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  1. They are merely the best theories for the observations.

  2. so sorry for you.

  3. Re:Well.... damn! on All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down (cyngn.com) · · Score: 2

    Except it has had zero effect on Google which is the only realistic target for MS doing an embrace, extend extinguish.
    And, during that time period, windowsphone was extinguished.

    No, this was just mismanagement by the CM guys.

    wish I had points to mod the parent up. Not everything is an evil M$ plan.

  4. Re:Extra confusing.. on Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe the fact that Wikileaks systematically leaked data supplied by Russia to throw the election to trump? Doesn't mean they are "controlled" by Russia, but certainly hand in glove with Russia.

  5. Playing as a dino sounds pretty cool.

  6. Re:int vs float vs double on Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Definitely. If javascript is the first language, people have no clue how to structure things, what types are, that an object is more than a collection of stuff... it's a great glue language if you want to bang out a few lines, it's a disaster if you want to write solid production code. Just look at all the "add-ons" like typescript that adds in concepts like type checking that you get for free in any decent language.

  7. Re:The problem is often maintenance on Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? (threatpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem is that if software is working, and you "upgrade" it, two things can happen: it can continue to work, or it can fail, often mysteriously. Given that, it's not shocking that people tend to leave software alone if it is currently functioning.

  8. Re:That sounds good to me on Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    I use free dropbox and google drive. Why not? If they disappeared tomorrow, I'd still have the contents on my local drive. In the meantime it's available and synced across multiple computers.

  9. Re:"Suggesting" ... on White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that they hacked both campaigns but only exposed one, yes, that influenced the election. The steady drip drip drip of "oh, we didn't find anything much in Hillary's emails, but here's more" contributed to trump's win. Just how much does Russia have to do before you consider it "significant". And yes, it was an election hack. But I guess that's ok with you, Vladimir.

  10. Re:Try buying something on Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels In Almost Three Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And the advantage to paying in bitcoin is?

  11. No.

  12. You seem to be very concerned with your butt. Hope it's not paining you too much. Trust me, no one is the USA is particularly worried about not being able to send astronauts into low earth orbit. We're too busy checking out the latest feed from Jupiter.

  13. Re:Anti-Russian space program propoganda on Russia Falls Behind In Annual Space Launches For First Time Ever (themoscowtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Huh? Jeez, all Nasa can do is reliably land rovers on Mars... something no other space power seems to be capable of. Oh, and send space probes to every planet in the solar system. Orbit the gas giants. Build enormous space observatories. But yeah, right, that's all "trumped" by not having a taxi service to low earth orbit.

    Yawn.

  14. Re:Yes. No. Maybe. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Just look at the last 24 hours of news... Trump claiming that even though Hillary won the popular vote by over 2 million votes, actually HE won, because of millions of fraudulent votes... but he provides no evidence. Listening to Trump is like watching Downfall, the movie about the last days in the Fuehrerbunker with Hitler ranting about miracle weapons and counting on divisions that don't exist anymore to launch counter attacks. You cite Obama's peace prize - a trumpism would be trump claiming that really, HE had won the peace prize, the media just announced that Obama got it.

  15. Re:And it doesn't matter. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Nice way to put words in my mouth. Where did I say I wanted to alter the current election?

    I'm simply pointing out that at some point, when one candidate wins the popular vote and another the electoral vote, you have a problem. This is obviously true.

  16. Re:Yes. No. Maybe. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Out in the open? trump? the guy who wouldn't even open up his taxes the way every other candidate for the last 50 years has? Hillary was FAR more open than he is.

  17. Re:And it doesn't matter. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 1

    You mean to a re-design to avoid someone winning the popular vote by millions of votes but still losing the election? Avoiding that in the future sounds like a good thing

  18. Re:Yes. No. Maybe. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The bribery thing will cut both ways... and will cut trump far harder than anyone else, as he is unwilling to unlink himself from his business interests. Almost anything he does is going to have an angle that benefits him personally.

  19. Re:Yes. No. Maybe. on Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? (cio.com.au) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When Trump's statements are fact-checked, he is far, far, far, ... far less truthful than anyone else in politics. He not only lies, he repeats some real whoppers. Basically he relies on Hitler's theory of the 'Big Lie', and apparently it still works.

  20. Re: Great for China! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    For a fake recovery it's been doing really nicely. Remind me, who is growing 4%? Last year Europe grew at 1.5%. If you factor in developing economies like China there's a higher rate, but for Western economies the USA is doing well.

    You can go back to reading breitbart now.

  21. Re: Great for China! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, funny how that works out... it was all just a coincidence that it happened on Bush's watch. Boy, that's convenient.

  22. Re: Great for China! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Economic activity has been decimated in many sectors and restrained at best for the last eight years through government intrusion picking winners and losers, then by overreaching taxation and finally subversive regulation. What are you talking about?

    uh... remember the Great Recession under Bush? The problem is that people have such short memories they literally don't recall how bad it was before Obama. We've been recovering, and now that economic growth is going well, unemployment is down, inflation is nil, people vote to go back to that... actually, to go to worse than anything Bush ever conceived of. Oh well...

  23. Re:Great for China! on Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, anticipating getting rid of those pesky regulations that provide for pure drugs, etc.

  24. Re:Seems fair to me on Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming you forgot the tag

  25. Re: pick one: convenience, privacy on Fake Fingerprint Stickers Let You Access a Protected Phone While Wearing Gloves (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just how often do you get pulled over?