I'm an actual Starlink user at my farm. It's head-and-shoulders better than any competing service.

I previously has used a cellular uplink... and even with a yagi mounted 30' up on a mast, I barely had 1-2Mb/s of bandwidth. It was truly miserable.

Starlink is a game-changer... give 'em the freakin' money. They've done something truly miraculous for rural internet users, who had previously only terrible/expensive options. As a taxpayer, I'm actually glad to see the money I contribute going to something useful.

Agreed. The last 20 years have not been kind to this place.

Hollywood has long been a wretched hive of scum of villainy. Toads like Weinstein should have been burned down long ago.

But throwing Kavanaugh in with Weinstein? C'mon.

Have multiple sandboxes in both my home and work Firefox installations. Amazon, Twitter and Reddit each get their own sandbox while google, gmail and gdrive get to share one. Have 8 sandboxes on my work PC and I believe 13 at home. I *almost* cancelled the gmail account I've had for about 15 years but decided to sandbox that in with the rest of Google.

So - google, Amazon, Twitter and Reddit can read their own cookies all day long :)

I don't use DuckDuckGo, preferring startpage as I feel it's a little more secure.

...I participated in the hardware beta for this device. The test device was interesting to say the least in that it was considerably taller than a standard mouse and had two 1/2" square hardware buttons on the thing in addition to the regular two mouse buttons so we could test functionality.

It wasn't anywhere close to production and I had to return the device to Microsoft but it was pretty cool back then :)

After looking at the picture it took everything I had not to make a goatse joke. :)

Hallelujah, brother... preach it.

You don't deploy technology to address a people issue.

1. Buys domain.
2. Redirect users to redtube.com
3. ???
4. Profit!

I too remember the Old Days (TM). Slashdotting was an actual thing. We fearlessly rode the waves of the ether, and many a site trembled at the sound of our clicks.

I rarely post any more... but the passing of Rob is sobering reminder than none of us are getting any younger... RIP Roblimo :(

Maybe. I believe the media exploit from a year or two ago on Android was patched on phones assumed abandoned by OEMs.

Sadly, for many customers they rely on the goodwill of their OEM and telco to provide serious patches. I expect shops like Samsung, Lenovo/Moto, LG, Sony, and HTC to patch pretty much any phone sold in the past 3 years or so.

Budget buyers, no-name brands, etc are most likely going to be hacked constantly until they replace the phone. KRACK is bad but WPA-AES means they can't inject data and that's on top of TLS blocking that as well. Blueborn, on the other hand, is much more serious and could provide root remotely.

My twitter feed has probably 30 news sources in it from MSNBC to Fox and everything in between. I just read the feeds and develop my own conclusions.

I don't tweet much myself but using twitter as a news aggregator works pretty well for me.

Agreed, and if Indian companies are violating US labor laws there should indeed be consequences but I thought for this discussion we were talking about legal hires. Illegal hires is a whole 'nother matter :)

I can only speak to my own experience but we're seeing a fairly large departure of talent mainly because the company doesn't quite pay market and even the H1B holders are moving on to greener pastures. I've been here for five years and am paid slightly above market, but my company has decided that employee retention isn't all that and hiring freshers is the best way to increase their bottom line.

I don't agree with that at all. Talent attrition appears to be part of their business model :)

I'm an American working for an Indian company - one of Infosys' competitors. You really can't blame the Indian companies as it's the onshore CIO who's outsourcing this stuff and the executive team who makes the decision to outsource to offshore. I've said it a buncha times - all we did was respond to an RFP. It's not Infosys' fault - since the standard of living is lower in India than it is here salaries are also lower. If you don't want Infosys, Wipro, Accenture and the like running your IT perhaps it's the American companies that need to consider hiring American. The other thing is that if offshore resources arrive here on an H1B visa they're free to seek other employment. IME onshore salaries are generally competitive or you lose people.