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Microsoft: It's TIME at LAST. Yes - .NET is going OPEN and X-PLATFORM

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Re: Clearly MS read Elop's memo...

Interesting so you claim this is so developers can go home to develop on their Linux boxes at home (or at work on the desktop) while only using windows servers for production. Might have a point for some time if we are talking about .Net but in general in industry there are probably now nearly as many Linux/Unix boxes in production as there are Windows. Especially if counting web servers and such. By the way all those advanced security, reliability, and performance features you mentioned appeared fairly late comparatively in the windows world. Keep on trollin' though or better don't.

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Re: So it works as well as Flash on OS/X ?

The real question is .Net going to still be relevant by the time its been fully developed and is truly production ready on non MS platforms.? After the Silverlight debacle Microsoft has in past given mixed signals about .Net's long term future. In some ways this may turn out just like it did with Symbian.

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Microsoft .NET released from its Windows chains... but what ABOUT MONO?

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Re: The last throw of the dice?

Going to take a half dozen downvotes before I delete this but the only good news concerning managed code is if it is finally disappearing.

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Re: First Mentioned on TheRegister five years ago :-)

Yeah but during all those dates Microsoft had a chair throwing buffoon in charge who was so hip with the times that he used discredited stack rankings straight from the 1980s. Collaboration was a dirty word in those days not just inside the company but especially with anything that was not Microsoft.

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Obama HURLS FCC under train, GUTPUNCHES ISPs in net neut battle

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Re: FCC= Title II for everyone... They are all the same...

It was the principal of the whole thing. Merkins are low hanging fruit so the enthusiasm just wasn't there.

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Re: FCC= Title II for everyone... They are all the same...

>Do they add an extra day in November over the pond to make up for thanksgiving?

Bit trollish but still made me smile. Too lazy to upvote though.

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Mystery Google barges TORPEDOED by US govt: Showrooms declared death traps

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>Hubris really isn't the right word as some of this crap goes way beyond it.

Hopefully they don't get in Enron's ballpark and laugh about Grandma's rolling blackouts.

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Re: ITS ALL A SIMPLE MISUNDERSTANDING...

Wow an El Reg AC that made me smile. Don't see that often.

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Re: @AC The REAL problem was building it in San Francisco, California

> both of which were discredited in US politics by the 1950s.

Kind of like McCarthy and southern Jim Crow laws?

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Re: The REAL problem was building it in San Francisco, California

Also that is why the headline is TORPEDOED by US govt: too huh? I guess in your mind the south secession has happened again already. I am all for it but then again we would have yet another country to the south of us bleeding economic refugees.

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Re: The REAL problem was building it in San Francisco, California

You mean San Francisco the metro area that has a higher GDP than the states Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas combined? I could actually fit in at least 5 or 6 other southern states as well if include the entire greater bay area. Perhaps San Francisco doesn't need riverboat type buildings to survive unlike much of the Gulf coast.

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It's a bad day to be Serco's CEO... or an investor, come to that

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Re: "Supplier of public services."

Ah lovely private prisons. What could possibly go wrong giving companies a profit motive to store people like cord wood? Its not like they will use the money to lobby the politicians for more business (ie more poor brown people to get paid to abuse).

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Belkin flings out patch after Metasploit module turns guests to admins

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Re: ground hogs day on factory firmware

Also to nip it in the bud now I can't edit, yes I am obviously aware of Tomato and dd-wrt not being based on OpenWRT and while I have have ran all three on various routers (and many others, really like pfSense and M0n0wall as well on a gateway) for most non tech geeks I tend to recommend Gargoyle as its very user friendly. Anything I named is 100x better than almost all consumer grade factory firmware security and often stability wise as well.

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ground hogs day on factory firmware

Manufacturer firmware is always always steaming hot garbage on consumer grader routers so:

#1 - always before buying a router check to see if open source firmware exists for it. In general if OpenWRT (most others are derivatives) doesn't support it don't buy it.,

#2 - a short google search tells me this model doesn't seem well supported but there is at least one open source solution out there. If you were dumb enough to buy this router I wouldn't trust Belkin software any longer and would look at the solution found on dd-wrt forums below.

"Only Padavan firmware is available..."

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=139046&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=525

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Murder suspect charged after pics of strangle victim posted on 4chan

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Where do you draw the line of who goes? Bets as usual darker skin factors in to the equation as well eventually? Still that said I have no sympathy for this POS.

