I'm about to cancel Hulu because they won't differentiate the ad-supported content from the ad-free content I'M PAYING FOR. At least Prime makes this distinction clear. If Netflix muddles their content, I'll cancel them too.

It's literally the whole point of the last section of the article. There's a US company that wants to get involved with the technology again, but they can't get a license from the DOE.

There are exactly 2 steps in this process. 1) Fix 2077 for the relaunch on PS5/XBX. 2) Make a Witcher 4, and make it as good as W3. (Good luck on that one.)

Just sounds to me like a cagey way to capture and track EVERYTHING about a user's browsing history, across EVERY site they visit, without needing cookies and web bugs and all that other nonsense. Even Facebook can only track so much, when some sites don't download their script. When you look at it like that, it's no wonder PG is all about this.

Even $179 sounds cheap. When I first got curious about what it would cost to buy an actual copy of a movie back in the rental craze days (even before Blockbuster), I remember them costing more like $700. Then I understood that the studios were making sure to price them for rental company purchase only. Which, of course, encouraged piracy, and yada, yada, yada; that old chestnut. But, yeah, they WERE really expensive at the time.

I've got some sad news for you. All consumer-grade products are made by the same few companies, and they're ALL crap. I learned this the hard way by trying to really get serious about researching the appliances for a house I was having built, and the highest-rated units I could find from "Consumer Reports" and other reviews all -- ALL -- had serious breakdowns within 2 years. (I replaced the washing machine and dryer with used refurbs from a local shop. The guy wouldn't even take my old units on trade, because he knew they were junk.) My parents bought a "good"-level washer and dryer from Sears when they got married, and those units lasted 25 years. The only way to get actual "BIFL"-quality appliances these days is to buy "commercial" versions, and pay 5x-10x more.

You're not paying attention. Why do the legwork? All they have to do is give Facebook and Twitter a couple of bucks, and those platforms will put their message in front of hundreds of thousands of right-wing nutballs.

I've been ranting on Twitter about the shortage of PS5's, and thinking that maybe I just spent a little more and build a new PC. I guess that's going to be even more frustrating that trying to find a console! This is starting to smell like a conspiracy to collude and drive up silicon prices!

A few years back, I finally got so fed up with the care and feeding of Windows that I bought a PS4 Pro, and gave my gaming rig to my son. For me, it's been a great move. (I've since put an SSD in it, but that didn't speed things up as much as I would have liked.) I love the simplicity of a console, the exclusives on Sony (Horizon Zero Dawn has become an all-time favorite), and NO CHEATERS ON BATTLEFIELD. I'll be buying a PS5 on launch day, with the biggest hard drive, and as much stuff as I can't get with it, no questions asked, and no matter how much it costs.

Seems like an opportunity for your Pi-Hole to block this sort of thing from leaving your network. Does anyone know if it does, or could?

All of this is swell if you handling classified state secrets. My company's departmental PowerPoint presentations on how little IT got done on the project this week aren't worth this sort of hassle.

There's NOTHING at my company I think is worth this hassle.

There's probably NOTHING at 90% of the companies using the recommendations in TFA that are worth the extra hassle.

But SOMETHING has to justify the IT budget, and make users feel like SOMETHING is being done. And that's why our computers keep getting more and more of a hassle to use, in the defense of literally nothing of value. And while they work on this crap, the projects we NEED them to do slip further and further behind.

My company makes developers use a separate account for privileged operations. So I wind up entering a second set of credentials several DOZEN times a day. I literally just spent an hour and a half fighting this to try Elasticsearch. Ultimately, there was so much confusion caused between installing under the privileged account, and running it under the normal account, that I finally just uninstalled it, downloaded the zip, and ran in by hand in a command window. (Thank goodness the Elastic guys offer this sort of option. I imagine that situations like mine are not uncommon, and the reason for it.)

I was exhausted from the exercise, and browsed Slashdot with the hanging thought... How could this situation be any worse? And Slashdot provided. Thank you.

For the love of God, please don't tell anyone in my #CorporateIT about this.

And it's telling, that this is the best alternative.

I read an article awhile back (which I can't find now) that talked about the deep and extensive work it's taking to allow us to finally (finally!) have a real terminal on Windows. It's not surprising that they've taken this long to do so, and tied it in with a new WSL. It's a LOT of work, which will impact a LOT of existing code.

As someone working for a company which is talking very heavily about digitally securing the code in our products, I fall on the other side of this conversation. I think we should make it EASY to hack our stuff. There are legitimate reasons to do so, but it CAN possibly be dangerous. The law should protect us from whatever people do to themselves in the process.

You should allowed to do whatever you want with stuff you "bought and paid for." But if you "break" it, you void the warranty, and you get to "keep both halves." Seems like a terribly simple and clear tradeoff to me. This is all the right-to-repair legislation should say. Owners of things should get to do whatever they want to them, free of legal repercussions, but then the company that made the product should be free of any legal obligations as well.

I thought I deleted it my account 2 years ago. Like, I specifically went through a process, according to some web site, that was supposed to delete it -- not just deactivate it. I recently found that I needed to recreate an account. Lo and behold, I couldn't use my same email address. I reset my password. Everything was still there.

We all understand that they never delete anything from their side, but, at this point, I'm not even sure they have removed the stuff you think you've deleted from your timeline for anyone else.