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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? on Monday July 15, 2013 @08:11AM (#6045012)
If you don't change a password sent to you by email immediately, that's YOUR failing.
Unlimited SMS is something that's not available in most third world countries.

Also, the functionality of WhatsApp far exceed SMS's.

Re:San Francisco Hangout Becomes Casualty of Tech Boom on Monday April 22, 2013 @04:11AM (#5588357)
San Francisco's high rents are more due to the fact that the city has refused to build more housing stock (particularly, high density housing).

When the supply (almost) stays the same and the demand increases, the equilibrium point for rents is bound to increase as well.

A proper gaming PC is still way more expensive than a console.
Microsoft does dev tools remarkably well.
Re:On the state of Windows on the desktop on Monday January 14, 2013 @11:09AM (#5055177)
Not really, the thing is that implementations for accessing said file systems are under a GPL license. In order to integrate them to Windows, they'd have to re-implement from scratch which could lead to a ton of bugs and then they'd have to officially support all of those file systems.

Definitely not worth it from MSFTs perspective.

Re:Bitcoin in 2012: By the Numbers on Wednesday January 02, 2013 @07:08AM (#4996262)
While a nice idea, there's still nothing I want that can be purchased with BitCoin.
Re:How I got a $3,500 USD Facebook Bug Bounty on Monday December 31, 2012 @12:13AM (#4988476)
Being on the thanks page looks great on your Résumé, which can land you a nice, high-paying job.