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Notwithstanding whatever you think about the report's credibility, the George Soros Foundation took it seriously, it seems. https://gizmodo.com/george-sor...

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The "2 years" Google is now giving is what has been already established. Everyone is expected to spend $700 to $1100 every 2 years on a new cell phone.

There is NO REASON for Google to be abusive. A mid-level Google manager told me years ago that Google is making more money than it knows how to spend.

Google has moved from "Do no evil" to "Let's be destructive to others if that will make money". One article: Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct (May 18, 2018)

Another article: Google erases 'Don't be evil' from code of conduct after 18 years (May 21, 2018)

Is still not that bad for a 34 mile bridge considering here in the states a single bridge that spans a river can cost close to a billion.

It has been dubbed the "bridge of death" by some local media. At least nine workers on the Hong Kong side have died and officials told BBC News Chinese that nine had died on the mainland side, too.

That is better though than the Hoover Dam of Death (>100), or our own Brooklyn Bridge of Death (24), or the worst construction project in U.S. history the the Hawksnest Tunnel (476-1000). But worker safety standards are higher now, even in China.

I'm sorry but there is quite a bit of evidence that plastics are harmful. Even looking only at BPA free plastics that everyone insists on thinking they are making a health conscious decision... there is mounting evidence that they are just as harmful. one example bpa-free-plastics-are-just-as-harmful

Because to make such a comment you need to supply your name and number. People have tried to get a hold of supporters of the FCC's plan to do away with network neutrality and the people they called has no idea about any such comment made in their them. This would be evidence of rampant identity theft and FRAUD.

The dumb crooks were even ballsey enough to impersonate senators

They're rightfully pissed.

And this isn't some niche thing, it's rampant and widespread.

If you're here on Slashdot, there's no way you woudln't know this. So you must either be a shill or a "true believer" in your party's politics. Seek help.

The lines to sue could soon become quite long ...

http://www.patentlyapple.com/p...
https://gizmodo.com/apple-pate...

There are more even further back.

Erm. As it happens he did indeed explore the possibility of deforestation leading the Earth into a spiralling cold cycle resulting in more Martian conditions:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/heres-...

Of course, at the same time he contemplated the opposite happening. Venus anybody?

But, isn't it also true that the vast, vast majority of the polluters is energy, manufacturing, and transportation?

Actually, from what I read, one of the the largest single source of carbon pollution is cow farts,.

another link

another link

And yet another link

Some say they are worse polluters than cars.

There is quite a lot of astronomy photography of Jupiter and its moons. I's difficult to get good, high precision images. Europe _spins_, with a period of roughly 3.55 Earth days. It's also quite distant, and near a much larger object that also reflects light, namely Jupiter. It could be very interesting to focus the Hubble Space Telescope on it to look for such structures. But how visible would they be from Earth orbit, even with the best optics?

This is what Europa looks like in HST. That is, the top two images. The 3 images in the next row are Galileo images of Europa overlaid on a background captured by HST. You have to realize that all those awesome images of outer solar system bodies that we are all accustomed to, do not come from HST, they come from space probes, HST is several orders of magnitude worse.

You are obsessed. Your jowls are shaking, spittle is dripping off your chin. Righteous indignation of a diehard Apple apologist.

Waving the white flag, eh? You literally cannot come up with anything except for ad hominems that project your own feelings onto others?

And Apple watch is a piece of junk that nobody should waste their hard earned money on.

Which is why millions are sold every quarter, and they're the market leader.

If you need a smartwatch then buy Samsung, Fitbit, Xiaomi or Huawei, companies that actually care about making a good looking, usable product.

Which is why far fewer of each are sold every quarter. Participation trophies for all!

Oh, and Apple products tend to explode.

First sentence "Samsung might not be the only smartphone maker with exploding handsets in its portfolio." Whoops.

That never happens to others.

Looking forward to your reply, because you're not obsessed at all...

Did you miss the entire LA Unified ipad fiasco? Start here circa 2013 http://articles.latimes.com/20... then finish here with the followup two years later https://gizmodo.com/the-la-sch... .

Apparently that already happened https://gizmodo.com/5676641/al...

"significant women physicists" yielded:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
- https://gizmodo.com/these-17-w...
- ... for 6.8 Million results

Prof Strumia should have been strummed out for not doing any basic research before stating his conclusion.

