Apple's "original" design process ended with the first iphone. They had a unique design, a super smooth UI, great marketing, great skew management. Everything that has come after is quite a natural progression (albeit better than some other cell phone manufacturing companies), like basic hardware upgrades that could be outsourced to Chinese manufacturing companies that can do things of that nature at a reasonable price.

I don't think IMHO is required when my comment is OBVIOUSLY subjective.

War between technologies? It's a war between rights. If it's illegal for US citizens to 3D print gun parts or drone parts, yet the government and its contractors are utilizing citizens money to develop, design, and test via oppression across the globe, who's losing the war between technologies?

How do you think a thousand dollar rep-rap competes with a million dollar commercial printer? /loadedQuestion

You'd have to preemptively destroy all government military funding because of what it *might* be used to do, and that will lead to a revolution. /ludicrousClosingStatement

Well that's not what I said happened, but I can see how you may have misinterpreted.

To tell you the truth, I haven't heard enough about how the situation was actually resolved. However, the article does say the SEC redacted trades that +/- % 30 of the opening price, which apparently isn't normal for them.

Or just pay millions of dollars to get a fat pipe out of the Chicago and New York stock exchange, write a program that bases itself on the Black-Scholes equation, and take advantage of all the traders that aren't operating on the millisecond timescale.

There's always that option too. Oh and if you're too lazy to watch kill switch connected to your billion-dollar monster, just ask that your bogus trades be cancelled when all hell breaks loose.

source = http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/01/us-usa-nyse-tradinghalts-idUSBRE8701BN20120801

Is there an tolerance in allowable phase difference between generators? I'm pulling thoughts out of my ass right now, but I would assume one location to another has it's own unique profile of phase error vs time. Perhaps the phase difference between generators is significantly less than that caused by the grid demand / supply fluctuations?

On the other hand, if someone has a reference for this universally similar noise characteristic, couldn't I filter it out of my file, then insert noise from a different time period? For instance, if I filtered out the noise typical of a 12/12/12 12:12 recording with that of 11/11/11 11:11 recording, and you analyzed it, what time period would you intuit it was recorded in?

I have family who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

They treated my mother and brother the same way. Waited for a psychotic episode (proper term would be a VERY extreme mixed-state). Have family members agree the individual is a "risk to themself or others." Police bring individual to hospital. Treat individual with anti psychotics and lithium. Worked relatively well for my mother. I think she only went to the hospital 2 or 3 times. She has been holding a steady job, presumably enjoying life without depression, for many years. Constantly on medication.

They tried the same thing with my brother. Now he's pumped up on anti-psychotics and lithium. He can carry on a conversation, smile, laugh, etc, but it seems like he will never be the same. Currently he is living with my parents, without the desire to seek a job, exercise, or connect with old friends. They will switch up his anti-psychotic sometimes, maybe increase the dose. He will never be cured with this method. Some company is going to profit off his condition, and there's a group of professionals and government employees that have little incentive to seek alternative treatment.

What my brother needs is not some device implanted into his brain that gives stimulation. It's whatever unique experience my mother had, sometime in between going completely psychotic and starting to live a normal life again. They were both apprehended, drugged, and released in similar fashions. They had two very dissimilar results. Once someone finds out WHY, it will make a great difference in my family. I'm not saying that drugs can't be used, but continual treatment with antipsychotics is not treatment at all, it's harm reduction.

I realize they are treating Alzheimer's patients with this. However, if it works at reducing brain denigration in Alzheimer's patients, it wouldn't be bad to assume THEY will use it for other treatments.

The whole Myerrs-Briggs type indicator test is a sham.

And here's why. It only captures one snapshot in time, and that snap shot has relatively low resolution(poor questions).

Now let's make a big assumption, and assume the MBTI test has great resolution (great questions) on Introversion/Extroversion. It can tell exactly how introverted someone is at a PARTICULAR MOMENT IN TIME. Then, the people who made the test, assign you to a unique category.

