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Daily Kos: F**k Joe Paterno (Final Important Update, please read <3)
And hey, while I'm on a roll here, I'd just like to say this too-Fuck you [redacted] . I know I'm not supposed to say your name out loud, because you were never convicted of anything, and innocent until proven guilty and all that, and because you are dead but you know what? Fuck you.
from the sickening dept
MPAA Directly & Publicly Threatens Politicians Who Aren't Corrupt Enough To Stay Bought | Techdirt
High-Frequency Trading Inspires a Formula | AllAboutAlpha: Hedge Fund Trends & Alternative Investment Analysis
In a new working paper, Godfrey Cadogan, of Toronto’s Ryerson University, offers a stock-price formula designed to capture the “empirical regularities of high frequency trading.” As is often the case, though, the discussion can leave those of us outside the quant world confused: does the rendering of facts as a formula make them clearer, or does it just create a potentially misleading patina of precision? Given Cadogan’s ambitious-sounding program, linking HFT, bubbles, and crashes all into one formula, one remarkable feature of the result is his formula’s extreme simplicity or, as Cadogan puts it, its “parsimony.”
The Motion Picture Association of America doesn't like us. According to the MPAA blog on Tuesday, "Arts Technica" is a "tech blog with a long history of challenging efforts to curb content theft." (If so, we're the only such tech blog that actually encouraged a now-current MPAA lawyer to do copyright coverage for our site and that recommended the pro-rightsholder book Free Ride in this year's holiday guide.)
MPAA attacks Ars for "challenging efforts to curb content theft"
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Let’s Start Paying College Athletes - NYTimes.com
And one other thing: With Emmert’s backing, the N.C.A.A.’s board of directors, composed of college and university presidents (Emmert himself is a former president of the University of Washington), agreed to make it permissible for Division I schools to pay their athletes a $2,000 stipend.
As we ( Soluto ) move into the Mac world, it became clear to me that I, a proud PC guy, have to become a Mac user for a while in order to be able to get inside the heads of Mac users.
The greatest trick Apple ever pulled was making you think it’s YOUR fault | Roee Adler's Clown College
Operatives within the hacking collective Anonymous called the Christmas weekend release of data pertaining to customers of security firm Stratfor one of the biggest endeavors the group has ever undertaken. For the insiders at Strategic Forecasting Inc. that thought their troubles were coming to a close already, however, they might not want to count their blessings just yet.
Anonymous details Stratfor Christmas hack — RT
I'm speaking loud and clear so those around me can hear.
Daily Kos: TSA Arrests Me for Using the Fourth Amendment as a Weapon (Tales from the Edge of a Revolution #2)
UK unions have warned that VW-style email restrictions might not suit other companies Under the arrangement servers stop routing emails 30 minutes after the end of employees' shifts, and then start again 30 minutes before they return to work.
BBC News - Volkswagen turns off Blackberry email after work hours
from the it-must-be-easy-when-you-see-the-world-that-way dept There's been some discussion about the RIAA's ridiculous report card on Google's "progress" in dealing with infringement.