloud".

  7. Re:Eating sushi on California's Unspoken Health Problem: Brain Parasites · · Score: 1

    The parasite found in raw fish attacks the human bladder, not the brain. So those worms were in the wrong place.

  8. Re:ping times on Quantum Teleportation Sends Information 143 Kilometers · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your 1ms ping time will be in compensation for your 80% packet loss.

  9. Re:next step on TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New · · Score: 1

    I wonder sometimes, especially with stories like this, what is our attention being drawn away from?

    If you are wondering this, then I think it is working perfectly. Sigh.

  10. Re:The TSA needs to be stopped on TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New · · Score: 1

    I doubt that people doing the same thing as they did in the US would fare much better.

  11. Re:I'll say it again.. on TSA Says Screening Drinks Purchased Inside Airport Terminal Is Nothing New · · Score: 5, Insightful

    you cannot be required to get on an airplane.

    When your boss says "I need you in Hong Kong on Monday" I daresay you are required to get on an airplane... not all travel is holiday travel of convenience.

  12. Re:universal connector on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 1

    Not having the "connector" doesn't mean it can't do the job.

  13. Re:flabbergasted! on Apple Denies FBI Had Access To UDIDs · · Score: 1

    Sure, Napolitano and the DHS will get right on it.

  14. Re:Homeopathy does work on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 4, Funny

    Careful with that - several churches might get upset with you infringing on their business model. Next thing you'll be handing out wafers too.

  15. Re:Insulting on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow I had warts for years and I did nothing at all and one day they were gone too! Doing nothing it all is as good as homeopathy, and far cheaper.

  16. Re:What's Wrong With Holistic Methodology? on The UK's New Minister For Magic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it is well known that a good, strong and colorful sugar pill administered with a tall glass of water can go a long way to curing many reported medical conditions.

    Yep. Hypoglycemia for one.

  17. Re:Extradition Laws on Cambodia To Extradite Gottfrid Svartholm · · Score: 1

    A gilded cage is still a cage.

  18. Re:that sugar is from on Space Sugar Discovered In Binary System Star · · Score: 1

    High sec is a filthy disgusting place, full of neutrals.

  19. Re:define "part of the environment" on Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV · · Score: 1

    And no septic tanks, chemical toilets or sewage treatment plants. People dug a hole in the ground and shat in it, if they were high tech. If they were low tech, they just shat behind a convenient bush/boulder.

  20. Re:Showers on Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV · · Score: 0

    You're right. Human beings don't belong in the environment. Kindly practice what you preach and remove yourself from this planet.

  21. Re:Showers on Taking Telecommuting To the Next Level - the RV · · Score: 1

    Borax. Someone needs to consult at least wikipedia to find out how harmless this stuff actually is to the environment. Sure the immediate environment of the ant nest will be trashed until it rains a little, but there is no lasting damage to the ecosystem.

  22. Re:that sugar is from on Space Sugar Discovered In Binary System Star · · Score: 2

    I love hauler spawns.

  23. Reacts with propenal on Space Sugar Discovered In Binary System Star · · Score: 1

    To form ribose, which is necessary for life?

    Yeah, but the propenal reaction is not exactly how "life" does it.

  24. I disagree on Is Innovation the Most Abused Word In Business? · · Score: 2

    The most abused word in business has to be the word "invest".

  25. Re:That's it! Leaving bitcoin currency... on Large Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Collapses With a Loss of $5.6 Million · · Score: 1

    Well played. Transferring 0.10 ISK.