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  1. Re:It kind of works on America's Cities Are Running on Software From the '80s (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The smart people don't feel like dealing with that mess so look for a job else where.

  2. He wouldn't need to go on a rant if it was common knowledge so yeah I think arcane is the right word.

  3. Re:This pisses me off on NVIDIA Slapped With Class Action Lawsuit Tied To Cryptocurrency Implosion (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your post helped me to understand why more and more people are starting to ignore some of the more arcane grammar rules. It's because they don't actually clarify things they are simply rules for the sake of rules. Thanks for that at least. This is a serious post, not trolling.

  4. Re:Vs. 3rd party script hosts=faster vs NoScript on Old School 'Sniffing' Attacks Can Still Reveal Your Browsing History (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Can your software block apk spam?

  5. Re: Ah. Well i stopped reading... on Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Straw man much? When did I say it was flawless.

  6. Re:Ah. Well i stopped reading... on Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll grant you that in a professional environment forced updates are not good but for a home user I think they're more good than bad. In my experience doing tech support both professionally and privately for friends and family home users didn't install updates the vast majority of times. Some times going years without installing updates. Often I was asked to fix problems that we caused by not having installed those updates. Microsoft gave the average user the benefit of the doubt for 20 years and the majority of them proved to be incapable of managing their own computer.

  7. Re: Ah. Well i stopped reading... on Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Those laws are meant for essentially one on one situations. They aren't set up to handle 100k+ node botnets causing wide spread but often indirect harm to potentially millions of people. Individually that one person failing to secure their computer is not a major crime, but large numbers of people doing it is what allows botnets to exist. How exactly an I supposed to file a lawsuit against random joe for not running windows update? The reality is those people never get punished for mismanaging their computers. You say the vendors want it both ways but honestly it kind of looks like the users do as well. They want full control over the computer but when anything goes wrong they always pass the buck to the vendors. It's always their computer until it breaks then it's microsoft's responsibility. Right now we live in a world where nobody is truly responsible for a user's computer.

  8. Re: Ah. Well i stopped reading... on Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Even when it causes harm to others? Many botnets use exploits that have already been patched. But since people never install updates they get infected anyway.

  9. Re:Ah. Well i stopped reading... on Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop lying you know damn well that the average person delayed updates for months if not years.

  10. Re:Ah. Well i stopped reading... on Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes (petapixel.com) · · Score: 1

    Older does not mean better either. Do you think MS started forcing updates because they believed people would like it? No, they did it because all of the data they had showed that people never install updates, ever.

  11. Re:Legacy shouldn't hold us back on Is Google's Promotion of HTTPS Misguided? (this.how) · · Score: 0

    Many of those books were translated into a modern language that you could read. So yes somebody is maintaining it. You actually picked one of the worst examples.

  12. Re:Right angled triangle != Pythagoras Theorem. on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The red pyramid also has concave sides so I think it's intentional.

  13. Re:Right angled triangle != Pythagoras Theorem. on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you really want to be nitpicking an octagon would mean the faces are convex. Since they are concave that would mean the base would be a 4 pointed star.

  14. That's only true as long as this government is in power. Theoretically those rights are innate but in reality we only have them because the government chooses not to take them away.
    Hypothetically if the nazi had invaded and conquered the us we wouldn't have those rights anymore. If we tried to claim that the government can't take them away from us the nazi would have laughed in our face then shot us in the head.

  15. Re:Right angled triangle != Pythagoras Theorem. on Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born (techtimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Do a quick google image search for 8 sided pyramid. It was discovered almost 100 years ago when a british plane was flying over giza and took a photo of the pyramids.

  16. Nobody is asking them to buy a new model every year. They are however asking them to buy a new model every 17 years.

  17. Re:Android Anyone? on 20 Years Later, Has Open Source Changed the World? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Android has not had a major affect on the way the world communicates. The proprietary closed source apps running on android have had a major affect on the way the world communicates.

  18. Re:Don't like Linus; Agree with Linus; CEO s/b fir on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's so obvious then why did it take nearly two decades for anyone to notice?

  19. Re: Open Source is a failure. on Google Chrome Most Resilient Against Attacks, Researchers Find (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    Somehow browsers like Chrome, Safari, and Edge manage to avoid these problems that Firefox suffers from. Maybe it's because their developers are smart enough to avoid the problems in the first place, and don't go blaming everybody and everything else.

    Funny you should say that considering firefox is switching to the extension api that chrome uses. Maybe you're more right then you know. To spell it out for those who can't follow along maybe the extention api really is the problem.

  20. Re:China needs to go on China Censored Google's AlphaGo Match Against World's Best Go Player (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go is the Japanese name of the game, the Chinese name is weiqi. So you should say China needs to weiqi.

  21. Re:Generally Sound Advice on 'Don't Tell People To Turn Off Windows Update, Just Don't' (troyhunt.com) · · Score: 1

    So you're bitching about windows update not working with your pirated copy of windows? Holy fuck are you retarded.

  22. So that explains why these people never upgraded to vista, 7 or 8.

  23. Re:I only hope on JavaScript Attack Breaks ASLR On 22 CPU Architectures (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    It was downvoted because it wouldn't work. A large amount of scripts come from the same domain as html and css files and images. Host based blocking does not give you the fine grained control you'd need to block one but not the others. But somebody will say use a host file to block ad servers and some other fine grained blocker for the domains that matter to which I reply why use two blockers to do the job of one? This is why he who should not be named is such a worhtless troll, his solution doesn't actually solve real world problems.

  24. Thank you for being a prime example of what I'm talking about.

  25. That was kind of my point. I mean what has intel done for the pc platform? I'm just here shilling for a company that's never done anything to make x86 better mean while amd did that one thing a decade ago that everybody won't shut up about.