Roughly 13mbps download speeds with a 4 terabyte limit for $40 a month. With that limit you're hard pressed to hit overages.
Cuba has better internet via physically shifting bits than the majority of the US.

Sheer word space. The two Fallout sentences are barely one quarter the actual space of the summary. Plus the title doesn't even mention it.

How is the Fallout 4 stuff a minor footnote at the end?
I'd hazard a guess most of us watching the live stream just tuned in for the Fallout stuff.

Youtube to the rescue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Soul Music is what go me interested in Discworld, and Sir Christopher's portrayal of Death was a big part of that.

Correction, they had the elastic from Bill Nye's loafers.
It's what gave them the knowledge to get his far. But then the Warehouse agents got a ping about an engineer being haunted by a disembodied voice saying his name with every step he took. Now the elastic sits on a shelf between Don Herbert's chemistry set and Jamie Hyneman's beret.

That was my question. But a quick google says he's the Silk Road guy.
So now for me the missing option is "Meh"

They claim evidence that the corruption was carried out on US soil using US banks. That's better reasoning to me than "Fifa is multinational and under no one's jurisdiction" as they will claim.

But frankly the fact the US isn't completely obsessed with the sport like some other nations will go a long way to keep things impartial.
If fifa threatens to ban the US from world cup consideration you can expect a very heartfelt "oh darn" as a response and the investigation will continue.

Battery cartridges made by HP's inkjet division.

It's a form of quantum encryption. Someone snooping will change the bits, causing errors. Once you detect errors you can shift garbage data down the line till they give up.
The idea came from observing teenagers talking to each other as a parent walks by.

Declaring a patent invalid yourself and trying to do the courts job pretty much guarantees you end up in the "lose some" catagory.

But adding more people and more money does let them churn out sequels like kleenex. All they had to do was get the bare essentials down to hook the newly opened "Bro" market and they can sell yearly rehashes with record profits.

EA is the mcdonalds of the gaming industry. Poor quality and no one with any self respect would admit to liking them. But every once in awhile you end up going there to satisfy a craving.

So yeah, not really a Dark age but more of a Fast Food age.

Ms. Manners Guide to Civilized Computing?

"One should always keep a clean and tidy desktop so as not to offend the sensibilities of one's guests. Remember Sir Cupertino's rules for icon placement: editors on the left, utilities on the right, and games tucked away in a neat folder to the right of the desktop center to provide easy access without drawing too much attention. Unless, of course, LAN Party rules have been invoked. At which point the editors must be placed out of view and the games spread out in colorful yet tasteful folders sorted by genre.

If one finds one's self visiting another's desktop then one should to bring a gift for one's host. A vintage RTS of a good year is thrifty but always welcome.
Endeavor to avoid cookies or reading materials of the fanfictional variety."

Probably more like 7% reduction in people who pirate. And most of those would be kids who lost their in room PCs when mommy and daddy got the notice.

People don't all pirate the same amount, so changes in infringer numbers don't equate to an identical change in traffic amounts. The industry knows this and uses both interchangeably depending on whichever supports their case the best.
Here, as always, there is little to no context so we don't know the actual effect of the notices. We just have to take them on their word.

Yup. A bunch of cheap single boards with ethernet would work. Like raspberry pi.
Strip down the OS and script it to push the update from a given directory on boot up. Then you can just clone the SD card for 4/8/16 devices and update them with the new firmware as needed.

Pi, case, battery with power switch, small SD card. $50-$75 a piece depending on how fancy your want to get with the case and battery.

Basic math.
Top of the line AMD FX-9590 processor, $260. Top of the line Intel i7-5960X processor, $1050. (blatantly lazy, I just sorted newegg's processor list by price)
Intel's performance lead over AMD, nowhere near 4x.
I can't think of a normal situation that justifies that big of a price difference for the performance. I can build a whole second AMD computer for the price difference.

Intel spent billions over the last 15 years kneecapping the competition. Any advancements they have right now is less than what we could be using today if the fight had been fair. Intel could very easily have been the top dog in a fair market, but we will never know.
So you know what, go ahead. Call me a zealot all you want. I'll just stay happy over here knowing I don't supporting a company that is actively hampering progress.