Google's imagery says that it's been there since Oct 20, 2016. Looks like it wasn't there in August of 2015 - so yeah, it's been there for years, and we know roughly when it was placed.

MoviePass changes it's business model faster than new the Javascript community mints new frameworks. It's exhausting. Last Tuesday it was $9.95 a month and you can see three movies every full moon plus you get SoundCloud for free on weekends and next week it'll be $15 a month and twice a week someone will break into your home, tie you to your couch, and force you to watch John Travolta's latest space opera, and they will also bill you for a potion of the food in your fridge.

I get whiplash trying to keep up with their constant quest to find a profitable business model, and somehow it still hasn't occurred to them that "bring in more money than you spend" is the only viable solution.

The movie theaters are worried about the movie going experience becoming devalued in the minds of customers.

A couple of years ago, if you and a friend went to the movies, it cost $20 for the tickets. Now, with movie pass, it costs $0 for the tickets. People are starting to think that "going to the movies" is more or less free.

but movie pass is going to fail. There is simply no way for them to be profitable. So some day in the not-too-distant future, movies are going to start costing $20 again. But if people have been conditioned to think that movies are free, there is going to be a lot of resistance to suddenly paying $20 again, and attendance will drop as a result.

Seems like they're trying to play games to control speech worldwide.

There's no "seems like"; that is explicitly what the Austrian court ruled. "We don't like this, therefore it is illegal around the world."

He spams his books with hundreds of fake positive reviews, drowning out the honest, negative reviews. "Taking he average" doesn't work, because there's so little signal compared to all the noise.

I'm proposing my own new legislation, the No Exploitation of 9/11 Act. According to this act, any politician who tries to justify their legislation by invoking the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001 will be immediately removed from, and forbidden from ever again holding, any public office. Goddamned vultures.

Bullshit. The Paris attackers did not use encrypted communications.

Was this an intelligence failure? Possibly. Was it an intelligence failure due to a lack of backdoors and/or laws against cryptography? Absolutely not.

No, but one may well be approaching alcoholism when one cannot enjoy an activity without consuming alcohol.

The recent littany of "I'm now gonna do this activity because I can finally get booze there!" is a bit weird. Movie theatres, museums... as if these things are unenjoyable on their own, but with booze - fun!

It may not quite be alcholism, but it's a kissing cousin.

My /. account still works. Havent' used it in ...err... a few years.

Just here to bump this article for my friend Mike and his fantastic work on RC.

Why does every single discussion about women in tech immediately result in a bunch of denials, followed by pats on the back (upvotes) as dudes congratulate other dudes on how much of a not-problem there is?

Your post could have closed out the thread. Because that's exactly what it turned into (unsurprisingly).

Thank you for this. I started to read his reply which was even more off-the-wall, so I couldn't finish. But I'll add to your sentiment.

From one male nerd to the rest, who think this way: talk to women. Seriously, talk to them sometime. It will blow your mind just how little you understand about what it's like to be female.

And another thing:

You know how every guy dates some girl he thinks is hot, but it turns out she's pathetic/manipulative/whiny/needy/annoying/whatever? And later, you regret it and think "man, what the hell was I thinking?". I've never met a man who doesn't have at least one regretted relationship, unless they really don't date very much. When guys do this, they have a "man I used to date this stupid bitch" story.

When girls do this, they get raped.

I'm not quite sure why this is so difficult to understand.

Little travel tip that I, as a Canadian, learned years ago entirely by chance.

If you encounter this security system in the US (still mostly as gas pumps) - 99.5% of pumps will allow Canadians to use a "zip code". Take the first 3 numeric digits in your Postal Code, and add "00" to the end, making a 5 digit "zip code". Works like a charm almost every time. I've only had it fail once. And they do actually use this as a security code, I've tried 55555 and 90210 and nothing else will work. But this one does.

I'm stunned that this little tidbit isn't all over the Canadian news, considering how many of us travel to the US (especially in our cars!).

This is only the US version. Canada Post's "super mail" boxes only require one key. You use it, and return it to the outgoing mail slot.