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Watch High-Speed Trading Bots Go Berserk

Posted on August 8th, 2012 at 22:45 by Desiato in category: Robber Barons

The animated .gif above shows the rise of high-frequency trading across several U.S. stock exchanges over the last five years. You’ll notice that there’s relatively little activity in 2007, followed by spikes in activity at the opening and close of the market starting in 2008. And then, sometime around the start of 2010, activity becomes much, much more frenetic and erratic. The image was originally posted by Nanex, a company that provides market data to traders.

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pete on August 9th, 2012 at 22:21:

Has anyone found any correlation of this data with sun spot activity, phases of the moon, Pastifarian holidays or the launch/recall of psychoactive chemicals in the environment? Its bound to tie in with something and could get someone a major research grant and an award from Improbable Research. Just saying.

Obama That I Used To Know

Posted on August 8th, 2012 at 18:18 by John Sinteur in category: Indecision 2012

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timmy t on August 8th, 2012 at 21:00:

This song really needs to die.
Desiato on August 8th, 2012 at 22:20:

Completely awesome.
matt w. on August 10th, 2012 at 15:07:

I’m not sure what people who really appreciate this video actually thought was gonna happen when a black guy got elected and tried to refit healthcare (16% of US gdp), get us out of wars, reverse DADT, as well as try to get enough spending in place to keep the economy from totally tanking. He’s been under attack like I’ve never seen and though I despise much of his choices,I think he is doing quite well and it is amazing that he is the front runner for November.

Like it or not, politics IS about winning. There is a reason there are no videos like this of Dennis Kucinich–he never fucking won. The scatterbrained whining of the coastal elite types is exactly why we have endured so much conservative ass-fuckings for the last 20 years.
matt w. on August 10th, 2012 at 15:09:

Pardon the grammer–whoops forgot to proof after editing

One man, one dog, one Facebook photo that has touched thousands of hearts

Posted on August 8th, 2012 at 16:14 by John Sinteur in category: Great Picture

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A photo may be worth 1,000 words, but professional photographer Hannah Stonehouse Hudson has learned it can also be worth 2.2 million views, 191,162 likes, 108,766 shares and 21,936 comments (and counting) on Facebook.

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porpentine on August 8th, 2012 at 22:39:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxA6zxBMzp8
Sue W on August 9th, 2012 at 15:11:

Hey, porpentine, I’ve got a pony tail!

Republic of Ireland abandoning religion faster than almost every other country

Posted on August 8th, 2012 at 15:15 by John Sinteur in category: Pastafarian News

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Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Catholic Communications Office said faith was not a “numbers game”.

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Microsoft sticks to default Do Not Track settings in IE 10

Posted on August 8th, 2012 at 15:14 by John Sinteur in category: Microsoft, Privacy

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When Microsoft shipped its Release Preview of Windows 8 in June, it announced that the default browser, Internet Explorer 10, would have the Do Not Track (DNT) signal enabled by default. That action unleashed a heated debate in the Tracking Protection Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

To the advertising and analytics companies that make up the tracking industry, this issue is an existential one. If the default browser in the world’s most popular operating system is set to disallow tracking, the effect would be profoundly disruptive to companies that live and die by their ability to follow users around the web.

After much discussion, the working group agreed that DNT could only be turned on by a browser if that decision “reflects the user’s preference.” The result was a consensus by the working group that a browser (technically, a user-agent) should not enable DNT by default.

Today, Microsoft answered those critics by saying it still intends to enable DNT in Internet Explorer in IE 10. But the final released version will make one concession, according to Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Brendon Lynch, who announced the decision in a blog post

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Desiato on August 8th, 2012 at 16:55:

From farther down:

One of Microsoft’s most ardent foes in this debate is Mike Zaneis, SVP & General Counsel of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, who has argued strenuously that the tracking industry should feel free to ignore DNT signals from anyone using any browser that enables DNT by default:

Sounds a bit like a lose-lose situation.
John Sinteur on August 8th, 2012 at 17:00:

The only way to be sure is to use a browser that doesn’t send the request in the first place. That way, there’s no DNT flag for the tracking site to ignore.

In other words, to use AdBlock.