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Submission + - Time to take Bill Gates out of MS Borg Logo 1

atchijov writes: These days he is one of (if not the most) most admirable billionaires in the world. His humanitarian projects are making real difference for millions of people.
Bill Gates was out of MS for quite a few years. I say, it is time to replace his likeness in MS Borg logo with Mr. Balmer.

Comment RTFA : it is NOT about App Store (mostly) (Score 1) 334

This is typical "bight - and - switch". Start with controversial statement to get eye-balls and then switch to self-promotion. Statement about App Store (which he completely fail to explain/justify) occupy barely 15% of the article, rest is promotional stuff about Wikipedia. On top of this, any article which claims that most of "net-neutrality" debate focused on "hypothetical" issues makes me highly suspicious in regards to author real intent.

Comment Re:Apple should handle but it's Skype's fault (Score 2, Informative) 177

First of all, please check your facts before making such a broad assumptions. Application need to be configured in particular way in order to be invocable via URL in iOS. I will be surprised if 1 in 1000 applications in Apple iTunes App Store using this functionality. Secondary, It is 100% application responsibility to act "properly" when invoked via URL. All iOS does is firing app and informing it that it was invoked via URL. Skype choose to start call without getting confirmation from the user. Too bad for Skype.

Comment end-user mostly dont care what OS is running (Score 2, Insightful) 325

Unless there is some "OMG I Absolutely Have To Have This" Application which is avilable only on Chrome OS, 99.999% of iPad users will see no reason to even think about it. Lets face if, MS Windows had some horrible usability problems and still most of the people never bother to look around for something better. And in case of iOS vs. Chrome - at best we have toss up.

Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 384

1) very small % of WoW players heard about glider and even smaller % ever used it
2) huge part of WoW experience is well balanced economy, bots (and gold sellers) really screwing economy - hence negatively affecting every WoW player.
3) from my understanding how glider works - it is VERY hard for Blizzard (or even impossible) to automate process of detecting accounts which uses glider.

Bottom Line: Blizzard has only 3 options:
1) Ignore the problem and have WoW experienced worsened for many "legit" users,
2) Try to make it impossible to implement glider like functionality,
3) Sue any company which trying to bring gliders to the WoW.

Blizzard can not live with option #1 - unhappy customers liable to leave. They trying to work on #2, but when you run on something as insecure as Windows, it is quite futile. So the only thing left - sue them.

And they do have good case against MDY. Glider work in very much the same way as some more sofisticated viruses (the only difference, is that Glider does all "bad" things in memory only).

Comment Re:How many issues caused by Apple's restrictions? (Score 1) 240

Actually, Safari on iPhone supports Java Script exceptionally well. If you read carefully, Apple explicitly allow JS in WebKit container. I have tried Opera for few hours - and went back to Safari. Unless you are on Edge - the speed difference is negligible and really there is no any other benefits to compel me to switch from Safari.

Comment Re:health insurance is like auto insurance now (Score 5, Informative) 2424

this is not true. take a look at this http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/votes/house/finalhealthcare/?nav=rss_email/components If you sort by amount of contributions, you will see that health care industry spread its $$$ almost evenly between Dem and Rep. Also, you will see that amount of contributions from healthcare industry does not really correlate with Yes/No vote on HCR.

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