Some performance increase?

Have you ever used one? Best upgrade (in terms of noticeable speed/responsiveness) increase since doubling the RAM on that old pentium box in 1996....

Republicans? Small government?

Jesus christ man, what planet (or moon) are you living on where that's even remotely true? The repubs power grab and over-spend every bit as much as the other clowns.

And take a lot of people's money with them!

I'll stick to the normal economy for now, at least there I have some form of legal redress.

Fine, you're saying that the current bitcoin community is, in general, a bad place to put any financial faith (and therefore money).

I agree.

Actually it's exynos, Samsung's ARM, not tegra.

Not sure I'd call the USA phones high end, necessarily. They have less cores because samsung have to compromise and use third party chips in order to get LTE. I know the Qualcomm stuff is good, but I'm not sure I'd wager on it being *that* good.

Geekbench also seems to have recorded multiple scores for the S III that are above the 1601 reported for the iPhone 5.

All in all I'd say that there's actually no useful information here at all,

So all the folks running the exchanges and other hacked services, if indeed they were hacked and not just subject to fraud by the owners, were all fools who hadn't taken 10 minutes to learn basic security?

Face it, whatever the security of the protocol, the record of the bitcoin community and the services run by said community is deservedly in the gutter.

You could get alarm clocks that you switched off by throwing or whacking back in the 80s. Not new.

I guess it would be nice if it was more often recognised that it is a secondary purpose, rather than the centre of the known universe and more important than any/all other economic activity...

And that would be every bit as illegal as artificially pumping stock you have an interest in.

The whole market is full of human scum, it's true. The only point I'm trying to make is that a short sale is no different to any other in this respect.

I view that the other way round - One way or another I will be tech support for my mother. It would be easier for me, as someone that doesn't use windows any more, to support her using linux.

But frankly at this point I don't want the hassle of moving her from one OS that she knows how to use badly to another she doesn't know at all.

Lol.

I love libertarians, no consistency. First you call people decrying this stuff statist scum, then in the next breath you're supporting the current financial markets, some of the most state-supported, sponsored and backed-up institutions around.

Yup, sure, nobody ever called anything after an animal before Apple released Mac OS X.

What colour is the sky on your planet?

Does gambling on shares do that at all?

I can see a reason, if that's your only criteria, to allow companies to sell shares and raise cash. I'm not sure I see what the trading afterwards is good for in that worldview. It might encourage people to buy shares, so they can trade them.

But in that case why should it be illegal for someone to lend their shares to a second party, who sells them to a third party then re-buys later and gives the same number back?

Me, I still don't see what the stock trading market adds to a company. After initial sales it's not like they get any of the crazy money that's flying around.

So what? There's still no fraud there.

And maybe you don't want to take the risk, you just want to hold the stock and collect a nice fee every so often.

And maybe you don't think they're going down short term, it's no disadvantage to you to charge some schmuck to borrow your stock and lose money on a failed short.

If it's insider trading its illegal whichever way you're betting.

Maybe the guy loaning out the stock, or the guy going long is party to news that they have a groundbreaking product due to launch ahead of schedule that the competition are going to be years catching up to. In this case going long is no more gambling than going short.