I wonder to what extent this is true, in context of this story. Given the fact that this money seems to be coming primarily from Saudi Arabia and, potentially, other unknown sources.

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You're probably right. The de-regulation that Trump has been advocating for would potentially let the merger pass this time.

There was a lot of speculation about that since the day after the election.

What are you talking about?

Using your own reference, let's look at the numbers. Obama inauguration was on January 20, 2009. Here are the unemployment rates then and now:

Jan 09: (U1..U6) = 3.1%, 4.8%, 7.8%, 8.3%, 9.1%, 14.2%
Nov 16: (U1..U6) = 1.8%, 2.2%, 4.6%, 5.0%, 5.8%, 9.3%

So every one of the unemployment measures shows a significant decline since the day Obama took office.

If the device is already hacked, you're absolutely right that NAT won't add any security. However, GP's point was that NAT could make it a little more difficult to get the device hacked in the first place.

This article is relevant to Linux and the FOSS/FLOSS community.
Whether you love or hate MS, and whether or not you're exclusively interested in FOSS and Linux, Windows is the still biggest competitor to Linux in desktop and enterprise markets. Your position regarding Linux or Windows shouldn't stop you from looking at other competing software products.
Bashing Windows maybe fun and all and we all enjoy that every once int while, but constantly bashing for the purpose of bashing is simply unproductive. What I'm saying is that we should probably learn from others' successes or failures. Isolating ourselves from the rest of the technology world doesn't help advancing the FOSS technology and community.

Yes, but they'll probably just switch to click-bate images rather than click-bate headlines.. It is significantly more difficult to recognize click-bait images with computer algorithms...

Actually a 4533 ratio of hose cross-section area is equivalent to sqrt(4533) = 67.3 of diameter ratio. Therefore the 6.8Gbps hose would be 67.3 * 0.625 =~ 42 inches wide. Not very far from GP's estimate.

RESOURCE!

I agree with the article on that one. A word that is often used to dehumanize people.

If a project is late, we can just "throw in more resources"!

One of my co-workers was once told by the business product owner to get her application finished in unreasonable time. When he expressed his concerns, she basically told him that she would replace him any time with a bunch of "developers from the street" who would get the job done faster than him.

Please mod parent up.. I was born and raised in Syria, and lived there most of my life. Like parent, I'm tired of hearing misinformtion about Syria. Assad couldn't be any farther from being called Islamist. Not sure where GP got his information from. Assad regime is a secular repressive dictatorship. To portray the war in Syria as mostly religion motivated is a big distortion of the complex multidimensional situation. Many people who stood against the Assad regime are secular. Many of them ended up being in prison or even killed by that regime. I myself am an atheist and I'm against that regime. I do have a lot of muslim, christian, and athiest friends there who are equally opposed to that regime, and are calling for a secular democracy. Did the Islamist groups manage to get all the attention in the media? I think so. However, talking about the islamists as if there were all that exists there is a big distortion that only empowers the Assad and ISIL, while marginalizing the role of the moderate and secular groups that are calling for a secular democracy.

Or whatever paradigm "programming with butterflies" falls under.

Right. Or something like: "The first Azure-hosted service to run Linux is powered by Ubuntu".. etc.

Apparently the update left out a serious universal XSS vulnerability in IE11 unpatched. Source
Vulnerability Full Disclosure - 31 Jan 2015

Belief is not a choice.

For example, you don't have the choice to believe that you exist. You either believe that, or don't.

If I wake up one day and say today I'm choosing to believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I'd be just pretending to believe in Him. Of course if I actually truly believed in His Noodly Appendage, then I wouldn't have the choice to simply un-blieve in Him anytime I like. Otherwise I would just be pretending.

Simple. The <1ms crowd were obviously busy trying to get full root access.

Once they manage, you'll see their first post magically appears!