Forget the child sex robots, look at all the people who want to have sex with human-animal hybrids.

How unfair that Facebook isn't equally close to the raving sociopath? GTFO!

As opposed to deeply tendentious people who cheerfully support (rationalizing where necessary) a presidential candidate who has - illegally - received campaign donations from foreign governments despite their heinous civil rights records. Hey, the ends justify the means, right?

Always funny how conservatives throw their own decades mini-freakouts as vague EVIDENCE of hypocrisy. It's cause conservatives aren't capable of processing facts, only innuendo that fits their pre-conceived viewpoint. Oh, shame these blowholes never get their outrage boner on with facts that the Bush family has been PERSONALLY enriched by business ties to Saudi Arabia and of bin Laden family, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... - or that Fox News is co-owned by a Saudi prince, or the US has already pumped $$$$ into the US to fund Bush's fantasy wargames. DEBT! Oh man, if conservative applied the same standard of outrage to their own group of politicians and pundits, they'd explode. And that would be a good thing.

Did you have the same response when he was righteously sermonizing on how the people of Indiana and Arkansas choose to run their lives?

No, if you are operating a business and advertising your services, a customer walks into your store to purchase an item and at some point you say "We will not do business with you, please leave" because of prejudice of that customer's identity they have no control over, then the problem is YOU, YOU are falsely represented your services and YOU need your business license revoked wherever you are in America. That's just the way it is. Deal with it.

My view is every country gets the leader it deserves. With any country like Saudi Arabia, any serious lasting POSITIVE change needs to come from within it's culture. History backs this up with remarkable consistency.

'fraid that's not possible unless she gets herself photographed waving a rifle, dry-humping a bag of cheetos at a Ted Nugent concert, she's only 2nd tier stupid Republican.

So I recently spent a day remaking an iOS app in React Native that I had spent a week writing in Swift. (in both cases, probably 90% of the time was learning & reading docs than actual coding). So React Native is Facebook's development tool for writing native-feel iOS apps using Javascript. Basically, Javascript runs on iOS and interacts with a native library mimics their React.JS framework. It provides a sort of HTML-like syntax and CSS styling for designing your UI. The key selling points with React Native vs others is that UI interaction is kept silky smooth in it's own thread and rendering happens in a native view, not in a browser webview instance. React Native is still very beta and it's docs seem to assume some familiarity with React.JS. Xcode only just builds the framework and starts it, and by default your actual program in Javascript is fetched from a local webserver (npm start). This allows you to edit your code and quickly hit 'control-r' to reload changes and rerun. When you're finally done, you bundle your Javascript with the app. React Native won't replace the flexibility of native development and Apple's Swift has made iOS (and OS-X) native development much easier but you still need to learn iOS APIs and concepts like UI constraints. React Native lets you just deal with UI in terms of hierarchies of rows and columns that can resize or not, yet you can still create an app of the style of Flipboard or Flickr's.

Indeed. Remember that Bush/Cheney failed experiment of outsourcing the Iraq War to private companies - companies that brought in untrained "experts" to interrogate prisoners, private security companies to police the streets like the Blackwater employees who killed 17 civilians in Nissor Square, Bahgdad thinking they were being fired upon, or the Halliburton contractor who improperly installed water pumps that killed over a dozen American soldiers while they were showering. Libertarians and anti-government conservatives that complain that government never works while living in a country in which quality of life is almost purely dependent on government programs - like freeways, municipal transportation, clean air, water systems, waste disposal, the internet, police departments, etc, etc, etc - should really just move to Afghanistan.

This article lacks any actual, useful, technical content. Any website can be done better to handle a hypothetical million hits at once. They could've of written it as a webapp that stores it's state into the browser's local database, so a user can resume and resubmit their data later - like some DMV sites. Or supply an option to submit data via mailto: - as email has a proven robust track record of moving data under heavy loads. However, coulda/shoulda/woulda means little if web serving is inadequate to handle the millions of people interested in signing up and the #1 concern probably isn't whether they can handle the sheer volume of people but keeping people's data confidential.

Virually all music is the product of music that came before it, in some way or another. It is a product of listening to other's music, resynthesizing the sounds that come from a lifetime of listening. Like software, there's certainly a grey area between inspiration and theft, which has been certainly perverted by the business side of music, but it was perfectly acceptable among classical composers to base works entirely off other's work. Whether you are a composer or a consumer, music is fairly dependent on memories of other music, of note patterns and sounds that evoke certain emotions, either intrinsic to the music or feelings & emotions related to the first time you've ever heard it or a similar piece of music. Without the strong connection between memory and music, I believe music would mean nothing to human beings. There's no doubt that Queen, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin made intrinsically great music, but the strongest feelings while listening to this music probably comes from your own associated memories & emotions upon first hearing or attending your first concert. It's also particularly powerful when it evokes memories or emotions that lie forgotten for years. Royksopp and Daft Punk have done quite well taking music that surrounded many of us as children and recycle it with a modern sound. This is also why there so many god-awful hip-hop remakes of 70's classics appearing now..

Android is a terrific desktop OS. I have all my tools within a few clicks, including Splashtop streaming to either my desktop or PC (even streaming at 2560x1400 resolution works beautifully to my nexus 10). I also have both the mk808 and (recently) the quad-core mk908 which does many things FAR faster than Windows or MacOS-X. Browsing, checking e-mail, tweaking photos (PS Mobile), listening to music, editing code, etc. IMHO, Android is the sleek, fast desktop Linux OS we've all wished would happen. All that needs to happen is a way to host chroot-like gnome/kde environments and HW-accelerated integrated X11 server. btw, anyone considering either the mk808 or mk908 - go with the mk908 - it's not just faster but includes bluetooth, a big convenience with low-power USB-powered device with limited USB ports - also, there's lots of cool bluetooth hardware supported on android like ELM327 interfaces that interact with your car.