In other words, you want to take the colossal failure that is our cable internet market and replicate it with the cellular network, where local cell tower monopolies limit you to only one carrier in a given area, and every time you move to a different area (say on your morning commute or going to the store) you need to buy a roaming plan on a completely different carrier.

That seems counter-productive. Better to make cell towers (and for that matter local cable / fiber data lines) public utilities, like they should have been this whole time.

Yeah, IT workers have a problem, but this one has a solution that part-time cab drivers don't have: it's actually practical for you to unionize, like lawyers, doctors, teachers, government workers, factory workers, basically every job that has full-time workers who have to regularly collaborate and want to be taken seriously as a profession.

Well, at least it would be easy to unionize if IT hasn't spent decades deciding they're too good to join the labor movement like all those other professions, and didn't, as it turns out mistakenly, believe they were some new type of profession where workers' rights would appear by magic (eg. "the free market") rather than hard work.

This has been the refrain of people trying to get into political office for forty years. "Government doesn't work; vote for me and I'll show you how much it can't work" It has not culminated in the election of a reality show con artist, who has proceeded to show exactly what it means to live in an ideal Republican-controlled government:

• A small government that can't respond to emergencies effectively.
• Tossing out science and real-world data in favor of feel-good American Exceptionalism.
• Wealthy people receiving everything they could want, even multiple COVID tests daily, while the people have to make do with whatever trickles down.

Behold, the ideal Republican administration!

Unfortunately, the problem is going to get worse, or rather more in the Republicans' favor, because Trump and McConnel have spent the last four years packing the courts full of conservative activists, so it's only a matter of time until one of these lawsuits hit just the right combination of judges to be turned into a precedent.

The actual size of the phone is no larger than the Oneplus 5 or 5t; it just has a larger screen because bezels are being replaced by the notch.

I mean, I'm not buying from Oneplus 6 anyway, but that's because the company already got caught preloading spyware into phones, not because the phone's too big or some other nonsense.

In fact, this very site has already had tests suspended indefinitely, likely because a mountain fell on it. From the article:

"The breakdown not only took off part of the mountain’s summit but also created a “chimney” that could allow fallout to rise from the blast centre into the air"

So, um good job Kim, taking a desperate attempt at mitigating a massive environmental disaster that could have blanketed half a hemisphere in radioactive fallout and trying to parlay it into a gesture of goodwill?

Now if only DDR4 would go back down to $10/gb so I can justify getting another 8 G for my laptop...

Oh, hey, another pack of lies from a hatemonger!

In fact, California is 42nd per capita in amount of money received from the feds per dollar spent in taxes:

http://www.politifact.com/cali...

Californians in fact receives roughly 22% LESS per capita than the national average.

If /. had bothered to read through the entire article, they'd have gotten to the important bit:

This is what Google is trying to fight against here: man-in-the-middle attacks by people selling / re-selling Android devices with pre-loaded malware or spyware. Custom ROM installs are getting hit because they're basically middle-ware too; the difference is that this is stuff that the end-user is specifically authorizing, so there's a workaround to let you install it if you want to.

Uber's "justification" for not getting the autonomous driving license that California requires for self-driving vehicles, a license that 20 other companies already have, was that their vehicles were "not sophisticated enough." Guess that was right, given the numerous reports in the past weeks of autonomous Uber cars failing to stop at street lights and signs.

Good luck Arizona; your governor just sold the safety of your streets out for a quick soundbite.

A bit ironic, as part of the reason for Blackberry's decline is that businesses can't trust they won't hand over their secure communications to whatever entity asks for it.

Given how many government servers have been broken into the last ten years, the emails are probably safer on her private server than on the government ones.

What in the world? Hillary Clinton's two biggest "controversies" are Benghazi, which is about as much of a controversy as global warming, and this whole email scandal where she used a private server instead of the State Department one. Given how many government servers have been hacked in the last ten years, the emails were probably safer there than they were on the government system anyway.

Pretending that Hillary Clinton is anywhere in the same zip code as despicable a person as Trump is to ignore basic facts about the two people and their history. The only reason people even think stupid things like this is because we've been taught by the 24-hour news cycle to look at the constantly-updating horse race statistics rather than the actual policies and histories of the candidates.

The fact that smaller governments have existed does not mean that those governments were better. The US government in the 1950s and 60s would be considered enormous by today's standards: marginal tax rates on the very wealthy were as high as 90%, with the balance going to building the national highway system and the Apollo missions. Back then the middle class was growing, and poverty was shrinking. As our tax rate flattens, with Reagan and Bush's voodoo-economics inspired tax cuts to the wealthy, we've seen this trend reverse, with the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and the middle class shrinking rapidly.

In a vacuum, yes this is true, a powerful government can take everything from you. Keep in mind, though, that the alternative is to allow powerful individuals to control everything instead; in that case, a state which humanity has languished in for thousands of years, those powerful individuals will take everything from you.

The large middle class that we've seen rise in America and other modern countries has only come into existence thanks to the tireless work of powerful governments holding back the power of the very wealthy. It's no surprise that, now that those very wealthy have managed to subvert the government, we are seeing the middle class shrink, battered by high costs imposed by the rent-seeking rich.