Actually they do care about that money too ... they care about ALL money that they can possibly get, hence their "anti-piracy" efforts. DMCA notices are basically free but the lawyers behind them aren't ... when they got the DMCA passed into law and now when they continue to abuse it they show that they care.

It would be a far better world if the profits that you mentioned were sufficient for the movie studios, especially with how they manage their tax liabilities, but the cold reality is that they continue to go after people. Here is a recent example: https://torrentfreak.com/holly...

When the news that they had created the sample hit in the first place hit Slashdot there was a LOT of commentary with sources about how most likely this is not solid hydrogen ... this appears to be more simply another clickbait announcement.

The VAST majority of fingerprinting and most of the useful stuff relies on whoever is doing the fingerprinting running their javascript in your browser (client). Using something like NoScript to block javascript by default and limiting what you allow is quite effective at fighting fingerprinting.

Definitely not a magic bullet but it's super helpful for this and lots of other web annoyances.
Plus, you get to learn just how much useless javascript most sites want you to run (3rd party that has no impact on functionality)

meanwhile the humble quartz watch doesn't have much of an energy problem considering that batteries last on the order of dozens of months haha

I had a very similar experience, in terms of not having a watch for ages then finding that a basic watch was rather convenient.

I happen to find that having to pull my phone out of my pocket is dramatically harder than simply looking at a watch on my wrist. Sounds crazy but I had ditched watches long ago in favor of checking my phone for the time until I randomly received a watch as a gift. I started wearing it and realized how much more convenient it was! Seems like most people are so used to checking their phones that they forgot how nice having a watch can be (-8

8k is the next 1080p

Phil Spencer basically said all first party games will support crossplay between PC/XB and MS is actively encouraging developers to support it.

public SCADA bro

Nope. It's possible to lock out competition in an unregulated economy without undercutting them. Most obviously by affecting accessing to information.

you're not a fan of the PB&J program?

can't be

Not in California. Taxis and Uber are covered by different laws because California has specific laws for "transportation network companies" that apply to Uber (and Lyft and such).

You could say that IT & Finance were both wrong and that the data was right, or you could say that all of them were right and then you'd have an even better culture. The lessons to be learned from the article are trivial at best.

what exactly is cool about this?