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Valleywag, Jan. 2011: Meet Apple's New Boss, The Most Powerful Gay Man in Silicon Valley

-Zuckerberg.
http://gawker.com/5636765/face...

... the cesspool of the internet?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1...

http://gawker.com/5693962/4cha...

One of the most notorious Reddit trolls was outed as a 49 year old father: http://gawker.com/5950981/unma...

Agreed, especially in the case of one Reddit troller (who was fired from his job... good riddance):
http://gawker.com/5950981/unma...

Here is another cat hack story, although it seems in this case the cat was only used as a data repository.

>> Much of electronic collection is metadata
No. This is theory. In practice, they record everything for later (mis)use :
http://gawker.com/5991731/cias...
http://www.theguardian.com/com...

This is the 3rd time I've caught you, you're definitely a NSA/GCHQ shill, copying and pasting from a script, just to earn a pay check, thinking you're part of the 'system', while in fact nobody in the higher ups gives a fuck about you.

Everyone outside the US knows the US created the Ukraine crisis, I'll just leave 3 proofs here:
  VP Biden's son joins Ukraine gas company's board
  American Diplomat Caught On Tape Saying "Fuck the EU"
  Was The Price Of Ukraine's "Liberation" The Handover Of Its Gold To The Fed?

Whilst I have no patience for people using alternative medicine over real medicine, it's over-stating to say that it killed him. He would most likely have still died had he gone for real medical treatment straight away.

Not according to this guy

Actually, the type of tumor Jobs had is typically survivable, at least according to a harvard medical school researcher. I was also going to state that he lived longer than most people with pancreatic cancer, but found out that he didn't have adenocarcinoma, which is the bad kind. He probably could have lived.

He tried to outsmart his cancer. Once he gave in, he did go to great lengths to survive, since he had a whipple procedure, a liver transplant, had his cancer sequenced, and got targeted chemotherapy.

Oh come on now... the guy may be a tea party-aligned rape fugitive who overrode his political party to caucus with the Neo-Nazis, gave the dictator of Belarus an advance on leaks to be used in purges against his enemies, attempted to blackmail aid agencies by threatening to release information that could get their sources killed (including Amnesty International, to the tune of $700k), makes his volunteers sign 7-figure ultra-repressive NDAs, caused the defection of most of Wikileaks's staff due to complaints from authoritarianism to diverting the organization's money to himself, writes on his blog about how he's a god to women and women's brains can't do math, made a fake op-ed in the name of one of his opponents supposedly supporting him and promoted it with a fake twitter account in his name, wanted his book to be called "Ban This Book: From Swedish Whores to Pentagon Bores", wanted it to be full of his sex stories and at one point interrupted his ghostwriter to leer at a couple of 14-year-olds before remarking that one was "fine until I saw the teeth", cyberstalked a 17 year old before he got famous, and so on down the line ad nauseum... ....that's still no reason to wish him ill.

Read my orignal link.
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

I can see how they would back down from that.

http://www.americanthinker.com...

http://gawker.com/arrest-clima...

It's not like they are free to say anything about anything they find without fear of repercussions.

In general I agree, but when it comes to science I'm a little more relaxed about that, assuming that they stick to actual science without politicizing it.

Ever head of Lysenko? The greater the share of research, that is funded by the governments (as opposite to private entities), the easier it is to portray one's scientific opponents as not merely stupid, but as "enemies of the people" and "saboteurs".

And that share does need to reach 100% (as it was in the USSR), for "politicizing" to begin. Heck, the climate science is a fine example already — while actual climatologists are still discussing, there are already calls to arrest "climate change deniers"... Still feeling relaxed?

She should have paid the $1 non-rape fee.

Not so worried about the cars, Uber and Lyft inspect them to make sure they are in good condition, and even if they didn't the first bad ride would flag it.

Much more worrying is the fact they feel the need to charge extra for extra guarantees of non-serial-killer-drivers...

http://valleywag.gawker.com/wh...

So... that joke wasn't funny until the end, right? Why is that?

Actually, I think it has more to do with the way our brains process language than anything about the subject (http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304256404579449180386537694). It works the same way the joke in my sig does, confounding your expectation of what's coming next.

Because at some point, man-bashing became socially acceptable, kinda like lawyer jokes, etc. Personally, I do find the twist of that one amusing, but if it were the other way around...

