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  1. What to really expect on What To Expect From Sony's Next-Gen PlayStation (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadness, disappointment, features you don't want or need, and still no version of kodi.

  2. to start sending millions of takedown notices to EU government websites for copyright violations.

  3. Once the "final" season is over, I guess I will probably binge the whole thing.

    I think I have the first seven seasons on my NAS someplace.

    I'm also kind of surprised nobody in China can buy the DVD/Blu-Rays, rip them and sell them in a nice open-air market like they do with everything else.

      In other words, article is claptrap.

  4. Chrome can open MHTML files, Firefox used to (with an add-on) but not anymore, and there are free viewers available. All one has to do is to set the association of .MHT files to another program.

    You could also try associating .mht files with say, an antivirus program instead of a defunct browser. Seems like a difficult fix...

  5. Some hints for the terminally stupid on Police Are Using Google's Location Data From 'Hundreds of Millions' of Phones (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    1) If you are going to commit a crime. leave your phone at home. Are there apps that can call other people at pre-scheduled times? Sounds like an alibi to me.

    2) Don't livestream your crime to bookface, or your piles of money, drugs, or weapons.

    3) Give a bum some money, have them buy you a couple non-sequential serial burner phones.

  6. Re:They are moderating like mad on Top US Congressman Says Silicon Valley's Self-Regulating Days 'Probably Should Be' Over (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    all of the major companies have long ago abandoned any pretense to being neutral platforms, and all should be excluded from 230 protections.

    Nancy Pelosi is not interested in making them more neutral. Her goal is to impose more political correctness and censorship.

    Protections for free speech should be strengthened, not removed.

    All Pelosi, Democrats, and Republicans know is that 2020 is an election year, and the troughs are ready for "campaign contributions". Most politicians tend to stay bought until a better offer comes along.

    Threatening the hand(s) that feed you is a time honored tradition for bigger and better lobbying efforts...

  7. what percentage of those sales are to Netflix and RedBox video rentals.

    They have no way of tracking sales of "used" Blu-rays and DVDs, which are both pretty healthy, but the MPAA can';t profit off those sales (yet)

  8. Better to pay wages than pay taxes.

    How about paying your employees enough so they don't have to go on public assistance to survive?

    Pot, kettle, black as the souls of their corporate boards...

  9. can cause constipation, diarrhea, liver and kidney problems, can cause other cancers. Doh't take if you're allergic or have HEP C or a family history of thyroid cancer.

    Price? $10000 a month, you'll have to take these drugs for the rest of your life.

    XXXOOO, your pharmaceutical company. /s

  10. If you care that much, poison the well on Amazon Workers Are Listening To What You Tell Alexa (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Lock a random sentence generator, with multiple voices into a box with your choice of home spy systems.

    Feed your spot, echo, home, siri, cortana GB of gibberish 24x7

  11. Re:You know the next step on Futurist Predicts AI Will Take Jobs, Benefiting the Rich But Not Workers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Strangely enough, it seems like management jobs would be easiest to replace with software.

    At maximum automation, 90% of management function ceases to exist. Management is largely about keeping track of what a bunch of humans are doing. No humans, no need to track what they're doing. The machines self-report accurately and completely, and what little "management" is still required is a very small shell script.

    You would think that, but managers are sometimes considered "a protected class"

    Like when layoffs took about 40% of our organization, to compensate, we got two managers per group, instead of one, so the managers wouldn't have to work so hard... (absolutely true story)

  12. Re:Why would I want Microsoft Chrome? on Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What differentiates this from regular Chrome?

    All the monitoring, tracking and advertising of Chrome, now with the added shiny telemetry of MicroSoft! and probably Bing search.

  13. Didn't read the article but wondering on Chat App Viber Now Lets You Buy Local Numbers That Anyone Can Call You On (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    if a free one-way pager is included in the price? /s

    There have been a lot of "local number" solutions available (a lot of them for free) over the years.

  14. You know the next step on Futurist Predicts AI Will Take Jobs, Benefiting the Rich But Not Workers (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Employees training their AI replacements as a requirement to receive their termination pay. (Hint: you don't have to train them right...)

