Hacker News: lbcadden3

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

lbcadden3 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:50:15 +0000

One of the reasons I stopped playing Pokémon GO.

Anyone who checked the origins of the company knew where this was going to go. Your data for sale.

There were already questions about what they were doing with the data of their prior game in the security and privacy space prior to Pokémon.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

lbcadden3 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:44:59 +0000

I’m surprised it’s taken this long to go after this.

In the name of “national security” and “protecting the children” and all.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

lbcadden3 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:16:47 +0000

I’m shocked, shocked I say!

New comment by lbcadden3 in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

lbcadden3 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:51:17 +0000

>There’s a horrible sort of comfort in thinking that whatever you’ve published is already written and can’t be changed. Sometimes this is viewed as a forward-looking stance, but science that can’t be fixed isn’t past science; it’s dead science.

Actually it’s not science at all.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

lbcadden3 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:22:05 +0000

Phone hasn’t had a connection for hours. 5G wireless home is fine. Upstate South Carolina.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable"

lbcadden3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:27:19 +0000

Can’t penalize a company that disappears.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable"

lbcadden3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 19:25:24 +0000

It hasn’t been working anyway.

It was just more corporate welfare.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

lbcadden3 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 17:30:09 +0000

Not really shocking considering how Japan likes conglomerates.

Hyundai makes cars and military weapons and probably thousands of other things that aren’t even related to each other, don’t know if they still make computers.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Where is James Bond? Trapped in an ugly stalemate with Amazon"

lbcadden3 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:41:42 +0000

Actually Games Workshop started that, probably just being accelerated by Amazon.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships"

lbcadden3 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:46:39 +0000

The last polar icebreaker built in a US shipyard occurred in 1969 or earlier.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?"

lbcadden3 — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 22:18:25 +0000

Being worth less than your assets and liabilities is an extremely dangerous position to be in. The only reason they haven’t been bought and stripped for parts is the fact that the government probably would block it.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment complaint at my startup?"

lbcadden3 — Wed, 11 May 2016 01:06:26 +0000

She told someone up the management ladder. The business is now financially libel if the situation is not aggressively corrected.

This can also apply to customers, not just co-workers.

Lawyers, good lawyers that know harassment law.

Worked for a company that had to settle a lawsuit before I started there. Management meetings every six months on this the entire 5 years I worked there, part of the settlement.

I have fired a coworker and banned a customer for this.

In US.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Netflix replies to Verizon cease and desist letter"

lbcadden3 — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:05:50 +0000

Netflix is paying someone for their traffic. Verizon customers are paying for broadband which includes streaming movies.

The ISP need to quit whining. They need to quit trying to get laws passed in every state that keep competition out.

Verizon 2014 1st quarter. $30.8 billion revenue $7.2 billion operating income http://www.verizon.com/investor/news_verizon_reports_fifth_c...

no sympathy

New comment by lbcadden3 in "How do i bill for open source software?"

lbcadden3 — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:06:55 +0000

GPL3, then charge target market for a different license and upgrades/support.

I saw someone else doing this and they said it was working well for them (sorry do not remember who).

New comment by lbcadden3 in "A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue"

lbcadden3 — Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:43:58 +0000

I haven't read it yet. So they are going to get rid of the fuel tax right?

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Little Brother"

lbcadden3 — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:43:35 +0000

Good book. Aimed at the young adult audience, I only knew this because when I went to the store to buy a copy it was in the teen section.

I have enjoyed everything by Cory though.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Google Chrome security flaw offers unrestricted password access"

lbcadden3 — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:50:19 +0000

This is a very very old feature of Chrome. It has been there since I started using Chrome a few years ago.

Must be a slow news day.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "High-fructose corn syrup prompts considerably more weight gain than sugar (2010)"

lbcadden3 — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 22:35:02 +0000

High-fructose corn syrup and ethanol, with increasing push back against farm subsidies due to tax payers and trade agreements, these are the loopholes used.

I was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the single biggest change I have made is avoiding products with hfcs, going very well and lost 30 pounds.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Why is Ubuntu not Linux and Mint is?"

lbcadden3 — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:21:44 +0000

Link to the blog post?

Other than the default packages Ubuntu works very much like Debian to me.

As far as Ubuntu vs Mint its more like Windows 7 vs 8 for me, Ubuntu being 8. I mean with a different interface than most are used to.

New comment by lbcadden3 in "Upgrading Adobe Flash Player installed Google Toolbar without asking"

lbcadden3 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:07:05 +0000

It seems like Adobe has a random problem that started in August where the page you show in your image had no check box to uncheck if you did not want Chrome installed, may be part of the same issue.

It would install Chrome and/or Chrome Bar depending on what user already had.

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1053973?start=0&tstart=0

I use Chrome on Ubuntu so do not use Adobe Flash. I have had no issues with my wifes Windows system, which only has IE and does have Adobe Flash installed.