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  1. HFT: 0.5.Second Sample on Have We Hit Peak HFT? · · Score: 1

    Nanex presented a video that shows 0.5 seconds worth of High Frequency Trading for the stock Johnson and Johnson. Pretty revealing.

  2. Look Dangerous on Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage? · · Score: 1

    Start practicing looking dangerous while you sleep.

  3. Re:Brilliant idea on Google Declares War On the Password · · Score: 1

    You carry it around everywhere, and it can never be physically taken from you.

    Obligatory xkcd refutal.

  4. Alexander the God on Will IBM's Watson Kill Your Career? · · Score: 1

    The first thing that popped into my mind was the short story by Isaac Asimov: Alexander the God.

  5. Ancient Language on China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert · · Score: 1

    If you rotate the screen 90 degrees and squint your eyes, you will see that it spells: Cthulhu Fhtagn

  6. Iram of the Pillars on Giant Archaeological Trove Found Via Google Earth · · Score: 1

    Cthulhu fhtagn!

  7. Kerckhoffs's Principle on NSA Considers Its Networks Compromised · · Score: 1

    Kerckhoffs's Principle states:

    A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge.

    I thought this was just common sense.

  8. Scratch on What To Load On a 4-Year-Old's Netbook? · · Score: 3, Informative

    While Scratch is geared towards 6 - 16 year olds, it may be worth a look.

  9. Advanced Technology on Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? · · Score: 1

    Carlos Cotta and Álvaro Morales from the University of Malaga in Spain...suggest that using spacecraft that travel at a tenth of the speed of light, the colonization wavefront could take some 50 million years to sweep the galaxy.

    "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

    - Arthur C. Clarke

  10. Re:It's a Job on Breaking Into Games Writing? · · Score: 4, Funny

    A year before Bioshock shipped...

    This must be some new designation for numbering years that I was not previously aware of.

  11. 1 Centimeter in 20 Picoseconds... on New Type of Particle May Have Been Found · · Score: 1

    That's pretty fast.

    Granted, there are a lot of zero's so my calculations may be off, but:

    1 Centimeter = 0.01 Meters
    20 Picoseconds = 0.00000000002 Seconds

    Thus the speed was:

    0.01 / 0.00000000002 = 500,000,000 m/s

    The speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s

    Did I miss something or are we exceeding the speedlimit here?

  12. Obvious question: on USAF Counter-Terror Funds Buy "Comfort Capsules" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obvious question:

    Does the comfort capsules come with a companion cube?

  13. Re:Must see on What Are Must-Sees For Open Day At the LHC? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The faceless, chittering beings who are magicked into existence through the wormholes

    You must certainly be referring to these...


  14. Re:What's really going on here on A Step Towards Proving the Riemann Hypothesis · · Score: 1

    ...but it is so technical that it doesn't belong on SlashDot.

    I am pretty sure this is a first.

  15. In Other News... on The Uncertain Future of Global Population Numbers · · Score: 1

    Our planet is in imminent danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star goat!


  16. Non Programmer on Hacking the Tux Droid · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Being a network and security kind of guy, the first thing that went through my head was:

    - Finally, a fun way for me to really learn some Python


  17. Read Between the Lines on Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes, there are lots of news reports on that, but I'm sure you can appreciate the fact that there are other branches of the U.S. government that must answer your foreign policy questions.
    I think what he means is: I agree with you, but I did not vote for the f*cker.

  18. Sixty People? on Internet Censorship's First Death Sentence? · · Score: 1


    sixty people are currently in jail worldwide for criticizing governments online

    Sixty people? That is about one millionth of a percent of the world's population. Not too bad, if you ask me.

    Still, you would probably get a different opinion if you asked one of the sixty in jail.

  19. Re:OT, but... on Penetration Testing TV Series Coming · · Score: 1

    Like it's a sport to go rummaging through the trash... LOL
    I think it is a sport here.

  20. Mr. Potatohead on Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack · · Score: 1


    The first thing that went through my head as I read the story was:

    "Mr. Potatohead! Mr. Potatohead! Backdoors are not secrets!

  21. Re:Link to original article on Star Trek Home Theater · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thanks for the link, Mononoke!

    The link provided also revealed some other really cool home-theaters and houses:
    1. Death Star Theater
    2. Extreme Log Cabin Wild on Tech
    3. Model Condo Designed to Impress
    Sweet stuff!

  22. Re:MRI accidents on First Image Taken With an Ultra Low Field MRI · · Score: 1


    Not that they're common, but still, those things aren't toys.

    Thank you for pointing out that MRI's are not toys.

    ;-)

  23. Re:Fool me once..... on Driver Update Can Cause Vista Deactivation · · Score: 1


    So, I followed your link and I was perusing the compatibility list. I made it to the games section and I noticed a mention of WADs for the original DooM. As a former WAD tinkerer, I thought to myself:

    - Who still plays DooM and Doomworld?

    Following the link took to a site listing the best WADs for DooM over the years. It also had an infamous list (read: not so good WADs).

    One of the WADs which made it onto the infamous list was: Imp Ecounter: Second Edition.

    Thank you for wasting my time and introducing me to DooM pr0n.

  24. Re:Benefit or detriment? on Why We Need to Expand into Space · · Score: 1

    I've never understood how so many people can hate their race so very much
    I agree that is an odd point-of-view. However, I do not think it is hatred per se. More of a, "we could be so much more," perhaps.

  25. Re:Perfectly reasonable hypothesis? on New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions · · Score: 1


    (135 + 51 + 109 + 84 + 44) / 5 = 62