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I wonder if Michael Woodford (Olympus scandal) would be interested in having this brought to his attention.

Creepy sleepy drinky spider cider.

I feel a children's book coming out of this.

Normal users don't have the ability to give themselves an unlimited number of email aliases. You need to own your own server/domain to do that. Gmail has a nice feature, but it doesn't obscure your real email address and it is trivial to strip away the extra tag.

The issue here I think is that the average mail user needs some kind of filtering language to control their own inboxes.

There is no standardized way to do this, which is a shame. I would really like for their to be a standardized server-side mail filtering language for mail services, where you can take your rule set from one mail server to another.

Personally, I have my own mail server and it has it's own mail filter system and language, but I am not always on the command line with my mail client to modify those filters.

Outlook, Thunderturd/Seamonkey, and other clients have some client-side rules, but those rules don't work if my desktop is offline I am reading those messages on my phone.

I hope in the future well-regarding developers who don't have a private interest will take a look at email again and make the improvements needed to continue to support this standard communication format.

Egos and private-self interest is not what made the internet great, but there is little shortage of it these days amongst us. Where will the Tim Berners-Lees, Richard Stallmans, John Postels of the future come from? These people didn't get rich. We did.

Same here. I blacklisted their domain after awhile.

If you don't 0wn your phone, you don't own your phone.

I tried listening to his podcast a few times. Way too much arrogance all around, and the constant use of marketing and weasel words during the interviews made my blood pressure go up. It's a common personality type in SV/SF tech area that I really don't like, which is why I live and work outside of it.

I consider it a personal fault of mine that I have a low pretentiousness tolerance, because in between all the pretentiousness and clumsy embedded commercials (free version only?) there really is some great business knowledge in these interviews.

I could have said something similar of Russ Roberts' Econ Talk a few years ago. He started off as a faulty interviewer; constantly interrupting his guests to get his own very important opinion in. But, he has improved dramatically since then. I can remember one particular interview he had with Bill Black, where he just wouldn't shut up and let Bill finish his statements, and ultimately half the episode was just a jumble of incoherent back-and-forth over minutia.

I'll download a few recent episodes and give them a try to see if things have changed in the last few years.

This interview is absolutely damning.

Eich repeatedly uses the Mozilla Foundation as a shield to protect himself, saying that Mozilla is being threatened, when it is he who is the cause of these actions against Mozilla. He is showing that he has no qualms about using the foundation to protect himself.

There is no longer a question that the man is a homophobe who believes in using state power to enforce religious persecution on a specific minority group. He says, "This group of people can't do this religious thing because it offends me, and the state must prevent them from doing it." And, he voted for it with his wallet, and affirmed that vote with this interview.

Marriage is a religious institution. My personal opinion is that the state has no business being involved in marriage, including for reasons of taxes and other special privileges. There are good historical reasons for these laws, but they are no longer valid and we will need to change them, and can do so without harm to any particular group (except for those who want to enforce their own beliefs upon others, which is sadly common.)

CEO is a very particular position. It's the moral and character leadership role of a company, and having a homophobe in this position is a serious problem. For me, an intolerable problem.

Are there any known allegations or just flat-out known instances of Steve Jobs getting physically abusive with any of his employees or in the workplace environment?

It's obvious he was verbally and emotionally abusive person and he was generally an all-around asshole, but I've never heard of him getting physical, and that sort of surprises me.

SMS is terrible for this. It is completely insecure. You can fake transmissions easily, and nothing is encrypted, so you can't discuss any private info. There are very good, and obvious, reasons why organization do not use SMS for support.

While it's great to have a simple text-based medium to do this, SMS is awful.

I agree with the sentiment, but it's hard to take this guy serious when he suggests something so obviously bad.

This isn't reddit, and if you are five, then you should be in day care.

This reads mostly like an advert for Replicant.

"However, when Replicant is installed on the device, this back-door is not effective: Replicant does not cooperate with back-doors."

I am sure that people who run alternative ROMs/OSes would like to know if they are affected or not, but there doesn't seem to be much mention of that... except this line, which seems to indicate that at least Cyanogen IS affected:

"Alternatively, the kernel could block the incriminated RFS requests and keep a trace of them in the logs for the record. That option would work for CyanogenMod, where the incriminated proprietary blob is still used."

I've heard about Replicant before and am interested in it, but something about a self-serving warning like that turns me off.

EDIT: Okay, my bad. I thought this was like a public announcement, not just a wiki page. That makes the context different, so my comments about reading like an advert are not nearly as applicable.

This is why I have had to stop using a number of services which requested a photocopy of official government documentation. I am specifically thinking of how I had to dump my Dwolla account.

I am not aware of any indication that this was a ponzi scheme. Saying that it was, without evidence, is misinformation.

The loss of coins was unintentional on the behalf of MtGox. It may have been stupid that basic abc123 auditing would have probably revealed that there was a problem months/years ago, but evil has not been shown at this point in time.

Your coins were gone months or even a year or two ago. You are just realizing it now. MtGox didn't realize they were missing either, until rather recently.

My three year old Nexus One has more storage with it's 32GB SD card plus it's 512MB internal storage.

In fact, I don't think any of the Nexus phone has had more storage than the Nexus One was capable of.

Google is doing evil by "strongly encouraging by use of brute force" users to store their data in the Cloud/NSA, where governments and private parties can then inspect that data and figure out what a good/bad citizen you are and then take action based on your political beliefs, sexual preferences, religious beliefs, and race/gender, as they have repeatedly done in the past and continue to do today.

Fortunately, there are a few phones with still support SD cards (SGS4), but I can imagine Google strong-arming them into discontinuing this support.