If I may... the news here is that committing a crime and being arrested for it (might) mean law enforcement get to see every last thing you've ever posted to the Internet, even if you thought those posts were vaguely private and beyond the reach of the likes of a google search. Many of us already knew this, but the point is being made clearly and explicitly here.
I can understand the dislike of the criminals in protests, but I'm amazed at the partisan vitriol in most of the modded up comments. It seems that if you're a/.er, you must have huge disdain for criminals who attended a protest against a very controversial (and currently unpopular) president. In order to show how much you dislike said criminals, you must entirely support law enforcement, no matter how invasive they are. You're allowed to voice your dislike of law enforcement's methods and the general loss of privacy the modern age brings in other threads, but not this one.
"Throwing the book at the criminals" seems reasonable enough, but let's leave all their friends, relatives and random acquaintances that they've ever had out if it, eh?
1.) Most will never forgive the mother fuckers who made them do that
If that means more people will hate Disney, then I can't see a downside. What qualifies Disney to decide/influence education policy? What's next? Defence strategy by Mattel? Social security policy by Lockheed Martin?
As a sysadmin, this sounds great (a bit 'brown trousers' for me personally, but great). However, one of my clients is entirely 'in the cloud', so no need for your truck of kit - just provide as many VMs as we like somewhere on t'internet. Ideally you'd be able to do this in a 'little internet' which has a VPN to get into it, has it's own DNS servers, and maybe ways to 'bend' or alter requests to other cloudy services, such as Google or Amazon such that the app 'thinks' its talking to the real, live production service, but actually it's talking to a test account or some such. That means I can spin up my clients world in your environment and have it think it was on the internet, but actually not interact with anything real - and I don't need to change every account and password baked into the code and config so I don't do any damage to real data.
Secondly, just like the backups and drills that most companies don't bother to do, they won't bother to hire a service like this either. You'll probably be able to make a few top-dollar sales to some big shops who already have very good DR procedures, but the little place (or even medium place) probably won't bother.
One way I could imagine this working would be to gain some sort of certification. Say for example, the fiduciary regulations of Elbonia were changed to say that all app providers must have externally verified DR capability, then your business would fit right in and solve that need - and you'd probably get lots of work, and hopefully lots of repeat work too. Short of regulations though, whatever certification you could come up with on your own wouldn't be worth enough to have people want to pay to get it.
...or demand that the H1B gets paid whatever they get paid, but you have to pay the difference to a US employee in tax. Then the government gets money to build walls, towers, pyramids or aeroplanes or whatever to glorify their leaders (and jobs get created for the people who have to build said monuments).
FWIW, around the same time people have realised that sending editable documents out to their clients or whatever is a bad idea. I'd say most "email me a quote" type stuff is now PDF, rather than.doc,.docx or.odt or whatever else. The only.docs I've received are spam or from a colleague asking for me to make some changed before sending it back to them.
I don't think anyone wants to credit Adobe with breaking the MS stranglehold, but PDF has its part to play in all of this.
Sealand might be a possible replication destination, but I doubt you'd want to actually host there for a number of reasons: 1) It's dependent on the UK mainland for just about everything (including an internet connection) 2) If it becomes too much of a problem for the UK government (or their puppet master, like the US), then there'll be an industrial accident where a container ship bumps into it, or the navy dives under it and damages it, or just straight-out blows it up and claims it was a natural disaster or some such.
For more solid foundations, right now, I'd say Iceland is the place to host stuff. They might not be the strongest country (militarily), but they're not dependent on the US to such a degree that they won't say 'no' a few times. I'm not sure where you'd be best off putting a warm-standby though...? Maybe Argentina or somewhere might work, I'm not sure - would have to look into it.
Either way, though, for anything other than mainline-consumer-friendly stuff, consider not hosting in the US (unless you're backed by a large multinational corporation).
Think of the shame of it! Buying a brand new 'flagship' phone, only to realise it's got an old processor in it, used in the previous model. You never know for sure it's not even a pre-owned processor, and no one buying a £700 phone wants anything pre-owned about it. That CPU might have been extracted from some chav's phone and used to send instagram pictures of his willy to his chewing-gum consuming girlfriend.
Is it just me, or is this some 'not-news'? Buy a phone that does what you want it to, not one which has an entirely different parts list than the last one. This implies that mobile CPUs are now at something of a plateau, and so in fact, any number of manufacturers could enter the market to make cheap, commodity processors without fear of 'progress' eating too much of their R&D spend.
