A nice primer: http://www.edn.com/design/systems-design/4322431/Mind-boggling-math-BCD-binary-coded-decimal-

It's Sunday, what the heck: (Source: http://www.squidoo.com/sheepjokes#module33629552)

A New Zealander buys several sheep, hoping to breed them for wool. After several weeks, he notices that none of the sheep are getting pregnant, and calls a vet for help. The vet tells him that he should try artificial insemination.

The New Zealander doesn't have the slightest idea what this means but, not wanting to display his ignorance, only asks the vet how he will know when the sheep are pregnant. The vet tells him that they will stop standing around and will, instead, lay down and wallow in the grass when they are pregnant.

The Man hangs up and gives it some thought. He comes to the conclusion that artificial insemination means he has to impregnate the sheep. So, he loads the sheep into his truck, drives them out into the woods, has sex with them all, brings them back and goes to bed.

Next morning, he wakes and looks out at the sheep. Seeing that they are all still standing around, he concludes that the first try didn't take, and loads them in the truck again. He drives them out to the woods, bangs each sheep twice for good measure, brings them back and goes to bed.

Next morning, he wakes to find the sheep still just standing around. One more try, he tells himself, and proceeds to load them up and drive them out to the woods. He spends all day shagging the sheep and, upon returning home, falls listlessly into bed.

The next morning, he cannot even raise himself from the bed to look at the sheep. He asks his wife to look out and tell him if the sheep are laying in the grass. "No," she says, "they're all in the truck and one of them's honking the horn."

Computer contacts the police instead and you're arrested for battery.

Google Beta

Dunno, I sent that exact question to foxnewstips@foxnews.com yesterday but haven't received a reply yet.

Guess they're still thinking it over.

This appears to be the source of bluefoxlucid's misogyny:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3148873&cid=41481053

Hopefully he'll get professional psychological help at some point. Contrary to popular opinion, spraying your anger on Slashdot doesn't count as therapy. Unless it's wrt to Microsoft, of course ;)

Protip: The "Post Anonymously" checkbox is located above Comment Subject ;)

Drupal is a standard CMS, taxonomy is a baffling word only if you're not a programmer. If you want to build a lolz kittens site or the like, Wordpress is probably what you should have started with. It's plug and play and designed mainly for non-technical end users like yourself. For even quicker results, try tumblr.com or the blogger.com platform. It has most of what you'll need to get a site working painlessly.

Best of luck.

I was on a jury for an attempted murder case. To the letter, your description matches what happened in that case (I was one of the undecideds). To say the least it was an eye-opener to this legal layman.

After the verdict I came to the realization that if most juries are like this, perhaps there really is a method to the madness. Many of your peers may be irrational or lazy, but by mixing up the pool well enough it produces the best results (i.e. the best you're going to get).

For a guaranteed loss 100% of the time? Facepalm.

No, HFT is something completely different. This was purely a function of *providing* liquidity (market making) that went wrong.

Knight is a market maker. The software was simply buying at the ask and selling at the bid hundreds of times per second, nothing more (a bug that is the polar opposite of how a market maker provides liquidity). How is that in any way related to HFT?

And what parachute? GS bought the accumulated position at a discount in return for cash to keep NITE afloat.

Not sure what's going on with the +5 interesting, can someone clue me in?

The greatest Tom Cruise movie evar.

(Yeah, I can't believe I just typed that either)

In that case, let's hope no one from the Lemon Party runs for office.

What's wrong with a four letter .org? They obviously vetted it. There was also a mention of "dns-ok.us". That domain looks even funkier but it's perfectly legit.

OTOH, the final matched ) in this thread will probably be orgasmic for him/her.

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Heh.