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  1. Re:Off-roading? on Land Rover Demos "Transparent Hood" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The windshields and headlamps are self-cleaning, so why can't these cameras be? Oh, someone on Slashdot thought of one possible (but easily solved) problem, therefore the entire tech is useless because the summary didn't outline every technical challenge and solution.

  2. Re:It's about time on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    That post is over a week old, right? So, what, you realize you lost the argument in the other thread, so you are stalking me here to argue about other things, unrelated to TFA, but related to your childish need to harm others who harmed you? Proving you wrong isn't a harm, it's a service. When you realize that, you'll survive much better in this life. Always look for the truth, regardless of your opinion, and realize someone pointing out a false opinion isn't attacking your personality.

    You realize your argument is "it's not illegal if they don't get caught". I understand how that goes with your incorrect opinion of HFT, but it isn't a rational argument.

    It's the same as saying "make sure you emotionally abuse your wife when you physically abuse her so she doesn't turn you in. It's legal to beat her, so long as they can't prove it." Is that really the argument you want to lead with?

  3. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    There's nothing I could say to change your mind, no evidence I could present. So why do you keep asking when it doesn't matter to you? Why do you think HFT is a good thing? The billions they extract from the system is worth it for the tiny increase in liquidity they assert they add (the only "identified" benefit I've ever seen mentioned). If they are extracting billions, and adding to value, then, by definition, they are thieves. I don't feel it's my problem that I'm unable to prove their level of thievery to your satisfaction. You don't seem interested in the truth, but instead in supporting thievery, regardless of the facts.

  4. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    Others have said it. There are books about it. There have been public investigations about it. That you choose not to see doesn't make it not happen.

  5. Re:between 23 and 70 uncontacted tribes on Isolated Tribes Die Shortly After We Meet Them · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People complain when you put the wildlife ear tags on the natives.

  6. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Speed is an advantage when you can jump in line. See an order placed in LA, then get to NYC before the order does, and trade in a manner expecting the order to arrive, and defraud the person who placed the order in LA. I've been told that's illegal now, but it wasn't always, and it's how the HFT houses made their initiall billions to keep screwing everyone (and there's nothing in place to keep it from happening). Did you not read the story about the trade in Chicago that executed before the announcement it was based on was made?

  7. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    If doesn't matter what I have for proof. You'd ignore it anyway. You believe in the religion of greed. HFT is a leach, causing damage to the economy, and rife with fraud. Yes, I have proof. More than one HFT has lost in court. They may be better at hiding it now, but they don't do it any less.

  8. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Jealous that I don't have a billion dollars to milk innocent investors out of millions more? HFT is criminally stealing money from "honest" investors. HFT make fraudulent offers that are designed to manipulate the market, then are canceled if they aren't profitable.

  9. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    When you own the clock, that statement is meaningless.

  10. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    It "can't" occur, but does. Reality trumps your desire.

  11. Re:I'm not entirely sure how it merited a patent i on Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art? · · Score: 1

    "In the United States, there is a duty to disclose to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office any known prior art that is material to the patentability of any claim of a pending U.S. patent application. " from http://www.tms.org/pubs/journa...

    You are a lying troll. The examiner examins the prior art, but doesn't search for more, because the duty is on the applicant to disclose. Even from your own link " then searches the prior art as disclosed in patents" So they "search" for the prior art that's disclosed, and are not instructed to search for new or undisclosed prior art. You are 100% wrong, and have been corrected on this multiple times, so I can only assume you are a lying troll (a genuine error would have been recognized and corected - even your own cite proves you wrong).

    Posted anonymously because I also modded your lying trolls as such.

  12. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    They make their 1c many more times than I make my 4c, so they still end up ahead.

  13. Re:Consider: on It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom · · Score: 1

    You're the one who believes in magical sky fairies and is here (and in that other god thread) trying to get us to disprove him.

    Why are you lying? I never said any such thing.

    Quit stalking me and taking every word in the worst possible light. Just evaluate every post in relation only to previous posts in that thread, and you'll stop seeing such inconsistencies. Especially when they were never there in the first place.

