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  1. Re:The market runs on lemming stupidity on Stock Market Sell-Off Might Stem From Trader's Fat Finger · · Score: 2, Interesting

    stock orders should be processed only at certain times in batches. different stocks could be on different batch cycles, 1 day, 2 day, 5 day, 7 day, 30 day cycles. a sell order would be a certain number of stocks and a buy order would be a certain amount of money.

  2. Re:The Interesting Question is... on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 1

    the machine's output is interpreted by human operators and their biases will still influence the output. enough so they a dead fish can "think" according to fmri.

  3. Re:Gaming the system on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 1

    one can write incorrect memories in place of correct ones, and if a test like this were made common, you can bet your ass there will be companies specializing in training people to correctly edit their memories so they will pass the fmri

  4. Re:It is better than a jury of Bobs on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 2, Insightful

    by creating the expectation that witnesses and defendants use it, doubt is cast in the juries mind about anyone who declines to do so.

  5. Re:It is better than a jury of Bobs on Brain-Scan Lie Detection Rejected By Brooklyn Court · · Score: 1

    Public defenders in this country on average handle over 500 cases a year whereas a DA handles half that, something has to change or more and more of us are going to be going to jail as innocent men. In NYC the average case load of a public defender is 720 cases a year. seems to me, a constitutional amendment requiring every jurisdiction to provide the same level of funding, staffing, and facilities access to the public defenders office as they do to the prosecution.

  6. Re:It's not that Flash in particular is a right... on Flash Is Not a Right · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Saying "you can't use these tools" is silly.

    it's not silly at all when the actual goal is to stifle innovation and competition by artificially raising the cost for developers to sell apps on other platforms like Android, WebOS, and windows mobile.



    this has nothing to do with app quality, if it did they would just continue to enforce or tighten up quality requirements before approving.

  7. Re:Good thing on Canonical Explains Decision to License H.264 For Ubuntu · · Score: 1, Insightful

    code doesn't have to be GPL compatible to be run on linux, otherwise the GPL would be so dead nobody would have heard of it by now

  8. Re:Count the misses, not just the hits. on BlackBerry Predicted a Century Ago By Nikola Tesla · · Score: 1

    GPS works by multiple satellites sending out the same long cycle bit stream, the receiver just looks at each signal and the timing differences to calculate position. otherwise GPS would be a subscription service

  9. Re:It's not really that bad on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 0, Troll

    don't bother arguing, just sit back and enjoy the show as the verbal gymnists come out to show us all how this was all the democrats' fault

  10. Re:BP is innocent of any wrongdoing on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 0, Troll

    well then we must take it as a sign from the elder gods that the sea floor belongs to them and them alone, we are only welcome to venture there in death, lest we bring death upon the earth

  11. Re:Nine Year Naval Veteran... on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    most ships are not there to act as a nozzle for a fuel tank the size of a state. I would imagine firefighting principles from naval vessels would be about5 as relevant as those from residential suburban firefighting.

  12. Re:It's minor on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    so the left is bad for responding to a crisis caused entirely by greedy and reckless businesses, but the right is good for exploiting a crisis it's own policies contributed to...

  13. Re:Well the governator is capable of learning on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    for anyone looking to download the whole memo it's posted here http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2006/pdf/wm1140.pdf/ i have a feeling the page on heritage.org will be 404ing soon

  14. Re:Well the governator is capable of learning on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    read a post before replying, it helps keep you from looking like a complete fool

  15. Re:Oil Gusher on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    if it were an unpressurized hole into an oil pocket and the only force was the buoyancy of the oil, your strategy might work, but trying to stop a high pressure flow with explosives would be much like trying to heal an arterial stab wound with a hand grenade.

  16. Re:Don't worry BP ... on How Bad Is the Gulf Coast Oil Spill? · · Score: 1

    nationalize BP assets up to the value of the damage caused. starting with sets of assets able to work together with little or no integration with assets not seized.

  17. Re:Earthsiege 2Another Oldie but Goodie on MechWarrior 4 Free Release Now Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    mechwarrior 3 had you scrounging parts from fallen enemies, and what parts dropped depended on how you killed them, so the best way to kill was to blow off the legs since you probably already have enough heat sinks and jump jets anyways, the weapons and electronics kits were more valuable.

  18. Re:Corporatocracy on Rich Pretexter, Poor Pretexter · · Score: 1

    "registered Wikipedians" is one step above, or possibly one step below "registered sex offenders"

  19. Re:It's probably cheaper than the alternatives on Should the Gov't Pay For Injured Man's Wii? · · Score: 1

    that machine is going to be far, far more capable than a bunch of PS3's.

    The PS3 has 256(512 including video memory) megabytes of RAM while the supercomputer you linked has 48 gigs, that's 192(96) times as much, even if you managed to hack the hardware to take 2 gigs of ram instead, you would have to have 24 PS3's which would cost about as much as the supercomputer, use far more energy, be far more compliicated to set up, and be much more limited in their problem scope since work units would have to be no bigger than 1 PPE+7 SPE's and fit in 2 gigs of ram.

    when you buy a supercomputer you aren't just buying RAW FLOPS, any asshole can exceed the biggest supercomputer buying cheap machines for a cluster. the purpose of a supercomputer is to get your parts integrated enough to work on problems with chunks that are too big to fit on cheap cluster units, or which don't really break into nice distributable chunks at all.

  20. Re:Differnt phones for different folks on The Shortcomings of Google's Open Handset Alliance · · Score: 1

    the UI provides access to phone specific features and settings, and provides means to launch applications. I fail to see how "proprietary" UI's will hurt the market, manufacturers want to distinguish their products and a custom UI is a reasonable way to do this. now if it were up to me, it would be nice if the UI program was just another app, similar to the old SHELL=EXPLORER.EXE in the windows 9x system.ini, so the user could select another application to load as the UI (and presumably also have a way to recover to the default UI when the user accidentally sets pong to be their system shell, such as having a part of the application standard require that an app detect if it is being run as the shell and include a menu option to reset to the device standard shell.

  21. solution, delete system 32 on Win7 Can Delete All System Restore Points On Reboot · · Score: 1

    the problem is 64 bit windows conflicting with legacy code, you will need to delete your /windows/system32/ folder if you are running on x64

  22. Re:Huh? on Win7 Can Delete All System Restore Points On Reboot · · Score: 1

    linux mint is spyware laden shit, have fun with that

  23. Re:Expert Sex Change on Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" · · Score: 1

    they actually have answers there? i always figured they just sent your CC number to the russian mob

  24. Re:Ticketmaster on Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" · · Score: 1

    This is meant to deter XXX check differently priced tickets or 2-3 different dates FTFY

  25. Re:oooh on Microsoft Signs Android Patent Deal With HTC · · Score: 1

    LOL WUT? netbooks are for sale everywhere. and they cost more because they have gotten quite a bit more capable.