Honestly, prison seems excessive for most any property crime. Restitution with penalties and interest, an ankle monitor, and a few years of weekends picking up trash seems good. Throw in a jumpsuit that says I'm the jackass that burned out the computers fr fun. If he doesn't seem genuinely repentant, make him wear donkey ears while he picks up the trash.
Restitution should be having to pay for the replacement systems and personally rebuilding and configuring each one of them.
You probably don't realize that the Unix philosophy powers all of the top supercomputers. And the majority of the servers that drive the internet. Spawning things like containers. And Android, the most prolific mobile operating system. So the PC desktop has been elusive to the majority. But that is really OK, because Linux and the philosophy behind it is bigger than the desktop. Much bigger.
P.S. Chrome OS is based on Linux too... so when Linus talks about Chromebooks and Android as the path to the desktop, he's actually referring to just another offshoot of Linux.
First off, I agree with everything you said. I have been using Linux only on my computer since '98, and have been through a few distros along the way. I remember doing upgrades back then - oh my, the pain. Linux has certainly come a VERY long way since then. But last year I switched to Devuan and I use XFCE. So I still have to dig in on occasion.
But - I think we need to redefine what an "average" computer user is these days. I am not even sure what that would be. Because we do still have people who know next to nothing. My parents are like that, and I know plenty of other people. But kids can navigate and do things very well.
It is a little short-sighted to say aspects of Linux that techies cherish are the ones that alienate the general user. Linux and the philosophy behind it is a major force that allows the general population to use the computers they do today. Whether is it the search of Google, Chromebooks, Android phones, AWS, or the multitudes of the various technologies out there. The Linux desktop is but one aspect of it, but overall it's role in the internet age cannot be over-emphasized. Without it we would not be as far as we are today, and would be facing worse lock-in than ever.
But back to the point of the Desktop, it has come a long way even in the last 10 years. But I think it's less relevant than ever. Microsoft has tried repeatedly to force "new and improved" desktop experiences on everyone, and that hasn't gone well. I am not a Mac person, so I can't speak to that... but I can't think of much of anything in the Windows world that has wowed me in forever. If anything, I have to remove the obstacles put in my way. I see my work machines getting more and more powerful, and performance not improving or even getting slower. So much junk and cruft. I can't think of one feature in Windows10 that I want or cannot do in Linux. Not software mind you - feature of the desktop environment. What I do know is that I can't customize it to behave the way I want, or look the way I want. Which may be due to being under the corporate thumb, but Windows has never been about letting you customize things very easily.
So the question "Why aren't people abandoning Windows for Linux?" is simple. They are. Look around at everyone staring at their phones. Chances are, there is Linux under the hood. The real question is "Why are people still using Windows?". That's easy... 1. I use it at work 2. Some app they can't get anywhere but Windows 3. Change is scary 4. They aren't.. they are using their phone / chromebook / mac. Windows is gathering dust. It will just take more time to become irrelevant.
You could even do it on a Raspberry Pi with RetroPie, but you'll get a bit better performance out of a full blown PC.
I run EmulationStation on mine, which has Arcade, Atari2600, SNES, GameboyColor, and a few other emulators on it. I use VLC for music and videos. Handbrake for ripping DVDs, RipperX for CDs (if you still have those), and I run serviio as a DLNA server for my home network. Kdenlive for video editing, GIMP for photo work. Plenty of browser choices - I use Pale Moon, Firefox ESR as a backup.
I am running Devuan XFCE, but if you are new I'd suggest Mint w/Cinnamon or MATE desktop environment. I only ditched it because I wanted to get away from systemd. Or there are plenty of other good choices. You can try different distros for free, almost all run as a live CD/DVD so you can give them a whirl to see which you like best before installing it.
1. You get what you pay for. The entire point of each service is to see if they can monetize it. When the monetization fails to cover the expense of providing the service then they cut their losses. If you fail to recognize that you are the product when it comes to free web services then you're going to have a bad time.
In general - yes, you are right. But this is only true as long as enough people allow it. It doesn't really apply to me as much. e.g. I use google maps to check traffic (on my phone) before heading into work. But my location is turned off. I use google maps from my computer, to find something or to check traffic. But I am not logged in with my google account.
So for those that don't know, google traffic uses google user's location info to be able to give traffic reports. It's really quite great - as long as people are willing to be tracked. I am not, but I am happy to use their service. I pay nothing for it, and for the most part I am not part of that product. But people in general are, whether they know it or not.
