emkman - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Pesky constitution (Score 1) 1047

by emkman on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @05:46AM (#38802729) Attached to: US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive

the NDAA killed the first, fourth, and sixth amendments.

The NDAA provision is a statutory law, it CANNOT overrule any amendment. If they are in conflict, then the NDAA loses.

And after that, WTF? How did it kill the first amendment? Did it establish a relgion? Prohibit the free exercise of religion? Abridge the freedom of speech, or press? Or our right to peacefully assemble? Or did it eliminate our ability to petition the government for a redress of our grievances?

Actually yes, a strong case has been made for how NDAA abridges freedom of speech for the press: http://www.alternet.org/story/153843/chris_hedges%3A_why_i'm_suing_barack_obama/

Comment Re:Facebook doesn't fill a necessary role (Score 1) 470

by emkman on Monday January 10, 2011 @05:37AM (#34821030) Attached to: Is Mark Zuckerberg the Next Steve Case?

All of the industries you named have prominent examples of companies and styles that have go under because people just stopped being interested or because their product or style was not fashionable anymore.

All the industries? When have people ever been uninterested in drugs?

Comment Marketcetera Open Source trading platform (Score 1) 161

by emkman on Friday February 27, 2009 @09:53PM (#27019625) Attached to: Industry Open-Sources Model For Infamous CDS

Marketcetera recently saw a 1.0 release, and is currently deployed in over 20 financial institute production deployments according to their confluence page. It uses the open and standard FIX financial data protocol, and personally its one of the coolest things I have ever seen. I would love to get a team of coders and quant. analysts together, hook Marketcetera up to a FIX compatible provider like Penson or Lime Brokerage (yes, same people as Limewire), and start a blackbox fund. You could rival any major financial institute for almost no start up costs. Truly amazing.

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