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  1. OSX on Linux Marketshare is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row (omgubuntu.co.uk) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It wouldn't surprise me if this trend continues, as Microsoft doesn't care as much about Windows anymore, and Apple has gone kind of crazy.

    When Microsoft releases Excel for Linux, you'll know that its time has arrived.

  2. According to the investigation, only three emails on server had any classified marking on them.

    She was bribing people to get things marked as unclassified. Look, I admire your ardent defense of the Clintons, but at this point it's like trying to defend the legitimacy of Bush's invasion of Iraq (you can't prove that the WMDs weren't shipped out to Syria!)

  3. Now, how many times has she been convicted?

    When you've been investigated that many times, isn't this evidence of corruption? I mean, Martha Stewart was clean, and look at her conviction.

  4. f conspiracy on Crushable Runway Technology Saved Mike Pence's Plane (cnn.com) · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  5. Re: Need to be passed for Private sector as well on Seoul Considers Messaging Ban After Work Hours (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    On various forums South Korean members are talking about a full blown authoritarian cult of feminists controlling the entire country.

    That sounds realistic. It's even on forums.

  6. Re:Need to be passed for Private sector as well on Seoul Considers Messaging Ban After Work Hours (thestack.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think Apple's problem is that a lot of the really good people left after the iPhone was released (or they died, I guess). Around 2010 I started to notice that the quality of lower-level library code had dropped. Then a couple years later, the quality of tools like xcode dropped. Now the quality problem is obvious even in the Keynote speeches.

  7. That is a possibility that should be taken into consideration.

  8. Southern Spain is one of the most beautiful parts of the earth.

  9. Worth mentioning that climate models are not reliable at anything less than continental scale (according to IPCC), and even then, there is some doubt about their accuracy at any scale.

  10. NSA Says..... on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    NSA Says, "We're going to kill cash......so we can surveil you."

    And I do like cash.

  11. then A/UX on a Mac II,

    Really....why?

  12. Re:Trending Now... Forgotten Tomorrow on Hotspot Vigilantes Are Trying to Beam the Internet To Julian Assange (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think it's hard to move away from the dollar because it provides real benefits: in El Salvador when they switched to the dollar, interest rates cut in ~half over night (on new loans).

  13. Re:Good! on World Wildlife Falls By 58% in 40 years (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, they have more money than I realized.

  14. Re:Buzzword du jour on AI-Powered Body Scanners Could Soon Speed Up Your Airport Check-in (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're ok with the line idea (even if it's vaguely fuzzy), just that we are clearly not across it yet :)
    What is GN7?

  15. Re:Definitely script kiddies on Dyn DNS DDoS Likely The Work of Script Kiddies, Says FlashPoint (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    When it says 'kids' it means 'people doing it for fun.' It's kind of an unusual definition of the word, I agree; but well, we as programmers deal with weird definitions.

  16. Re:To be fair, a pretty easy run on Uber's Self-Driving Truck Went on a 120-Mile Beer Run To Make History (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Your points definitely are something to consider. This is my follow-up reasoning on the topic: there have already been fatalities involving self-driving cars, and many states already have laws allowing them, so I don't think it will be a problem.

  17. Re:Buzzword du jour on AI-Powered Body Scanners Could Soon Speed Up Your Airport Check-in (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that there is no clear-cut definition or dividing line

    Yeah, but we're very far on the 'not' side of the line, even if the line is fuzzy.

  18. That is some really great detective work, going back all the way to the start of the last century.

  19. Thanks

  20. Re:Filter theory might be correct on Russia Unveils 'Satan 2' Missile Powerful Enough To 'Wipe Out UK, France Or Texas' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I also doubt that any small state actor, no matter how apparently crazy, would try to do so because you just can't fight and win a nuclear war with Russia, China or the US.

    Cuba would have done it in certain cases if Russia had given them control of the missiles. USSR was smart: they didn't give the Cubans control of the missiles.

  21. Starting yet another world war, as if the first two weren't enough.

    I don't think this would have happened. The elites in Europe were (and still are) very very anti-war (among each other, anyway) after WW2. The whole Euro thing and the open boarders (again, among each other) are heavily motivated by the goal of ensuring they won't go to war again.

  22. most of the world hates the USA and Russia equally,

    That's not really true lol.

  23. Recently they buried phone lines under the ground where I live. They put them in pipes, so next time they can just pull whatever wires they need through the pipes, without breaking the ground.

  24. Re:They better make it to my house... on Google Fiber Pauses Operations, CEO Leaves, and About 9 Percent of Staff Is Being Let Go (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lobby your city government. Lobby them, because the cable companies do.

  25. Trend Micro relies on unsecured anti-virus to protect all their customer's computers.