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  1. In a court filing, trying to convince the Justice Department that its acquisition would be good for consumers

    Martha Stewart went to prison for this.

  2. Because every link is Rick Astley.

  3. Instituting a required 1 day post processing of all orders

    But the markets are privately run entities. And often various markets operate in different jurisdictions. So if one regulator imposed some artificial latency into their systems, traders would just jump ship and take their business to markets where there were no such restrictions.

    Also, an increase in the precision of trade time stamps doesn't necessarily speed up trading. In fact, by ensuring that a networked, high precision time stamp was available across all the access points to the trading system, it would be possible to undercut the advantage that HFT brokerages located near the main market trading system now have. It would be possible to properly interleave trades made at the end of a 500 foot fiber optic cable just next door to the NYSE with those made in Bumfuck, Kansas. That puts your broker in Kansas on an equal footing with the Big Boys who lease office space in NYC. This can only be a good thing.

  4. Re:unprofessional, but turnabout? on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    That can be gamed or turned.

    A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

  5. engaged in beastality or incest

    Someone uploaded excerpts from the bible?

  6. Just like dope sniffing dogs and broken tail lights.

  7. Re:unprofessional, but turnabout? on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    You are punishing person B because person A pissed you off.

    Note to self: Never date a divorcee.

  8. Re:unprofessional, but turnabout? on Ask Slashdot: Have You Ever 'Ghosted' an Employer? (linkedin.com) · · Score: 1

    Very few are giving the overwhelming number of applicants that courtesy, why should it be returned?

    Because every potential employer or employee should be treated with courtesy and as an individual. It's not good practice to justify shitting on someone because all your previous contacts were assholes.

  9. Re:Requirements frequently *are* the gig on Ask Slashdot: Is There a 'Gig Economy' Site For Tech Skills? · · Score: 1

    Because of this most companies that (competently) do solutions in house will have both the designers and the developers on staff

    And the relationship between the designers/developers and the customer isn't tightly controlled by a contract. I can sit down with the end user and ask, "What do you really need?" In fact, I can join the user's group and work as a kind of intern to discover how they actually do their jobs. Try this with an outside software firm and everything has to be billed, documented and is susceptible to change orders and contract revisions.

    I've done some development my self (as an EE) where it was easier to teach myself to code than it was to do the formalized process route required by a contract.

  10. Re:Ambient temps, constant heat? on Engineers Develop Electric Car Battery That Can Heat Itself During Winter (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect that this heating system is only used prior to rapid charging a cold battery pack. Park your car for a week when it's not plugged in and I suspect the battery temp will drop to ambient. There may be some preheating logic that connects some loads and warms the battery up due to internal losses when it's time to drive off.

    Back in the 'old days', we used to warm up a car's cranking battery in sub freezing weather by turning the headlights on for a few minutes.

  11. Re:100 Millions on DARPA Invests $100 Million In a Silicon Compiler (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    99 million for patent lawsuits.

    DARPA, working on government applications. Patents do not matter.

  12. make the punishment so outlandishly large only an extremely small set of stupid people would think to do it.

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

  13. Priority One on SpaceX Will Send an AI Robot To Join Astronauts On ISS (seattletimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Bring back alien life form.

    Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?

  14. Re:Dative, and no there is no ambiguity on Words with Multiple Meanings Pose a Special Challenge To Algorithms (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    the point I'm making is that the sentence scans identically.

    Actually, the sentence can be diagrammed three different ways. In a breadth-first search of solution space, all three solutions will be found and considered. Another search layer will then take each possibility and attempt to solve it, given some deeper world knowledge. The probabilities assigned to the diagrams asserting that you served pasta with a helping of fork or your buddy will come out pretty low. Meatballs would result in this particular graph winning.

    Since breadth first searches can be pretty expensive in terms of memory and processing time, a reasonableness step will be used frequently to prune the search tree. What makes the kid with s'mores example funny and interesting is that children don't do so much graph pruning automatically. It's part of a learning process that examines alternatives. Like eating food with one's nose (which happens from time to time).

  15. Re:Wrong assumption on Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    As such, the only rational approach to online and social media discourse is to act pseudonymously and acrimoniously.

    The latter might not be a good idea if you can't absolutely ensure the former. Doxing is a thing.

    you don't screen your audience for sanity and you don't get non-verbal clues giving you an early warning

    You don't from sociopaths either. Or was that psychopaths? I always get them mixed up. Either way, I'm not going to rely on my amateur psychology skills to keep myself safe.

  16. Residents caught using? on Mumbai Bans Plastic Bags, Bottles, and Single-Use Plastic Containers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0

    What about going after the people who make/distribute the bags? If I see someone using (better yet, re-using) an item, that's a good thing. Now you are just going to encourage people to throw them out. In places that won't lead back to them.

  17. Re:Katana [Re:Waiting for the movie!] on The Biggest Digital Heist in History Isn't Over Yet (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That has got to be a pseudonym.

    Of course. His real name is Weaboo.

  18. Entered my address into HIBP ... on 'Have I Been Pwned' Is Being Integrated Into Firefox, 1Password (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    ... and it replied "You have now."

  19. Can you ... on Voices of Millions of UK Taxpayers Stored By HMRC (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    ... use your own phrase?

  20. Re:I already have a job on LinkedIn's Forthcoming Analytics Tool May Boost Job Poaching (techtarget.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    earning $50,000 ... in Silicon Valley

    IOW, you have TWO shopping carts parked in front of your tent.

  21. Re:It'll take a show with a larger audience to mat on China Blocks HBO After John Oliver's Last Week Tonight Mockery of Xi Jinping (scmp.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think Oliver tries to have an actual point so much as yank everyone's pants down around their ankles and let the audience see them for what they are worth.

  22. Re:Can someone wipe my phone? on Apple Refutes Hacker's Claim He Could Break iPhone Passcode Limit (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It is assumed that people who care enough about the data

    ... probably back it up someplace. And that backup should be accessible without the phone being connected (think broken phone, etc.) So you recover your phone, smack your jackass friend a couple of times, connect to the backup and pull your data back.

  23. The two guys gave one another "that look" - the one that says, Ah, silly paranoid nerd.

    Your name is probably in a database too. 'Refused installation of a Telescreen.'

  24. Re:It's very real(istic) on Think Your Body Is Infested With Insects? You're Not Alone. (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    just as in the military you get trained to ignore an itch

    You can't frag face mites.

  25. Re:Referees? What about robot players? on Should Professional Sports Switch To Robot Referees? (hpe.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not indeed? Microsoft has already perfected the flop.