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abysmallyideal

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    Comment #12989810

    If you look up Pompeo on wikipedia, he has zero credibility in the Intelligence community having no experience whatsoever. His political credentials are: He's a tea party member, a…

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    Comment #12766838

    haha, that safety stuff is just training wheels. You can't delegate security. Even if you use some baby-proof "programming language", as a security engineer you still have to verif…

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    Comment #12766728

    What if an entity willingly allowed the attacks or espionage to continue? Like the NSA allowing foreign nations to spy on US citizens and corporations, or the CIA operating and all…

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    Comment #12766702

    The idiot is embarrassed because the DNC was exposed as fraudulent and corrupt to the core. One might figure only the Russians would be interested in exposing the underlying machin…

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    Comment #12747083

    Isn't SiliconnValley just the wall Street of techbro snowflakes and startup culture? Who cares what they say. These billionaires don't matter. They don't fund the core advancements…

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    Comment #12744415

    I can see how working for Google, there is no issue using their cloud infrastructure... For other companies I don't see the benefit esp since Google is an enormous data broker to t…

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    Comment #12736073

    There aren't many non-european Americans willing to live in Scandinavia or europe over the US barring extraordinary circumstances. A significant amount of foreign, non 'white', ski…

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    Comment #12735527

    That is not true. Some tech people go in hoping to be millionaires, but the environment is extremely cut throat, esp with competition like India with billions of people keen on dom…

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    Comment #12735431

    All the "25% extra work" is doing is continue to widen the wealth gap. Their input into the economy is exploited by politicians, government, big business and banks. That is why Blo…

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    Comment #12698834

    The "American dazzle tech boom industry" is a scam and a hoax. It is a government protected endeavor by government protected and connected organizations.

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    Comment #12698816

    It is a scam. They're not looking to fill in those positions. They just open those positions up, under no obligation to hire, then report to their gov censor that they have created…

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    Comment #12691962

    Our best bet would be what SpaceX envisions. Instead of having a massive rocket, use the same platform to deliver the cargoes multiple times into space (LEO), then have it assemble…

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    Comment #12691922

    What feels comfortable now is going to feel uncomfortable in like a decade. Especially if VR stuff begins to hit. The abominable Comcast is already enacting data caps, maybe due to…

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    Comment #12691891

    Oh my, that is amazing. I feel like such a scrub with my salvaged from scrapped mechanical keyboard with wires sticking out everywhere. Though they could do something better with t…

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    Comment #12691827

    NIST has too much influence from the NSA. There needs to be a better standards equivalent where the US doesn't wield so much influence in subverting security protocols. It may be a…

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    Comment #12691811

    Doesn't downsampling have the affect of preventing the use of more popular stego apps? Makes me wonder if there's something hidden in 25519. According to recent publications, it's …

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    Comment #12691732

    They're estimated to have to have to pay over (or have losses of) $5 billion! The class action lawsuits haven't even started yet, and you bet your ass InQTel, Facebook, Apple shell…

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    Comment #12690839

    Looks like Samsung has to foot the 5+billion dollar bill to come up with a solution. Are these known to just affect the snapdragon US version from whatever samples Samsung has been…

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    Comment #12682605

    How is it that many of these websites haven't learned about HTTPS, I.e. data integrity?

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    Comment #12681909

    Haha it is hardly nonsense. Corporate sabotage is part of what any company has to deal with. Considering that Apple and Google are poised to gain, with Apple shares rising it is ob…

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    Comment #12681453

    Apparently samsung is going through a regime change, and the new guy exercises less authority implying he doesn't have as much control over Samsung as the previous regime. When the…

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    Comment #12670863

    Hahaha nope, the US is desperate to continue its dominance over the market to sustain their surveillance apparatus and will deal with anyone, company and org that attempts to preve…

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    Comment #12670768

    Meh, it is too close to the rise of Goole as smartphone fab, the competition between Qualcomm and Samsung processors and the rise of Chinese fabs trying to enter the western market…

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    Comment #12670750

    Even with the coincidence of Pixel release and Samsung having problems with their batteries which hints with high probability the occurrence of corporate sabotage, the way Samsung …

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    Comment #12649443

    One of the key take aways I got from this article is that it is nearly impossible to depair the efficiency of exploitative capitalism of 'physical industry' and the abstraction tha…