You one won,

No, I one (sic) two. Hillary lost and Trump's a racist. I also predicted that Cody Wilson, the guy who owns Defense Distributed, and who thought it would be clever to release the plans for a 3D printed gun, was a pedophile, and he's just been arrested for assaulting an underage girl he met online.

So that makes me three for three.

https://gizmodo.com/3d-printed...

https://www.newsweek.com/3d-gu...

So maybe we really can have thiotimoline after all?

"De facto common carrier status"?

You are 22 years behind the times when it comes to Federal law. The Communications Decency Act prevents the government from treating service providers who attempts to police user-provided content as a publishers of said content. The idea was to remove a disincentive for service providers from making good faith efforts to extirpate naughty material, but it also protects providers who make a good faith effort to extirpate what they believe to be bullshit.

You can't read.

Section 230 of the CDA only applies to "any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable".

Square that with this crap:

Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News

That's not "good faith", and the content being supressed isn't "objectionable" unless you're an oversensitive "progressive" snowflake.

For the number of times I need a webcam, I'd rather just clip one on.

Apple will simply hide the camera inside the display, and you can have a telescreen to go with your shiny shiny. And you will never ever know whether you are being recorded.

But surely you aren't claiming that we should all be able to erratically stop for no reason whenever we want on any public road, and reasonably expect that this is not going to result in increased accidents.

Of course not. Something that's accidental is by definition unexpected. Therefore, it's impossible to predict whether stopping erratically will result in more or fewer accidents. It will probably result in more crashes, but that's something completely different.

No doubt -- and what do you do if you set up a very strong passcode, and later forgot what it was? Rot in jail for the rest of your life, because you can't convince the police that you genuinely forgot it and aren't just trying to stonewall them?

Yes. Amazingly enough the courts have gone along with this.

Lovable strawman there. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Google, Facebook, and even Amazon actively demote conservative voices.

Just a FEW links. These are just the average pages. Leaks help to break through the "black box" of what is going on behind the scenes in a search engine. Mainly through leaks, one will find what the internal motives are within a company.

Podcasts from the guy with the number 4 news app removed
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-08-06/apple-removes-most-of-us-conspiracy-theorists-podcasts-from-itunes

Hard to keep an explanation up when you have been de-platformed, and they won't tell you why.
https://www.infowars.com/alexa-caught-fixing-infowars-ratings/

Twitter demoting results
https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-be-demoting-controversial-accounts-in-searc-1827788070

Vimeo deleting accounts
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2018-08-06/apple-removes-most-of-us-conspiracy-theorists-podcasts-from-itunes

One of many articles on SE demotions
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/08/08/former-google-employee-there-are-efforts-to-demote-anything-non-pc-from-search-results/

Surprised?
According to findings on platforms like Reddit a lot of internet users will not read the article before forming an opinion on the piece. It's likely that they read headlines and subhead. Maybe they will read a summary if they feel like it. But from personal experience of the comment sections on major German newspaper that rarely happens as far as online platforms go. Which leads me to believe that this is a fairly common phenomenon among various cultures.

Of course it's a nice thing to know for online media whose revenue relies on generating clicks for their article. If all they do is to pick a catchy headline and perhaps write summery in a similar fashion, it's already enough to draw a significant amount of attention from their audience. On top of that the same phenomenon as illustrated above probably also applies to a significant portion ofjournalists, leading them to mostly only read press releases instead of working through the full papers.
I'm not sure in which direction the causality goes here as in whether those who publish papers have found out what gets you more likely published, journalists have found out what makes the most money, or both. In anyway the result stays the same.

Down with corporations, up the worker. Get rid of borders, law enforcement and tax authorities so the magic man in the sky can pay wellfare to the entire world. The blue wave is coming, get ready!

-- sent from my iPhone

...you should also remember they were sued, successfully, by the patent troll that claimed to own the protocol...

Which would make them not patent trolls. They defended their patents against the most well-funded legal team in existence, and showed that the protocol used their invention. They most certainly did not claim to own the protocol.

They were/are Patent Trolls. First it was FaceTime, then it was iMessage. I didn't call them Patent Trolls, the entire Tech-Press did:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://www.engadget.com/2017/...

https://gizmodo.com/apple-orde...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/02...

http://fortune.com/2016/02/03/...

https://www.cultofmac.com/4302...

https://www.macrumors.com/2018...