Actually, I think it depends what you mean by "acceptable" and by who. People in the majority have been making minorities the butt of jokes for all of recorded history. It seems to me a relatively recent phenomenon people have decided it's not acceptable to make jokes about minorities at least in public (just look at Bugs Bunny cartoons from the 50s and 60s for examples of stereotypes for humor). Why do you think that changed? Do you think it's a change for the better? I think not shitting on people with less power makes all of us better people, but YMMV.

I think the point is, yes, we do realize that there are a lot of jerks out there. They are jerks for a variety of reasons. Beyond that are the true pieces of sh** like this guy [in the article] and those that kill their family. Unfortunately we - based on our gender - are somehow associated with this guy. It's not a *MAN* problem, it's a human problem.

Hm. If Rodgers shot people because he thought he heard aliens, or because God told him to do it, I might agree with you. But this crime was specifically targeted against women. I'll let Gawker make the argument for me: http://gawker.com/why-is-it-so... (wow, that's a sentence I never thought I'd write)

Mario saves the princess? Is that because men identify women are useless and weak, or because they want to be heroic.

How about "the way they get to show heroism is by rescuing weak women, and that's fucked up?"

Just because they might like to be "Thor" doesn't mean that they wouldn't appreciate Janeway, Ripley, or Sarah Conner doing the same for us dudes.

Sure, there are always exceptions. I actually have a pet theory that part of reason for Sci Fi's surge in popularity in my lifetime is because it allows for more strong women characters, which in turn draws women to Sci Fi. The fact that a strong woman character has to be as outlandish as aliens is depressing as shit, but that's a story for another day ;)

Honestly, I'm not Urkle or even a Leonard. When I was younger I admit to be a complete dork (and annoying to girls and guy both), but that was a social awkwardness I grew out of.

This being /., it'd be kind of shocking if you weren't some kind of dork ;) ;) ;) I think this is a self-selecting group of dorks (myself included).

The same a**holes that women have so hard a time get a leg up with are the ones that regular guys have issues with, and the thing is, we DO make an issue of it. Maybe not right away in the open, but a "that wasn't cool" or "that was totally unprofessional" when a moment is available to do so. I've dealt with some pretty horrible women too, both personally and professionally (though I'd admit, professionally women do come out on top overall).

I'm sorry -- I don't get where you're going with this paragraph? Is it that assholes are assholes to everyone? If so, there's a difference between someone shitting on your because of who they are, and someone shitting on you because of who you are. I've experienced both, and the latter is infinitely more painful.

Also, it's good that you call someone

To that end, the concept of "love" and a "relationship" evolved whereby the woman attempts to get a man to "fall in love" so that he stops whatever he is supposed to be doing to support her.

Biologically the reverse is more true. Semen contains a cocktail of hormones and neurotransmitters that elevate mood and promote feelings of intimacy.
http://gawker.com/5936835/wome...

How do you respond to allegations that Uber has engaged in price-fixing for profit and anti-competitive tactics for market share? Examples: Uber forced driver shortage to boost surge pricing, Uber staff making bogus reservations at competitor's service. Is Uber just a big bully? Are you?

How do you respond to allegations that Uber has engaged in price-fixing for profit and anti-competitive tactics for market share? Examples: Uber forced driver shortage to boost surge pricing, Uber staff making bogus reservations at competitor's service. Is Uber just a big bully? Are you?

I have never in my life heard the word "thugs" used as a "code for black people". That's the honest truth.

You do know that a big part of something being "code" for something else is so that people who don't know the code don't realize it's being used that way, right?

Unless you've been living under a rock, it is probably not true that you have never heard the term used this way. I think it is true that you are fairly ignorant about racism/racial code words in present day America, which I would hope would lead you to do a cursory search about the topic instead of posting your ignorance as some kind of an anecdotal evidence, bafflingly rewarded with upvotes.

It's one thing to not be up to date on, say, who will be offended if you don't address them as "zhe", but you seem to be pro-actively denying the existence of a fairly widespread racial slur, which seems indefensible to me.

Who wants something that will reduce reliability and increase price?

The problem being searched for is "I'm sure it's not loaded".

When the gun lobby ensures that "responsibility" in gun ownership can only be enforced after the fact (can't even require insurance!), just how reliably must firearms kill innocents?

It should be the same for police officers: Sure, there are times they may need to turn the camera's off, but the reason should be clear and should itself be recorded. In the absence of a justification, the camera should always run.

The problem with that is that cops are not only trained to manipulate people into agreeing to searches without warrants or interviews without lawyers, but they are free to lie to you in the process. So Detective Mackey stops by your house to ask you about xyz and assures you that you are not at all a suspect. After he talks you into turning off his camera, because you're both reasonable fellows, he beats the shit out of you after claiming you tried to hit him or shoots you after claiming you "reached for your waistband".

