Meth and coffee are a world apart in strength and effect. Meth and Adderall, not so much.

Sure, but they were slow, expensive, and didn't do anything that the average Joe needed to do, so most people in that era didn't buy one. $1300 was a giant pile of money in '77.

The C64 wasn't until '82. It really brought the price down but still wasn't cheap at nearly $600. Most of the adults who bought one did it for their kids. They became a lot more affordable a couple years later.

But even then, most adults had little reason to have a computer at home and most who used one at work did so by rote. They didn't need to know how the things worked in order to do their job, so they didn't.

The mid to late '90s was when computers in the home became the rule rather than the exception. A 30 something then is a 50 something today.

I'm not an expert, but I know enough about it.

Much like I know how oops insurance works even though I'm not a wise guy.

HST works the same way. They routinely (and algorithmicly) place a bunch of orders they have no intention of actually executing. That's how they manage to jump in between legitimate trades so they can skim a penny or two off the top.

There's your answer. He did exactly what they do, but did it cleverly enough to remove the speed advantage. As a result, the money flowed the 'wrong' way and so Wall Street's pet investigators must put a stop to it.

Sounds like the way practically all institutional high speed traders work. So the crime is apparently that the money flowed the wrong way.

You should be able to cancel whatever part hasn't already been paired with a matching sell order. But once it gets paired up, it's yours.

That would be why we don't accept a bullet entering a person as "probable cause" to believe the shooting is justified.

It's fine to use the dogs to find drugs. It is not fine to consider the dog alerting to be probable cause.

They do have uncanny accuracy for telling drugs from not drugs. They are also a pack animal and want to please their master. So it doesn't take them long to learn when their master will be pleased if they act like there's drugs in a car. It takes quite a while longer to teach them the fine points of the Constitution.

It's easy to just claim there must have been drugs in the car at one time and write it off.

Even if you bought your car brand new, you cannot be sure that nobody on the assembly line had drugs on them nor that a salesman at the dealership never rolled one in the car.

What do you base the claim of consistency on? I haven't seen any analysis showing any consistency at all in the field.

Am I the only one who sees that as the "adult" version of siblings in the back seat: "I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you!".

It's broken because it subverts democratic representation and allows the already fantastically wealthy to get a bit more wealthy at the expense of moving everyone else closer to a situation like East Germany before the fall.

The thing is, it wouldn't just suck for people who know what they're doing. VOIP and some games won't work well that way either. Anything like that needs to be seen as a stopgap only running in parallel with IPv6 deployment. There actually are people claiming that more NATting faster is an actual solution to the problem INSTEAD of IPv6.

It's important not to mistake the bridge to the solution for the actual solution.

One way it might help is that it will make IPv4 feel very much like the second class citizen.

I have no doubt you will have a few id10t's calling rattling off (fake) credentials or actually meaning they managed people who did those things.

But honestly, is it so much to ask that the card flipper automatically ping the customer's router and others on their street before haranguing them to reboot their modem, router, PC, car, cell phone, and cat before even considering the possibility that they might know what they're doing?

Quite honestly, with some very basic training and proper tools, there's no reason any of my connection down calls should take more than 30 seconds to result in a truck roll even if they don't believe a word I say. For that matter, with proper monitoring, the truck should be rolling by the time I call.

To top it off, in addition to better customer satisfaction, they would save money by keeping the calls short and especially by avoiding rolling a contractor truck that has no ability to fix the actual problem on the line.