Nor do you need a special test to take your temperature and analyze vectors you might have been in contact with.

And there's the scam. $60 a year for something that costs nothing on free and open source software.

NAS4Free, now XigmaNAS (as if you'd ever know to Google that if you weren't paying attention) is the original project, continued. FreeNAS is the corporate hijacked version.

Rather, laws that require $1B a year in compliance, coding, lawyers, fees, etc stifle upstart competition, which is what Facebook wants.

I think you are misinterpreting what you recently read on social media. Rather, these are people that either do or don't have an internal dialog. "I think I'll shitpost on the internet" "okay brain, if that's what you want me to do..." "Yeah, that'll show 'em" "thanks!" -- having a conversation with another entity in your head, perhaps that you aren't in conscious control of, is actually a bit schizo.

I was on ESR, and Firefox wanted an update. The problem, it did not update to another ESR, it updated to 72, which nuked my user profiles and massive customization - In a push to grab more information for their cloud data mining experiment. Advertisements for their sync services popping up in dialogs. Assholes. Had to reinstall a working ESR and will not be taking any "upgrades".

What needs to be made a crime is advertising a monthly price that no consumer will ever be able to achieve.

The companies tack on local channel access fees, when there is no way to not have those channels (and they come in using an antenna for free). Might as well advertise "free" service with just $100 in made-up fees the way this is going.

Convenient for PC makers, where you can NEVER add a "Thunderbolt" card to an old PC or motherboard.

We need a comment, let's call somebody at CMU, he's on the list of people who will give a quote without us having to mention the pay-per-quote "research" company...

Consignment - won't happen. No supplier is going to risk having the doors shuttered on their product, which would be liquidated off as an asset, when the Fry brother's decide to get out at peak profit.

Liquidators have even taken customer equipment in the service and sold it off.

Also about 10 years ago, a massive scandal when Fry's VP Ausav Umar Siddiqui got 6 years for gambling away the embezzlements of $65+ in a scheme to charge vendors for placement, which is why Fry's was full of bottom-barrel house brands like GQ and Elitegroup ECS motherboards.

The Fry's in Wilsonville OR is also nearly empty. They have about 1/3 of the NTE electronics parts remaining, all of which were emergency pegwarmers - where you can order online ten for the price of one. They didn't even have a single roll of solder to sell. Nothing is being discounted though.

Other fallen businesses are 20+ year Norvac Electronics, Ham Radio outlet, and others. There are two places remaining that will still sell you a resistor or capacitor over-the-counter in the Portland metro area, URS Electronics (which has almost exactly what is on their website in stock), and surplusgizmos (which has bins and tubes of odd unused Mouser and Digikey parts if you know to ask, among the junk).

(Company) now explains that when anyone opts out of data sales under CCPA, it will also ask them to delete their associated accounts and all personal information."

That's exactly what we want, delete all our data forever when we demand it, and if your business model requires you to spread data all over the place, or even out of your dentist's office to third-party CRM and accounting cloud software, robodialers, and billing companies, you better well disclose it before we give you that data!

How can complete fallacy be +5? A machine that has paid out less than normal is not evidence that it is ready to pay out big. Past events do not affect the future on gambling machines, and if they were to, then it is more likely that the machine is broken in a way it will continue to pay less. If they were intelligent, it is more likely that the machine knows it has enticed a sucker with its early trickle of wins and is now in take-them-for-all-they've-got mode.

I gave the first of these stinky trilogies a chance, and I can tell you without a doubt, that the headline "why do fans like it but critics don't" is pure last-minute spin; as a Star Wars enjoyer - I know it will be mass-manufactured garbage by a grist mill, and am not interested in even spending two hours of my life on it for free.

Because it costs $10000+ in electricity to make one Bitcoin, and the supply and rate they are minted is known and limited, unlike the currency of governments that can be printed on a whim to create inflation and devalue savings.

A "whale" is a gambling sucker, whereas this guy is just making it temporarily easier for someone else to buy Bitcoins.