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Comment Re:California knows how to party (Score 1) 118

So why does a house you can build just about anywhere for $250,000 cost $1 Million in California.

That statement is not true in all of California, mainly only for the bay area. As long as there is a housing shortage in the bay area (which there is) and as long as companies pay high salaries (which they do) you will have people with the means and willingness to spend a million on a house.

Comment Re:So they act like APK (Score 1) 88

Where can you get this magical order of a magnitude greater than 200 Gbps connection you claim? I'm in one of the largest exchange points on the west coast, and they're just now rolling out 100 Gbps ethernet.

You could have 20 100 Gbps links. That would give you 2Tbps.

Comment Re:I see (Score 1) 88

The group didn't cite any reason outside "testing" for the initial and uncalled for attack on ProtonMail

As opposed to, er, "called for" (justified?) attacks?

As opposed to paid-for attacks, which is what their system is intended to be used for.

Comment Re:How in the hell... (Score 1) 30

No, the question is why is the cardholder name, card number, and card expiration date stored on the booking system at all? Only keep the data as long as necessary to effect the transaction.

For convenience of course. That way when you go back for another reservation, you don't need to type out all of those annoying numbers again.

Comment Re:I remember a lot of people defending Uber (Score 3, Informative) 184

Furthermore, this is an area with an average of 1.25 miles between marked crosswalks. Are you saying you would have made the half-mile hike to the next crossing?

If you bothered to check, you would have seen that the place where it happened was about 300 feet from a crosswalk.

Comment Re: Lower court ruled against Apple (Score 1) 256

So anyhow - I guess you don't like Unix? If you know your way around MacOS, you know your way around Linux.

I have to disagree with this. I understand your point that Mac OS is built on Unix, but 99% of what the average user would do with a Mac involves the graphical interface. Most Mac users don't even know what the Terminal program is, much less how to use it. The Terminal is the only way that Mac remotely resembles Linux from a user perspective.

Comment Re: Lower court ruled against Apple (Score 1) 256

Would it be legal to sell a pair of scissors with long unreadable legal contact a sesor controlled device that disabled the scissors if you used them paper not made by the company?

There is not a long unreadable legal contact that you need to read to know that you can only buy apps from the App Store. Maybe if you had bought the original iPhone 1 before the App Store was created, then you would have an argument about being forced into something you didn't agree to. But now, after 10 years of existing, anyone who buys an iPhone knows that you can only download apps from the App Store, so parent's argument is valid.

Comment Re:Yeah, right... (Score 0) 59

Couldn't have said it better. Alphabet can create as many companies as it wants. Same people, different names.

But it won't be the same people. This new company can hire only people with the types moral attitudes that won't have a problem building military drone AI software.

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