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  1. Re:Not us. on Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is Google making money on the news aggregation? I don't see any ads here:

    http://news.google.com/

    So presumably they are making money on search advertising:

    http://news.google.com/news?q=profit

    How terrible of them to provide a service whereby people can search the news and then click to read the original stories (and they give a reasonable amount of credit right there on the search page...).

  2. Re:Make ER work simpler on Scientists Make Artificial Protein Mimic Blood · · Score: 1

    So you are proposing that accident victims should simply choose to lose less blood?

    I don't think that other phases of emergency care are going to take a successful blood replacement as a license to do less (unless it actually made sense to do so!).

  3. Re:Publish or Perish on Questions Linger Over Google Book Rights Registry · · Score: 1

    He probably means that Amazon would benefit from actually having a service that published and publicized public domain content for the Kindle.

    Basically, he wants pink unicorns, I don't think Amazon is making much profit on the hardware, so making less on the hardware and eating away at book sales is a bit unlikely.

  4. Re:Relax on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 1

    I don't see how it can be sustained, and I worry that the investment (much of which seems to be in U.S. treasuries, but I haven't looked closely at that) is simply being consumed (meaning that standard of living is going to see downward pressure from the deficit balancing back out).

    So my concern isn't really about the trade deficit, it is about it going away suddenly, in a way that has a negative impact on my life (I usually ask people if they maintain a trade deficit with their grocery store; it would be hard to find someone who was happy about that trade deficit going away...).

  5. Re:nice on Huge German Donation Marks Wikipedia's Evolution · · Score: 2

    That doesn't even make sense.

    Lots of what they have is already accessible anyway:

    http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html

  6. Re:exterminate, exterminate... beep. on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 1

    If you are courteous enough to use lubrication, you might as well do it right and use something water based.

  7. Re:Relax on IBM Tries To Patent Offshoring · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Lately? It is still huge, but it actually shrank a bit the last two years (the graph cites this file as source data, but is 3 years out of date):

    http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/gands.txt

    And a little less than half of it is oil, which isn't exactly a threat to our ability to manufacture (it is just an expensive habit):

    http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release/exh9.txt

    There isn't really anything good about a huge trade deficit, but a ~trillion dollar trade deficit doesn't really prove that a 14 trillion dollar economy is rotten to the core (but I would agree that there are lots of problems).

  8. You bunch of pansies on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    Just mount a chainsaw on that sucker.

  9. Re:isn't anything created... on The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure it ends up being situational (so in some cases, 1000 characters would not be copyrightable, but in others 30 might).

  10. Re:140 Characters? on The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah, yuck it up. In my defense, I noticed it at approximately the same time as you.

  11. Re:140 Characters? on The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts · · Score: 1

    10^187 pages.

    Oops.

  12. Re:140 Characters? on The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Znork's third edition, now with only 16 trillion characters per page!"

    (It would still require ~1^187 pages...)

  13. Re:Investigative? on Investigative Journalism Being Reborn Through the Web? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wikipedia says that he worked at an investment consulting firm in 1985, but it is likely that he was an analyst, not a quant (based on the timing and the description of the firm...):

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_F._Geithner#Early_career

    Starting in 1988, he held various public positions. The previous Secretary of the Treasury, Hank Paulson, was at one time CEO of Goldman Sachs, perhaps you have your wires crossed?

  14. Re:Investigative? on Investigative Journalism Being Reborn Through the Web? · · Score: 1

    Geithner never worked for Goldman Sachs. If you are insinuating that Goldman Sachs runs the New York Fed, well, you should just come right out and say it, as next to no one here is going to get the reference.

  15. Re:Investigative? on Investigative Journalism Being Reborn Through the Web? · · Score: 1

    It has an unashamed left wing perspective. Perhaps that isn't the same thing as a bias, but if you don't think it has a left wing perspective, well, forest, trees, etc..

  16. Re:Firefox Redux? on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 2, Informative

    Was that a mushroom period?

    The Mozilla suite was the replacement for Netscape, Firefox was a project started later on by a group who decided that the focus and methodology of the Mozilla suite was broken.

  17. Re:What's next, an email client and html editor? on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    The Firefox developers have been actively removing code, but perhaps not as fast as they are adding it.

  18. Re:Command on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    Into social networking?

  19. Re:nice... on Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test · · Score: 1

    Sure. On the other hand, that the particulars of this case make the prosecutor look like a fool doesn't mean that there should be any less focus on the way he is trying to use his power.

  20. Re:Bring back meta! on Slashdot Keybindings, Dynamic Stories · · Score: 1

    It probably isolates comments with conflicting moderation and polls the groupthink about what mod it prefers (the different moderation selections have essentially devolved into up and down...).

  21. Re:nice... on Is That "Sexting" Pic Illegal? A Scientific Test · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Legally. These girls are also being tried in the court of public opinion.

  22. Re:Am i doing it wrong? on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 1

    You hear that?

  23. Re:I would like to see RedHat stay independent on Red Hat — Stand Alone Or Get Bought? · · Score: 1

    Redhat has about $650 million in revenues. IBM has about $103 billion. Redhat represents about 2.5 days of a year for IBM (actually quite a bit less if you throw out weekends and such).

    Redhat is growing pretty fast, but probably not so fast that IBM would be real worried about buying them (rather than creating their own operation).

    (None of this contradicts anything you say, the numbers bring a little bit of perspective)

  24. Re:true, but seems unnecessary on Experimental MacRuby Branch Is 3x Faster · · Score: 1

    There isn't any type inference (Psyco helps with that) and there aren't any declarations. It is a bit of a copout, but the often recommended strategy is to rewrite the slow parts in C (which for the people writing the Python interpreter in C was probably a lot easier and more effective than building an advanced compiler...).

  25. Re:The problem skeptics like myself have with this on The Global Warming Heretic · · Score: 1

    Consumption taxes can be effectively levied one country at a time. I suppose you could tax imported oil as if the tanker was a well, but you face all the same problems as a consumption tax there (because there would be some incentive to move any production that consumed oil out of the country doing the taxing).