I don't like that the police have access to this much computer surveillance at once. I'm not supporting a company thats making it happen. Police over and over again prove that they are basically Cartman from Southpark.

Yes that explains the complexity, but not the ongoing bad naming of the options.

Undefeated in UTF-8 battles. Never met a non latin1 encoding it couldn't mangle.

Hitting a bit of the "Crúiscín Lán" during a "brain storming" event, I see. God Damn I wish I worked there.

Sorry, the vast majority of numbskulls on here don't bother researching beyond a rage inducing headline written by the equally logic impaired. The narrative they choose to believe is that advertisers censor. And payment providers charge more because they hate nudity.

They can't be taught logic. like:
  money good. Advertisers want money. Advertisers make rule to make more money.
Bank also want money. Bank also make rule to make more money.

Because of fraud.

"We're talking about payment methods that can only be attained by an adult." You know that isn't correct, right? With everyday stores being cashless, its not uncommon for parents to give cards to kids.

But the super secret code names apple has been stowing away, will bring them glory! Glory and Fame! All shall bow to the might of snapchat and their secret code names for things that no one wants!

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.

J2ME suuuuccccked. Google did the right thing to it. Meego was a nice beautiful UI on a lake of shit beneath it tied to boat anchor hardware, as hard as it is to accept. From talking with devs that created it, it was a nightmare inside created by various mixing of older distros and coding paradigms.

Geezus Krust, slashdotters love C. Leave it for lilnux kernel and your device drivers, keep it out of phone development, you'll make everything worse.

Only a fool or an expert would write a c backend to an app. And there aren't many experts...

I think you underestimate how badly devs can make apps even with native tools.

A lot of artworks require good welds. The artistic welders at my school practiced building dr seuss looking bikes. They were pretty amazing, multiple chain drives, really tall or really long. Very impractical, but they rode them around campus anyways.

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.