Advocating the use of the military against US civilians on US ground.

The thing that dies down immediately is democracy.

For all the things MS may do well, search has never been one of them. File system in Windows, email in Outlook, whatever. In any context in which there is a 3rd party search solution, I'll pick that over the native application search feature.

The next system update could remove search from Win10, and I'd never notice. I use Agent Ransack.

Why not? Federal judges have issued warrants based on hand-made phone call logs. Heck, warrants have been issued based on "this super-secret confidential file totally justifies a warrant. No, we can't show you, because it's super secret, but trust me, these blank sheets of paper, I mean super secret files are totally legit."

I guess my point is, apparently there are a lot of judges that by your standard are not in their right mind.

Quoting the president in the summary adds nothing to the facts of the story.

Meh, I never had an issue. I got an HP laser printer about 6 months ago, but for about 20 years before that I had a ink jets at home. I'd go months without printing, then print 20 pages in a day. I'd print a bunch of cards around the end of the year, and then not print again until April to print hard copies of tax returns.

I never had ink 'dry out'. I never had an issue with ink that was tied to the length of time a cartridge had been in the printer and not to the number of pages printed.

Yours is not the only comment I've seen on ink jets, but I never saw the issue. Either I'm just lucky or I bought good ink jet printers.

Not really. I was recently looking for a laser printer for my home office. I've had good experience with HP in the past, but kept hearing about this subscription thing. So I bought a highly-rated HP printer, with the expectation of returning it if a subscription was required.

It isn't. Basically this is either a case of misunderstanding or purposely misleading. HP has a subscription service, but it is not required. If you don't print that much or just don't want HP monitoring your ink use and automatically sending out ink or toner, then don't sign up.

I'm proud of it. It's not about keeping cords we don't need. It's keeping cords we might need. For example, just because I don't have a land line now doesn't mean I'm guaranteed to never need a cord with RJ11 connectors ever again. Same for parallel printer cables. Heck, just last week a friend needed a mini-usb cable, something I haven't needed in a decade or more. But I had 1.

I have gone through my collection and done some culling. For most cable types not in active use I only have 2 specimens. But I am currently in the process of going through my basement and giving away/recycling/throwing away things I don't need, and the box of cords and cables is one of the things that is staying.

First, I'm going to trigger this a dozen times just getting up to stretch my legs before anyone attempts to steal my laptop.

Second, the person stealing my laptop is after the hardware. Any kill switch to lock down or delete data is irrelevant.

Third, if my laptop does contain data that makes it a target beyond just pawning the hardware, why am I using it in public?

This is a curious proof-of-concept type toy, but I'm not seeing the real-world application.

Glad it works for you. For someone who wears glasses, putting on a second pair of glasses over their regular glasses definitely does not improve immersion.

For me it's like listening in on the most interesting conversation at a party. But I don't really listen to shows that are "somebody babbling away." The best are ones where the hosts have done research and come prepared not just with opinions, but some facts.

I listen to a lot of movie podcasts (http://moviesbyminutes.com/) and some of it is just people talking about why they love certain movies and what those movies mean to them, but more than that it's the behind the scene details, the tiny background easter eggs I might not have noticed, and other things that make it more than just babbling away.

Pretty all my podcast listening for the last few years has been Movies by Minutes (MbM).Each episode examines 1 minute of a movie. It's a great way to dig into the finer details of what makes our favorite movies so great.

There's a bunch of movies covered at:
http://moviesbyminutes.com/

And a shout out to one of my favs, Mad Max Minute, who recently wrapped up their coverage of Fury Road with an interview of George Miller!
https://www.madmaxminute.com/

Yup. When they're tired of months of winter every frickin' year, and their knees and backs hurt all the time, and hip surgery is on the horizon, they'll start looking to move to the exact same kinds of places.

This is why the 'ok boomer' thing is so hilarious. Pretty much every single person who uses it is going to end up exactly as what they're mocking.

$250 for headphones that work for 5 hours before needing a recharge and are expected to last a few years at most?

I've been using a set of Bose QC15 for about 10 years. I get a couple days of use from a single AAA battery. Takes about a minute to go from dead to full charge (aka replace the battery). I've replaced the ear foam and cord for a few bucks each. At this pace, the headphone jack will out of use before my headphones die.

When the subject of automated cars comes up, particularly from google, I think of their search results. When the search terms contain, for example misspelling, and they return results with a "did you mean..." that's great. When they go ahead and return results what they thought you meant to type, that's a problem. I estimate 19 of 20 times google does this I click the link to actually search for what I typed in. Search the internet it's an inconvenience. When it's my car taking me to the wrong location, it becomes a major problem. If I'm going to Manhattan, KS, I don't want my car driving to Manhattan, NY because more people go to NY than go to KS.

When a computer can use collective knowledge to make suggestions, that's helpful. But all too often these systems have been programmed to make decisions, not suggestions. That's an issue. If I search for 4 words, don't give me results with 3 of the 4 words. At least not as the top results. That doesn't match my request. And if no pages have been indexed with all 4 of those words? Then tell me that.

If I give an automated car a destination it can't find, I'd much rather it goes no where than just pick a place that seems "close enough."