Many consider the impossibility of running perpetual deficits under the gold standard as proof of its unsuitability to the modern economy.

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Most of these money managers go to good colleges and get jobs running portfolios soon out of B-school without any proof that they are any good.

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And it, I think he believes it and I think its proof that he was the wrong person to be running Enron.

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Nothing fancy is running yet, all they've achieved so far is a proof of concept that they've bypassed the Wii's protection with some encryption codes they swiped from the Wii's memory.

ENGADGET: Nintendo Wii fully hacked for native homebrew

The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.

ENGADGET: Turing machine built from artificial muscles may lead to smart prosthetics