'23 was the second wettest year in connecticut's history, this winter was the wettest and the first quarter of this year, which ends in a few days may well wind up with double the typical precipitation, an extraordinary amount. "in a reversal of fortunes, typically wetter states in the Northeast â" normally powerhouses for hydropower generation â" were the hardest hit." maybe, but it ain't true here. we don't squeeze much juice from water anymore but it's not because of weather. - js.

so 200TB per disc would be 2 PB per ten disc stack, in a cartridge slightly larger than a ten disc western digital hard drive magazine, which are now around twenty two TB for justfolks like me (lotta movies here) or maybe 30 for server farmers, so a ginormous increase whichever way you roll them. however "Gu says the new discs have a writing speed of about 100 milliseconds." ok. per what? bit? because 100 miliseconds to flip a bit works out to some 3000 years to write a disc. something's a bit off there. and it could be my math. - js.

awesome, now your gnarly cuts can sound as like tubular as they did 40 years ago!

was hoping for hella better. grody.

- js.

just don't feed it blues sheets unless you want a meltdown.

- js.

it has it's adherents even if its star may have dimmed somewhat next to the constellation of newer sites that each link to tens of thousands of international films in releases varying from pristine 100GB 4K masters to snappy blu-rays processed with the latest H.265 codecs at 1.5GB, in various spoken languages, dubbed or otherwise, with select-able subtitles in your choice of written language, original, reissued, extended, remastered, etc etc etc etc.

if someone told me they had more movies on their drives than netflix and prime combined i'd ask, why so low a bar? honestly, this year, like every year before it continues to improve upon the golden age of unauthorized acquisitions.

- js.

These guys have nothing on Jack Valenti, legendary Hollywood mouthpiece who when testifying before congress infamously gushed, "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." I mean really, with these copyright cartels danger is always lurking for women or kids. Ideally both if they can work it into a sound bite. Can't beat 'em for scares, but shame? They don't know the meaning of the word.

- js.

bought a moto x in june of '14. my first smart phone. before that and post nokia was a hot little cherry red samsung flip right off the enterprise that i still kind of miss. loved holding that one. had a swappable battery. so i carried a couple extras. very convenient. anyway i'm still using the x all day, everyday. if there was someplace i could get the battery replaced i'd probably use it for another six. since recent events find me mostly home charging's no issue and if i'm gone for any length of time it's either plugged into the car or my little pocket charger tops it up when needed. for all that though i'll probably upgrade in the fall as apps and such have begun losing support. amazing to me is that the oled screen is still great after all this time. and tell you what, a ballsy case is the ticket. low marks for style sure but it makes the x bulletproof.

- js.

apparently. and if they sold horses to the colonialists their tos would have banned revere and ludington.

- js.

try asking amazon. obviously it's a big deal or amazon, the largest of the operators, would stop being coy and freely admit they're monitoring neighborhoods and entire communities with the latest in powerful surveillance technology, like hmm...facial, gait and voice recognition, plate scanners, ir sensors or more? sweeping up in their ever expanding opaque and proprietary dark net everyone from delivery and repair people, dog walkers, joggers, children, moms pushing prams etc with nearly each and every single innocent passerby who in no way shape or form was queried let alone consulted about having their bio-metric data captured and stored indefinitely by who knows who and for who knows what purposes, assuming they're even old enough to give consent. all the while forcing the technology deeper to make it even more intrusive and personal and all this while fluctuating property and violent crime rates remain at or near the low levels not seen since the '60s. pointing out that ring is the major force behind an epidemic of chimeric commercial/state hyper surveillance is a public service and i'm glad someone is doing it.

- js.

Trump Says Consumers Should Accept Security Risks of Encryption Backdoors...

...Trump did not rule out pushing legislation to force tech companies to build backdoors.

ftfy

- js.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/...

zenni's the bomb alright. i buy a pair or two each year. between $65-120 per. not what you pay, but cheaper by far than the oligarchs. nevertheless, if e. dean butler's correct and the chinese wholesale $2.50 lenses and $10 frames i'm still getting totally hosed.

- js.

I think the religious fundamentalists and critics who are trying to stop Second Coming aren't interested in protecting Christ so much as their ability to control his narrative... They probably (correctly) suspect that it's not Christ who's being parodied, but themselves and how they've twisted his teachings of mercy for the powerless into a self-serving tool of the powerful. - Comic's Author Mark Russell

breath of fresh air that.

- js.

been using it for the better part of a year. very happy with it.

- js.

just a reminder: ALL sound transducers, speakers and mics, do double duty. 50 years ago when sennheiser debuted their legendary 414s, they introduced headphone drivers to the world that were essentially microphones repurposed as tiny on-the-ear lightweight speakers and personal sound reproduction would never be the same. before long there wasn't a radio station or recording studio without the lightweight little hi fidelity wonders. and the reverse is also true. the "regular" consumer speaker products installed in your laptops, tablets, internet radios and smart tvs make dandy microphones and are often used as such by hobbyists and modifiers. if somebody is clever enough and is motivated enough, they can listen in on you through your supposedly micless gear via your speakers, with transmissibility approaching microphones, because that's what they essentially are.

- js.