Comment Re:Assassination Politics (Score 2) 291
If you bet that your own house burns down, it's insurance. If you bet that your neighbor's house burns down, it's a credit default swap.
Comment Re:How long are shareholders willing to wait? (Score 1) 258
That's wrong. If a company buys assets, then it's profits decrease,
No, the profit decreases only when the assets depreciate.
Comment Re:I make beer... (Score 1) 73
Obligatory Günter Grünwald.
Comment Has a cap I will never meet (Score 1) 290
And that probably applies to most of the people who answered "Does not cap my bandwidth".
Comment Cool, why not reenact WW2? (Score 1) 317
@Wehrmacht1939: "Seit 5 Uhr 45 wird jetzt zurückgeschossen!"
German Researchers Hit 40 Gbps On Wireless Link 104
judgecorp writes "German researchers from the Fraunhover and Karlsruhe institutes have achieved 40Gbps transfers over 1km using a wireless link. The new record raises the hope that point-to-point wireless could be used instead of expensive fibers in some rural broadband applications."
Partially thanks to transmitting between 200GHz and 280GHz.
Comment Rap superstars (Score 1) 288
Normal rap stars just don't cut it. Also, supergroups in any music genre.
Comment Guerrilla guide (Score 5, Interesting) 218
The Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting is probably one of best resources you can find.
Comment The effects of this poll are already visible (Score 1) 469
Comment Re:What I have noticed (Score 1) 240
Note that the Cherry G80s are available with three different types of keys: "click pressure point" (loud and clicky, preferred by most typists), "soft pressure point" (not so loud, I currently use one out of consideration for my co-workers), and "linear" (no pressure point at all, not recommended). These keys are also used by many other keyboard manufacturers.
Comment Re:That is an ignorant response. (Score 2) 165
The problem is their SSL keys are 1024 bit, which is trivial to break if you have $168 million.
Then guess how many bits the RSA key of the google.com certificate has.
Comment Re:Urheberrecht (Score 1) 218
You can act as if, but you can always go "Fuck you, cooww and shee-keeenn! Now you can't use it anymore!" if they are stupid enough to fall for it.
If an author signs a contract with another party granting an exclusive license to publish a given work, is that unenforceable?
Of course it's enforceable. The OP doesn't have a clue.
Comment Re:Could we hear some Germans tell this story? (Score 1) 473
which is subsidized by the electricity consumers (NOT by the goverment, as some seem to think).
Even worse, it's not subsidized by the industry, only by households which consume only a fraction of the total energy output.
Comment Quote Stuffing (Score 4, Interesting) 617
Where's the news? This is called quote stuffing and has been going on for ages. The reason is simply to mislead or overwhelm the HFT algos of competitors.
Comment Re:What % always considered us the enemy? (Score 1) 362
Since when are the USA at war with Pakistan?
