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  1. Well, this is stupid on JPMorgan Chase Spends $500 Million On a Data Center · · Score: 1

    I would guess that given the implosion of US market volume and all that space built out recently demand for DC space is just not there. Smart players (like BATS for example) are picking up space freed up by other at discount. Looks like JPMorgan is not in this category.

  2. Re:I don't see this happening in the US. on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    How about a this novel idea of "work"? Maybe adults should look for one? :-/

  3. Re:I don't see this happening in the US. on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 1

    A 2007 USDA study found that receiving Food Stamps long term (24 months) was associated with a 50% increased obesity rate among female adults
    http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/32855/PDF Our poor is OBESE for god's sake.

    Also, if a person satisfies criteria for food stamps he/she will also be eligible for other goverment handouts like housing assistance, Medicaid, disability payments etc.
    For example, a child he/she also will be receiving free lunches at school which will cover 2 out of three daily meals.

    Do not make it sound like $133/person is all they are going to get.

  4. Re:I don't see this happening in the US. on Meat the Food of the Future · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have to disagree. The only way to get hungry in US is to blow all your food stamps on liquer and dope. It's actually hard to stay fit with all cheap junk peddled on every corner. If you think a dude on a street with a cardboard sign "Just hungry" is really do not have anything to eath try to give him a sandwich.

  5. As "a professor of Political Science"... on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    he's obviously unqualified to discuss any real science topics.

  6. Re:Mr. Market on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 1

    Some people get this idea about mister market by observing differences between exUSSR where they grew up and USA where they live now.

  7. FB valuation at IPO was at 99 P/E on Mark Zuckerberg's Big Facebook Mistake · · Score: 1

    That is, you make your money back in 99 years. Toda it is about 120 P/E. Someone bought shares from MZ and early stakeholders including employees on public market on their free will.
    Q: who failed basic arithmetics in this transaction?

  8. Citizen! on Dept. of Homeland Security To Build Better Cyber Workforce · · Score: 1

    Open your wallet even wider!

  9. Let me guess... on High School Students Sue Federal Gov't Over Global Warming · · Score: 0

    None of them is going to major in math and science in college but go for soft degrees and later attempt to govern us.

  10. Brits should seriously ask themselves on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    ... what they are doing now when Olympics involve aircraft carriers, SAMs on rooftops and sonic guns. Me, I stopped giving sh..t about these natinal dick contests by IOC long time ago.

  11. Selection bias on Why Forbes Says Immigrants Make Better Entrepreneurs · · Score: 1

    Immigrating to another country is risky and tough. Lazy, complacent, timid, and dependent are more likely to stay put. Therefore immigrant population is likely to be biased towards selt-starters, risk-takers, ambitious people. They are enterpreneural material.

  12. Re:Open letter to psychotic US politicians. on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 0

    Please do not forget that Poland as it exists right now would not be possible if not U.S. "meddling" in Euro affairs since WWII. Do you really thing Germany and France gives a flying fsck about Poland? Just look at how they brown nose Putin for all his years in power.

  13. Russia want attention on Russia Threatens Pre-emptive, Destructive Force On US Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    They used to big shots and now cannot bear thought of being second tier power. Their reactions are childish.

  14. 10 year old news on Hacked Emails Reveal Russian Astroturfing Program · · Score: 2

    To those who read Russian interwebs since '90 the rise of government astroturfing should have been obvious starting about '00. There was a marked change in tone and verbage of forum comments on different online forums. Such posters are called "brigades" and thought to be FSB operatives.

  15. Mission went as expected on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    After reading open letter from one of the designers of Fobos Nikolai Morozov to russian vice-premier Sergei Ivanov from 03/08/2011 it's hard to believe that Fobos-Grunt launch was anything but a success.

    The goal was not to send something to Mars as officially stated but to get rid of material evidence of gross incompetence and graft going on in KB Lavochkin for many years.

    Link (in Russian): http://apervushin.livejournal.com/179226.html

  16. Re:Go with the simple over complex theory on Feds Helped Coordinate Occupy X Crackdowns · · Score: 1

    "you flood the automatic trade daemons with false quote data" - good luck with that.
    - First, you have to get connected to marketplaces in a way that makes flood possible. This is not cheap (upward of 30K a month for that.)
    - Second, putting in orders with no intention to execute is called "market manipulation" in SEC book and will get you a fine between 100K and few $M depending on severity of the offence.
    - Third, people who can deal with as much traffic as you describe already are gainfully employed by US trading houses so the only things you will flood are you 10G uplinks to exchanges.

  17. What about deferred liabilities like pensions? on US Gov't Pays IT Contractors Twice As Much As Its Own IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Once you pay contractor, there is no unknown deferred liabilities that would likely double or triple FTE cost if accounted for.

  18. DJIA is irrelevant anyway on Apple Too Big For the Dow Jones Industrial Average · · Score: 2

    The index is too narrow. S&P 500 and Russel 2000 have much better coverage of broad economy. Not coincidentally S&P500 and Russel2K ETFs, futures, and options are among most traded on capital markets.
    The publisher of the index, Dow Jones agency also owns Wall Street Journal and that maybe why DJIA is not forgotten just yet.

  19. Risk control failure on IT Could Have Caught $2 Billion Rogue Trader · · Score: 1

    IT will not catch anyone. They do not have neither authority nor knowledge of applicable risk limits. Authority to control traders risks are granted to "risk managers" (duh!) This loss is an abject failure of a risk manager that was assigned to monitor the trades. Unless the trader cooked the books to hide what he was doing as in SocGen case of last year the risk manager deserves to be thrown out of his job with black mark and put in jail for long time.

  20. Re:Let me be the first to say on Russian Space Agency Determines Cause of Soyuz Crash · · Score: 2

    If you can't value a human life, ask life insurance professional. Short version: a human generates income stream. Value of someone's life is a sum of that income from present to death of the individual. So if GDP per capita today is 14K in Russia and 45K in America then average American life is three time as valuable.

  21. And what exactly will be moved on it? on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    People? They fly, it's faster that way.
    Goods? Sea transport is much cheaper.

    Plus, the infrastructure from from Bering strait to Trans-Siberian railroad and China down south simply does not exist (in U.S. terms.)

  22. I always wondered on Verizon Employees End Strike · · Score: 1

    What it is so special about physical wire-line installation business that attract dumbasses in much greater proportion than other networking professions? Now I kind of embarrassed to miss the obvious: unions.

  23. ...those who carefully architected massive fraud.. on How Linux Mastered Wall Street · · Score: 1

    You mean sponsors of government policies that allowed anyone breathing to get a loan and Dodd and Frank amongst them?
    I totally agree with you.

  24. Re:C++ blows on multi-core and multi-platform on Chrome 14 Beta Integrates Native Client · · Score: 1

    to make it work with the new multi-core CPU architectures is a total PITA.

    HFT industry disagrees. But those devs keep quiet, they do need sluggish C-pound lovers on the other side of the trade to make money.

  25. Socialism works great on United States Loses S&P AAA Credit Rating · · Score: 1

    ... until you run out of other peoples money. (Margaret Thatcher)

    This is what just happened.