Amazon will just use this as an excuse to offer an upsell tier with "better cloud coverage" for people who absolutely positively need to have technology monitoring them and selling their personal information.

Think of the starving venture capitalists who will be unable to afford their cocaine habit if they can't profit off of this technology because of your low tech solution you insensitive clod!

This restriction excludes a lot of kids in the US!

Agreed. The real selling point of Winamp was the plugin and skin communities in a time when it was a PITA to customize the color scheme in Windows.

Knowing Amazon, they'll offer you an "ad free" version for a higher price like they did with their kindles

Knowing that the prison system charges an obscene amount for phone calls, I'm wondering who will pay for this? Will this be an additional charge on top of how much they charge for phone calls? Will the "AI company" be paying the prison system for access to the data they'll harvest?

That's one way to prove that AI is BS

They fed the AI a couple of scoops of 4Chan w/ Reddit sprinkles and a pint of Google.

I'd be happy if they'd confess to day drinking while posting.

Another reason why auto updates are a joke.

I suppose your device really is secure if it won't let you sign in!

If I were Apple, I'd have the sheep clicking LIKE for this feature..

Am I the only one worried that if Putin had them shut down, he's got a lot more power than we thought?

This could also be his way of showing the world that he does in fact have a lot of power. How many other world leaders can make a major malware gang shut down?

That's one way to get people to write what they mean rather than sharting out the non-speak dribble of emails.

Why tie a loan to the earning potential of a degree? Just because you have a degree in history doesn't mean you have to go into the field of... umm... err.. history!

A degree gets you past the HR drones and that's it. You get hired based on experience and NOT your ed-u-ma-kay-shun. No one gives a shit about Tarantino's educational background. They care about his previous films. If you got a masters in film, that does NOT mean you're the next Tarantino.

Anyone who takes a loan out for school knows the risk and it's made abundantly clear through the entire loan process - every year.

I call bullshit on the whining and crying about how the ages of 18-20 are "too young" or "too immature" to handle life choices like debt.

Look at history and look at what people were doing and accomplishing by the time they were 18. Literacy rates were a fraction of what they are today. Education levels were lower (yet arguably more satisfactory) than today.

When did humanity de-evolve resulting in this age range being treated so delicately as though they're children?

Grow up and take responsibility for your actions and stop blaming others. It's my great grandfathers fault for going to jail for bootleggers in the 20's because he owned the fact that he screwed up. It wasn't the land lords fault for charging too much rent.