No, letâ(TM)s wait another 20 years then do it. Then this will be even more pointless.

They're coming for the upper bands which were available to Ham Radio enthusiasts. FCC doesn't care about us anymore.

Such a useless post and reflecting lack of actual knowledge of Fry's.

20 some years ago I bought my first laptop (still have it) at Fry's in Sunnyvale. It was still in the little grocery location, the shelves (and even former refrigerated goods) aisles has resistor and capacitor models sticking out of the floor. It's long since become some health club or other business after Fry's moved to a big store a couple blocks away.

In the hey day of the stores on E. Arques, E. Brokaw and E. Hamilton had about 40 or 60 cashiers, the queue moved pretty swiftly and they didn't take American Express. I tried to buy my first digital camera there and found that out. Went over to Wolf Camera to pick it up. Anyway, over the past few years I've visited the number of cashiers has dwindled down to only a handful. Few floor walkers, where once they were all over you, asking if you needed any help. Last visit I didn't see one at all.

At the end Fry's probably only had a dozen people working in each of their giant stores, a far cry from the hundreds they employed a decade or two before. The downsizing has been happening over time. Weep not for droves of employees losing their jobs, weep for the few who worked in desolate stores, with unstocked shelves who knew the writing was on the wall. They've been circling the drain for years.

The main hurt here is losing a chain which once carried just about everything the home hobbyist/maniac could ever want. That's been going on with the closure of Weird Stuff and Halted Specialties. I'll have to look to see if there's anyone left who sells components, wire, cable, solder, special tools, etc. I'd say they failed to plan well and we've known the eventual source of stuff is going to be our mailbox.

Even a cursory knowledge of Cuba would inform you that the Cuba has a non-black-market economy; otherwise they have debates over land reform and such.

Poe's law is not something media companies are stupid enough to deal with. Spam your socials with nonsense, and people will treat you as nonsense.

The complaint against what DDoS-Guard was submitted in November, long before Parler fled there. DDoS-Guard had purchased a large block of IP addresses that were for use by Belize-based companies. DDoS-Guard has no other presence in Belize, and is therefore not qualified, so LACNIC is making them forfeit the block of IP addresses. They could have avoided this by simply opening an Internet cafe, but they have NOTHING there.

It makes sense that the provider Parler fled to was a shady operation, so I wouldn't call it ENTIRELY a coincidence. But it is pretty much a coincidence.

 

The GSA should be held accountable for the solarwinds123 fiasco. They have sat on their hands for years spending billions (trillions?) and not really taking their supply chain seriously. Also worthy of mention is the NTIA's Software Transparency initiative:
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It's elem-en-ter-ee for silent e!

A much simpler solution would be to award the visa by salary alone. Take all the applications for the year, remove the obvious invalid ones, and give the visa to the highest X salaries. That encourages employers to pay as much as possible for a position without having to figure out what the "right" salary for any given position.

I'm no fan of corporate welfare, but $50B is cheap.

Half of the federal budget is actual welfare, about $2T, which doesn't exactly go into the pockets of Americans either. It's a big trough where lots of other corporations feed, and millions of middlemen wet their beak.

Returning the silicon to Silicon Valley (or, more likely, Texas) is a good thing all around for America and Americans. If we can keep our chips from even having a whiff of NSA fingers, that's a competitive advantage to the rest of the world. And it makes a home for the technically inclined so they have a career path that doesn't end in yak shaving in the bowels of some high-frequency trading company to gain an extra nanosecond. Offshoring our manufacturing is 100% the worst thing our leaders, both corporate and government, has done to the country.

They forgot to count politicians.

What is the endgame of these transparently partisan articles? Do they really think that people are so gullible they'll read the headline and say, "I guess Trump is the worst thing in the entire world. Literally Hitler."?

It's all so tiresome.

That's daft. Entering into the search market when Google did is a completely different animal than entering into the search market now. Google's one good idea--PageRank--was so much better than the other methods that it quickly dominated. From that it built a market valuation with very few rivals. During that time, the Internet grew exponentially, and the technology required to keep up has grown commensurately. Google may have started as a box under Sergei's desk, but you can't do that now. There's simply too much.

Even if you have a killer idea to revitalize Internet searching, good luck getting the kind of funding you would require. Your best bet is to bootstrap it, hope Google doesn't patent-troll you to death, and have getting bought out by Bing (or Google) as your exit strategy.

In any event, the quality of Google's primary product (that isn't slurping your personal data) isn't what it used to be. Trying to find something using Google is no longer the go-to. You have to use Google, Bing, DDG, whatever else you can find in order to get what you're looking for. Google's taken their dominant platform, and using political correctness as cover, to mold reality. Search terms for things Google doesn't like aren't suggested. Sites that Google determines are "untrustworthy" are deranked. And Google likes it that way.

If your instinctive reaction to anything Google touches isn't "how is this bad for my personal data and good for Google," you have to turn in your nerd card. Google is worse than '90s Microsoft on every metric, with the added insult that they think they're still an upstart with noble goals.

You know this is true from the fact were now in day 1 billion of open rioting in the streets by mobs of conservatives smashing windows, attacking people, and looting stores.

If Trump, or conservatives, or anybody else you hate who's to the right of Che were half as bad as your fevered dreams imagined them to be, you'd be in a gulag. You're not. Major, multi-national corporations, the entire Democrat party, half the Republican party, and the entire media apparatus of this country all bend over backward to accommodate your hurt fee-fees, and yet you still think you're oppressed. It's so astonishing it can only be explained by some kind of mental illness.

It's almost like allowing Google to become a single point-of-failure for the Internet is a bad idea.