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Russia hijacked the plain, spoofed the satellite data, landed it in Baikonur and then buried under the ground.

Firing someone is never a pretty business. You can't expect it to go smooth and rational. This is a stressful moment for any employee. The least, as a manager, you could do is give them a sense of dignity and comfort by delivering the news in person. Yes, it may be uncomfortable for you, or people may talk crap behind your back, but this is where your qualities as a leader are tested. Let them speak out, process their grief. It's not about you, it's them whose lives are about to change. Them who have to bring the bad news home. Give them some slack. My advice is to worry less about your image and more about people you manage.

In my case, the reason I keep using Firefox is privacy. Chrome is trying too hard to enforce the walled garden on you and collect data. There's also one "little", but very telling point - you can not set a homepage in Chrome. I could not believe when I first discovered it.

Can we please not post links behind a paywall or that require registration?

tl;dr "Please do not use ad blockers" – Ad industry

> Sometimes we even receive requests to remove content 'from the Internet'

Today Google resembles the once dominating Internet Explorer of Microsoft. Except one thing - it's a great search tool. Which means it's going to be very hard to find a new "Firefox" [1] to provide a viable alternative.

[1] In case someone doesn't know, it was Firefox that spearheaded the break out of the IE monopoly.

What a nice attack vector. Deliver a "suicidal" payload to a website, report to Russian authorities and watch it go offline in Russia.

It might as well be SO or any other site with user content.

Expectedly, tptacek is all over the infosec thread, arrogantly dissuading the public from the notion of a possible involvement of the US intelligence community :)

Amazon Echo surveillance program. Always on. For only $199.

I'm using the lite version, which is indistinguishable from the classic Winamp. It's been my default music player ever since MP3 came out :)

This will be perfect for PRISM

> A phone just under 6"

This is the only reason why I am not buying this shovel of a phone.

"We shoved this product up your ass real hard, but we still failed to compete with Facebook. Today, we are taking the last step: allowing you to choose any name you want. We hope to gain a little bit of Internet karma with this before we become irrelevant."

For those not in the know:

> Firefly is an American space western drama television series [...] The series is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system, and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly_%28TV_series%29

> America: Watch out how far you take the bullying

America has enough power and influence to shut down any possible discontent - both within the country and of their minion states in Europe. It's been ruling over EU for many decades now and knows well how to handle "unpopular opinions".

If Snowden didn't leak data on NSA surveillance none of the "internet giants" would care about encryption now. They'd continue cooperating as usual. What they do now is saving face, appearing like privacy heroes. These actions are likely agreed upon with the relevant agencies and designed to calm down the public.

> The lineup they have is hilarious.

The request by the PRISM companies is just as hilarious as the hearing. A good show for the public to "commemorate" the one-year anniversary of the Snowden leaks.

Guidelines on how to conform to the rules of the Matrix, otherwise you may be expelled from the system into obscurity of Zion.

Reading the comments from Matt Cutts here, I see the worst is ahead of us.

> I really don't get the culture here sometimes.

LGBT community has a very strong support network and is a visible target. In case of Rice, her evil-doing is less apparent and diffused. There's no "minority" to protect - everyone is affected - but not in a personal discriminating manner. Wars happen, but some place else. Surveillance happen, but we don't really see it. Hence, public reaction is a lot less emotional.

This condescending tone seems to be mandatory for karmic users of over 100K points :)

There goes my impressive uptime...

That's unfortunate and I, too, will be closing my account with Dropbox. Moving to SpiderOak.

I realize, though, that neither me nor thousand others will change the Dropbox policy. They most likely anticipated the public outcry over Rice and considered it not a threat.

They play in the big league now, increasingly catering to the enterprise world. And those guys are not particularly worried about privacy issues. They rather cooperate, like the PRISM companies.

It's not the first nor last time a nice, user-friendly startup turned "evil" over a certain threshold of growth. If you happen to find a large influential company that stayed true to its original promise to their users - cherish it with all your heart. They are a very rare kind.

Well done the progressive community of bullies. The awful gay hater stepped down. We can all rejoice now.

The witch-hunt that unfolded was unfortunate to witness. People overheard "against gay marriage" and this lit up the fire. Few cared to actually look into the story. One donation was enough to paint him as an ardent homophobic. Despite the impeccable track record of 15 years in Mozilla (including 8 years as CTO).

I respect this person, despite his non-respectable belief in gay marriage.

I'm quite disappointed by all this drama going on around this subject. It makes me question the very progressive community for its zeal to tarnish and boycott a man for holding an unfavorable view.

I find it interesting how no one cared about it while Eich was a CTO all these years. Now suddenly he's homophobic and dangerous. He's about to oppress gay people.

It's like a witch-hunt. He made a donation 6 years ago therefore he's a gay hater and will ruin everything. Meanwhile, Mozilla is one of the most open companies I know. And I can not recall a single gay related issue.

As for Eich's view against gay marriage - it may not be popular or progressive, but it is a legitimate opinion to hold. And given his ethical track record in the company, I do not think he deserves the smear campaign that is currently unfolding against him.

I quite like the concept of Web Components - operate with elements rather than blobs of JS. Browsers have been doing it for ages defining built-in elements. Now front-end devs have the tools to do the same. I'm excited to see what will come out of it.

If you want to get the gist of Web Components, there's a good 30 min talk by Eric Bidelman: https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/318907648

It's a tricky situation. Depending on what news is released you either get compromised by state hackers from the axis of evil or by state spies from the very hands of the PRISM companies.

Whenever I read that "you should be using X", credibility of the author rapidly diminishes for me.

I think this statement is unnecessary. Eich's personal opinion on the matter has never been imposed or interfered with official Mozilla business. It's one of the most ethical companies I know.

I can't imagine Carmack working for Facebook. This is surreal. As Palmer noted in his blog post he was skeptical when Facebook first approached them with the idea. I suppose Facebook eventually made a monetary offer they couldn't refuse. Whether Facebook makes it a VR advertising unit or Facebook Glass, it's likely to be something very different from what Oculus envisioned as an independent company.