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  1. Re:sugar on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 3, Informative

    During the Holocene optimum equatorial climes were about the same as now. It was the poles that warmed. The Sahara actually turned green, with grassland, lakes and hippopotamus.

  2. Re:Nevertheless, I do thank MS for pointing it out on One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation · · Score: 1

    Their research dollar is better spent looking at the security of products they can fix. That is their job. When they can't even safely display a photo in their own products, their opinion on other people's product security is not qualified. They are not security subject matter experts.

  3. Re:0.3 - 4.8C on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 1

    Why that wide range?

    "We don't know" doesn't make for a great paper. This is science.

  4. Re:We've gone beyond bad science on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 2

    Central valley was always a desert. This is Nature defeats Man, not the other way 'round.

  5. It's the end of the world as we know it on IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages · · Score: 0

    And I feel fine.

  6. Re:Personal Liberty! on NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code · · Score: 1

    Oh Jeebus. Anybody who didn't already know NSA was spying on Huawei before this was published still doesn't know it. They are in a coma.

  7. Re:Personal Liberty! on NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code · · Score: 2

    Which is why you do due diligence on the background checks on temporary sysadmin subcontractors you trust with the NSA's crown jewels. Wouldn't want to be responsible for empowering some crackpot to let the entire herd of cats out of the bag, eh?

  8. Re:Wow on One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation · · Score: 2

    Just shy of a billion were sold last year alone.

  9. Re:Nevertheless, I do thank MS for pointing it out on One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The source of malware still has to get you to install their app and then update your Android. And it's only a problem if you didn't already assume that when you gave the app that permission it would gain it when available. The risk is way overstated. If this is the mud Microsoft can sling, I find that comforting.

    Now let's talk about that last patch batch where IE couldn't even safely display a JPEG in any currently supported version on any version of Windows.

  10. Re:Make em share on Wireless Carriers In Huge Washington Lobby Fight Over Spectrum Auction · · Score: 1

    Wow. That's brilliant.

  11. Re:Impossible job on Symantec Fires CEO Steve Bennett · · Score: 1

    Like many companies in this era, I could save them. But I won't.

  12. Re:Go after em Nate on Nate Silver's New Site Stirs Climate Controversy · · Score: 1

    Will the temperature get hotter than walking apes can deal with? Generally signs point to "no".

  13. Impossible job on Symantec Fires CEO Steve Bennett · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Growing sales in a shrinking market is hard enough. Doing it with Symantec software is plain impossible. Not getting a share of mobile? The mobile platforms have whitelist app stores and app isolation that make their software both unnecessary and impossible to implement.

  14. Re:That makes sense on Ex-Microsoft Employee Arrested For Leaking Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    That was my reaction to the headline. Was he charged with crimes against humanity?

  15. Marisa Mayer lucked out on Alibaba Confirms Plans To Offer IPO In US · · Score: 1

    Yahoo is getting more lift from this than her brilliance so far.

  16. Re:professional lobbying on You Can't Kid a Kidder: Comcast's Cohen May Have Met His Match In FCC's Wheeler · · Score: 1

    Do you know why dairy farmers don't farm lizards instead of cows? It's because lizards don't give milk. The man is who he is.

  17. Re:Nationalise. on You Can't Kid a Kidder: Comcast's Cohen May Have Met His Match In FCC's Wheeler · · Score: 1

    He can be an obvious shill. He just needs good PR people who can put this "insight" spin on his experience. He will be sucking at the MPAA's tit again soon enough.

    This is all Joe Biden's doing. He brought the Hollywood money and bought some good appointments with it. He got Department of Justice too, and so we killed Aaron Swartz and the FBI invaded New Zealand to get Kim Dotcom.

  18. Dual boot is stupid on Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Device · · Score: 0

    Nobody wants this.

  19. Re:It ain't the price on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 0

    No.

  20. Re:LOL, they can't even give it away... on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    "Ubuntu With Bing!" - shudder.

  21. Re:Other mobile OS? No, thanks on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    So great on lower hardware that even Nokia is going Android to lower their BOM costs and get some emerging markets business.

  22. Re:Is that legal? on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Sure. And they are free to integrate Bing, Bing maps, Office, Outlook.com and the kitchen sink. Good luck with that.

  23. Re:Does this mean on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    If the US Supreme Court rules software patents invalid, that will be the end of that.

  24. Re:It ain't the price on Microsoft Dumping License Fees For Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Agree. And then there is the integrated Bing, Outlook.com, inferior maps, and all the other "goodies" that aren't as good as the Google services you get on a $50 PAYGO Android phone.

  25. In a world where 90% of desktops can't even display a JPEG securely, to not have this capability would be dereliction of duty.