You will be paying more money anyway.

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The streaming prices are currently being kept low to build the customer base and lure people away from cable TV. Once a critical mass of streaming customers is reached, the content providers will begin raising the prices they charge to the streaming companies.

The content providers have done a similar thing with cable TV (causing most of the monthly price increases). It worked for them with cable TV, they will try it again with streaming.

Netflix is just trying to get their ad placements in place before the content providers start demanding their larger piece of the pie.

How many times have companies told us that they do not plan to do something, only to do it a year or two later?

I stopped using Netflix for DVD rentals because more and more of the DVDs I was receiving had non-skippable advertising before the movie started. Now Netflix is going to start chasing away their streaming customers because advertisers want to place forced-viewing ads before program streams.

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Netflix is becoming part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Ahhh... good point. My friend telecommutes. As of a year ago, his company stopped paying for his Internet service, saying that everyone has Internet service now. So the company effectively has an employee with no, zero, none, zilch office costs.

and cubicles cost less than walls.

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If you want to follow the trend, find a way to put people in an office that costs less than tables.

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Maybe cushions on the floor?

It runs Android --- How much data harvesting does this box do?

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Given Android's reputation, I'd say that it sends to google everything I do and watch on the box, and then some. Does a microphone stay open all the time?

There is absolutely no reason to send anything to my friends or family based upon what Uber finds rummaging through my phone.

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If any of my friends or family want to receive such advertising, they should be the ones who need to approve the privacy policy. I cannot approve it for them.

So you move the cost of losses from the DC to AC conversion to the cost of significant increases in the amount of copper needed to wire a house and the internals of power-hungry appliances.

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Seems to me a better solution would be to research ways to convert from DC to AC more efficiently. Currently there's up to a 40% power loss. That's just begging for some research money....

Really, I have to wade through 11 minutes of someone's ramblings? I usually read the typical /. summary in less than a minute.

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Given the current state of security in "smart" automobiles, who would want to be able for anyone to plug something into the USB port of the car's entertainment system and completely update the software for the car?

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Isn't that just asking for your car to be hacked?

The icons are the first things the user sees when the desktop loads. The icons are what is shown when the notebook or PC sits on display in a store.

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The icons are the visual "come hither" for the operating system. An OS with unappealing icons has to work harder to appeal to customers.

Well, now it looks like US corporations are flexing their muscles in Europe, reducing democracy there after all but buying legislators here in the US.

Probably one of the most unappealing set of icons that I've seen in a long while.

Configurability is slowly being removed. Remember how configurable the UI used to be before the Australis disaster hit?

Those comments started out as constructive criticism. However, Mozilla pressed on with their determination to ignore and alienate users.

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Now Mozilla is getting the criticism they have earned.

Mozilla/Firefox has a problem. A big one. The first step in solving a problem is to identify its cause and not, as you attempt, to blame others for Mozilla's self-inflicted problems.