Other industry experts, meanwhile, think the FAA isn't necessarily too cozy with the airlines--it's just too short-staffed and under-funded to enforce every procedure in the log book.

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It's just too short, barely reaching from the back of the PowerBook to the left side of the keyboard (this reviewer is left-handed, and especially militant about products that don't offer easy access for southpaws.) I don't know what it would have cost Apple to add another foot of cable, but it would have been worth it.

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But frankly it's too soon to tell about the kind of short-run impact.

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And so, in this short period of time we're talking about, it's just too early to answer that question of is it working or not.

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If there's a silver lining to the SEC's silly decision, it's that markets are global, and if U.S. regulators are too immature to understand the importance of price discovery and the short-seller's role in it, other global markets will take the trading volume that our SEC intends to repel.

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