For example a Triad Series 12 point of sale / inventory management system. Used to be tens of thousands of them in auto parts stores everywhere. There are probably still a few hanging on out there. I spent 1999 trying to fix all our communications with them to get Y2K workarounds in place, and a number of years migrating data off of them to modern systems.

Apple? You're using a device that Apple has 100% control over. It doesn't matter if the usage is local when Apple still has the keys to come in and get whatever they want.

This FDA complaint is relevant to something like "sugar-free" gum. A piece of gum can be pure sugar, but because each piece is less than a gram they get to round it down and claim it's zero. Not arguing the benefits of some diets, but when you're counting every gram for dietary reasons all of those "less than ones" add up quickly.

It's Dances with Wolves in space.

In other news, Disney reports that the N'avi will be presented in green or orange only as blue N'avi are overrepresented.

Lightspeed Briefs!

At this point I really want a monopoly crackdown on Amazon just to make them split Prime into shipping and video as separate products. I'll happy pay for Prime shipping. I have no interest in their crappy video services any longer.

Netflix had plans that allowed for, for example, 5 HD streams. They chose to send users back to pirating instead of just giving users the streams they paid for.

Every one of these services doing this just saves my family money and keeps my Plex server busy.

I refused the various scanners for years. They'd request a pat down instead. Over the years they--I'm certain intentionally--got slower and slower with it. I had one time I ended up waiting 45 minutes for an "available officer" to do it. All while I had about $10k in computer and camera gear sitting on a scanner belt somewhere that I couldn't see it (something they are required to take care of and make sure it is in sight). I still hate that I gave in and started doing the scans after that bullshit.

Add to that the fact that none of them know their own rules on how firearms are to be handled, forcing me to violate laws on their behalf multiple times.

Post 9/11 there are exactly two things that happened that actually matter in terms of airport security:

- Hardened cockpit doors and protocols surrounding the use of those doors

- Passengers know to fight back and not capitulate to attackers

Absolutely nothing the TSA has done has been of any value what-so-ever. They constantly fail tests and have yet to verifiably have stopped a single attack.

Yep, I've been tempted to unplug the Onstar module in my truck for a while and this sealed the deal on it for me. Pain in the ass, but just getting rid of the occasional audio ad bullshit will be worth it.

So instead of absorbing the bandwidth to ingest a file once, they're going to make you download it and upload it yourself, so they still have to use the same amount of bandwidth AND waste the user's time and bandwidth?

Great thinking there, Microbrains.

My guess:

In the US, $4m per dose.

In India, $4 per dose.

Yep, my family is saving so much money now cancelling all these services. The shit content was already driving us away, but not getting the number of streams/screens you pay for was the final blow.

Who would have thought that a plot line in Barry, of all shows, would end up predicting the future?

What kind of utopia are you living in where seniors are using their debit cards? It feels like I'm always behind one of two groups: Either a senior with a check (who doesn't get any of this out until after the checkout is complete) or the welfare queen splitting payment between their food stamp card, cash and gift cards to cover their beer and cigarettes.

My biggest problem with self checkout is all of the Walmarts and Targets in my area that have almost eliminated all checkers in favor of self checkout. So now the problems like the above are just magnified as you now have one employee trying to wrangle 5 of those at a time.