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  1. Yes, I have. Yes, it is bad. Changing nominal wages is hard to do in any system. If you think you have a way to change wages and prices in unision, I'd be interested in hearing it. Greece would too.

  2. The first quote provided to you was after he wronte choice in currency. He's for sensible currency policy not inflation, not deflation. Bitcoin will evenutally end up deflationary.

  3. Re:Great on Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1)Although the official prize name is ."Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". Its listed on the nobel prize website http://www.nobelprize.org/ That is not propagada, just common sense shortening of the name.

    2) No, he did not

    "“I agree with Milton Friedman that once the [1929] Crash had occurred, the Federal Reserve System pursued a silly deflationary policy. I am not only against inflation but I am also against deflation. So, once again, a badly programmed monetary policy prolonged the depression.”

    F. A. Hayek, interviewed in 1979, from Conversations with Great Economists: Friedrich A. Hayek, John Hicks, Nicholas Kaldor, Leonid V. Kantorovich, Joan Robinson, Paul A.Samuelson, Jan Tinbergen by Diego Pizano.

    “I think it is certainly true that ending an inflation need not lead to that long-lasting period of unemployment like the 1930s, because then the monetary policy was not only wrong during the boom but equally wrong during the Depression. First, they prolonged the boom and caused a worse depression, and then they allowed a deflation to go on and prolonged the Depression.”

    F. A. Hayek, interviewed in 1977

    http://hayekcenter.org/

  4. You realize that bitcoin does not do that. There is a maximum number of bitcoin possible, after that deflation will kick in. Deflation is something any nobel prize wining economist would go to extremes to avoid.

  5. Re:The Daily did not understand the web on News Corp's The Daily iPad App Shutting Down On December 15 · · Score: 1

    No, they didn't accidentlally not use the web, they purposefully made it anti-web. They don't like the sharing that's possible. They just wanted a digital distribution system that enforced their copyrights. And that's what they got. Not surprisingly, its not very lucrative to have content restricted like that.

  6. Re:*facepalm* on Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail · · Score: 2

    Show it to the average consumer and ask them what it is. They won't tell you its an "ultrabook" ( and they wouldn't even if they knew what that was) they'll say "tablet" and compare it to ... other tablets.

    Its like porshe comming out with a new model that looks idetnical to a toyota yaris. They need an easy way for consumers to tell where the extra money and reduced fue effiencincy is going. The nameplate of porshe helps, but you could also show them different performance specs and have them test drive it a bit. Microsoft needs to do something to make it easy to explain to people why its differnt than other tablets. Oh wait, they already have an identical looking device that does behavie like a tablet in surface with windows RT. That would be like porshe developing two cars identical to the yaris, one with great performance you'd expect of porshe and antother that has performance on par with the yaris. Basically, MS is screwed. That's too dificult to explain to enough people.

  7. Re:Uhm.... on Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail · · Score: 1

    Maybe I didn't write enough there. What I'm trying to say is that there was a legitimate requirement for the government to be concerned for his welfare and protect him from himself. Now people reading this might not understand what suicide watch normally is and read the description and think that its a cruel and unusual punishment reserved for Manning, but its not. One should also keep in mind that he's still in the Armed forces. Daily life in the Armed forces isn't a pleasure cruise and soldiers are subjected to things that may kill them on a routine basis. He shouldn't experience any kind of tortue in prison, but we should keep in mind A) military life is different and B) life in prison sucks in the US regardless of who you are. I think this is more a treatise on how bad prisons are and how bad military life is, than any kind of cruel retribution from the government.

  8. Uhm.... on Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail · · Score: -1, Troll

    So he contemplated committing suicide at one point, then was upset that he was put on suicide watch? Even if those events were separated by a couple years, that isn't a legitimate complaint per se.

  9. Re:Politics + Facebook = Pain on Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    yes, but its a thousand times more difficult to use than in Google plus. Something as simple as draging contacts and droping them into various categories has completly eluded facebook's engineers.

    Its death by a billion configurations for every action and every thing you upload/tag/post/poke/etc that were bolted onto a system that originally only had two categories of people (friends, not friends).

  10. Re:This is a good thing on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding, OEM's would *love* this, if they manage to make upgrading the operating system as difficult as phone manufactorers have. Most people buy new phones every two years due to contracts and the face that upgrading the os is not easily done.

