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Comment Legal ID requirement with VPNS incomming (Score 2) 36

Given the state of the laws on Technology, we should see that come to pass where Anonymity is legally banned. While other smaller companies may be able to set up shop, or you can deploy your own VPN somehow without tracing it to yourself, any public for profits will have to comply with the law. So this is a neat tech implementation that may not end up mattering much in the near future.

Comment Re:Excess Ph'Ds (Score 1) 78

20 years ago I was getting applications from Harvard, Yale Physics PHD recipients for tenure track positions that started at $30 K a year in the middle of nowhere for a teaching, no research no phd program school. It was bad then, and worse now. Its not basket weaving, its all academic positions really. Universities have also discovered that PHDs are not necessary to teach some subjects leading to masters degrees teaching at many smaller schools instead.

Comment They don't care about use cases (Score 1) 26

The whole point of the Browser company was not to take over the browser world. It didn't get funded by people who looked at its goals and said "Yup that will be a useful addition to most people's workflows" No, they thought they could get enough uptake to get someone else to buy them or figure out something else to make money. You can not convince me that any anyone thought their previous effort was useful by any slice of the general public. Now they're pivoting to AI because, obviously they need to raise more money and thats an easy way to do that. No one thinks their new product will be successful either.

Comment It all just gets so old (Score -1, Troll) 49

Researchers warn... blah blah blah. It means they're looking for grant money most likely.

If the panic headline of the day was ever what it was said to be we would all be underwater right now, but that hasn't happened either, and we are well past that "researchers say" warned headline now.

Bunch of quacks

Comment Ah java! (Score 1) 100

I really wanted to love it. I wrote a great application for it, that almost worked perfectly. There was a single bug I couldn't get past and eventually had to debug the Java code itself before I found the issue, and it was an easy fix! Thats pretty amazing that a hack like me could fix a programming language bug. But my boss wasn't so keen on running a solution on a hacked up tomcat server... Se la vie

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