I have a friend who has one, so when I go over to their house, what's the stupidest thing I can make it do? I'd love to think I could make it order £100 item on Amazon, but I believe they can pin-code protect that capability. So... what's the stupidest, most annoying thing I can get Alexa to do when I walk in?
I'm very jaded about Samsung - nice hardware, terrible, terrible software and a load of bloatware you really don't want. Maybe it's an age thing, but the latest 'flagship' phones don't really excite me any more. The 'edge' screens look nice, but I'm not sure they actually add all that much to the experience.
For now, I'm using a Wiley Fox - it's great, it does what you want and you can uninstall all the bits you don't want. It's also £180 (compared to something like £700 for the newest generation phones from anyone else).
This is sort of like Java applets, but instead of an "anyone can just fire one up on their webpage", there's a curated list of them. To be accepted onto the list they must behave vaguely correctly, and in return are allowed access to things your browser can't reach. In that regard, they're in-browser functionality, but they're running in a super-browser that has access to hardware and data that normal browsers don't.
For what it's worth, this looks like it might just be a good implementation of the 'applet' concept. Java applets failed because they were big, slow, not terribly reliable, and didn't give an integrated experience with the rest of the web. These aren't part of the 'web' in the obvious sense, by todays standards they're not terribly big (and can be cached aggressively). They ought to be able to offer a 'rich' experience, be somewhat familiar, but don't require the user to make (much) commitment to use them. There's a chance this might actually work... Or maybe it won't and we'll be back to 'thick' apps and web pages like we are now.
...such a law would make it illegal for US companies to operate servers in the EU in a lot of cases, because there are protections for EU data. There are some 'safe harbour' exceptions for certain types of data in certain circumstances, but that won't cover everything, and (I suspect) doesntt cover email.
Moreover, many EU based companies would think very long and hard if they wanted to use a US cloud provider for anything at all, especially if the law allows for the US to grab 'chunks' of data (eg. a server at a time) rather than a person at a time. The prospect of having your companies data taken due to happening to sit on the same server as someone else doesn't go down too well in compliance meetings.
You're right - I'm a devops, so I know a lot about sysadmin, and a bit about dev. I know he *could* do all those things, but I was looking to find out what he did do, and how he covered his tracks (if at all). I doubt most of the site owners would be checking/var/log/audit logs or/var/log/nginx/access.log or whatever, but if they had been, would they have been able to see something going on?
It my impression that most criminals aren't nearly clever enough. He *could* have written scripts to snaffle the data and delete the logs that showed it happening, but I guess I'm wondering if he did all of that and if in fact, there's a clear trail of evidence on the systems he delivered.
I predominantly agree with you, but we shall see Snowden used as a pawn in the endless chess game between America and Russia. America can pretend he's of interest and ask Russia to stop him leaking more stuff, or stop him making public statements or whatever they like. Russia can pretend to play along, and thus curry some favour. America can stop this "curry supply" at any time by simply pardoning Snowden, and so Russia likes to 'ham him up' a bit here and there to show they've got some power over America.
And thus, we can expect Trump to go blithering in to negotiations and push the Snowden pawn back and forth, just as Russia will move the gas supply piece back and forth, etc etc.
...'tis one of the many reasons the likes of the Bank of England have been developing their own 'e' currency. They'll run the show, so you won't get to do anything unusual, but you'll still get the benefit of 'e' money transfers/payments etc. It seems like an attempt to 'get with it', but really its a way to make you think you're getting something new and good, whilst still maintaining the status-quo.
Anyone know how he got the information out of the sites he'd created? How did he 'install some scripts'? And even then, how did he get the data out?
I realise that if you're hiring someone like this you might not be so-inclined to watch logs and whatnot, but there must be some sort of trail left by his accesses.
In London we have the "Docklands Light Railway", which is entirely autonomous. Every once in a while someone gets on, opens up a control panel of some sort and start operating the train in some way. I've always wondered why - if they're there for safety or security then that's fine, but why do they need to 'help' a train that runs without their help without any problem...?
As for this... I'm left wondering why it's not on rails, given they've had to close a load of roads to make it work.
