"that lawmakers say pose a national security risk"

I still can't get over how many people just accepted there's actually a security risk just because some anti-Chinese politicians kept repeating the line.

What I'm not surprised about is how someone will financially benefit from this, and from taxpayer cash, yay. Not surprised at all.

While we're at it, let's keep removing every Chinese-manufactured electronic equipment, device, chip and processor. Before you dispose of my popcorn maker please let me make a batch to watch the show in peace.

"provide automatic memory management, security, and much more"

So the preachers of doom have found us again, it must be that time of the year, Halloween is near, whatever. And yet again, here come the people who think they really can "solve" bad coders with another language. You can manage issues to a level, but there's just no way. There's one recipe for good coders: be a damn good coder. My own position is, if you go the way of the automatic memory management route full throttle, you'll end up with an army of useless coders - i.e., people who claim they can code, then produce a million lines of junk you'll have a very hard time finding real coders to clean up. This wouldn't be the first time for such a wave to reach us, and it surely won't be the last.

Somehow, good c/c++ coders could survive it all, and will survive it all. Yes, it's magic, the magic of knowledge and experience. And a reduced amount of arrogant knowitallbetterism.

You'll claim you produce automatic mem management and security - and "much more" nonetheless -, don't get surprised to end up with people who care less about the one than they know about the other.

Better coder education - theory, and practice, and theory, yes, that, with practice :) - would be a much better way to go, since we can all witness - some more first hand than others - the general knowledge and versatility decline in coders abilities during the last 10-20 years.

You can't make that disappear by giving them a new language. You can temporarily alleviate issues, somewhat, until you again reach a point where even Rust is not enough to help you, and then what? Come up with another, again? Right.

Preach all you want, but also pray I won't be deciding to hire you or not.

"The poll shows that consumers are willing to pay much more for their cable TV package than they are for streaming, as the poll indicates that 90 percent of U.S. subscribers pay more than $50 per month for their service. "

Willing to pay much more? Crazy sh*t. Show me a US-based cable tv service anywhere that costs less than $50, nah, $60 even. There's no way for them to pay less, interpreting that information saying they are willing to pay more is simply idiotic. If you'd offer cable tv for $20 (with enough channels that is) everyone would switch to it, or do you think there will be people sticking with $70-80 plans saying nah, no way I'm paying less...

There's another issue tackled by only a few up to now, that when the streaming market will become so fragmented (we're quite close to this now) that we'd have to subscribe to more than 2-3 services to watch stuff (or continuously subscribe-cancel all the time), lots of people will simply go back to the torrent sites, not necessarily (but certainly partially) because of the combined prices, but because of the loss of convenience.

"Other than trying to keep my kids from falling down the stairs in the Governor's mansion I don't know how much I deal with physics daily,"

Well, I could give an estimate about how many idiots I have to deal with daily, but that would be a pointless endeavor, so let me just say this: the way to create a manageable and comfortably dumb (yes, I know what I did there) generation is to reduce their generic level of knowledge. And yes, that includes physics. People who don't know at least basic stuff in various topics will be the ones who will challenge scientific facts, distrust professionals, advocate planets being flat, put children in danger, make questionable everyday decisions, and the worst of all, propagate their ignorance and stupidity infecting faster than ebola.

Teaching about physics is at least that important as teaching CS, it is part of creating a stable knowledge base that the kids will be able to build upon later. Otherwise they'll become drones, which might be appealing to some a**wipe politicians, but it could lead to a rapid downfall a society. IMHO the only way towards improving things is to try to make our next generations as informed as possible about as many aspects of their world as possible, so when they come to points of important decisions they'll be able to base their decisions on valid information. One of the first steps towards that is to provide proper basic education.

So yeah, teach those kids about physics and keep your idiotic ideas to yourself.

"everyone should be allocated "an air mile allowance -- say enough for one long-haul return flight a year, or three short-haul flights"

Again, the craziest retards, not focusing on cutting back the biggest pollution sources and the biggest polluters first, but concentrating on those who are easily f*cked with lobbied legislation: the common people.

The only good size: I don't see legislators trying this prank staying in power for too long.

Limiting travel? Yeah, I have historic memories of such moronic moves, not one of those ended well for those geniuses.

"Why Google Stadia Will Be a Major Problem For Many American Players" That's kind of backwards. Blame a provider of a service instead of kicking the backsides of the network providers for their shitty state? Seriously, it will be Stadia that will be a major problem for the US players, not your crap internet connection provided by a crap company for idiotic prices and frequently with laughable speed and latency? Do you think Stadia would be the major problem for people having $40/6mbit connections? I remember the days when the US was leading in bandwith and prices. It was so long ago, just thinking about it makes me feel old.

