The price increase is actually to offset how much it costs them to keep its Netware server running.

Intuit has a near monopoly with Quicken, and a major draw of TurboTax is having data flow into there trivially from the program that's already tracking your bank statement each month. If they still had viable competitors, they wouldn't be trying these tactics.

The best part is when the Intuit weasel tried to spin things his way in review comments, only to be moderated down to "Customers don't think this post adds to the discussion" invisibility. Quicken's quality has also plunged in the last five years, along with matching Amazon reviews. It's really sad to see such a formerly solid software brand swirling the toilet like this.

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Been tried already; see gnutls. We tried to switch from OpenSSL to gnutls as the preferred SSL library for PostgreSQL a few years back, even got some press coverage documenting the whole thing. But, sadly, OpenSSL has too many quirky APIs to make a transition away from it easy. And anyone who tries to be "bug compatible" creating a replacement to that mess is going to inherit some of the same bad design that needs to be burned with fire.

To a lot of content providers, the ads are the important parts.

Ads anymore seem to have lot of dynamically generated content that isn't fully known until after the initial page is downloaded and some Javascript is run, perhaps even inspecting the local computer and its cookies. When that happens, it's impossible for loading the ads to happen concurrently with the main content. You're guaranteed a whole second round trip before the ad content is available.

Occasional security vulnerabilities are inevitable, which means you always have to be careful what you're exposing to the world. AiCloud exposes way too much. The February disaster showed why it's just a fundamentally flawed idea.

These Asus models use AsusWRT, a derivative of the Linux based OpenWRT. All the source code is public, and there are even alternate builds that track Asus's code but with additional features. (The problem is fixed already in that one)

They are writing some major garbage in-house, like Asus's terrible AiCloud, but those are not the core routing features; those they just pull in from Linux. In this case, the bug is in the router side code that supports their "ASUS Wireless Router Device Discovery Utility".

In New York City, there are a few parks where people play chess with wagers on the game. It's ignored as a small problem. You couldn't play poker on the street without getting busted, because there's the perception that could turn into a widespread problem if allowed.

Whenever I bring a new computer up, I'm shocked all over again at just how slow browsers are before ad blocking is enabled. On most sites, all of the real content is there long before all of the ad and tracking content arrives. Today, nothing speeds up a slow computer and connection like Adblock Plus.

Casinos take a small amount of money out of each hand, the "rake". So if two perfectly matches robots play, the casino wins, as they slowly bleed all the money away from them both. These guys could have saved a lot of time. If you want a poker game where you always win, all you have to do was is the casino.

The distributors are trying to raise proft and shift the public blame toward the cable companies for high consumer prices. The cable companies are trying to hike consumer prices while blaming the distributors. These are not charities. Everyone involved wants a pound of flesh from all their TV-watching fatties..

Your cable company is doing what they can to make high profits. The end. Comcast spends less time even trying to spin away that they are greedy douchbags than other carriers. But it's not like Time-Warner or Cox have a great customer satisfaction side either.

You have this backwards. The profit made by the popularity of The Kardiashians is funding the less popular shows you watch. If things are unbundled, the price of reality TV shows can go down, as they make up for it on the ad side. You should then expect the shows you like to rise in price to stay afloat, now that they have less viewers funding the pot they're paid out of.

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He says he has damage to one ear, so it makes sense that to him Bose has great sound quality.