Music piracy was already mostly solved by just selling tracks digitally at a decent price. Even better when it was DRM-free. The music industry realized that they could just rent it out for more money without getting rid of that market, so it's great for consumer choice. Some consumers might be getting a bad deal if they're paying monthly to listen to a very limited selection of music repeatedly.

TV/Movie content never had anything but physical media with content protection and streaming. Even then, live content is treated as super premium but most of the cost is the exclusivity agreements.

Even their Github reads like marketing, even while calling out that it's not just marketing.

It wasn't that hard to read unless I misread. The curation happens before using. By giving it API information and credentials to connect to company systems.

If they want to let employees use a personal ID for authentication, that's great. As long as the workspace area is partitioned off and they don't at all cross paths. There's a reason why Apple isn't competing with Microsoft or Google offering a unified online workspace.

Of course. If you had an iCloud account back when it was MobileMe, it didn't function as your iTunes account. Later on, when all accounts function as Apple IDs, you find out that new accounts are both but you can't merge yours - they are separate forever.

Externalizing an outage externalizes the blame. And everyone seems to accept it.

And human operators will tell you to reboot your cable modem during a power outage if that's what the script says.

It's a good thing we don't have a bunch of privatized water systems consolidated to just a handful of large companies. Because it would be really bad if they were targeted next.

I don't know about fish, but at least in humans it would be surprising since even organ transplants get rejected by the immune system. What are these cancer cells doing to evade the immune system? By not looking like cells at all?

The other ones just redirect to the .com and were only bought to protect trademarks, sometimes after having the domain forcibly removed from some other scammer. So they won't appear in search results.

I'm still waiting for .exe so we can stop living in the past.

Don't a lot of the newer TLDs reserve a lot of these and then sell them at high prices?

Ok, but that's sort of a No True Scotsman of politicians in general.

Windows still hasn't put in a utility to control brightness over the DDC/CI protocol. Laptops, you can adjust brightness natively but despite this technically being possible for external displays, you have to have a utility to enable it. I don't know if LG even has this option, they are probably just shoveling junk only.

SBC bought AT&T. SBC's reputation was so bad that renaming themselves AT&T was a step up.

The video is increasingly hard to find online, but this Colbert Report video from 2007 gives the best recap of the history: https://www.facebook.com/watch...