The irony is that AOL and Yahoo were REALLY close to doing what FB does anyways, no need to buy anything.

They could have saved the world by purchasing YouTube and Facebook...and dragging them down into oblivion along with the rest of AOL.

I’m less indignant than you but, ultimately, yeah you're pretty much right. 

I also like how this 16 year girl, who seems to already know everything about life like every other 16 year old kid, swears off of flying because of its impact. I guarantee that boat she is sailing on has a much larger carbon footprint that a single airplane flight in building materials alone.

Oh for gods sake. This is why people don’t take liberals seriously. Here we have a nice little story and some writer who apparently has nothing better to do decides to find some way to try to turn it right to shit. Yeah the kid is doing the right thing, but it’s not fixing all the worlds problems so apparently it’s…

was this headline procedurally generated

You acknowledge “whataboutism” is worthless and yet here you are, espousing nothing but whataboutisms.

I love how yelling “fake” in the middle of any argument is now a substitute for facts, information, truth, conscience, compassion, empathy, intelligence, understanding...etc.

oh yeah dude. huge oversight on my part not including a lengthy aside disavowing ariana grande in this post. I'll get right on that 

If it’s true that Amazon and Microsoft are the only competitors and Oracle is salty about it enough to allege conspiracy, the only thing I can think of is Oracle is out of the running because it’s a sh*t-tier cloud provider who have horrible user experience, crap reliability, slow response to high volume spikes, and…

Haven’t seen it yet but in 1999 there was a movie called Mystery Men that pretty much fits the description in this article. Sure a TV show with more runtime hours and after 2 decades of superhero movies should have more depth but does it have anything really new to say..?

I used to work with a guy who would latch on to every conspiracy theory he could. We'd go back and forth over each of them and no matter what evidence I'd throw out it was never enough on any topic. This guy was not a particularly sharp individual and after a few years of these discussions it became clear it was…

Nooo, the Space Shuttle was a massive waste of time and money. If we had stuck with conventional rockets we could have advanced so much farther already.  

There is a mounting pile of evidence that Amazon.com is run at a break-even level at best and likely loses money. The profit all comes from Amazon’s Cloud provider business Amazon Web Services. In the IT industry the joke is that Amazon is a cloud company with a Gift Shop.

The point is that it is impossible to beat…

Well.. this is a tech related blog.. and the summit.. and I use the term loosely because it’s just a circle jerk of racists turds who spew hate on a daily basis meeting, is tech related.

DCMA. In order to create a “usable” copy of a purchased DRM file you must bypass the DRM. That is considered illegal in all cases. If you just back up the DRM file, microsoft’s process will automatically erase it from your system the moment you attempt to restore it - leaving you without the work you purchased (it is…

Yes you can however, if you circumvent DRM to do so, you are technically breaking the law. It’s a catch 22. Your legally allowed to make a personal back up, but the process of doing so breaks the law. That’s why those DVD ripper software products were pulled from stores. It allowed you to bypass the DRM on the DVD’s…

I sincerely hope Alex Jones ends up penniless and homeless, dragging himself through the Austin streets at dawn, barking obscenities at the Clockwork Elves who have taken up residence inside his brain...

Eventually, everybody will have an SVOD service and it will cost as much (or more) than cable did to get access to everything. 

The problem we are going to run into is that people are just going to stop using streaming services because $15 a month isn’t going to be worth it to them to watch one show, especially if they need to spend $60 a month on 4 different services to watch 4 shows.