A subscription (requirement) makes the device selection easier. How? I automatically reject from further consideration any hardware or software that comes with a required subscription.

Just last week I drove by a road sign giving the AM frequency to tune to for update on traffic/weather on the roads in the immediate area, including one mountain road that was closed due to snow. One upside to dropping AM? Conservative talk radio and religious broadcasts seemed to take up a lot of the available broadcasts the last time I wandered into AM land, and those won't be missed. I know they will try to muscle into the FM band.

I wonder what effort, if any has been made to recover the "spy equipment" that the balloon was feared to contain? I would think a missile would have if not should have destroyed the device and its cargo. I would think it would have been possible to punch two small holes in the balloon and had it deflate and eventually touch down, to be recovered. But then again, what do I know? I know that I haven't read anything about the dreaded cargo.

Pakistan wants to ban (something). The republicans want to ban (something). Everyone of the 'off the charts' persuasion wants to ban something. I guess we just turn off the internet?

As someone who much prefers a _real_ manual transmission to an automatic, the idea of a virtual manual transmission strikes me as a bizarre marketing ploy, aimed at those who don't know how to drive with a manual transmission. My current vehicle has an automatic transmission (for a variety of reasons) but if we were to purchase a second vehicle, it would either be an electric vehicle, or a traditional car with a _real_ manual transmission, the more gears the better ;^). (The same goes for a motorcycle, if I were to buy another one.)

What? Who do they think they are? Isn't it obvious??? They are the French!

Mediocre students need mediocre instructors. Politicians and presidents can get by with mediocre, why not bring everything and everyone else down to the same level? Given that many of the complainers evidently were in, or hoping to get into pre-med, I'm glad my medical practitioners are all 'old school'.

I got my Kaypro II back in 1984/85. I took it to a mountain-top village in central Burundi, where the local electricity generator was usually fired up Friday and Saturday evenings. Occasionally there would be weddings and then the generator would run all night long. I would fire up the computer and turn on the stereo (Onkyo with nice speakers) and work on the computer until tthe stereo would start to groan and squeal, indicating that the town's generator was being shut down, and I would shut down the computer and stereo, and await the next ration of electricity. The Kaypro never let me down. I used it for two years in Burundi and then took it back to the US, eventually taking it to my mother's and teaching her how to use it - her first computer as well. Kaypro Corp had an interesting and very useful monthly magazine that was sent out every month. I learned an incredible amount from that Kaypro, Profiles, and the big stack of manuals that came with the machine.

The biggest failures by the CDC and other public health officials was the failure to call out the lies and disinformation that the tRump administration and its sycophants, generally of the "r" persuasion. trump et al are responsible for the death toll to exceed 1,000,000 Americans. But, no problem. They won't be held accountable. And the lying will continue.

It sounds to me that Grandma has no business using a credit card. I doubt that the aspiring grifter kid only had the credit card in hand for a few minutes, to place the "approved order". But then maybe Sony has super pricey items available online as well. My sympathy extends as far as the period on this sentence. Sony is being the corporate jerks that one might expect, and deserves criticism, but so far I see no one that deserves any sympathy.

I hope that the "refund period" has long expired. It is most appropriate that the good citizens of OK know that their republican 'leadership' misspends their tax dollars on stupid quack schemes, while refusing to follow less costly, more effective covid mitigation measures, i.e. a statewide mask mandate, rather than "oh if you feel like it" guidance. And then I hope the voters are reminded repeatedly when the campaigning ramps up for the 2022 mid-terms, and again in 2024.

Another reason, added to a long list of reasons, why I won't buy Apple.

Ah, Slashdot, where you can get the simplest, most suscint explanations!

I was surprised to go to a 12 noon showing on Saturday and there were around 20 people or so. Not the makings of a blockbuster attendance.

So, Obama aides asked for identities of hundreds of US citizens. What about the request of mass information of millions of voters by tRump's cross-check commission, er election commission?