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  1. Re:Is stackoverflow blocked? on Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Stackoverflow uses JavaScript libraries hosted with a bad certificate or something, because posting doesn't work through a lot of firewalls. (I haven't checked lately, maybe they fixed it since.)

  2. Re:Also, the native language sucks on Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Glass houses. English has boatloads of warts also. Awkward spailing rules and weird verb tenses, for example. Perhaps being semi-phonetic helps versus pictographs, but English is far far from the pinnacle.

  3. Re:It's easier if you know there are 3 sets of lea on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Okay, I stand corrected. As I understand it, eventually ALL (recoverable) emails on the server were put under subpoena, and thus subject to judicial review. Now, whether the personal emails will all be released to the public and/or 'Ghazi committee, I don't know. I see no reason why the Ghazi committee or public needs to know about her yogurt and yoga and thus see no reason why a judge would approve publication of such.

  4. Apple has deep pockets. Hire top detectives, hunt them down, and sue their anterior sides off for both counterfeiting and safety issues.

    If they are too small to sue, wreck the little factory at 3am and spread horse heads around as a warning. Hire locals to do the dirty work to protect the main company. "We pay you well to stop them. How you do it, we don't care and don't wanna know; just don't injure people. Understand?"

  5. Re:It's easier if you know there are 3 sets of lea on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    This has never been fully turned over to the public (or to the people investigating Benghazi).

    The FBI has said it will eventually release ALL known non-classified/non-sensitive emails from H's server to the public, but has to review each one. They have already released many.

    Being there are many thousands of messages, it takes time to verify that all the people, places, events, and things mentioned in them are not classified or sensitive references.

  6. Not so fast [Re:Only Fixed by Resigning] on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no coming back from this...trust cannot be rebuilt.

    Haven't you heard? Impulsive acts from leaders are in.

  7. Soon we won't have to interact with anyone at all, everyday!

    In the long run that's gotta have effects on the human psyche.

    "Sorry, but there is no severed human head registered in this store's catalog. We cannot process that item."

  8. They got burned by insourcing.

  9. Re:Read the headline and the first thing I thought on Microsoft Will Soon Start Bundling Drivers With Windows Store Games (thurrott.com) · · Score: 1

    There's gotta be a joke about Siamese Uber drivers in there somewhere.

  10. DLL-Hell 2.0? [Re:Great!] on Microsoft Will Soon Start Bundling Drivers With Windows Store Games (thurrott.com) · · Score: 2

    So I install software X, and software Y breaks because they share drivers or libraries, and Y is not compatible with the newer version of the shared parts?

    This is what the famed DLL-Hell did. Is MS bringing that back? Hell, might as well bring back Clippy to make the nostalgia experience (nightmare) complete.

  11. That might be true, but I am mostly talking about the difficulty of a good implementation and not so much the rational of the feature(s). Latency can be a tricky issue when both software processing and error correction of radio signals is involved, let alone battery issues.

    A sloppy implementation may be relatively easy, but Apple high standards in general.

  12. Re:Reminds me of the US version of The Office on Microsoft Says More People Are Switching From Macs To Surface Than Ever Before (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pam: I doubled my sales from the previous month.
    Andy (sarcastically) : Yeah, to 2 from 1.
    Pam: Yep.

    That could very well be true because before, Surface sucked a lot. Now that its getting better ("good enough"), there are more likely to be a steady but small amount of switchers, probably to run applications not available on Mac.

    However, that doesn't mean the flow is big enough to worry Apple, only that Surface stopped sucking so bad. MS is spinning.

  13. Re:I'd definitively still work on If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Indeed. I'd probably implement some open-source gizmo or technology that I always wish existed in practice, such as "Dynamic Relational" or a server-centric GUI standard to replace the fat-client HTML/CSS/JS stack mess that exists now so that the server controls most rendering decisions instead of clients (with gazillion brands and versions).

