Don't care what the price is, I see an ad, subscription is cancelled.
The only reason I subscribe to Netflix it is to stay legit.
I have no qualms about going back to torrents. No qualms at all.

Oh, they may make Mac Pros. They may paint children's toys bound for North America with lead paint. They may taint baby formula with melamine and poison our dog food.

But all their tech giant execs are belong to us. Heh.

A $1.1 million fine for Facebook... like firing a spitball through a straw at a 10 locomotive freight train. Not even a splat.

Surprised McDonald's hasn't been all over them for trademark infringement.
Anyone who has ever used McAnything gets McSued pretty McFast.

Alice Kramden is the only person that should be going to the moon.

Go to Mars, or go home.

Nothing but federal talking-head puppetry. The federal privacy commission is a joke. Our tenant association filed a complaint last year for cameras installed in our buildings that peer into apartments and the laundry room, places where there's more than a reasonable expectation of privacy. Our corporate landlord had no privacy policy, no privacy officer, nothing. A copy of the complaint went to the landlord. The response to our complaint from the government was "take it up with the privacy officer of the corporation first". That's it. They want us to enforce the law ourselves, with someone who doesn't exist at a corporation that couldn't care or respect us less. In the meantime, here we are 8 months later and not a peep from the landlord. Why?

Because they know what we now know. The privacy commission is a joke. They're gutless bureaucrats concerned with their pension and annoyed at being made to look away from their office window view to have to deal with pesky taxpayers demanding they uphold the law that their mandate entrusts them with. It's a joke.

Facebook will lobby the political party in charge, little brown envelopes will be passed around, and the whole debacle gets swept under the rug. Just like it does with telecom and banking debacles.

Bet on it.

Can we maybe get Google to fix Google Home integration with Android TV?
Broken for weeks and not a peep from Google. Nor /. for that matter.

I shortlisted for an interview and got ambushed on my arrival. There were 19 other candidates, and we're all ushered into a small room with 20 desktop spots on a table that went around the entire room. We were handed one single sheet of paper with a coding problem we were to find a solution for. All 20 workstations were Mac Minis. None of us were told there was a programming exercise, none of us were told it was a Mac shop.

I walked out of the "interview" in disgust. Eleven others went with me. By the looks on the interviewers' face, this has happened before.

I don't mind being put to the test, but I don't like being ambushed.

It's obvious that radio silence is the sole MO for large corporate entities, especially the popular / well-known ones. Saying nothing is not the same as denying, and won't be until government bodies start prosecuting it that way.

And sure, Twitter is mostly worthless, but at least they don't make a living and pay high dividends to the 1%'ers by selling way over-priced offshore-made proprietary whatchamacallits.

Firefox lost its way long ago.
Its reputation as the Anti-IE keeps its market share at 10%, otherwise it'd be less than 2%.

It is telling though, that their "experiment" went the way of advertising disguised as gift-giving.
What will they think of next....

Yup.
If anyone suggested that to me 5 years ago I'd have thought them nuts.
Now, not so much.
I'm even preparing myself for a steamless Linux desktop sooner rather than later, just because.

We're talking about the US Trademark Office here. 'Nuff said.

You obviously have orders of magnitude more experience. Rise through the ranks. Take over management of the team. Fire everyone and replace them with your own hires over time.

End of problem.

Mike

-- Karma whore? You betcha

It won't be long before nightmares like this start happening to users in the US. Telecoms in North America are developing a taste for UBB profits.

This is what happens when you have a government that touts a "light regulatory touch" with competition laws that are being ignored and openly flouted by both industry and the regulator itself.

Mike