But I get your point, and everyone knows that people are the product for google. But they do put out revolutionary technology. Google maps is the most useful I can think of, google earth is pretty cool. I am sure people have their favorites. I have a hard time saying that being the product is bad simply because people are the product if it is voluntary. Where google is having a hard time staying on the good side is when that information no longer becomes private. Theoretically, if people are willing to trade their information for these features, and they are aware, it could be more bad than good. But it is a REAAAAALY thin line between the two. And to your #3 point... people should be allowed to give up their information, as long as I have the option NOT to do that.
Your body produces the vast majority of cholesterol in your blood, it doesn't come from what you eat. In fact, you would be DEAD without cholesterol, it is a building block of the body. This is a well-known and accepted fact.
Now - can what you eat affect the amount and type of cholesterol in your blood? Yes. Is high cholesterol always bad? No. Is LDL always "bad" and HDL always "good"? NO. There is so much nuance to this that it isn't even funny. Our bodies are highly complex, we need to stop representing everything in such simplistic polar answers. This summary is bunk and can't even be taken at face value. It uses terms like "associated with" and a percentage of risk, which by themselves mean nothing. Is that relative risk or absolute risk? What other factors were controlled for, or not controlled for, in the study.
These things are mentioned in the paper abstract, and it really can't be effectively summarized without reading the full paper (which you have to purchase). Here is the meaning based on the findings:
Among US adults, higher consumption of dietary cholesterol or eggs was significantly associated with higher risk of incident CVD and all-cause mortality in a dose-response manner.
There are definitely some red flags in that statement. "dietary cholesterol or eggs". I would also like to know what other dietary and lifestyle factors were controlled for.
Dude, Firefox has a good password manager. If you have an Firefox account, you can access your password in your desktop and your mobile device, without having to install extensions. With a good random password generator (Lastpass has one at their website, you're good to go.
In firefox (and now with my preferred browser, pale moon), there is a "feature" I use all the time that is not in Chrome.
When you create a bookmark in FF there are properties associated with it, e.g. Description. You don't have that in Chrome. I use the description to house my userid and password hints for the many sites I have that I need to log into. I never put the full info in it, so it is reasonably secure. I gave up on password managers years ago, and this system has served me very well. Bookmarks can be easily backed up and restored with descriptions fully in tact. Password gets updated, I just update the hint in the description.
It doesn't sound like much, but I once tried to switch to Chrome and it was immediately something that I missed - and there was no equivalent feature.
Try Pale Moon . I've been using it for a year as my primary browser, on linux and on Windows. Or look into Firefox-esr. I run Devuan at home and use ff-esr as my backup browser.
I would expect that now all you would have to do is hack someone's site/account, change some text, and report it to the proper authorities. Getting caught for this type of hacking wouldn't be much fun either.
Go look at this submitter's profile - all are from vice.com. And the submissions are direct lifts from the articles themselves. So while it seems this "person" was out looking at image editors, they weren't. They are just copy/pasting from articles into a slashdot submission form and the editors are doing nothing of the sort.
Linux is out, because of specific software packages I use that do not support Linux.
May I ask which ones? I ask because that was what I thought until the end of 2017, when out of sheer frustration with the idea of having to move to Windows 10 in the foreseeable future I just gave Linux a try. The plan was to resort to Wine and/or a Windows 7 VM for those Windows applications I really cannot do without yet. I wasn't too optimistic, I saw a less-than-fifty-percent chance for it working out well. But it did. A few weeks later, all machines in the household (the other inhabitant had been very sympathetic to the plan, too) had been converted to Linux as the only or primary OS, and we have never looked back. There's just one thing I've been asking myself once or twice – why did I wait that long?
Let's be real for a second. I have no doubts that there are software packages that people use that are not supported on Linux. Some may have viable alternatives, but some might not. And if there are alternatives - they may not be good enough or similar enough to make people want to switch. That is just life!
I am not in the camp that says Linux is better than Windows (or Mac) for everything. It's just not that simple. There is no need to be so completely polarized, where one thing has to be completely right, and one thing has to be completely wrong.
And full disclosure: I have been Linux only at home since 1999. My wife and kids run Win7. It all mostly works out fine. My wife uses Quicken to manage our budget. My kids play many games that are Windows-only. They could switch, but why? Win7 is fine. I run Linux because it fits my brain, and the way I do things. I run the media server on my machine, I have scripts that do all kinds of things, from downloading and chopping up podcasts to listen to on my commute, to photo editing, to general bash scripting. I use fetchmail to consolidate my email and alpine to read it for crying out loud! I use Windows at work, but I also run lots of open-source and Linuxy stuff (gitbash, msys64) to get some things done much more efficiently.
