IANAL but I thought patenting materials was absolutely possible, so long as it's not something that would have already existed in nature? For example, if I'm mucking about in a lab and create a material that is stronger than buckminsterfullerene and easier to work with, I might be able to patent it. But then, if I realize that it naturally occurs when object a collides with object b at the same time as being around object c, I would not be able to patent it.

I, too, miss having known attorneys chime in.

Last I tried it was as simple as logging into the ip address and port. My current plex server is at 192.168.1.20:32400. Admittedly I have not tried that in quite some time.

To be fair (queue a Letterkenny gif), yesterday's was specifically about the downstream app, "Nothing Chats," where as this article is about the Sunbird specific app and service. Guessing that Nothing Chats's launch is what shone a light on the security failures inherent to Sunbird's service, but they are technically different.

Analogously, the post from your link is like saying Red Hat closed down, and this post is saying Linux closed down.

And then the user ships to a different address and they get pissed off that the sales tax in that address is [insert delta here] more. Then stupid people sue companies for false advertising. Furthermore, small businesses that don't do enough interstate commerce to collect sales tax on behalf of that state shouldn't post the tax, but the end user is still expected to pay it in a, "Use tax," on their income taxes.

Suffice to say, sales tax laws are fucked and I hate them, but have to deal with them day in and day out for my job. Understanding the innate complexities of them is a fucking headache.

Do you realize how incredibly difficult that would be? In my state, we have a flat sales tax across all counties, but in Texas (for example) there are over 1600 different sales tax jurisdictions.

Sure, a single store might be able to do that, especially a small mom and pop shop. But online retailers probably never will be able to with the way that the various states handle sales tax, especially with the fact that, when shipping product to Texas (keeping with the previous example) the sales tax jurisdiction is the address it's delivered to. I can't imagine chains like Target or Walmart would be willing to change their pricing for each store in their chains.

The only place in the US I expect you will ever see sales tax included in the price is at the gas pump.

...and before that, there was a graphic novel for that!

They still have turn signals, you're just not rich enough to see them.

I wonder if the site in question adhered to Rule 34...

I'd add to your list, because the studio/network did not support the movie/show the way they should've. Firefly being an obvious example (the things with Joss coming to light notwithstanding), but there's a ton of really good movies/shows that never got their stride because they were (typically accidentally) sabotaged by the very people who paid to have them made.

Oh, I absolutely agree. Live content is not plausible via Bluetooth still. FlexConnect, if it is using BT as its wireless protocol, will not be good for gaming.

My guess is that they'll point at Discover and American Express as the alternatives that means that they aren't duopoly and exempt from the anti-trust regulations. Then, 3 months from now, Discover will announce they're increasing the fee and a month after that, Amex.

First, I don't know what the wireless protocol is as I'm on /. and clearly have barely skimmed TFS, muchless TFA, muchless researched further.

Most of those problems with BT are old. aptX has had a lossless protocol for about 7 years now, however limited implementation there has been with it. There's latency to BT of course, but that latency is easily compensated for on the processing side, otherwise all the people with AirPods would never watch videos with them. There's already a buffer to live shows anyway, is it really going to bug you when you're watching your sportsball or racing that you, in your bubble, have 200 ms more delay compared to your friend who is watching at their house? If it is, you just turn off the FlexConnect for the game or race and enjoy stereo instead.

Frankly, I think Atmos has a chance to actually succeed where quad and surround failed. Partially because it's meant to be smart enough that the consumer doesn't have to be smart about it, but dumb enough that the professional doesn't need a new degree to make it. For professionals, it's a, "Mix once," system, for consumers it's a, "listen anywhere," situation.

But the get out the vote campaigns never seem to work.

Personally, I think the same result would come from ranked choice voting and replacement of the term, "majority," with the term, "plurality," in Article II of the Constitution. It'd likely take 2-3 cycles (presuming by cycles, we're meaning 6-year cycles, so every Congress critter has been up for election at least once) while the general voting public comes to understand what ranked choice voting means.

The Amendment changing the language will be necessary for a truer representation of the people's desires at the executive level if are to be 3 competitive parties or more in an election. As it stands now, we can end up with a third election determined in the House of Representatives, where, unlike the elections of 1800 and 1824, we have corporate lobbyists interested heavily served.