The math worked for me on Prime because there were a few shows I liked on the video service. The Prime shopping benefits were really a secondary bonus for me. Once they raised it by $3 for add-free viewing, I decided to cancel, just to see if I would miss it. So far, it's fine. I keep a shopping list and pull the trigger once my items add up to over $35. I don't mind waiting longer. At $140/year, Prime no longer made sense. BTW, the Prime credit card pays back unlimited 5% on Amazon purchases, but I have a card that pays 3%. That extra 2% might wash the $140/year cost for high volume Amazon shoppers. Googling shows there are other cards that may pay back even more for Amazon shopping.

When you "purchased" a VHS tape/DVD/Blu-Ray, it was for the lifetime of the media. Bit-rot and magnetic decay eventually make the media die. I can see Amazon Prime lasting as long if not longer than physical media.

The "cyber attackers" could then publish it via file sharping sites. The original author can publish the MD5 hash, so at least people know if it's modified from his original. I don't think an MD5 has of a firmware image counts as a copyright violation.

I worked with a guy who was an extremely poor technologist and leader, but an absolute master of business and tech jargon. He was promoted every other year. We eventually got new management (surprise!) who started weeding out the dead weight. Dude got fired when they realized he was a weakling with a glass jaw who could only talk a good fight. I followed the guy on LinkedIn. He seemed to still do well in his career.

But sooner or later all consumer grade TVs will require Internet connectivity just to function. We will also have to use PC monitors with HDMI and extra streaming devices. Once you idiot proof the system someone will just build a better idiot.

I worked at an accounting firm early in my career. Accounting is a thankless job. There's a joke about how nobody hates lawyers more than other lawyers. The same holds true for accounting. They worked super long hours during tax season only to be laid off when tax season was over.

"Honestly the real scandal is the super premium prices they ask for this stuff given what it actually is." if you think the purchase price is bad, just wait until it's time to renew support. That's when they break out the shoulder-length rubber glove. It's also funny how PAN sales reps bash their competitors for vulnerabilities. You'd think by now they would realize how that blows up in their faces. ALL OF THEM have the same problem. All we can do as customers is to watch how they communicate and how quickly they address the issue. We also have to assume that a breach WILL HAPPEN, and have an incident response plan in place before it happens. The best time to ask the question "What should we do?" is before a breach happens. You should also have all sorts of "trip wires" in place like scanning, analysis and alerting tools, and perhaps some deception technologies that can alert when someone is poking around inside the network.

It would be nice to be so independently wealthy that you can pursue your passions without any regard to increasing your future earning potential. Those of us who still need to work for a living need to treat higher education as a financial investment. A CS degree can lead to a more lucrative career where you can support yourself and perhaps repay student loans while you are still a young adult.

Beause this is how you get Rampage Ralph.

In other words, it's a limited unlimited plan..

Okay... carry on.

The sound quality is poor on music stations. I prefer to use Spotify with a high quality WiFI-downloaded playlist. Sirius are good if you like talk radio. I used to enjoy the Howard Stern show, but you need a $20/month subscription for that. I didn't like Howard that much.