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> John Legere firmly believes that he fights for the user

I wish you were being sarcastic. John is, at heart, a salesman - a mild con artist. He is putting on an act. all he cares about is making more money for tmobile - everything else is an act.

> But he's asking now because to him they are acting out of character

EFF is exactly acting in character. So is Legere - as someone whose job it is to manipulate people into seeing tmobiles aggressive business tactics in the most positive light possible.

Legere is attacking EFF in this way because he knows that most people are very responsive to this kind of emotionalism - he is hoping to discredit EFF in the eyes of his loyal tmobile-loving social-network keyboard warriors.

> they'd inform T-Mobile more quietly

tmobile KNOWS they are throttling data! Or limiting bandwidth. Everyone involved already knows this! Legere only squabbles over semantics, otherwise he is bragging about this throttling.

> Are they being paid to? If they fought for the consumers, why would they attack such a consumer friendly company such as T-Mobile?

That is exactly the kind of nonsense which Legere is hoping people will think.
I think the question is not if CEO is good, but if CEO is worth her/his salary.
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Right, now can we employ the same strategy to have GPL-violating products pulled from the shelves?

Seriously. Perhaps this is an avenue to pursue in the case of unrepentant GPL violation by manufacturers - render their final products unsellable.
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It certainly didn't help that their phones aren't authorized to be sold for the US. That's probably a very big segment of the pro-Linux poweruser demographic...
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If you're really after those 3 Kelvin, you might be happier selecting a host star that is 3 degrees hotter instead, especially considering the practical efficiencies of heat exchange systems near absolute zero temperatures.
Looks like an alternative to TogetherTube (https://togethertube.com/), just nowhere near as polished at this point in time.
An alternative narrative is that One Wheel are manufacturing in China - or purchasing multiple components from Chinese factories - and their plans were leaked to another factory owner. This is relatively common.

In this scenario the Changzhou company is able to start manufacturing soon after One Wheel starts manufacturing.
Is it required that they steal the design and idea from the patent documents, and not from the actual product, which almost certainly came out before the patent docs?
I think many distribution* are evolving toward an even better compartmentalization with containers / VM, I just wish we'd work more toward than and indeed stop having to package apps for every distributions...

* QubesOS, SubgraphOS, NixOS(?), etc.
10% for Yahoo, given the current suite of products is low. for long time yahoo hasn't streamlined their product offerings. Just streamlining them alone will help them become more leaner. as far as CEO is concerned, yes, she is very much covered.
The throttling (or downgraded bandwidth) in question is intrinsic to the very purpose of bingeon. Tmobile sends you lower quality videos, but they don't count against your data use.

But they did this to everyone, making it an opt out rather than an opt in.

And they are throttling (downgrading bandwidth) videos of sites that did not ask to be a part of this program.
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Why would US Marshals raid a booth at CES if they didn't have a court order? There might be some reason I'm not thinking of but I would have been surprised to hear that they didn't have one.
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> All laws are enforced through violence

That's simply not true. There are many different kinds of laws. In the US you may believe the difference between Civil, Criminal, Tort, etc all boil down to violence for various reasons, but there exist many laws (some religious laws) that only result in shame or reputation changes. The belief that the english term enforcement implies force in all cases, is a misnomer.
Do you think the hosts file protection might be a side-effect of increased malware protection in 10?
There's the reverse problem as well. If life develops by itself when it has (chemically) the chance ... then where is it ? Our sun is a third generation star (meaning some sun went nova, recoalesced into another sun, went nova, recoalesced in our sun and ignited, and that was 3+ billion years ago).

Our sun is not a particularly early third generation star. Given that it would take a civilization about a billion years to spread through the galaxy to all liveable planets ... some civilization should have done that up to 4-5 billion years ago.

If life can happen in 2nd generation stars as well, it should have happened 6-8 billion years ago.

Obviously this hasn't happened.

I only see 3 reasonable explanations:

1) Drake equation is too optimistic. By a huge factor (2-300 million times too optimistic)

2) It's not a problem, because civilizations kill themselves before doing interstellar travel and while we are on the way to doing that but not quite there yet.

3) There's something we don't know
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What's the purpose of using Docker if it's a single-binary only?
I feel weird for cheering the ethics of a designer of nuclear weaponry for a despotic power like the USSR, but yay him :)
Legere has a bit of a personality cult thing going on here. A lot of people will just swallow his bs hook, line, and sinker without really thinking it through.

And today he was talking trash about EFF, getting his ditto-heads fired up to be 'anti EFF'.
I would be very surprised if there was such an exclusion, and if it were enforceable.
Did you checkout Hashicorp Vault for this? More here: https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/ssh/index.html
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Yeah, no thanks: https://github.com/10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking/issues/137
That's exactly how you clone a design patent. Comment is nonsensical.
^^ This...