A whole entire field could be dedicated to the RATES at which human beings travel between introversion an extroversion. You could also look at the relative peaks of introversion/extroversion, and the typical RANGES at which an individual moves in a week, month, year, etc.

However, people aren't doing this. They are just wasting time subjecting people to the MBTI test, once here, once there, and looking at the individual results. And here's the problem with MBTI, it's preventing us from studying someone that's better at understanding people. It's a really simple test and it's being embraced too widely. Studying rates, ranges, and etc would help you predict when your neighbor will transition from ISTJ to ISFJ, how long they are going to stay there, and here's the BIG ONE - what will make them switch.

Maybe it was just my MBTI administrator, but she claimed you are more or less a particular type (ISTJ, etc) from birth. She explained there was some natural movement from one category to another, but we didn't dwell too much on the topic.

It's similar to IQ tests. We're always stressing on a particular person's IQ. Why not stress on IQ change. I would like to work with people who are actively trying to increase their IQ, as opposed to those that are probably on the decline. Further more, isn't it weird how we have to ask different age groups different questions to gauge IQ? Why is this? It's probably because the brain is going through a time period of (relatively) rapid development. But if we keep on testing people's IQ, we're probably going to learn very little about the brain development process.

[Introduction] (My apologies for the long introduction to the question, but Slashdot only allows one!)

Mr. Kaspersky,

In the 1970's, following an Arab enforced oil embargo on Israel, the United States found itself a midst an energy crisis. President Jimmy Carter educated America on the Energy Crisis, warning that the issue could escalate into a national crisis, and equating the energy crisis "the Moral Equivalent of War." President Carter outlined 10 policies which touched on reducing demand through conservation, pushing for "predictable and certain" governmental policies, creation of a Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and development of new sources of energy.

Fast forward to the 2010's, and America is in a similar economic condition. Unemployment is rising, economic rebound is uncertain, and inflation all but inevitable. I see the US government pointing fingers of blame at "China" (as if all Chinese hackers represent their state) targeting security vulnerabilities of private and public US companies' databases, which often hold valuable, private information on US citizens. I assume the US government either funding or assisting in the development of malware as a Tool for International Policy. The economic incentive towards hacking continually increases, yet no few steps are made to prevent it.

[Question] Imagine you are President (any country in general, not necessarily the United States) - what policies would you put forward to curb this Security Crisis we are entangled in . I've read some snippets about the 'internet interpol' and 'internet ID,' but I'd like to offer you the opportunity to put forward a short, detailed plan (perhaps 5 or 6 bullet points) towards combating this Security Crisis. If you want to change any past statements, or add a little more substance to them, feel free.

[Post Statement] I hope your own opinions have more sustenance than immature, ultra-libertarian view that government's role is to shrink into nonexistence, ridding the world of its evil. I understand the government is both extremely powerful, yet also inefficient in some cases. I like government, but only when the correct checks and balances are in place.

The city of Minneapolis also estimates travel time and displays the information via over-road screens. I'm not sure how they calculate the trip time (I don't believe it's via bluetooth), but it's a waste of effort, time, and thus money

Here's why it sucks: The display boards are infrequent - there's like 1 board along my 25 minute drive, and I drive via heavily traveled highways and freeway. Because they are so infrequent, I can only obtain trip length information for half of my trip.

Here's what they should have done: Hired a developer to create Android and Apple apps which pull trip information from Google Maps for each individual's specific route. Google Maps already adjusts the estimation for trip time when additional traffic is on the road. Google has already done the calculations - no need to reinvent the wheel.

Further more, the trip time is virtually worthless by itself. It only serves to give you a realistic expectation. Ideally, we should suggest alternate routes, for example, leaving the freeway early and driving on a less traveled frontage road. If they took off optimized the number of travelers on the freeway, it could speed up the average speed of those on (and off) the freeway.