I came to the comments for this. So many people don't know the real story behind what happened. Unfortunately most of the press didn't even cover it, so here's one of the few articles that did: https://www.breitbart.com/tech...

Brave is "ok". I've been alternating between brave and FF but haven't found Brave mature in development enough to make the switch completely.

Honestly, with all these trolls having such *based* opinion these "investigations" into their activities are just making me a fan of Russian trolls.

The whole point of the Chromebook is to be a machine people who can't properly use an actual OS can use. I'd imagine this is the same kind of market that wants to do their accounting on their iPad and finds it more comfortable to write mail and documents on their phone than on their computer.

I have to admit I actually find this an interesting idea. But banning is kind of an overly authoritarian way to go about it. Maybe something like a "cafeteria license" where they make them pay extra to provide such a facility (and include all the inspections and other costs that go with it?), making it less economically viable to provide a cafeteria but earning extra revenue for the city from the companies that do. Or, maybe provide an incentive, like waive those costs if they allow local businesses to provide catering/delivery to those cafeteria areas.

Either way this is such a "bay area" problem. And we all know the real way to fix the bay area is to raze it with atomic flame.

And I don't even use Box. Not like they'd have my trust to begin with - I have never trusted any of these companies other than the (very few) which have *earned* my trust. The fact the CEO of Box is such a f*ing idiot he would assume users just come in to a new platform completely trusting is as laughable as it is horrifying.

Are there other countries in the accord that are meeting their commitments? I'd be curious to see who is and isn't, and how they are doing it if they are.

It was on a windows install on a dual OS machine, and I didn't need the windows installation. There wasn't even any valuable information on the install to steal, so I just rebooted into Linux and blew away the Windows partition. The only scary thing about the incident is I have no idea how the machine got infected - I barely every used Windows to begin with and didn't have any recollection of doing anything "shady".

Did you miss the second sentence of my post?
> Just because this door is being opened by the NN repeal doesn't mean telcos don't already have a full on assault ready to close it again *without* NN

Don't mistake an air of hope for actual optimism.

Yeah but I'm reserving my optimism. Just because this door is being opened by the NN repeal doesn't mean telcos don't already have a full on assault ready to close it again *without* NN. After all they've surely got plenty of senators they've been sucking off in preparation to this.

All that said I don't actually live in America so despite the fact I find this whole situation interesting it doesn't actually effect me. I've got a 2Gbps fibre line to my home for about $50USD a month because I live in a country where backbone is municipal and there's a free market for service providers - but I also live in a populated part of a country that is tiny in size compared to America. There's no easy solution in America, but there are free as in freedom solutions that could show the power of the free market; and I really hope the repeal of NN is an actual precursor to that.

No it's not dipshit, if you reclassify ISP's you don't need to worry about the LEC classification barrier and we can have municipal fibre open up to any little business that wants to run their own ISP and can fill the minimum requirements. As it is big telcos have locked everyone out of LEC [Utility] applications basically by bribing Congress and harassing municipalities with shared fibre infrastructure.

I'm not saying repealing NN was a good idea but NN was a bandaid on a broken leg. The whole thing needs to be redone so hopefully the repeal will actually be a precursor to that - though who knows if it really will be.

My issue is with illiberal practices, restrictions on freedom of speech and/or expression, and anti-meritocratic/anti-technocratic systems. Filtering information is an authoritarian practice - and one the Nazi's made ample use of. If the current government is trying prevent companies from censoring information on the grounds the company doesn't agree with, therefore fostering real freedom of speech and expression which is the foundation for a liberal society, then I don't care what government it is I'll support that.

Have you read the Demore memo by the way?

It's not just "grassroots conservatives" that are worried about this. Re: the Demore memo, but also the fact Google was contributing to the Clinton campaign, and of course the "american scientist" search results. I'll grand that search result could be an organic result... but the fact we've had multiple engineers stating it's common practice to feed the engine specific data to "help" it find the right data does make me pretty suspicious. You can't deny most people use Google services, so if what they see come up on those services is manipulated for political gain, directly or indirectly, that's a pretty scary thing - especially when you consider there seems to be a large push for a non-meritocratic/anti-technocratic culture within the current ranks of Google employees.

I'm a hardcore GNU/Linux user for over two decades now. Only recently have I had to deal with Windows again (coding a cross platform desktop client), and although the interface is clunky and the continued lack of a usable package manager is a pain you also don't have to deal with all the stupid hand holding and bizarre restrictions OS X forces on you. As far as antivirus and security, just go with something free if you're worried and keep a backup schedule like you should with any OS. That's really all there is to it.

You all seem to have forgotten when NewEgg was originally selling things "auction" style where you'd bid on their products. The thing was they would creatively mis-label products, such as labelling disposable film cameras as "Digital Camera". Then after that I seem to remember something about selling rejected OEM equipment but I don't remember if they actually got in trouble for that one...

Here in Japan they're doing Scratch and then roll into samples in 8 different languages (basically hello world with a loop and some variables) in middle school.

My son however did a scratch book when he was ~7 and did some Arduino programming in that Arduino flavoured C in a robotics course which he's still doing (he's 10), but we're doing some things together in C because of that. I had originally thought about Ruby (because I like it and it's clean) or Python (because there are tons of ways to use it for beginners, like MineCraft scripting), but he's handling C just fine.

Now, what would I recommend for a class of students? Honestly I'm not sure Scratch is better at getting the concepts of program flow than flow charts with stencil templates, I actually think flow charts would make more sense. Once they get the concept of variables and loops look for something simple and visual or something they know and can see immediate results, like that MineCraft and Python setup or maybe even go old school and grab that demo where you move the robot around. Just try not to do the whole think in Scratch, as I think that past a point forcing that visual representation is detrimental and could actually turn off some students who would be into actual programming.