... seems to be happening, at least today on twitter, and I think its worth worrying about. Bloggers and journalists seem to have a better grasp of the issues, so maybe it'll backfire against Legere.
Hmm, I would think salary would be one of the smaller considerations when choosing a CEO at that level. It's generally going to be a drop in the budget compared to annual revenue. A negotiation point for sure, but more of a side show to other concerns.
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Cofounder here. We launched Coderust (and the publishing platform behind it - Educative.io today). Happy to answer any questions.
In what way are they insecure?
People use "I am poor" as an excuse, but most of them came from parents who had less material wealth.
We're just as much to blame every time we whip out or iPhone -- (http://www.cnet.com/news/riots-suicides-and-other-issues-in-...) not only involves working conditions so bad that people are driven to literally jump off the roof of the building so frequently that managers placed a net down, but the production of semi-conductors involves tons of rare-earth metals like yttrium.

One could argue a cabin-style zero-impact lifestyle would be the ethically sound thing to do, but the land you purchase to till was the result of systemic genocide and internment of tons of Native Americans (modern estimates between 76 million down to less than a quarter million over 4 centuries - obviously not all by the sword but those are still Stalin-esque numbers) over the course of a few centuries which makes the loss WW2 genocide look like a joke.

I really can't blame China for doing what any nation does as they progress into an industrialized 'first world' society. Travesties occur on all sorts of level in the pursuit of 'national progress' set by the agenda of a few tens of thousands of people. The populace isn't any more guilty than you and I are of the half a million deaths in Iraq. And I don't think those who are polluting are doing anything different than what the US did as we Manifest-Destiny'd our way through the country, reaping coal, oil, timber, tobacco, and cotton, without which our nation wouldn't have had the funding to progress into what we are (for better or worse..)
Complying with relevant standards is a completely orthogonal issue to that of novelty and patentability. The question at hand is whether patents should protect products that are insufficiently novel to prevent it being cloned by a competitor. In my opinion, if a person technically competent in the appropriate fields could produce an equivalent design by having the product's functionality described to them then it should not be patentable. This also takes care of such idiocy as the Amazon one-click-buy patent, which is a simple matter to implement once given a description of its functionality.
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Oh I mostly agree. Some organizations will only fund you if they get IP out of it. Many significant tech in that area. But it's mostly an after the fact make money thing. Or just bullshit altogether.
Even in a (totally unrealistic) scenario where N dollars are "useless" to you, but N+1 get you something of great value, it's not true that the (N+1)th dollar has greater marginal utility than any of the other N dollars, because you need all those other dollars to buy the thing. In other words, the previous N dollars weren't actually useless: they enabled you to obtain the (N+1)th dollar. Without them, that (N+1)th dollar is just your first dollar.
Been a yahoo mail premium member for so many years (along with its calendar) it's something I care daily. From about 2 years ago the new mail became a hit or miss randomly, overall a much worse experience than what I used to have, and I am unhappy about that.

To me since Mayer came to power, yahoo email became less reliable, a big negative.
> Why the condescending tone for those businesses?

I didn't read his tone as condescending.

> Similar to casino players ... don't care much about the actual business aspects

That's quite the generalization. Is it possible you've over-fit to a few observations?
Correlation: Look up Sam's comments about his parents. Think of pg's background. Of the successful people from broken backgrounds, they were usually successful by moving on to affluent universities where they recovered.

It's one thing to be really good at what you do... to even be the best. It's another thing entirely to convince other really good and sometimes the best people to work for you, your company, and your ideas.

This is in fact the central argument of my original comment: Merit is mostly communication, and your ability to communicate is defined by the context you grow up in. Not in spite of it.

When the world shapes you, reshaping yourself is not the only thing that matters. Your old mistakes can brand you for life.
> The service is optional from all sides: both the consumer and the content provider.

Are you sure that content providers are opting in? I've read that services like youtube are being throttled, while not benefiting from being included in the 'free streaming' services.

And Legere was implying that Google may have bribed EFF to attack T-Mobile on Google's behalf, suggesting that Google wasn't happy; I assumed this is because Google is not happy that T-Mobile is throttling youtube (presumably) without their consent.
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And 3M people made the chemical without caring if it would be handled safely.
The best sashimi I have ever had is from the small street stalls in front of the Tsukiji fish market. What will happen to those vendors?