I just took a look at their 'about' page - I'm still none the wiser what they (were) up to. Advertising and outreach definitely wasn't big on their list of priorities it seems. They probably have more 'mind share' today, because they're closing down than they've ever had before.
Ahh... the old school is "just pull yourself together" psychiatry, eh?
This isn't about having to look at sick stuff - it's about not being given sufficient mental/emotional support for doing so. Being told to take a smoke break works about as well as telling soldiers just to look away when their pals get limbs blown off. All MS had to/has to do is provide sufficiently qualified and useful counseling/psychiatry to the people they hire to look at this stuff (ie. have the facility and give them paid time to use it) and only let them return to work when they're ready to do so.
For espionage to take place you have to use the information you get from listening into a skype call inappropriately (ie. telling someone who can use the information themselves, or otherwise using it yourself). For example, you overhear Verizon and Yahoo setting a price for the takeover deal. You talk to your pal at Google and give them the price, after which Google makes a counter offer for Yahoo. If you hear them setting the price and do nothing with the information, then nothing happens at all (and there are usually procedures where you disclose what you've heard to your legal people to vindicate yourself of any possible issues in the future). The worst you could be done for is evesdropping/privacy invasion or similar. However, given the ToS, you couldn't even be done for that because you're doing it in the course of your duties as defined by your employer (none of which would be true if you somehow did it yourself from your basement).
MS isn't doing anything unique here - they have people and algorithms looking for CP and other illegal material. Anything that looks suspicious gets reviewed by a human and acted upon. All the major providers are doing the same thing in some form or other. If you don't want your stuff spied on, encrypt it, or use a different means to communicate.
Foxit collects a whole different range of 'anonymous' data and sends that to entirely different organisations. In that sense, it fulfills the same role, but is entirely incompatible.
Sonos is a brand of network attached music players. Most of their products are essentially 'wifi speakers', which not only connect to your local wifi (or wired lan), but also communicate with each other when necessary to create stereo pairs or groups which all play the same thing exactly in-sync. They claim to be able to play just about all the audio on the planet, although Amazon Music seems to be a constant problem, as does SoundCloud. That said though, they really do play an awful lot of stuff extremely well.
There are some (reasonable) criticisms of the product line though. They're considered to be expensive (and more expensive than most competing products), and whilst their audio quality is generally considered to be pretty good, it could be better. Products like the 'Amp' (which has no speakers, it needs some wired speakers to be added) is only 50W, whereas pretty much any amp you could even consider being decent quality is more like 200W upwards. Also, the Amp costs more than two "Sonos 1" devices (which are, more or less, single speakers + network attachment), so it's expensive, and not as good as it really should be, given Sonos pitches itself as being somewhat 'premium'.
Technically, Sonos is pretty interesting. To work around people's crappy home wifi, Sonos has it's own mesh network which means that a Sonos device can be out of reliable range of your Wifi, but still play music just fine. The magic sauce that makes it all work is proprietary, and so you can't hack together a Sonos-compatible device on a Raspberry Pi or something. There are some 'hacks' you can do though, like turning off all wireless in devices you've wired to the lan. It's not really documented or talked about, but if you fill a rack with a load of sonos it'll probably crash your wifi (even if wired) until you turn off wifi on the devices. Devices have dual ethernet ports in a sort of hub arrangement, so you can daisychain them together if you need to.
As for John MacFarlane - honestly, I have no idea who he is. From the summary, I'd guess he's a somewhat visionary tech-savvy business guy who started a company from very little and made it into a multinational that at lot of people have heard of (granted, that doesn't appear to be you). I'm guessing his moving on suggests that Sonos's business will change in the coming months, and as is so often the case, that may not be a good thing for those of us with an existing investment.
Back in the day of CRTs, plasmas looked amazing. Every pub got one because they were big, light enough that you didn't need to have reinforcement put into the walls to mount one up high and some of the were ready for the hood.
A few years later, those same plasmas started to look pretty shabby. They had screen burn, they'd cost a lot to run because they were ran very hot and in some cases needed to be regassed.
2017 might be the year of OLED, but that just means 2018-19 will be the year of QLED or whatever refines OLED. We just bought a new TV a year or so ago, so I guess we'll be waiting for OLED/QLED to be commodity before we buy another TV.
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If I may... the news here is that committing a crime and being arrested for it (might) mean law enforcement get to see every last thing you've ever posted to the Internet, even if you thought those posts were vaguely private and beyond the reach of the likes of a google search. Many of us already knew this, but the point is being made clearly and explicitly here.
