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Re:Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @09:25AM (#18655444)
When the state department tells you to write a story you write the story, or face the real prospect of the end of access which will be the end your journalism career. Not an ideal system for anyone, except the state department.
Re:Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline on Monday December 10, 2018 @10:49AM (#18648688)
I doubt his kind of "dangerous" thinking will be allowed to be spread for much longer in our corporate dystopian internet. It's just a matter of time before speech daring to criticize the corporations will be considered a security threat or whatever and immediately deleted.
Re:Coinbase is exploring the addition of new currencies on Sunday December 09, 2018 @09:29PM (#18644763)
Terms like "market" and "gold rush" are probably too generous, more like "pyramid schemes unraveling".
Re:They Rejected Us on Friday December 07, 2018 @02:00PM (#18630488)
I'm pretty proud of how I got rejected from Google, how I laid into several of their products as bad and slow and missing important features. Now that they've incorporated most of my feedback into those products I go around and brag about how mad everyone got when I dared to criticize the holy Google during the interview.
Re:Facebook's seized files published by MPs on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:16AM (#18609581)
Anti-trust. Anti-monopoly. We needed to revive these movements five years ago.
Re:Facebook employees calling former colleagues to ask the best way to... on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:43PM (#18603420)
Move
Re:Facebook employees calling former colleagues to ask the best way to... on Monday December 03, 2018 @09:38PM (#18595593)
There's a lot of informal sharing of info about employees between the tech giants in the area. I don't think they are sharing the lists but people call eachother.

The speed with which we are building this "you're either with us or against us" dystopian factional mega-corporation ruled hellhole is really remarkable.

Re:Facebook's Bikini App Lawsuit Is Getting Really Ugly on Thursday November 29, 2018 @06:22PM (#18565138)
The weird song and dance of luring developers by offering so much personal data to them for free in the early days of Facebook's API always creeped me out. I remember thinking about this all the time back in 2007-2010 or so and wondering how people could be so naive and when it would all blow up.

Blow up would have been nice. I was overly optimistic in those days.

Re:Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’ on Sunday November 18, 2018 @11:15AM (#18481008)
Well you know, that whole enabling genocide thing is arguably as bad as poisoning people. Should we just not criticize corporations until the death count gets to a certain threshold?
Re:Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’ on Sunday November 18, 2018 @11:14AM (#18481003)
It's a link to a commentary podcast, not sure which "actual story" you're referencing but there have been several negative stories about Facebook which they talk through and that's kind of the point of the podcast.
Re:Stamos says the US must ‘come together to protect’ democracy from m... on Sunday November 18, 2018 @08:42AM (#18480321)
"Tech will always need to act in a quasi-governmental manner, making judgments on political speech and operating teams in parallel to the U.S. intelligence community,"

No, absolutely not Alex.

The fact that these massive tech monopolies are so powerful that it's now just taken for granted that they are pseudo-governmental entities should be a wake up call for everyone. It's high time we start talking about anti-trust and the breakup of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and maybe others. This is completely unacceptable.

Our laws are woefully out of date, they were written when the only foreseeable damage from companies this large and powerful was pricing abuse. The damage they have caused is far more extensive and severe than that, we need new laws and aggressive anit-trust/anti-monopoly stances to undo this damage, hopefully before it becomes too late to stop them at all.

Re:Amazon Web Services in Plain English on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:35AM (#18475891)
This page is hilarious, and reminds me of the early days of both open source and cloud services when everyone thought you needed some complicated sounding new phrase & acronym to be taken seriously. Just because that's the way IBM, Oracle, etc did it so we had to emulate that.
Re:‘I Don’t Really Want to Work for Facebook.’ Say Some Computer Scien... on Thursday November 15, 2018 @06:35PM (#18464547)
This is like something a stoned frat boy would come up with as their first attempt at a mission statement.
Re:Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer' on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:43AM (#18460110)
I know and work with a lot of millionaires and a couple billionaires, once you get to that level of eliteness they view using a computer as a boring chore for a technician, like fixing the plumbing or paying the bills, something they are far too important for and delegate to staff.

Surprisingly, this seems to be true regardless of age

Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link to Califo... on Thursday November 15, 2018 @09:22AM (#18459392)
Super informative, thanks
Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link to Califo... on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:28AM (#18459043)
So bury all the cables/equipment underground? I'm sure costs are substantially higher to do so, but we could add other infrastructure along these underground lines as well if there was a shred of political will to accomplish this.
Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:25AM (#18459031)
In finance the actual growth rate is rarely looked at that much, but the rate of change of the growth rate is scrutinized to the nth degree.
Re:PG&E stock plunged 32% after it disclosed a possible link to Califo... on Thursday November 15, 2018 @08:20AM (#18459005)
I don't know much about the EE side of the world, but surely there is a way to design grid/transformer equipment such that the circuit can be interrupted immediately when a pole falls over or whatever.

Is this possible? Is it just a matter of spending the money to upgrade the infrastructure?

Re:Uber Revenue Slows as Quarterly Loss Surges to $1.1B on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:47PM (#18454333)
Uber’s sales are dramatically slowing even as the ride-hailing company is spending more to fuel global growth, particularly in its food delivery business. Revenue growth of 38 percent in the third quarter was almost half of what the growth rate was six months earlier, when the company was negotiating a $9.3 billion investment led by SoftBank Group Corp.

Brutal opening paragraph

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