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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 - dire…

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 wor…

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 p…

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 pr…

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 (compare…

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 th…

How about /ncr ?

At least 4 thousand words IMHO.