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  1. The reason why I download pirated movies is on Pirate Bay 'Promotion' Increases Post-Release Box Office Revenue, Study Shows (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    The reason why I resort to piracy is that I don't want to own a physical copy of the movie (as I almost never watch a movie more than once) and most of times I can't find it in a streaming service that:
    1) makes the title available in my country;
    2) is not subscription based (and some subscription services don't even give access to its library to non-subscribers to see what they have available);
    3) has a reasonable price, preferably in SD (HD is only available on "selected devices", a lingo that exclude my GNU/Linux box -- I have an unrooted Android, but what's the point of watching something in HD on a 5.5" screen?) -- I won't pay as much to watch a movie online as I'd pay to watch it in the theater -- that is not reasonable;
    4) does not release the title only with a "buying" option, which I don't want because not only I don't intend to watch the movie more than once, but after "buying" it, it will not belong to me, but will be available to me in the cloud for as long as the service continues to exist, which is not ownership.

    When faced with situations 3) or 4), I'll usually wait to conditions to change or prices to drop, for a while. I never look for a pirated movie while it is on the cinemas -- if it is not worth going to the cinema to watch it, I wait until it's available on streaming.

  2. Re: What's the over/under till Googl Drops this on Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    More like "who is Dart?" I tink dat Dart is a title of de enemies of de Jedi, who joined de dark side of de force in de Star Wars franchise.

  3. Re: Part of the roadmap on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Opera browser has built-in ad blocking.

  4. Re: Blocking Back-To-Back Ads on YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A load of what?

  5. Re: Winston Churchill on 'You're Doing Your Weekend Wrong' (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody needs a doctorate in sociology to get to any insight, but unless they are famous, people need a doctorate for others to take heed at what they say.

  6. English is such a logical and regular language! No wonder it is the language of exchange between peoples.

  7. Re: I can barely wait on Hollywood Sees Illegal Streaming Devices as 'Piracy 3.0' (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need to wait: Piracy 5 is on the theaters right now. It's called, *Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales*.

  8. Re: Wow, talk about shitting on free speech on Man Fined $4,000 For 'Liking' Defamatory Posts on Facebook (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    The commenters were prosecuted as well. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/te...

  9. Re: Uber need to get a clue. on Uber Says Thousands of London Drivers Threatened By English Language Test (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Hitler was chancellor from 1933 to '45, which amounts to 12 years. It was not written on the German constitution in any way that a chancellor would have a 12 year tenure without being reappointed. Hitler also suppressed the German congress, if I recollect my lessons right. Thus, Nazi Germany was by no means a democracy.

  10. I second that. Thus, we would discuss the matter in a more practical way, which suits betters most people here. How hard is it to get an AMA with some sys admin from Munich?

  11. Re: Obviously on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    I guess that a hamster that has access to a richer diet, and thus has niacin in its system, is strong enough to defend itself and not being eaten. Anyway, according to the summary, hamsters are resorting to cannibalism in regions where there is no source of niacin, so cannibalism won't help very much.

  12. Re: Obviously on All-Corn Diet Turns Hamsters Into Cannibals · · Score: 1

    Eating other hamster will not increase a hamster's level of niacin.

  13. Re: Super safe Linux on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    (...) unless you're using Linux on the Desktop, and why in God's name would you do something like that?

    Better answer now: I don't use any especial application and own a game console.

  14. Re: Super safe Linux on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    (...) unless you're using Linux on the Desktop, and why in God's name would you do something like that?

    MacOS sucks in security and Windows 10 is a resources hog.

  15. Re: Super safe Linux on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The main difference is that if your computer is up and running in 45 s, it will be up and running in 45 s unless there is something wrong. It will not take more the start on a weekly basis just because of updates.

  16. Re: Super safe Linux on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that really so? I've always heard that many or most of Linux users never reboot their systems and I felt like a noob for doing so.

  17. Re: Super safe Linux on Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    It's has not been a question of which is safer anymore, MacOS notwithstanding, but of which you trust. It's either an OS that can be exploited by the vendor, or a 3-letter agency, by design, or trusting that someone will audit your open source software and look for exploits, unless you have the time and expertise to do it yourself. Moreover, Linux users have never felt safe by the lower market share, but by how hard it is to have anything running on a Linux system. It's has never been about not having 14,000 viruses to infect your computer, but about having to make it executable it to have it run. Now, if I felt threatened by this new exploit, I could make my computer super safe by uninstalling the piece of software it affects. These days, the main reason for people to switch to Linux, and not to switch back to Windows, is concerns about privacy and productivity. You said that, had the exploit been found on Windows, there would be an update; now remember that Windows updates shut down the system, while Linux ones are performed while the system is running and the user is working: a reboot is not usually necessary, and when it is, it doesn't take longer than usual to turn on the computer.

  18. But that's an appropriate size for a laptop computer... oh! nevermind, nobody cares about laptops these days.

  19. Thank you!

  20. What if global warming is actually saving us from the next ice age. What if humans liberating a lot of carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere is "Gaia"'s way to liberate itself from an ice ages cycle?

  21. Re:Leads to hunt-n-smash on Baidu's Voice Recognition Software Is More Accurate Than Typing (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you tried Gravity Box? It can activate a pair of arrow keys. Needs root.
    That's it, unfortunately: if you want to have some arrow keys to position the edit point more conveniently, you have to root your phone!

  22. Re:..and the rest on Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails For US Intelligence (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Just one dollar? Why so stingy?

  23. Re:This is my shocked face on China Confirms Its Space Station Is Falling Back to Earth (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, the remark about NASA having been fined for littering in Australia after Skylab fall is not funny anymore. But I'm not complaining, this is a remark on how some people may make little of these things.

  24. Assuming you weren't being sarcastic.

    No, I was not being sarcastic. My last phone before the one I have now was a Nokia.

  25. You (or some other AC) would have spotted three if Microsoft had released their highest end models in my country when I was looking for a new phone. Hell, how I hate apps!