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  1. Re:Very nice.. on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 1

    iOS users will complain if you leave your ported android app looking like an android app.

  2. Re:Patience on RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work · · Score: 1

    You never had to restart it to get a device working again? No pushing of service books and in general it being a pain in the ass?

    Smart devices are not phones first. I use mine for computer like tasks hundreds of times more than for phone calls. Honestly if I had to lose one feature the phone would be the first one my list to go.

  3. Re:Patience on RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work · · Score: 1

    No one cares anymore.

    BES sucks too much for the small gain. If you doubt it ask anyone who ever had to admin a BES server.

    If their product was not so terrible they would never have ended up in this position.

  4. Re:Wait, what? on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Perl is over 20. Perl5 and 6 are still being actively developed.

  5. Re:Patience on RIM's BB10 Campaign Requires Some Serious Work · · Score: 1

    If it still requires BES it will be stillborn.

  6. Re:Traditional SKU still available on Office 2013: Microsoft Cloud Era Begins In Earnest · · Score: 1

    They will keep moving towards renting the software.

    The good news is there are lots of alternatives these days. Most of those are even free.

  7. Re:What about security-paranoid companies? on Office 2013: Microsoft Cloud Era Begins In Earnest · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about HIPPA or other similar regulatory limitations on who can see your documents?

    Seems like those would kill this sort of move just as dead.

  8. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    This is not impossible.

    1. buy legal gun
    2. become criminal.
    3. commit crime

    Crime in 3 should be crime committed by legal gun owner.

  9. Just don't buy it on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 2

    The solution is simple. Do not buy these games.

    Spend your entertainment dollars on something else. That is the only way they will get the message.

  10. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 0

    So that means a gun sold legally as far as the seller knows does not appear in crime committed by a legal owner.

  11. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That is how these statistics are often mangled.
    Like the ones MADD kept for years that made any accident in which any passenger or pedestrian was in any way intoxicated into an alcohol related accident even if the driver was stone cold sober.

  12. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How much of this is because committing another crime means they are an illegal gun owner?

    If I buy a gun legally, then use it to protect my drughouse and in the course of that action kill someone. Will your statistics capture me as a legal gun owner?

  13. Re:Still widely used for good reasons (and some ba on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Simplicity and Readability?

    You mean interpreting whitespace and a culture of know nothings that think only having one way to do a task is a good thing. A pox on your house.

  14. Re:Wait, what? on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Most of?
    This language is only a few years old. Perl is 20 and still works. In 20 years .NET code will be unusable. MS will have changed to something else.

  15. Re:Not for long: Python convert here. on Perl's Glory Days Are Behind It, But It Isn't Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Python needs to be forked to ignore whitespace. Indentation is style not meaning.

    Also this only one way to do anything culture is braindead.

  16. Re:Is Scientology Really Different? on Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief · · Score: 2, Informative

    On this scale?

    Is there any other religion right now which still keeps slaves? Or kidnaps people?

  17. Re:Is Scientology Really Different? on Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are still doing these acts, most other churches have been forced to stop.

  18. Re:I've done this with Dosbox too but... on Why a Linux User Is Using Windows 3.1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Funny way to spell consumer.

    By your definition everyone would be a geek.

  19. Re:Imagine... on Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google · · Score: 1

    I was just considering that.
    Anyone know if there are laws against it?

  20. Re:Also decided in favor of restrictive firewalls on 10 Years After SQL Slammer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are still tons of them.

    I have heard such a setup suggesting in the past 12 months by a customer to make life easier for them. We did not do that.

  21. Re:overreaction? on Github Kills Search After Hundreds of Private Keys Exposed · · Score: 1

    People will use them in production, it will happen.

    Best to have the machine regenerate keys on first boot and make the user go get them.

  22. Re:Confused why this opposition? on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    There is no shortage of IT workers.

    Oh no 20% more than the lowball figure to begin with. I would rather more green cards be given out, at least that way these folks can switch jobs.

  23. Re:Definition of a cap on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you could get Inda and China to let me compete for jobs there I would agree. Otherwise we are just being cheated. Once again free trade is used to screw anyone who is not a CEO.

  24. Re:Competition for employment on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    Specific skills would be O1A, H1B is just a slave. They work for less and are tied to one company. I would invite them myself if that whole plan was not just to drive wages down for everyone.

    They are hiring substandard workers, just ones forced to accept low wages. US workers are not the best option as they will want market wages.

    There are plenty of trained americans, but they will not accept low wages and terrible working conditions.

  25. Re:negatory, cut them back, hard on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    They pay the bottom of the pay scale and call a Sr guy a Jr or similar tricks. There is no need to show Americans don't want or can't do the job since they just write the requirements to exclude them or fudge them so bad no one would ever meet them.

    H-1Bs are going to be replaced for another cheap schmuck before 6 years is up.