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Never suggests anything on linux Chrome 57.0.2987.133

Absolutely the nicest way to say "join my cult or get out" that I've ever heard of.

It is not astonishing that a company that would do this would also lie about it. They knew what they were doing.

This is how cynical I've become about this kind of stuff, I see it as a small victory that AT&T admits they're doing it.

This will continue as long as so many people want linux to be a free version of Windows or Mac OS X, instead of a free PC unix.

Still using it, at home and at work.

You know attorney and police officer are really different jobs, right?

Good. When I have a problem, I can get a hold of a human at Zillow and they're nice to work with. As far as I know Trulia is just a very complicated cron job.

I've been using Slackware for years now both at home and at work. It's a great distro and that's because of Pat!

I appreciate what Alexis is trying to do here but I hope he isn't assuming that the FCC just doesn't understand the problem. That's how this reads to me. Maybe the idea is to be di…

Offhand I can't think of any of my friends who haven't been arrested.

"Today we also lost extensive online forums for a community of sex workers to keep each other safe, screen clients, and blacklist predators." I'm hopelessly cynical at this point i…

Same here, I checked it every day for many years. It was one of those fundamental parts of the linux experience in the late 90s. It surprised me how much emotional impact this anno…

At my first real admin job I had root on an E6500 machine and really thought I was the shit.

Call me paranoid but this just looks like really good evidence that Truecrypt was secure.

Obviously, what happened to metafilter isn't right. But it should also be obvious why Google doesn't say what needs to be done to remove a penalty. The sites that should receive a …

Same here, running the latest version of Firefox on Slackware.

It is impressive. I can't imagine dealing with that kind of nightmare. I once worked as an admin on Solaris boxes at a big pharma company. There were ~77,000 users in their LDAP di…

Coda is a great editor and although I didn't really use it for what it was designed for, I really liked it.

This seems like the rube goldberg version of chroot to me.

The business world needs more of these kinds of no bullshit, no footnotes, no qualifier statements.

I wonder if this will finally replace WindowMaker on my desktops. Don't laugh, it works.

Are people really serious when they talk about the fabled Hacker News of old? What could it possibly have been like? I'm imagining something like zombo.com, only with lower contras…

>There's a very real danger of businesses clamouring to deliver cheap, quick experiences using iBeacon technology without putting much thought behind them. There's no way this won'…

This was done to a friend-of-a-friend of mine. When he was diagnosed he was given 90 days. He lived 2 years so it was a win in my opinion. I believe he thought so too.