Judging by the comments on the average YouTube video, I'm pretty sure it's considered antisocial media.

I agree, make health care a social right and decouple it from employment and income. It would be interesting to see what the CEOs come up with to blame for the next rounds of layoffs.

They'll hold Netflix up for even more ransom.

He and some family members have already been relocated because there were direct threats early on in his cooperation. Not sure he was afforded full-blown witness protection (new identity, etc.) but I wouldn't be surprised.

Let them pass the laws. A few days later, when headlines erupt about stolen "smart" guns being used in murders, or some cop getting killed because his "smart" gun wouldn't fire, the laws will go away soon enough.

Or crab advertisements!

This hit every other website a day and a half ago. Yes, it is of interest to nerds, and it is stuff that matters, but like so many stories posted here these days, it just isn't news and the discussion has already played out elsewhere.

Sigh.

This misses the point. Grandparent poster was insinuating that ceramic brakes are some uber-expensive (heh) item to replace, parent poster was refuting that.

How do parking meters work where you live? Around here, if I pay for an hour's worth of parking and leave 15 minutes later, there are still 45 minutes left on the meter for the next person who gets the spot, and they can immediately add more money if they intend to stay longer. The same holds true for a parking garage or even an honor lot (where you stuff the money into a box corresponding to your parking space number). Nobody has to wait for "my" hour to expire before they can use the spot.

States sharing this information is nothing new. If you get pulled over and have an outstanding warrant from most any other state, the cops will know about that, too.

I'd love to try, but I'm pretty sure half of those things would be illegal for "Joe Average" me to even attempt, and I don't have a few million laying around to bankroll FCC, FAA, and other necessary certifications to upfit a COTS drone much less develop my own. Unless you're Lockheed or someone, you don't have much of a chance in this arena, and then you can and will charge $350K per "system" and the government will pay it because nobody else is selling.

The headline came from the Reuters article.

Easy: lots of people get audited, many of them at random. Somewhere around 1% of returns are selected each year. Recent trends show that approximately 245 million returns (PDF!) are filed each year, that's almost 2.5 million people who will be on the receiving end of that damned envelope.

My father was hit with an audit this year concerning his 2012 return. He hasn't voted in 40 years, isn't even registered in this state, and he sure isn't making political contributions or starting up a charity. There's no history of tax troubles, he didn't file or claim anything new or unusual that year. He just "won" the audit lottery. Sometimes famous people like Dr. Carson win it, too.

The Windows Update site has not worked on XP for a couple years now, although I can't remember when it officially happened.

That's not accurate at all, Windows Update works just fine on XP SP3. You can install a fresh copy of XP today and patch it all the way "current" via Windows Update. You need SP3 either slipstreamed or as a manual download, but both are widely available. Once SP3 is installed, Windows Update will bring you all the way up to date (April 8, and then some).

Automatic updates turned off, going through the "Custom" button at windowsupdate.microsoft.com, guess what just showed up today on an XP SP3 machine running IE8? That's right.

Interesting. The actual AOL-produced client, or Pidgin with OTR?