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  1. They don't recognize any rights.

    Except the rights of white people.

    Of course. It all started with the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, that racist bastard.

  2. Slashdot. A site were people think that accusing Texas of bigotry is insightful.

  3. From the article:

    the boy made the claim again to the same student and elaborated that he would take his backpack into a bathroom and have the bomb detonate in one minute.

    So yes, the kid is saying his bag is a bomb.

  4. Wrong.

    The nuances in Stewart’s case ultimately drove the government to back down from charging her with insider trading. Instead, it focused its case on the lies she told to cover the trade.

    http://coveringbusiness.com/20...

  5. You know that Martha Stuart went to jail because she wasn't smart enough to shut up when talking to investigators, not because of the actual insider trading? They caught her in a lie and that's a big no-no when you don't want to spend years in prison.

    I don't think Mr Hedge Fund would do the same mistake.

  6. Before we call that douche "the most hated man in America", can we confirm that Lennart Poettering lives in Germany? In his wikipedia page it says that he's German but that he works for Red Hat, so it's not clear.

    And what about Justin Bieber?

  7. You forgot to inform us

    Who is that "us"?

    I see three possible explanations:

    1) you have multiple personalities
    2) you lack the backbone to speak for yourself and therefore need to hide behind a mysterious group
    3) it never happens that you have an idea of your own so you're automatically taking a group-thinking position

    It's ok to be a sheep but next time at least try to be a funny one so you bring something to the conversation.

  8. Well, if you put solar panels between the sun and the plants, yes, it could happen. They did that one time in the Simpsons.

  9. Re:Trump on British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm (nytimes.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Trump factor aside, wind farms haven't lived to the hype so far. Often not cost-effective and a real damage to the landscape. Worse, there's studies that show that the low-frequencies vibration they emit is harmful to animals, possibly humans.

    Problem is, with "green" technologies you can't raise red flags without being called an ignorant or a pro-(something evil).

    Time will tell.

  10. Re: Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Nah, I just strongly dislike grammar phonies.

  11. Re: Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 0

    The poster was closed, when referring too the actual word "Mistakes" as opposed to it's meaning, than the correct word was indeed "is".

    So too make it perfectly clear, quotes should has been used as such:

    "Mistakes" is a cuntable noun not a mass noun.

    I guess I made a "mistakes".

  12. Re: Oh, they re-invented Test Driven Development. on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    To do TDD, you need less (or no) QA people at the end, and more QA work in early development.

    Wrong. You need less QA people at the end and more *BA* work in early development. Those are two totally different things.

  13. Re:You can't make this stuff up on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    This is no longer true because of the tax thing

  14. Re: Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: -1

    Mistakes is

    lol

  15. Re:Sounds like an MBA plan! on No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    You forget the team lead: an older woman who doesn't understand the difference between click and double-click and has to do all her testing with one of those laptops that has a virtual scroll bar on the trackpad.

  16. Re:But, it's all still PHP on HHVM Beats Stable Version of PHP 7.0 In Recent Benchmark (kinsta.com) · · Score: 1

    re-writing an entire application in different language will take much, much longer.

    Agreed. It's especially true when you move from PHP to pretty much any other language, which typically involves a lot more lines of code. Unless you're switching to node and a large chunk of your app overlaps express features (routing, etc.).

  17. Re:Hipsters are Hobos on Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US · · Score: 1

    Airbnb allows normal people to earn money by renting out spare rooms, at the expense of big corporate hotel chains.

    You mean: "at the expense of cute girls who believe it's really a woman that is renting a room and not a creepy guy planning to have her sleeping with him in his bed"?

  18. Re:What makes this legitimate? on Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest (thestack.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    I could have easily come up with a page published on Azure

    I guess that's why I got my identity stolen after providing my login info on a form on microsoftazureaccountsloginlol.azurewebsites.net. In hindsight, it was weird that they also asked my Facebook password and my credit card number.

  19. Re:Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not the amount of money he made, that's how much he's worth, largely based on stock he owns.

    Amazon doesn't make money, they post losses very often. But a company doesn't have to make money to see its stock go up. That's how the market is nowadays.

  20. Better than Swift! on Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids · · Score: 1

    Do they have the flag of Switzerland in Swift? No.

    Wolfram: 1
    Swift: 0

  21. Re:Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You know the crazy thing, at some point I wanted to try a Windows phone and I simply couldn't find one! I wanted to try that Lumia with the big camera but I couldn't find it unless I agreed to sign with a specific carrier. I saw a few ones online but the price was out of touch with reality. Only unlocked ones I could find at Best Buy were low-end.

    Anyways you're way off, but it's nothing new. Can't say a thing about Microsoft without being labeled pro-Microsoft.

    Truth is, I'm a bit disappointed with them. I gave up on my last Windows VM since Windows 10 (running Linux on my machines), and I also moved virtual two clients SQL Server instances to AWS RDS because Azure SQL is terrible. I gave up on Xbox Live (which is flaky as hell) and switched back to PS4. I tried a Surface and hated it. OneDrive? Terrible, plus now you can't access your drive on Windows 10 if you don't login with a Microsoft account.

    The only money they make with me nowadays is with Office365 and that's for a peculiar reason: I own a shitload of domains and Office365 is the only decent cloud provider that supports unlimited domains with their email/DNS hosting service. Google won't allow more than 20, and while AWS has the lowest price for domain names ($12 including privacy) I won't host there because they charge $0.50/zone per month (it adds up when you have a lot of domains).

    I've done the math. Running my own SMTP/DNS on a rented VM is at least $9/month (the t2.micro on AWS), and that's only 1 VM, not great for high-availability. Office 365 costs me $5 per month for unlimited domains with reliable email and DNS, and I don't have to deal with maintenance, patching or antispam. Even low-price hosts like Bluehost are more expensive after the first year.

    With Office365, on top of my 50GB inbox (unlimited aliases), I get 1TB of OneDrive (it sucks but that's a good place to archive stuff), and many things I don't use (Lync, Skype, etc). For $5 per month.

    If Google was to remove their 20 domain limit I'd switch immediately. Gmail is a lot better than Outlook Web, and their antispam is better too. But Office 365 does the job cheap cheap. No wonder they're grabbing the market one mailbox at a time.

  22. Re:Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can spin things the way you want, but bottom line is that Microsoft is both making more money as a whole and more in the cloud. Put it in billions, in profit or in %, they're basically printing money.

    Amazon is stuck in its Walmart strategy of razor-thin margins and price war. They don't make money.

  23. Re:Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think anyone is defending the acquisition of Nokia, but Xbox and Minecraft are actually good investments. The revenue for that segment (including Xbox live) is in the 2.5 billions range per year.

    The Skype business also brings in 2.3 billions per year. They basically tripled the revenue of pre-Microsoft Skype.

  24. Re:Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    People use their cloud services? Really? We have OneDrive for business here at my company, but nobody uses it. Do people actually use it for hosting and virtualization? Never heard of that. AWS pretty much owns that space.

    Microsoft has 2 things going on "in the cloud": Office365 (similar to Google Apps) and Azure (similar to AWS). Both are immensely profitable. Annual cloud revenue for Microsoft is about 8 billions. Amazon makes about the same with its cloud platform (AWS).

    For both companies, about 8-9% of the annual revenue comes from the cloud, but Microsoft's business is growing faster (total and %).

    Microsoft also appears to be more profitable but it's part of Amazon's model not to make profit (they want to "buy" markets) so it's hard to compare.

  25. Re:Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Would you rather sleep with Ellen Pao or systemd?