Note the weasel words "up to 16%". It means nothing. It could even be true if most certs have a negative impact on income. The lack of hard numbers says a lot.

You're been able to stuff data into the keyboard buffer and read it back for decades. Same as sticking executable code or data in an unused page of video ram that doesn't get reinitializes so it can survive a warm reboot. Ditto for a modem buffer (already an I/o device), as well as the buffer in a serial mouse. Even the old parallel printer ports.

The site operates from Canada. The law (Personal Information Privacy and Electronic Documents Act, aka PIPEDA) requires that all personal private information be deleted when the purpose for gathering it has passed. ALM web sites were not allowed to keep a copy and then charge money to permanently scrub data on closed accounts. Class action suit, anyone?

Who cares? Reality TV producers are pouring over the list right now to get the reactions of both the cheaters and their spouses. Popcorn shortages are imminent. Ditto divorce lawyers and body bags.

After a couple of decades of high profile data thefts (banks, govt, Microsoft, Apple, computer security firms) anyone who puts something on the internet and expects it to stay secret is a special kind of stupid.

Word criiiiiimes!

Or maybe they have realized that a dog is the only love that money can buy ... same as many men, I suspect.

Internet dating is for people who don't have the social skills to meet people and engage in more than a nod or good morning in passing. The same people who don't know their next door neighbors and then complain they have nobody to talk to. Getting out and actually doing something, which would help address the problem, is too outside their comfort zone due to lack of practice. I predict a rise in similar scams targeted at the aging male programmer population who think they'll never fall for it.

They would have one dickhead less :-)

Corporations don 't hire the most talented people. If Chrysler had promoted ed Lutz instead of hiring the other end, Daimler would have not been able to buy and then abandoned it. You wouldn't see so many revolving door ceos who are paid to leave after screwing up (reddit, anyone? Balmer? The dufus who oversaw Apple's near death experience? ) You'd have the same results hiring qualified people at random.

"Not stupid?" To the contrary, extremely stupid. When you want to believe something so badly that you throw all caution to the wind, giving strangers all your money, you are dumb. Not naive. Dumb and desperate. The worst part is that when friends and family point out how its obviously a catfish, the victim turns on them and not the scammer

Yet another internet scam. This is not the 90s, so please GTFO and DIAF.

Nah, they will just continue to follow Gloria Steinem by attacking transsexual women with her exclusionary woman-born-woman nonsense. SJW is yet another cult, and all cults need to have a hate target to blame and make them feel special.

Troll is obvious troll. Please report to the nearest hospital for a sex change so you can be less of a prick.

Donald Trump. Perfect example of incompetence attracting the incompetent.

The headline, I think, is the worst part; the choice of "doesn't" (vs. "can't") sets up the expectation that MS is refusing to hire qualified women. Perhaps that's true on some level, but it's certainly not the story...