Not my fault that someone forgot to add their sarcasm tag.... ;-)

Says someone who isn't a hockey, or sports, fan with the Stanley Cup playoffs in progress...

This past weekend my Brother-in-law, nephews, and myself watched a bad Canadian Zombie movie. We were having a ton of fun making up our own Riff track. Granted, it's not exactly "watching TV" when you are actively participating.

I agree with you that watching TV tends to be a solitary experience unless it is a special sporting or broadcast event.

That being said, a majority of the population still watch TV. I know that a good percentage of people on Slashdot have cut the cord, but people who have done so are still the outliers.

Only in the world of mathematicians and statisticians.

In the real world, both would starve to death in the same amount of time (excluding the possibility that the cent is composed of either a precious metal or is a collector's item that would net the owner a sum larger than 1 cent).

Um... No... Not even 1% closer.... You do realize that hovering in mid-air is completely different than any wheeled application and requires new technology.

Reducing the wheels from 4 small wheels to 1 big wheel gets you no closer to a hover board than going from a rotary dialed wired phone to a touch tone wired phone got us to a cell phone. The cell phone required a completely different technology than a wired phone, no matter how fancy.

If this had been an article about a skate board that floated over a specialized magnetic surface, then I would agree that some progress was being made...

In my opinion this is somewhat interesting but the comparison to a hover board is simply being used as click bait...

I rent or buy Blu-ray, not DVD. I do stream every so often. However, the local Redbox, which is within walking distance, is cheaper. I did have Netflix for a while, but they suck for new movies so I dropped them.

I'm willing to bet that the energy use would reverse if they did the same study using Blu-ray quality bit-rates. The energy used to go to the store to rent would end up being the same (possibly lowed due to higher fuel efficiency) but the streaming energy cost would increase due to the higher amount of data being stored, streamed, etc.

Yet all of it in relatively calm clear conditions with no snow, salt, ice, -20 degree weather, high winds, driving rain, etc. to obscure or break the sensors....

I've heard that it can eat through solid rock, given enough time.

Yeah, I did this too. In fact, the first thing I did was to see if I could take it apart without breaking it. Being able to solve it this way meant that I didn't have to waste time try to solve it the normal way. People considered this method cheating, but I preferred to refer to it as thinking outside of the box.

Just for fun, I did, much later, solve it the normal way using a strategy guide.. The strategy guide was included in a box lot that my Dad won at an auction.

The default R/W community string for most devices is "Private". However, pretty much all network devices come with SNMP R/W disabled by default.

There are a number of ways to make SNMP a bit less open. For example, you can restrict sections of the MIB table. This is best practice for any router that is on the internet as SNMP can be used as a DDOS attack by constantly requesting the entire MIB table. In addition, access lists are your friend.

That being said, these manufacturers were just being really stupid when they decided to store user login information, even if it is hashed, in the MIB table. I can only guess that it was being used to share information with their management software and, instead of developing their own protocol, they decided to take a shortcut and use SNMP.

All the more jobs for the rest of us who realize that having a CS degree opens doors...

Personally, I'll never understand this attitude. Why would you not want to get a degree if it will open doors? It doesn't have to be expensive (most companies just check for the degree and the school rarely matters), you can do it online, and, if you investigate it, your employer may even pay for it.

I ripped all of my CDs to FLAC using EAC along with each album's CUE sheet. I then store the FLAC on DVD media and the MP3 on my computer. The oldest one is about 10 years old now. All of the original discs are in storage. This does remind me that it's probably close to that time to migrate from DVD to Blu-Ray.

I don't store the FLACs on a hard drive because even magnetic media will degrade over time if not refreshed. I do store digital copies of my movies on my hard-drive but I'm constantly upgrading the drives where my movies are stored every few years for more space.

I buy MP3s (Amazon) for single songs that I like but I still buy compact discs for music that I really enjoy and want to keep an archive. Plus, the sound comes out better if I rip it myself and I like having the physical media. If nothing else, it's physical proof that I bought the music.

Multiple controllers on the same TV?? Sure, it looks like a lot of fun in the movies but whenever I've sat down with more than one person on a console the lack of screen real estate due to split screen kills it for me. You really need an 80" TV to do it right.

If you were right that the console makers actually cared about local multi-player, wouldn't you think that they would have built-in multiple TV support by now? Instead, the Xbox has multilink, which requires a separate console per player.

I do think that Dual Play for 3D TVs will improve two player games. I also think that there will be much more refined support for multi-player and controller on the PC as the Xbox and PS4 are basically PCs. This makes ports much easier to do while retaining full gamepad support. I can't remember a recent game that didn't have it....

Well, I have a horse in this race and it's already won, been given the ribbon, watered down, fed some oats, and released into a nice pasture to frolic with the mares. It's called a PC and you don't have to worry about bundling, Kinect, being locked out of DLCs (aka Skyrim), etc.

Add a car with 911 service and a Kindle and you are up to 5 pretty quickly.

This list likely includes law enforcement trackers, military devices (devices that are not using MIL sats), and whatever the security agencies are using these days. Also, don't forget mifi devices, airplanes, and probably a ton of other crap that we just don't know about.