This isn't about coal emissions or clean anything. It's about killing the coal industry before the cryptocurrency industry can buy in to make their own electricity. As and our government does NOT want cryptocurrency. Unless it's theirs.

Oh, and our government does NOT like us citizens. None of us. Some more than others, yes, but our government is against us. You want to be in the good side of the government? Read history. Only the leadership escapes this.

Does AOSP not support Chinese input?

BTW, Heliboard is available from Izzy and is open source and does good (non-nudge) prediction locally.

It's too bad that it took DoT to enforce the most basic tenets of commerce law when ostensibly that's the Courts' job or even the FTC when courts fail.
Good to see corruption only wins 99% of the time!

yeah, I agree. For a company that first peaked by being a mail-order catalog based system, they could have taken Amazon's model, paid up on the stupid patent rights (even though most of the details about online shopping are bleeping obvious, but never mind, /. had that discussion 25 years ago...I was there.), and dominated that model all over again... ...but they knew if they did, they'd hurt their retail...so they died (multiple times).

This aspect has been true in other parts of tech history; a company won't embrace the future because it hurts their current. IBM crippling the PS2 because a properly configured 386 would have competed with their workstation line. The supposedly paperless office of the Xerox PARC system was lost to Xerox because the copierheads feared it would hurt their copier and ink sales (mind you, in spite of 50 years of the PARC lifestyle on our computers, we're still shelling out tons for HP ink every year, so much for paperless...).

Yeah - the McDonnell Douglas attitude. Such mergers, where the better company (who was the larger) gives way to the management of the smaller one happened with the SiriusXM merger. XM had the better tech, the wider variety of stations, the wider variety of playlists within those stations, the more loyal customers, and generally the higher individual stock value at the time (XM holders got 4.6 post-merger shares for each 1 XM).

Yet Sirius's management won out on every level except the tech, where they were the weakest of a bunch of weak stats. XM drove the tech, but Sirius drove the content...into the ground. Most of the XM stations with Sirius matches were shut down, along with many of the content-specialized stations that distinguished sat radio from the crap we already got over the air, and the Sirius stations with their much smaller clear-channel quality playlists dominated. The product saved money...and lost value.

I had a less historical, more geeky, version of the same. No matter how much I tried to emphasize 1977 *original* price, I could not get Google to give me a site that described the original retail prices of Star Wars figures at the time (I was looking for it as a matter of measuring inflation, to the price of Prisoner figures today on a kickstarter).

Everything just kept being page after page of either modern price guides, or actual figures for sale. Google just wouldn't give up on the commercial side of it and give me some page (somebody SOMEWHERE has to have written it) that had the original retail prices, and maybe even a discussion about the increase of the prices between rise in demand for popularity and the general inflation of the late 70s early 80s. Nothing at all.

Jacobsen's Algorithm wasn't widely implemented until the 90's and you know it.

I appreciate your comments as my original comment was not particularly good.

I suspect, at this point, that Hasan is already making a living running No Tech For Apartheid, and protesting for Palestine. It is even possible that it is a better living than they made working for Google, but probably not. I am not saying that sacrifices have not been made. However, when I say that this person is a professional protester I understood what that meant. My wife is a professional organizer. You can pay her, by the hour, to organize your closet, or your warehouse. Ibraheem is a professional protestor.

It is funny how you think that it is the red states that will kill this. Noncompetes are already not enforceable in many right-to-work states. It's the blue states where noncompete clauses had weight.

I actually believe that. Probably because that's what Hasan Ibraheem is quoted as saying in this article. He was already part of an organization No Tech For Apartheid. Here's the requisite quote from the article in case you don't feel like clicking on a link.

I don't see why this should be a surprising take. There are quite a few people that have become professional protestors. Nine people sat for a while in an office building with some very nice banners and somehow this has been in the national news for a week. These people came prepared, they were well-funded, and they clearly were plugged into the media well beforehand. He's done it once. I am sure that he has a long career ahead of him in this profession.

I want to make this very clear. I actually applaud this guy for his work. I am quite sure that he is genuine in his regard for Palestine, and it is hard to argue that it isn't an important topic. I just don't believe, even for a second, that any of this was a surprise to him. Hasan used his job at Google to catapult himself into this role.

It is a bit of both. The tax dodge but yeah, nobody wanted to move to Austin because of the state government's policies on, well, health care. Specifically women's. The Navy I believe is seriously considering reducing Corpus Christie in the same way that the Air Force has more or less given up on Huntsville as a result of Alabama's policies and representation. Recruitment is down and sailors, like soldiers, are sometimes resigning rather than moving to a 'red' state with poor education and poor, repressive health care options, if the alternative of resignation is available.

Now, TN is still majority Republican and *could* go that way, too...but it would be more obvious the healthcare hand feeding them than Texas where the leadership only thinks in barrels of oil.

I think the larger problem of ANY "HQ" move is, well, getting anybody to want to go back to work in an office in the first place.

Apple's only advantage is that they are seen as a status symbol by certain people. Apple has gone out of its way to make sure that you can tell if someone you are talking to is using an iPhone. If they aren't using an iPhone then the experience is degraded significantly. There are a million video chat programs, and they all work great, but the cool kids all want to Facetime. In group chats they care what colors bubbles they have.

That works great in places where there are a lot of Apple users, but it works against Apple in places where there is not. In China there are replacements for all of Apple's software that everyone uses, even if you have a fancy phone you aren't really in Apple's ecosystem. In essence you are buying an iPhone to become a second class citizen in all of the software you actually want to use. Everyone else is running Android.

Throw in major financial issues in China and all of a sudden Apple's phones look like a very poor choice, even without throwing politics in the mix.

On my Firefox Nightly I have an extension to set Yandex as an allowed default search engine. Makes it easier to pop up another browser for a session.

Somebody fix that extension to work on mobile, eh?

They don't - something like this needs an Act or Congress.

SCOTUS made up some BS "Chevron Deference" in the 80's which has been abused like this since.

The current /Maine Fisheries/ case should dissolve Chevron deference.

We may like the FTC proposal on this one but with that kind of power and no representation it's only counting the days until they do something we absolutely detest. And then there's no effective recourse.

Weren't the founders and top management of Google citizens of Israel?

It dozen't seem all surprising from that perspective.

These protesters should have gone back to writing code to surveil Americans, I guess?