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Comment Seriously? (Score 5, Insightful) 288

"with some leaders in the tech industry touting her potential as a pro-tech president, and others diving head-first into the misinformation circus that's being driven by new tools like AI"

That's right, either you're a Harris supporter, or you're misinformed. And that, in an article about bias. Yay, world.

Comment Re:Blender.IO (Score 1) 21

I'm not sure where you see that. It says Blender.io has been sanctioned.

Lots of things that are sanctioned still work just fine. Tornado.cash will continue working indefinitely despite sanctions: it's distributed software that exists only on the blockchain. The sanction simply means that now it's illegal to use it if you are a U.S. Citizen.

Comment Misleading title (Score 4, Informative) 53

From the article:
>Nearly all retail trades are executed away from exchanges.
>That is partly due to rules that allow market makers to offer fractional sub-penny price improvement on bids and offers, whereas exchanges have to quote in pennies.
>Gensler has said that has created an uneven playing field in the competition for retail orders.
>Gensler has asked SEC staff to recommend potential changes to harmonize the ability to display sub-penny quotes on and off exchange.

So basically they are fiddling with some rules on the back-end so that the markets are more closely aligned with the "market-makers" and the connection between the two can't get badly out of synch.

This feels like a pretty reasonable technical fix to me.

Classic Games (Games)

GOG.com Not Really Gone 276

gspr writes "On Sunday, Slashdot and many others reported that DRM-free games site GOG.com was shutting down. Now the site is back, revealing that it was all a hoax. According to the site: 'Now it's time we put an end to all the speculations once and for all. It's true that we decided that we couldn't keep GOG.com the way it was so we won't. As you probably know by now, GOG.com is entering its new era with an end of the two-years beta stage and we're launching a brand new GOG.com with new, huge releases.' So it was all an advertising stunt."

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

I think what my sibling post is trying to say is that the "price" differs from the "value" in that the buyer and seller may have asymmetric information and or be acting irrationally. In fact I would be nearly certain of it. Furthermore, the faster the trade takes place, the more likely one of these is to be true.

Idle

The Neo-Geo Song 70

At least 50% of my paychecks would be converted into tokens and put into one of many Neo-Geo machines at the arcade when I was in high school. It's good that my favorite old games finally have an anthem.
Networking

Throttle Shared Users With OS X — Is It Possible? 403

whisper_jeff writes "I work in a design studio where the production director is also the owner's son (translation = he can do no wrong). He is fond of accessing a designer's computer via filesharing and working directly on files off of the designer's computers rather than transferring the files to his computer to work on them there. In so doing, he causes the designer's computer to grind to a near-halt as the harddrive is now tasked with his open/save requests along with whatever the designer is doing. Given that there is no way he's going to change his ways (since he doesn't see anything wrong with it...), I was wondering if there was a way to throttle a user's shared access to a computer (Mac OSX 10.5.8) so that his remote working would have minimal impact on our work. Google searches have revealed nothing helpful (maybe I should Bing it... :) so I was hoping someone with more technical expertise on Slashdot could offer a suggestion."
Canada

Dead Pigs Used To Investigate Ocean's "Dead Zones" 106

timothy writes "As places to study what happens to corpses, the Atlantic Ocean is both much larger and much more specialized than the famous 'body farm' in Knoxville, TN. But for all kinds of good reasons, sending human bodies into Davy Jones' locker just to see where they float and how they bloat is unpopular. Pigs don't pay taxes, and more importantly, they don't vote. So Canadian scientists have taken to using them as human-body proxies, to study what happens when creatures of similar size and hairlessness (aka, us) end up 86ed and in the drink."

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