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Comment Re:Good Fix... (Score 1) 460

by xerxesdarius on Wednesday May 19, 2010 @07:25PM (#32271786) Attached to: New "Circuit Breaker" Imposed To Stop Market Crash

This sounds like a band-aid solution to a bigger problem. Millisecond trading is exploiting the system; it just sucks profit out of tiny variations in the market. Why is it allowed?

Because without them, the market would be even more volatile? (the trades being a bet that the market will revert to some short-term mean) or Because free individuals should be able to act in any way that does not involve fraud or force?

More Claims From NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice 271

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday January 29, 2009 @11:58AM from the where-does-it-end dept.

eldavojohn writes "Russell Tice, former NSA employee & whistleblower, has revealed yet more details claiming that wiretapping was combined with credit card data to target civilians. He also suggests the CEOs of major companies hold the truth: 'To get at what's really going on here, the CEOs of these telecom companies, and also of the banking and credit card companies, and any other company where you have big databases, those are the people you have to haul in to Congress and tell them you better tell the truth.' Will Congress follow his suggestions?" This adds to information revealed by Tice last week that the wiretaps targeted journalists in particular.

Comment Re:Hmm (Score 1) 154

by xerxesdarius on Tuesday January 29, 2008 @03:20PM (#22225142) Attached to: Telco Immunity Goes To Full Debate

"My constitutional rights are very expensive." My constitutional rights are not for sale.

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