You want my credit card number? Just convince Neil Gaiman and Joss Whedon to have a netflix-exclusive video lovechild. Boom. Done. Don't need to know anything about it. Do this, and I'm sold.

Seems like those nice people did a pretty good job of keeping you away from the drop bears, based on the fact that you still seem to have all your entrails. Be easy for a drop bear to get a fella' as he's staggering back from the bar...

If they're going to be like that about it, how's about setting up a copyright-free car project that you could build down at the local makerspace? You could probably do something on the order of complexity of the Ariel Atom without too much difficulty, and pull in an engine from a local junkyard. If that's what it takes to own your own car in this day and age, the guys the automakers are cock-blocking are more than capable of coming up with the designs.

Ah well as I said, my upload speeds to Youtube are ridiculous. I generate two or three skydiving videos a week and it used to take a couple hours to upload them all to youtube. I'll have to make a video of me uploading a video to Youtube, I guess...

I also had a problem, while on Comcast, where my computer waking up from hibernation would not be able to resolve DNS for several minutes. I'd be able to ping numeric IP addresses including Google's DNS servers, which I'd set the machine to use. But it would be several minutes before I could resolve names. That problem went away completely when I switched off Comcast.

So I'm getting gigabit speeds for $59 a month from an ISP that doesn't have the reputation for fuckery that your ISP probably does. Seems worth it to me.

Yeah, water in 30 years will be where gasoline is today. If it were 50 years ago, the country would just embark on a mega-scale water engineering project to move water between places where there is too much of it to places where there isn't enough of it. Don't see that happening in the current political climate, though. There's some sort of political warming process going on, in which the rhetoric is getting much too heated and causing all potential progress to grind to a halt...

I just picked up municipal fiber in Longmont, Colorado. The company has a page that lists a number of options you could use with their service. I went with the NetGear Nighthawk and am quite pleased with it. Most of the devices in my house are wireless, but I do have a couple of machines plugged into its wired ports and do get ludicrous speed with it. It's a pretty consistent 600 mbps up and down according to speedtest.net, and my one-to-two gigabyte skydiving videos upload to youtube faster than I can type the description of the jump.

I was just watching a video about this the other day. Dude explains that fake like fraudsters also tend to like facebook-promoted content to try to throw the fraud-detection algorithms off. Ultimately either method of promotion makes it harder for him to connect with people who are actually interested in his channel.

Perhaps he can install some astroturf to cover the unsightly bare spot where his lush, vibrant lawn used to live.

Also funnily there have been lawsuits over cloud seeding by people claiming exactly that.

Instead of paying nothing they'll just have to buy a cheap game with a stolen credit card? The monthly subscription fee never seemed to be a problem for the gold farmers in WoW or the isk farmers in Eve Online.

Aah, I remember back in the late 80's and early 90's everyone had a boner for microkernels. IBM even gave it a try, attempting to port OS/2 over to a microkernel so they could run it on Intel and PowerPC platforms. At one point, IBM's strategy was that they were going to build OS/2 around a microkernal and then just run THAT on all their hardware, with multi-user and security features added or removed as needed. Well, very long story, very long, they never could get it to work.

These days you don't see the same hype around microkernals that you did back then. So we should probably warn the HURD team: If your boner for microkernals lasts more than 25 years, you should probably consult a physician.

Hah, XKCD stays ahead of the curve as always. Hmm. Think I'll give TinderOS, Nest and something.js a miss and pick back up with "DOS but Ironically" until "Blood Drone" hits beta.

People have been trying techniques to beat death for thousands of years. Back in the day you'd build a pyramid and be mummified. The alchemical search for the philosopher's stone led to the birth of chemistry. A good bit of the early exploration of the USA was motivated by a fountain of youth. Well that and a city made of gold, because if you're gonna die you may as well dip your balls in gold on a daily basis before you do. NPR did a story on one of those cryogenic institutes a couple years ago, they didn't even last 10 years before they went bankrupt and let their... clients... thaw out. At least we remember the names of a lot of the guys with pyramids 5000 years later. Arguably that was a more successful technique, although in either case all those guys are still dead.

Game studios all over the world close pretty regularly. Seems like the only way to make it in that market is to churn out vast quantities of game, most of which will be complete shit. If any of those does accidentally end up being a good game, make a franchise out of it and pile sequel after sequel on it until you've extracted every last penny of possible value out of it. You can only really do this so long as you can keep the hype machine churning and you keep astroturfing all your titles.

I hardly ever go for AAA titles anymore. I'd much rather spend $20 or less on an indy title. If it turns out to be shit, I'm not out that much and my hit-to-miss ratio tends to be a whole lot better. I've gotten some remarkably good games that way. I think I've still put more time into Dwarf Fortress than the rest of my steam library combined. It has simple, nethack-style ASCII graphics and tends to bog down two or three years into one of the gigantic fortresses I like to dig out, but it's sill a ridiculous amount of fun.

And they're not going to do anything about it until it actually happens, because that would cost money and some douchebag CEO wants a fat bonus this quarter. There could be a law if you could get Congress to cooperate. And if they weren't all old and actually understood anything about computers. You'd think as much as most of them fly, they'd be worried about that. I'd guess if you ask any given one, it wouldn't even be on their top 100 list of things to be worried about. Probably not even on their top 100 list of things to be worried about while flying.