Oh, and this Discussion Thread EXACTLY addresses the original question:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

etc. etc...

VirnetX patented something fairly obvious that they had no intention of ever bringing to market, which, after all, is the entire reason behind the Patent system, and simply lay-in-wait for someone with deep pockets to accidentally trip-into their patent-trap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Significantly helped along by:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I mean, the obvious corruption got so bad that the Supremes had to put a stop to it!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

So, don't paint Apple as the bad guy here.

Oh, wait, this took place on the Obama adminstration's watch?

Not another one. No, this didn't happen during the Obama administration's watch. It happened the first week of May, 2017. Someone else tried to use the "Obama's fault" card yesterday when Ajit Pai first admitted that his agency had not been hacked. How many times does this have to be shot down before you guys give up trying to lie about it?

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Here's the story from last July, so you can track Ajit Pai's weasily and pitiful lie in real time.

https://gizmodo.com/fcc-now-sa...

And here's the Slashdot story from yesterday.

https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

I had always wondered if the foley sounds for Tribbles were doves. Thanks for the confirmation / details! THIS type of article is the ones I remember from /.'s days of yore.

Any other resources for how (modern) SFX are created? I know Indianna Jones' whipcrack is a bit of a trade secret but recently THX sheet music for "Deep Note" sound was shared

There is even an (poor) YouTube interview with its creator.

THX Deep Note with Dr. Andy Moorer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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Mojang (makers of Minecraft) have gone full SJW retard

You will not be able to ride dolphins that is animal cruelty.

"Riding" digital pixels such as pig, horse, dolphin, in a video game is animal cruelty???

*double facepalm*

Police say a couple in their 60s woke up in their Palo Alto, California bedroom around midnight last Saturday to find someone looming above them wearing a mask, or possibly a black T-shirt covering their face. The intruder asked for their wifi password.

According to a city press release, one of the residents sprung to action, shoving the intruder down the hallway and out of the house. The couple then called the police, which found the suspect a block away from the house.

Police arrested the 17-year-old suspect for prowling, residential burglary, and providing false information about his identity. The police department did not reveal his name as he is a minor.

Police think the suspect entered the house from the side yard after cutting open a screen window-covering, but could not initially determine a motive. Officers say they did not find any weapons on the teen, but the resident told police that two kitchen knives had gone missing.

Officers believe this is not the only time the teen trespassed in an apparent search for wifi that evening. Someone else had called 911, reporting that around midnight last Saturday she saw a teenage male in the yard outside her bedroom window, trying to get her attention.

She and a male resident allegedly confronted the intruder, who told them he didn’t have any data left and wanted to use their wifi. They told him to leave. They didn’t call the police until the next day when the male resident noticed his bike was missing from the backyard. Security footage showed the teen had moved the bike to the front yard before going to the window to ask for wifi.

Police later found the bike near where they had arrested the suspect. Officers are recommending the District Attorney add a charge of petty theft.

https://gizmodo.com/teen-burgl...

US laws are based on property rights and as we have seen with recent Supreme Court decisions corporate persons are superior to natural individuals in their eyes.

Cloud based services like music and video game services ensure content control is centrally retained and subscribers have no ownership rights. Pay the subscription fee or lose access. If the Cloud provider goes out of business all assets are lost.

The repeal of Net Neutrality means corporations can censor or discriminate communications at their whim. Freedom of Speech need not apply.

Now with autonomous vehicles the freedom of movement is under assault. Autonomous vehicle companies are lobbying together to ban private cars in cities..

In a corporatocracy individuals don't have inalienable rights, only terms of service where any grievances are handled in forced arbitration.