I can understand the dislike of the criminals in protests, but I'm amazed at the partisan vitriol in most of the modded up comments. It seems that if you're a /.er, you must have huge disdain for criminals who attended a protest against a very controversial (and currently unpopular) president. In order to show how much you dislike said criminals, you must entirely support law enforcement, no matter how invasive they are. You're allowed to voice your dislike of law enforcement's methods and the general loss of privacy the modern age brings in other threads, but not this one.
"Throwing the book at the criminals" seems reasonable enough, but let's leave all their friends, relatives and random acquaintances that they've ever had out if it, eh?
1.) Most will never forgive the mother fuckers who made them do that
If that means more people will hate Disney, then I can't see a downside. What qualifies Disney to decide/influence education policy? What's next? Defence strategy by Mattel? Social security policy by Lockheed Martin?
As a sysadmin, this sounds great (a bit 'brown trousers' for me personally, but great). However, one of my clients is entirely 'in the cloud', so no need for your truck of kit - just provide as many VMs as we like somewhere on t'internet. Ideally you'd be able to do this in a 'little internet' which has a VPN to get into it, has it's own DNS servers, and maybe ways to 'bend' or alter requests to other cloudy services, such as Google or Amazon such that the app 'thinks' its talking to the real, live production service, but actually it's talking to a test account or some such. That means I can spin up my clients world in your environment and have it think it was on the internet, but actually not interact with anything real - and I don't need to change every account and password baked into the code and config so I don't do any damage to real data.
Secondly, just like the backups and drills that most companies don't bother to do, they won't bother to hire a service like this either. You'll probably be able to make a few top-dollar sales to some big shops who already have very good DR procedures, but the little place (or even medium place) probably won't bother.
One way I could imagine this working would be to gain some sort of certification. Say for example, the fiduciary regulations of Elbonia were changed to say that all app providers must have externally verified DR capability, then your business would fit right in and solve that need - and you'd probably get lots of work, and hopefully lots of repeat work too. Short of regulations though, whatever certification you could come up with on your own wouldn't be worth enough to have people want to pay to get it.
...or demand that the H1B gets paid whatever they get paid, but you have to pay the difference to a US employee in tax. Then the government gets money to build walls, towers, pyramids or aeroplanes or whatever to glorify their leaders (and jobs get created for the people who have to build said monuments).
FWIW, around the same time people have realised that sending editable documents out to their clients or whatever is a bad idea. I'd say most "email me a quote" type stuff is now PDF, rather than .doc, .docx or .odt or whatever else. The only .docs I've received are spam or from a colleague asking for me to make some changed before sending it back to them.
I don't think anyone wants to credit Adobe with breaking the MS stranglehold, but PDF has its part to play in all of this.
He's in a building with 10,000 people in it. The internet was down for a couple of hours last June, so 2000 person-days of downtime.
Sealand might be a possible replication destination, but I doubt you'd want to actually host there for a number of reasons:
1) It's dependent on the UK mainland for just about everything (including an internet connection)
2) If it becomes too much of a problem for the UK government (or their puppet master, like the US), then there'll be an industrial accident where a container ship bumps into it, or the navy dives under it and damages it, or just straight-out blows it up and claims it was a natural disaster or some such.
For more solid foundations, right now, I'd say Iceland is the place to host stuff. They might not be the strongest country (militarily), but they're not dependent on the US to such a degree that they won't say 'no' a few times. I'm not sure where you'd be best off putting a warm-standby though...? Maybe Argentina or somewhere might work, I'm not sure - would have to look into it.
Either way, though, for anything other than mainline-consumer-friendly stuff, consider not hosting in the US (unless you're backed by a large multinational corporation).
Think of the shame of it! Buying a brand new 'flagship' phone, only to realise it's got an old processor in it, used in the previous model. You never know for sure it's not even a pre-owned processor, and no one buying a £700 phone wants anything pre-owned about it. That CPU might have been extracted from some chav's phone and used to send instagram pictures of his willy to his chewing-gum consuming girlfriend.
Is it just me, or is this some 'not-news'? Buy a phone that does what you want it to, not one which has an entirely different parts list than the last one. This implies that mobile CPUs are now at something of a plateau, and so in fact, any number of manufacturers could enter the market to make cheap, commodity processors without fear of 'progress' eating too much of their R&D spend.
