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Comment She Got Trolled (Score 1) 384

> "potential angry male ramifications"

The simple fact is, trolls will attack anyone they perceive to be low-hanging fruit. And trolls can be anyone— male or female. Why should anyone trust anything a troll says, including that they may represent themselves as male? They will present themselves as anything that the target might find offensive. Only one thing can be safely said about trolls as a group: They want you to suffer. And they will pick targets who are more likely to publicly express anguish or outrage. For trolls this is a win. This is why women in the public eye are more likely to get death or rape threats— because they are likely to be goaded into responding publicly.

Comment Re:Biased article.. (Score 1) 619

Another indicator of bias is calling it the "Buy American Hire American" OFFENSIVE. For any other President in my lifetime it would have been an INITIATIVE. Why choose a word from military nomenclature to describe an economic move? Perhaps The Guardian, wants to look at it this way because it might affect the hiring of British workers. Nonetheless, I think it's clearly rhetoric and not reporting.

Comment Re:1 BTC = Between $20,000.00 and $500,000.00 (Score 1) 371

Why would the world population want to do that when they could be using BTC2 or BTC3 or ... BTC (each with a slight tweek of the algorithm) instead?

There are tons of virtual currencies already in existence, and no barrier to entry for creating more (including no barrier to entry for creating clones of Bitcoin that use a different cryptographic base).

Because Bitcoin has a huge first-mover advantage over all other cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin is a grand experiment that could succeed dramatically or fail utterly. The other current attempts at cryptocurrencies are also-rans that more often than not are simply Bitcoin clones with some minor tweaks that add nothing of significance when compared to the magnitude of Bitcoin's dramatic breakthroughs.

Comment Disappointed Apple Java Developer (Score 1) 436

I'm the developer of Flying Logic, a highly graphical planning application that runs beautifully on Mac, Windows, and even Linux thanks to Java. But I'm a Mac guy, and I do all my development on the Mac, and I use a number of other Java applications on my Mac including IntelliJ and MySQL Workbench. I also develop iOS software, and I've had numerous requests for Flying Logic on the iPad, which would require a binary-compatible JRE. So even though I'm an Apple fanboy and supportive of many of their moves, I'm quite disappointed that Apple has left a huge question mark hanging over the fate of Java applications on the Mac.

Comment Re:Good for him (Score 1) 527

To put more restrictions on the time and manner of cannabis procurement and consumption that are any greater than those that are already placed on the procurement and consumption of alcohol or tobacco, you would need to first show that cannabis is more dangerous than those other substances. In fact, it is far less dangerous.

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