To me, this means that someone in the government understands what an API is. This is great news!

"... save consumers $300 million a year in electricity costs and reduce the carbon pollution that fuels dangerous climate change. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) projects that the new standards for external power supplies alone will cut nearly 47 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over 30 years, equivalent to the annual electricity use of 6.5 million homes" As many above also noticed, the $300 million/year reduction stood out to me ( $1/citizen), but maybe the reduced greenhouse gas makes up for the small gain? Let's see... 47M tons of CO2 over 30 years = roughly 1.57M tons/year. Last figure I saw was about 5.4B tons of CO2 produced in the US/year as a by-product of energy creation, so about a 0.03% reduction, annually. I'm not saying that every little bit helps, but at the cost of new wall warts (manufacture, distribute, packaging), this has got to be a net loss...

You forgot to mention that the guy handing out the ice lollies has been convicted several times in the past for putting turds in them...

Am I the only one who finds this article comparing terrorist orginizations to (US) corporations darkly humorous? ... Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee this morning.

One byte at a time.

I'd suspcect a permissions issue before a codec issue with Plex. I know that I've forgotten to go back in and change the owner/group of the files I just transferred to the shared directory on my Plex server numerous times, and the "new" media will either not show up on the dash, or not stream. Fixing the permissions has (almost) always fixed this.

Odd... I spent the first part of my technical career working for a company that got bought out by BlackBaord.

I second this idea. Good old sneakernet might even result in faster transfer speeds. If you are really concerned about the data, you can have a send someone with the data and someone else with the decryption algorithm.