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  1. Re:I lost the password on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 2

    He just needs to tell them that the passphrase he uses contains a confession to a crime. Then, he could not divluge his password without confessing to a crime, which he cannot be compelled to do.

  2. Re:oh boy on China Starts Outsourcing From ... the US · · Score: 1

    The world is running out of hellholes that tolerate slave labour

    And you're saying that's a bad thing? It tends to point out the complete failure of charity, well-wishing, and flowery language to lift people out of absolute poverty and the massive success of the invisible hand of capitalistic greed accomplishing this social good without even wanting to.

  3. Re:The elephants are stomping on us again on WikiLeaks Publishes Secret International Trade Agreement · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Gay marriage, abortion,

    ... CEO pay. It's a stupid and inconsequential wedge issue for leftists like gay marriage is for rightists — "Some people somewhere are consensually doing something that offends my sensitive sensibilities, so it has to stop even though it's a private matter that I have no part in and no business sticking my nose into!"

  4. Re:Logical Consequences on Why China Is Worried About Japan's Plutonium Stocks · · Score: 1

    Japan is already protected by the US nuclear program, so nothing really changes.

    Ukraine's broders were also guaranteed by the US and other western powers.

  5. Re:Unfair Competition Sucks on Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic In London, Madrid, Berlin · · Score: 1

    Uber gets to do this b/c of hype, idiots like you, and bribery.

    Uber gets to do this b/c of better service and drastically lower prices.

  6. Technological solution on High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race To Irrelevance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The way I see it, you can eliminate the advantages of HFT while keeping the markets highly responsive by imposing a "clocking" scheme on exchanges. When an order is received by an exchange, it is not executed immediately but stored in a queue to wait for the next clock tick. When that comes, the order queue is shuffled into random order and then executed sequentially. Make the clock ticks wait a random period between 40ms and 50ms and any timing advantage of HFT or geography is nullified. The exchanges are still highly responsive; they just do randomized batch processing. All of the requests they receive in the previous clock period ought to be processed within the new clock period (with perhaps some occasional spill-over, in which case the new clock tick is stretched).

  7. House S2:E02 "Autopsy" on Human "Suspended Animation" Trials To Start This Month · · Score: 1

    Sounds a lot like House episode "Autopsy".

  8. Re:Raise the Price on Fiat Chrysler CEO: Please Don't Buy Our Electric Car · · Score: 1

    If we average that, then we get 136,231.25 miles before the price difference pays for itself.

    But you also need to factor in that when you've reached 136 kmiles, your battery is worn out and you need to drop a fresh $20k on a new battery (or take $20k off your car's resale value).

  9. Re:Yes, there are methods available on Ask Slashdot: Communication With Locked-in Syndrome Patient? · · Score: 1

    Also, House S5E19. Dr. Taub comes up with the pointer thingy.

  10. American companies, American juries on Apple and Google's Motorola Unit End Patent War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Guess Apple didn't want to take another American company to court. It would lose the home-country advantage its trivial patents had against Samsung.

  11. Re:Economic reasons on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 1

    Stock market is a zero-sum game (wealth transfer vehicle).

    That doesn't make sense. Suppose a simple stock market with only a single share of a single company. Alice buys it at $1, holds it for a year, and then sells it to Bob for $2. After another year Bob sells it to Carol for $3. Alice made $1 profit, Bob made $1 profit, and Carol has an asset that is worth $3. Where's the zero sum? Is Carol's stock really worth $-2?? You seem to accept that the economy can grow overall. If companies can grow, then so can the stock market.

  12. Re:Pseudoscience? on Australian Exploration Company Believes It May Have Found MH370 Wreckage · · Score: 1

    It sounds to me like they are using satellite sensors to detect elements on the ocean surface, perhaps using spectroscopy and nuclear physics.

  13. Re:It's still about $ on Google: Better To Be a 'B' CS Grad Than an 'A+' English Grad · · Score: 1

    I have three of them: B.Sc.(CS), M.Sc.(CS), Ph.D.

