So the arms race may be tilted in favor of Skype for now, but in 6 months we'll have an article "Fake profiles up 200% on Skype".

"Ad blockers try to make a distinction between content elements and advertorial elements. We make that distinction impossible,"

So long as you're hosting your ads off-site, or even on a local (ad.example.com) server, we'll be able to block them.

Other Anti-Virus vendors like Symantec, McAfee, and Kaspersky are going to continue to support XP past April, so why should Microsoft concede market share to these competitors?

Also, Microsoft is going to look pretty bad if a new virus makes a major impact, so having their security product database updates continue will mitigate that. Doing otherwise could easily be spun as irresponsible.

These "capacity whores" you're whining about wouldn't cause such negative impact if our highways were growing in pace with need over the last few decades. If you don't have any breathing room, doing anything is harder, but doing nothing is worse.

Online dating for women will get even more awful then.

A long long time ago, Symantec purchased Intel's AV business including what became their corporate product. The bloat increased over time, but was still a halfway decent product for a few Symantec versions. So maybe McAfee's remains will grow into something better.

What's going to happen to the Intel and Symantec Alliance?

You mean like how people in the Northern Hemisphere have done for eons?

In the short term, yes we'll use more resources, but I know I won't be the only one looking to increase heating efficiency. In my case, better weather stripping, adding insulation in some spots.

So rape and PTSD are just learning experiences?

So when the worldwide population multiplies, will water be the new oil?

There's many parental control packages out there, both built into Internet Security suites and stand-alone packages. There are even home-use hardware solutions. Why does the government need to mandate something the market has already taken care of?

It's a shame parents are under the belief they need to keep their kids "pure and innocent" from sex, as if it's some great evil that they grow up to enjoy. No matter how many filters you put up, it doesn't matter because there are still print magazines full of naked women. Teens masturbate, even apes and monkeys do, no matter what your deity says. Internet filtering is like circumcision in the Victorian age, a counterproductive strategy to combat what's at worst a lesser evil than the cure. After all, what's more harmful? Used tissues or the suppression of free speech?

I always have routed for robotics. And I have always been disappointed by them.

That's because you're using them wrong. Stop using NetBIOS.

So when will we see the greater NYC area turned into a single state?

The trend towards devolution and smaller, more responsive states is brewing in Europe, so it's no surprise it's also happening here. Is it really democracy when your elected leaders are hundreds of miles away?

How would it tell an accident from a sudden stop without an accident? Or even being thrown?

A number of people in Dev and IT in general started with nothing but their curiosity and have achieved success. The first thing these guilds do is put up barriers to entry to protect the existing workers, which would lock out new blood and new ideas. It's OK if you're not a fan of meritocracy, but I sure wouldn't want to work for or with someone like you.

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