Don't care. There's enough good content on pirate sites to keep me entertained for the rest of my life.

You're spending the money whether they "give" you the cable or not, because that cost is priced into the product.

Today's TiVo is to TiVo of yesteryear what today's Sharper Image is to Sharper Image of yesteryear: a pointless company bearing the name of something great that used to exist for real.

"Brightness" and "Backlight" are two separate controls in LCD TVs. You can check this with your TV. Go to the menu and you'll see the two separate controls. If you dial down the brightness, the backlight bleed stays the same.

Brightness is a software adjustment that affects the displayed image, and backlight physically turns down the LED intensity.

Shit-grade TVs don't control the LED intensity. They run them at 100% all the time and just software-dim the picture.

If you sell a phone wihtout a USB cable. or supply USB cables without knowing which brand it will be used with,

You bloody well better comply with standards!

I find plenty A to C and C to C cables at the supermarkets these days. They also have started showing up with things which take rechargeable batteries and just assume you have someplace to plug in a type C, which these days is fairly reasonable. For most phones it's perfectly safe to use a $4 cable, they are only drawing a few tens of watts anyway.

I'm gonna go ahead and answer you seriously, because why not? The answer is sustainability. Believing everyone should be entitled to the requirements for survival (e.g. food, clothes, shelter, medical care) as well as education (most people disagree only about how much) is different from believing that everyone should get everything they want. For example, you could believe that without working, you shouldn't be able to own much. Instead of handing people a bunch of money, you'd provide them with housing and food, etc.

But it's actually not sensible to do it that way, because if you give people money, they spend it and you tax it, and then they spend it again and you tax it again, and you get it all back eventually but in the process it induces a lot of work. And isn't work what you want done? So yes, of course you hand people money. And then instead of handing them food and necessities, people just go buy those things from this fearsomely efficient crap production machine we call capitalism, and the wheels keep on turning until we deplete our natural resources and/or destroy our biosphere with industry... at least, if the road we're on now continued. But that's not inevitable, it's literally only because we're continuing to allow big oil and friends to decide where we get our energy, how we're going to transport people and goods and so on.

Nonetheless, there were organizations which did drop them after their big no input validation fuckup.

I'm buying one of those new fangled RGB TV sets. Just in time for the Humphrey Bogart noir movie festival due to be broadcast soon.

[ ] Verify you associate with the mental condition formerly known as "being human".

Clownstroke is not required for compliance, there are other tools which do what it does.

The timing of an attack ad is good, but people have short memories, so the timing of THIS ad is crap. They should have released an ad like this within a couple of weeks of when clownstroke failed.

The failures on Linux could be repaired remotely, unlike the infamous failure that took down all of those windows machines. Not surprised you're trying to equate the failures, though.

Apple sells the devices to humans who then own them.

We do not need more houses. We need to seize them from those keeping them empty and put people in them.