A look at the ratings in English speaking countries versus others, the ratings are highly similar except for a very large proportion of 1 ratings. If you remove those 1 ratings, the English speakers rate the movie like non-English. I am suspicious that those 1 ratings reflect a "dislike" of JLo and Simu Liu rather than an honest reaction to the film. I say "dislike" but suspect a nastier trend. For my part, it's not Avatar or Saving Private Ryan, but it was more enjoyable that Silo on Apple+. I've grown very distrustful of reviews on BGR.

If photosynthesis shut down for almost 2 years, what did the herbivores eat? I'm wary of extreme depictions of extinction events due to a single cause. While the meteorite definitely had an immediate affect on all forms of life, total cessation of photosynthesis is highly unlikely.

Based on this scenario, I'll be cancelling my Paramount Plus subscription - and I will definitely NOT be subscribing to any merger with WBD. Apple TV+ will be my next stop. My 3 month free subscription is up the end of January, so timing is good.

Obviously, AC Clarke has foretold that we should wait for the 3rd one.
Just in case, let's make sure we don't kill all the humpbacks for a few decades.

Attention Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, etc. - fire sale on well placed existing communication towers will soon be available for your ramp up to compete with Big 2 networks. The law of unintended consequences shows no mercy.

Once again /. falls victim to a reference to a technical article written by a clueless tech writer. The MS announcement clearly states deep integration with Visual Studio, which any developer or even casual technical person would know makes much more sense. However, as another poster pointed out, those of us that care about this kind of stuff already know about it about 3-7 days before it shows up here.

Agree. Sent them feedback immediately on the first ambush by this new horror. Far fewer customizations, insistence on presenting pictures which are sometimes relevant to the headlines. I mainly use my customized feedly account, but now I'll give reddit a try. The only worse news layouts would be Bing / MSN. If I truly wanted odd and irrelevant stuff shoved at my eyes, I'd be hanging out on StumbleUpon - which could happen if I'm truly bored. That hasn't happened since last November.

Yes, my standard tag line applies!

I have no interest in yet another device that requires an overpriced, locked-in, data plan from a US carrier that could learn better customer service from a fast food cashier. Unless these devices are paired with the fabled Microsoft data network and reasonably priced, they are a waste of the promise of the ARM/Qualcomm port of Windows to the chip. I want a great WiFi tablet based on this technology. All other parties need not call.

All states and jurisdictions also support trespassing laws. How do they play into this discussion? Is contact with the ground required? I don't think so. The FAA is asking too much in requiring my faith that any drone over my property is there for some legal and beneficial reason. Citizens must be given some recourse to challenge the legitimacy of any drone. Legal experts care to comment?

Confirmation of a X deviant among us!
Ignore this warning at your peril!

Dell started selling an all-in-one XPS convertible 18" tablet in 2013. Compatible with Windows 8/8.1/10 - still available on their site. But, I guess if it's not Samsung, or Apple, or Google, then it's not news? Innovation has been taking place in the Windows world for over a decade. Miniature systems, hardened industrial laptops, and more that simply doesn't get the consumer publicity, but find very robust deployments in a variety of industries. Someday soon Apple will try to invent a new form factor called "server"?

Oil companies, and mining companies, get a special tax write off in the US called the "oil depletion allowance". It's often used along with "questionable" estimates of a site's reserve capacity to result in depreciation allowances greater than the income in a fiscal period. That is a very generous description of the tactics employed by many in these highly specific industries. Tax laws are far too illogical and capricious to debate in these forums, whether you're discussing personal or business tax codes. Most (many?) of us here are prone by occupation to think logically which can put us at a disadvantage when thinking about "the law".

Back in the 70's when I was still a junior electrical design engineer working for a distribution transformer company, we used algorithms loaded into TI calculators to compute the electrical, heat, and mechanical stresses. I later got the task of modernizing those codes and merging them with a FORTRAN code that another engineer had written and abandoned because it was too expensive to run. Things went well at first, we saved a lot of time and used that as any good engineer would to optimize our designs using different parameters to reduce cost and improve efficiency, both very important to my company and its customers. Then one day we got a limiting case which we didn't recognize at the time. As usual, one of our engineering assistants used the computer generated design and the old methods to validate the design. The engineer always takes responsibility for the design. After the build, the unit, a 3 phase unit that had 76,000 volt inputs, was tested in our "hi pot" chamber - a voltage pulse of the rated voltage but with reduced current and only for a short pulse. The center core winding turned into shards of copper spaghetti in the 8 foot tall tank. It cost $25,000 to repair, and delayed delivery for 3 weeks. My heart rate hit about 200 when the engineering manager called me and my supervisor into his office. Then he explained that he had run the calculations also, and discovered that our methods had a flaw in the prediction of the axial forces on the center coil. It was a very subtle mistake, and he said it could have been much worse. We were able to revise the code within a few hours, and that incident led to further improvements in methods and automation. It also taught me my most important lesson about computers - human error is the greatest risk. Real tests of your code sometimes do "blow up".

First, in general, no we don't need to teach people to "code". As others have said or implied, we need to teach the more basic skill that underlies coding and science = logic. It's all too obvious that far too many people make decisions based on emotion alone. It's not enough to have challenging attitude without the skills to analyze and that basic skill is logic.

Second, this topic shows the deep bias in too many computing discussions based on "apps", and almost always mobile device apps. This is a very consumer focused and short sighted view of what computing offers to society.

There are already plugs all around you - probably within less than 15 feet from where you're reading this post. The issue is making the existing ubiquitous electrical grid accessible for this new need. Special purpose electrical transformers, aka charging stations, should be fairly easy to mass produce. Tap into the wireless Internet access points for self-service payment options, and you'll have a growth industry in every pod mall in the US. It's just a new type of vending machine with far fewer issues than the tanks for gasoline and diesel fuels. The things can even phone home for service. The tipping point is very close. There's serious private sector investment in battery technology with monthly advances being announced. Every hybrid purchased, puts a little more money into a battery producer that can be used for more R&D.