The governments could just use jammers and blast a stronger signal. I am surprised they don't do it with cellphones tbh.

Re "accurate"...
Into a car, van, truck door from the side?
A house window..

There are countries who are legalizing weed and making walls to stop asylum seekers. Whereas India, believes in vasudhaiva kutumbakam "the world is one family" and will grant asylum to those suppressed and tortured minorities from nearby countries who seek. Facebook/whatsapp, etc. are repeatedly involved in promoting false and misleading fake news and messages around the world. India should get away from America pressure and ban American tech companies instead of banning internet.

It's the way of things; interfaces get made simpler because someone somewhere complained about it. Just look at Windows, every release has fewer customization options. I suspect some people complained about lousy streaming quality when they probably just had set up the lowest bandwidth setting by mistake.

gets to set who will be a citizen.
Not the internet, some NGO, the UN, a think tank...
Should India want grant citizenship to people from countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh ... thats for their elected gov to do...

Illegal migrants now in India should not expect free citizenship..

Roku did want a CC when I first got one, but it's only used when you purchase something. You can sign up with a burner pre-paid card. Generally it's only used when you use their paid movie/tv service (FandangoNow but in the past was Vudu). Ignore it and it's fine. When I got a replacement I used my existing account, so I don't know if you can skip the CC these days.

Hell, no. (You trolling??) By '97, PC gaming on both DOS and Winblows sas evolving so fast that you had to have internet access to keep your shit running right; those updated 3Dfx and/or Matrox drivers weren't going to obtain themselves and how the fuck were you going to patch Mech II Merc or enable higher-rez, hardware-accelerated Lara-Croft-ass in that off-the-shelf copy of Tom.Raider, without downloading the latest patch...?

Some chart time for NewRetroWave
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The Nvidia Shield is superior to other Android TV platforms so I'll assume you've not tried Android TV on it. I was put off by the price so I tried numerous other Android TV boxes before breaking down and getting one. I also tried all of the Rokus and the FireTV. What I appreciated about the Shield at first was that Nvidia negotiated directly with Amazon to get the Amazon Prime Video while Amazon and Google were nerfing each others apps on the others platform. So I didn't have to switch platforms to watch the service I wanted.They are also continually upgrading to the newer versions so your 2017 box still gets the updates the 2019 boxes get. Don't expect Samsung or Vizio to keep sending out updates on any of their sets that don't use Roku or AndroidTV.

I didn't want to like the Roku but they are so easy to use they are great for the technophobes in the family. I ultimately had to replace them with the Shield because I am using an SiliconDust HDHomerun Connect and, at the time, Roku did not support MPEG-2 decoding because they refused to license it. That's likely why they don't support DolbyVision either. The patents have since expired and they now support MPEG-2 and SiliconDust has recently released a client for the Roku to use the Connect so the only thing that still sets the Shield apart is Plex and Kodi support. Not something the technophobes are interested in. I think Roku has a solid footing as a neutral third party streaming box. As long as they stay out of the streaming battle others should see them as a large target audience and not a competitor.

This is often up to the streaming service itself. Ie, Hulu brings up the next episode of what you watched last as an option on the default page; Netflix has the "continue watching" list, and so forth.

People might if the flagship phones were the only ones with an analog headphone jack.

Does not sound very centralized. If no one group controls your organizations routing and/or vlan switching, that is an accident waiting to happen.

Roku is independent of streaming services, mostly (they recently have their own free streaming service with medicore movies). Apple TV is highly geared towards moves from iTunes. Google pushes their stuff presumably, but when I tried Chromecast the major drawback was that it had no remote control - it is amazingly clumsy to use a smartphone or tablet as a remote, and I don't know if they have a fuller featured device. Roku has been doing this essentially the longest (if you don't count Apple's early offering that few people bought and the company didn't support). It has the most channels for it, though this is a minor point unless you have a need for one of those obscure ones.

There's no real value-add to Roku because it's the leader, thus the default choice. It's up to the competition to figure out how to beat it at the game, and to be honest none of them have a must-have feature; unless you have a ton of content you purchased from iTunes or Google Play.

If your smart TV stops streaming but otherwise works, it would be dumb to buy a new TV rather than a $50 streaming device.

Automation could be nice, but this is sort of a niche market.

Also, everyone (using Windows) is still using Windows 10 Mobile. If you have a Windows laptop, desktop, touchpad, whatever, you're using Windows 10 Mobile. OK, there are some still on Windows 7, but Microsoft will be fixing that problem soon.

You can use your Roku account to sign up for pay services and theyâ(TM)ll combine them all into one payment, or you can sign into your existing accounts and they donâ(TM)t see it. Itâ(TM)s totally up to you.

Turkey wants them to keep genociding Kurds, I doubt they care about the Israelis much. A machine-gun-armed pilotless flying machine is exactly the right tool for shooting up Kurdish villages.

No one works at facebook. Facebook is basically the matrix. It was created by the computers, to learn about the humans. It even went so far as to make it's own robot named "Mark Zuckerberg". Yes, THAT Mark. Don't tell me that you look into that thing's "eyes" and feel like you're looking at a human. No, he's a robot. He's the "front man" for the whole operation. This whole story about the hard drives going missing and blah blah blah... it's all just to continue the illusion that actual people work at facebook.