Comment What? (Score 1) 218
It's hard to believe there were not already rules in place about the automation of the market place.
SEC Blames Computer Algorithm For 'Flash Crash' 218
Lucas123 writes "The US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an 87-page report (PDF) on the results of a months-long investigation into the May 6 'flash crash' that sent the Dow tumbling almost 1,000 points in a half hour. The Commissions are holding a single trading firm's automated trade execution platform responsible for the crash, saying it dumped 75,000 sell orders into the Chicago Mercantile Exchange over a period of minutes causing an already volatile market to come crashing down. The SEC has already enacted some quick rules to pause trading if a stock price should rise or fall by 10% in a five minute period, but the regulators said they expect the results of the investigation to prompt additional rules limiting the functions of automated computer trading systems."
Comment Re:Taliban Playable? (Score 1) 495
Mod Parent up. Strip the name from one, strip the name from all the others.
Comment OuO (Score 1) 625
This makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
Comment Woah, (Score 1) 299
Aren't there better, cheaper, less locked down options out there for home theaters?
Comment BEHOLD (Score 1) 246
SCIENCE. Now wait for people to come out of the woodwork claiming that the sandvich bag was placed there by god etc etc.
Comment Wait, wait, (Score 5, Insightful) 478
You already can't sell violent games to minors in most places. Minors aren't buying the games, their parents are.
Comment YES (Score 0) 287
I want to watch a full movie using HDR.
Comment Re:Mmm, (Score 1) 233
Oh well I'm on the darkside now. Feels kind of...sinister in a good way.
Comment Mmm, (Score 2) 233
I suddenly feel very Brazilian right now. I wonder if they need Chemists in Brazil...
Comment Re:*Sigh* More liberal BS (Score 2, Insightful) 703
My troll-dar is pinging.
Comment Last.fm (Score 1) 271
Next thing you know they'll be buying out last.fm.
Comment No (Score 1) 366
No, what's wrong with them they can't touch my data. I keep very incriminating things in there.
Comment Shield please. (Score 1) 789
I'll take the shield thank you. I would not like to meet rocket launcher guy and web browser windshield guy and invisible guy on the road. I don't want to meet Jet car/ Heli car guy either.
Comment Why? (Score 1) 764
I'd like to study why freshmen are buying expensive macs rather than inexpensive everything else.
