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I do believe we need to discourage hard drug use, but criminalization simply isn't doing that. You mention cigarettes, and cigarette usage has actually been dropping pretty dramati…

Microsoft has been amazing at legacy support. The fact that they had an OS be supported for 12 years is pretty amazing. In contrast Ubuntu's LTS are only 5 years

I'm curious, why can't you use VSOnline?

Depends on your definition of works. Hangouts is the only piece of software that is less reliable than visual studio.

It's sad and true. FB messenger is such a crappy thing but google still manages to be worse than it. I think the last time I used a messaging app that doesn't consistently crash an…

Is there an efficient diff algorithm for bloom filters?

That's not true

That won't solve the problem > Slapping unbreakable crypto onto more and more packets is just going to make matters worse > > The IT and networking communities overlooked a wise sa…

Not necessarily. You don't need to introduce compromised crypto (that's exactly the problem that's happening currently). I think the point of the article more shows that by using T…

One thing I find good about Microsoft's libraries is that for the most part they do a good job of working as magic and working with someone with understanding. XNA is the example I…

The difference was that the russian government did actively attack them, it merely was trying to block illegal content. Github didn't remove the repo, they simply blocked that page…

Interestingly enough they have succeeded in pulling those projects down.

I'm not familiar with US law to really say much, but under Canadian law it'd be illegal for a company to keep the canary if they received a section 215, and I presume it'd be the s…