Your suggestion seems more appropriate for Scalia's Utopia, where cops aren't corrupt, all citizens are well versed on their rights, encounters between civilians and heavily armed law enforcement agents are on equal ground, and duress whether subtle or blatant does not exist.

Except that when pancreatic cancer manifests itself, it's already too late.

Probably not in his case:

Steve Jobs had a mild form of cancer that is not usually fatal, but seems to have ushered along his own death by delaying conventional treatment in favor of alternative remedies, a Harvard Medical School researcher and faculty member says. Jobs's intractability, so often his greatest asset, may have been his undoing.

And:

According to a 2008 Fortune article, Jobs for nine months pursued "alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid [an] operation through a special diet." The Buddhist vegetarian took this approach from the time he was diagnosed in October 2003 until at least the end of July 2004, when he underwent surgery at Stanford University Medical Center.

http://gawker.com/5849543/harv...

because this d.bag runs it:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/ha...

Gawker is a perfect fit for a story about him then, d.bags writing about d.bags.

because this d.bag runs it:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/ha...

This is all crazy stupid wrong. The only thing "new" here is the term "3D printing" itself.

hell yeah...I can't stand this "maker"/3D printing hype bullshit.

it brings out the worst of the breathless, crazy-eyed, crack-headed PR & marketing drivel that is ruining our industry...

look at the breathless "futurism"-style description of "what we'll do" in the future!

So perhaps 3D printing won't alter our old habits that substantially. We'll demand locally made kitchen mops, but we'll still get them at Target. We'll acquire a taste for craft automobile tires, but we'll obtain them from some third party that specializes in their production

The people who write this stuff are idiots.

I appreciate that they are in a round about way helping to promote our industry, but it doesn't stop there.

People believe the hype. Then they expect the products to deliver on the ridiculous version of reality in the fantasies of the Marketing idiots who put this shit together. It's a vicious cycle of idiots misunderstanding technology and telling things to each other.

We in the tech industry need to get on top of this crap...we need to call out PR idiots...and get them the hell away from cameras or a microphone or twitter account

Sort of like ValleyWag called out this psycho at Yahoo...his job title is...no joke ***Digital Prophet***

How sad is it that the bias is so bad here that I have to stick up for a company that has been run into the ground by piss poor management but here goes...at least they are actually LISTENING, they may not always get it, like that stupid "start button that takes you back to metro" Windows 8.1 dumb shit but I'd rather have a company that says "Sorry we'll fix that" than to have one that says when caught invading people's privacy "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place".

Maybe I'm weird but I just don't get how company A is bad and company B does THE EXACT SAME THING but is good because they say a catchphrase like "don't be evil"...are people REALLY that easily fooled by marketing?

Unfortunately, option 2 had been tried by a couple of other people in positions like his. They did not get the message out nor were the problems fixed, as they were still around for Snowden to show. http://gawker.com/previous-nsa... So yes, I believe that Snowden felt this was the only way to get the information out to the public, where he felt the public discussion would help bring change.

If Google had just included a lens cover then Glass would just be a status symbol for ultra-nerdy hipsters.

I can see it. It's about the "uncanny valley"

We'd still see situations like this poor woman who appears to have Borderline Personality Disorder: http://valleywag.gawker.com/gl...

However, there's something about the design of Glass, or rather the **lack** of design, that makes the wearer look off-puttingly non-human. It's like the Bluetooth in-ear headset ^10...and only a few steps from actual "Borg"

Glass looks like dental corrective headgear, and it turns out having a smartphone strapped to your face doesnt add much functionality for all the drawbacks.

GitHub considered her an engineer.

Your assertions demand evidence, espcially this one:

Horvath led a 'geek feminism' campaign to get rid of a rug (yes, a rug) because she objected to the word 'meritocracy'

I saw this article: http://valleywag.gawker.com/st...

Doesn't mention Horvath...***does*** mention other employees who didn't like the rug

Your bullshit is piling up fast...unless you have any evidence whatsover you're just a dumb troll

You mean "enlightened" like this coder-king?

http://valleywag.gawker.com/ha...

And prosperous? Well, I guess if you don't count the homeless human "trash" or the "degenerates" he and his enlightened friends complain about. Oh, those pesky poor people... if it weren't for them, SF would be even more of a "comfortable, enlightened, stimulating" city. Why must he and our other coder-kings be forced to look at them? It is thoroughly uncomfortable, I tell you! It completely ruins his stimulating experience of driving a BMW to Fisherman's Wharf for an enlightened lunch!

