file that study into the LONG list of studies where lots of $$$ spent and the results fall under the category "No shit !?!"

"If the election was stolen, it'll come out eventually" ...but not on youtube or any mainstream media or other curated content delivery where it might get noticed?!?

My own subscription model is subscribe for a month or 2 especially if there is a "deal". Watch until I get caught up or the deal gives out then unsubscribe. I had disney+ early this year, binged thru some shows including The Mandalorian. Then cancelled. I just started subscribing again to watch the Mandalorian and when it is done airing new episodes I will let my subscription drop again. I do Netflix the same way. I currently have Epix and Showtime thru Prime Video only because they had a 2 months for 99 cents per month. I cancelled the auto-renew just past the 1 month mark so they'll both run out in early December. I haven't followed this same pattern with Hulu yet. Have been subscribed for several years but I don't think its very far off from being cancelled for a couple months. The only thing saving it so far is they do stream some of the network shows that I don't have an alternate subscription for...

As long as he has backing of his Board I guess its within his right to do that. Is it the right thing for him to do? Does it help or hurt his business? I certainly feel that if I were one of his users that got this email I'd be more than a little pissed that this person that is attached to an app that I'm probably paying for felt the need to push his own personal agenda at me in this manner... (whether or not I agree or disagree with him).

Truly these researchers need to find something different to study. Whoever is funding this needs to take a good look at what exactly they are studying. I swear this is the 2nd time in 2 days I have heard of a study of covid-19 and semen/sperm (granted yesterday was a week old podcast).

Plus in the greater scheme of things what scenario does a transaction that results in male ejaculation does not involved the transfer of additional bodily fluid or other physical contact??? Please consider this question rhetorical and don't answer in reply's I don't want to hear your description about sextual contact via port in a hazmat suit....

I don't want more people to die than need to but I'm sorry the numbers out there aren't bad enough to warrant whats going on. The economy has to get going again or its gonna go down in flames. I've been joking at home about waiting for the Riots to start. Seems like they've already started in Michigan, how many more are far behind? If you wanna stay home then stay home. Like so many others I'm ready to get this country moving again...

As others have said I find more fault with brand new cars than with cars that have aftermarket bulbs. Brand new cars lights are so bright. I end up just assuming that they're super bright lights and hardly EVER flash my brights at anyone for fear that those ARE their Low Beams and if they flash their high beams back at me I'll be completely blinded....

AGREE 100% current emergency lights on cop cars are WAY too bright at night, completely blinding...

I'm all for getting off of fossil fuels, but I always miss what is powering the grid at night when those solar panels go dark? Is there any large scale electrical storage in place right now to power the grid off hours? All the off the grid shows I see using solar for houses have battery banks for off hours. What does an entire grid do for off hours? Is it back to fossiil fuels, nuclear, and hydro during that time? If not whats the alternative?

count me in amoung the ranks of will never pay anywhere close to $1k for a phone. I've been very happy with the moto line of phones my whole family. The most expensive one was around $220 with tax, new.

Anybody used linux on a mainframe? I skimmed the comments but didn't see anyone mention they used one. I have it works but it has its issues...big issues. Anybody ever seen prices for memory on a mainframe. Big bucks. I'm sure its come down since then but in the last 2 years I heard them talking here at work about $10,000 for 1 Gb and it comes in 8 Gb "books". Then try to get your mind around z/VM RAM disks for swap (my z/Series guy says this is how you have to do it). Mainframe dasd (thats disk to the rest of us) is insanely expensive. Plus at least for us when you convert it in z/VM and present it to linux a mod27 (27 Gb mainframe volume) turns into a little over 23 Gb under LVM. Add that do all of the prepackaged executables you use have to be packaged for z/series hardware. Meaning ix/86 executables don't run on linux on Z the same way they won't run on linux on Power (p or i series)

I thought the same thing. tape a pencil to it and have it press the "button"

I had this exact thing start happening earlier this week. I googled it and used the instructions to disable the Lenovo Message Center Plus. This is my work Laptop. I openned a ticket and tried to explain to them what it was but no they had to treat my like a newbie and scan my harddrive for malware (like I hadn't already thought of that), I know its SOP but I already told them what it was. The biggest reason for openning a Ticket was so they would know about it when somebody else here (all laptops are lenovo) gets the same thing.

Its convenient enough for me that it made Slashdot's front page so I can send this link to them.

SEE!!!