Because they are remote headless systems and I don't need to stay connected to them in order for them to do the stuff I want them to do?

You have no idea what you are talking about.

screen is a program that explicitly survives logging out and let's you reconnect later. It's the pure terminal version of vnc.

How many "multi user" systems are left anymore anyway? Practically every machine I log into these days is dedicated to my personal use. Just because I've logged out doesn't mean that it isn't supposed to still be working for me.

or you could use a state-of-the-art ML recommender system that tells you which shows were highly rated by people who rated shows like you do.

Using Average ratings to represent how good a show is so.... Golden Age of Television-ish? Welcome to the age of personalized recommendations.

Doesn't matter if you agreed to it or not.
Microsoft would need to appear in small claims court to assert its claim that you had agreed not to go to small claims court and make a motion to dismiss.

Everything's a spectator sport: sleeping, eating, sexing, pissing and shitting included.

a fast boot does not replace resuming from exactly where you left off.

and....?

"Not now" is still the same thing as "NO dammit!"

i.e. No means no. NO three times does mean Yes.

I don't know how Ms Obama's year off turned into some sort of "gap year" festivus. It's obvious that she's taking a year off only because it's a presidential election year. I'd want to avoid being part of a circus as well if I had a choice (which she does and I don't begrudge her it).

For normal people a gap year is just masturbation. Your adult life starts at age 15, no more coasting.

You must have a good imagination. Clipper chip never actually happened. It was still born.

And does corporate policy require that you clean off your desk and lock everything into its drawers every night as well? "A tidy desk is the sign of an empty mind!"

Someone doing the equivalent of office piecework can shutdown every night. Some of us have multiple on-going projects going on all the time. I am NOT going to open dozens of windows every morning. Applications get closed when I'm done with them, not before.

It's called up talking? and it's quite annoying? you know? Like you are pretty insecure? and not sure of yourself?
it's almost as bad as ending every sentence on a giggle?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If that was true then they wouldn't need to try to strong arm ISPs into doing this, because the court judgment could just include this.

I know, right? I have no problem with copyright being issued for a limited time and yet somehow the copyright period gets longer and longer and when was the last time something ended up in the public domain? Someone has unilaterally altered the bargain and we shouldn't need to pray that they don't alter it further.

Congratulations! You have confirmed your lack of reading comprehension.

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Users may not realize that the URL should be kept secret.

And services that embed credentials in URLs should EXPIRE those credentials after a (short) amount of time.