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Comment Re:Sadly, sounds like I was right (Score 2) 204

Ah baloney.

Eich was tossed because he handled the controversy like he had aspergers. Those interviews he gave were cringe worthy. CEO's absolutely have to be politicians, they have to be able to handle bad situations in a manner that improves the problem not makes it worse. They can't get asked a question then provide an answer that makes it seem even worse than the initial impression. Even when handed a shit question in an ambush situation they need to be able to dance the discussion, not make it any worse while appearing to look like they answered the question. Eich clearly couldn't do that.

As far as the board members that quit I believe they did so because they didn't like Eich, not because of any stupid money issues. The board of directors are basically quasi bosses for a CEO, they hire the CEO, have ability to fire him with a majority, they can influence policy but the CEO has final say. If the board the CEO don't get along, it's like being in a bad marriage.

Comment Re:Negligence (Score 1) 62

The problem is that we don't know how the discovery was made.

The NSA has apparently known about heartbleed since the start. And I would be surprised if Google and other major corps aren't monitoring criminal forums where these exploits are sold. Which makes me wonder if Google discovered it though monitoring the criminal channels or it's own audits.

Comment Re:also (Score 4, Interesting) 171

Oh hell, they'll just sneak into your home in the middle of the night and plant a hardware bug or key logger into your computer.

One of their favorite tactics used by law enforcement is to install cameras in your residence facing where you normally use your computer. They got a child pornographer like this, his use of true crypt didn't help because they had video of him entering the password and simply entered the password once they seized the computer.

True Crypt cannot reasonably protect you from law enforcement nor state sponsored spying like the NSA. It might protect you from some non-tech police agency in some shit hole country being able to access it but then they just use the standard non-tech password extraction method.

Obligatory XKCD. http://xkcd.com/538/

Comment Re:You can get autism from measles. (Score 2) 588

the symptoms can be indistinguishable from "true" autism (which is mostly genetic).

Please don't spread misinformation. The cause of, or relationship of Autism spectrum disorder to genetics is unknown at this time. The real research on the cause of Autism which started several years ago is just starting to come in. We won't know even speculatively what the relationship of autism with anything is until some point in the future and depending on the complexity of the relationship with genetics it could be far longer.

The two most recent autism studies which I'm aware of have shown a link between increased autism rates and traffic induced smog which is definitely not genetic. I must caution those of you that like to play jump to conclusions that these are simply preliminary studies and unless confirmed by secondary followup studies should be treated as little more than slightly substantiated rumor at this point.

Keep in mind these studies take a couple years to setup and acquire funding and typically have 5+ years of data collection/processing. It could be as much as two decades before we know what the cause of Autism is. My personal bet is on a chemical that began being used heavily in industry in the 70/80's.

Comment Re:I believe Kate (Score 1) 642

You don't even need full sentences like your example. Properly recorded you can cut half sentences together and fully change their meaning to something which was never ever read or said in the original script.

As was already pointed out this is pretty much what happened in Innocence of Muslims. The director shot the film with the script mostly in place as he intended. He then had the actors come back in and say words and partial phrases that without context was meaningless to the actors then dubbed the audio to completely change the main character.

This could have just as easily happened to Kate where she went in and read several hours of script and then in editing the sentences, their order and possibly even parts of phrases were re-cut into different orders completely changing the meaning. This is very easy to do with modern equipment and with a knowledge of the re-cutting that will take place you can even get the actor's tone, phrasing and structure to match so that's its not apparent that it's been re-cut to the lay listener.

Or Kate could just be an idiot and didn't pay attention to what she was reading. Only Kate and film crew actually know. If she sues we'll probably get to find out.

Comment Re:Not the first time this has happened (Score 5, Interesting) 642

One of those actresses recently won a lawsuit against the director for doing so. These people have a legitimate claim IMO that the deception damages their career and should require remuneration along with bans on distribution of the fraudulently produced picture. I wonder if this same situation doesn't apply to this ridiculous movie.

Comment Re:Futile? (Score 1) 322

The problem is proving it was the officers and not someone else. Because there is always a reasonable doubt unless you catch them in the act or make the documentation requirements so thorough that you can catch them lying. By making them fill out paperwork at the start and end of every shift they made it easy to catch them doing it so all but one stopped doing it.

Comment The simple solution is make them document it (Score 4, Interesting) 322

It is possible people are vandalizing the cars (in general and though the public would vandalize ALL the antennas, not just one). The simple solution is make the officers report any damage and fill out paperwork indicating the cause. If they go a day with broken equipment unreported they're suspended without pay for day the first time with a day added per occurrence and fired after 5. If it's a repeated occurrence with an officer they should be monitored in secret by IA to observe if the officer is doing the damage themselves and if they are they should be fired and prosecuted for damaging government property. If the cars are being vandalized by the public they need better antennas that are vandal resistant.

Comment Re:Won't work (Score 1) 342

Because the market operates on lots. A Lot is 100 shares. Say you want to buy 28 shares of a stock, you put in your order and it shows up on the trading boards. Joe blow investors wants to sell 8 shares, Jane wants sell 15 and Loki wants sell 10. The market maker (just a broker that trades in the stock), buys all three for sale lots then sells you the 28 shares, he plays a spread on each and takes roughly 3-5% of the transaction buy executing the trades at higher or lower prices to net his spread. The remainder shares he holds until the next transaction.

If you trade is clean even lots and do so nice even numbers you can probably net a transaction with another investor that eliminates the middle man. If you don't you get fucked by the market maker. Who doesn't trade in even lots? Small investors.

HFT has eliminated the market maker. The systems are buying and selling across dozens of different exchanges and driving the spread down to fractional percents. 10 year ago if you made a market order for stocks it would execute 3% less than the market was when you put the order in. If you put a limit on it the stock would execute at the price you set but miraculously there would still be 1-3% premium lost. I've had this happen to me a dozen times. It doesn't happen since HFT has taken over the market. Billions of shares are being traded daily now as the HFTs each try to beat each other for that 0.00001% margin between stock exchanges and markets.

Comment Re:Won't work (Score 1) 342

Without HFT we go back to the bad old days of Market makers. It's a world I'd prefer not to see again. This is a fact, HFT is providing the volume and market, without it there isn't the market available in anything but blue chips to drive buy and sell during the day. You might not understand this but if you buy or sell any volume that isn't a whole lot (100 shares) you went through a market maker. HFT has eliminated that, even with small partial lots the HFT moves in and buys and sells on the spread between markets. It's creating markets in almost every stock (even pink sheets) that didn't exist 10 year ago.

Only idiots who've never traded in their lives and think they are experts on this think HFT is always bad. Those of us that have been investing for long enough know that what existed before HFT was significantly worse.

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