Why not?

It's physical media. If I want to take all my DVDs and BluRays and sell them, I have a perfect right to do so. Why is Netflix any different?

They had a "secret" menu that allowed your to install all kinds of free third party channels, mostly for free.

About a year ago, they scuttled that private marketplace, and anything that had been installed from it was deleted from your device.

I've a feeling that it would be like reading through a tiny window. The page changes would come so quickly that it would throw me out of the immersion.

Reading on a phone provides a much shorter page than with either a paper book or my current e-book readers. It's one of the reasons I don't care for using my phone to read long-form text. This would be even worse in that respect.

I have no love for Chegg, but I'm sorry to see ChatGPT take their business.

ChatGPT provides sort of plausible answers, even if they're kind of generic. Until it starts pulling something out of its ass, or starts citing sources that I don't expect the student to have actually read -- at that point I look at their work more closely and can tell that it wasn't really them.

Chegg's answers are always obvious bullshit from the get-go. Easy to catch.

98% of the people of the world? Not at all.

97% of the people in the world don't even know Linux exists. Would they dislike Linux if they did know? Some would, some wouldn't. Since they don't know about it, drawing conclusions about the relative proportions of users is meaningless.

It may be *your* opinion that Linux is unusable garbage. But then again, that's the opinion of someone who thinks that they are qualified to judge the opinions of billions of people who *have* no opinions, so forgive me if I discount *your* opinion on the subject.

Um.

You do realize that fireproof safes are intended to protect paper, right? They don't keep the interior *cool*, they keep it cool enough that it won't ignite paper in the limited amount of oxygen inside.

If you're lucky your disk might be readable afterwards, or at least Overland or someone like that could retrieve it, but I don't think I'd make that my primary plan.

This was one of the reasons that I (used to) like CrashPlan.

Their software allowed you to designate other computers running CrashPlan as destinations -- either other computers on your own plan, or friends that have given you an access code.

I have one sister who lives a thousand miles from me who backs up to me, and one who lives 3000 miles away. Until February, anyway, when my account expires.

There really don't seem to be any alternatives that support Linux. There are some roll-your-own options, but nothing very straightforward. And they're all significantly higher priced.

I had a student that repeatedly set his account on our email server to forward to what he *thought* his gmail address was. It *did * match his name, but it also matched the legitimate owner of that address.

I had to field the justifiably irate emails from the actual account holder, and I was never able to convince the student that even though it was his name, it wasn't his gmail address. I eventually just removed his ability to set a forward.

Reusing code for some sort of production is good sense.

Reusing code that you are supposed to be writing in order to learn *how* to write it using certain techniques short circuits the learning process. You may get the code to do what you want, but the important result (you learned how to do it) doesn't happen. Nobody needs a program to pick from a menu to multiply two numbers, or to print out a Fibonacci sequence, or whatever. What they do need is a programmer who can create these things, because that programmer is on their way to create things that will actually be useful.

So reusing code for school assignments is stupid. You may or may not get caught, but either way, you didn't learn anything. So why even take the class?

s/free labor/cheap labor/

This doesn't really change your point much, but TAs *are* paid.

According to a post by a site admin at opensubtitles.org, the problem was in the filenames of the subtitle file, and special character in those names. Apparently some media players weren't careful in how they parsed the names.

Heh.

The issue was that Sony bought music labels and now had a vested interest in restricting your ability to put anything you wanted on your music player.

This is not the same Sony that stood up to the movie industry in Sony v. Universal.

Wow.

It's interesting that the children that have taken over Slashdot immediately make silly assumptions about the demographics and/or politics of other posters -- in all directions -- and none of it corresponds to reality. And they use these assumptions to pick fights.

I guess the adults have all left. Guess there's nothing left here. Thanks for the heads up.

Well, simplicity I'll grant, and maybe consistency.

But a clean miss on beauty. Flat is ugly. Always has been. Always will be. No matter what's "trendy."

Hmm. I just checked, and the only Adobe anything that's installed on my Mint instance is the Flash plugin. Is that what you mean?

And although mdm *does* load webkit, I don't see anything to indicate it's loading any plugins. Maybe I'm missing something. I certainly haven't been prompted to agree to any licenses.