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Comment Re:Reasons (Score 1) 230

I agree with this. The first term of a president consists of 2 years work and 2 years trying to get reelected. The second term consists of 2 years work and 2 years preparing his/her legacy or not getting anything done because both houses of congress hold back nominations or bills in the hope that the next administration will be in the majority. A single term of 6 years will actually get us 4 years of work out of a president. Still have 2 years fixing the previous administration's policy.

Comment Re:inflated price (Score 1) 134

That being said, the person selling the water for thousands of dollars is liable because he was intentionally ripping me off because there is a product I needed, which he could had sold at a much lower price, and would had sold it without that temporarily extenuating circumstances.

This happens all the time.... you buy something at X price and then you sell it at Y price but now you need to buy replacement product for X+Z where Z>Y so how much new inventory can you get w/o "gouging" the customer?

Comment Re:Constitution? What Constitution... (Score 1) 39

Every upload was done voluntarily. No one's rights were impacted.

Except it was NOT the accused subject that uploaded his DNA it was a relative that uploaded their DNA. That right there speaks volumes... you get "ratted" out by someone else's ignorance. I can control my privacy but this is out of my control.
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Hackers Broke Into An SEC Database and Made Millions From Inside Information, Says DOJ (cnbc.com) 60

Posted by BeauHD from the insider-trading dept.
Federal prosecutors unveiled charges in an international stock-trading scheme that involved hacking into the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR corporate filing system. "The scheme allegedly netted $4.1 million for fraudsters from the U.S., Russia and Ukraine," reports CNBC. "Using 157 corporate earnings announcements, the group was able to execute trades on material nonpublic information. Most of those filings were 'test filings,' which corporations upload to the SEC's website." From the report: The scheme involves seven individuals and operated from May to at least October 2016. Prosecutors said the traders were part of the same group that previously hacked into newswire services. Carpenito, in a press conference Tuesday, said the thefts included thousands of valuable, private business documents. "After hacking into the EDGAR system they stole drafts of [these] reports before the information was disseminated to the general public," he said.

Those documents included quarterly earnings, mergers and acquisitions plans and other sensitive news, and the criminals were able to view it before it was released as a public filing, thus affecting the individual companies' stock prices. The alleged hackers executed trades on the reports and also sold them to other illicit traders. One inside trader made $270,000 in a single day, according to Carpenito. The hackers used malicious software sent via email to SEC employees. Then, after planting the software on the SEC computers, they sent the information they were able to gather from the EDGAR system to servers in Lithuania, where they either used it or distributed the data to other criminals, Carpenito said.

Comment Re:Well the good news is 3/4 figured it out (Score 1) 331

As someone that grew up during the 'race to the moon'. We thought we would be colonizing the moon, exploring the planets and living the life of luxury. Well guess what it hasn't happened in 50 years.... What makes you think A.I. will do this in lets be honest here 25-50 years? I am not going to worry about it as maybe my daughter or her children MIGHT. Hemi Roid

Comment Re:What is a number? (Score 1) 90

by Hemi Roid (#55964241) Attached to: Linking Is Not Copyright Infringement, Boing Boing and EFF Tell Court

It's not the number that's being copyrighted. It's the method of generating the number which is trying to be protected. That is we're looking not at the result, but the implementation.

So I rip a CD and run it through my algorithm I have now generated a comparable number but according to copyright law I have violated copyright.

Comment Re:Uh, no. (Score 2) 127

Anyone with half a brain is skipping the commercials, using that time to get some food/drink, use the toilet, yell at the kids, channel surfing, or *anything* other than staring at the commercials.

You can't avoid commercials by surfing.... all the stations have synced their commercials so you have no choice but to surf to 'their' commercial.

Comment Re:When you miss a metric... (Score 1) 165

by Hemi Roid (#51178461) Attached to: Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion

I didn't watch any of those movies, but I think I once read a book which was printed on paper from a tree which was cut by a logger who uses a phone whose OS contains sourcecode partly written on a computer running Ubuntu.

So I guess 2015 IS the year of Ubuntu on the desktop afterall.

Only if the book was setting on your desktop.

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