But right now, it's a legal cat and mouse game for both sides. With DRM, it becomes illegal for the mouse to do anything but get eaten.

Maybe I'm just missing something, but I don't see why DRM being implemented in an HTML spec is any different from implementing it in Flash or Silverlight or Javascript. The DMCA doesn't care about specs.

I could "protect" the copyright on my site's content with a trivial bit of a javascript, and you would arguably be circumventing it with your ad blocker.

(To be clear: I think the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions are terrible policy.)

It's only right if you believe there's no cost to your spying being uncovered.

If you don't think there's any cost to being caught spying, I welcome you to try spying on someone, anyone. Then you can answer the question of "Is it worth it?" which leads directly into "Is it a good idea?"

There's money in both places to be made. They're not exclusive.

I don't understand the utility of this boot to desktop feature. The moment you want to do anything, you're back in the start menu launching programs.

What problem does it solve, besides moving the first thing you use to the second thing you use?

Many people also have pinned applications to the task bar. For 95 % of programs I launch I don't need the start menu or start screen at all.

Then why not pin those to the start screen, as well, and have an even larger mouse target for getting started that isn't at the bottom of your screen? (Unless you're using Win+1-9, in which case, ignore me)

My first game was 1 point. I tried clicking on the falling bugs and saw some numbers lighting up, but I didn't quite realize I had to click on the numbers at the bottom to 'prep' rockets.

My next game was a much more respectable 25.

Heh. I keep beating my high score in almost every new game I play.

The problem is not the HFT firms buying stock cheaply and reselling it for a profit. As the article points out the problem is investors placing a buy order, and the HFT firms seeing this buy order and snapping up the remaining stocks before the original buy order is fully completed.

This has the negative side effect of essentially making it impossible to buy for the listed price, even when there are supposedly enough shares available for purchase at that price.

As I pointed out in another comment, it's not just buying low and selling high; it's like Walmart interrupting a customer to jack up the prices on a purchase in the middle of that purchse, precisely because that customer is buying that specific item.

HFT firms don't see the buy order before its get to the market. They see that a bunch of quantity was bought so they raise their prices on the other markets. Because the purchaser had bad order routing, he moved the market and the hft firms were able to raise prices for what they believe the new market price to be.

Say you decide you want to buy up a bunch of property that's all on one street, and the market price for each property is listed at $100,000. Once word gets out that you made the first purchase for $100k, the prices on those other properties are going to go up, because if there's a buy at $100k, they might as well start negotiating at $110k, but they have no idea if there's a buyer who wants just one property, or all of them.

Now, only the buyer know how much he wants to buy. If he was smart, he'd go to each seller and execute at the exact same time so when word gets out of a purchase and prices go up, he's already purchased everything he wanted, the uptick in market prices actually benefits him.

It's the same thing with trading. If the guy is buying a couple thousand shares scattered across a dozen exchanges, he absolutely needs to make sure they get posted to the exchange at the same time, or he needs to break them up in small orders over a period of time so he doesn't affect the market with his purchases.

Your understanding of what HFTs do is factually incorrect. They can't see buy orders before they hit the market.

They sort of can with flashed orders.

If computerized grocery checkout machines would stop halfway through the 10 cases of discount soda you bought to raise the price on the remaining 5 cases, then this analogy would be what the article is talking about.

It's also a problem if you're an artist that makes something 'close enough' to Mickey Mouse, and you don't have the resources to both fight the legal battle, and support yourself while your income stream is shut off due to the legal battle.

The article mentions that 'full control' becomes increasingly unlikely as you lose rotors, but partial control is still possible. You can influence how fast the quadrocoptor falls, reducing impact velocity or steering it to crash in a more favorable location.