As in life, it doesn't have to be us vs. them all the time. Do what works for you, and if it gets to the point where it's not working, try something else.
I keep thinking when I see this: "may be paywalled?". It's REALLY easy to check. And if it is, please post the paywalled link as the alternate link. Because I couldn't read the paywalled story, I clicked on the alternative source. * facepalm *
It's pretty obvious nobody is steering this ship anymore.
I'm guessing this happened because the requirements only said to ask for ethnicity but failed to include the list. The developer went and found an obviously wrong list to force testing/acceptance to return a proper list. They all failed.
This is clearly a fantasy scenario - a developer would never go out of their way to do anything.:)
If you read the article, it appeared that the "offensive" items all had a prefix of "Brazil_" and mulato/mulatto is a term that means mixed race. From what I know of Brazil, they have a good portion of mixed race people. Not sure what is up with Yellow though.
I suspect that this is simply a mistake, no need to take to the streets or smash your IBM... uh... what do they make again?
The SJW culture is trying to tell us that men and women are equal and Hollywood is trying to confirm through film. Our brains are telling us "Something just isn't right here..."
I think your brain is telling you that you prefer dominant muscled men in spandex suits over women, and you're lashing out because you just can't come to terms with that in a reasonable way.
Personally I enjoyed watching Wonder Woman dominate all of her foes, and am looking forward to Captain Marvel as well.
of how impressive the majority of the Marvel movies have been.
I am not a comic nerd, but I knew who Iron Man was. To be honest, I wasn't all that interested in seeing it when it came out, I caught it on DVD (Netflix). Needless to say, I was pretty blown away by how much I liked it. Then along comes Guardians of the Galaxy. I thought it was the beginning of the end of the Marvel movies when I saw the trailer for it. I thought they had scraped the bottom of the barrel. I didn't even see it until the 2nd movie came out on DVD, and because the reviews were good, we watched them both. Again - very surprised at how much I like them. Same with the Deadpool movies, and with Punisher on Netflix. Marvel keeps surprising me with how good they can make these movies/shows, with just the right amount of action and humor. Maybe it's because I don't really know anything about those characters is what makes it good for me, there is nothing for them to spoil.
I'll watch Captain Marvel when it comes out on DVD regardless of reviews. I watched Aquaman with my wife because of Jason Momoa, so we're watching Captain Marvel because of Brie Larson. It's called compromising.
I finally decided to try it a couple of years ago. I got it all set up with about a dozen passwords. The next time I opened it, they were all gone. No trace. I uninstalled it and went back to memorizing my passwords.
I find those tools as a single point of failure. I have a password scheme that I use, and keep a list of plain-text reminders for each site. The reminder is so vague that nobody could figure out the password, but I instantly know which scheme I use.
I still remember a password that a departing intern told me back in 1995. It was for one of our test systems, in case I needed it. It was the first letter of each word of a song lyric, and it still meets all modern password requirements. I have never used that password myself, but remember it to this day. I don't even need a hint.. but I could easily write down a simple fact about the artist if I ever needed to.
Daredevil and Punisher. All the rest I found terribly boring after 3 episodes, and gave up. Maybe got through 5 of Jessica Jones.
While the super hero thing is starting to get played out a bit, I think what helped those two shows for me was that it wasn't about super powers. Neither guy had them. It was more about the story. And while parts of both irritated me a little bit and there were some low points, in my opinion they were still great and I recommend them to people.
I am OK with them being cancelled though, because there was PLENTY of content there. I mean, for Punisher that was ~26 hours of across 2 seasons. That's like 10 movies! I don't care that it wasn't highly reviewed, I enjoyed it. It didn't crush any of my comic-nerd dreams because I am not one.
Shows come and go, that is all. It's just TV entertainment.
This is business. In the same way that they are maximizing their profits and inconveniencing their customers by overbooking flights. It's not a hack, a scam, or a trick. It's simply underflying. You overbook. We underfly.
And I can't imagine that this happens often enough to warrant new laws, or lawsuits. Unless you ask a lawyer, then by all means drop your soul off at the door and let's get to it.
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Honestly, prison seems excessive for most any property crime. Restitution with penalties and interest, an ankle monitor, and a few years of weekends picking up trash seems good. Throw in a jumpsuit that says I'm the jackass that burned out the computers fr fun. If he doesn't seem genuinely repentant, make him wear donkey ears while he picks up the trash.
