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  1. Aren't most regional offices incorporated in the country they are located in to avoid having to pay taxes in the US? This wouldn't really affect them then.

  2. That's assuming that people in those industrial prisons even passed the currently free secondary education. Why would free college stop criminals who dropped out of high school?

  3. Re:As much as I love Nintendo on Nintendo Switch Will Launch On March 3rd For $299, Won't Feature Region-Locking Software (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Jaguar CPU in the PS4 and XBOne was made for tablets which AFAIK are still considered mobile hardware.

  4. Re:As much as I love Nintendo on Nintendo Switch Will Launch On March 3rd For $299, Won't Feature Region-Locking Software (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ya, that's didn't work out every well for the PS4 or XBOne. Err, wait.

  5. So it'll have the same sale numbers as the Wii U then?

    Wii U Owners, there are dozens or us, dozens.

  6. Re:the start of .crash 2.0? on Medium Cuts Staff By One-Third, Shuts Down New York and DC Offices (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Then why when they were considering spinning streaming away from mailing were they going to have Netflix be the mailing company?

  7. Re:Maybe just profit taking? on Bitcoin Is Crashing (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would any bank want Bitcoin to succeed? They would rather their own digital currency come out and take off.

  8. Re:See auto manufacturers and racing on Silicon Valley Veteran On Apple: Company Has Become Sloppy, Missed Updates, Delayed Refreshes (chuqui.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I see it more as Apple makes Corollas and Caravans that they market and price as a BMW.

  9. Re:Speculators on Bitcoin Breaks $1,000 Level, Highest in More Than 3 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes I have, the funds are normally in my account within an hour. It did take two days when I recently sold my house. But I don't get charged a fee for cashing them.

    And Bitcoin is trying to be like handing someone digital cash. Do you remember the last time you sold something on Craig's list and got paid a $20 bill, but you had to wait three days before you could spend it?

  10. Re:Speculators on Bitcoin Breaks $1,000 Level, Highest in More Than 3 Years (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Volatility can hurt the exchange function. If you are just using it to transfer funds between two different currencies, having the value drop 10% in the space of time it takes for the transactions to clear is less than ideal.

    Cheap enough is also questionable. If you want your transaction to not take days to clear, you are paying a higher fee than Visa or Mastercard charge.

  11. Re:That investment has been in the works for a whi on 8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    So we'll say "Thanks Thump" when anything good happens, like we did the "Thanks Obama" when something bad happened?

    My ice cream cone melted and fell on the sidewalk. Thanks Obama...

  12. Re:Careful Australia on Steam Fined $3 Million For Refusing Refunds (smh.com.au) · · Score: 1

    Actually EA's support is way better than Valve's. You actually can immediately reach a person rather than open a ticket and wait weeks for it to be responded to.

  13. Re:How about not auto-restarting my computer? on Microsoft Exec Admits They 'Went Too Far' With Aggressive Windows 10 Updates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    It's very simple. I reboot my PC at the end of my day after updates are installed and it tells me it needs a reboot. The machine complains for two days before automatically rebooting, I'm not sure why people complain they aren't given any notice. The change is that it's limited to two days now, rather than allowing the machine to run for months on end without a reboot.

    The only time I'm affecting in the middle of the day is if I need to install something, and it complains that it can't perform the install because the machine has to be restarted first.

  14. Re:Here is the core problem... on Microsoft Exec Admits They 'Went Too Far' With Aggressive Windows 10 Updates (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    How so? Apple the most valuable company in the world does exactly that.

    You just need to be courageous.

  15. I am aware, I also remember having a book of codes I had to go through trying to get my devices to react to those remotes.

    Sure those remotes worked, but so did horses pulling buggies. Sure there are some people who are Luddites, but most of us moved on to the superior option.

  16. Re: nothing on A Record High of 455 Scripted TV Shows Aired in 2016 (vulture.com) · · Score: 1

    I also liked Killjoys, it gave off some Firefly vibes. People also seem to like Dark Matter, but I couldn't get into the first two episodes.

  17. Re:OTA programming + a la carte "premium" content on Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    You said you were waiting for the right box, I just made the suggestion that it exists.

    I used WMC before. I looked into building my own MythTV box, I looked at every available DVR software package commercial or otherwise. Tivo is leaps and bound better and having a system that just works is great.

    Tivo also has a product called the Stream that's integrated into it, I can watch TV over the Internet too. Or on a FireTV with the Tivo App, but that's just recorded content not live TV like the Mini.

    Tivos can be pricey, but not having the wife want to kill you when her recording didn't happen is worth the price of admission.

  18. You are aware you don't need to configure activities and can just use the Harmony remote as a standard universal remote. You can think and manually power on your devices and change inputs to your heart's content.

    The rest of us will enjoy having convenience and just have things work with a button press. In an old setup, I had an audio receiver but I didn't want to use it for basic stuff on TV like the news. I was able to program a macro that with a single button press would turn on the AVR, then enter the DVR's menu and switch the audio mode that was several levels deep, so I only had sound from the AVR, not both it and the TV. Sure I could have done that every time, and I could have trained the wife, but why?

  19. Re:Congratulations! You invented...the smart TV! on Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a Logitech harmony. It would be a single button press to switch between the Roku and live TV. You can even name the activities Netflix and TV.

  20. Re:OTA programming + a la carte "premium" content on Sling TV Accidentally Reveals Its Set-Top Box For Cord Cutters (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    A Tivo can do all of that. It has a cable card slot and can record and playback protected content. If you buy Tivo Minis you can access them on multiple TVs

    The Tivo has a single global search that can search across TV listings as well as Netflix, Hulu, etc. The one limitation is you can view purchased Amazon content, but not Prime Video which is limited to Rokus and FireTVs.

    There is also free software people have made that can connect to your Tivo over the network and download recordings off it. You can then decrypt them, do automatic commercial cutting, and convert them to whatever format you want to have it placed in a media library like Plex. You are not able to do this will protected recordings though.

  21. Devices have no way of transmitting their state back to the remote so how are they supposed to do it?

    If the device has dedicated power on, power off, and separate input signals the remote will already send the correct signals to put the device in the correct state with one press of the help button. If that doesn't work it will walk you through steps to get it straighten out.

    You can always hit the devices button, select the component to control. And then send the command from there if you don't want to use the help system.

  22. Re:what's so "unthinkable"? on Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The next step might be Google joining Microsoft's .NET Foundation.

    Oh wait...
    https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/11/16/1642201/google-joins-microsofts-net-foundation

  23. The PSP sold over 60 million units world wide. It looks like a failure compared the to the DS's 150 million. But it still sold very well compared to everything else that took on Nintendo (Gamegear, Lynx, Wonder Swan, etc).

  24. Re:Yeah, but will it finally be better on AMD Unveils First Zen Desktop Processor Details, Picks 'Ryzen' To Brand Zen CPU (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If you need number crunching, track down an original Titan from before they nerfed them to consumer level cards. They are 1.3 TFLOPS double precision. I see refurbs on eBay for $350.

  25. Re:Not sure enough want self driving vehicles. on Google Has Stopped Developing Its Own Self-Driving Car - Report (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    That's fine, I'll stick with buying my own self driving car and not have to deal with sitting in someone else's vomit or jizz.