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Re: The child

>There's many sociopaths in our society and they hide in plain site. Fortunately many would not go as far as this individual, but they do wreck lives and generally cause misery for those around them. If we do more as a society to recognise sociopathic traits and out these people,

Are you kidding? Society worships these people and gives them enormous piles of money. They are found in the C-Suite of virtually every major corporation and they have succeeded in getting society to now believe greed is a virtue and empathy is for the weak.

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The late 2014 Apple Mac Mini: The best (and worst) of both worlds

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Re: Just what were you running exactly???

>On the bright side, I had a 7 year old Dell which I upgraded from XP to Ubuntu.

Just don't forget to switch out the memory hog that is Unity for any one of a myriad of other leaner WM/DE for a double boost. In fact about the only *nix DE even close to Unity in bloat is KDE so its hard to do worse.

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Trickle-down economics works: SpaceShipTwo is a prime example

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Re: Reel 'em in

Worstall is quite a piece of John Birch work ain't he?

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Re: Why supply-side / trickle-down failed...

The saddest thing Tom 13 is I believe you sincerely believe your narrative and wrote it with a straight face.

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How Hollywood film-makers wove proper physics into Interstellar

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Re: Soooo....

>The film could have had a very similar plot,

Don't know that spacesuit only trip from the Hubble to the ISS was going to to be pure fiction regardless unless the movie took place in the year 2100 or something. That was a major part of the plot.

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Remote code execution flaws fixed in tnftp and wget

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OpenBSD ftw

>The flaw (CVE-2014-8517), which did not affect OpenBSD due to modifications

Never see that huh? OpenBSD 5.6 just dropped and I just can't stand to see the cancer that is systemd devouring my beloved Debian testing any more. OpenBSD daily driver coming next time I get some free time. Also the more I use FVWM the more I realize the last decade has been nothing but bloat in the WM/DE space.

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Piketty-Poketty-Poo: Some people are just itching to up tax to capital ...

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problems in argument early

>So, if we tax what people earn by investing, then we're going to get less investing and the future will be poorer

Want to know an easy way to also have less investing, get rid of the government. Look at Somalia. People in the west never seem to understand how much their supposed useless governments actually encourage business and investment (through rule of law, stability, hell even things like legally enforceable deeds not requiring you and buddies having the most AK47s to possess things). I guess the argument as usual is that people with lots of capital shouldn't be expected to be ones to keep the system that benefits them running.

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wait a min what?

>Everyone also agrees that it would be pretty difficult politically to insist that we don't tax the moneybags, ever.

Wow you must be in the UK or something because that pretty much is the whole point of the tea party and Paul libertarians here stateside.

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Ex-Soviet engines fingered after Antares ROCKET launch BLAST

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more proof without Von Braun no moon shot

Von Braun might well have been more ahead of his time than virtually any other scientist in the 20th century including Einstein.

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Re: Depressing: "made it to the moon"?

>Russia put rovers on moon.

And the US put 3 on Mars which ran for years which is more impressive. I thought the point was to say how much more impressive Russian scientists are than American. Honestly if not for Germans humans might not well have put anything past low earth orbit if even that. Remember the Russians are one of the best at "borrowing" know how from other countries even if they didn't outright borrow citizens from other countries like the US.

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Re: Re:The simple fact is

>Russians (and close neighbours) top both the Physics and Mathematics charts

>US-trained people never appear on the NIH chart

Funny don't see Russia in the list below. Granted there might be some selection bias but I think you and your buddies opinions might not match the rest of the world's.

Country, Number of Nobel Laureates

1. United States 270

2. United Kingdom 101

3. Germany 76

4. France 49

5. Sweden 30

6. Switzerland 22

7. Netherlands 15

8. Italy 14

9. Denmark 13

10. Japan 12

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Microsoft gets storage QoS and software-defined storage religion

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Re: Yawn

Yes but at least the QOS algorithms do get better each generation. fq_codel on the network side as a case in point.

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NATO declares WAR on Google Glass, mounts attack alongside MPAA

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Re: Really puzzling, this one

Because NATO takes it in the ass from MPAA and smiles for them duckets.

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Re: Great steaming hairy...

I am no fan of the MPAA mafia but movie theaters are private property generally so they do have the right morally to do this imo (as by law they also obviously do) just as you have the right to not give them business for their policies.

