This is exactly the mindset that leads to waste, inefficiency and bloat. If you can save even 5% on bandwidth, which is a limited resource, WHY NOT DO IT? And this is way more than 5%.

Because h.265 requires hardware decoding to be even moderately watchable and the vast majority of devices that people currently own are not capable of decoding the latest h.265 videos. Netflix could force people to upgrade which would cause them to buy new decoding hardware and the waste you mention would shift from wasted bits on a network connection to wasted hardware in landfills. Unless, of course, there is a standardized way of querying hardware to determine which codecs and maximum resolutions/bitrates are supported by hardware decoders but I'm not aware of such a feature.

With surprisingly higher walls around the Apple garden.

And they're making their users pay for it.

Even if you don't buy Apple products, you're still effected by their business decisions. For instance, many laptop manufacturers stopped making a 17" laptop after Apple discontinued the 17" Macbook Pro. Worse yet, many phone manufacturers released phones without headphone jacks simply based on the rumor that the new iPhone wasn't going to have one. Therefore, even though you may not buy Apple products, your choice of features becomes more limited as companies blindly follow Apple's lead.

The reason why people are worried is that you will need to get a new phone at some point. The 6S won't work forever and it certainly won't be supported forever, so that means that at some point within the next few years Apple fans may have to decide between getting an iPhone without a headphone jack or switching to Android to get a phone with one. Worse yet, a number of manufacturers of Android phones are shipping phones without headphone jacks because, for some reason, they insist on following everything Apple does or is rumored to do - even on the most boneheaded decisions.

Security vulnerabilities are discovered and patched all of the time. It doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time writing extremely meticulous code for an exploit that could be patched by the time you're done writing the exploit code. Combine that with the fact that there's probably a ton of vulnerabilities in a lot of different applications, drivers, and firmware and it probably makes more sense to focus on quantity of exploits rather than quality.

This is one tenant of Libertarianism in a nutshell.

Thank you for confirming that Libertarians live in nutshells. Now if we could just get them to go the next step and admit that they modeled their domiciles after their beliefs.

This is Microsoft's revenge for seeing another operating system on the side during your anniversary!

You can compress the rendered area of your posts by avoiding the unnecessary use of pre-formatted text. :)

Based on this ruling, it sounds like Microsoft has been violating the CFAA with Wi-Fi Sense in Windows 10.

One of the main points of engineering is to take something that currently doesn't work and improve upon it to make it work. The problem is that we don't currently know why it won't work which is why it's necessary to start small and then scale up.

So is this like an automate butler software or something?

Yes, it helps you automate the process of deploying new instances of system components.

Shall we call it Geoffrey?

No. That is too similar in name and association with Jenkins, an open-source continuous integration tool.

I agree with everything you've said. My 17-inch MBP is almost 10 years old and I refuse to replace it with the newer models that have a smaller screen, fewer ports, and no ability to upgrade the memory, storage, or battery. Apple should rename the MBP because there's almost nothing "Pro" about it anymore - it's barely even "Prosumer".

Why is it that people like you never seem to be the victims of these problems? What number would you put on your own life or the lives of members of your family?

Next, run this specially crafted command from the command prompt (cmd.exe): > rd âoe\\.\%appdata%\com4.{241D7C96-F8BF-4F85-B01F-E2B043341A4B}â /S /Q.

What? Clearly windows is not ready for the desktop!

Doesn't the NSA have copies of everything the guy has been downloading?

That would take a lot of effort to find that data, they'd still have to proceed with the trial and risk him getting off on a technicality, or they may not actually find anything because he might be innocent. From their perspective, why bother when they've already got him locked up indefinitely?