I have a friend who has one, so when I go over to their house, what's the stupidest thing I can make it do? I'd love to think I could make it order £100 item on Amazon, but I believe they can pin-code protect that capability. So... what's the stupidest, most annoying thing I can get Alexa to do when I walk in?
I'm very jaded about Samsung - nice hardware, terrible, terrible software and a load of bloatware you really don't want. Maybe it's an age thing, but the latest 'flagship' phones don't really excite me any more. The 'edge' screens look nice, but I'm not sure they actually add all that much to the experience.
For now, I'm using a Wiley Fox - it's great, it does what you want and you can uninstall all the bits you don't want. It's also £180 (compared to something like £700 for the newest generation phones from anyone else).
Well... we might be half-circle here ;-)
This is sort of like Java applets, but instead of an "anyone can just fire one up on their webpage", there's a curated list of them. To be accepted onto the list they must behave vaguely correctly, and in return are allowed access to things your browser can't reach. In that regard, they're in-browser functionality, but they're running in a super-browser that has access to hardware and data that normal browsers don't.
For what it's worth, this looks like it might just be a good implementation of the 'applet' concept. Java applets failed because they were big, slow, not terribly reliable, and didn't give an integrated experience with the rest of the web. These aren't part of the 'web' in the obvious sense, by todays standards they're not terribly big (and can be cached aggressively). They ought to be able to offer a 'rich' experience, be somewhat familiar, but don't require the user to make (much) commitment to use them. There's a chance this might actually work... Or maybe it won't and we'll be back to 'thick' apps and web pages like we are now.
...such a law would make it illegal for US companies to operate servers in the EU in a lot of cases, because there are protections for EU data. There are some 'safe harbour' exceptions for certain types of data in certain circumstances, but that won't cover everything, and (I suspect) doesntt cover email.
Moreover, many EU based companies would think very long and hard if they wanted to use a US cloud provider for anything at all, especially if the law allows for the US to grab 'chunks' of data (eg. a server at a time) rather than a person at a time. The prospect of having your companies data taken due to happening to sit on the same server as someone else doesn't go down too well in compliance meetings.
Right - so back to my original question... what *did* he do?
You're right - I'm a devops, so I know a lot about sysadmin, and a bit about dev. I know he *could* do all those things, but I was looking to find out what he did do, and how he covered his tracks (if at all). I doubt most of the site owners would be checking /var/log/audit logs or /var/log/nginx/access.log or whatever, but if they had been, would they have been able to see something going on?
It my impression that most criminals aren't nearly clever enough. He *could* have written scripts to snaffle the data and delete the logs that showed it happening, but I guess I'm wondering if he did all of that and if in fact, there's a clear trail of evidence on the systems he delivered.
I predominantly agree with you, but we shall see Snowden used as a pawn in the endless chess game between America and Russia. America can pretend he's of interest and ask Russia to stop him leaking more stuff, or stop him making public statements or whatever they like. Russia can pretend to play along, and thus curry some favour. America can stop this "curry supply" at any time by simply pardoning Snowden, and so Russia likes to 'ham him up' a bit here and there to show they've got some power over America.
And thus, we can expect Trump to go blithering in to negotiations and push the Snowden pawn back and forth, just as Russia will move the gas supply piece back and forth, etc etc.
...'tis one of the many reasons the likes of the Bank of England have been developing their own 'e' currency. They'll run the show, so you won't get to do anything unusual, but you'll still get the benefit of 'e' money transfers/payments etc. It seems like an attempt to 'get with it', but really its a way to make you think you're getting something new and good, whilst still maintaining the status-quo.
cucumbanks jokes in 3...2...1... ;-)
Anyone know how he got the information out of the sites he'd created? How did he 'install some scripts'? And even then, how did he get the data out?
I realise that if you're hiring someone like this you might not be so-inclined to watch logs and whatnot, but there must be some sort of trail left by his accesses.
In London we have the "Docklands Light Railway", which is entirely autonomous. Every once in a while someone gets on, opens up a control panel of some sort and start operating the train in some way. I've always wondered why - if they're there for safety or security then that's fine, but why do they need to 'help' a train that runs without their help without any problem...?
As for this... I'm left wondering why it's not on rails, given they've had to close a load of roads to make it work.
