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Re:Apple is Totally Screwed on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @02:48PM (#8259380)
A finer example of a link bait title on a stream of hyperbole cannot be found.
Re:Email will last forever on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @01:32PM (#8258934)
Sorry, this is beyond factually incorrect, and only proves you never dated before email.
Re:Email will last forever on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:33PM (#8258580)
Are you kidding me? In my lifetime, letter mail has had a longer run than email. And you presume from our brief couple years with it that email is never going to be different?
Re:MasterCard-Branded National eID Card Launched in Nigeria on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:26PM (#8258530)
Hence the flip of the switch.

"He said the broader economic impact of the card will be felt as the previously unbanked and under-banked are able to gain access to the mainstream economy, and the visibility of their assets allows them to build a financial history and establish credit-worthiness with financial institutions."

Not sure how one builds credit worthiness without credit being granted.

Re:Email will last forever on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:18PM (#8258459)
No, it won't. I distinctly remember being told by many people that email would never replace letter mail because email was too impersonal.
Re:MasterCard-Branded National eID Card Launched in Nigeria on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:13PM (#8258427)
Well, I for one can't see any issues with an entire country of poorly educated people being given a card that with a flip of a switch, introduce them to the crippling force of 25.5% compound interest.

I wish I had no morals, making money would be so easy.

Re:Drawbridge on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @11:36AM (#8258144)
So, this is this a means to bridge the gap between Hyper-V, Hyper-V app streaming and Docker on the windows side? I'm kinda confused what the use case is compared to other existing product offerings.
Re:Burger King in Talks to Buy Tim Hortons on Monday August 25, 2014 @12:59PM (#8222622)
If this goes through, Canada might as well just join the union. You guys like Hockey, right?
Re:Announcing Calibre 2.0 on Friday August 22, 2014 @07:50PM (#8214462)
Look at the commits. It's not fully open source at all. The source is available if you want to fork it, but try submitting a patch...