Can something be done to help this poor Medici-esque man-mogul? I hope he or one of his fellow coder-kings is even now "working to reinvent economic structures", as you say. I'm certain there is a Bitcoin solution to all this. After all, if we dispense with dollar bills entirely, the computer-less poor won't have any way to beg for cryptocurrency and they'll have to return to wherever they came from.

But there I go, being "unthinking and ungrateful", as usual...

all cities have hipsters

Anonymous because

1) 'James Jeffery' defaced the the site with Anonymous logo and anti-abortion rhetoric.
2) Posted claim on @Anonymous on twitter
3) Was 'Ratted Out' by FBI informant Sabu.

Hacker Makes Anonymous Look Like Assholes By Attacking Abortion Provider In Their Name

Anonymous because

1) 'James Jeffery' defaced the the site with Anonymous logo and anti-abortion rhetoric.
2) Posted claim on @Anonymous on twitter
3) Was 'Ratted Out' by FBI informant Sabu.

Hacker Makes Anonymous Look Like Assholes By Attacking Abortion Provider In Their Name

Thousands of volunteering and self-organizing detectives have been meticulously laying a puzzle that reveals the Gox billion-dollar heist as an inside job.

Oh great, the armchair Internet detectives are back. Remember the crack job those guys did tracking down the Boston Bombers?

Is it something like that WhatsUpDoc app that Google bought that nobody uses (except maybe outside the US)?

I thought that died when MySpace bought them out ...

Starts out as a way for college students to keep in touch with each other, "They trust me — dumb fucks," says Mark Zuckerberg http://gawker.com/5636765/face... so opens up to other colleges, then to the outside (non-colleges) ticking everybody off. Something you want no part of.

On Gawker, Sam Biddle points out that while AOL claimed it couldn't afford its old retirement plan, it is able to afford "Shingy," who Biddle describe as a "professional nothing". Shingy's job title is "Digital Prophet," which means "he's gloating about the fact that he has a make believe job at AOL, unlike most tech charlatans, who try to conceal it":

This Man Is Representing AOL on Live Television

To be quite honest, the great majority of CEOs are professional nothings. They are paid better and have much more influence on the company, than Shing.

And all they do is look busy doing random misguided "management".

On Gawker, Sam Biddle points out that while AOL claimed it couldn't afford its old retirement plan, it is able to afford "Shingy," who Biddle describe as a "professional nothing". Shingy's job title is "Digital Prophet," which means "he's gloating about the fact that he has a make believe job at AOL, unlike most tech charlatans, who try to conceal it":

This Man Is Representing AOL on Live Television

And don't be doing strong arm robbery, or what ever, to get the police so desperate for a way to lock you up that they plant drugs on you. Contrary to popular opinion, its not too hard to go about your life without attracting any police attention.

And your suggestion for persecuted minorities? Many have an issue with run ins when not trying to attract attention. http://gawker.com/black-man-ar... He should have stopped working, as it obviously got the attention of the police?

Oh shit, check this out.

So with the MacRumors article having only come out yesterday, it seems pretty aggressively snide to be suggesting that Apple's going to ignore the issue.

It's gett'in clicks dude.

Wait till my article about the correlation between Mac ownership and homosexuality.

After tens of thousands of posts and millions of web hits, and hundreds of dollars in Adsense revenues; people will finally see in the "article" that nobody ever did such a study and the closest thing is this complete shit that posits: "Tim Cook: Apple's New CEO and the Most Powerful Gay Man in America" and further down "Cook, who has not publicly discussed his sexuality, ...".

Welcome to the World of creating shit clicks: ShitClicks.

You would be surprised how few callories even the most serious sport/excerise takes.

I think everyone who's ever tried to lose weight via exercise is aware how hard it is. You get endurance and strength but burning surplus calories is really slow. Roughly 2000 kcal and you're keeping your weight, add 1000 kcal and it'll take me two hours of exercise to get rid of it. And if you have the food, we can consume a lot of calories. Here's an example of 72oz steak eaten in less than 3 minutes. Extreme endurance athletes often consume 10.000 calories a day.

As if western biologists are any more reliable... http://gawker.com/biologist-admits-he-faked-aids-cure-after-getting-milli-1489881281

It's not revisionist history if there are primary sources and first hand accounts stating the pro-corporate anti-fact checking was the goal of Fox News founder Roger Ailes. It's not an accident that the average Fox News fan is less informed than people that don't watch any news at all, it is on purpose. Fox news may be the worst, but most media outlets have the pro-corporate bias, since that is who owns them and pays the bills.