    Just make Windows RT the constantly updating operating system that can't be upgraded and OEM's will love microsoft. That is, if consumers get on board with windows RT and everythign that comes with it (lack of x86 compatibility).

  11. Re:But without DRM ... on GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won · · Score: 1

    How does it not just show that very few people knew about the DRM free version? Either people prefered the DRM Version, or over a million purchasers were unaware of it.

  12. Re:Irony? on GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that assumes that pirates knew about GoG. I think it just proves how poorly known GoG is. Its like me saying that it was Ironic that Obama was elected, when it was clear that (obscure candidate X) was a better qualified candidate. Its only Ironic to most people if the other option was well known.

  13. Re:Why not systemd? on Ask Mark Shuttleworth Anything · · Score: 2

    Basically upstart was first and they went through a cylce of bug fixes that they didn't want to repeat for systemd just because other people chose it.
    They actually are using and shipping systemd for the udev stuff, but not as the init daemon.

    its a very pragmatic strategy that they may revisit after waiting for redhat, suse and others to find/fix all of the bugs in systemd so they don't have to suffer through that again.

  14. Re:Surface iOS Bridge on Is Oprah Cheating On Her Microsoft Love? · · Score: 1

    IMHO, you just defined the usecases for *all* tablets regardless of manufactorer.

  15. Re:You'd Think They'd Learn on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Maybe the activists should release a swarm of drones at the same time to be hit by as many bullets as possible.

  16. Re:hunting? on Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, when they are eatten they are called "squab". But, I've heard they are delicious.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squab_(food)

    Sort of like how we call cooked cow "Beef", cooked pig "Pork" , and cooked deer "Venision".

  17. Re:Sounds improbable on Dutch Cold Case Murder Solved After 8000 People Gave Their DNA · · Score: 1

    What? Investigation of an individual doesn't need to meet any kind of criteria. Now a search of them, their property, or their genetic material without their consent would require a warrent and thus probable cause.

  18. Needs industry help. on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    I always thought that a really good business could be had in store sales of on demand burned dvds. As a store owner, you wouldn't need any inventory. As a consumer you wouldn't need to worry about figuring out how to play a downloaded video on the big screen ( several middle aged and younger idiots really can't figure it out) or worry about you not having the video they want. They just need the studios to be on board and not charge exorbitant prices for the movies.

  19. Re:CAN'T BE TRU! OPEN SORCE IS MOAR SEKURE!!!11 on FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key · · Score: 2

    Although this is a troll, there still is an unanswered question: how did the ssh key get stolen? While its nice to see that FreeBSD wasn't breached due to a vulnerability in *its* systems, someone obviously had a vulnerability in their system. To all the sysadmins out there, I think that's what keeps you up at night: How do you ensure that your users safeguard their secrets? Other than a "corporate policy" document imploring them to use "good judgement"?

    Especially with BYOD coming into vogue, I think the security community needs to come up with a solution that is cross platform and easy to implement, verify and enforce.

  20. Re:Still wondering on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 1

    Of course there are already netflix clients for those...

  21. Re:Will not RTFS on Sinofsky Dismisses Trying To Take Over Windows Phone, Developers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, not doing that. Just registering my dislike through the offtopic post. At some point I'll problably get fed up and head to greener pastures.

  22. Re:Will not RTFS on Sinofsky Dismisses Trying To Take Over Windows Phone, Developers · · Score: 1

    Good Point. Maybe this is a sit in?

  23. Will not RTFS on Sinofsky Dismisses Trying To Take Over Windows Phone, Developers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Boycotting thread due to slashdot linking to itself. Stop the stupidty.

  24. Re:Embarassing day for whites on With NCLB Waiver, Virginia Sorts Kids' Scores By Race · · Score: 1

    Given the mass of an ounce, it just makes more sense to convert it to grams. If they ever get around to defining the si unit in terms of something other than a specific piece of metal somewhere, it probably won't be the kilogram for much longer.

  25. Re:Three-thousandths of a cent? on Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine · · Score: 1

    If I understand the story correctly, thats the price to land a post on person's page if they are already liking the Mavs. It doesn't get them more likes.