Restitution should be having to pay for the replacement systems and personally rebuilding and configuring each one of them.
The 'dumbass' comment was for the poster, not Linus. Those offshoots use modified versions of the Linux kernel.
Needs to go where exactly?
You probably don't realize that the Unix philosophy powers all of the top supercomputers. And the majority of the servers that drive the internet. Spawning things like containers. And Android, the most prolific mobile operating system. So the PC desktop has been elusive to the majority. But that is really OK, because Linux and the philosophy behind it is bigger than the desktop. Much bigger.
P.S. Chrome OS is based on Linux too ... so when Linus talks about Chromebooks and Android as the path to the desktop, he's actually referring to just another offshoot of Linux.
Dumbass.
First off, I agree with everything you said. I have been using Linux only on my computer since '98, and have been through a few distros along the way. I remember doing upgrades back then - oh my, the pain. Linux has certainly come a VERY long way since then. But last year I switched to Devuan and I use XFCE. So I still have to dig in on occasion.
But - I think we need to redefine what an "average" computer user is these days. I am not even sure what that would be. Because we do still have people who know next to nothing. My parents are like that, and I know plenty of other people. But kids can navigate and do things very well.
It is a little short-sighted to say aspects of Linux that techies cherish are the ones that alienate the general user. Linux and the philosophy behind it is a major force that allows the general population to use the computers they do today. Whether is it the search of Google, Chromebooks, Android phones, AWS, or the multitudes of the various technologies out there. The Linux desktop is but one aspect of it, but overall it's role in the internet age cannot be over-emphasized. Without it we would not be as far as we are today, and would be facing worse lock-in than ever.
But back to the point of the Desktop, it has come a long way even in the last 10 years. But I think it's less relevant than ever. Microsoft has tried repeatedly to force "new and improved" desktop experiences on everyone, and that hasn't gone well. I am not a Mac person, so I can't speak to that... but I can't think of much of anything in the Windows world that has wowed me in forever. If anything, I have to remove the obstacles put in my way. I see my work machines getting more and more powerful, and performance not improving or even getting slower. So much junk and cruft. I can't think of one feature in Windows10 that I want or cannot do in Linux. Not software mind you - feature of the desktop environment. What I do know is that I can't customize it to behave the way I want, or look the way I want. Which may be due to being under the corporate thumb, but Windows has never been about letting you customize things very easily.
So the question "Why aren't people abandoning Windows for Linux?" is simple. They are. Look around at everyone staring at their phones. Chances are, there is Linux under the hood. The real question is "Why are people still using Windows?". That's easy...
1. I use it at work
2. Some app they can't get anywhere but Windows
3. Change is scary
4. They aren't.. they are using their phone / chromebook / mac. Windows is gathering dust. It will just take more time to become irrelevant.
You could even do it on a Raspberry Pi with RetroPie, but you'll get a bit better performance out of a full blown PC.
I run EmulationStation on mine, which has Arcade, Atari2600, SNES, GameboyColor, and a few other emulators on it.
I use VLC for music and videos. Handbrake for ripping DVDs, RipperX for CDs (if you still have those), and I run serviio as a DLNA server for my home network.
Kdenlive for video editing, GIMP for photo work. Plenty of browser choices - I use Pale Moon, Firefox ESR as a backup.
I am running Devuan XFCE, but if you are new I'd suggest Mint w/Cinnamon or MATE desktop environment. I only ditched it because I wanted to get away from systemd. Or there are plenty of other good choices. You can try different distros for free, almost all run as a live CD/DVD so you can give them a whirl to see which you like best before installing it.
1. You get what you pay for. The entire point of each service is to see if they can monetize it. When the monetization fails to cover the expense of providing the service then they cut their losses. If you fail to recognize that you are the product when it comes to free web services then you're going to have a bad time.
In general - yes, you are right. But this is only true as long as enough people allow it. It doesn't really apply to me as much.
e.g. I use google maps to check traffic (on my phone) before heading into work. But my location is turned off. I use google maps from my computer, to find something or to check traffic. But I am not logged in with my google account.
So for those that don't know, google traffic uses google user's location info to be able to give traffic reports. It's really quite great - as long as people are willing to be tracked. I am not, but I am happy to use their service. I pay nothing for it, and for the most part I am not part of that product. But people in general are, whether they know it or not.
