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Customers happy with T-Mobile's more consumer-friendly disruption of late may not be thrilled by recent comments by the CEO of T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom. Speaking to Recode at the DLD conference in Munich, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges stated he was disappointed that regulators didn't approve Sprint's merger with T-Mobile, and expressed concern that the recent spectrum auction just widened the gap between Verizon, AT&T and everyone else in the States.

Though Hoettges then proceeds to state that he doesn't see a standalone T-Mobile as a sustainable enterprise, despite T-Mobile's significant uptick in new subscribers:

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Longer term, Hoettges admitted that T-Mobile s current approach is not sustainable, especially given the need to invest between $4 billion and $5 billion each year just to keep up. "The question is always the economics in the long term and earning appropriate money," Hoettges said. "You have to earn your money back at one point in time."

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The CEO goes on to praise T-Mobile CEO John Legere, while claiming his brash management style (or at least his Twitter presence and enjoyment of swear words) would never work in Europe:

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His management style will never be adaptable to Germany," Hoettges said, although he added that Legere s competitive nature and desire to win are very much in line with the company s culture. "I like people being disruptive I like people who are brave. He is very much fitting to our DNA, how we want to be, even if he is very American in his approach."

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Deutsche Telekom has long made it clear that they'd like to leave the U.S. wireless market, and that doesn't appear to have been changed. The problem is that U.S. regulators aren't eager to eliminate one of the four major wireless carriers, and other than Dish T-Mobile's prospects for a suitor remain dim.
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"make-or-break" again...

 

h/t @FedPorn

 

But perhaps even better...

Remember that dream you had where you were sitting in a mud slide? Yeaaah, that’s why we change before we go out in public.

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If you want to explore the Black Mesa Research Facility from a new perspective, check out Halfmapper, a renderer that lets users explore the maps of Valve's Half-Life and Counter-Strike. It also makes some pretty cool isometric shots, making Half-Life look more like a turn-based strategy game than a first-person shooter.

Halfmapper, the work of Gonzalo Ávila Alterach, is a free download for Windows PC. It enables noclip mode and won't render models, decals and other objects, allowing players to get gorgeous, distant views of Black Mesa, classic Counter-Strike maps and more.

All that's really required is an installation of Half-Life and the free to download Windows binary.

Here's what a few Counter-Strike maps — Dust, Office and...

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What’s the first thing any article about web safety or well-meaning but overbearing authority figure tells you? It’s usually that you shouldn’t use “123456” or “password” as your password. That said, the most popular passwords are still “123456” and “password.” Yes, people are still really, really stupid and unimaginative.

Guess what the third most popular password is: “12345,” followed by “12345678” and “qwerty.” The rest of the list is rounded out by more sequential combinations of numbers and the names of people’s favorites superheroes, sports, and animals. Exceptions to that rule are “letmein,” “michael,” “trustno1,” and “shadow.” The questions is: do people named “Michael” just have awful security, or a large number of people weirdly obsessed with people named Michael?

Rather than using “password” on 87 different accounts, I recommend using a password manager like LastPass to randomize each password and then remember the combinations for you.

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Following another frustrating year in the previous metals markets, 2015 is showing signs that change is afoot. As Santiago Capital's Brent Johnson notes in this brief presentation, while being 'wrong' for the last 2 years on gold has been painful, is it any less crazy to believe that it will turnaround that to believe the hype that The Fed will raise rates once again (just like it promised in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and now 2015...) - who is really losing their credibility? With the world's fiat currencies waging war and dislocations mounting, gold is no longer the 'David' underdog fighting against the 'Goliath' central banks... but is - as Alan Greenspan opined - "the premier currency. No fiat currency, including the dollar, can match it."

 

 

"The currency wars are here... and they are a race to the bottom where no fiat currency wins."

 

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Remember when the Atlanta Falcons announced they'd be building a new stadium—using a boatload of public money—that would be crowned with a retractable roof? The architects of the $1.2 billion project recently passed along a new fly-through of the design. And while it's our best look yet at the structure, it also brings up plenty of questions.

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The latest game from Silent Hill: Shattered Memories designer and writer Sam Barlow is a little different. It's not survival horror, it doesn't have motion controls and ... it's entirely full-motion video. Entitled Her Story, the game revolves around...

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