I just took a look at their 'about' page - I'm still none the wiser what they (were) up to. Advertising and outreach definitely wasn't big on their list of priorities it seems. They probably have more 'mind share' today, because they're closing down than they've ever had before.
Ahh... the old school is "just pull yourself together" psychiatry, eh?
This isn't about having to look at sick stuff - it's about not being given sufficient mental/emotional support for doing so. Being told to take a smoke break works about as well as telling soldiers just to look away when their pals get limbs blown off. All MS had to/has to do is provide sufficiently qualified and useful counseling/psychiatry to the people they hire to look at this stuff (ie. have the facility and give them paid time to use it) and only let them return to work when they're ready to do so.
For espionage to take place you have to use the information you get from listening into a skype call inappropriately (ie. telling someone who can use the information themselves, or otherwise using it yourself). For example, you overhear Verizon and Yahoo setting a price for the takeover deal. You talk to your pal at Google and give them the price, after which Google makes a counter offer for Yahoo. If you hear them setting the price and do nothing with the information, then nothing happens at all (and there are usually procedures where you disclose what you've heard to your legal people to vindicate yourself of any possible issues in the future). The worst you could be done for is evesdropping/privacy invasion or similar. However, given the ToS, you couldn't even be done for that because you're doing it in the course of your duties as defined by your employer (none of which would be true if you somehow did it yourself from your basement).
MS isn't doing anything unique here - they have people and algorithms looking for CP and other illegal material. Anything that looks suspicious gets reviewed by a human and acted upon. All the major providers are doing the same thing in some form or other. If you don't want your stuff spied on, encrypt it, or use a different means to communicate.
Foxit collects a whole different range of 'anonymous' data and sends that to entirely different organisations. In that sense, it fulfills the same role, but is entirely incompatible.
Comments about your geek card aside... ;-)
Sonos is a brand of network attached music players. Most of their products are essentially 'wifi speakers', which not only connect to your local wifi (or wired lan), but also communicate with each other when necessary to create stereo pairs or groups which all play the same thing exactly in-sync. They claim to be able to play just about all the audio on the planet, although Amazon Music seems to be a constant problem, as does SoundCloud. That said though, they really do play an awful lot of stuff extremely well.
There are some (reasonable) criticisms of the product line though. They're considered to be expensive (and more expensive than most competing products), and whilst their audio quality is generally considered to be pretty good, it could be better. Products like the 'Amp' (which has no speakers, it needs some wired speakers to be added) is only 50W, whereas pretty much any amp you could even consider being decent quality is more like 200W upwards. Also, the Amp costs more than two "Sonos 1" devices (which are, more or less, single speakers + network attachment), so it's expensive, and not as good as it really should be, given Sonos pitches itself as being somewhat 'premium'.
Technically, Sonos is pretty interesting. To work around people's crappy home wifi, Sonos has it's own mesh network which means that a Sonos device can be out of reliable range of your Wifi, but still play music just fine. The magic sauce that makes it all work is proprietary, and so you can't hack together a Sonos-compatible device on a Raspberry Pi or something. There are some 'hacks' you can do though, like turning off all wireless in devices you've wired to the lan. It's not really documented or talked about, but if you fill a rack with a load of sonos it'll probably crash your wifi (even if wired) until you turn off wifi on the devices. Devices have dual ethernet ports in a sort of hub arrangement, so you can daisychain them together if you need to.
As for John MacFarlane - honestly, I have no idea who he is. From the summary, I'd guess he's a somewhat visionary tech-savvy business guy who started a company from very little and made it into a multinational that at lot of people have heard of (granted, that doesn't appear to be you). I'm guessing his moving on suggests that Sonos's business will change in the coming months, and as is so often the case, that may not be a good thing for those of us with an existing investment.
Yep - OLED = early Plasmas
Back in the day of CRTs, plasmas looked amazing. Every pub got one because they were big, light enough that you didn't need to have reinforcement put into the walls to mount one up high and some of the were ready for the hood.
A few years later, those same plasmas started to look pretty shabby. They had screen burn, they'd cost a lot to run because they were ran very hot and in some cases needed to be regassed.
2017 might be the year of OLED, but that just means 2018-19 will be the year of QLED or whatever refines OLED. We just bought a new TV a year or so ago, so I guess we'll be waiting for OLED/QLED to be commodity before we buy another TV.