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  1. Re:ESR vs Rust on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    ESR of all people should know "Patches welcome"

  2. Re:Rust will be what replaces C/C++ on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah yeah. You guys have been saying that Rust will replace C and C++ for 7 years and yet it's still a toy that next to no one uses outside of Mozilla.

    Right? I mean we all know if it doesn't replace it overnight it's a worthless language. I mean Python was a total failure, people still use Perl for crying out loud!

  3. Re:the future of Mozilla on Mozilla Binds Firefox's Fate To The Rust Language (infoworld.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A browser nobody uses written in a language nobody uses.

    Quick, let Dropbox know no one uses Rust. I mean they went and re-wrote their entire back end in it. If only they thought like you such a crisis could have been averted.

  4. Re:Hang on - let me put on my shocked face... on FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Does saying "Drumpf" make you feel smart? Because it makes you look stupid as fuck.

  5. Re:Sold out on FCC Rescinds Claim That AT&T, Verizon Violated Net Neutrality (arstechnica.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    You all thought Trump would support you and he would end H1B1 visas. Well you were wrong, he does not care.

    He's been in office for two fucking week jackass. Jeuss you fucking liberal idiots are really pushing peoples patience. You wonder why you've lost every major election for 4 years.

  6. Well, gentleman, we've been sold out.

    What do you mean? If you like net neutrality (something that obviously has helped small companies and the internet grow all these years), then you should already know Republicans have always been against it, and you should have been against Trump especially. There should be no surprises here. But it should be a wake up call: Republicans are on track to kill net neutrality soon.

    Under your definition of net neutrality my cell phone and cable bills have tripled. I've seen no increase in coverage and in fact have seen my coverage shrink in my state. There's been no new rollouts, no new providers and the market has been stagnant for the better part of 10 years.

  7. Re:It is shit on Microsoft Reports New Subscribers For Office 365 Plunged 62% (itworld.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd kill to get off MS everything at my job. We're a fortune 500 and as my Director and VP once said "Microsoft is a hostile business partner"

    The MS licensing feels like protection money at this point. I can do everything for my job on Linux with the exception of Skype for Business, which we could replace if MS hadn't bought off some of our decision makers and tied us into it.

  8. Re:Why go public instead of notifying the FBI? on Krebs Pinpoints the Likely Author of the Mirai Botnet (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Krebs better be right or Jha will have one hell of a defamation case against him

  9. Re:Start the clock on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Of course I do. I'm not the one showing a tiny little graph with zero fucking context.

  10. Re:Start the clock on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't worry alarmists, El Nino's are cyclic. A new shipment of scare is on backorder. Approx ETA ~ 2020.

    Here's a graph of temp anomalies vs El Nino events from 1950 - 2012. Notice anything unusual?

    Nope. It doesnt even have 100 years of temp data for a planet 4 billion years old. Thats called an insufficient sample size.

  11. Re:Start the clock on Earth Hit Record Hot Year in 2016: NASA (news.com.au) · · Score: 0

    Don't worry, deniers. With 2015's El Nino now over, you can look forward to cooler temperatures in 2017, and then when 2018 rolls around, you can declare that 2017's lower average global temperature proves that global warming has ended (again). Patience is key. Good luck!

    Keep crying wolf. Its worked out so well for your cause so far.

  12. Re:Down with Putin - Down with Trump on Russia Extends Edward Snowden's Asylum To 2020, To Offer Citizenship Next Year (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no reasoning with liberals today. They live in fucking la la land where Hillary can do no wrong. Its pathetic. They've been on this course since the founding of Moveon.org where they employ the scientology tactic of "always attack, never defend". Obama has been a God send to the Republican party. He's lost 900 state legislators, Congress, the Senate and now the presidency. Not to mention Republicans now have the majority of the govenorships. Just a few more and they can ammend the constitution without a single Democrat needed.

    I'm a Republican and even I don't want them to have that kind of power. It sickens me watching the Democrats implode like this to the detriment of the country. Nancy Pelsoi, Harry Reid and Obama have bee a fucking disaster.

  13. Re:One can hope on Debian 8.7 Released (debian.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    And here its made my life much easier and I've had zero issues with it. I hate Pottering as much as anyone but if something he's done has made my life easier, the way systemd has, then kudo's to him.

    Your post however contributes nothing.

  14. Re:Correction... all AMERICAN millennials on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Worldwide, millennials are doing great. The World Bank Forecasts Global Poverty to Fall Below 10% for First Time.

    The problem for Americans is that we can't exactly ask the Chinese to go back to having 45 million people starve to death in a new "Great Leap Forward", no matter how much taking their labor skills off the capitalist market might improve the labor demand for unskilled white Trump voting high-school dropouts. Globalism is a bitch if you were used to getting a free ride.

    Just had to bitch about "white" people didn't you? Your inner douche bag is showing you racist pile of shit.

  15. Re:Welcome to globalization on Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Funny thing about workers in other countries - they kinda don't want to bust their ass for meager wagers so that Americans can enjoy a standard of living higher than they deserve. The inevitable outcome is an equalization of income, where wages in established nations stagnates while wages in developing countries rises.

    Who are you to tell Americans what standard of living they deserve? I work for a living, hard. I have a high standard of living compared to many. Fuck you if you think I don't deserve what I earned with my own blood sweat and tears.

  16. Re:Threshold on Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey (techinasia.com) · · Score: 2

    So instead he sits on welfare so that I can work my ass off to provide for him and his 13 kids. In the meantime I have to explain to my wife we can't afford a second child because some lazy fucking refugee won't take his sorry ass to work.

  17. It's a crowded market.

    Give me a WebOS phone with a real keyboard, and I'll be happy to wait in line all night for it.

    (I don't even care about the lack of third party apps. Well, except for the crap HP pulled when they hobbled the Google Maps app, and replaced it with Bing Maps.)

    Sure, but allow me to get off your lawn first

  18. Re:Be nice to see the proof of hacking first on US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact the emails were released is proof it was hacked at least once.

  19. Re:Then leave Silicon Valley on More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley (theguardian.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have I earn 50K a year and I can't buy a home. not when they start at $200k for a 900 sq ft condo plus hoa fees.

    And that is a 30 year old home.

    I suggest you look around. get out of rural america and watch how fast prices go up. if there were jobs there I could live out there but jobs are not located in rural america.

    Fucking snowflake. Oh noes not a 30 year old home. Piss off you whiny bitch

  20. I use Facebook more than six hours per day.

    What on Earth would you be doing on Facebook for six hours a day?

    Cat pics

  21. Re:Great Recession 2.0 coming? on Microsoft Could Be First Tech Company To Reach Trillion-Dollar Market Value: Analyst (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    The last time we had this much debt and high market valuations was last decade. This time around instead of homes the junk derivitives are car loans, payday centers, and other places.

    Student loans

  22. Steve Jobs did this by setting up a "college" on the Apple campus to teach his legacy after he died.

  23. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission I guess

  24. Re:Maybe because they aren't the best right now. on The Loyalty To AMD's GPU Product Among AMD CPU Buyers Is Decreasing (parsec.tv) · · Score: 1

    Thats a lot of money for a video card. If that floats your boat then more power to you. In my opinion though, games move too fast these days for that level of detail to even be noticeable. I might lay down 250$ for an AMD 480 soon though. 600+ is just way too much for me to justify when you can buy a whole computer for that.

  25. To file a police report there needs to be proof. You don't get to cry wolf and have the courts take your word for it.