I'm going to start eating extra spicy burritos just before we depart. Sorry, If I have to listen to endless "oh my god" and "you knows" or the pugnacious business guy making client calls all during a flight I will release my own anti-chatter device! Besides it's good for you!

IMHO, there is a bright future for American computer programmers. We're needed more than ever, and good ones are harder to find per capita. Pay is good.

I sure hope you're right. I've got another ~25 years before I can take Social Security (assuming it still exists then...big assumption), and fear the day that age discrimination ruins my remaining chances to stay employed.

[H]ave a gander at this borderline psychotic but not a joke job ad for a web coder for Penny Arcade.

That's awesome. I've bookmarked that in my "job search" folder.

As to your personal situation and why you've been scrounging since the dot-com bubble burst...well, it could be a lot of things. Maybe your idea of "scrounging" means turning down a job a Microsoft because you don't want to work for the man...maybe you're a true genius who makes everyone even the bosses look bad so is ostracized...hell, idk...but I don't think your experience is representative ...

No, "scrounging" is more like having to (repeatedly) uproot my life and move hundreds of miles just to stay employed...a few years back, I left Southern California, where I've lived all my life, to take a job in Sierra Vista, Arizona, with the U.S. Army. So obviously I'm not that averse to working for "the man", nor am I unwilling to live in the middle of freaking nowhere. Now I live in Phoenix...another extremely undesirable place to live.

I hate the word "genius". What that really means is I have to do all the hard work myself, and that no one can help me. I'm no genius; I just work really hard and read a lot. Then I get stuck cleaning up everyone else's mess. That's enough to make everyone else look bad. But what else am I supposed to do? Not notice how bad things are? Not know how to fix it? Not work hard to fix it? Seems like my so-called co-workers have those bases thoroughly covered. ;-)

I'm glad to hear my experience isn't representative. I wouldn't wish my career on my worst enemy.

kids don't want to become computer programmers. Because they're not as stupid and gullible as you think.

I completely agree with this, but for a completely different reason which kind of contradicts the premise of your reason.

IMHO, there is a bright future for American computer programmers. We're needed more than ever, and good ones are harder to find per capita. Pay is good.

However, the problem is the **work environment**

Coding work sucks, but all work sucks. I was a snowboarding instructor for 5 seasons and **that** even sucked b/c we had to be teaching fatass Texan rich dudes how to stand up on the board instead of going out and riding to improve our own skills or get footage for sponsors.

All work sucks.

The shit part about coding that makes it wise for kids to want to avoid it is that in most of the industry the coders are highly paid slaves.

REAL CODERS HAVE TO DO ALL THE WORK.

Just look at Snapchat. Or have a gander at this borderline psychotic but not a joke job ad for a web coder for Penny Arcade. That's why young people don't want to code.

American business rewards all the worst things...the incentives are all going in the wrong direction. As to your personal situation and why you've been scrounging since the dot-com bubble burst...well, it could be alot of things. Maybe your idea of "scrounging" means turning down a job a Microsoft because you dont want to work for the man...maybe youre a true genius who makes everyone even the bosses look bad so is ostracized...hell, idk...but I don't think your experience is representative, however I do agree that the issues you identify in hiring are all legit problems.

More on the Dreamforce conference: http://valleywag.gawker.com/marc-benioff-is-the-ron-burgundy-of-tech-1469662002

Snapchat was made by frat bro's who royally screwed the guy who did all the real work.

A *real* tech thought it up and made it, then his rich friends stole his idea...

An idea for a way for people to send drunk videos to each other w/o consequences, which the frat-bro's took to the logical place they would, which is to drunken college girls...

**that's Snapchat**

Facebook.com offered $3Billion b/c facebook.com is *hemoragging* young users & it will do anything to buy other system's users (ex: Instagram) for them to vampire the life force from for advertising profit

that's it: facebook.com wants to buy Snapchat's users

all the noise about 'IPO valuation' is absolutely standard issue tech-bubble startup stuff that **we all know** how the cycle goes!

snapchat is only good as long as drunken hotties use it to send consequence free drunk selfie videos

As Apple was mentioned, it would seem quite illegal for them to say in a public statement that they didn't receive certain requests when they actually did - much much more illegal than not saying that they received such request.

Wait, since when is it Illegal for Apple (or any corporation) to say something in a public statement that is not true?

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05Letter-from-Apple-CEO-Steve-Jobs.html
http://gawker.com/5029459/steve-jobs-admits-katie-cotton-lied-for-him