Sorry to burst your bubble, but when someone has to pick up cigarette butts from a barracks full of smokers who are such pigs that they throw the butts on the ground, the social convention of not ratting out your fellow men eventually disappears. Especially since only about one fourth to one third were smokers, so most of the ones picking up the butts were non-smokers.

We aren't talking about having each others' backs in combat. We are talking about having to pick up others' biological waste. Those who put is there should pick it up.

Speech recognition is nice until you fail to notice the added text by your cubicle next door neighbor. I had this issue at home in my home office when my roommate would come in an utter the words my mac recognized as the shutdown command. Pretty annoying, and not an uncommon experience 20 years ago. And handwriting ??? We stopped teaching cursive in many schools, and even with cursive, I type faster.

So my future preferred input method is thoughts. "Think it. Compile it. Run it."(tm)

Protip: One-handed typing makes Keys Sticky.

Ftfy

... and would we ever know?

Just double the fine every time they're caught littering. It'll start hurting very quickly even for a billionaire.

If you need help enforcing it, give the fine based on video recordings instead of requiring police eye-witness. If the video comes from a layperson, then give them 10% of the fine. Pretty soon you'll have lookouts on every street and alleyway.

The solution is actually much simpler: make a "CrowBar" where the crows can go have a dump and get food in exchange.

A friend of mine trained his parrot to shit in ashtrays so crows should be able to learn that, maybe other birds too.

To refine the system, add bird facial recognition across stations and keep track of the intake versus the outtake and refuse to dispense food if the bird is not "clean".

I thought that the Chinese promoted internal competition for the best products. And then to market these same products worldwide. Trump's and the GOP's preoccupation is Trump vs GOP vs News Agencies and Trump Vs healthcare and Tax reform that would line Trumps kids, and Trump himself with multiple millions / billions of dollars.
Now we have to ask, "Are the hurricanes that were experienced and the fires in California just freak accidents, or a coming annual event?
With natural disasters, can the USA afford to reduce corporate income tax? Maybe, corporations should look at director and VP salaries and bring them down to earth. The money saved there should go to the shareholders. -- whoops, I am dreaming. When are the shareholders going to get a fair deal?

Will they have an appropriate WTO compliant export license? But seriously, why don't the send up a module that can steer it back to a known safe reentry.

You thought cable was too expensive?? It is cheaper to keep her.

So, just like Ikea?

Game consoles can hold 10 games and no multimedia at 1 TB high res games. There are lots that would like to see more.

Most newspapers have transitioned into a hybrid online/paper model. The cable TV model can follow. They have the rights to shows in the area. But they don't have any local streaming setup. There are piles of options they refuse to even consider, sounds like the newspapers, right after subscriptions flatlined and before the cliff.

let's see, each human is about one square meter (2 x 0.5) of target area so 7.5E9 square meters of humans divided by 5.1E14 square meters of surface area = 0.0015% chance of someone getting hit which actually sounds rather high to me.

I am not a sports fan. I pay a regional sports fee. Why? I get over 200 channels. Watch, tops, a couple dozen. Why pay for the others? Ala carte is suppressed by the cable and satellite providers, but it is how to save their industry and negotiate lower fees to the source owners. Why license CNN if only 5% view CNN? The single purpose channels are also a losing proposition. And then there are the nickel and dime fees, extra receiver, pay $7.99 a month. DVR ability, pay per month, HD pay per month, 4K WOW pay per month. Formerly you'd subscribe to a movie package and the next would cost less, then less for the third, etc. Now they not only cost more per package than Netflix and way more than Amazon (with Prime Video as a perk)... Video on demand? A great concept, except it also comes with commercials you can't fast forward through. And you're paying for it already. I used to get every channel except sports and it cost about $90 a month. Now my basic "total choice that is far from total" costs that, and it more than doubles with all the added fees. Add that to "buying" a DVR/Receiver that you are really leasing monthly after paying them more than the cost of manufacture for a device locked to their system... Wow. If they started reducing fees and negotiating cheaper costs, like put networks in a selectable package and see how fast the network stations dropped their ask for presence. Yes, You pay for the networks through higher fees, and the networks still get to count you for advertising rates. Everyone is asking a bit too much and the broadcast model is going to collapse. I really want to eliminate the high cost of carriage of sports channels etc. Watch their ad rates drop as people are no longer counted as potential viewers. Then watch as the cable providers demand cheaper fees. And then watch as they fail to pass them on and still fail.

