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  1. Re:It should Flash Crash to about 5000 on Flash Crash Analysis of May 6 Stock Market Plunge · · Score: 1

    Huh? The money I use to buy stocks is certainly real capital.

  2. Re:It should Flash Crash to about 5000 on Flash Crash Analysis of May 6 Stock Market Plunge · · Score: 1

    I guess that would be the difference between a consumer and a wholesaler.

  3. Re:It should Flash Crash to about 5000 on Flash Crash Analysis of May 6 Stock Market Plunge · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is not everything based on perceived value?

    Like the man said (thousands of years ago): "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.".

  4. Re:Notifications on Fifth of Android Apps Expose Private Data · · Score: 1

    "There's a app for that" (tm)

  5. I am getting old.... on Best OSS CFD Package For High School Physics? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The highest level science class available in my HS was AP Chemistry. It would have so cool to take physics in HS.

  6. Not be a ghoul on Make-A-Wish Builds A Millennium Falcon Fort For Boy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    But what happens to this thing after the boy dies? Usually MaW gives activies (i.e. Disneyland trips or visits with a rock star), not physical things.

    Wonder if the parents will sell it for a (sure to be) tidy sum. Not sure what I would do in the same situation.

  7. Alternate version on SketchUp 7.1 Architectural Visualization · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is also Google Scatsup. It's exactly the same in every way, but is spelled differently for some long forgotten reason. Also, it's total crap.

  8. Sticking to ya' on Woman Jailed For Starting Office Fire To Leave Work Early · · Score: 1

    no contact with Bayonet Point Oxygen or its employees. Who would ever want to do business with a company name after a knife mounted onto the barrel of a gun? It would be like working with E-Ville Inc.

  9. Re:Work avoidance is a serious problem. on Woman Jailed For Starting Office Fire To Leave Work Early · · Score: 1

    Also I hear that addiction to Dihydrogen Monoxide is running rampant in all offices. Now that is a serious problem.

  10. Really? 28 Days Later?? on Sunshine Writer Joins Logan's Run Remake · · Score: 1

    ...'28 Days Later' (a massive adrenaline rush of a movie)

    Seriously? Seemed like formulaic zombie/virus-apocalypse chum to me. Wasn't even that scary. But I am more of a 'Children of Men' and 'The Road' kind of guy anyway....

  11. Re:Notifications on Fifth of Android Apps Expose Private Data · · Score: 1

    Indeed. One cannot install the app without seeing that screen. Does the iPhone make the same disclosures?

  12. Re:ALL copyright is a restriction on free speech. on Court Takes Away Some of the Public Domain · · Score: 1

    OT but it warms my heart to see the word "impingement" used. It's one of my favorite words :) I first heard it going to a chiropractor.

  13. Re:As an Android owner, it is a sad day... on Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Arrives For Android · · Score: 1

    ...biggest security whole

    Nice.

  14. Re:The mac on What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business · · Score: 1

    Um, true? have you ever sat on your iPhone? Stepped on it? You crack that screen and you're done. In my experience the only groups that use iPhone in the enterprise are managers (and the hipster youngsters). The people that actually have to get their hands dirty (i.e. the network engineer who will spend 90 minutes at a time crawling around stringing cable), use Blackberrys because they can take the abuse. They sell that iPhone insurance for a reason.

  15. Re:The mac on What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business · · Score: 1

    Oh please...those are fluff. Soft keyboards are silly for enterprise business users who are not concerned with 'looking cool'. You can't shove a touchscreen phone in your back pocket and start working; you need a 'screen protector' to keep it pristine or it stops working. And an app store selling 80 fart apps and other junk? RIM is for big-boy workers who have no time for such frivolity. Blackberry had many, many auxiliary applications for many years. They could be pushed (and managed) from the BES.

  16. The mac on What iOS 4 Does (and Doesn't Do) For Business · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Reminds me of a Mac commercial parody from years ago:
    'You know all the games for the Mac are great because you played them a PC three years ago'

    The iPhone, with its quality touch screen and beautiful, lickable looks, continues to announce 'amazing new features' that have been available in Blackberrys (Blackberries?) for nearly a decade.

  17. Re:Problem solved on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    You know 'it' can mean more than Information Technology right? Like maybe 'Italian'...

  18. Re:Problem solved on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    Whatever gets you through the night pal. WPA2 Enterprise + Radius is just fancy name for the sticky note. It's a digital form of security theater. If a hacked wants in, they can do so in about 15 minutes and leave no trace. I doubt even the greatest criminal mind the world can do that with the bank in your analogy.

  19. Re:Problem solved on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    WPA 'security' is tantamount to locking ones front door with a hook-and-eye and a sticky note that says 'please don't come in'. I think it's ever-so-slightly better than nothing. Just like Wifi with WPA. But it's silly to make a statement like 'I use WPA so they can't sniff my network'.

  20. Re:Why of why... on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    Like I said..it was voluntary. A self-audit is not an audit. They could have easily said 'yep we audited it and there's not data there!'.

  21. Re:Problem solved on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 3, Funny

    I use WPA on my wifi, so they can't sniff.

    Oh, you're adorable.

  22. Why of why... on States Launch Joint Probe of Google Wi-Fi Snooping · · Score: 1

    ...did Google ever voluntarily disclose they did this?

    The proper actions are as follows: if your company makes a big mistake, you bury it. If someone finds out and makes an accusation, you deny it. If a whistle-blower goes to the paper, you discredit them. And if someone has proof you minimize it, cash out your retirement, and live like a king while the corporation implodes. This is a time-tested methodology.

  23. Decathlon on First Photos From the European Solar Decathlon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So why is this called a decathlon? I cannot figure that out from TFA. Are there like 10 different types of solar energy they are going for here?

  24. Live at work! on Supreme Court Says Gov't Employee Texts Not Private · · Score: 1

    I mean the building I work in has beds, showers, multiples restrooms, lots of food and a full kitchen. And I can come and go 24 hours a day with impunity. Why in the world would I even get my own place?

  25. Re:Correction: 37% is NUDITY on Over a Third of the Internet Is Pornographic · · Score: 1

    That's the word's root origin from 150 years ago, not what it means (or has meant) for many generations. No more than the word 'assassin' means 'people who smoke hash'.