So, given the state of US cellular networks and coverage and their old, sick, narcolepic turtle pace in expanding, maybe they'd be quite happy to see the rest of the world get delayed in 5G deployments - maybe then US networks wouldn't look that bad and and the other hand they could blame their slow pace and lacking coverage on the Chinese, oh my:)

The only way to avoid leaking backdoor information is to not have one. Period. If there is one, it will unavoidably either leak out, or be found out, that's certain. I understand they'd wish their jobs would be easier, but wishes aren't horses.

The complete lack of data and privacy protection in the U.S. is astounding. People seemingly not caring about it is even more astounding. Yes, some people can say they care, but unless these voices can amount to a force to drive relevant laws to be established, it's all just smoke.

As with many things, those who didn't yet have any success through/using LinkedIn, will tell it's not relevant, not useful, waste of time, and those who had success in landing interviews, finding jobs, will say it's relevant.

It's no different than any other site which can - in theory - connect you to jobs. If we'd start an is-jobsite-X-relevant for each of them, man, can't really figure a larger waste of time and space.

From the article: "In its defense, Huawei can point to the fact that no security researchers have found back doors in its products. âoeThereâ(TM)s all this concern, but thereâ(TM)s never been a smoking gun,â says Paul Triolo of the Eurasia Group. While thatâ(TM)s true, it wonâ(TM)t change the view of the US, which is stepping up its efforts to persuade its allies to keep Huawei out of all their networks."

I don't want to defend Huawei, I couldn't care less, however, this whole thing actually seems to be a baseless discrimination. Until someone can actually prove any of this, we all should call it as it is: total bullsh*t.

Some say that, well, they don't tell us, but they probably have a good reason to do this. I don't believe that, why should I, how can they demand trust without earning it first? To put it plainly, "show me the money" (Jerry Maguire), the we can talk.

" millions of phone buyers that could get an American phone"

Well, good luck with that. American phone, right.

11 from 21 showed up? Boohoo, I'd need some really long time ro feel sorry for these guys.

It's still better percentage than the percentage of _any_ kind of response I got from job applications (SoCal): 2 out of 18, one of which led to an interview process, the other was a no off the bat.The rest, nothing. Good thing I'm not in a rush.

While I agree that not notifying an interviewer about a cancellation is rude, I can also understand by the time some people land an interview, or a job, they can get frustrated.

However, there's absolutely no excuse for not going to an interview when they already payed for the travel.

" most businesses don't really need programmers to be deep thinkers"

This whole writing is a large pile of stinking bullshite. You don't need people with knowledge? There are plenty of those. You only need shallow coders for a short un-important job who'll move along after the job? Even more of those. Good luck building a company for the long term using such people.

Plenty of "programmers" and "coders" are out there with some level of lanuage knowledge, but what people like the writer above don't always realize is that they usually need people who solve problems, and the ones not being deep thinkers are seldom capable of that. The iidiotic examples about NP completeness shows how the writer is a bigger idiot that those people (s)he praises.

And the bashing of maths, arrogance, etc? It seems the writer is a disgruntled lunatic, toxic and unproductive. Someone I'd really never want to work with, ever.

"it will be automatically provisioned and patched for you by Microsoft. Maybe you'll be OK with that."

No, I won't. Lots of people won't. Thankfully I'm not required to use Windows for my development work for a long while now, so I only use Windows in VBox (mainly for Office, and for the very occasional Windows development tasks) and have switched to Linux for many years now. I have one Windows laptop at home though, but mostly because of laziness and since it can run putty quite OK :)

But back to the point, for average users who can afford the monthly/yearly fees this probably will be OK - until some automatic update bricks their "rented" OS, which will inevitably happen. Why wouldn't it, it was just yesterday that I had to help someone (a typical average user) with a bootlooping Win10 - which by the way has become completely borked after restoring a previous "working" state and I had to reinstall the whole thing. As a developer you can't afford such issues, and we would need more control, not less. While this "rented" Windows might still have a version with more control, centralizing updates and charging monthly fees will most definitely not make me want to use Windows as a main dev platform, that's for sure.

The only way I'd like to see regarding Windows is for them to make its updating process much more reliable and with the possibility of much more control (not necessarily set as default, but being available and usable), and to make it - at least the versions that would follow the current Home and Pro - completely free, with MS trying to figure out other ways to make profit (which they kind of already do, just take a look at their Azure numbers).