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Comment Re:This is great news! (Score 2) 179

by Plumpaquatsch (#49605195) Attached to: NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out!

I've read the remarks about the current climate change argument, but personally I think that needs to be under NOAA or other climate related institution. NASA needs to get back to what it was designed to do: Push the boundries of Space Exploration.

Any of the climate related satellites have a huge selection of launch capabilities, and do not need the umbrella of NASA to launch.

Sure. Until the next bill tells NOAA not to send satellites up, because they don't have "Space" in their name. Anything involving both "Space" and "Atmosphere" are to be done by private enterprise to save tax money.

Comment Re:Is it the phone or the stupid stuff installed o (Score 1) 484

neither I nor any of my many friends running iPhones are having the sorts of issues he's describing...

Or they have found out the things (for example specific apps, settings or usage patterns) that make iPhone unstable and have just learned to avoid them.

Ahh, so when Android seems more unstable, it's just because Android users are too stupid to find the apps that make it so?

Comment Re:The next big scare (Score 1) 98

by Plumpaquatsch (#49602351) Attached to: Apple's Next Frontier Is Your Body

The non-removable Apple Watch begins blinking when you need to make a visit to the doctor. After 24 hours it starts beeping. Shortly thereafter it also beacons over a cellular link so the attendants can easily locate you.

So battery life is no longer a problem all of a sudden?

Comment Re:Let's Have This Argument Again (Score 2) 124

by Plumpaquatsch (#49560889) Attached to: When Exxon Wanted To Be a Personal Computing Revolutionary

You are incorrect. At the time of the Amiga, the Apple II, the Commodore 64, and other such machines, only the IBM PC was a "Personal Computer." It was a brand, not a generic term. The "generic" term was "micro computer".

You disagree with IBM then, who called the IBM PC "the IBM of Personal Computers" in one of the introducing ads. Which only makes sense if there were other Personal Computers before. http://s7.computerhistory.org/is/image/CHM/500004393-03-01?$re-medium$

Comment Re:TIL (Score 1) 124

by Plumpaquatsch (#49560757) Attached to: When Exxon Wanted To Be a Personal Computing Revolutionary

Yeah, because it's really hard to unplug the cable from that Atari console and plug it into the Apple II. It requires electricians with union cards and stuff.

Bah, sophisticated people had one of those combiners, where you plugged in two or more aerial/antenna outputs from your aerial, your VCR and several other devices like computers and game consoles, and had one cable going to your TV, either passive or with a switch to select input. Advanced Electrician's Magic, knowledge now lost to the ages.

Comment Re:Son of Sam (Score 1) 301

Nobody would want to quote his personal diary if he hadn't committed any heinous acts.

Just like nobody wants to quote Anne Frank's diary? Which BTW remain protected for many more decades. Also "The Fonds has granted rights for the use of Anne Frank’s texts in plays, ballets, textbooks, etc., sometimes free of charge, sometimes for a fee, depending on the type of project. "

Comment Re:Obvious (Score 1) 350

Because it's always good to have less features?

While I'd agree that the dying in a disaster due to lack of enabling the radio is a silly stretch, if it can receive FM, why not?

And then what? Cue the episode of Southpark where The Internet went down. And the emergency broadcasters didn't know what to report because the bloody internet was down.
Crime

Futures Trader Arrested For Causing 2010 'Flash Crash' 310

Posted by Soulskill from the moving-at-the-speed-of-government dept.
New submitter dfsmith writes: Apparently the "Flash Crash" of the stock market in May 2010 was perpetrated by a futures trader in the UK. The US Justice Department alleges that he used a "dynamic layering scheme" of large-volume sell orders to confuse other buyers, hence winning big in his futures trades. "By allegedly placing multiple, simultaneous, large-volume sell orders at different price points—a technique known as 'layering'—Sarao created the appearance of substantial supply in the market. As part of the scheme, Sarao allegedly modified these orders frequently so that they remained close to the market price, and typically canceled the orders without executing them. When prices fell as a result of this activity, Sarao allegedly sold futures contracts only to buy them back at a lower price. Conversely, when the market moved back upward as the market activity ceased, Sarao allegedly bought contracts only to sell them at a higher price."

Comment Re:Unless (Score 1) 301

They are not stealing the content. They are quoting with attribution in a scholarly work. There is no country in the world that does not allow you to quote someone else.

There are very few countries in the world that don't limit that right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

in Harper & Row v. Nation Enterprises,[17] the use of fewer than 400 words from President Ford's memoir by a political opinion magazine was interpreted as infringement because those few words represented "the heart of the book" and were, as such, substantial

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