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>> By the way, there are innocent machines in the US infected with this thing, at this very moment.

Nobody is innocent. The government has enemies both internal and external.

Wow, so naive. The Third Reich was established in 1933, WW2 started in 1939. It didn't have time to invent much or to build industry anew. 90% of the technology came from US - directly from US government or through companies like Standard Oil and Ford. Thousands of factories got sold on the cheap in the US after the Great Recession started and all the equipment moved to Germany. A process quite similar to the outsourcing of the last 25 years or so.

It will target as wide a group as possible. It`s just a small backdoor, that lets the agency that should not be named to install a full rootkit at will.

Imagine all the information they can collect about what Microsoft is doing/planning.

People's web usage data is a valuable asset. IMHO most ISPs are very likely selling it to Google and others.

You probably saw Dell's 28'' 4K monitor, that uses a TN matrix.

Only the devices sold in US.

Fuel costs are not increasing. Shipping across oceans is extremely cheap. Way more more manufacturing is moving US -> China, than the opposite.

Borland got rid of Anders, he was constantly criticizing the move away from dev tools to enterprise platforms.

What are you trying to say? I should shut up, because nobody cares about my opinion or something else?

That doesn't surprise me. Google and the hacker/startup community have vastly different and often opposing interests.

In the end Google is the biggest advertising agency in the world. Advertising makes money by pushing people to make irrational choices - buy products and services that they don't need; buy from the vendor with bigger marketing budget, rather than superior engineering; overspend on stuff they need - e.g. cars, etc.

Hah, so now setting up your own email server is Google bashing, running Linux is Microsoft bashing and drinking water is Coca-Cola bashing ...

Well people are sending suspicious files to the AV vendors all the time, so Symantec may have found the backdoor a lot later and then found it existing in their DBs.

Haven't been able or were persuaded not to.

Because the "support" is just a PR move.

Interesting - what are the high barriers to starting a business in Europe?

AFAIK most countries in EU have higher unemployment benefits and other social protections than US (many ppl live on benefits while starting a business). People who say leave a mega corp to do a starup still have health insurance. Registering a company take a few hours. Most countries have all kinds of tax subsidies for the founders, investors and employees of new businesses.

Yield, foreach, LINQ all have many similar problems, compared to a for loop, but nonetheless greatly increase productivity. Given a little time, the devs will learn to use async properly.

C# await is a low level level construct that you can use to efficiently implement coroutines. The opposite is not true. Anders&Co designed a tool that has some rough edges (compared to say F# async computation expressions), but compiles to a small amount of low overhead Task operations.

The non-funny thing is 99.99999999% of people won't understand the basics of calculus is such a time span.

Interesting. I studied low at Harvard for two years in the middle 80s. Around 75% of my colleagues were from "yacht club" families. Maybe the things have changed since.

Opera implemented click to play because, unlike Microsoft and Netscape, they couldn't afford to pay the patent troll with the auto-play patent.

I think he's saying that in the last few years Google has become extremely thirsty for all king of user data. Their latest Android apps by default send a ton of personal data to the Google servers. E.g. the Android keyboard periodically uploads a list of the hundred most often typed words, unless you go to settings and disable this "feature".

How about /ncr ?

At least 4 thousand words IMHO.

Didn't Google sell the Motorala cell phone business to Lenovo?

>> Too bad for you if you're abroad!

You should use a VPN anyway :)

Hmmm, can be quite useful to thieves. Is this guy at work now? Yeah, than it's time to steal some stuff from his home.

RavenDB - they recently switched to a new engine and did some time series related work. Send them an email and you'll probably get a few free licenses. It's a very well selling commercial product, so the risk of deprecation minimal.

I have personally seen millions of records saved per minute on a top end SSD server.

Most stereotypes are actually true, most of the time.

Your comment doesn't make much sense. If you don't care about your teeth and ruin them now, how are the genes of people with perfect teeth going to help you? Those genes may make teeth more resilient to different types of stress, but won't recover already damaged teeth.

I won't even mention how unlikely such a procedure is or how the US dental lobby is trying to block all scientific/technological progress in the field by any legal, PR and other means.