That's great! I truly love the fact that MS has embraced git.

Now how do I get my company to make the switch over from their huge TFS repo? They all think git is too complicated. :-(

What about development though? You want to go through the PITA of setting up HTTPS for every development site? This also stops you using Wireshark for seeing what data is actually being transmitted.

If my website just serves up public data that I don't care about the government seeing, you're going to disable new features on it anyway? Seems a bit extreme.

Nah, they shouldn't be suppressed. They should just be reflexively demonized in the media and by the mainstream political class as racist, bigoted, xenophobic, and not worthy of consideration beyond summary dismissal.

It's gone this way for as long as it has because like everything else in the NHS, the budget has been cut to the bone.

How is this when NHS funding has been ring-fenced and gets increased every year? Are UKIP right about vast waste in middle management?

3. Consumption of unfiltered tap water, I'd say, is just about zero.

Interesting - that sounds like a regional thing. Over here in the UK it's not unheard of to filter your tap water but it's pretty rare.

Look at the kind of thing this is doing to our drinking water.

We have to get the message out about this! Fluoride and other pollutants are making our water look like unicorn piss.

It's still good compared to Facebook. :-)

if Microsoft did something like this (which they did in the 1990s), the masses would be at the gates with pitchforks and flaming torches screaming for blood.

No they wouldn't. Some geeks would be pissed off, which they were in the 90s.

When Google behaves like Microsoft did 20 years ago... well, meh, it's Google, they can do that. What's changed?

Nothing. Many of us are pissed off at Google for ruining good products they had. My bugbear is Google Navigate, and the removal of the separate "blue arrow" navigate icon. They totally fucked it up by rolling it up into Maps and changing the interface the way they did. Even to this day I install the old Maps APK on my Android phones.

Give me a technology that makes it less painful and i'll use it. If I can use it on an area of my body that doesn't usually get stuck (ass cheek? side of thigh? Anywhere where there is muscle behind the skin?) the pain level will be less.

Sounds like it'd be a pain in the ass.

I'm struggling to see how having your brains splattered on the wall is less grotesque than dying quickly from pure nitrogen inhalation.

Yup, I almost always go with Intel for my SSDs now. Not sure what I'm going to go to replace my 1TB Seagate backup drive, though; I don't know whether there are any SSDs that big that are of decent quality and affordable.

There's a difference between conquering and/or outcompeting a people and lining them up for systematic mass slaughter.

Hahahaha. So if Turkey had just driven the Armenians out of their homelands and left them to die in the desert (and only killed SOME of them), then that would've be A-OK?

It was a genocide. There may have been awful things happened to precipitate it, but it was a genocide and the record is fairly clear on this.

It would take courage for Turkey to accept this part of their past, apologize for it, and show that they are big enough to accept the bad and the good in their past. But they aren't, nationally, and these hackers are an example of that.

So when is the USA gonna 'fess up about its genocide of the native Americans?

This election won't be about gender or any substantive issues. The only choice is going to be between Crazy and Not Crazy and Hillary wins that going away.

Yeah. It's not like there are third parties or anything. First-past-the-post is an awesome electoral system!