Or if you prefer, Google Earth...

Location on Google Maps.

That's what I was thinking. I'm encouraged that there's actually a precedent now of calling this bribery.. I'm hoping it will make it easier to change the narrative when the next politician or lobbyist gets "caught" and uses the "but everyone is doing it" defense.

Have the labels given up chasing the uploaders with criminal charges and enlisted the ISPs in policing what is essentially only a civil copyright violation? Or is the press glossing over the difference between a civil infraction (downloading a product without a license) and a criminal charge (making a copyrighted product available to others)?

Not too long ago, they left the people who downloaded songs and movies alone, as long as they weren't also uploading it at the same time. That implies the use of something other than bittorrent, which I suppose is also less noticeable and harder to detect and track.

If they are now triggering on just the act of downloading, that's a recent development that a friend of mine would like to know about. He uses a modified leech-only torrent client that cannot "make available" any of the content he downloads, assuming that makes him safe against criminal charges and too small to attract the labels attention.

Assuming management doesn't have to wait in line to punch their time cards, it would probably be a while before they noticed.

Assuming also that surveillance is everywhere in these warehouses, they'd eventually track you down and can you once they did notice...

Can confirm. We bought our current home relying on Comcast's map of where coverage is available. Comcast's map was a lie. Turns out they are notoriously unreliable.

I call BS. I routinely deploy 30+ core Linux systems with 128GB RAM and multiple TB of storage into client data centers. I often deploy a little consumer-grade dual-100Mb travel router along with them that runs a purpose-built OpenWRT firmware. It calls home via WireGuard and gives me secure access to the big system's lights-out management port. I bought a lot of 10 of them for less than $30/ea including a UL-listed USB power adapter and all cables. I couldn't even find an enterprise version, but if I could it would likely be several hundred dollars and take up 1U rather than tuck into the cords on the side of the rack.

OpenWRT is made to survive power cuts, and runs the same stateful iptables firewall as enterprise Linux versions. I trust its security and suitability every bit as much as the heavy iron.

Nah, still BBT. It's a Saturnalia miracle!

I think I saw a study somewhere that valued the data they were collecting at some ridiculous amount, like on the order of $230/mo. Way beyond what most people would be willing to pay for it...

For a data-mining-free Facebook to be feasible, we as a society need to either value privacy more or reduce the value of the data their mining. The later is most feasible via regulation, but won't happen until we can ween the congresscritters off of PAC money.

Overturning Citizens vs. United should be the first step.

This! Putting connectors on all sides of the board shows a disconnect between the engineer doing the layout and people who might actually use the board.

Seriously. I'm happy to see the population there is waking up to the censorship they're under. I think many still believe their leaders have their best interests at heart in keeping information from them. When they setup ways to bypass censorship so they can view their favorite Friends episodes, they may be able to use those same ways to view uncensored news feeds. Only then will the wall crumble and their leader's crimes be exposed.

I disagree.

I'm familiar with the expression, but it is usually reserved for a situation where some entity is messing up an area in which they must coexist. If someone is sleeping around with all of their coworkers, they are creating a toxic environment for themselves, and soon their workplace (the bed) will become too toxic (shitty) even for them.

In this case, SpaceX is messing up the landscape occupied by their competitors, but not in a way that directly affects their own success, IMO. SpaceX may be shitting in Boeing's bed, but only because SpaceX doesn't sleep there. Boeing's bed, so to speak, just doesn't matter to SpaceX, as they are in a league of their own when it comes to space contractors.

Saying "the bed" implies there is only one bed and everyone must sleep there. The lobbyist should have said, "They're shitting in our bed," but that makes it sound like competitive jealousy, which is what this seems to be.

This was covered way back in 2013 here on

From that article, Ian Hickson of Google and HTML5 fame wrote

Unfortunately, as Google is also famous for shutting down services, the original article was on G+ and is no longer available.

Don't bother with the Nebula brand soundbar that has FireTV built-in unless that will be the only device you use for a TV. It's supposed to work as a vanilla soundbar accepting audio via ARC. It doesn't. Well.. it does but it keeps switching to FireTV mode where it sends video and no longer receives ARC. I returned mine, but I'm sure I'm included as one of the 150 million anyway.