We better make sure the chief scientist at "Matternet" is not named Miles Dyson...

Sure, always blame the victim. Pluto is such a planetary whore...

I grew up eating silkworm larvae and grasshopper legs. They are quite delicious, I assure you they are not at all gross. It is all cultural. Insects are very viable food source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beondegi

So what your saying is WiFi radiation is cancelling out Cell Phone radiation???!!!!

I do not think you understand what is involved with a trip to Mars. It is very very far away. We have to wait for decades to get the planets close enough just to try to get there with the technology we have. The cost involved with sending things over there is astronomical. We have not been able to do much more than send robots. We cannot send enough provisions to allow humans to live for more than a few months. This is one way trip to die relatively quickly. I do not believe that any TV station in western civilization will agree to broadcast that.

At least he didn't trot out "I have a black friend!!!"

I vehemently disagree that there is no downside. Goldman Sachs is not paying millions to put these servers at the exchanges because they are a benevolent entities. They are doing it because they can suck the profits out of trades. These trades would have happened with HFT, just a bit longer. And the spread would have gone to the either the seller of the buyer. Instead, we now have a middleman that no one asked for getting a slice. A microsecond liquidity is not real liquidity, it is just an illusion of liquidity gone as quickly as it appears.

I have studied HFT a bit. If you have some literature about real benefits, I would love to see it. All I have seen is how it adds "liquidity" to the market without stating what benefit that additional liquidity does for small investors. As even you have stated, there is no additional benefit for microsecond transaction. Why are we allowing something with no benefits?

I didn't realize Wall Street was so caring about small investors...

Seriously, if what you are saying is true, why do HFT purveyors need their servers right next to the exchange servers? If all they are doing is increasing liquidity, why do they need to intercept information before anybody else sees them?

HFT needs to be shut down. All it does is suck profit from small investors.

This still happens in America....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2012/12/04/why-i-wont-be-cheering-for-old-notre-dame/

You are prosecuting people for what they do - making a bomb. Following your logic, owning a nuclear bomb is perfectly fine. You may not have problems with that, but I do and so do most sane people living in a society.

Then why do we ban people from making bombs or even owning ingredients used for making bombs. I cannot go out and just buy a ton of ammonium nitrate. So, should we just repeal any and all laws like that one?

Chirp.... chirp... chirp...

The standard support is now 5 years for MS products.

That was the case for WP as well, but carriers balked since their warranties were considerably shorter. This change is being made so that the OS support is consistent with the device warranties.

Not quite...

It used to be that all Windows OS got 5 years of support. That was the case for Windows Phone 7. But that was not popular with the wireless carriers as their device warranties only lasted 18 months and did not want the hassle of updating their devices beyond that point.

Microsoft is making this change so that the OS support is consistent with the device warranty.

If you want to complain, complain to the carriers.