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  1. Re:Scary stuff and nobody cares on UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You are 100% right that the majority does not care. If they did, it would be simple enough to assume that all British companies are backdoored and to drive them out of business by using alternatives in other countries. Granted, those other companies might also be backdoored, but the point is to make a point to the local authorities.

  2. Re:Or put another way. on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The original phrasing is perfectly accurate. Firing them just happens to show how much they valued them.

  3. Re:I wonder how flexible the IT department was... on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    It's also possible that you're a complete asshole who deserves to have a tire iron rammed down his throat. In fact, that's a trillion times more likely than the scenario you proposed.

    This is a cost-savings measure. Trying to read any more into it is to justify the complete destruction of the American economy for the benefit of the few who already have vacation homes in half a dozen other countries.

  4. Re:Pretty dumb move on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Congress doesn't give a shit about Americans who don't pay them, and employees who are replaced by H1B visa holders are in no position to pay their Congressman. This will not change. It's the American equivalent of Nero and his fiddle.

  5. Re:I wonder.... on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    That Toyota was probably built in the US, with parts manufactured by the same companies that US automakers use. Sure, the designs were done in Japan or elsewhere, but that's the nature of foreign companies. Do you get all self-righteous when you visit Europe and see Fords everywhere?

  6. Re:What Congress should do on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The company usually blackmails the employee by threatening to withhold benefits, such as severance. This is exactly what should be illegal.

  7. Re:No on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If the remaining employees didn't sabotage the incoming replacements and the company that screwed them, they were derelict in their ethical duties. I hope that company is now bankrupt and out of business.

  8. Re:No on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Quality. If you pay Indians for the same quality, you will be paying the same amount as you would for native employees that have far fewer communications issues (dialect/language, time differences, etc.).

  9. Re:No on Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    The quality of programming coming out of India is improving rapidly.

    That's about as useful as saying that you received a 100% raise when you got bumped up to 2 cents/hour.

  10. Re:What this boils down to on How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They might also be conspiring to lick your dog's tail.

  11. Re:Apple no longer looks as paranoid as it did. on How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    How does shit like this get modded insightful?

    Apple has allowed iOS apps to link to 3rd-party precompiled libraries since the iPhoneOS 2.0 SDK was released (that was the first public version). Even if you meant frameworks, you are incorrect.

    What you couldn't do is dynamically link. That restriction was removed in iOS 8.

  12. Re:What am I missing? on How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if my typo is ironic or oddly appropriate. You're still a know-nothing.

  13. Re:What am I missing? on How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    If you weren't an ignorant no-nothing, you wouldn't have to be a coward. iOS has supported dynamic frameworks since iOS 8. The current release is 9.1, and 9.2 is in beta. Also, Xcode has supported linking to pre-compiled third-party libraries since forever, so the dynamic part doesn't matter in the least.

  14. Re:Wrong, that is what LIBRARY developer should do on How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    You make it sound exactly as if you have never done any professional iOS development. Ever.

  15. Re:Only a fool would add libraries without knowing on How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    So where's the link to your app's source? Oh, you mean that your rant only applies to source you want to have, but not source you write? If you're releasing binary-only apps, don't complain about binary-only frameworks. You are certainly free to only integrate those that provide source. No one is stopping you, nor is anyone forcing you to use any given framework.

  16. Re:Never trust a program or library that you haven on How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    seen the source code of or written yourself.

    The words are in English, I'll grant you that...

  17. If you weren't so completely ignorant of the fact that you're completely ignorant, you might be a passable human being. As it is, the cows are better company.

  18. Do you also love being a fucked-up idiot?

  19. That's actually impressive for a graphics chip that doesn't require a PCIe card, a dedicated power connection and its own cooling.

  20. Re:Feel sorry for the baby on Controversial Company Offers a New Way To Make a Baby (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps people in Africa who don't have any wealth shouldn't be creating children. People who can afford treatments can also afford to raise children. So you're the idiot.

  21. In English, the pronouns all have possessive forms that do not rely on apostrophes. Thus, the presence of an apostrophe in a word with a pronoun always indicates a contraction. It's actually rather simple, if one learns that simple rule.

  22. Re: How is this different from the US GOP? on Israel 'To Review' Top Appointment After Facebook Controversy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The term anti-semitic may have a word that refers to a race which most Jews do not (except possibly really, really distantly) belong to, but the term itself means anti-Jew. If you don't like it, make up your own language and convince the world to use it.

  23. Jordan gave up the West Bank to Israel. It's the Arabs living there that don't want it.

  24. Re:Yeah on Israel 'To Review' Top Appointment After Facebook Controversy (bbc.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Jews and Christians have virtually no fights over religious sites in Israel or elsewhere. (I say virtually because there are probably some, somewhere, but I don't know of any). Muslims argue with everyone when it comes to religion. They have just claimed Rachel's Tomb as a Muslim holy site, despite the fact that not even their own tradition links Rachel to Islam in any way. Arabs regularly use religion as an excuse to grab land, and they regularly lie to the world in order to do it.

  25. The creation of Israel was as unjust as the creation of the US, Canada, every SA country, most European countries. India, most other ME countries, etc. The world over is full of nations that conquered people who were living there immediately before they declared themselves a nation/state.

    It sounds like you're just pissed that Jews did it this time.