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  1. Re:So what? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    Therefore saying "I'm straight" or "I have a boyfriend/girlfriend" is saying - I fuck people of opposite sex. Also sex is a certain biological attribute, not only intercourse. But I guess you're 14 and ain't getting any.

  2. Re:So what? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    Therefore when people publicly announce a pregnancy - that is nothing more than gloating that they had great sex.

  3. Re:Gay? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    I'm yet to see a straight guy be shamed for being straight. Many are shamed for having a lot of random sexual encounters, but they are quite proud of being straight and fucking many girls.

  4. Re:Gay? on Tim Cook: "I'm Proud To Be Gay" · · Score: 1

    Illegal and socially acceptable are different things.

  5. Re:So the taxpayer pays for overage, got it on Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron · · Score: 1

    Can we PLEASE stop acting like letting people keep their own money is somehow the same as the tax payers giving money to "the ev0l rich"???

    Fine. If that's the case, would these "evil rich" do us all a favour and pay for the overwhelming publicly funded protection they get?

  6. Re:Surprised? on VK CEO Fired, Says Company Under Kremlin Control · · Score: 1

    Communism arose from the notions of self sustaining communes. It's not scalable, but is very widespread.
    Your family is communist. The Amish are communists. However, having the whole country communist dos not work because we don't trust each other.

  7. Re:shipping java scientific software for 15 years on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    JVM JIT tends to be the best

  8. Re:shipping java scientific software for 15 years on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    Yes... Micro benchmarks are exactly the best way to verify real performance. /s

  9. Re:Sudden death on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    Banks don't want to leave JVM, they don't care much about Scala or Java....

  10. Re:Android, Objective-C and Tiobe Index on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    C/C++ are great when it comes to highly predictable data flows or very small modules. Otherwise it's extreme cost of constant profiling of the code to actually identify the changing patterns that cause slowdowns. That being said, C/C++ can be much more than 2x performance of a JVM.

  11. Re:Wake me up... on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    And what 32 bit integer is not a 32 bit integer in C/C++ or Java?

  12. Re:Wake me up... on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    1: Those bounds checks come at a cost of having overflows getting in the way of actually checking bounds. An overflow of an unsigned value results in just a small number... that means that you still have to check the lower bounds no matter what.
    2: They store the same number of values as unsigned, it's just handling of those values and comparison operations differ. A signed and unsigned 32bit integers store 2^32 values.
    3: Crypto algorithms do not operate numerically, thus 2147483647 * 100 will yield exactly the same result for uint32 and int32 as much as any crypto algorithm is concerned.
    4: Therefore you send 2147483648 in binary form as 4 bytes = 0x80000000

  13. Re:Wake me up... on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 1

    The fact that lack of unsigned integers has not stopped Java shows that the designers made the right choice. If you need to have a value larger than 2bn you will probably not be satisfied with 4bn and will need a larger type. And in general, you rarely need to operate numerically without a sign.

  14. Re:Android, Objective-C and Tiobe Index on If Java Is Dying, It Sure Looks Awfully Healthy · · Score: 2

    As a server-side tool it has been getting taken over by Ruby/Rails, Python and the stuff mentioned in the OP.

    I hope you are kidding here, because that is far from the case. Java is still the de-facto language for most server-side applications. RoR never outgrew it's hipster background. It has been 7 years since RoR had it's hype peak... The hype waned and RoR is still a rarity.

  15. Re:default methods for interfaces on Java 8 Developer Preview Released · · Score: 1

    Your assumption of the intention for the default methods is incorrect. They were a result of mixin envy, not adding new default implementations for future proofing.
    Java developers tend not to have issues with future proofing for new functions in interfaces.

  16. Re:default methods for interfaces on Java 8 Developer Preview Released · · Score: 1

    there are very strict limitations to the implementation. The concrete class hierarchy has the final say. Thus you can't provide default implementations of hashCode, equals and toString.

  17. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    Well... If you signed up for GMail, then why are you complaining? Google is not hiding their services in any way, if you want it you can sidestep Google.

  18. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    NSA provides no services. You can't sue NSA and they pretend that it does not even exist!

  19. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    Actually that information will help greatly in sorting the emails. Some people I'm in contact with routinely send me stupid email and happen to be business associates. I do not want to go through their cupcake bake-off blabber, to see that they have sent me estimates for projects.

  20. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    In short - Google offers no more information than you can't already gather from other sources, concerning low volume demographics.
    Consider that you are targeting a DnD players in Boulder(CO), going through Google is the least efficient tools that you could use to get personal details about your target group.
    Targeting any group larger than that is pretty much useless and you can't practically gather any valuable personal information.

  21. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 2

    Yes... Which are male, single, under 30 interested in cars.
    Please note, that private information is only the information that can personally identify you. Unless you happen to live in a country/city that has you are the only person fitting that profile, you have no basis to claim that your private information is sold.

  22. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    Yet Google, in this case, is the postman.

  23. Re:I miss Scroogle :( on Google Patents "Scroogling" · · Score: 1

    I fail to see how "show an advertisement based on message content" is either inventive or non-obvious to an expert in the field.

    And who said that they patented exactly that?

  24. Re:Danger on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    We are talking about using the source code in a wider sense than just compiling it and running it, aren't we? Or do you think that those little pieces of code that have no license are useful without creating a derivative work?

  25. Re:Danger on Your License Is Your Interface · · Score: 1

    Provided that you own a copy of the source code, modifying and compiling it in order to run it is not infringing per the Copyright Act; no implicit license is needed for that. The implicit license is needed for downloading the source code lawfully, prior to any compiling taking place. I've pointed others to it, but please check out 17 USC 117.

    Has it been tested in court? In relation to no-explicit-license source code?