New York isn't the only financial market in the world and if it is getting shut down you can bet the other markets will step up. Also the state is going to have trouble freezing assets that exist outside the state. Let alone freezing assets when the state government is shut down due to a lack of power.

Though from what I was seeing you could have got the same service without the data caps from Comcast. At least going back a few years I started getting hit with the offers from Comcast to move their high speed Internet plans without any data cap. As Comcast really wanted to pull customers from AT&T (I'm on their Uverse fiber 1GB/1GB with no data cap) and they couldn't do that with that 1.2TB/month usage limit.

Not high hopes given the material and the games I wasn't expecting some world shaking movie, but I was hopeful we could get an entertaining movie. Certainly there was enough material to make such a movie. Sad to see they apparently failed.

According to what I've heard the people who say they were talking to the Secret Service may have been talking to Trump's own people. After all they've all take on the same look even though Trump's people don't have any law enforcement capability and don't communicate using the same devices/channels as Secret Service. So it is entirely possible that Trump's people heard about the guy and either didn't think any thing of it or tried to communicate to USSS agents and failed for some reason. Again getting back to a failure of technology caused by poor decision making either in deploying the tech or testing it.

I don't blame Microsoft for the Crowdstrike fiasco. That's mainly on Crowdstrike for not properly testing their updates before shipping it. After all, they had a similar problem with Linux earlier this year. As for Microsoft they had little choice but to let Crowdstrike and others get that kernel access thanks to the Euros.

His long time partner , Charlie Munger, until he passed away, was also there helping to make decisions into his 90s. So it's not so much an age limit there is needed as some sort of competency test for leaders. Of course that has the potential to be manipulated to get rid of people so that needs to be considered.

You are right that the police shouldn't react the way they often do to one of these calls. However with the kid having done 29 of these calls (that we know about) there's no way he wasn't aware of what the police might do. He was likely counting on the police to over react which he got off on.

After all where is the fun in making a call to the police only to have them knock on the door and have a polite conversation with the home owner before leaving. He wanted the police to do more or else he wouldn't have kept trying to swat people. Was he hoping for a murder by cop? I don't know, but it certainly was a potential outcome of his continued calls.

Can't say that I blame them. They need to be in a city that is designed to handle huge influxes of people. Vegas is the perfect place for that as that's a city with a constant flow of conventions. I doubt the hotels will stop charging top dollar until the convention decides to move and then it will be too late.

As others have pointed out before they are US companies but they do lots of business in the UK. Hence there is the option for huge fines should Msft/ActiBliz go against this ruling. Of course the companies could decide to not do any business in the UK but that would also come at a huge cost. So, for the time being they will comply with the ruling while working to get the deal approved.

Depends on your time frame. It's expected that the results will be poor this year as even TSMC expects poor overall results. With all of the customers TSMC has they should have the best view on what the business looks like so I'm not expecting much this year. Next year is when things turn around. The only question is just how good will next year be?

Sure, if they allow Google Voice. Discord/Twitch set up their system so when they do verification they require a real cell phone number. Google Voice won't work. Neither will a land line through your cable company.

Agreed. I can't get use certain features of Twitch/Discord because they require a phone number. However, because my phone is through my Internet provider it won't handle SMS messages so I can't register and use those features. Same goes if I try to use a Google Voice account. It's also why I won't use a number of two factor security features because they also want a cell phone number. So while I have a phone number it's not good enough for what they want, and I don't need a cell phone. I like being disconnected when I'm away from work/home. Too many people I see are constantly on their cell phones all day long, even while driving.

I don't feel that strongly about it as he may have never used a car that had gotten rid of most of the buttons until recently. Certainly I can see why people (even someone like Ive) might think getting rid of all the buttons seems like a good idea in place of one consolidated interface. That is until you experience the hell that is the varied interfaces different manufacturers have come up. Watching Doug Demuro Youtube videos where he tests out different cars , old and new, and points out their various quirks and features has let me see many different interfaces that companies have come up. Some seem decent enough but most have flaws that real buttons would help resolve. Especially those that do things like put the radio controls three or four levels deep in their user interface which is not what you want in a car.

That was where I first became aware of the game. It was a great version that was faithful to the original arcade version (which also played quite a few times.)

This is the sort of thing that would tend to make me want to open the every door to see what was inside. Then walk away leaving the door open. It's never a good idea to turn your customers against you.