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  1. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Netlifx has lost so much content over the last couple years, that I don't notice much overlap these days. At least some of it has gone to Hulu or Amazon, but most of the movies have been put behind another paywall.

  2. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Press the [*] asterisk on the remote, you get a filter context menu.

  3. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Roku promotes the "included with Prime" video content, and provides an option to filter out non-free content. As an added plus, "Roku Search" finds media across all the various streaming services.

  4. I suppose it would depend on whether you knew it was stolen, you might be liable on something akin to aiding and abetting theft.

    It would seem Set TV is clearly breaking the law, akin to the various KODI-box clones (Dragon?) that have gotten shut down, but I don't see how their users in question would be liable for piracy.

  5. Re: End to end isn't the Google way on Google Accused of Showing 'Total Contempt' for Android Users' Privacy (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    And will no longer be updated. So what's your point?

  6. It's not really "piracy" when you are paying a company for their hardware and subscription service.

  7. Re:the one child policy has lead to a lot of men t on Chinese Tech Companies Post Men-Only Job Listings, Report Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    China's One Child Policy, is now a Two Child Policy

    The one-child policy, a part of the family planning policy, was a population planning policy of China. It was introduced in 1979 and began to be formally phased out near the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016. ... According to the Chinese government, 400 million births were prevented.

  8. Re:They just want to decrease sexual harassment on Chinese Tech Companies Post Men-Only Job Listings, Report Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    China is brilliant in many ways, they're also backwater hicksville in many others.

  9. Re:Alternate headline on Chinese Tech Companies Post Men-Only Job Listings, Report Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And then you married a dominatrix?

  10. Re:The paradox of tolerating intolerance on Chinese Tech Companies Post Men-Only Job Listings, Report Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure they'll be breaking through the Great Firewall of China any day now.

  11. Re:PHACKING on Ask Slashdot: Do We Need a New Word For Hacking? · · Score: 1

    Frakken Phrackers.

  12. Re:End to end isn't the Google way on Google Accused of Showing 'Total Contempt' for Android Users' Privacy (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Allo is discontinued.

  13. Re:I'm an American on Facebook To Put 1.5 Billion Users Out of Reach of New EU Privacy Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Facebook (US) is incorporated in Delaware - the office of which might be big enough for one person to sit in a closet to answer a phone.

  14. Re:Clearly I'm not the target audience. on Apple Is Planning To Launch a News Subscription Service (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You could of at least read the title, "Apple is planning to Launch a News Subscription Service."
    Apple bought a magazine subscription App to base the technology on; they even kept some of the app's staff.

    We should probably all be astounded that it wasn't just rolled into iTunes.

  15. Re:On the other side of the coin: on Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    NewsCorpse doesn't have any content any more, beyond Fox News. They sold out to Disney.
    See: Walt Disney buys Murdoch's Fox for $52bn

  16. EBL chargers and batteries are all pretty good at a decent price. Went with a different brand for the high (and low) drain 18650/26650's and 14500's.

  17. We rarely ever buy regular batteries for anything. Maybe once in the last 10 years, a bundle of Kirkland AA's for a camping excursion where I gave out a bunch of cheap $3 mini-lanterns to all of the our friends and family.

    Otherwise, we've switched all of our Flashlights over to rechargeable 14500, 18650, and 26650 cells. A few other LED lights around the house use rechargeable double or triple A's.

  18. Re:Not telling the entire story ... on Netflix CEO: Why Even $8 Billion Investment in Content Isn't Enough (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix's number of movies has gone down by thousands of titles since 2010 — but its TV catalog size has soared

    In 2010, Netflix had 530 TV shows and 6,755 movies, according to Flixable. Today, the number of TV shows has nearly tripled, to 1,569, and the number of movies offered has decreased to 4,010.

    Additionally and anecdotally, Netflix has lost almost all the Martial Arts movies I've previously watched, or had planned to watch.

  19. If it's a Netflix Original, chances are Netflix will rate it 93 to 98% recommended, whereas something that should be 100% recommended to me (based on my viewing habits), like Badlands, doesn't even show up in the interface, I have to chance upon it in YouTube TV, then look it up on the Roku, and see that Season 1 is on Netflix, and it's only 60% recommended.

  20. Re:Motorola is not guilty on Some Android Device Makers Are Lying About Security Patch Updates (phonedog.com) · · Score: 1

    Strange, my X4 before it broke in February was regularly updated every month -- though it was purchased through Project Fi.

  21. I upgraded and gave up Session Manager. "Tab Session Manager" is ok, but screws up more often than Session Manager did.

    It has always astounded me that FF never bothered to have a session manager built-in, nor how FF has delegated everything dealing with Tab management to an extension. Opera had those basics up thru version 12 for as long as I can remember - a decade.

  22. Re:Good for them on Linux Computer Maker System76 To Move Manufacturing To the US (opensource.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought System76 were just like Sager - a reseller of Clevo systems :
    LPC Digital, reseller
    xoticPC, reseller

  23. Re:Much as I hate to say it on Backpage Founders Charged With Money Laundering, Aiding Prostitution (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The tax-free, money laundering evangelicals? Money Talks.

  24. Re:Microsoft wasn't far off the mark on Ask Slashdot: Should CPU, GPU Name-Numbering Indicate Real World Performance? · · Score: 1

    Windows Experience Index was effing stupid. If you had a harddrive your score was 6.

  25. Tourists don't need Visa's on US To Seek Social Media Details From All Visa Applicants (bloomberg.com) · · Score: -1

    You don't need a Visa for vacation, you need a passport from your country of residence. Visa's are required for school or working in the US.