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Never suggests anything on linux Chrome 57.0.2987.133

Absolutely the nicest way to say "join my cult or get out" that I've ever heard of.

It is not astonishing that a company that would do this would also lie about it. They knew what they were doing.

This is how cynical I've become about this kind of stuff, I see it as a small victory that AT&T admits they're doing it.

This will continue as long as so many people want linux to be a free version of Windows or Mac OS X, instead of a free PC unix.

Still using it, at home and at work.

You know attorney and police officer are really different jobs, right?

Good. When I have a problem, I can get a hold of a human at Zillow and they're nice to work with.

As far as I know Trulia is just a very complicated cron job.

I've been using Slackware for years now both at home and at work. It's a great distro and that's because of Pat!

I appreciate what Alexis is trying to do here but I hope he isn't assuming that the FCC just doesn't understand the problem. That's how this reads to me. Maybe the idea is to be diplomatic. I don't think the FCC cares. The FCC understands what is going on and it wants to do whatever is best for the FCC.

The best thing for tech companies to do is to start destroying some political careers. That's the only thing the machine understands and the only thing it's really going to respond to.

Offhand I can't think of any of my friends who haven't been arrested.

"Today we also lost extensive online forums for a community of sex workers to keep each other safe, screen clients, and blacklist predators."

I'm hopelessly cynical at this point in my life, so I'm not surprised at all that our government sees that as facilitating prostitution.

Same here, I checked it every day for many years. It was one of those fundamental parts of the linux experience in the late 90s.

It surprised me how much emotional impact this announcement had for me. I hate to see freshmeat go, even if it wasn't much anymore compared to what it was. Oh well, you can't go home again.

At my first real admin job I had root on an E6500 machine and really thought I was the shit.

Call me paranoid but this just looks like really good evidence that Truecrypt was secure.

Obviously, what happened to metafilter isn't right.

But it should also be obvious why Google doesn't say what needs to be done to remove a penalty. The sites that should receive a penalty will just use that information to further game the system.

Same here, running the latest version of Firefox on Slackware.

It is impressive. I can't imagine dealing with that kind of nightmare.

I once worked as an admin on Solaris boxes at a big pharma company. There were ~77,000 users in their LDAP directory. I was very careful.

Coda is a great editor and although I didn't really use it for what it was designed for, I really liked it.

This seems like the rube goldberg version of chroot to me.

The business world needs more of these kinds of no bullshit, no footnotes, no qualifier statements.

I wonder if this will finally replace WindowMaker on my desktops. Don't laugh, it works.

Are people really serious when they talk about the fabled Hacker News of old? What could it possibly have been like? I'm imagining something like zombo.com, only with lower contrast text.

There's a very real danger of businesses clamouring to deliver cheap, quick experiences using iBeacon technology without putting much thought behind them.

There's no way this won't turn into the ow-my-balls of advertising.

This was done to a friend-of-a-friend of mine. When he was diagnosed he was given 90 days. He lived 2 years so it was a win in my opinion. I believe he thought so too.

They're really re-inventing the wheel here, there's nothing there that fldigi or soundmodem doesn't do better. AX.25 is built into linux. With that, soundmodem, and a radio you can route whatever traffic want over a radio link.

On the bright side maybe this will help encryption become legal for ham radio.

I agree. Most people aren't smart enough to put down their phone even to save their own life. The guy has good intentions but some people just can't be saved.

I appreciate this guy's intent but he doesn't need to do this. Texting while driving is the leading cause of death for teens. The problem is fixing itself.

Less than 12% of Computer Science bachelor's degrees were awarded to women at US PhD-granting institutions in 2010.

There's your problem right there. I have a hard time believing that there is a systematic effort to keep women out of CS programs.

It doesn't matter if we care or not. What would we do that would make any difference?