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  1. Re:Well yeah... on US ISPs Using Push Polling To Stop Cheap Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The reason that nobody has done that is actually very simple. The initial investment in infrastructure is at a minimum in the tens of millions of dollars, and too make that even worse the credit markets are currently frozen so good luck getting a loan.

  2. Well yeah... on US ISPs Using Push Polling To Stop Cheap Internet · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Surprise someone finally realized that the last mile is a natural monopoly and should be a utility.

    This totally ruins their business model of selling something that costs almost nothing for a lot more than nothing.

    Of course they're going to pull out every stop to well stop this from happening.

  3. Re:Dumb article. on Using the Internet To Subvert Democracy · · Score: 1

    Oh hey look now his friend is losing by over a thousand votes... I WONDER how that happened...

    *snickers*

  4. Re:So what on IE8 Released As Critical Update For XP · · Score: 1

    Norton embeds IE, it's a big part of the reason that the interface is dog slow.

  5. Yeah that seems REAL LIKELY on Chinese Hackers Targeting NYPD Computers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right people in China are attacking the NYPD computer systems.

    That seems way more likely than people in NY using proxies in china.

  6. Re:Great idea on MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No because robots don't have a tendency to wipe their ass with their hand and then not wash. Which the current group of farm labor seem to have a strong propensity for.

  7. Admitting to a felony on Twitter Gets Slammed By the StalkDaily XSS Worm · · Score: 1

    way to go boy genius enjoy jail

  8. Re:What about XFS? on PC-BSD 7.1 Released With Integrated Software Manager · · Score: 1

    ZFS in FreeBSD is still in alpha. Basically it consumes a huge amount of memory and kernel panics if you don't tune it correctly.

  9. Re:10 gigs? on PC-BSD 7.1 Released With Integrated Software Manager · · Score: 1

    That would be because PC-BSD includes a ton of stuff in the default installation. I'm sure you can get it down to much less than that fairly easily.

  10. Re:2 jokes, 1 question on COBOL Turning 50, Still Important · · Score: 2, Interesting

    COBOL -> ASM -> C would almost definitely be a more accurate translation of the COBOL code.

    Just a though

  11. Re:actual article on Conficker Downloads Payload · · Score: 4, Interesting

    also it looks like http://www.confickerworkinggroup.org/ is down

  12. actual article on Conficker Downloads Payload · · Score: 4, Informative
  13. Re:How about a policy: NO PAYWALLS! on MS Researchers Call Moving Server Storage To SSDs a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    his signature has a berkeley.edu domain name, so i would assume that he would have access.

  14. Re:How about a policy: NO PAYWALLS! on MS Researchers Call Moving Server Storage To SSDs a Bad Idea · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What you mean that UC Berkeley doesn't pay for you to have access to this article?

    sucks for you

  15. Today is a Great Day for /. on Cells In the Retina Tile Like Puzzle Pieces · · Score: 4, Funny

    What is this?

    Not only is there a link directly to the article, but there is a link to the actual paper!?

  16. Re:AP Is Pricing Itself Out Of the Blog Market on AP Says "Share Your Revenue, Or Face Lawsuits" · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're giving you the price it costs to pay the human cost (salaries, benefits, travel costs) of reporting the news you say you want to give your readers. It's not cheap.

    It is cheap when they're selling the exact same information to every newspaper on the planet...

  17. Re:Is why 'conficker' is also called 'up and down' on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    Right but on a margin call you still get any profits and are responsible for any losses.

  18. Re:Responsibility..... on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    OH nose you caughted me!

  19. Re:Responsibility..... on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    Second, when the line of credit was discovered and rectified, it effectively lowered the amount of credit you were allowed, which lowered your margin, which per your existing agreement, allowed them to forcibly sell your portfolio to bring it back to within your approved line of credit.

    Actually that would cause a margin call, if someone had made a profit off of their investment they would probably be able to come up with the margin given that it would mean guaranteed profits. Also with a margin call you are given the profits Zecco simply reversed all of the transactions and took both profits and losses.

  20. Re:Responsibility..... on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    You're car analogy is wrong. They didn't put the money into their account, they extended them a line of credit.

    1. They mistakenly gave 1% of their users a line of credit which was far outside those users actual line of credit.
    2. Some of those users then used that line of credit to purchase stock
    3. They realized their mistake
    4. They forcibly sold the shares which had been purchased on the lines of credit they had offered.

    I'm sorry is it just me or does it seem like Zecco are the ones committing fraud here.

    If I offered you a ten dollar line of credit to purchase stock with, you accepted and purchased said stock, I changed my mind, and sold the stock (which is your property) it seems to me that I would get in trouble for fraudulently selling your property.

    Unless I'm missing something here...

  21. Re:Is why 'conficker' is also called 'up and down' on April Fools Sees Fake Extra Millions For Users of Brokerage Site · · Score: 1

    Wait let me get this straight.

    1. They mistakenly gave 1% of their users a line of credit which was far outside those users actual line of credit.
    2. Some of those users then used that line of credit to purchase stock
    3. They realized their mistake
    4. They forcibly sold the shares which had been purchased on the lines of credit they had offered.

    I'm sorry is it just me or does it seem like Zecco are the ones committing fraud here.

    If I offered you a ten dollar line of credit to purchase stock with, you accepted and purchased said stock, I changed my mind, and sold the stock (which is your property) it seems to me that I would get in trouble for fraudulently selling your property.

    Unless I'm missing something here...

  22. Re:First thing I want to get data on on Data.gov To Launch In May · · Score: 1

    it's merely an ongoing effort to de-legitimize his presidency.

    He's doing a great job of that all on his own.

  23. Re:Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    I don't know what they were planning on throwing at Cheyenne Mountain but I know I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it.

    Actually cracking Cheyenne mountain would not require an enormous bomb, when it was constructed the most accurate weapon available was a bomb dropped from a plane that would guarantee hitting anywhere within about a square mile. Cheyenne mountain became obsolete with the first set of high precision warheads.

  24. Re:Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is on Obama Calls For Nuke-Free World · · Score: 1

    /me eats Lunzo

    trolls are so tasty

  25. Re:... lol. on North Korea Missile Launch Fails · · Score: 1

    Yes I'm fully aware he was talking about him.

    The official position of the United States is that he in fact was involved in terrorist activity. The lack of information forces the assumption that they are telling the truth, they had no reason at the time of his arrest to both with extraordinary rendition if they did not truly believe that he was involved.

    Do you honestly believe that he was deported to Syria just because they didn't like him?