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Even if the guy with the cat photo isn't a complete jerk at first, he may not remain so once an enterprising IP attorney starts filling his head with visions of easy millions to be made by becoming one...if you'll just sign here please.-40hz (October 10, 2012, 11:10 AM)
I think it went on for an entire week more because the regulators were watching it closely to see exactly who/what it was and what it was trying to do before they said anything. The last thing you (usually) want to do when you have a 'bogey' in your network is disconnect them too quickly. And definitely not before you attempt find out who they are and what they're up to.
Kick them off or shut them down too soon and they will always come back.-40hz (October 10, 2012, 08:36 AM)
) Now this makes sense ... But I still find the absence of the customary Head-on-a-Stick a bit troubling.“My guess is that the algo was testing the market, as high-frequency frequently does,” says Jon Najarian, co-founder of TradeMonster.com. “As soon as they add bandwidth, the HFT crowd sees how quickly they can top out to create latency.” (Read More: Unclear What Caused Kraft Spike: Nanex Founder.)(emphasis mine)-The article
^ I guess the thread is well whipped at this stage-tomos (October 09, 2012, 02:54 PM)
When I saw DOS I was thinking someone had a weird program from 1988 or something.-TaoPhoenix (October 09, 2012, 02:32 PM)
As it's on Wall Street, of course no criminal charges were placed. Go figure.-Renegade (October 09, 2012, 11:30 AM)
Translation: The ultimate goal of many of these programs is to gum up the system so it slows down the quote feed to others and allows the computer traders (with their co-located servers at the exchanges) to gain a money-making arbitrage opportunity.-The article
Maybe we are more gullible with tech than other countries, and are more impressed with size and shiny pastic vs. things that matter.-superboyac (October 09, 2012, 10:27 AM)
We'll see how I feel after I try out the Lumia 920.-superboyac (October 09, 2012, 10:27 AM)
Rai stones, any one?-ewemoa (October 08, 2012, 02:36 AM)
"In one instance, a rai being transported by canoe was accidentally dropped and sank to the sea floor. Although it was never seen again, everyone agreed that the rai must still be there, so it continued to be transacted as genuine currency.[4] What is important is that ownership of the rai is clear to everyone, not that the rai is physically transferred or even physically accessible to either party in the transfer."-TaoPhoenix (October 08, 2012, 11:08 AM)
+1 for Fred Nerd-Renegade (October 07, 2012, 07:20 AM)
Not so sure Xearth is a per se "screen saver".Oh no, it's not a sceensaver. That's right. I had forrgotten that it was just a dynamic wallpaper-Stoic Joker (October 05, 2012, 03:58 PM)-IainB (October 06, 2012, 03:42 AM)
- It actually gave me an idea given that live monitoring while one is away from the computer (e.g. SS mode) is a bit of a contradiction. So I just opened it in a browser on my second monitor and hit F11 (kiosk mode in IE) which works effectively as half a screensaver while letting me function normally on the first monitor. Give it a shot..(assuming you have multiple monitors of course)...I do believe it's exactly the effect we were after.Maybe you could learn from something like Xearth - a rather pretty and unique "screensaver" that can show realtime/live earthquakes from around the globe.-IainB (October 05, 2012, 03:40 PM)
would make a nice screensaver..-mouser (October 05, 2012, 12:04 PM)
That is tempting, but I don't think there is enough movement.-Stoic Joker (October 05, 2012, 12:18 PM)
You'd have to put it in a smaller window and move that around quasi-randomly if you did. (That couldn't be easy.)-40hz (October 05, 2012, 01:51 PM)
would make a nice screensaver..-mouser (October 05, 2012, 12:04 PM)
It's an operating system...not the newest installment of a video game-40hz (October 05, 2012, 08:17 AM)
What you mean OS not a video game?? It best game of all! Users at work love to play it...and when they lose, they come to me to put their data back (because evil Trojan man "stole it"). Then they start new game. Also... I kinda doubt the daisies have the characteristic smell that hemp plants have. Those guys ought to be really, really ashamed :-)-f0dder (October 05, 2012, 08:57 AM)
Especially in Canada where 20 years ago 1/3rd of the population admitted to having smoked pot... Don't know what it's like now, but can't imagine it's less. It's not like you can actually get through life and not encounter it at some point. You really have to hide from it.-Renegade (October 05, 2012, 09:35 AM)
I fail to see what the controversy is here. We've seen the same thing with every OS since XP. XP was criticzed for a "fisher price look". Vista was criticized for UAC. 7 was criticized as what "vista should have been". 8 is now criticized with another major UI change similar to XP. It seems par for the course. You are never going to make everyone happy.-Josh (October 05, 2012, 06:51 AM)
I haven't switch to it full time on a primary machine yet, but I'm having a blast with it on my laptop. I like it! Police were certainly convinced they had a huge haul of pot — and this was not the opinion of some lone rookie, frisky at the prospect of a big drug raid.
This was the judgment of veteran officers from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of the Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team — supposedly the best drug squad this province has to offer
We should have a contest for some prize here on DC on how long it will take Microsoft to "fix" the UI in Win8 to revert back to [desktop] normal.
I give them one SP and seven months tops.-zridling (October 05, 2012, 06:19 AM)
It looks pretty.They look wicked cool - what's the link? I might get one even though I'm skeptic wrt. the whole scheme :-)It's just a gimmick to sell copper at inflated prices. That's all. Copper rounds are insanely overpriced.-f0dder (October 04, 2012, 11:57 AM)-Renegade (October 04, 2012, 12:16 PM)-f0dder (October 04, 2012, 02:33 PM)
Also, impulse power does not use the dilithium. The dilithium was only involved when operating at warp speed, as it was used to focus the energy released by the antimatter reaction in order to effectively form the warp field.-SeraphimLabs (October 04, 2012, 11:58 AM)
It didn't used to be rare, back when people had spines. Now our society has become hypersensitive about anything that isn't sugarcoated.-Stoic Joker (October 04, 2012, 06:54 AM)
It's not about sugar-coating. It's a good dose of respect, and the realization that if you do it, and it's done back, then you shouldn't get bent about someone turning your own vitriol against you.-wraith808 (October 04, 2012, 09:53 AM)
What happens with GOTD programs if you ever have to reinstall, btw? I assume the original installer doesn't want to run after the GOTD-day-f0dder (October 04, 2012, 10:45 AM)
Well, unless the person can shrug it off and address the real issue, which is rare-Renegade (October 04, 2012, 03:18 AM)
