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  1. Re:pocket change in Apple's world on Apple $450 Million e-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval · · Score: 1

    relatively

  2. Re:A page from Henry Ford's book... on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 1

    "Ethically and morally" is so ridiculously redundant that I...that I....ah nuts. Blanked. So there!

  3. Temperature? on NFL Players To Use Tablet Computers During Games · · Score: 1

    The devices will be locked in a temperature-controlled cart between games to prevent any team from manipulating the information.

    Huh? How is temperature control going to prevent manipulation?

  4. Re:A page from Henry Ford's book... on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 0

    Your sig is so grammatically wrong that I can just assume the rest of anything you say is also wrong and not worth anyone's time to read.

  5. Re:20mph? on Tesla's Already Shopping For More Office Space · · Score: 1

    Let's hope at least that they are driving electric cars back and forth.

  6. Re:pocket change in Apple's world on Apple $450 Million e-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval · · Score: 1

    I didn't say it was not inflationary, I said we avoid most of the inflation. There was an implied "most of the inflation some models might expect given the growth in the money supply"

  7. Re:pocket change in Apple's world on Apple $450 Million e-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval · · Score: 1

    Yes, they stopped stopped publishing the measures since they no longer kept to a 'target' as the parent had claimed. As far as I can tell, it stays relatively non-inflationary as long as that extra money doesn't circulate. Since a lot of it just sits in an account to polish up the banks' balance sheets we avoid most of the inflation. Plus the velocity of money is very sluggish. The financial markets are all on edge wondering when the Fed might act to pull some of it back as velocity picks up. Regardless, even if the Fed doesn't track those measures there are plenty of other people who still do.

  8. Re:pocket change in Apple's world on Apple $450 Million e-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval · · Score: 1

    Ugh of course that first line should say "misunderstood"

  9. Re:pocket change in Apple's world on Apple $450 Million e-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval · · Score: 1

    You completely understood the term "monetary growth target". The "target" is the key word here, where the Fed would say that they wanted growth in the money supply to match some target. In 2000 they stopped issuing the money supply target. This was back when they claimed there was some connection between money supply and economic results. Now they don't make that claim for the most part and have even stopped tracking certain measures of money supply.

  10. Re:pocket change in Apple's world on Apple $450 Million e-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval · · Score: 0

    What monetary growth target is that? The one they stopped setting in July of 2000?

  11. Re:From a non-driver perspective on The Great Taxi Upheaval · · Score: 1

    You make a great case for more regulation, we can't have people improving their lives like this! Next thing you know people will be hiring their paperboy to do brain surgery.

  12. Re:Identifiers on Countries Don't Own Their Internet Domains, ICANN Says · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Or perhaps, it is like saying the term "Iran" can be seized after a lawsuit.

  13. Re:Are only black people "diverse"? on Jesse Jackson: Tech Diversity Is Next Civil Rights Step · · Score: 1

    Isn't it obvious? Since any disparity with proportions in the general population can only mean some sort of deliberate discrimination, we are forced to conclude that Silicon Valley is unfairly biased in favor of Asian people.

  14. Re:Wow, amazing... on Siberian Discovery Suggests Almost All Dinosaurs Were Feathered · · Score: 1
  15. USA beat them to it on Russia Posts $110,000 Bounty For Cracking Tor's Privacy · · Score: 1

    Well, the US government is already doing this so the Russkies are behind again.

  16. Re:Wow, amazing... on Siberian Discovery Suggests Almost All Dinosaurs Were Feathered · · Score: 1

    I think he means plate tectonics, as in the land mass that would be Siberia was a lot further south at that point.

  17. Re:Is there an SWA Twitter police? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 2

    Not changing the boarding order was a judgement call. Threatening to call the police over a critical tweet wasn't a judgement call, that was execrable behavior and the person making that decision should be fired.

  18. getting worse on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 3, Funny

    And now all the pot farming is going to make it even worse.

  19. Re:There should be 1 federal IT agency on Social Security Administration Joins Other Agencies With $300M "IT Boondoggle" · · Score: 1

    I don't see how yet another huge unaccountable Federal agency is going to resolve the problem.

  20. Business plan on Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% · · Score: 1

    1. Write software to sandbox $APPLICATION
    2. Release report exaggerating "increase in vulnerabilities" in $APPLICATION
    3. Profit!

  21. Re:I Have a New Technology for This on Intel Launches Self-Encrypting SSD · · Score: 1

    I think you should call this "SecurityBrick 3000" and tout its security features more.

  22. Re:Dismantle DHS on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 1

    A BHO is essentially the same thing as an extension, that is just what Microsoft calls it.

  23. Re:i bet on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Frank Herbert wrote in a few of his sf novels about a Bureau of Sabotage that did essentially that, gumming up the efforts of other government agencies

  24. Re:Privacy while crossing the boarder? on Activist Group Sues US Border Agency Over New, Vast Intelligence System · · Score: 1

    If you cross your boarders they may not pay the rent, then where will you be?

  25. Re:Why isn't the U.S. doing things like this? on Japan To Offer $20,000 Subsidy For Fuel-Cell Cars · · Score: 1

    Or if you like, Coke v. Pepsi is not a good analogy because those products are substitutes for each other. A hydrogen fuel cell car is not a substitute for a gas car, people will not simply switch from one to the other due to price concerns. There are a lot of other factors, such as availability of fueling stations, proximity to qualified service providers, and so on. So the people who will buy the fuel cell car are going to buy one regardless. all this handout will do is add the $20k to the price for the manufacturer to profit. Now if the supporting infrastructure for both types of cars were identical, the analogy might be more apt. But in that case there would be no supposed need for the handout would there? Perhaps the money might be better spent building out fuel stations instead of just effectively handing it out to a politically favored car manufacturer.