Out of curiosity, does anyone know what needs to change in order to, in effect change the definition of OTA to include OTI (over-the-internet)? Does a new law need to be passed to update the definition? Can it be done through the executive branch? (which will no doubt be contested in court, but still). It seems like these sorts of archaic laws will need their day of reckoning. Personally, either scrap all OTA mandates and rules or include OTI. I do not think that "converting" OTA to OTI in a round about manner makes sense, it simply dodges the issue.

While pedantic, it does make the clear point that in there are two sides to every trade and more often then not if you are making money, it comes at someone else's loss. There is no "loss" in a salary, you receive money and the employer receives work.

In a classic ponzi scheme you are right, you need a fool standing behind you. However the hedge fund, by being short the stock, will be the last person in line since they are the only ones that HAVE to buy the stock. Literally every share that WSB has purchased could be exited at a gain when the hedge fund closes their positions out, because there aren't enough shares out there to cover them. That is the beauty of this investment thesis - there is an end game where they can feasible all win, it just takes banding together and holding the shares. Of course there are many was it can go wrong but that is true of every investment.

Another TL:DR useless article by Bennett - please add a feature so we can block his boring, unending essays that no one cares about.

Can someone tell me what Koushik Dutta has to do with this and maybe what app they are referring to?

I used to run an active, unlimited TOR exit node on my office PC during non-work hours, that is until for some unknown reason our office had our Skype account blocked - I called Skype, my network provider, everyone trying to figure why we couldn't access Skype at all from any of the computers on our office network (we have a fixed IP which could have added to the problem). I read some threads on the Skype forums that this has happened to several people - apparently once Microsoft integrated Skype over the last year, anyone running an Exit Node was blacklisted. Note that we got any kind of notification, just a banned IP, they would not even confirm we were banned. I shut down my Exit Node and about 2 weeks later Skype returned. Not exactly what I call a positive treatment for a so called "good application."

I really wish I had some mod points to give you.

For the most part I agree with you, except for the "a little RC aircraft might give your kid a cut if it crashed into them" - that cut could be a death blow to his head! Just two months (reported here on Slashdot and elsewhere) someone was killed flying their drone (granted doing some stupid trick) but it does illustrate that the dangers are real - especially if the drone is landing in someone's yard.

This is a real sham - Plasma TVs, and Panasonic ones specifically (the ST60 model lineup) are consistently the highest rated TVs out there. CNET has several article devoted to why should only buy plasma tvs and not LCD. The main reasons? Significantly better colors, no motion blur, wider view angles. I have a Panasonic TC-P60ST60 and it looks amazing. The real reason that LCD sell better? They do look better in bright rooms, though not by much. What room is the brightest of them all? Bestbuy show floors so that is where the comparison is made, not your living room.

It would be very interesting to see on the results of the poll plotted in a time series - to see how people's perception of him have changed. About a week ago I thought he was a hero, but now as he flees from country to country, and releases information about NSA intelligence gathering in China I am starting to doubt his altruism.

Sorry its 5pm on the east coast and time to go home so I didn't RTFA - anyone care to just give me the bottom line?