Comcast has been caught injecting advertisements into HTML documents that Comcast customers view over cleartext HTTP. If BBC doesn't want Comcast performing cross-site scripting on BBC's site, BBC needs to use HTTPS.

you want a useful study ? https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-sup... SO useful they hid it , SO useful a MEP had to invoke their own laws on data disclosure and free information against them (yea ofcourse pirate party, who else would go against lobbyright these days?) thats how useful it was and it will very likely confirm mafiaa and breinbaf worst nightmares : the only ones losing money are the ones sponsoring the copyright trolls because it barely makes a dent compared to all the lawyer and troll money thrown at it, its not about sounds business, its about competitive psychopaths and their need to "win" even if its against all reason back when the world was young i had the silly idea if you do business you scrap that what costs you more than that what gets you, otherwise you're closer to an NGO (but i always had weird ideas) on top of that : https://torrentfreak.com/japan... https://www.japantimes.co.jp/n... while https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu... https://torrentfreak.com/inter... most people here think anime is cartoons is pokemon shall i rest my case, because its pointless, clearly, like the whole intellectual and expert world advising against internet filtering and then they vote PRO

The moon belongs to America,

Didn't you hear? The Americans gave up the moon after waving the white flag of surrender.

Have you forgotten all the ads and fake media campaigns?

No, who could ever forget the Highly Effective fake media campaigns? Here Are 14 Russian Ads That Ran on Facebook During The 2016 Election

It's time the US put tariffs on Microsoft products manufactured in China and the EU, and it is time to send H-1B workers home and give those jobs back to Americans.

https://www.oregonlive.com/sil...
" Microsoft was moving production to the same place it makes all other Surface products. ... Microsoft has previously said it makes its other Surface computers in China."

And, it's been going on for a long time:
https://gizmodo.com/5517137/mi...
"The conditions—supported by photographic, not just anecdotal evidence—sound downright horrendous:
  Workers are hired as "work study students" as young as 16 years of age
  They work extremely long shifts, typically "from 7:45 a.m. to 10:55 p.m," for $0.65/hr, less food deductions. (Actual wage: $0.52/hr.)
  As is common in large manufacturing operations in China, the workers live onsite:
        Fourteen workers share each primitive dorm room, sleeping on narrow double-level bunk beds. To "shower," workers fetch hot water in a small plastic bucket to take a sponge bath. Workers describe factory food as awful.
  Workers are kept from leaving campus, except during designated hours
  There are reports of sexual harassment of female workers by male security guards"

And, its been going on for years. Learn how NOT to employ Americans here in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They should be able to make this a 3D color X-ray by using two or more exposures at different power settings. There are applications that such a thing would be superior to MRI.

I don't know if this is about the same technology (didn't RTFA), but....

https://gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-full-color-3d-x-rays-are-freaking-me-1827545304

Without a cert, how can your subscribers be certain that their ISP isn't tampering with the connection? Comcast has been caught injecting advertisement display scripts.

I understand Comcast's wrongdoing, but this is a smokescreen from the browser makers altering features purportedly for protection from ISPs and the likes of the NSA.

Governments and non-governments can subvert the CAs and nobody would know better. As
https://www.webopedia.com/TERM... says,

A false digital certificate used to secure Web sites. A rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate allows malicious users to impersonate any Web site on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce sites secured using the HTTPS protocol. A rogue CA certificate would be seen as trusted by Web browsers, and it is harmful because it can appear to be signed by one of the root CAs that browsers trust by default.

My issue is that private browser makers, not the full WWW Consortium (as little as I trust them), are now the defacto owners of policy decisions with impunity. It's good to repeat the words from the submission that "Google is a guest on the web, as we all are. Guests don't make the rules." We all know that 1) Google is a latecomer browser maker, at that! and 2) making the rules and tracking the Android users is precisely why they made the browser in the first place.

This all ends with Google closing off all roads to fit their own advertising agenda. They are extremely powerful as proven with what they have done with/to Firefox (which had the tables turned at one point when they enjoyed a sizeable portion of Google's current browser market share numbers --they thought Firefox would just be OK when they allowed the Goog to take the passenger seat in exchange for a juicy paycheck from search bar revenues)

So I take browser maker decisions with a grain of salt. "First, they came for my mixed content iframes" but I did nothing because Firefox would be fine. But then Firefox and IE, and Opera, and everyone else relented. Granted, these "security" decisions make sense, but removing the option from the GUI, or about:config or the command line is a jerk move designed to TVO-ize our browsers to the point that we end up with railroaded GUIs for products that are little more than pre-approved "assistants" (computer applications are meant to be tools allowing experts to be experts, but everything companies do today facilitates sinking us all along with the rest of the masses that dug the whole in the ground for their own eternal september) and which have unexplained outages with useless error messages. https://slashdot.org/comments....
The worst part of this is, computers are programmable, but our apathy is letting companies turn them into little more than glass panes into a pay-per-view world that we no longer have a say in.

