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  1. Everyone should watch this. on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 1

    Everyone should watch this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJql2aqjkw

    The making of the financial mess Wall Street started. Clinton, Bush and Obama sold us out by hiring these criminals to look out for the best interest for Americans.
    Category:

    News & Politics
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                    financial collapse
                    wall street
                    white collar crime

  2. Don't blame math on The Math Formula That Lead To the Financial Crash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It was human stupidity and greed.

  3. Re:Hmmm on Sun's Twin Discovered — the Perfect SETI Target? · · Score: 1

    You have to say hello first, it's only polite.

    *think about it*

    The truth I read 400 instead of 200.

  4. Hmmm on Sun's Twin Discovered — the Perfect SETI Target? · · Score: 1

    That's an 800 year round trip for information exchange, I wonder how many other intelligences would be spewing radio waves willy nilly not to mention we haven't even been using radios long enough for that star system to receive anything from us.

  5. One other thing on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    Stop worrying about corporate privacy policies, take control of your own privacy through intelligent use of encryption and obfuscation.

    You know, "personal responsibility".

  6. Not an issue on Privacy Advocates Slam Google Drive's Privacy Policies · · Score: 1

    I use Truecrypt and toss everything into a container before storing it on Gdrive or anywhere else for that matter.

  7. Here's what you don't understand on Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Apple logo is an apple with a bite out of it, a reference to the Biblical Tree of Knowledge, but who suggested a bite be taken? None other than Satan, clearly Jobs made a deal with the Devil.

    That's why Apple is so successful. /snark
     

  8. Re:Developer for the world? on Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter · · Score: 1

    I own some Apple products, an iMac, a Macbook Pro and an iPhone and I have a lot to say negative about the products as well, not a hater I just don't measure up to the fawning of fanbois so I appear to be a hater for my criticisms.

  9. Re:Developer for the world? on Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter · · Score: 1

    Apple has a good design team, but keep in mind those early tablets/phones didn't have the tech available today, remember the Newton? What a monstrosity, but for the tech available pretty cool.

    I recall reading somewhere that Jobs had stated he was waiting for the tech to catch up to what he imagined.

  10. So what on Quantum Experiment Shows Effect Before Cause · · Score: 1

    The picture certainly looks like future events influence the past,

    At that level it's irrelevant as there isn't anything practical we can do with it, at least at this time, or perhaps the way we measure time doesn't work well at that level of granularity, in any event the most likely explanation is the one no one has come up with yet.

  11. I think on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    That something is up when you can't opt out of an update, so Chrome, Firefox 12 and Google Earth are all suspect.

    Who knows what gets pushed to your box.

  12. Here's a hint on Volcano Near Mexico City Becomes More Active · · Score: 4, Informative

    Go Google the location of the plates and fault lines, then look at earthquakes for the last 10 years and you will see a pattern.

    http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ypalM7eSBEQ/SdzT_ajylVI/AAAAAAAAAbM/XNB1-z6lvKg/s1600-h/tectonic_map.jpg

    http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/byyear.php

  13. Well on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 1

    Ever see anyone start programming at 50?

  14. RAND? on Newspapers Pollute Less On E-Readers and Tablets · · Score: 3, Informative

    I can't help but feel there is a bias.

    RAND Corporation (Research ANd Development[2]) is a nonprofit global policy think tank first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by Douglas Aircraft Company. It is currently financed by the U.S. government and private endowment,[3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND

  15. Re:I like this on Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For DOTA 2 · · Score: 1

    There are 2 females here? /me combs hair

  16. Or the more obvious reason on IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization · · Score: 1

    Advertise the services offered on the phone or tablet such as TV, video streaming, etc to show how great the device is then cap the data, so if someone really wants to take advantage of those services telcos will be reaping the profits from the over cap usage fees.

  17. Laugh on MacBook Pro Fragrance Created · · Score: 1

    Benzine and flop sweat...

  18. They want it to be like television on Sergey Brin Says Facebook, Apple and Gov't Biggest Threats To Internet Freedom · · Score: 1

    Walled Gardens or "channels" each with specific content heavily protected and of course crack down on the discussions going on over the net blogs and forums.

  19. I surf using a linux VM hosted on OS X on New Targeted Mac OS X Trojan Requires No User Interaction · · Score: 1

    Not perfect, but less likely to be exploited and get to my host machine, I don't do much on OS X any more, moved all the video editing and audio DAW to Win7 because I can build my own boxes to my spec that way.
    Hello to my fav NT4 machine at 31 jing-ring street Beijing !

  20. Re:License to print money on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 3, Informative

    OK I'm wrong, should have just gone to Wikipedia in the first place.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#United_States

    he United States does not have any Internet Service Provider (ISP) data retention laws similar to the European Data Retention Directive.[19] All attempts have failed:

            In 1999 two models of mandatory data retention were suggested for the US: What IP address was assigned to a customer at a specific time. In the second model, "which is closer to what Europe adopted", telephone numbers dialed, contents of Web pages visited, and recipients of e-mail messages must be retained by the ISP for an unspecified amount of time.[20][21][22]

            The Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth (SAFETY) Act of 2009 also known as H.R. 1076 and S.436 would require providers of "electronic communication or remote computing services" to "retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user."[23] This bill never became a law. [24]

  21. Re:Crazy world we live in. on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    What the dispatcher said and what is law are 2 different things.

    I could be entirely wrong in my assumption about what happened because I wasn't there to see it.
    I am sure about one thing though, Zimmerman is going to suffer at lot, and Trayvon never gets to grow up, never gets to have children, never gets to see another sunrise or eat ice cream, and what a fucking waste for the both of them.

  22. it appears on Critical Flaw Found In Backtrack Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Backtrack repository has the fix already.

  23. Re:Racism on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    Yes but only the Latino half, the white half has to do hard time... /eyeball roll

  24. Re:Bad Slashdot on Zimmerman Charged With 2nd-Degree Murder · · Score: 1

    So does car culture ever notice that? Nerds and Geeks seem to love cars, and not just because they don't like walking.

  25. Re:License to print money on Super-Privacy-Protecting ISP In the Planning · · Score: 1

    Huh when I click on that link above it's broken.

    http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:s.01738:

    try it from here if it fails for you.
    http://www.cybertelecom.org/cda/protect.htm