Don't give me an apple tv and a pay tv subscription! I just want bandwidth! I already have a streaming device and subscriptions to my chosen services.

And don't tell me its "free" it is never free, it is simply included in the overly high price.

If the same, or close enough to the same number of people will buy a phone for $1100, why "only" charge $1000? at some point the upper end of the market will be found but I think its higher than we expect. There is a range of phones just like there is a range of cars and yes, you can get into a BMW for $40k, the top end is like $180. There is still room for the top end phone market to climb but the middle of the pack (iPhone se/7/8, cheaper androids like Motorola and such) are good enough for a ton of people.

Slips of paper and human counters are pretty damn hard to hack - Since we cant seem to get open source hardware and software platforms for voting, the only option is slips of paper and manual counting.

Because of the clear leftward lean of Tech/social media companies, there will be a natural inclined to suspect every thing they decide to remove from their systems or block. This is a self created position that is the result of past actions that seemed pretty clearly anti-one-political-party.

I think people understand that this sort of thing is possible and can accept that mistakes happen, but that cant be accepted when the organizations like Facebook have burned up whatever good faith they had.

for some families, in some places, a night out at one of those places you named for mom and dad while grandma watches Jr is a big deal, its not 5 star dining but for a lot of folks its a nice night out for not a ton of money. Maybe im not hip and modern but those folks deserve a decent experience too, not a tablet nightmare.

adding some detail, it was playing video the whole time and there was no way to turn off the screen and because of the odd way the stand was made I couldn't face the screen away and the table was too small to lay it face down with food on the table.

If i am handed a tablet to order and pay, I leave immediately. At one place where I went once, it was so distracting that it drove me crazy. Give me a paper menu and a good waiter, if I cant have that ill just save money and eat at home. Its not an age thing either...I'm a freaking millennial...

its all academic. it can be as secure as you want it to be but if Apple will willingly turn over the keys to the kingdom to the Chinese, i cant trust them to not do the same for the US, EU or anyone else?

I can roll my own for some things but if my bank or broker or online service or whatever other entity I do business with doesn't provide an app there nothing I can do about it.

Give up the ghost already folks, Windows Phone IS A DEAD PLATFORM! As a Win Phone 7, 8 and even 10 user early in each products life cycle, I see why people like it so much, I really preferred it to android or iOS but I simply could not get the tools I need to get stuff done. It is sad that we have a duopoly but that is what it is.

this isnt about FCC - its about local and state regs that prevent non incumbents from pulling new cable on existing poles. As I said, its about infrastructure. They dont have to use ATT or comcasts wires, they just need access to poles and underground viaducts.

reduce regulatory red tape on infrastructure at state and local levels that allow for local monopolies and the issue will resolve its self. If municipalities, small or mid sized ISP companies, and perhaps even non profits like the Farm Bureau in rural areas, are allowed to sell services against Comcast and ATT, things will improve dramatically. There is no need to put bureaucrats in charge of what can and cant be seen online and make no mistake, the NN regs as they were written absolutely laid the framework for rulemaking about what can and cant be seen online. What else do you think all that talk about legal network traffic was? what is an illegal network traffic load? today its just a botnet or something but tomorrow that could be used to reclassify non politically correct speech as illegal traffic.

but the user is not the customer - the advertiser is. All of those MeToo things he complains about are more ad real estate - that's what google is, an ad company, period.

if you don't like the terms of a contract ask for them to be changed and if the other party disagrees either accept the terms and sign or refuse and walk. Anti Disparagement clauses are in all sorts of contracts like this are pretty common for consulting work, which is basically the same thing - you are doing a specific bit of work for an agreed upon sum with some contractual oblations on behavior.

If you signed it, you agreed to it. Live up to your word as youtube did when they cut you the check.

I deleted facebook on my phone a week ago and dont think I'll ever reinstall it. those times of idle where i would scroll thru mindlessly are now spent observing the world around me and thinking about things that actually matter in my life.

I still log on via web on my laptop every 3 days or so as there are some professional groups on there that keep me in touch with some good people but outside of that I have little to no use for it - and I signed up in 2005 as a college student.

Tim is pretty wise in his advice to his nephew.