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  1. 5 minutes to reboot the front door on Microsoft Forges Ahead With New Home-Automation OS · · Score: 1

    This should be fun.

  2. External power supply? on Intel Unveils Tiny Next Unit of Computing To Match Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    I doubt the guts of my laptop are much bigger than that once you tear out the scree, keyboard, DVD drive, superfluous external ports.

  3. So let's tear up the Constitution on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And do away with states. Let's simply tax whomever we like whatever we feel like taxing them and if they don't like it they can move to Lichtenstein.

  4. Just do all the work in the US on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: 1

    If that increases the price of them $250/unit, that won't actually stop most of the noisy radicals who of course already own several of their own Apple products.

  5. Local government a petty psychotic tyranny? on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 2

    Where do you get such crazy talk????

  6. They also make the biggest handsets on Samsung Passes Nokia As Biggest Handset Manufacturer · · Score: 1

    The Galaxy II S is retarded large. Man purse large.

  7. The BBC should stick to cheerleading for Hamas on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    And leave the actual news to others. Black-Scholes is fine. The current breed of quants use models that are orders of magnitude more complex than black-Scholes. In fact one need only go back to ENRON to understand that a big part of the problem was caused by tertiary and quaternary derivatives that no one not even their creators understood.

    Another rarely discussed problem is HFT - high frequency trading, which is where 75-80% of the market churn is. That's a trading universe that exists below the 650 millisecond threshold. Those are trades that beneath the limit of human interaction or notice. A couple of years ago there was something called the Flash Crash where the market for no explicable reason, dropped 500+ points in a matter of seconds. Research after the fact tells us that HFT models behaved entirely the way they were supposed to. But what they were designed to do was wrong. The nature of HFT means that a whole ecology of trading exists w/o people knowing what it's doing.

    B-S is a tiny tiny tiny piece of the puzzle.

  8. Why are you OCing Ivy? on Ivy Bridge Running Hotter Than Intel's Last-gen CPU · · Score: 1

    Seriously. What kind of quantum chromodynamics calculations are you simply not getting done today?

  9. No. Car companies charge too much on Why Apple's Next Revolution Should Be In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Car companies think they're bleeding edge when they charge you $1,200 for a 40GB MP3 player or $2,500 for an 11" TV screen attached to a DVD player. I am sure there's a few morons who will need to be the first on their block with an iPhone built into their car but soon it will be apparent that it's overpriced and impossible to upgrade.

  10. As opposed to what? on Will IBM Watson Be Your Next Mayor? · · Score: 1

    Criminals, cronies, political hacks?

  11. Inquisition? on Opus Dei To Hunt Down Vatican Whistle-Blowers · · Score: 1

    that's unpossible.

  12. Yup, it's crap on Is Extraterrestrial Life More Whimsical Than Plausible? · · Score: 1

    Because even if there's some non zero probability of existing, people of earth will never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever find it. Never. Not ever. Mankind will never find any direct evidence of life anywhere else.

  13. How could they tell? on Cybercriminals Exploit Björk's Biophilia App To Compromise Androids · · Score: 1

    If one purpose of malware is to wreck society, both of those things already accomplish that.

  14. This is actually quite right on North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger · · Score: 1

    It takes an additional 6 months of education as well as a special certification to be a nutritionist in NC over and above the requirements of a certified rehab exercise physiologist. For example personal trainers are not permitted by law to offer nutritional plans to clients. That's the law. If you don't like it, change the law.

  15. So now Moto won't suck? on Motorola Scores Patent Wins Over Microsoft, Apple · · Score: 1

    Because for the last 20 years Moto has sucked as a company and generally failed at everything. Trying to save the company through lawsuits is a sure sign of that.

  16. Younger people are cheaper on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 1

    Back to your workbenches you monkeys!

  17. Why am I suspect of BBC science on Beneath Africa, Survey Finds 'Huge' Water Reserves · · Score: 1

    Which just happens to find another precious resource under Arab countries?????

  18. You clearly have never heard of IBM on Apple and Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    IBM's 'achieve prosperity through cost cutting, particularly in HR has been in effect for nearly 2 decades.

  19. If you feel that strongly about it on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Staple a check to your sternly worded letter.

  20. 99% of it is spam on Whistleblower: NSA Has All of Your Email · · Score: 1

    Seriously are they saving all that crap?

  21. Re:Obligatory Leftist Rant on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 1

    You get a B+ for good effort as well. Kiss noise.

  22. Re:Obligatory Leftist Rant on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 1

    Yes yes nuke the Jews you make my point better than I ever could. Thanks.

  23. Obligatory Leftist Rant on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 0

    North Korea and Iran Must be given nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them anywhere on earth they desire because we hate America, the West and of course Israel.

  24. No not entirely correct on Cringely Predicts IBM Will Shed 78% of US Employees By 2015 · · Score: 1

    For one thing few if any Fortune 50 companies could ever grow that fast internally. IBM has been on an acquisition spree and will continue to grow by buying out smaller and not so smaller companies. Those companies once acquired may see appreciable staffing growth though but internally IBM's core staffing won't drop by much.

  25. Probably not on Cringely Predicts IBM Will Shed 78% of US Employees By 2015 · · Score: 2

    Services, while they don't entirely depend on having people in the US, depend at least in part in having many people in the US or some equally expensive English speaking place.