Well, I'm not American, so there's that.

According to CNBC it's going to keep growing past $10,000 per BTC.

In hindsight, maybe I should have held on to those bitcoins from 2012...

The question must be asked, why are you pressing Ctrl+Q.

I've used Firefox since it was called Firebird (and Netscape before that), and never once have I had this problem.

I think this is a user error. But that's just my opinion.

As another commenter pointed out, it's a grey area as there hasn't been a definitive case through the courts yet.

I feel the companies that are advertising and selling these preloaded boxes as replacements to cable ("for free!") should be illegal as they are profiting by directly selling the device to consumers.

Streaming of the content should be legal, based on previous court cases (I can't cite them at the moment, on mobile and just heading out), where streaming was deemed "not downloading" as it does not store the media on the device itself.

Personally, I see no problem with someone hobbling one of these devices together themself, for personal use, however. The boxes themselves should probably be levvied like portable media devices are (ipods, tablets, phones, etc), as I suspect they currently are not (please correct me if I am wrong).

It's exactly the same as the cable companies do...

uBlock Origin already has rules to block CoinHive by default.

While I agree with you that it's a computer with an exorbitant amount of useful features, the fact is there are other brands with models that do all of the above for as low as 1/4 of the price.

There's definitely junk brands at that price point as well. Just as with any consumer goods, a little research can save a lot of money.

CoinHive is mining Monero, which does not benefit from custom miner hardware.

Or you can lose it by something more common, such as moving.

Depending where you live, and/or move to it may not be "possible" (I'm certain its an artificial limitation) to keep your old number. Some carriers even approach users that are out of their "service area" fot extended periods, sometimes even just cutting them off without notice and forcing them to get a "local" number.

I know this varies largely by what country you live in, but it does happen, and happens quite often in many parts of the world.

This.

My wife always had cable when she lived with her parents, and I never had an interest in it. When we moved in together in 2007 we only had internet from our local Telco. It was nearly $90/mo for 25Mbps down, and 2.5Mbps up. A few years later when my wife was on maternity leave for our first child, I caved and got her the television package from our Internet/Telco provider. The price went up to over $140 for the internet/tv bundle and one cable box with DVR. It included a home telephone land line, too, but we didn't use it.

After a couple years of paying for it (and another child) the price slowly increased itself to around $180/mo.

When I realized we were paying nearly $200/mo after taxes I'd had enough. I bought a streaming box for netflix, and switched providers to a promo plan from my local cable company offering internet speeds up to 100Mbps/10Mbps for only $80/mo.

$80/mo + $7.99/mo for Netflix at the time was well worth it, as it halved our bill.

After flip flopping between the local Telco and Cableco, we're now down to $50/mo for 150Mbps/15Mbps internet and Netflix has gone up $2 to $9.99/mo.

After teaching my wife how to download torrents of the shows "she's missing out on" we've reached a happy medium.

My kids watch Youtube instead of Netflix or the TV shows we download. Honestly not sure why we're even paying for Netflix anymore...

Clearly they are spending their advertising budgets with the wrong consultants.

Anyone decently competent at online marketing knows how to narrow their most effective keywords, and push them harder, to achieve better click-through rates.

I agree.

Especially when so much malware is served up with the ads.

This is a step in the right direction.

The biggest hurdle, clearly, is explaining to people that it doesn't actually cost $7000 to repair a broken arm. In reality, it's a couple of hundred dollars in most cases.

A child birth is not in excess of $20,000. $2,000.00 tops.

The entire health care industry in the United States is massively over inflated.

Here's a better idea:

Put the security.txt above the server's Document Root. That way you'd actually have to hack/exploit the server to get at the security contact's information.