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Rastafarian

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    Comment #5253743

    Reaver drop was not invented by Zileas, he only popularized it.

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    Comment #5142033

    It may not depend on it, but it will improve it by some small margin most of the time.

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    Comment #5142004

    There's a VS plugin from the company that makes IDEA, called Resharper. Resharper + VS >> IDEA :D

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    Comment #4952481

    IMHO they would never do that and you're just being naive ;) Encryption in the browser would mean no targeted ads, less profit for shareholders, problems with the government. Again…

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    Comment #4952160

    "a company that's supposed to be beholden first and foremost to its users" - it's only supposed to if you're stupid enough to believe the PR talk. Generally Microsoft is as trustwo…

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    Comment #4782951

    Many still have IE 6.0 on XP SP3 ... It's fully supported by MS.

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    Comment #4773024

    Writing a good novel is pretty hard to do, why are people not just republishing old ones?

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    Comment #4773008

    Of course they are similar, they both stole the concept from Lisp.

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    Comment #4772991

    Mentioning poor, useless Quora when the topic is billion dollar companies makes me laugh.

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    Comment #4772989

    I guess you can say that. There will be lots of MS bits in, once the site goes up :D

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    Comment #4772979

    Or about the music and movie industry?

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    Comment #4739672

    Of course there is, e.g. any government/public funded mobile app will have to be developed on Android first or only.

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    Comment #4739670

    Full license, including the name, access to Play, all Google apps is between $10 and $20 per device. The license comes with a very good rate for every online search made from an An…

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    Comment #4739657

    They don't have to grow ecosystem, it's Samsung store would be just another site to upload your app beside Google's and Amazon's.

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    Comment #4738822

    Aha John, good thing this is a new account as it's gonna be silent banned in a few hours ;-)

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    Comment #4738204

    Yeah, it's between countries. The same same small group of people owns the majority share in the Fed and controls almost all central banks worldwide. The independent central banks …

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    Comment #4728923

    The menu letters case is just a registry setting. There are many shortcuts not working properly, e.g. http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/7... , windows with…

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    Comment #4724672

    I'm observing quite a few serious regressions in another Microsoft product - Visual Studio 2012, so IMHO this is not completely unlikely to be an accident. On the other side - Stev…

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    Comment #4720237

    What is the name of the 19th century Russian mathematician he mentioned?

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    Comment #4718953

    You seem to be forgetting about the billion or so human-made combustion engines, that are easily capable of altering the global climate in a few years. Or about the tens of thousan…

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    Comment #4718806

    When you factor in the huge R&D costs, the cheapest models are definitely sold at a lost.

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    Comment #4718735

    Right, and what percent of the population do you think cares about some rules, some suits from Google made up?

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    Comment #4692246

    The only high resolution ~10″ displays on the market currently are those that didn't pass Apple quality control ...

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    Comment #4683052

    Buddy, did you even read the article before commenting?? "andrewaylett: But it's not an autorun vulnerability, that wouldn't be newsworthy -- the problem is that simply mounting th…

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    Comment #4683050

    Buddy, did you even read the article before commenting?? "andrewaylett: But it's not an autorun vulnerability, that wouldn't be newsworthy -- the problem is that simply mounting th…