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  1. Re:Is day trading a good thing? on Device Protects Day Traders From Emotional Trading · · Score: 1

    In theory, it smooths out random changes to the price, reducing the risk of any investment that people make (because a stock that is moving steadily up is less risky then a stock that is going up in crazy waves of ups and downs), which, in turn, allows for companies to borrow money easier.

    In practice, you are basically right.

  2. Re:terrible advice on Washington Post Says Use Linux To Avoid Bank Fraud · · Score: 1

    how about a physical keylogger? Live CD won't help there, as it is hardware, not software.

  3. Re:Cool gift on Wikipedia In Your Pocket, $99 · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia keeps its past articles. In any case, that can be said of anything on the internet, as it can all be changed. Books can go out of print. Short of keeping a copy yourself and emailing them to others as needed, there is no form of citations that will get around the problem.

  4. Re:ohhhhh... on Penny-Sized Nuclear Batteries Developed · · Score: 1

    Actually, we had nuclear weapons long before the USSR did anything in south America.

  5. Re:Future Post on MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    Considering inflation, they are doing all of this really cool tech for really cheap. Maybe there is a good side for this DRM craze.

  6. Re:Fooled again? on Emergency Government Control of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    Not entirely sure how he would be "doing" this last year. See, he only came to office this year.

  7. Re:don't believe it on Artificial Brain '10 Years Away' · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't have to build a self-modifying learning machine. You can emulate one of those via a machine that is not self-modifying. See:Turing completeness.

  8. Re:Psychological phooey on Of Science and Choice In Online Dating · · Score: 1

    Not to say that you are wrong, of course, but do you actually have proof that they don't work?

  9. Re:Sorry, No. on Tomorrow's Science Heroes? · · Score: 1

    I hope you are doing this a lot longer then just 100 times. For example, if a coin have a 97% chance of coming up heads, then it is actually not very unlikely that if you only toss it 100 times, all 100 times will turn out be tails. 3% is hardly damn small.

  10. Put a computer where the intercom is! on Searching Google, Where Internet Access is Scarce · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the connection between the intercom and the operator is good enough for voice, that is good enough of a bit rate for googling things. Then just putting a computer there will make things much more efficient. (you won't have to hire a operator, for one thing)

  11. Re:It's all about the benjamins...er....yuan on Apple To Sell Wi-Fi-less iPhone In China · · Score: 1

    Skype is actually perfectly legal in china. So I am not entirely sure what VOIP apps have to do with sureillance - they can simply use a laptop instead

  12. Interesting business stratagy on uSocial Sells Twitter Followers By the Thousand · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Essentially, what they do is they recommend people to subscribe to certain feeds, and then charges the feeds for it. Not entirely a bad idea. What is unknown here is how in the world they actually plan to get people to actually subscribe to those feeds. In the worst case, they have a bunch of sock puppet accounts.

  13. Re:Problem with that - Teacher's Editions on We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks? · · Score: 1

    Easy - print a hash of the correct solution. Have fun coming up with the actual answer!

  14. Re:Bad idea on Pirate Party Coming To Canada · · Score: 1

    You know, if he indeed sold the patent, then you can do the world a great service by simply publishing the patent number. Patents are required by law to detail everything about the invention, so we would all have a very good idea of how it is done. Just as importantly, we could all do it, as patents only last 17 years, so it is in the public domain now.

  15. Re:Oh really? on IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The last one is actually quite possible, and indeed is a huge area of compiler research.

  16. Re:Do they keep the prize money? on Netflix Prize May Have Been Achieved · · Score: 3, Informative

    AT&T have committed to giving all money to charity. The person at yahoo developed his entry while working at AT&T, so I will be surprised if yahoo gets any of it.

  17. Re:More bullshit on Tesla Nabs $465M Government Loan To Build Model S · · Score: 1

    There is always the good old general welfare clause. It is not hard to argue that getting us off of oil is beneficial to the general welfare of the nation.

  18. Re:Better title would be... on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 1

    Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and so on and so forth publish road maps about future products all of the time. They can still sell their inventories.

  19. Re:Capitalist flight on Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US · · Score: 1

    It is certainly unpatriotic - the founders of the nation did not claim to be patriotic toward the country that they resisted paying taxes to, did they?

  20. Re:First Post on PlayStation-Based Mobile Handset a Possibility · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Considering how well camera phones are doing, I really don't think the "just a phone" sentiment is really what is successful in the marketplace. The iphone did a lot, and it sold a lot. And what is the most popular apps on the iphone? Games. It is logical to think, therefore, that a good game playing cell phone would sell, and if it did not, it would not be because it have too many features.

  21. Re:two ways to solve the tax "scam" on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    So what does he plan to do with the money instead? Stuffing it under his mattress? That is same as a reduction in the money supply, and the fed can simply print the money to replace it. If he puts it in a bank, the bank will invest it.

  22. Re:two ways to solve the tax "scam" on Battle Lines Being Drawn As Obama Plans To Curb Tax Avoidance · · Score: 1

    As there are no shortage of workers, it would not be a major issue if a large proportion of the executives decide to retire.

  23. So what if the faithful screams? on Originality Vs. Established IP In Games · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They are a extremely small part of any fan base for a certain IP.

  24. Re:Gaming the system on Data Mining Moves To Human Resources · · Score: 1

    As they are doing Data Mining, I expect their software to actually pickup on the fact that the number of emails sent is a poor predictor.

  25. Re:It gets better on BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration · · Score: 1

    Actually, intent is often considered in the law. IANAL, but I am assuming their legal department signed off on this.