My guess is because it doesn't have the latest generation of analog copy protection embedded in the Audio tracks. Copy protection is layered beyond what protects the disc. And for most people with 4K AV setups you're using top tier manufacturers for you playback chain. When pirated material is detected playback will stop. Even Roku honors these schemes. The extra layers of copy protection is cost money. Some content providers skip it if they think something has limited appeal.

There's plenty of American consulting firms hiring. I can't see why they would choose Infosys. Maybe a college grad that didn't know any better. The minima they would pay an H1B is 60K. Which is similar to a college grad. I shudder to think of the bad habits they'll pick up and having Infosys on the resume may not be the best thing for the career.

Add a phone for $6. When I had Ting I had two smartphones. As low data users we were running about $45/mo after taxes and fees. We eventually moved to Project Fi for international service, but we're paying about the same as we did on Ting.

I would think he has some time to serve in the UK first for violating the terms of his house arrest. But who knows with the current government.

The crime happens when you solicit sources for classified documents. Which is legally distinct from being a media organization that just happened to get a drop of documents. There was a whole storyline in "The Newsroom" that covered it. In the past there was some talk that Assange's interactions with Manning in IRC may have crossed the line.

If Trump irks Putin then he's not going to get Snowden. That leaves Assange as the scapegoat to "prove" he's not a Russian puppet. If I was Snowden I'd be quite happy to see Assange under the microscope. It likely means the Russians aren't playing ball.

Pico Brew has always struck me as a machine for a professional brewer that wants to make very specific test batches quickly with the ability to reproduce them ad hoc. In particular if you have other duties and don't want to babysit. But for a $1000 you can get several all grain systems that make full 5 gallon batches. They are not as automated as the PICO brew but I'm looking at quantity, not fully automated.

Various ISPs? In most market there's the Telephone company or the cable company.

Same here. Went into consulting and hit it big when Y2K was a thing. Stuck with consulting and now my income put me in the top 4%. Which is great since I live in a very low cost area. I do a lot of on-shoring gigs these days. All the customers that did off-shoring early on are having buyers remorse that's compounded by how wages are on the rise in India.

So you have to have Xfinity Broadband, which already includes the WiFi coverage and it costs $2/gig more than Google Fi. So you get all the features of having Fi + Xfinity, but get to pay $2/gig more. That is of course assuming data used on WiFi doesn't count towards your usage. If that's not the case it's even less competitive.

Because that would be interstate commerce. And the state wouldn't be able to defend the bill. By concentrating on the local point of presence they can narrow the scope.

Because they aren't common carriers.

I don't think it was the right move but I understand it. Over the years as I've traveled to London I've had less and less interactions with Brits and more and more with Eastern Europeans. Last trip there wasn't a single hospitality employee I interacted with that wasn't a legal Eastern European immigrant. Though London has a fairly low unemployment rate. Still, there is a perception that the UK Manufacturing is a shadow of it's former self and EU companies use cheap labor in the East to ripsaw more expensive labor in the West.

It could become the new entry point into the EU for English speaking international companies. They might have to battle it out with Ireland though which already has quite a few for tax reasons.