WTF are 1700 engineers DOING on this project? It's like Trump Googled "How many engineers does Google have?" and then put the answer in an ad-hoc speech.

The metaphor of a worldwide web seems more appropriate as every day passes. It is impossible to detangle yourself from the privacy nightmare that Tim Berners-Lee has bestowed upon us.

What's frustrating is that despite being a step in the right direction, there will constantly be successful attempts at thwarting privacy measures. I rejoiced when Google announced that they were doing away with the mechanism that allowed sites to detect the sandboxed incognito mode, only to realize that site developers just came up with other new ways to detect it.

HTML5, with persistence storage and its other cool whizbang gizmos makes it easier and easier to find identifying pieces of information. And the only way you can convince yourself that you are having a private or "secure" browsing experience, is if you erroneously believe that the site owner isn't going to collaborate and share session data with a 3rd party provider through some other means. SPOILER ALERT: They will, because it pays well to do so. There's nothing your browser will be able to do about companies behaving as bad actors and oversharing information via the backend for a quick buck.

I'm one of the poor saps who bought Aperture for the $100 price tag, right before they discontinued it. I had just purchased my DSLR and wanted some nice editing software for it. As a software developer, this behavior infuriates me to no end. It's true that I've been able to use it for the last few years still, but now I'm falling neatly into the planned obsolescence category, and my $100 did not last nearly as long as it should have. It is also the reason that I do not plan to buy any more software from Apple. They like to be a little TOO nimble, their software products are the equivalent of Google endeavors -- short lived, but at a higher price.

Just use regexes on the site to switch all instances of the word "kill" to the word "masturbate", and whatever tongue-in-cheek subs would be appropriate. Then watch as angry users scramble to delete their posts where they threaten things like, "I'M GOING TO MASTURBATE YOU!"

When someone says "biker" to me, I immediately think motorcyclist. I've seen many aggressive motorcyclists on the road, so when the headline said "biker", I was not thinking about bicycle riders (cyclists?) at all. So then I had to wonder if the study was skewed because of ambiguous terms like "biker" being used.

Is it me, or does the Bitcoin thing repeatedly set itself up as a 3 card monty where people in the know rake financial people over the coals?

If the IRS has to do their own system development for auditing purposes to check submitted returns against "their calculation", why haven't we opened that up to the public already? Sorry, that's a bit off topic, since we're talking about lobbyists thwarting a system that many of us don't qualify to use anyway -- but it's another case of pro-corporate politics in the US.

I always wonder how on earth these committees are formed. Seems like every time a committee is appointed for a task like this, there is always a few conflicts-of-interest in the pool. So, how can we appoint people and screen out serious conflicts in a timely manner? When we have a committee like this, we need people that are highly educated in their respective fields, and preferably with a background or at least passing familiarity with the technical concepts involved. The pool is probably a lot smaller than we'd like to think -- and really, conflict or not, the people I'd like to see on this type of committees are people who have a track record of changing their stance when plausible and convincing evidence is presented.

Except of course the 1.4Phz clock, 200 threads, and RGB LEDs on the die cover.

I'm a software engineer and when I bought my current home, I made the mistake of relying on the broadbandmap.gov website. It showed that I had lots of cable internet options, so you can imagine my surprise when after signing over the next 30 years of my life, that I had... get this, ZERO options available. Satellite doesn't count, because using RDS streaming to stream desktops to your machine kills bandwidth. DSL wasn't even an option, because all of the circuits were being utilized. I was lucky enough to work for a company that had some sway with a local terrestrial wireless carrier (they also run a data center), and they put up a repeater for a line-of-sight tower nearby, that granted me a 6Mbit plan with no data caps.

I could be wrong, but I think the injection molding process used to manufacture LEGO bricks is the reason they are so strong. Most 3D printers use PLA or ABS, and while ABS should be sufficient, PLA is a softer plastic that just won't have that "LEGO grip". Because of the layering technique used by 3D printers, there will always be more flex in the end product than the rigidity of a dense brick made with a highly-pressurized injection system.

I'm sure in the future these problems will be dealt with, but for now I think you're searching for a unicorn.

I mean, at the very core, a phone is a tool (let's pretend it's a diary in this example) -- it can contain useful or useless information, but ultimately it is a very private thing. It has the power to incriminate someone beyond the investigation at hand. Law enforcement's desire to decrypt first, ask questions later really is equivalent to violating a person's privacy and fifth amendment protections to abstain from revealing information that could potentially incriminate themselves.

Okay, so AMD is in the business of manufacturing and selling CPUs. Along comes a tool to qualitatively analyze CPU performance. AMD doesn't like that. What are they really trying to say?

P. S. I'm fully aware that there are all kinds of backdoor deals and benchmark fudging in the market, but as other posters have noted, you want a CPU score based on the performance of the CPU.

What about the glorious catch-all "reckless endangerment" or "criminal mischief"? There are myriad ways this scenario could have gone wrong, such as a malfunction resulting in severe injury or death to the owner or a previously-unseen bystander. It's not that I think this type of thing should be outlawed, per se, but when a story such as this hits the internet, I now have to worry about every bored teenager in the sticks trying this out and potentially using no care or consideration for safety whatsoever. If it was a camera or water-balloon dropping device, eh, whatever -- but now we've planted a seed of villainous intent into the minds of people who hadn't thought of it before -- some of those minds can handle the concept, while at least a few won't be satisfied until they've intentionally harmed something with it.