This is effectively DRM and will lead to an increase in piracy. These dumbasses never learn.

My parents have it setup by default on their TV and it doesn't bother them so they leave it on. I, on the other hand, want to smash the TV to bits every time I'm there and we sit down to watch something.

Wow, that's just a lot of hand-waving and "we must fight the global elites!" Ugh, no thanks. The pro side seems to be just salesmen.

I'm avoiding cryptocurrency because I don't understand anything more than the basics but the guy in the baseball cap comes across like a spoiled brat, constantly name-dropping economists, brags about how many economics books he's read, and argues based on anecdotes and emotions instead of logic.

Why not start small and just try to kill the penny?

I'm not sure if it's Android in general or Samsung specifically but I've noticed that my Galaxy S6 Edge uses word-completion suggestions culled from browser usage in incognito mode.

This would be noteworthy if a chair came flying out of the monitor upon BSOD.

I just bought an off-lease 2011 Inifiniti G37x and the dealer hadn't removed the previous owner's music. It was AWFUL, The Best of Kenny Loggins was the best album of the ~100 ripped to MusicBox.

Once I removed all of the previous owner's music, I found the entire system nicely designed and performant.

During a grand canyon in 2002 I was chatting with a NPS ranger during a rest and he mentioned that a helicopter evacuation cost $3,500. He said the biggest problem were guys in their twenties who thought they could hike from the south rim to the river and back up in 1 day in July with just a Nalgene bottle of water.

infrastructures.org looks interesting, but then I see they mention things like 'NetSaint' which was renamed to be Nagios about 7 years ago, and references to "LISA '98".

Some of this information looks old. Am I right? These days, shouldn't we be thinking more about virtualization and cloud infrastructure?

That said, they do touch upon many good ideas. It seems that many mid-sized shops do follow some similar ideas.

Did you mean 32.5TB, not GB?

didn't 'you the people' elect Obama? I hate it when people act as if this is some sort of dictatorship just because they lost an election.

I'm on a long drive. The passenger in my car is bored and wants to browse the Internet. There are kids in the back who are bored with their books and want to play on pbskids.org . I'm driving, my wife has a laptop and wants to check the Traffic on Google Maps. We want to stream Pandora.com through our car stereo.

Yes, there are other options for some of these issues but a Mobile Hotspot seems better and cheaper then many of the alternatives.

I'm not sure why Slashdot has an article on this. Mobile 3G Hotspots for cars have been around for a couple years now, but they seem really expensive. Crutchfeld.com had one for about $300.

I'm not disputing that. In fact, I think we agree.

I was disputing the parent post's believe that the US doesn't "make anything itself". This is a pessimistic and uneducated belief.

I pointed out that the US *does* make many things, and we still export many, many goods.