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  1. "and projects associated with Microsoft" on Perl is the Most Hated Programming Language, Developers Say (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    "and projects associated with Microsoft"

    what does that even mean?

    why not just say "Visual Basic" instead, or "Projects associated with Linux" (for Perl)?

    The journalistic hackery at the register is as unapologetic as usual.

  2. Re:Kudos to San Fran on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    you obviously don't live in San Bruno, CA, where the only choice for high-speed internet is San Bruno Cable, a government-owned monopoly that provides shitty service for exorbitant prices. third-party cable/fiber providers are banned.

  3. Re: Key word here is "pledged" on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    yay, municipal monopoly rip-off. tax the punters for a crappy service.

  4. Re:Key word here is "pledged" on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    this is going to be yet another overly-expensive bungled municipal utility project. ask anyone in neighboring San Bruno county how they like their monopoly cable service and cable ISP? want high speed internet in San Bruno? SBC is your _only_ choice.

  5. Re: Um... Isn't this just default Linux permission on Windows 10's 'Controlled Folder Access' Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    windows already has this. this feature is about protecting those files that programs running under your accounts would normally have access to.

  6. Hawaiian Pizza... is Canadian.

  7. Yeah, and Apple has only themselves to blame.

  8. I swat one every few days or so.

  9. Building 7? on Microsoft Employees Can Now Work In Treehouses (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone make a sign.

  10. absolutely _don't_ do this:
    - write a script to connect to the printers
    - change the admin password to something random
    - print out a page explaining what's going on along with the new admin password.

  11. Re:No Jack No Problem on Google Unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL With No Headphone Jack (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    that's nonsense. i can listen to the same MP3 file, with the same set of headphones on either my computer or my phone and they sound indistinguishable.

  12. Re:Includes an adapter for wired headphones on Google Unveils Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL With No Headphone Jack (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    lol. the jack, dac and amp are going to add about $2 to a phone's cost. possibly less if the dac is already part of the SoC.

    the phone is > $800.

    this is not about cost saving.

  13. Ford and Microsoft are now namedropping each other in a brand ad/press release.

  14. Re:Irrelevant. on Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    actually it makes perfect sense. ACD invokes the 'windows security' UI which is a system-wide interrupt. they needed a key combination that wasn't already used by any existing application (including DOS apps), and ACD fits the bill perfectly - because existing real-mode DOS apps would not have been written to expect it.

  15. Re:John Cage's 4:33? on Happy Music Boosts Brain's Creativity, Study Says (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    i listen to that all the time, on repeat.

    doesn't help.

  16. economic advantage on Chinese Man Jailed For Helping Net Users Evade State Blocks (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    while many see this as a freedom of speech issue (which it is), the larger issue here is the economic advantage that China is forcing by potentially cutting off large swaths of the US economy from the Chinese market to the advantage of locally-grown copycat companies. youtube & facebook, for example are $20+ billion/year businesses that see zero income from China. as more and more of the US (& western) economy moves online, China, with its firewall, gets to pick and choose which of those businesses it wants to allow access to its people, effectively circumventing WTO restrictions on tariffs and rendering trans-pacific trade agreements impotent.

  17. Re:Powershell is great! on Microsoft Claims PowerShell Now More Secure (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    > Get-AppxPackage : Access is denied.

  18. I was installing Slackware with kernel 0.97pl3 while waiting for VisualC++ 1.0 to build. Could never get X to run on my video7 card, though...

  19. Re: Not going to happen on Should The Government Fix Slow Internet Access? (fivethirtyeight.com) · · Score: 1

    neither did every non-rich person that died from an illness.

  20. Re: I seem to remember Miguel de Icaza ... on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Vscode is written in JavaScript and uses the electron runtime.

  21. Re: Buying them one donation at a time on Microsoft Further Pledges Linux Loyalty, Joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation (betanews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You should go down-town. There's a toothless, naked, methed-up guy there living under a bridge that's always yelling at a tree. I'm sure you guys would become fast friends.

  22. Which version? on IEEE Spectrum Declares Python The #1 Programming Language (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm just waiting for the upcoming release of Python v3...

  23. Re:Not alone on Windows 10 Will Cut Off Devices With Older CPUs (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    for older CPUs.

  24. Re:Rust Belt on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    who cares where that money goes? income tax was already paid.

    would you rather the jobs themselves move overseas? your economics are backwards.

  25. Re:Rust Belt on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    hooray for protectionism!