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Banksy denies Banksy impostor's claim to Banksy.com – which isn't owned by Banksy

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Re: the human equivalent of dogs pissing up a tree-trunk

>Even the murals in Northern Ireland look like a 6 year olds art class fridge picture.

>I noticed other countries have a far better standard of Street vandalism.

Here in the southwestern US if you want really good street art you go into the Hispanic barrios often for some gorgeous murals. Of course as dangerous as that may be its generally even more dangerous to go to the other great place for street art which is in the concrete arroyos (flash floods anyone).

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Re: FUCKIN VANDAL

Jesus did he paint on your neighbor's wall or something making him a millionaire and not you?

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Mozilla: Spidermonkey ATE Apple's JavaScriptCore, THRASHED Google V8

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Re: day late and a dollar short

Hardly I remember not being able to download Netscape Navigator 2 at launch for several days due to the load taking their ftp servers down. Think I eventually had to download it using my modem at home like a week later. Historically Netscape 4.7.x was the ultimate example of garbage web browser code (and is perhaps the one piece of user land software most responsible for crashing even proprietary Unixs back in the day). Still Firefox 3 came pretty close to matching it for fail. Fire that bad boy up in a VM to see for yourself but be sure to allocate most of your system memory if you plan on opening more than a few tabs and be sure to save any work on even your host system if you try to run flash.

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Re: Speak for yourself

And iOS because the market is maybe not as big but tends to have more money than brains (the ideal customer).

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Re: IE doesn't work on Mac or Linux (which is where we benchmark right now)

If you go by that measure more people use the Android browser worldwide than IE probably as well.

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day late and a dollar short

Firefox 2 to Firefox 3.5 or so were such bloated buggy POS software that Chrome came in and stole the non IE crowd mind share in that window. Firefox has really gotten its shit together since then and is arguably better than chrome/chromium today but hardly anyone but the dedicated fan base has noticed. Arrogance and complacency is not just the domain of proprietary software.

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Arrrr GOSH! Argos website goes titsup to make it EVEN BETTER

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Re: As everybody knows ....

Ancient meme but still makes me laugh is the world's most interesting man wearing a cowboy hat and saying, "I don't often test my code but when I do I do it in production. Stay on-call my friends." Why take down production when you can cowboy code lol.

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Breaking records: Google exec in terrifying SKY PLUNGE DRAMA

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Re: Sorry, but Kittinger still has the biggest balls...

Bah missed edit period. Check out this crazy record that still stands today. "Manned by John Stapp. Fastest manned rocket-sled. Fastest manned rail vehicle. Fastest manned open-cockpit vehicle. Zero to 1,017 km/h (632 mph) and back to zero in 3,500 feet total., 1954-12-10"

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Re: Sorry, but Kittinger still has the biggest balls...

Kittinger was amazing. So was John Stapp who rode a rocketsled to 450mph and turned 45G in the late 1940s (talk about primitive tech) to prove harnesses can save lives. He also more than any other person got seat belts put into cars as more of the pilots he was trying to protect were dying in cars than planes.

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Lumia 830: Microsoft hopes to seduce with slim 'affordable' model

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Re: @ac - political system

No because occasionally (rare but still) the Lib Dems are relevant to anything.

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Silicon Valley scrooges paid staff $1.21 an hour in a 122-hour week

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Re: There is more to this story...

Anything to justify that quarterly bonus eh?

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Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster

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Re: Sinofsky

I can one up you on incompetent Microsoft executives who get promoted for god knows why. Roz Ho.

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Ubuntu's shiny 10th birthday Unicorn: An upgrade fantasy

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Re: The best thing about Ubuntu is...

Sadly I use Windows part of the day too but it takes a decent salary to bribe me into doing so. What I love is this AC probably argues in another article forum about how people shouldn't be cattle and should give the low single digit market share Windows Phone a chance.

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Re: The best thing about Ubuntu is...

>... though I wonder whether it will survive systemd...

It will but it will be pretty much be like every other distro and eventually such a neutered tight hairball it will be hard to tell from Windows. *BSD looking better by the day. Still sadly before long a lot of FOSS won't run without systemd.

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Re: Meh!

>We all know how RedHat gets its $1B+ a year.

Yeah too bad they weren't happy with that and foisted the freedesktop.borg, wayland, systemd hairball that has now ruined pretty much all the distros. All for mo money.

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