  14. Re:The Religious Right will have your head on a pl on It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom · · Score: 1

    It'd also confound the religious folks who dismiss evolution as "just a theory".

    Better than "So's gravity, but failing to believe in it doesn't make it cease to exist."?

  15. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    My suggestion should even out some of these little spikes. The reason there is corruption is because corruption is allowed and rewarded.

  16. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    One possible solution would be to trade shares on a fixed schedule, ex: every minute but not between minutes. This would provide everyone the same amount of time to react to the information. The difficult part would be deciding between who wins the bids, since time is an unfair determining factor that leaves some other metric like price bid or bidder's history or a random element.

    Highest buys and lowest sells first, then the earliest submission is executed, then random numbers would make a good tie breaker after that.

  17. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    No matter how slowly the transactions move, the participants with more current information have an advantage.

    The problem is that's false. A slow investor with more information will still "lose".

  18. Re:Yikes on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    How do you propose to compensate me and others for the loss of value and liquidity created by your arbitrary market rules and centrally controlled economy?

    So you are ok with losses caused by arbitrary market rules and a centrally controlled economy, so long as you have liquidity? Because that's what you have now.

    Will you or the government either put up part of the purchase price to compensate for your partial control, or allow me to write off losses caused by the proposed rules?

    You have the options you have now. Accept the risk or don't play.

  19. Re:Won't work on Australia May 'Pause' Trades To Tackle High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    Why not just batch trades? Come up with a "fair" way to pick whose trades get executed, and only trade every [timeperiod] (about as long as we'd expect 10,000 shares traded, or some other value). So high-traded stocks could go every 0.01s, but lower trades stock may hold for 10s between trades. The trades are executed simultaneously, so any "benefit" within that trade period will not help at all, and it would eliminate flodding fake offers with the intent of manipulating the market.

  20. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 1
    There is no such thing as a "legal requirement" in this context. There's obviously no law that requires you to have a model release for an actor. But not having one can get you sued. The law doesn't require it, but you have fewer legal protections if you don't get it.

    Go read up on Arne Svenson - he shot artistic photos of his neighbors through their open windows. A lawsuit against him was dismissed last year and the judge said ”An artist may create and sell a work of art that resembles an individual without his or her written consent".

    Ah, you misunderstood "artistic". The actor is the artist. Upskirts and candids are demonstrably not-artistic (from the standpoint of the model). The artistic content by the photographer is a separate issue.

  21. Re:What BS on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 1

    Your non sequitur deserves a mod up, while his deserves a mod down? If you read it, why are none of your comments so far related to the content of it?

  22. Re:It's NOT WiFi ! on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 1

    Broadband simply refers to anything wider than a 3khz copper voice channel.

    No, it's an EE term for multiple carriers on a single channel. 2x DWDM 10M fiber is broadband at 20 Mbps, and 100Gbps (at least some implementations) is baseband. It has no relation to the width of the carrier, but the number of carriers per physical medium.

  23. Re:It's NOT WiFi ! on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 1

    Call it all you like, bluetooth has been "WiFi" since Apple used "WiFi" to mean unlicensed wireless only, and 3G to mean licensed wireless. And go to a place that sells printers with proprietary wireless connections (I've not seen many, but all that I have seen were described as "WiFi", though none carry the trademarked WiFi badging).

  24. Re:Consider: on It's Time To Bring Pseudoscience Into the Science Classroom · · Score: 1

    So you moved from God would have to take action to we may be able to do some godlike thing, maybe, some time in the future. But even that would require God to not take action. Not sufficiently far of a goal post move to make a difference.

  25. Re:It's NOT WiFi ! on UAV Operator Blames Hacking For Malfunction That Injured Triathlete · · Score: 1

    Yes. That's the way language works. When most people think a word means something, then people who insist on using it incorrectly are incorrect. Like "broadband". A 19.6k modem is broadband, and 100 Gbps isn't, at least as per the "original" definition. But now, "broadband" equals "fast". And no insistence by anyone on using the "original" definition will be met with blank stares and resistance.

    I'm telling you what it means, whether you choose to accept reality is your choice, not mine.