    I'd scratch tech itches and fix stupid standards.

    I've been an applications programmer, not a systems programmer such that I'd probably have to dig into C or C++ some more and unlearn things like relying on automatic garbage collection. Then again, maybe all I need is something that serves as a demo of the idea using higher-level languages and libraries, and if it catches on, systems programmers will make a tighter implementation of it in C/C++.

  14. Average people are people too. on NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    causing some of the agency's most talented people to leave

    Good! More spots for us average people!

  15. Re:Haha oh man the excuses on 5-Year-Old Critical Linux Vulnerability Patched (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Need MORE eyes.

    Good security needs both careful design and more eyes.

  16. Re:Snoop Doggy Dog on DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    While probably true, that's not enough evidence to claim that O "made" him say it. It's a lie, or in the very least speculative spin to word it as such.

    My original statement was not intended to be directly partisan anyhow. Voters seem okay with snooping as long as it's "their guy" snooping.

  17. Re:Tin foil hats on FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    But now my foil hat is an EM drive

  18. Star in a Jar Jar on 'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Hook it to the EM Drive, and we finally get to meet 3-breasted green chicks!

  19. They are mostly software driven. The hardware is not the key.

  20. Re:Snoop Doggy Dog on DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    You claimed Obama MADE him do it ("had him..."). Are you changing your story now? Perhaps I should put you under oath.

  21. Re:Who's to say? on Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    How do we know this radiation isn't actually good for you?... - Trump's new director of the Department of Energy.

    Don't laugh, it might just happen.

    As far as I can tell, her reasoning is something along the lines that if you hit yourself in the forehead with a hammer, your forehead swells with fluids such that the second blow is less severe. Therefore, hammers are good for your forehead.

  22. Re:Snoop Doggy Dog on DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 1

    If we assume that government corruption is the impetus...

    That was NOT a difference maker this election. Trump has a long, slimy business record such that to expect him to stop being slimy once in office is unrealistic. He even blatantly admitted to bribing most of the candidates on the stage during the GOP debates. I don't see that a pimp is holier than a whore.

    I believe he won because he sold the idea that most our security and job problems are caused by outsiders. It's a simple and powerful message from a political marketing standpoint: Nationalism 101.

    It's wrong and foolish, but I'm just addressing the sales angle here. Wrong but simple ideas sell better than nuanced but correct ones. Human Nature 101.

  23. Re:Mixed Metaphors on Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The Gendarme isn't going to break down your door and drag you to jail.

    While it's true poverty in the modern USA is better than poverty back then, it's still not pleasant.

    The implication I jabbed at is that most Uber drivers had plenty of immediate alternative and better income methods. It struck me as flippant and naive.

  24. The US economy actually depends on innovation similar to how the Middle East economies depend on oil. We are innovation addicts.

    It's a myth that innovation itself is needed to stimulate consumption. There are plenty of existing things people already want, if they simply had the money.

    But, anything that becomes a commodity to manufacture or manage gets shipped to cheap 3rd-world manufacturers (C3WM) where labor is cheaper. To maintain the USA's higher cost of living, we have to push the envelope to create new devices and markets that are too cutting edge to be commoditized (yet).

    For example, when personal computers were new, they were mostly made in the USA. As they became more of a commodity, their production shifted overseas. Jobs himself used to assemble Apple computers in his garage.

    Apple similarly knows they have to push the envelope to avoid being bowled over by C3WM who can throw labor at the problem. The expense and complexity of wireless earphones may seem like overkill now, but if they make Apple products slightly more convenient than the others, they have a sales and marketing edge over the C3WM that allows them to charge a premium.

    Eventually the C3WM will catch up in wireless earphones and every phone will support them, and Apple will have to move on to the next Next Big Thing (which is probably already in their lab).

    Thus, it's not just a "first world problem", but a first world survival technique (if you want to survive as a first-worlder).

  25. Next up: Apple complicates toilet paper.