Greed creates piracy.

There was netflix and nothing else, you could find almost everything there.
Then came amazon and disney who want to split the cake.
But each piece of the cake cost the same as the full cake previously.

So no thanks.

As long as there is no law requiring that any streaming provider MUST provide content form the other providers as well, then there will be piracy.
I am not going to pay a dozen online behemoths to be able to watch the stuff I like.

Torrent it is.

- windows 10 would not have prevented this
- a firewall would not have prevented this

I downloaded spotify app especially for listening to podcasts.
I was not suited for the task at all. I quickly dumped spotify for a dedicated podcast app.

So I'm a bit surprised that they "pushed for podcasts" as this is completely contrary to my experience.

I would like Windows to be able to open linux style filesystems (natively, not with an addon kludge).
Maybe that would be the time to add case sensitivity to the OS so to be able to distinguish readme.txt and Readme.txt on such a filesystem.

I also would like linux to have the MS office suite with visio an excel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

so why do we want to change that?
The definition per-se of noon is "sun in zenith".

If people feel it's dark too early, well then change working times par law, instead of changing time per law.
It's so silly
Some law says we should start work at 8, but it's dark. Oh, let's do another law to change the time, so it's sunny at 8.

This is sooo Trump

because harvesting EM radiation for free to power your sensors removes that power from the transmission. This means that the general distance to which the signal usually travels is shortened. The emitter will not be happy to need to increase power output to get his signal along only because there are power harvesters along the line.

Some virus or a targeted attack makes self driving cars run through shopping malls or drive off bridges.

This could even happen if there is a GPS glitch making all maps offset by 100m to the east and the selfdriving software being buggy and assuming the GPS is right and the camera is wrong.

On one DrWho episode (or was it Torchwood?) there is an automated car system which is tricked into killing it's drivers on purpose.

The reciept-less tellers will have a big e-paper display facing the customer which shows the complete reciept.
It includes a fingerprint certifying that it's signed by the shop's private key.
The customer uses his phone to take a picture of the reciept. Done.

If the customer does not have a camera, he pushes a button and gets a printout.

See... there is no email address involved. Completely anonymous.

This solution is visibly so simple that nobody will even think about it.

Trump deported many low wage jobs as illegal immigrants. Now of course those positions are open for takers. but no American wants to do this dirty task for so low earning.

Hi Bruce, greetings from Luxembourg.

As you can already extrapolate from the other inaccuracies in the Slashdot text, this is indeed not a satellite for Luxembourg, but a Luxembourg owned military communication satellite. The transponders are to be rented out to military organization for profit.
And of course this is mainly NATO as Luxembourg is a NATO member.
There have been some criticism about if this is a good idea, as it may be supporting drone operations and other less moral activities.

So with my new xubuntu I got firefox quantum.
All my memory hassles and CPU hogs went away. cool.
The lack of tab mix plus is a real bummer.
But still it's useable

Until firefox decided system wide not to play any sound. It may be pulseaudio which hates firefox quantum? vlc works fine. As does chrome. So well... as I need sound, I'm now on Chrome.
Which is also shit, as I'm missing a good password manager.
So I install Kepass2. With mono. So it's a kind of windows port.
Looks like it also ported the crashes as my desktop freezed up shortly after :-)

This is NASA, come on, a science institution. Using Fahrenheit?
They should use Kelvin!

This is dumbing down science just so that Trump understands it!

Maybe his usage of 'entropy' is not correct, but there are easy ways to have long and remeberable passwords.
See diceware.
5 words from a dictionary of 7776 is 7776^5
That's quite a lot.
Equivalent to a 14 lowercase letter password. But instead of memorizing 14 items, you only need to memorize 5

Hi

you chose a password, there is a calculation performed how long a brute force/dictionary attack will take.
Your password will expire after this time.
Calculate the time using this calculator (take the botnet time): https://password.kaspersky.com...

thisisanicepassword => 3 days
this is a nice password => 40 years (maybe maximize on a top limit)
12345678 => 1 second
one two three four => 3 years
correcthorsebatterystaple => 5 years (hmm, maybe they should add that to an exception list)
h4Z7p8d0 => 51 seconds
h4Z7p8d0x3 => 2 hours
h4Z7p8d0x3w1 => 6 days
h4Z7p8d0x3w1bd => 2 years