    Strangely enough, it seems like management jobs would be easiest to replace with software.

  15. The Ministry of Trurth has determined this post is on Singapore Seeks Social Media 'Corrections' In Proposed Fake News Law (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    hazardous to the continued existence of the Ministry of Truth.

    Please delete and apologize.

  16. You have to stop burning coal. You cant just use renewable zero emission energy AND still burn the coal and expect things to change

    Think burning coal is bad?

    Wait until legislation is passed, outlawing all the solar cells and windmills and designating them to be burned in coal plants. /s?

  17. Re:Banning solves all problems on California Law Banning Paper Receipts Clears First Hurdle In State Legislature (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What makes our California overlords think that all the world's problems can be solved by banning something...

    When the only tool you know how to use is a ban-hammer, all your problems look like nails...

  18. Does this spacesuit make my ass look fat? on First All-Female Spacewalk Canceled Because NASA Doesn't Have Two Suits That Fit (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully in an emergency, any old suit torso would be ok.

    Wasn't there someBNASA project to re-design the suits?

    I seem to recall SpaceX was working on it too...

  19. I look forward to the upcoming sales on It Sure Looks Like Google's $599 Celeron Pixel Slate is Dead (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    on woot, meh and maybe untilgone

    Lesson learned, never buy any consumer hardware from google. (except maybe the pixel phones)

    It will only end in more unsupported devices, maybe even deliberately bricked by updates taking up space in landfills.

  20. But there is no good way on Is Social Media Losing Ground To Email Newsletters? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    to track and monetize the newsletters.

    Most email services strip out all the links, images, javascript, like buttons and donate buttons.

    All they can do is cull a list of valid email addresses...

  21. The next biggest threat on Insider Threats Pose the Biggest Security Risk (betanews.com) · · Score: 0

    would be reposts of the same news sometimes on the same day.

  22. Re:Imagine paying for a live stream... on 1,600 Korean Hotel Guests Were Secretly Filmed and Live-Streamed Online (cnn.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...only to find some business suit clad paper pusher with thick glasses sitting at a desk in the room processing legal documents all night.

    Rule 34

  23. Re:No. They got at least another two years. on Is It Time For Apple To Acknowledge Flexgate? (macobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    By then they'll have gotten enough people to pay for the repair or buy new laptops to replace the broken ones.

    This happened to me. My 2017 MacBook had the exact problem described in TFA.

    I sent it in to be repaired in January of this year. There were a few other issues that were fixed at the same time: Sticky keys, and one USB-C port didn't work.

    My repair bill was $800.

    Should have bought the warranty, and if you did, was anything actually covered under it?

  24. Good riddance to asocial media narcissism. Hopefully this will be a wake up call to the last holdouts on MySpace, whoever they happen to be.

    Go out and smell the flowers. That was good advice I don't hear anymore. It is a saying worth resurrecting.

    p.s. buildings are designed too airtight these days, and the air becomes miserably stuffy, open up a window and let in more oxygen from time to time even if it is too hot or cold outside. The breath of fresh air is worth it.

    Captcha: outrage (lol!)

    It's 30F outside and snowing. While there were some flowers, they're under the snow, and the early spring flowers usually don't have much fragrance.

    I won't open the windows and (try to) heat the outside. Apparently we already have enough climate change issues, and I don't want my KWH and natural gas bills any higher, thanks.

  25. There are plenty of ways to slow them down on Why Robo-Calls Can't Be Stopped (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If the cellular carriers actually cared.

    They could use their monitoring tools to track call levels by number, and assign weights to the caller based on call frequency during a time period.

    After weights were assigned to numbers, the carriers could create an "alternate billing rate" for calls originating from those numbers. The actual numbers, not a spoofed caller-id...

    Many people don't actually make many calls, it's all texts and other IM services.

    Someone could create audio captchas for incoming calls to ferret out robocalls.

    Send callers that are not in your contact list directly to voicemail. Don't even ring your phone.

    It would be nice to able to set up your voicemail to wait for 10+ rings in your settings) it could slow them down even more.

      If it's important, they can leave a message.