MAC addresses are changeable. Thanks to Digital for forcing that option, IIRC :)

My solution was intended to not only nix the advantages of those with higher speed links over other high speed links, but also remove the advantage over those without high speed links. 30s may actually be too short. Perhaps a 5 minute window would be more appropriate.

It would be better to have random delays introduced from 0-30s, which causes out of order sequencing on trades, making HFT relatively unreliable and unusable, since the high speed links currently used to facilitate those ms advantages will be entirely negated.

Now I like that idea, except if you're suing a homeless person. I'd say keep recoverable fees at 10% and actual expenditures under the median income. Still a nice limiter that's automatically indexed to inflation.

Wasted a lot of time going to the bank, lawyer's office, USPS/UPS/FedEx, listening to crappy NOAA for the item of interest to come up, spend hours getting through to your broker to sell during a market drop, etc etc.

While you may have the time to do all those things, some of us are actually working and fully booked. I can live without all of them, much like I can live without electricity, gas, or even sewer/water service (solar/generators, wood fired stoves, septic systems and wells) but those are all much more inconvenient than the "utility" services.

You are way way off base. You left off

And, while prices didn't drop a lot, service certainly improved in leaps and bounds. We used to have party lines (shared lines where only 1 subscriber could talk at a time to an outside number, but all members of the party line could chat with each other however much they wanted. We also used to have manually operated switches, 5 digit numbers, etc etc etc. All of those were "upgraded" within the monopoly window to the systems that we still use today.

Yep - average car 35.6 mpg. I know there's a whole slew of them below 30, meaning there's another slew in the 40+ range. There's only 17 motorcycles above 45 (which is still below the lowest rating on a prius) 7 of which are 250cc or less and don't really count IMNSHO.

My point here is that there are a whole slew of cars available that are equal to motorcycle MPG, which, honestly, removes any fuel saving argument from the motorcycle camp as most won't buy/ride those motorcycles anyways. Only 2 Harley's beat (barely) the prius' city mileage. So again, what's your point? Oh, and here's a nice list of numbers Honestly, motorcycles should be getting a minimum 70 MPG to be worth a look given those numbers, and a gas guzzler tax applied for anything below 50.

I certainly did - the passenger vehicle *average* for 2013 is right about inline with a large percentage of the motorcycles. The 200cc mopeds or scooter equivalents I discount, as there are passenger vehicles that are similarly much higher, a Tesla, for instance, goes to infinity for MPG. Your point?

With H1Bs.

Honestly, it's a stupid question for the CTO of a company with the implied sizing and complexity of the codebase. His better question would have been "how do we bring this in house to better utilize our resources and improve productivity". The cloud is the opposite on both questions at the implied scale.

This is a provably false statement. The average MPG of motorcycles is actually worse than passenger vehicles. Then you have to consider the additional risks of riding a motorcycle, and it's a no brainer - just buy a slightly more efficient car since those are averages for cars, so half will be more efficient.

Have you been watching Helix? (Arctic I know)

But this is where they are wrong - AT&T doesn't "own the highway". In fact, we the taxpayers own said highway as we paid the telecoms huge sums of money in the 90s in the form of tax incentives for said highways that were never delivered as required. Perhaps we should repatriate the highways back to the municipalities, and the services that AT&T and other provide would be the only thing we pay for.

A) MS most certainly missed the dock, boat, and ocean on both phones and tablets, almost as badly as the internet. Except this time they were too far behind to buy/force their way into either market. They were still swinging the antiquated Windows phone at the iPhone when the iPad came on the scene shifting the consumer market yet again. Android was better positioned to come in with a relatively untarnished name behind it, Windows Phones were just DOA from that point forward, and tablets just never materialized.

At this point, MS would have to recreate something like the XBox to make meaningful headway in either market, and while they have the bank account to attempt it, they would still have to overcome quite a bit of negative perception towards their products. Perhaps a whole new line with a whole new look? Since they've already fubarred the metro (MS modern?) UI, that probably won't be the answer either. Maybe reskinned, ditch all desktop capabilities, and just go from there?

BTW - love the MS fanboi's that appear to have mod points to spare today :)

Seems they went into bankruptcy as soon as discovery was filed. I'd say it looks like Apple's lawsuit merely hastened what was already a failing business model. And that business model was to take software only licensed for Apple products and run it on non-Apple products. Seems like a reasonable reason to file a lawsuit.