But I get your point, and everyone knows that people are the product for google. But they do put out revolutionary technology. Google maps is the most useful I can think of, google earth is pretty cool. I am sure people have their favorites. I have a hard time saying that being the product is bad simply because people are the product if it is voluntary. Where google is having a hard time staying on the good side is when that information no longer becomes private. Theoretically, if people are willing to trade their information for these features, and they are aware, it could be more bad than good. But it is a REAAAAALY thin line between the two. And to your #3 point... people should be allowed to give up their information, as long as I have the option NOT to do that.
If that's true... then Firefox's chances of getting me back are slim to none. Keep on truckin' Pale Moon!!!!
Your body produces the vast majority of cholesterol in your blood, it doesn't come from what you eat. In fact, you would be DEAD without cholesterol, it is a building block of the body. This is a well-known and accepted fact.
Now - can what you eat affect the amount and type of cholesterol in your blood? Yes. Is high cholesterol always bad? No. Is LDL always "bad" and HDL always "good"? NO. There is so much nuance to this that it isn't even funny. Our bodies are highly complex, we need to stop representing everything in such simplistic polar answers. This summary is bunk and can't even be taken at face value. It uses terms like "associated with" and a percentage of risk, which by themselves mean nothing. Is that relative risk or absolute risk? What other factors were controlled for, or not controlled for, in the study.
These things are mentioned in the paper abstract, and it really can't be effectively summarized without reading the full paper (which you have to purchase). Here is the meaning based on the findings:
Among US adults, higher consumption of dietary cholesterol or eggs was significantly associated with higher risk of incident CVD and all-cause mortality in a dose-response manner.
There are definitely some red flags in that statement. "dietary cholesterol or eggs". I would also like to know what other dietary and lifestyle factors were controlled for.
Dude, Firefox has a good password manager. If you have an Firefox account, you can access your password in your desktop and your mobile device, without having to install extensions. With a good random password generator (Lastpass has one at their website, you're good to go.
If you have a Firefox account... no thanks.
In firefox (and now with my preferred browser, pale moon), there is a "feature" I use all the time that is not in Chrome.
When you create a bookmark in FF there are properties associated with it, e.g. Description. You don't have that in Chrome.
I use the description to house my userid and password hints for the many sites I have that I need to log into. I never put the full info in it, so it is reasonably secure. I gave up on password managers years ago, and this system has served me very well. Bookmarks can be easily backed up and restored with descriptions fully in tact. Password gets updated, I just update the hint in the description.
It doesn't sound like much, but I once tried to switch to Chrome and it was immediately something that I missed - and there was no equivalent feature.
Try Pale Moon . I've been using it for a year as my primary browser, on linux and on Windows. Or look into Firefox-esr. I run Devuan at home and use ff-esr as my backup browser.
I would expect that now all you would have to do is hack someone's site/account, change some text, and report it to the proper authorities.
Getting caught for this type of hacking wouldn't be much fun either.
Go look at this submitter's profile - all are from vice.com. And the submissions are direct lifts from the articles themselves.
So while it seems this "person" was out looking at image editors, they weren't. They are just copy/pasting from articles into a slashdot submission form and the editors are doing nothing of the sort.
Oh great he's a Window's guy... No way I can vote for him now...
To be fair - what else were they going to hack?
Ah, Silicon Valley.
May I ask which ones? I ask because that was what I thought until the end of 2017, when out of sheer frustration with the idea of having to move to Windows 10 in the foreseeable future I just gave Linux a try. The plan was to resort to Wine and/or a Windows 7 VM for those Windows applications I really cannot do without yet. I wasn't too optimistic, I saw a less-than-fifty-percent chance for it working out well. But it did. A few weeks later, all machines in the household (the other inhabitant had been very sympathetic to the plan, too) had been converted to Linux as the only or primary OS, and we have never looked back. There's just one thing I've been asking myself once or twice – why did I wait that long?
Let's be real for a second. I have no doubts that there are software packages that people use that are not supported on Linux. Some may have viable alternatives, but some might not. And if there are alternatives - they may not be good enough or similar enough to make people want to switch. That is just life!
I am not in the camp that says Linux is better than Windows (or Mac) for everything. It's just not that simple. There is no need to be so completely polarized, where one thing has to be completely right, and one thing has to be completely wrong.
And full disclosure: I have been Linux only at home since 1999. My wife and kids run Win7. It all mostly works out fine. My wife uses Quicken to manage our budget. My kids play many games that are Windows-only. They could switch, but why? Win7 is fine. I run Linux because it fits my brain, and the way I do things. I run the media server on my machine, I have scripts that do all kinds of things, from downloading and chopping up podcasts to listen to on my commute, to photo editing, to general bash scripting. I use fetchmail to consolidate my email and alpine to read it for crying out loud! I use Windows at work, but I also run lots of open-source and Linuxy stuff (gitbash, msys64) to get some things done much more efficiently.
