You assume they would have listened and learned.

This (iTunes Match) is correct. My statement "which makes no sense" was them backing up to AWS, as opposed to their own datacenters.

Since they've been building datacenters for over 5 years, what are they using them for? Even the 500k square foot one in North Carolina was already overkill, more so if they're just holding metadata.

Fun task: on Windows, rip a new CD with iTunes, preferably something rare. Start Resource Monitor, go to Network, TCP Connections, Search for iTunes. Was trying to find a different network hog this weekend and saw iTunes uploading to AWS, which made no sense.

Book: Charlie Stross, "Empire Games". Surveillance state technothriller meets parallel universes.
Album: Wobbler, "From Silence to Somewhere". Scandinavian Folk Prog-rock, reminiscent of Gryphon, Yes, maybe even Jethro Tull.
TV: Expanse has been fricking great, but I'm currently watching "Dark" on Netflix and it's pretty good. Honorable mention to The Tick for actually being a lot of fun.
Movie: Blade Runner 2049. Stunned that they actually pulled it off. People complained it was derivative, but that's part of being a sequel. And I thought they handled a bunch of the concepts from the original quite well overall, in some cases better than the original.
Games: a bunch of great board games this year, from Azul to Photosynthesis, though for PC gaming I haven't come across much that was my type of game, but Xcom 2 was pretty good.

More than anything, though 2017 itself was a bit of a sh*tshow, there was a ton of good things to watch/read/listen/play.

A couple points here:
1) It's not ALL of Fox, just 21st Century. Fox News and the Fox TV network aren't included
2) It still has to be approved. It's likely it will be, given the pro-business/anti-competition slant of the current administration.
3) "all the data that floods their network". To be fair, that's part of why people HAVE the internet. If your job is to provide me internet traffic for which I pay you, if you're my only option for broadband, and if you can't do it, then why do you have a monopoly and why are you preventing competition?
4) Netflix is quickly leaving the "other people's content" space and has been aggressively focusing on their own shows/movies (Marvel, Orange, House of, Bright, etc). It's actually getting hard to find movies/tv shows on Netflix that aren't created by Netflix. Netflix plans to spend $8 billion on programming next year.

Motherfsckers.

Well, this could be a fun Slashdot poll.

Anybody know how I object to this, besides filling out the NY form?

FTFA: "The innovation lies in picking up EMG more precisely—including getting signals from individual neurons—than the previously existing technology, and, even more important, figuring out the relationship between the electrode activity and the muscles so that CTRL-Labs can translate EMG into instructions that can control computer devices."

A link, a glimmer of a hint, anything would be nice. Unsure if sub or mod is at fault.

Weird announcement - no dog and pony show, just a website update and some new info. And there's all the rumors about new hardware. As an Apple-head who wants to replace an older iPad, I'm torn. Get a mostly-better for less, or wait and hope they've got something coming in a month?

For the Apple Music thing, I had the same thing happen - I suspect it was reenabled as part of an iOS update.

Go into Settings - > Music -> Show Apple Music. That should fix it.

Thank you, Madame Secretary, but that's the other story (http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/10/13/1951232/clinton-home-servers-had-ports-open#comments).