AT&T keeps making unattractive offers that aren't really competitive with Comcast's intro offers. AT&T is particularly notorious for demanding 2-year contracts on Internet plans, capping the monthly data allowance fairly low, and yet not even offering an attractive price.

So it's no wonder AT&T is losing subscribers.

I just don't understand why AT&T isn't at least trying to make a competitive offer, especially for Internet alone.

Thanks.

I'm not anti-Apple, but I'm not a fanboy either.

I've had a Mac, a PowerPC 7200/75 running System 7, and then OS 8.0. I've also had a graphite G4 tower running OSX. Every smart phone I've ever had has been an iPhone, currently on the 7.

I've also recently purchased a Surface Pro 4, a line of product notorious for not being repairable due to being glued together.

However, I am also a tinkerer. I've built PCs, and upgraded PCs. I write some primitive code, and modify scripts and source code when necessary. Even with Windows 10 forcing upgrades down the pipe, there are ways to mitigate the damage, or revert changes that break a device as thoroughly as the iPhone issue. System Restore for one, external/alternative input devices for another.

The Apple approach with the iPhone is really anti-American, and anti-Capitalistic. Its not even individualistic, because it is disempowering the individual, to empower the corporation. I can see it being somebody's dream of the only support being first party support. Unfortunately, the economy is neither flat nor linear. The economy is rather dynamic, and fluid, and adaptive. Which means it is best served by having more control at the consumer's end regarding repair options, not the manufacturer's end. Not unless Apple's dominance is superceeded by thousands of smaller more locally tailored operations, which wouldn't be able to compete on price due to the efficiencies of manufacturing in larger scales.

Oh I see, when there is a budget deficit the government just goes +100 billion to their account and problem solved. Need another 50 f35 just electronically add 20 billion, need 100 more schools just +30 billion to the education budget ;)
Now that I think about it how does the orint e money actually go into the financial system ?

City governments that allow their cable franchisees to charge less for Internet and TV than for Internet alone likewise "deserve to die a quick, but painful, death. Scum."

Bundle pricing. Some Slashdot users report being quoted a smaller monthly rate for a bundle of basic television and Internet than for Internet alone, even with surcharges for local channels, regional sports, and CableCARD rental. In other words, DOCSIS operators are dumping TV service on their subscribers.

Why compete when you can collude with no risk?

Cord cutting is not the reason, it is merely the symptom.

The cable companies are regulated utilities, granted monopoly in the areas they operation. They pushed through rate increase after rate increase, bundled useless channels, had abysmal customer service and all the arrogant entitlement attitude that comes with being a monopoly.

All their infrastructure has already been paid for thanks to friendly regulators and relentless rate increases. They could have dropped their prices and made it impossible for the wireless companies to compete. They could have improved customer service. But no. They believed they are entitled to cash delivered to their coffers in fire hoses. They believed they had the customers by their balls and wanted to how hard the customers will scream and how hard they can squeeze.

They can still fight back. Their infrastructure has been paid for, and it has much larger bandwidths than cell towers. They can compete if they wanted to compete.

But they don't want to compete. Looks like.

It was a hell of an achievement to get it up there and working as long as it did, but it experienced failure before its projected end-of-mission - that kind of puts a limit on the "quality" score.

If you want to talk technical and quality achievement, look at Spirit and Opportunity, Voyager, Cassini, and so on.

If they're colluding, they're not a competitive duopoly.

No. The solution is that there should be such backlash and such bad press from advertising on sites for high profit companies centered around highly sensitive information, like Equifax and Transunion, or sites which contain HIPAA protected information, etc., that risking malvertising should result in the immediate firing of a CEO, CIO and CTO.