I worry there's a lot of surrounding culture and history that will die rather than move :(
Also more dangerous because of the plastic where feet would be placed. That plastic should not be added for safety reason.
A society that has no saftey net except for the lucky and rather dumb 1%ers is one that will fall apart, sooner or later. Or experience radical disruption.
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The video stated they got a temp restraining order.
I've been preparing to try to make an offer for Flickr in the event it goes up for sale (separate from the rest of the web business), organizing it as a benefit corp to be a long term business not to be put up for sale. It shouldn't be an Instagram. Its not a social network. Its a photo site that helps you organize/keep your photos, as well as share them (there's a difference).

Just bidding my time, ear to the ground.
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If no one could have gotten better results, I can think of many capable people who could have gotten similar results for a lot cheap. Yahoo! is almost paying MM $400 million and the $110 million exec who stayed about 11 months she fired. For all the Meritocracy talk about general foot soldiers, the SV execs seem to get a lot of "Participation Trophies".
The redirection aspect is amazing, and when combined with localization within a physical space, the possibilities really excite me. Imagine if the system could know I'm approaching a wall and bend me back toward the center of the room. Even obstacle avoidance or physical features like steps might be "tuned" into the virtual scene. Who needs this bag of meat when I've got a brain and some sensors?!?
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From what I understand, giving Disney an exception would be a violation of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.
People need to realize that buying from Stubhub guarantees you only this:
if your order isn't filled (or is filled with bogus tickets) and we can't find you tickets we consider equivalent or better at some point (even during the game, then you'll get a refund). The only thing "guaranteed" is your payment.
(You might also get additional credit toward a future purchase.)
People need to be aware of this when buying major-event tickets: they are happy to "walk" you (give you no ticket alternatives at all) if it's at all costly to cover a bogus sale. I've seen it a number of times at their pickup sites.

So, for example, if this happens at a Super Bowl, you are still out all of your transportation, lodging, and other expenses.
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Thanks for the link, that's fascinating read!

It seems that many people who I would call "intellectually honest" end up developing speech patterns to avoid (1) speaking in absolutes; and (2) making statements of opinion articulated as statements of fact. An example of (1) is to use the words "many" or "most" instead of "all". An example of (2) is to start opinions with "I think".

Those speech patterns, though, can lead to writing which is bland and less than forceful, full of justifications with no interesting assertions to be found. One huge plus of this belief metadata, as you note, is that it frees the author to make bold and daring statements (and hopefully back them up) without committing to the truth of those statements. I think it can make for great writing – the style of strong and passionate assertion mixed with (via the disclaimer) the sensibilities of a reasoned opinion.
Something where you create tangible value. Video games, movies, collecting, etc are all consumer hobbies. Leather making, coding, music, knitting, etc, are instigative. The main difference is it's difficult to relate to other people about consumer hobbies unless you consume the same things. With instigative hobbies you can teach people and talk about them to others who know nothing about it. I'm not saying either is better than the other, it's just harder to relate to people when all you do is consume.
> I'm willing to bet that the welfare of the average schizophrenic is quite poor essentially everywhere in the world

Actually schizophrenics in the developing world do significantly better than those in the US. That said, McKenna's models of shamanism weren't actually valid across cultures -- shamans actually played completely different roles in different societies.
3M also had the wherewithal to stop making the chemical when the effects became official, so DuPont went out and started making it themselves. Nice work, DuPont.
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Except that paying off your proximate debt and securing a place to live is far more important, from a Maslow sense, than buying a soda?
Not a rip; theintercept.com and firstlook.org are the same organization.
Is this poe's law?
Yahoo needs to kill off half of their products and just focus on four things:

* news (finance & sports)

* Search & Portal (that's where they make $$$)

* YMail (because there are still millions of users)

* fantasy sports and extend it.

Spin off Tumblr and Flickr into a startup focus on content and high-quality photo source (TBH there is very little quality content on Tumblr and the attraction / hype is gone - speaking from user after five years of using Tumblr), and other applications should be killed, including their article reading mobile app, Developer network, and the newly resurrected Y! Messenger.

BTW, Yahoo is one of the most generous companies out there paying security bounty (good and bad for too many submissions :] )
"My response is always that our modern world is bad for you."

Is there any other place or time that would be less bad? Going back through history:

- In the 20th century, factories were far dirtier than today; the gasoline was still full of lead; London had its infamous killer smogs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog); rivers routinely caught on fire from industrial waste (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River); etc.

- In the 19th century, all kinds of common products (especially medicines) were hideously toxic. Mercury was used to make hats, so people became "mad as a hatter" from heavy metal poisoning. Famous artists painted with arsenic paint (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_green). Abraham Lincoln's doctors gave him mercury poisoning (http://www3.uah.es/farmamol/The%20Pharmaceutical%20Century/C...). There's a history book called "The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, & Play" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Arsenic-Century-Victorian-Poisoned...).