Dave Winer seems to think this is a Google thing. In point of fact, HTTPS Everywhere is sponsored by the EFF and Tor. And Let's Encrypt is run by an umbrella organization whose members include the EFF and Mozilla as well as Google, Cisco, and Akamai.

I don't have much trust for Google, but I do have a lot more trust for the EFF than I do for some random software developer. Even if he's old. I'm sure Winer is well-intentioned (given his history), but he doesn't seem to have done his research very well, in this case.

The EFF's reasons for supporting https are a lot stronger than Winer seems to realize. Google's reasons, I can't address, since I'm not familiar with them, but the EFF's arguments are pretty strong. MITM attacks at the government actor level are not just hypothetical.

From the EFF's page:

Content injection is when someone adds data or code to your communications with an HTTP web page. For example, it's how GCHQ and NSA took over a Belgian ISP's computers. Content injection is also how China took down GitHub with a massive DDoS attack, dubbed "The Great Cannon". Content injection is also becoming popular with ISPs. Verizon injected tracking headers into every request made by their customers. And Comcast injects pop-ups into sites where they don't belong. All of these attacks can be stopped by HTTPS, provided it is implemented and made default on enough sites.

Now, I admit there are still some questions which aren't as frequently discussed as they should be, such as private LANs where https isn't an option. (I have http services running on such a LAN myself.) But that can be dealt with. For IP4, it's fairly easy--whitelist private ranges. For IP6, you'd have to have a way of designating your trusted network. But it can be dealt with. And the public Internet should be encrypted. Anyone who argues otherwise is simply clueless. (Or culpable.)

Without a cert, how can your subscribers be certain that their ISP isn't tampering with the connection? Comcast has been caught injecting advertisement display scripts.

Charging you the same dollar amount as a sales person or website claimed your bill would be was made a crime in 2015, but those laws were revoked last month by the FCC.

Ajit Pai specifically said it was too difficult for wireless providers to charge the same amount they claimed they would charge you, and it is harming businesses.

So now it's legal to charge you a different amount.

But don't worry, I have it on good authority from thousands of anonymous cowards on slashdot that this was Never a problem in the past and will never be a problem in the future.

https://gizmodo.com/everything...
http://www.latimes.com/busines...

Remember the story here just two weeks ago?

The La Liga app, which is the official streaming app for Spain’s most popular football league, has reportedly been using the microphones on fans’ phones to root out unauthorized broadcasts of matches in public venues like bars and restaurants.

Sounds like the same thing.

Where do you think they got the idea from? Facebook is just covering their ass once they realized despite their patents, this wasn't one. Apple has some godawful ones too like using IR pulses to trigger a phone to shutdown / disable its camera.

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/06/28/1954259/apple-patents-a-way-to-keep-people-from-filming-at-concerts-and-movie-theaters

You really have to question our legal system when companies are able to get shit like this patented. Doesn't bold well If it was for defensive reasons either since that would mean Patent Law has more enforcement.

The La Liga app, which is the official streaming app for Spain’s most popular football league, has reportedly been using the microphones on fans’ phones to root out unauthorized broadcasts of matches in public venues like bars and restaurants.

Sounds like the same thing.

Nah, not really.

Liu Cixin is a poor writer with a limited imagination and knowledge regarding technology and ZERO understanding of even human psychology, let alone ability to imagine a properly alien one.
Also, when he DOES imagine something - he fails to connect the dots.

He imagines an alien race which can "unfold" a proton across 8 dimension, in order to create movable-at-speed-of-light proton-sized computer-robots which can block all particle research on Earth at will.
They can also create spaceships with which said race will invade Earth in 400 years.
Because their planet is doomed and they need breeding space.
Oh... and it's doomed because every random number of years the surface of their planet becomes unsustainable for life, so among other things, they've evolved the ability to hibernate for thousands of years.

So...
Not only is it a race with applied string-theory tech (basically magic), quantum-entanglement interstellar communication, spaceships which can reach another star in a reasonable time (and other even faster spaceships) AND biological hibernation... basically ideal explorer-colonist race... with magic tech...
But they can't dig holes. Or build orbital space stations.
Not even after seeing humans doing EXACTLY that.