As in life, it doesn't have to be us vs. them all the time. Do what works for you, and if it gets to the point where it's not working, try something else.
I keep thinking when I see this: "may be paywalled?". It's REALLY easy to check. And if it is, please post the paywalled link as the alternate link.
Because I couldn't read the paywalled story, I clicked on the alternative source. * facepalm *
It's pretty obvious nobody is steering this ship anymore.
“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
Mark Twain
They put a supercharger on a Tesla?! How in the...but....OHHH.
They should change the name of it, we already have those for cars. Wikipedia
I'm guessing this happened because the requirements only said to ask for ethnicity but failed to include the list. The developer went and found an obviously wrong list to force testing/acceptance to return a proper list. They all failed.
This is clearly a fantasy scenario - a developer would never go out of their way to do anything. :)
If you read the article, it appeared that the "offensive" items all had a prefix of "Brazil_" and mulato/mulatto is a term that means mixed race. From what I know of Brazil, they have a good portion of mixed race people. Not sure what is up with Yellow though.
I suspect that this is simply a mistake, no need to take to the streets or smash your IBM... uh... what do they make again?
The SJW culture is trying to tell us that men and women are equal and Hollywood is trying to confirm through film. Our brains are telling us "Something just isn't right here..."
I think your brain is telling you that you prefer dominant muscled men in spandex suits over women, and you're lashing out because you just can't come to terms with that in a reasonable way.
Personally I enjoyed watching Wonder Woman dominate all of her foes, and am looking forward to Captain Marvel as well.
of how impressive the majority of the Marvel movies have been.
I am not a comic nerd, but I knew who Iron Man was. To be honest, I wasn't all that interested in seeing it when it came out, I caught it on DVD (Netflix). Needless to say, I was pretty blown away by how much I liked it. Then along comes Guardians of the Galaxy. I thought it was the beginning of the end of the Marvel movies when I saw the trailer for it. I thought they had scraped the bottom of the barrel. I didn't even see it until the 2nd movie came out on DVD, and because the reviews were good, we watched them both. Again - very surprised at how much I like them. Same with the Deadpool movies, and with Punisher on Netflix. Marvel keeps surprising me with how good they can make these movies/shows, with just the right amount of action and humor. Maybe it's because I don't really know anything about those characters is what makes it good for me, there is nothing for them to spoil.
I'll watch Captain Marvel when it comes out on DVD regardless of reviews.
I watched Aquaman with my wife because of Jason Momoa, so we're watching Captain Marvel because of Brie Larson. It's called compromising.
I finally decided to try it a couple of years ago. I got it all set up with about a dozen passwords.
The next time I opened it, they were all gone. No trace. I uninstalled it and went back to memorizing my passwords.
I find those tools as a single point of failure. I have a password scheme that I use, and keep a list of plain-text reminders for each site. The reminder is so vague that nobody could figure out the password, but I instantly know which scheme I use.
I still remember a password that a departing intern told me back in 1995. It was for one of our test systems, in case I needed it. It was the first letter of each word of a song lyric, and it still meets all modern password requirements. I have never used that password myself, but remember it to this day. I don't even need a hint.. but I could easily write down a simple fact about the artist if I ever needed to.
Daredevil and Punisher. All the rest I found terribly boring after 3 episodes, and gave up. Maybe got through 5 of Jessica Jones.
While the super hero thing is starting to get played out a bit, I think what helped those two shows for me was that it wasn't about super powers. Neither guy had them. It was more about the story. And while parts of both irritated me a little bit and there were some low points, in my opinion they were still great and I recommend them to people.
I am OK with them being cancelled though, because there was PLENTY of content there. I mean, for Punisher that was ~26 hours of across 2 seasons. That's like 10 movies! I don't care that it wasn't highly reviewed, I enjoyed it. It didn't crush any of my comic-nerd dreams because I am not one.
Shows come and go, that is all. It's just TV entertainment.
This is business. In the same way that they are maximizing their profits and inconveniencing their customers by overbooking flights.
It's not a hack, a scam, or a trick. It's simply underflying. You overbook. We underfly.
And I can't imagine that this happens often enough to warrant new laws, or lawsuits. Unless you ask a lawyer, then by all means drop your soul off at the door and let's get to it.