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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.

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.

Government

Evidence Weakens That China Did the Recent Cyberattacks 197

click2005 notes an article in The Register calling into question the one piece of hard evidence that has been put forward to pin the Google cyberattacks on China. It was claimed that a CRC algorithm found in the Aurora attack code was particular to Chinese-language developers. Now evidence emerges that this algorithm has been widely known for years and used in English-language books and websites. Wired has a post introducing the Pentagon's recently initiated effort to identify the "digital DNA" of hackers and/or their tools; this program is part of a wide-ranging effort by the US government to find useful means of deterring cyberattacks. This latter NY Times article notes that Google may have found the best deterrence so far — the threat to withdraw its services from the Chinese market.
Government

UK Police Plan To Use Military-Style Spy Drones 390

krou writes "According to documents obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act, the UK police plan on deploying unmanned drones in the UK to 'revolutionize policing' and extend domestic 'surveillance, monitoring and evidence gathering,' which will be used in 'the routine work of the police, border authorities and other government agencies.' The documents come from the South Coast Partnership, 'a Home Office-backed project in which Kent police and others are developing a national drone plan' in conjunction with BAE Systems. The stated aim is to introduce the system in time for the 2012 Olympics. Initially, Kent police stated that the system would be used to monitor shipping lanes and illegal immigrants, but the documents reveal that this was part of a PR strategy: 'There is potential for these [maritime] uses to be projected as a "good news" story to the public rather than more "big brother."' However, the documents talk about a much wider range of usage, such as '[detecting] theft from cash machines, preventing theft of tractors and monitoring antisocial driving,' as well as 'road and railway monitoring, search and rescue, event security and covert urban surveillance.' Also, due to the expense involved, it has also been suggested that some data could be sold off to private companies, or the drones could be used for commercial purposes."

Comment Re:Never underestimate the bandwidth ... (Score 1) 235

Government economic stimulus: Treating a patient for anemia with an iron supplement made from his own extracted blood.

I can't resist replying to your Sig...
It's like treating a patient for anemia with iron supplements made from his own extracted blood from the future. We are taking on debt, not trying to push through a one year ballenced budget. I'm not sure it's a good idea, but it's a much better one than what your describing.

Supercomputing

Submission + - First quantum computer demoed, plays sudoku

prostoalex writes: "Canadian company D-Wave Systems is getting some technology press buzz after successfully demonstrating their quantum computer that the company plans to rent out. Scientific American has more of technical description of how the quantum computer works as well as possible areas of application: "The quantum computer was given three problems to solve: searching for molecular structures that match a target molecule, creating a complicated seating plan, and filling in Sudoku puzzles." There are also some videos from the demo."

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