The dark pools run by some of the big brokerage houses are doing what the GP describes though, and while that's not HFT it is another problem with the markets.

You're greatly exaggerating with "swinging your head wildly" in response to the OP's post. I learned to drive with and always have my mirrors splayed out to cover my blind spots rather than the end of my own car (as is recommended by many driving experts). However, given the size of the mirrors, I still have a tiny blind spot that's the perfect fit for a motorcycle who's riding too close to my lane and hugging my rear quarter panel. A slight tilt of my head and I can clear that spot. It's not necessary when regularly scanning the road to keep track of traffic, but I always do it before I change lanes just in case.

Contrast that with 90% of folks who have their mirrors turned to watch their own gas caps, and have to fully turn their heads to check their much larger blind spots before changing lanes. That's the "swinging wildly" bit that's more dangerous.

I don't have any issues with your 180 degree mirror idea, other than that it would take time to adapt to it. Drivers that start with it would likely be fine.

I worry about someone's computer telling them that the light is about to change... it's about to change... it's about to change... and when they realize it's not going to change and they can't stop in time is also when they hear the ambulance's siren coming through from the right, where the ambulance used their local override to keep their own light green. Voila, car - ambulance accident.

Yeah, I don't even think the idea of spy satellites doing this is particularly shocking. I'd be more shocked to learn that we don't have any satellites able to pick up the broadcasts from commercial planes over the Indian Ocean at 3 AM. If you or your airplane broadcasts something into space, you should expect it to be heard by anyone up there who's listening.

Because if enough of them do it you can triangulate where it came from?

I generally assume spy satellites pick up and record anything and everything they can. There's no laws that protect data being broadcast into space from being captured by spy satellites, so why not grab anything you can and sort through it later?

Of the many millions of primates infected with retroviruses like this, some of those infections replaced egg or sperm DNA that was previously responsible for the specialization of stem cells. When the replacement DNA didn't also drive specialization, I suspect the offspring was naturally aborted (or grew as a tumor until it killed its mother).

Sometimes though, the virus mutation that replaced the DNA also happened to be able to create the same or similar encoding. Voila, this virus is more successful, because it lives on in viable offspring, who now specialize their cells via virus DNA instead of regular old normal DNA. Since this virus lives on, this particular mutation manages to show up in lots of other places in the DNA of the creatures it infects, until many years later folks on Slashdot are wondering about it.

That's a pretty successful virus IMO. Though since the "virus" part is just the DNA, and the DNA is now part of us, it would make more sense to say that our great^1000th ancestor had three parents: mommy, daddy, and virus.

Aye, just need someone to dump some chocolate and a few billion yellow, orange, and brown candy shells!

So because the NSA could install a keylogger on every gmail user's machine worldwide, google shouldn't bother to encrypt the data on their internal gmail servers where the NSA was previously snooping on all of it at once?

Of course there's always a weak point. Make that point less weak and the work to steal the data gets a little harder - maybe hard enough to defer the attacker - until the attacker adapts. Then fix the new weak point, and iterate until death.

World of Warcraft gold isn't a great example, but if you traded your Eve cash for free playing time, you might have created a taxable event.

Blizzard at least says that WoW gold has no value and is exclusively owned by them and can't be traded for anything else that has value either (since all in game items are worthless) and so there's no taxable event. Eve at least lets you swap your cash for free playing time, which has some sort of measurable real-world value in a way that the IRS might understand.

Or, if limits are fixed per species rather than per hunter, then the drones make it easier to run through the numbers faster and ensure everyone who gets a permit gets a kill. They'd have to reduce the limits to have the same effective kill rate, and that would hurt tourism - equally bad when the goal is to preserve the status quo.

They do if the same guide company can host more hunters per day, each with his or her own bag limit. With the odds of finding more game greatly increased, they can bring out more hunters and still have most leave satisfied with a chance to shoot their gun a few times at something living.

I thought that maybe a bunch of spy satellites picked up and stored the broadcasts, and that they can use timestamps from the various receptions to triangulate the position. That's sort of a reverse-active GPS.

Of course they'll never say "we got this from U.S. and British spy satellites" so they make up something about doppler shift data from a single satellite and hope they find the debris soon to corroborate the story.

Or maybe they did do it all from the doppler shift data they happened to store. It's at least plausible, and there's no need to create conspiracy theories when they aren't particularly shocking.

If there are voices on it, it might indicate who was in the cockpit. It would be even more telling if there's shouting, such as from a locked-out copilot begging the pilot to turn around, or from the pilot yelling at terrorists that they don't have enough fuel to reach Antarctica and that they're going down into the ocean.

It's only completely worthless if its silent.

We have a six cell embryo on ice from last year's IVF cycles. It divided a bit slowly and just missed the cutoff to be included in the fresh transfer, but beat the cutoff to be non-viable and discarded so was eligible to freeze for later.

Given how expensive IVF is and that my company dropped insurance coverage for IVF this year, that embryo is probably my only chance to have a second kid (with the first one on the way). The odds aren't good though, especially for a single-embryo transfer.

That might be your reason to prefer LPs, but that's not at all the reason that I prefer LPs. I have a record player sitting next to me at my desk here at work, and I listen to records because they remind me of music as it sounded in my youth.

And I readily argue that hipsters will continue to prefer LPs over even high-dynamic-range CDs because they will have trained themselves to prefer the distortion.