The live TV/PVR "functionality" is still dogshit, apparently shoehorned in at the last minute. I've used it with NPVR and MythTV backends and it doesn't do the most basic things like pause or rewind. Other than that it's lovely.

Obligatory xkcd.

The robot fighting and time travel parts made sense.

You know that CalFresh (EBT Food, aka food stamps) benefits can't be used to buy prepared hot meals unless you're homeless, right? And any assets you might have, borrow, or earn -- say from a job flipping burgers -- are deducted from your already paltry CAAP (EBT Cash) benefits. But by all means, go ahead with the ignorant poor-bashing. After all, what are they gonna do, mildly annoy you with their temerity of sitting on the sidewalk?

FYI, youtube-dl will scrape videos from youtube, vimeo, and a heap of other sites. It's a little more work than clicking a "download video" link, but it can download when no such link is readily provided by the site. It's in the standard repositories for Debian-based distros and Macports, although not Cygwin. Dunno about others.

I was actually thinking that — why not design the battery to be ejectable in case of fire? Yeah, you might start a forest fire or burn someone’s house down, but that’s better than crashing a jumbo jet (which would have an even higher likelihood of causing fire on the ground.)

Assuming he means mountain lions, all those animals are found in the wild not too far from -- and sometimes in -- urban areas from central California northwards. You don't have to live in Montana or the Yukon for them to be a problem.

“The court has ordered that the named defendants [...] prepare their computers and storage devices for forensic evaluation, and refrain from taking any action that would obfuscate the location of said devices or the data contained therein.”

Isn’t that a contradiction? That’s like CSI calling you up and telling you “We’re coming over next week, so make sure you prepare the crime scene for our arrival.”

It would be awesome if Girl Scouts sold samosas. Much better than those cookies.

True, knowing how to type doesn’t prevent one from posting comments that say things like “I don’t need an artist because I learned how to use Inkscape.”

Really, you put naphthalene, antifreeze, and rubbing alcohol in your coffee?

There's a lot more to art (and coding, for that matter) than knowing how to use the tools.

I’d mod you up Informative except I’ve already commented. I get text alerts from the USGS for earthquake activity above a certain threshold in the area, and at least half of them are from the vicinity of The Geysers.

Boring?! Long chemical names don’t inherently scare me (Calcium carbonate, sodium chloride, oh my!) but a lot of the shit on that list is pretty heinous. It’s telling that even a greenwashing industry shill site like Fracfocus can’t make their practices sound responsible.

For someone who is so finely particular about semantics (free vs. libre, etc) he sure lets his language get muddied when it comes to Apple. Unlike iOS or OS X or Apple hardware in general, a "jail" is not something you're free to walk away from whenever you like.