They should not be forgiven for this. Forgiving them only encourages negligence in the name of profit. What benefit is it to the consumer to have their data and personal computer put at unnecessary risk? What benefit is there to the economy to increase the amount of micromanagement required of every citizen?

Alcohol IS a drug, and the one that causes the most harm to self and others.

I love how Comcast keeps sending me adverts to purchase their "Triple Play" package - Internet, Cable TV, IP-based home phone. We haven't had a "home phone" in years, thanks to our cell phones... and we cut back to the lowest tier cable + internet package several years ago. The only reason we keep even THAT is my wife likes all those silly NCIS:SVU:NKVD:IOU series that've been on forever.

It's bad enough that the price of Comcast's lowest Cable Internet + TV tier has climbed to $85 a month now in this region... but still, even that's $55/month less than we were paying them before we "downgraded". But why on earth do they think we'd want to start giving them $200/month - or more - to add a pointless home phone line? Their thinking is apparently still rooted in the 1980s...

Start offering services a la carte, at a reasonable price, and many of us might consider signing up again. Persist in your ridiculous extortions tactics, whereby to watch a couple of channels that people are interested in they have to pay for dozens that only carry junk, and expect the rate of defections to increase. Your call.

Or dry them, powder them, and stick them in capsules. No taste at all!

Nice bit of editing on that opening episode:

"she is hit by the toilet seat of the re-entering Space Station"

Looks up, squints, "Ahh, shi.....BOOM

The largest cost in a typical standard non-premium bundle is sports. In short it is forcing people to subsidize sports fans. No wonder people are going to cheaper non-sports alternatives where live TV is not that important.

Back when I smoked I carried around a little latched tin container, it ain't hard.

Oh you're one of them...

It seems another case that we would like to find any opportunity to derogate China, even when it is clearly a case of technical and quality achievement?

Wikipedia entry on this space station: Tiangong-1 was initially projected to be deorbited in 2013,[11] to be replaced over the following decade by the larger Tiangong-2 and Tiangong-3 modules,[12] but as of June 2016 it was still aloft, though in a decaying orbit.

Unfortunate timing?

Hopefully it is fortunate timing. This malvertising is a matter which needs attention, and companies with information that has been considered sensitive, like Trans Union and Equifax, should not be vulnerable to malvertising. Especially if they are so lucrative.

They're not Google, they don't make money from advertising to visitors to their site, right? How many people used their site and clicked on their ads before this incident? This shouldn't have been a problem to begin with. This isn't Facebook or MSN.com, this vulnerability ahouldn't have existed to begin with.

But what really, do you think is going through a CEO's mind?

While I sympathize especially with employees that may lose jobs, I have no mercy for companies that used to gouge ordinary folk with tens of [useless] channels in the not so distant past.

Get in touch with them - why? For commiseration? It's not as if the newspaper and publishing industries have figured out a solution either.

First:
I subscribe to one of the dish TV services. They rave about how great they are offering me 180-something channels. Of which I can find something to watch on exactly four. The rest are sales blurbs (lots of sales blurbs) or religious pandering for not-my-religion or Spanish language or ancient re-runs. (sorry, no offence meant, but I don't speak Spanish. Now where are the German language channels? But I digress). So I am paying all this money to watch my local city's news at 9:00, weather, an occasional old movie without commercials and re-runs of the Big Bang Theory. I don't care about the other 180-something chunks of wasted bandwidth.
Second:
I remember the early 1980s when cable was first starting to penetrate the markets. Their big claim was that rather than all the commercials on broadcast TV I only pay a single monthly fee and watch commercial-free television. Then the marketeers discovered that they once again had a bunch of captive eyeballs. So I surf past a movie that I should like. It's theatre length was 72 minutes and it runs from 6:00 to 9:00. Three hours. guess what they fill the extra time with?

Cable and satellite TV are dying because they are dinosaurs milking an old abusive business model and not understanding how the world has changed.