Exactly what I was thinking.

I had PRISM for a few years, and yeah it came thru the fiber optic cable. I eventually cancelled and went to all streaming (Netflix, Prime, Hulu and Disney). They started trying to get me to switch to DirectTV also, which I had no interest in.

I used to have CenturyLink PRISM, which was roughly on par ( at least at the time) with other major cable offerings. When I first switched to CenturyLink for internet, that was their default TV option. Later they started pushing DirectTV, which I had no interest in, and I cancelled my PRISM, and went to all-streaming…

Oh stop the bullshit. In 2016, Hillary Clinton *conceded* the day after the networks called it. Democrats filed zero lawsuits contesting the election, and took zero cases to the supreme Court to attempt to throw out the results. There was never a left-wing mob storming the capital to try to stop the certification of…

In addition to things others raised - massive recalls in the case of a defect - I think the longer-term problem would be that a shared, standardized platform could constrain innovation. With multiple different engines from different manufacturers, each company has some incentive to wring more power, less weight, or…

Same here. And had to opt out for each line individually.

That’s actually not horrible  looking, at least in the photo from the front here. I’ve never really been interested in getting smartwatch, I don’t even wear my analog watches anymore. But at this price point, it’s basically an impulse buy. Maybe I’ll wait for some reviews....

When when I was living in Asia, until 2012, this is a big reason I was using BitTorrent to download shows - I only did that for shows that just weren't available legally where I lived. Mostly that was before 2008 or 2009, when even Netflix was virtually impossible to get. These stupid content deals just lead to more…

Exactly. Some general form factors and use cases are just great fits for what people want, and attempts to radically transform them, or do away with them, seem doomed to fail, at least for decades at a time. Televisions - the idea of a 2D screen that people can sit and watch - have survived in that basic format for…

I just want to give some kudos to whichever ad agency put that video together. It’s been a long time since I laughed out loud at (or rather, with) an advertisement the way I did while watching this video. I almost accidentally blew pasta sauce out my nose when he says (of the woman in the hot springs), “Isn’t she…

SpinLaunch is, obviously, planning to use a solid rocket motor to actually get the satellite into orbit. Whether or not they’ll be able to develop solid rocket motors that can survive the g-forces long enough to exit the machine, is an open question. The rocket itself doesn’t have to be particularly powerful, and the…

I just set up my Pixel 6 Pro this afternoon, and can’t reproduce the flickering, and also no green tint. Whew!

This seems so on the nose, this emulation of the Soviet Union’s premier purveyor of falsehoods and propaganda, Pravda (which is “truth” in Russian). Pravda was anything but, and the same will be true for this impending disaster.

That’s the thing about good software security - you can’t fake it. Or rather, if you do, you’ll be caught with your pants down in short order. And there are damn few Trumpist coders and I.T. security pros of high caliber.

I think a lot of what you said is a hard truth that the most liberal wing of the Democratic party needs to come to grips with. I’m more liberal than centrist Democrats, but I also understand that none of the things I want to happen will even happen incrementally unless we can win elections. And the way to win…

Well, they have the next best thing to another universe - their close-knit community of like-minded knuckle-draggers who aren’t going to judge them because they agree with the racist’s sentiments. Not a universe most of us would ever want to visit.

For all of the “whatever happened behind the scenes was so bad that Jones” would rather pay out than have it made public, I think an equally strong case can be made that he’s just an idiot whose incompetence led to this result. Never rule out sheer stupidity when these far-right conspiracy kooks are involved.

Agreed. And this is another fine example of idiots doing their part to improve the overall quality of the species lol

That legal case refers to the government’s ability to restrict the right of people to travel. Airlines are not the government - while they operate as a public conveyance, they are free to make rules which passengers must adhere to (and which federal regulations require actually), and airlines have long been legally…

“vestigial third row” 😂😂😅