On top of that... his outlook of life and geopolitics peaked at "doom and gloom world" and "mutually assured destruction".
And less is said about his "my perfect waifu database" ideas the better.

But he does have a lot of PR pushing him as the next Asimov or Clarke, which he is not in any shape or form.
It's almost as if there's something connecting his writing with aggressive marketing or a Chinese government program to promote science fiction.

That's actually a different bill that would uphold net neutrality in California. This one is a bill related to collecting and selling personal information. There's a ballot initiative that would enforce informed consent and prevent telcos from charging higher fees for those that opt-out of data collection. This bill is a watered down, but still significant version of that. This is the most detailed article I could find about it: https://gizmodo.com/california...

The legends simply aren't true.

Watson crashed a lot, repeated incorrect answers, and chose Toronto as a U.S. city during final Jeopardy.

Kasperov beat Deep Blue in 1996 (4-2), and sill has an overall win record against it (4 wins, 5 draws, 3 losses). Fritz beat Deep Blue in 2017, while running on a desktop computer.

They are major players with deep pockets.

As for becoming ISP's, Google has already gone down that road and found out it's not so cheap or easy https://gizmodo.com/what-happe...

"Part of the problem is simply that expanding fiber broadband was always going to be a massive undertaking, and was always going to face some big hurdles. Laying miles and miles of cables takes time and money—and as one Alphabet employee told the Wall Street Journal last year, “Everyone who has done fiber to the home has given up because it costs way too much money and takes way too much time.”

It was expensive when they were trying to make a new profitable business. Now however, they are protecting one of the most profitable businesses the world has ever seen. Now what is expensive before is now cheap.

Something tells me that someday, we will look back on this and say how much the ISPs fucked up by inviting (almost forcing) Alphabet and the other mega-cap tech companies to compete with them. Alphabet has more cash on hand than AT&T's market cap. Its like me picking a fight with a professional boxer.

Net neutrality isnt about Netflix and Alphabet. Bandwidth throttling and companies having to pay for a "premium channel" to their customers doesn't hurt them, they will pay and carry on: this extra fee is an annoyance, but it actually helps protect them from competing startups without deep pockets. Good luck launching your music or video streaming service if the connection to your customers is going to be shit by design.

The thread you are commenting on is called "Netflix and Alphabet will need to become ISPs, fast".
It sounds like you agree this is nonsense. They are major players with deep pockets.

As for becoming ISP's, Google has already gone down that road and found out it's not so cheap or easy
https://gizmodo.com/what-happe...

"Part of the problem is simply that expanding fiber broadband was always going to be a massive undertaking, and was always going to face some big hurdles. Laying miles and miles of cables takes time and money—and as one Alphabet employee told the Wall Street Journal last year, “Everyone who has done fiber to the home has given up because it costs way too much money and takes way too much time.”

It's not as bad as all that, just go on Amazon and search for a review by Benson Leung. A Google engineer who has gone all over buying crappy cables and testing whether they meet the specs and are wired correctly.

And? What facts do you have to show the election was not as stated in my link?

Rooster, you make it too easy.

https://www.rawstory.com/news/...

https://gizmodo.com/5825014/ho...

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/1...

https://www.motherjones.com/me...

There. I've given you the truth. Do what you will.

I don't understand, I thought they had until January of next year to convince the House to vote in favor of it?

Well, yeah, they do actually. When you consider how much content is on Reddit that would be removed from other sites immediately, they actually pretty liberal about what content they host.

In other news, the owners of Gab.ai threatened to get the police involved over threats made against them on their platform. Last year they removed a couple of posts at the request of corporations too. Turns out that expecting unlimited freeze peach is somewhat unrealistic.

if Peter Watt's experience is anything to go by. I'm consistently embarrassed by my country. Hell, We've now had to presidents who support torture for Pete's sake.

SONOS One the winner. Sorry!

And Gizmodo is some sort of Audio-centric site?

Sorry, no. In fact, that "comparison" article is quite laughable.

And the people who think that the HomePod has "no midrange" (which, BTW, is NOT reflected in the Freq. Resp. curves I've seen) are likely used to shitty computer-speakers, where the main drivers would be more properly placed in a full-range system as MIDRANGE drivers, and thus, those other systems have an OVERABUNDANCE of Midrange; so the HomePod sounds "deficient" by comparison.