- In the 16th century, the popularity of pale skin lead women to use lead-based pale makeup, with accompanying lead poisoning and skin damage (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/makeup.html).

- In Roman times, lead was ubiquitous. Of course, lead was used for the plumbing which carried the water supply. But just in case that wasn't enough, they would boil juice in lead pots to create "sugar of lead", which was used as a sweetener in cooking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead(II)_acetate).

- Even in hunter-gatherer times, all kinds of naturally occurring substances would have been toxic. Poisonous plants were ubiquitous, as were poisonous substances in the water (drunk straight from the river or pond, remember). "Clostridia bacteria, for example, live in the soil but infect humans in a variety of nasty ways. These germs will grow on food, leaving the toxins that cause botulism".
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OK, thanks. I have heard that before, now that you say so. Are there any credible estimates of how inflated they are? Is there any way to check against the blockchain?

Also, what's the incentive for inflating volume? Promotion?
Your career should be ended for working at dickies because they are known to have done bad things (even if you were not personally involved).
The reason snaps disappear is to enable one of the key effects of Snapchat which is low-stakes social interaction. Users feel they can be more relaxed in their interactions when they cannot be recalled later. To quote the article:

There’s no public view count, follower count, likes count, or any other social
dick-measuring contest. You can just put whatever you’re doing on Snapchat; if
people don’t like it, who gives a fuck, you’ll never know. There’s no
expectation of balling out 24/7.

Consequently, on Snapchat I’ll post to my daily Story almost twice as much as
I’ll post to Twitter and Facebook combined to reach only a fraction of the
number of people. The cost of content creation is extremely low, and Snapchat
makes it fun to think about what aspects of what I’m doing every day might be
cool for other people to see.

Many people do feel social pressure to be "cool", to perform to the perceived expectations of the groups they belong too. Given that, many people clamor for "lower stakes" interactions. While the same "lowering of the stakes" could happen at a social level, and I believe that is something that's happening slowly over the long term, a much faster route is to use a tool that enforces lower stakes, such as Snapchat.

If you are someone who does not find the appeal in low-stakes interactions, then it's quite understandable that Snapchat may not appeal to you.
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OSX example: Even 7 years ago Little Snitch on OSX was reporting to me every Apple App was trying to establish a connection home every time I opened it.

I just blocked it and didn't bother to inspect the packets.
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Both Tandem DP2 and IBM Coupling Facility on zSeries Sysplexes worked exactly like how you envisage an SPU would work. Therefore, when we developed RDMA-attached persistent memory at Tandem in 2002, we put it under the control of DP2/ADP process pairs. Later, we ported it to HP-UX and InfiniBand RDMA. There is one paper at IPDPS'04 and several published patents you can look up in my Google Scholar page. pmem.io crowd is reinventing some of this wheel. If any of you work at HPE, you can find much more detailed internal papers, source code, drivers, firmware, and other stuff that the outside world cannot get to.
Its good to see ocaml->js back to life. Have you considered supporting TCO or arbitrarily deep stack? I'm just curious how often could we reuse ocaml libraries with just tail call to loop conversion.
> I had become tired of the dearth of issues that crop up to maintain an Arch desktop distribution.

I don't quite understand this. I've been on the bleeding-edge (using testing packages) of Arch for quite some time now and have had fewer problems than when I used, say, Fedora or Ubuntu.

What sort of problems were you having?
The onewheel design using a hub motor on a large wheel is quite distinctive and novel.

The patent publication date also has nothing to do with when Changzhou may have begun development -- OneWheel launched at CES 2014, 2 years ago getting A LOT of media coverage as well as a million dollar crowdfund campaign. That makes it rather attractive to knock off. The start date on Changzhou's development was anytime after January 2014.

You copy the product in the market, not necessarily the patent itself. It is at your peril to copy so directly and ignore "Patent Pending".

It would not take more than 3-6 months for a company like this to have a knock off to show.

I have not looked at Kamen's patents, but it would be hard to imagine the OneWheel displacing a Segway's use case. Of course if Kamen's patents well cover the core "self-balancing" technology he could push to get royalties. It would be a waste of money for Kamen to completely shutdown a skateboard though.

The OneWheel launched before the hoverboards started showing up. The timeline may even place hoverboards as less blatant derivatives of OneWheel.
I wasn't implying that becoming a salaryman is the only option. Take each thing I listed as a grab-bag of options, with the exception of the country and culture being moderated by grey old men -- which is absolute.