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Comment Re:This ladies and gentlemen (Score 1) 222

We had such a law in Poland:
Dz.U. 1921 nr.30 poz.177 (also Dz.U. 1920 nr.11 poz.61): Art.2: An official, guilty of accepting a gift or another material benefit, or a promise thereof, [in matters relevant to duties], shall be punished by death by shooting.

It applied to both politicians and regular members of administration. Guess why this law got dropped...

Comment Re: No - it's about the power of the nuclear lobby (Score 1) 53

Merkel's relationship and strategy with Russia/Putin was complex. I believe her goal was to maintain stability and prevent escalation to avoid conflicts or more serious conflicts. Hindsight is 20-20 and sheâ(TM)s been criticised by many people for how she handled Russia.

Comment Re:Security Vulnerability (Score 1) 121

Sounds more like an EDID problem. I don't know how to debug that on Windows, but you can check that on Linux, search for the EDID blob on the 'Net, and install it on Windows.

Eg. for one of my monitors I have this bit in .xsessionrc:
xrandr --newmode "1600x1200"x60.0 162.00 1600 1664 1856 2160 1200 1201 1204 1250 +hsync +vsync
xrandr --addmode HDMI-A-1-5 1600x1200x60.0
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1-5 --mode 1600x1200x60.0
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1-5 --rotate left
xrandr --output HDMI-A-1-5 --left-of DP-1

I just realized this would be better put into /etc/x11/xorg.conf like we used to in the previous millennium -- that'd let saved layout apply automatically -- but hey, it works.

On the other hand, Windows requires raw EDID rather than parsed modelines.

Comment Ford, too. (Score 2) 159

I bought a Ford F-150 XLT (the full-hybrid pickup) and was very disappointed to find that several of the features (Including Blue Cruise and navigation) were subscription-based with an initial free period of a year or so.

Other than that the vehicle is fantastic - but was very pricey when I bought it, so having to pay over and over for the features was a very annoying surprise. (They quit working rather than quit updating when the subscriptions run out.)

Comment Maybe not to individual people, but ... (Score 2) 14

... a bunch of cancer progression theories based on cell culture progression had to be thrown out when it was discovered that the cultures were being contaminated by a particularly robust and aggressive cancer cell culture, HeLa, which had contaminated lab equipment like environmental chambers or survived equipment sterilization and eventually took over culture lines in labs.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 55

Chrome is a better product than Firefox, but if I wasn't such a heavy Mac user, I would make the same choice as you. I can take a lot if it means no Google in my life.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 55

I ditched Firefox and Chrome at least 13 years ago and have used Safari exclusively since. In fact, Chrome hasn't ever been installed on this MBP, which I've had for five years. I don't miss their bloating and battery drain, nor having a privacy raping app from Google. I also appreciate the integration with Messages and Mail for how easy this makes 2FA on web sites that send codes, as well as unified keychain and history across all of my devices. That doesn't mean I'm unaware of the current state of the other browsers: I do have FF, which I dabble with occasionally, but it drives me nuts, it's just shit and it's obvious why it's losing market share, and I get forced to use other browsers on remote Windows machines or in local VMs of Windows and Linux.

Comment Re:If I'm understanding this correctly (Score 4, Interesting) 215

You pay him for access to his insider trading information?

I'm not sure that most algorithmic trading firms could touch this with a bargepole.

The US has fairly lenient laws when it comes to insider trading, but the EU, for example, is much stricter; laws which basically boil down to "trading while in possession of MNPI". The regulator neither has to prove that you used the information, nor that you benefited from it, merely that you possessed it and you traded in a way that could have been influenced by it.

The main requirements that have to hold for the EU is that the information is "precise, non-public, and price-sensitive"

I don't know other regulators rules so well but my googling says that "Canada: generally prohibits trading while posessing undisclosed information obtained through special relationships"

There is, of course, some confusion on whether the information is "non-public" which I suspect Trump will play on, but I think these posts will be seen as Trump announcing that he is going to enact some government change, not that he has, and as such is unlikely to satisfy any non-US regulator as to it being anything other than MNPI (or worse, market manipulation - firms trading in the EU could be sanctioned even if Trump himself cannot be)

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