  14. Cars are a luxury on Ask Slashdot: Hungry Students, How Common? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I remember choosing between eating, living in bad neighborhoods, putting gas in the car, etc.

    A starving student with a car?! I think we've isolated the problem.

  15. Re:Like Cockroaches on Bug Bounties Don't Help If Bugs Never Run Out · · Score: 1

    You cannot eliminate it when you create an endless suppy.

  16. Re:climate engineering?! on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    According to environmentalists, we have already accidentally engineered the climate a few times completely accidentally. I'd say have a pretty good chance of doing it *intentionally*.

  17. Re:No shit Sherlock on Climate Scientist: Climate Engineering Might Be the Answer To Warming · · Score: 1

    even if its as simple as stopping the massive amounts of emissions

    In what way would deindustrialization and the attendant five-billions deaths be considered "simple". Heck, I'd bet there'd be some political push-back on your idea after as few as one-billion deaths.

    Considering that climate engineering would cost us only a tiny fraction of cost of deindustrialization -- and has a chance in hell of actually working -- it's the approach we should be taking the most seriously.

  18. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The way I see it, you can eliminate the advantages of HFT while keeping the markets highly responsive by imposing a "clocking" scheme on exchanges. When an order is received by an exchange, it is not executed immediately but stored in a queue to wait for the next clock tick. When that comes, the order queue is shuffled into random order and then executed sequentially. Make the clock ticks wait a random period between 40ms and 50ms and any timing advantage of HFT or geography is nullified. The exchanges are still highly responsive; they just do randomized batch processing. All of the requests they receive in the previous clock period ought to be processed within the new clock period (with perhaps some occasional spill-over, in which case the new clock tick is stretched).

  19. Re:Sounds good! on Japan Orders Military To Strike Any New North Korea Missiles · · Score: 1

    Firing missiles is North Korea's method of begging for hand-outs. It usually works.

  20. The Internet of Things on Vint Cerf: CS Programs Must Change To Adapt To Internet of Things · · Score: 0

    I don't understand why people want their $3000 fridges to be bricked by Chinese hackers. Could someone please explain it to me?

  21. Re:Russia != Communism on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    that it is a nice idea that cannot be realized with current levels of technology

    Technology? It cannot be realized because of human nature. We're going to need a transformative upgrade to that before any -ism that requires everyone to "play nice" can be realized in practice.

  22. Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out on Getting Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia Out of Gaming · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just delete the humans and you're all set.

  23. Re:And the US could turn Russia into vapor on Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash" · · Score: 1

    I think you're drastically overstating it. If Russia were to unload its $100B in reserves, it could depress the value of the USD by perhaps a couple percent for a couple of days, but it would do way more damage to itself. The global foreign exchange market is measured $5.3-*trillion* *per day*(!) and there are lots of aggressive players desperately trying to profit from arbitraging a few hundredths of a penny. If they figured out that Russia was dumping $100B at a deep discount for purely political reasons, the buyers would go into a huge feeding frenzy, mitigating the decline on the USD. Immediately after Russia finished unloading, the USD would jump right back up to its true value. The main result would be that Russia would have donated billions or tens of billions of dollars of value to speculators for a very temporary impact on the value of the USD. I wouldn't even call this a Pyrrhic victory; it'd be an unmitigated loss for Russia. China could do the same thing and have a bigger impact with its $1.3T, but also a bigger loss to itself.

  24. Re:Must have been written by Captain Obvious on NASA-Funded Study Investigates Collapse of Industrial Civilization · · Score: 0

    Since the collapse of civilization will happen in a few decades, there is absolutely no reason to give a second thought to Anthropogenic Global Warming Caused Specifically And Exclusively By Anthropogenic Carbon Emissions And Curable By Donating Trillions Of Dollars To Genocidal Dictators For Some Reason (AGWCSAEBACEACBDTODTGDFSR). I'll bet these ultra-leftist alarmists didn't think about the implications of anybody taking their work seriously!

  25. Re:Why? on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Outed By Newsweek · · Score: 1

    Because he may be in possession of millions of bitcoins? I'm sure some unscrupulous people would like to unlawfully acquire them.