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  1. Too Expensive on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a 44% price increase (from the $35 grandfathered price) for a bunch of crap we wont watch... on top of already subsidizing sports channels that we don't want. Guess it's time to "cut-the-cord" again.

  2. Competing with Themselves? on Disney To Close 'Vault' For Good As It Moves Film Library To Streaming Service (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Disney owns 60% of Hulu after acquiring Fox - sans Fox News.

  3. Civ 5 was better than Civ 6? And Civ 5 was a raging dumpster fire.

  4. Seems like it should be pretty exciting to travel on a horse at 120mph.

  5. Re:Let's maybe talk about what belongs on /. of it on Microsoft's Moving Xbox Ad Was the Best Thing About the Super Bowl (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a really good controller hub device, it doesn't solve the outrageous cost of large clickable buttons or mouth-sticks, but it's definitely well thought out with more expansion than you'll probably need.
    See:
    In the lab with Xbox's new Adaptive Controller, and
    Xbox Adaptive Controller is now out -- and we go hand, foot, fingers, and elbows-on

  6. US Population :: 325.7 million (2017).
    The rest of your premise is likely about as accurate.

  7. Re:Americans Got 26.3 Billion Robocalls Last Year on Americans Got 26.3 Billion Robocalls Last Year, Up 46 Percent From 2017 (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I finally enabled NoMoRobo's alternate ring service today after "Affordable Health Care" called three times within an hour, from a different number each time - which makes limited (up to ~50# number) blacklists useless.

  8. Re:Everybody On Windows Uses MPC-HC Anyways on Windows Media Player Set To Lose a Feature on Windows 7 (onmsft.com) · · Score: 2

    MPC Black Edition is still active. I don't recall when MPC-BE was originally forked, but had to be at least 5 or 6 years ago.

  9. Re:print screen button? on Firefox To Remove UI Dark Pattern From Screenshot Tool After Months of Complaints (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Firefox Screenshot Tool can capture the whole page -- including sections of the page that can't dimensionally fit on screen.

  10. $349 is Mid-Range?? on NVIDIA Launches $349 GeForce RTX 2060, Will Support Other Adaptive Sync Monitors (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Since when do mid-range graphics cards cost more than a gaming console? Every mid-range graphics card I've bought has been $99 to $199. Low end cards $50+ and high-end graphics cards between $250 and $400.

  11. Re: Changing the word won't make it so. on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thomas-crapper/

    ...
    Thomas Crapper took out nine plumbing patents between 1881 and 1896, but none of these patents was for the “valveless water-waste preventer” he is often credited with having invented. The first patent for a siphonic flush was taken out by Joseph Adamson in 1853, eight years before Crapper started his plumbing business. Many types of siphonic systems were patented in the 1880s, but none by a Crapper until George Crapper, Thomas’ nephew, was awarded an 1897 patent for “improvements in or relating to automatic syphon flushing tanks.” Crapper may have sold or installed water closets, but he didn’t have much to do with their development.

    Alexander Cummings is generally credited with inventing (or, at least, patenting) the first flush mechanism in 1775 (more than 50 years before Crapper was born), and plumbers Joseph Bramah and Thomas Twyford further developed the technology with improvements such as the float-and-valve system. Thomas Crapper, said an article in Plumbing and Mechanical Magazine, “should best be remembered as a merchant of plumbing products, a terrific salesman and advertising genius.”

    A related legend has it that U.S. soldiers stationed in England during World War I (some of whom had little or no experience with indoor plumbing) saw toilets marked with the name ‘CRAPPER’ and brought the word home as a synonym for ‘toilet’ or ‘bathroom.’ Although the word ‘crap’ (used in a scatological sense) antedates Thomas Crapper and is therefore not derived from his name, the origins of ‘crapper’ as a synonym for ‘toilet’ are unknown, other than that it is a particularly American term whose earliest print citings come from the 1930s.

  12. Re: Well, for an expansive definition of "bug" on OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' (java.net) · · Score: 1

    It is belligerence, the "red site" (soylent) fixed all the outstanding Slashcode bugs, along with quality-of-life improvements, with a single developer over the course of 6-8 weeks.

  13. Weird stuff, didn't realize that NXIVM was the same thing that Nicki Clyne (from BSG) got involved with.

  14. Re:Too expensive on Google To Open Project Fi To iPhone, Samsung, and OnePlus (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Data usage charges caps out after 10GB ($100) for the two of us, with a base fee of $20 + $15 monthly. With no bogus mobile extra fees.

    Although the data charging cap might be higher with more users.

  15. Re:Sometimes the annotations are awesome. on YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Kinda reminds me of GWAR with better music and more WooooHooo's instead of Aaaaaarrrghhhhh's.

  16. Re: Sometimes the annotations are awesome. on YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    This shit is so bad it could win a grammy - This dick is so sick it could start a family now - This calls for a celebration - With a little in vitro fertilization

  17. Re:Sometimes the annotations are awesome. on YouTube Will Remove All Pop-up Annotations on January 15 (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    A few comments:

    Breanna
    I have no idea why I like this band so much.

    Imster
    this is the kind of music that I should really hate but I really love it and I don't know why is Jimmy brainwashing us it's so addictive

    F*ck everybody else

  18. And G+.

  19. Re:Yep, still bitter... on People Sensitive To Caffeine's Bitter Taste Drink More Coffee, Study Finds (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If your coffee grinder costs less than a few thousand, you are just a coffee-snob-wannabe.

  20. Eddie Lampert is a hedge fund manager. Over the last 10 years he sold Sears prime real estate (well below market value) to other companies he owns, and continued gutting the company, he even got employee pensions (in Canada), but was prevented from getting the pensions in the US.

    They typically take on massive debt that the company in question needs to pay interest payments on. Eventually the debt outpaces revenue and chapter 11 comes calling.

  21. Yep, they were all acquired by Hedge Fund managers; gutted, and in some cases (Sears) the Hedge Funds even took employee pensions (due to deregulation in the 80's and 90's). The shells of the companies get auctioned off and everyone loses their job - well except the hedge fund: time to move on to the next company and extract money from it.

  22. Re:And like that, nobody cared. on Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+, Launch Late 2019 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll see, Disney will own a 60% share of Hulu after it's acquisition of Fox is finalized. And while Hulu is half-decent, most of it's content is just some of what airs on NBC, ABC and Fox, plus some classic shows - many incomplete, c.f. only season one of Newhart.

  23. Re:I don't get it... on Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    People fleeing the Republic helped bring about the downfall of Rome:
    Ancient Rome in 20 minutes

  24. Re:Carbon negativity explained (I'm on the team) on A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the intelligent discourse.

  25. Huawei's Mate 20 Pro vs Pixel 3: Micro-SD, 50% more Ram (6GB), ~50% larger battery; 40W wired charging.
    General Cons: Still missing aux-jack, limited 2G|CDMA radio, $1000+ for a phone.