HFT works on every transaction and has zero risk for them. Tens of billions of dollars per year siphoned out of pension funds. OK with you? Not OK with me since it's know, can be fixed, but isn't.

HFT overcharges are fleecing the market to the tune of $50 million per day. Many billions per year. Adding no value, and tacking on % charges to each transaction. It's visible to those who trade, they can't fix it and the SEC won't touch it - justifies it, as this piece shows. That's how it's worse: we know it's going on and we're blessing it.

>>The problem is that large portions of the plant are radioactive...

Bingo, the fatal flaw of nuclear power. Those darn high-energy neutrons get randomly sprayed all over the place, and then large portions of everything around is radioactive. Haven't seen a design for a fission reactor that admits this, solves this, or even attempts to address it (hey, just "clean it up" when it's done - which means move all the radioactive stuff somewhere else and let it simmer in their back yard for 10's of thousands of years). Let's look then at renewables, shall we?

>>I don't think Joe Bloggs is the one trying to breach a US nuclear silo.

Profile fail.

Not sure what you expect from your government, but here in the USA we have a range of options, from bupkis, to the triad (personal savings, worker pension, social security, all of which were paid into), to whatever you can scrounge. If we can get the government to pay for anything beyond health care at 65, it would be both lucky and meager.

Yes - to phone calling and texting, we can now add real-time network analysis of the car to the list of dangerous distractions of the electronic kind.

Apparently this is a book about WWII approved by the NSA. I'm not surprised there is no new info here.

Let's hope Visa then sues Walmart for not paying a living wage or health benefits, forcing Visa, and everyone else, to subsidize the hundreds of thousands of Walmart employees with government services via higher taxes.

Seems like the NSA and CIA might be by nature beyond oversight. Their job includes assuming that the worst scenarios are possible, which then justifies any action to thwart them, including lying to their overseers in order to keep doing illegal things they think is necessary to prevent those worst possible scenarios. It's bureaucratic paranoia resulting in functional schizophrenia that makes sense within the hive mind but not within the greater public mind that employs them to keep us safe.

Next threshold: grateful for getting up in the morning.

Anticipate the convergence of the evolution in useful netlinked hardware with the growth of your target audience.

Shoot for One Google-Walker Per Senior.

But that's the point of this article. The Gov. did notice the surcharges on its bill and wants them removed. I wonder how long they were on hold before they got to talk with someone who would listen to their story, review the bill, and make a plan to remove the charges or not.

Interesting that there's no office or central representative that we could ask, "what does the [Tea, TEA] Party mean anyway? Can't even ask the people who are funding it. Some Party.

Speaking of "ground water", I believe the island is susceptible to high tides now and it (the island) is not getting any higher. A recent study (http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/planning/climate_change/TreasureIslandStudy.pdf) used 55" as a plausible/high level for sea level rise (SLR) by 2100. It rose 8 inches in the last 100 years, according to the same study. Plus the island is isolated as far as public transportation - perhaps people are looking to build in a place near SF that most people have trouble getting to?
Seems like a poor choice for a place to invest in the long term, if it's going to be underwater.

... and I thought, "Like Hari Seldon?"