Quite true.

The useful idiots are usually choosing their view or action based on a perceived (often irrational or miss-informed) fear of something.

The wealthy via politics and advertising control and deliver fear, and use it to drive the decisions of useful idiots to behave in ways that benefit them.

General comment, not directed at anyone: No matter how small or otherwise insignificant your or our choices are, doing the right thing matters, even on small levels, every day. Or to put it another way, don't let what the other guy is doing (or not doing) to be an excuse to also have shitty behavior even if it seems pointless at this moment.

It's coming for those who cant afford to buy their way out of the problem, the wealthy with the power to actually fix it have no desire to fix it since it doesn't affect them.. Until its far to late.

What a load of hot fresh BS.

I'm a visual learner, and I think in pictures and with visual representations of things.

I'm not stupid, I'm not lazy. Yet I struggled like hell at school, and at most other things in life, because none of it is designed for how I learn things.

In 30 years of screwing around with computer systems, I can barely handle shell scrips.

Most of the stuff you guys write doesnt make any sense, the logic is back-to-front and inside out. Its a way of thinking that does not work in my brain.

The bigger they get, the harder the fall.

Comcast is more than a cable tv company, in-fact cable tv makes up a small piece of the empire. It's not going anywhere :-)

Nope, probably same as flex.

Comcast cant sell video access to customers residing outside of their footprint, various legal reasons / agreements etc.

Seems you need Hulu live to view it. Regular Huhu subscription nope nope.

OK, so thats a clue on how not to do it :-) If you dig into how that's played out, you soon see why.

That aside, are any of these voters shown the economic benefit of such a system? Are they just asked for an off the cuff this is the price, yes/no? America does a poor job at educating people on the cost/benefit, and are just asked to choose based on the upfront cost.

Yet the universe appears to have some very carefully tuned constants, twiddle any one of them by the smallest amount and things don't work out so well.. Intelligent design or pure accident of chance by way of many simulations being run with varying parameters? You decide.

Time to bring LORAN back..

I think maybe about 3 or 4 times.. ever, mostly back in the Google ad-words days.

In the earlier days of the internet the ads weren't as annoying, I don't know about other people but I found I was subconsciously ignoring them 99% of the time.

Then the ads got annoying with animation, then they got just insane with ads plastered in every spare space, then website design changed to be around fitting in more and bigger ads. Somewhere along that progression adblocking was needed as the giant animated ads were highly distracting and annoying.

Then devices such as phones, tablets, internet connected TVs etc become common, blocking ads on those became a problem.. Queue network wide ad blocking.

If the advertisers kept their ads a little reasonable, then the nuclear approach of blocking all ads at the network level wouldn't be needed. They took it too far, and lost our eyeballs.. on every device, and most of the tracking and profiling ability with it.

Personally I've never minded broadcast TV advertising, usually that affords a short timed break to do something else. About the only time it gets on my nerves are the channels that run excessive amounts of ads during movies - a few here and there are ok, or the last 20-15 minutes of the hour on news channels where it seems like 75% of that time is used for ads.

YouTube figured out how to truly make ads the most annoying thing in the world by inserting them into the video stream. Thats fine, but the number of ads they put in is nuts, so YouTube is avoided now, gone are the days of mindlessly browsing the site for a while, now it's for something specific and that's it. Anyhow I bet the beancounters Google hired a few years ago are laughing all the way to the bank with how much monetizing they've managed to squeeze out of it.

NASA needs to get out of the rocket business and focus on what it's good at, building space probes, robots/rovers, and telescopes. I'm more than happy for NASA to spend my tax dollars on actual science that explores, discovers and amazes.

The Saturn V solved a problem, getting people to the moon. This SLS stuff is joke.

Linus.

What's the guys problem? He's basically railing against everything Linux stands for with "boo hoo the ARM Mac is too hard Apple needs to make it easy and write the code for me" is what I'm hearing.

Maybe that's the point, sayings it's "too hard" will make some see that as a challenge. Next week expect to see an announcement on /. that Linux is running on M1 Macs.

Now if someone in the Linux Universe could make a GUI desktop experience what works properly and isn't ugly as sin I might use it. Until then it's macOS running perfectly on my 6 year old MB Pro.

The lights blink when a packet passes in/out of that port.

Why are they all blinking at the same time sometimes? Broadcast traffic. The switch knows to pass broadcast traffic out every port. What's the point of broadcast traffic you ask? Many things, from the ARP table which stores an IP to MAC address table, DHCP requests, Apple's Bonjour which is how Apple devices find each other. If you run Wireshark and watch the broadcast traffic you might be pleasantly surprised at how chatty things are on the local network :-) So the blinking lights on your switch are not an indication of something sketchy happening.

I had heard of that one one PA. I'm in WA and we enjoy no income tax, and sales tax on some things. Personally I'm in favor of the reverse which is what Oregon has as that seems fairer. Why should low(er) income earners shoulder more of the burden?