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Comment Being a necessary app isn't the problem (Score 1) 54

The problem is bundling. Slack does not have an office suite to bundle with its app, so it is at a competitive disadvantage to Teams. If we want market competition, we need to block monopolistic behavior.

My company is discontinuing the paid Slack tier in two weeks because they got a sweetheart deal from MS with the Office suite. Teams is absolutely worse for our use case than Slack, and we have to spend the next two weeks moving alerts, finding replacements for integrations, and backing up pinned posts and chat history. They're going to waste countless hours of expensive developer time to save $6/dev/mo.

Comment That's still unfair! (Score 4, Funny) 127

Its human-like touch was also apparent when it wished me luck at the end of its response

That was unfair of Bing to wish this candidate good luck. Or it will be lying to the other candidates when it says it will also wish them good luck. Or maybe wishing and luck aren't real? Oh God!

Comment It's even worse (Score 4, Insightful) 255

Any number of reasonable things could have caused the patch to be missed, but you'd expect $250M spent over three years to provide a few more security processes beyond, "Fred forgot to apply the patch." The attackers were spreading through their systems over several months without detection.

Also, way to lead from behind. Every corporate officer I've met has shared one tenet with all others: they are responsible for everything that their team does, good and bad. If some employee several rungs down the corporate ladder fails, it's because the leadership above them failed to hire or train them correctly or put in the right processes.

Comment Not like child porn (Score 1) 392

AFAIK, seeking out child porn is a crime in and of itself. If so, this case is not comparable. Everyone visiting a child porn site is breaking the law. I doubt 1.3 million people rioted at the inauguration, though that would explain his obsession over the crowd size.

The FBI should scrape the public site, determine who was planning violence, and subpoena those IP addresses so they can track them down in meatspace. Y'know, actually investigate.

This overly-broad request for information is becoming a pattern. His voter suppression commission is requesting a ton of information that is irrelevant. These kinds of actions are what fuels gun owners' fears that the government is going to keep a list and come for their guns. Maybe that's his goal?

Comment Re:In other news... (Score 3, Insightful) 318

If you stick a bunch of toy blocks in front of a toddler, it will play with them and eventually teach itself to build more complex structures and games.

If you stick those same blocks in front of an algorithm trained to detect spam or optimize investments or drive a car, it won't do shit.

If you put them in front of a baby, it will eventually shit.

Comment Re: Rumor (Score 1) 401

Snopes says that Pissgate is unproven. Do you disagree and instead believe the allegations of Russia blackmailing Trump have been verified? Interesting. You should call Fox & Friends!

All I can find on Snopes regarding Trump and Russia are articles debunking fake news or reporting public tweets, something I'd think Trumpkins would find useful. Instead, you lump all news into fake news, even when it supports your position. You are your own worst enemy.

"It looks like the evidence doesn't support your arrest, and you're free to go."
"Lies! It's all damn lies and fake news!"
"Uh, sir? Are you confessing?"

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