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  1. "based" on the decision on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 0

    If you have inside information, you can act surreptitiously claiming to guess what the board is going to do. The timing wouldn't matter. If you lacked inside information, you could still have an algorithm waiting to trigger new buy/sell values based on anticipated activity levels after any fed announcement.

    There isn't any story here at all.

  2. Re:No on Boy Scouts Bully Hacker Scouts Into Submission · · Score: 0

    On the other hand, the people you ripped off and are asking you to stop are horrible bigots with no reputation left to protect.

  3. What's ambiguous? on DEA Argues Oregonians Have No Protected Privacy Interest In Prescription Records · · Score: 1

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against ... ...and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized

    How is this ambiguous?

  4. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    It's just by division, which tends to have its own expenses and revenues in the corporate world.

  5. Re:Only read the headline on The Internet Society is Unhappy with U.S. Govt's Internet Spying Tactics · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nice green dildo by the way.

  6. Re:Only read the headline on The Internet Society is Unhappy with U.S. Govt's Internet Spying Tactics · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We only unlocked your doors, snuck through your house, and examined all your belongings to make sure there wasn't anything dangerous there. You should be thankful.

  7. Re:Different Parents on GTA V Proves a Lot of Parents Still Don't Know or Care About ESRB Ratings · · Score: 1

    GTA could get its rating based soley on the amount of violence immediately proceeding any sex.(but how else are you supposed to get your money back?)

  8. Re:Competition on China Lifts Bans On Social Media, Foreign ISPs In Free Trade Zone · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, the US you can visit any website you want. Unless it's gambling. Or "promotes terrorism". But you know, other than the things that are illegal, everything is legal!

  9. Re:Metadata is the most important data on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Oh, yes, they would. Hence the witch hunt part of my post way back up.

  10. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 1

    I was talking about long-term net profit, thanks.

  11. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not annualized profits, where years have been profitable. Division lifetime profit. like this

  12. Re:XBOX? on Why Is Microsoft Setting More Money On Fire With Surface 2? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A solid market that they haven't yet made a NET profit on, and may have lost in the next generation(I really hope they have).

  13. Re:Enforcement on France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU · · Score: 2

    Or, it'll be like most laws, and enforcement will be on discovery of violation, and depend on the human element.

  14. Re:Burden of enforcement on FAA May Let You Use Electronic Devices During Airplane Takeoff and Landing Soon · · Score: 1

    Yes, vigilante justice is the best answer to all of our problems. It's worked out so well in the past.

    As long as you weren't a minority, and you didn't care about actually resolving the crime, it was great!

  15. Re:Metadata is the most important data on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you're not going to get me in favor of letting people make life miserable for their subordinates. If that's your problem, you dislike the statute of limitations, not the law itself.

  16. Re:Metadata is the most important data on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Because they don't care what you said. It really is beneath them, even if they have it. We need to be worried about the consequences this will have on people.

  17. Re:Metadata is the most important data on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 1, Troll

    Freedom to do something doesn't mean no one will know. I support prevention of chilling effects, but that's a weak argument. It's like the stupid 2nd amendment charge by the NRA, only on a more fundamental right.

  18. Metadata is the most important data on Schneier: Metadata Equals Surveillance · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a basic fact for anyone dealing with any substantive volume of data. The details are of no interest to anyone in power, but patterns are.

    The dividing line people will have here is whether the 4th amendment(and the human right it's based on) protects a right to privacy or a right against freely targed witchhunt prosecutions. This spying won't especially invade the first, but could easily be construed to lead to the second.

  19. Radar is actually physically bulky when used for precise detection. Visual recognition algorithms might be more aerodynamic.

    Who knows what technologies the military actually has available, though.

  20. Re:Well that's easily remedied on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 2

    Sure, it's illegal for them, but who's going to sue the Supreme court?

  21. Re:Well that's easily remedied on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    There's already an academic exemption to copyright. Excerpting to relevant passage is quite legal.

  22. Re:It hurts the powerful less than the weakest on Research Finds Link Between Inflation and Laughter In Federal Reserve Meetings · · Score: 1

    Yes, SNAP isn't treated sensibly, nor is minimum wage, but taxes are. I feel bad for you, and don't vote for the idiots who do that, but that wasn't the point under discussion.

  23. Re:The most valuable part of some sites on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    That's perfectly fair. "The worst system except for all the others" is a perfectly valid counter-argument, and I have no real rebuttal to it.

  24. Re:The most valuable part of some sites on Comments About Comments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Then you simply replace hivemind, for Dice Holdings Approved Minds. That doesn't seem superior on the face of it.

  25. Re:The most valuable part of some sites on Comments About Comments · · Score: 1

    Of course I see what you mean. I wouldn't disagree if I didn't understand. I know some people would, but I wouldn't.