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  1. Re:Happy PostgreSQL user on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    If MySQL isn't even something you consider, how could you possibly know that it's slow compared to PG?

  2. Re:As soon as you have a stylus you are dead on Apple Product Event Highlights · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you think that's "expensive", I suggest you look up how much a stylus normally costs.

    https://store.wacom.com/us/en/...

  3. Re:Lol on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 1

    Yes, you could do it with a simpler parser eg delete all non-latin characters from user input because the people who designed our parser were noobs.

    Nice, fuck everyone who doesn't speak English, amirite?

  4. Re:Tortious Interference on Amazon Sues To Block Fake Reviews · · Score: 1

    Define "paid review" please.

    If you review movies on a tv show, you're paid by your advertisers, a lot of whom will be movie production companies showing trailers for their movies...

    It's easy to see the correlation these fake amazon reviews have to their bankrollers, but there's a lot of existing gray area in the entire "review" industry, and people seem mostly ok with them.

  5. Re:Good. +1 for Google. on Chinese Certificate Authority CNNIC Is Dropped From Google Products · · Score: 1

    >Doesn't that make you feel warm, fuzzy, and secure, knowing that the fine folks at that establishment could issue a fraudulent certificate for any website in the world?

    I was under the impression that the CA only gets used for verification *if* the site's cert claims to be from that CA.

  6. Moderation on Too Much Exercise May Not Be Better Than a Sedentary Lifestyle · · Score: 1

    As with anything in life, moderation is key.

    Take a look at any centenarian, they all do everything in moderation.

  7. Re:Shrug on HTTP/2 - the IETF Is Phoning It In · · Score: 2

    JSON is very simple, but it's also very strict. A single typo will result in no data being readable.

  8. Re: Nosedive on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    Taste? In order to do anything in 10.0 you needed to run OS9 emulation via rosetta. What's the point of OSX if everything I need only runs in OS9?

    Besides 10.0 being incredibly slow compared to OS9, it also had almost no capabilities. IMO 10.0 was an alpha release, 10.1 was beta and 10.2 was an RC. 10.3 was the actual release.

  9. Re:Seen it coming on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    >OS X is fragile and nothing more than a semi-pretty GUI atop a badly-hacked UNIX-like OS.

    How does a comment like this get modded up?

  10. Re: Nosedive on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    10.0 also lacked software and had almost none of the useful features available to MacOS9, it was essentially an unsuable system that ran slow and required users to use Rosetta (system emulator) to do anything useful.

  11. Re: Nosedive on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    10.4 was a lot more usable than 10.1 for a simple reason: All versions of OSX prior to 10.4 were unsuable.

    I was a mac user all through the 90s (and even a bit of the 80s). When OSX came out, I actually switched to windows because I hated OSX 10.0 through 10.3.

  12. Re:Sony didn't pull the movie on Reaction To the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid' · · Score: 1

    Why did they halt the release world-wide then?

    I'm in Canada, the movie wont be released here either.

  13. Re:You can pry my wallet from my... on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    Credit card companies charge merchants somewhere between 1-3% per transaction. Even if you pay your bill every month, they still get a nice cut. The more you spend, the more they make.

    I have no idea why you think they would "hate you".

  14. Cable had no ads for a while too on YouTube Considering an Ad-Free, Subscription-Based Version · · Score: 1

    Remember when cable had no ads? Lets see how long the "no ads with subscription" lasts.

  15. Re:So I take it on Facebook and Apple Now Pay For Female Employees To Freeze Their Eggs · · Score: 1

    Are you equating being female with having a disability?

    Disabled people need the extra help to make up their literal disability. Women are not considered disabled, and thus should not need an extra helping hand...

  16. Re:Legacy Support on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    >We should be able to run all legacy applications back to MacOS 1.0

    You want an OS to continue to improve, while being able to run 15 year old apps?

    Good luck with that.

  17. Re:Lame on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 2

    Those chargers are incredibly wasteful. Placing the magnet right on the back of the watch is going to use a lot less electricity.

  18. Bad Planning on $75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What if the ipod was dropped and breaks? What kind of poor planning is this where that one ipod was the linchpin of this expensive prosthetic?

  19. Re:Nuke it from orbit, then restore from backups. on Synolocker 0-Day Ransomware Puts NAS Files At Risk · · Score: 1

    Synology's NAS OS has a nice built in BT client with built in search that goes to all your favorite sites.

  20. Re:Everyone's hung up on local effects on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 1

    It's called Global Warming because that's what is happening... the planet is warming up (slowly). It's estimated the planet will be about 1.5C warmer in 100 years.

  21. Re:Its even worse than we thought on The Last Three Months Were the Hottest Quarter On Record · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is that how global warming works? It raises your core body's temperature?

    And here I was thinking human's have the ability to control their body temperatures, silly me.

  22. Re:Sexism on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    >if I imagine myself in the role of an idiot who likes being sexist

    No need to imagine.

  23. Re:Choice is good on Google Forks OpenSSL, Announces BoringSSL · · Score: 1

    I'd assume once a clear winner is chosen as to which is better...

    I don't see the open source SSL library 'market' being the next browser war where incompatibility makes one product win over another...

  24. Re:Want to code? on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    So the fact that suicide rates are 6 times higher amongst males... that's an equality issue?

    Yeah, you're sexist, and you don't even know it.

  25. Re:Sexism on Girls Take All In $50 Million Google Learn-to-Code Initiative · · Score: 1

    Wait, are you seriously telling me this statement is sexist? "men and women have different interests"

    Do you even understand what sexism is?