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  1. Re:I almost believed in WordPress on Attacks On WordPress Sites Intensify As Hackers Deface Over 1.5 Million Pages (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    So is thinking that Docker will fix anything with security.

  2. Re:Programming the Windows Driver Model on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Err yes, compiled languages tend to need recompilation if you alter the code unless its in a shared object library / dll in which case you don't. So no idea what your point is there.

    You don't know what the point is because you have no language judgement. I will say it again, so your simplistic mind can maybe wrap its head around:

    If you add a private variable to a C++ class, it's a breaking change. It's not backwards compatible. That's a C++ problem, it's not a problem in almost any other language.

  3. Re:I almost believed in WordPress on Attacks On WordPress Sites Intensify As Hackers Deface Over 1.5 Million Pages (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem here is it wasn't deployed in Docker. With a real database like Oracle. The whole thing should be run in the browser to give it an extra layer of containerized security.

  4. Re:The republicans will... on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    If those people have UBI, why would so many of them commute 100 miles to SF every work day?

    The same reason the commute now: San Francisco jobs pay more. They can find work in Modesto or Stockton, but it doesn't pay as much.

  5. Re:The republicans will... on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    It's only a problem for people who already live there and don't want things to change. Sadly, things will always change, you can't avoid it.

  6. Re:The republicans will... on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    A lot of people do commute 100 miles to San Francisco, every work day.

  7. Re:The republicans will... on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This may come as a shock to you, but not everyone wants to live in San Francisco.

  8. Re:The republicans will... on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason why is because if you suddenly give people more money, they'll start to outbid one another for the same real estate, and no amount of automation will solve that.

    The solution is easy, to build more housing. San Francisco and the surrounding region is extremely anti-new-housing. That's why it's so expensive to find a place here.

  9. It's bad, but it's still better than coal, so I don't really worry about it too much. Actually worrying in general is overrated.

  10. Re:That's becoming a meme on Republicans Are Reportedly Using a Self-Destructing Message App To Avoid Leaks (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    To probably most Trump voters, everything that you listed (Muslim ban, the wall, dismantling the EPA & Dept of Education, Jeff Sessions, silencing Elizabeth Warren) would be considered a positive thing.

  11. Wind power plants are almost always combined with natural gas plants, so when the wind stops blowing, the natural gas can fire up almost immediately. Natural gas is also cheaper recently because of fracking.

    So when you see a new wind farm being built, know that it is economical to build thanks to the power of fracking :) Tell that to a hippy.

  12. It doesn't look bad, but it doesn't look great, either. It seems overall usable, although they've changed the icons so now I don't really know what they mean (what is that circle on the bottom bar on the left by the start menu?)

    The most laughable thing is that flat, sparse style is already old. The hip people have already moved on to multi-stop, overlapping, translucent, rotated gradients. Complex gradients. If you want to make a stylish UI, you need to use them. Microsoft is trying to chase trends and now they end up looking derivative.

    It doesn't matter, people will still buy Windows, and I will still not use it unless someone forces me.

  13. Re: What Political Ambitions? on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    who'd like to see some rich CEO run for office. (See Rahm's speech on recruiting candidates this week for an example

    Yeah. Rahm said exactly that.

  14. Re:That's why we get Trump on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    I know how to beat Trump in 2020: Beyonce. She might not be able to answer a single question about policy

    She doesn't need to......just hire some people to ghost-write policy papers for her, like Trump and Clinton both did.

  15. Re:That's why we get Trump on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    I was talking about L, but AJ is kind of an interesting case study, too. I don't really understand what was going on in his head.

  16. Re:That's why we get Trump on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Some people actually feel responsibility towards the country that made them successful, and feel it's a civic duty.

    Interestingly, I think President Johnson actually felt that way. But weirdly it didn't stop him from being an egomaniacle, incompetent sot.

  17. I put Hillary in the incompetent category. She had a thing for invading countries, but not doing it very well. She wasn't as bad as W, but not many are.

  18. That's why we get Trump on Jeff Bezos Talks About Music Streaming, and His Political Ambitions (billboard.com) · · Score: 1

    Any competent person with things going on in their life has no particular interest in becoming president. You have to be an ego-maniac or incompetent to want the job.

  19. Probably; tbh I get tired of the subject.

  20. Re:Am I supposed to hate this or not? on Scientists Successfully Decode the Genome of Quinoa (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People have been cross breeding for thousands of years and we know what to expect.

    Lies. Cross-breeding can result in poisonous plants, and the random nature of it makes it harder to control than GMO. Also, there is more stringent testing on GMO plants before they can go to market, even though 'natural' cross-breeding can result in dangerous plants.

  21. Re:Programming the Windows Driver Model on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you seriously trying to suggest that Objective-C is well designed language? Its one of the most hideous kludges I've ever seen, and for all of the supposed "power" that it brings over from smalltalk, its far less powerful than C++ was even a decade ago.

    I don't know what he's implying, but I'll take Objective-C over the C++ cruft any day. Clean design wins over scatter-brained feature adding every time. The motto of C++, especially a decade ago as you said it, "If there are two ways to do something, choose the least obvious way." Having to manually add a v-table is a perfect example: it's totally backwards. There should be a keyword to suppress v-tables if you don't want them. And 'friend', what a glorious keyword! And the way classes are instantiated makes it difficult to maintain a stable public interface.........you need to recompile even if you want to add a private variable. C++ is a klludge that only a scatter-brained tinkerer could love.

    Also, your mother sucks goat cheese!

  22. Re:Seriously... What a nightmare computing has bec on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, it sounds like you have a deployment problem. Just use docker and kubernetes to keep your system up to date and everything will be easy. J/K docker is a mess, the problem is it's too close to the metal and needs to abstract some of those differences away. It should really have been built on top of systemd. Clean, simple, easy. You can run the deployment server in your bios.

  23. Re:Always look on the bright side of life on A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months · · Score: 1

    I think you've underestimated the preparations of the Dutch. This image was recently taken at a secret location near Eindhoven. City of lights, indeed.

  24. Re:Blowing smoke? on The Most Mentioned Books On StackOverflow (dev-books.com) · · Score: 1

    That's like a joke about time-share systems refactored to fit in the cloud....

  25. Re:Yes, that's why they bought Hull Trading. on Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Replaces 600 Traders With 200 Engineers (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Oh, yeah... that'll work!

    Yes, yes it will. Otherwise we could just print as much money as we want and get free stuff.