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  1. Re:Let the microsoft bashing begins! on Microsoft Open Sources CoreCLR, the .NET Execution Engine · · Score: 1

    If it is the devil that is open sourcing it, by definition it has to be evil. Whether Microsoft is the devil is debatable though.

  2. Re:IBM execs are Dems, gave Obama ~million dollars on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 1

    1 million is not a lot, it might have very well paid out well enough in terms of fat government contracts. It is the yearly pay of 10 employees (low in the ladder). 6% of the paycheck of the IBM CEO. I am pretty sure IBM's govt contracts would have more than compensated for the million.

  3. Re: Science... Yah! on Science's Biggest Failure: Everything About Diet and Fitness · · Score: 2

    Simple, traditional diet that worked for your grandparents and their parents

  4. Re:How about; on OpenSSH Will Feature Key Discovery and Rotation For Easier Switching To Ed25519 · · Score: 5, Informative

    OpenSSH is not buggy and has good security already. You must be thinking of the OpenSSL.

  5. Re:Can we please get the fuck off TOR on Mozilla Dusts Off Old Servers, Lights Up Tor Relays · · Score: 2

    I2P cant be used to access google and the general internet. Tor can be. So you should be using Tor, just keep in mind that anything unencrypted can and will usually contain malicious content. Even if not by the spooks, people change stuff for lolz, and monitor stuff for research and lolz. It doesnt mean tor is not good. It is just something you have deal with.

  6. Re:Implement locally? on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    1) The payphones here dont have SMS
    2) Fair enough.
    3) I am talking about someone close enough that it is an implied contract. Your children or your significant other or your parents or someone you care deeply about.

  7. Re:Implement locally? on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    Voicemail is not the same as picking up a call. It does not have it covered, atleast for me.

  8. Re:Implement locally? on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) A close family member's cell phone battery dies, they try to call you from a pay phone or a friend's (or stranger's) cell phone.
    2) A friend (old friend if you wish) has changed their number, and wants to reach you.
    3) Someone who has you as their Emergency contact number had a mishap, and the emergency service wants to reach you..

  9. Re:Weekend Project on China Cuts Off Some VPNs · · Score: 1

    Yup, getting the GeoIP 100% right is the corner stone of any good VPN software provider. /s

    Note that it is not a japanese software without much thought into UX and it doesnt look polished (in western standards atleast). You cant get a better throughput using any other VPN tech though. The research (publications) and their throughput are their main motivators, the software/UX do take a bit of backseat.

  10. Re:Weekend Project on China Cuts Off Some VPNs · · Score: 1

    Just use VPNGate. It designed specifically for Great Firewall of China, it is extremely easy to use, and works every time. No one needs an hour for this.

  11. Re:Almost all normal people realise on European Countries Seek Sweeping New Powers To Curb Terrorism · · Score: 1

    Abnormal people realize it too. It just goes to show how governments are neither normal people or abnormal people. Whose line is it, again?

  12. Re:Terror attacks on 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks · · Score: 1

    I am not convinced they only intended to terrorize journalists. If they did, it would indeed be journalism-targeted terrorism.

  13. Re:Terror attacks on 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks · · Score: 2

    It is terrorism. It is intended to cause terror. The people of france are not terrified and it was not successful in terrorizing people, but it doesnt mean it is not a terrorist attack, it is just an unsuccessful one.

  14. Re:(rustles script pages) on 19,000 French Websites Hit By DDoS, Defaced In Wake of Terror Attacks · · Score: 1

    Cue the sarcastic this has nothing to do with Islam bullshit. Wait, you started before your cue.

  15. Re:It's the post office on Four Facepalm Bugs In USPS Label-Printing Site · · Score: 1

    You dont. They dont want you to print first class postage online. It is not very cost effective, and it is not like they have competition for first class. Calling something they used to do, and they dont want to do now, a bug is beyond crazy.

  16. Re:Here's an idea. on What Isn't There an App For? · · Score: 1

    OP is obviously not asking for ideas you plan on implementing yourself. For certain things, you may have always wanted an app, but couldnt be bothered enough to write objective c or an android app for it, those are the ones the OP is asking for. If you are an app developer, you obviously shouldnt post apps you are planning to implement. Some people would rather take their ideas to their grave, than see someone else implement it, those people need not give their ideas either.

  17. Re:But is it best at beating humans? on The New (Computer) Chess World Champion · · Score: 1

    They pretty much beat humans everytime. You may not get statistically significant results among the top chess engines.

  18. Re:Ah Tucows... on A Domain Registrar Is Starting a Fiber ISP To Compete With Comcast · · Score: 1

    I dont know, my roommates are on Ting mobile (run by Tucows), and they find it pretty good. I wouldnt be surprised if their fiber ISP falls is run under their Ting subsidiary too.

  19. Re:All the Kindles are on sale... on Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless you have an e-ink android phone, you are missing out.

  20. Re: Understanding the Indian retailers. on Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones · · Score: 1

    Are you from the 90s. We have retail stores run by reliance, tata and huge chains. They have their own sister banks and investment firms. I doubt they have to borrow money at all, surely not at 25%, unless it is an accounting trick. Your whole post screams 90s mom and pop store. They have been replaced by chains even in larger towns

  21. With it work without tracking? on Google Launches Service To Replace Web Ads With Subscriptions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will this work with google analytics disabled/blocked. If not, no thank you.

  22. Re: Most of the problem is Monsanto, the Great Sat on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 1

    In my state organic certification doesnt require it to be GMO free. Plus organic certification only covers fresh produce, I eat a lot of stuff that is not fresh produce.

  23. Re: Most of the problem is Monsanto, the Great Sat on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then give the consumers a choice to not buy GMO. Label products as GMO.

    Plenty of products are already labeled as NOT GMO. So people already have a choice.

    Not plenty enough. I am in the US west coast in a fairly large city, with a whole foods and a choice of stores. I honestly dont find enough products labelled GMO free.

  24. Re: Most of the problem is Monsanto, the Great Sat on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 1

    Then give the consumers a choice to not buy GMO. Label products as GMO. No one is forced to buy doesn't apply, when that piece of information is not available.

    Also they should stop patenting genes, which spread naturally into neighboring farms.

  25. Re: What would be more interesting would be on Windows 8 and 8.1 Pass 15% Market Share, Windows XP Drops Below 20% Mark · · Score: 1

    Install Linux then?