Yeah, I run Chromium without Flash and I can't play most YouTube video. I checked their HTML5 page and I've got everything but h.264 support and nuthin'. Not even Google likes Google's codecs.

Imagine if you'd just finished up a year's worth of uploading on your DSL line, and now you have a month to find another service.

I knew it was too good to be true (and I suspect Amazon did too...) but ordinary prosumers don't know what enterprise storage costs.

This is known already. Because, you know, physics.

Physics ain't done, son. Lots of stuff is deemed impossible before the next theoretical breakthrough.

When we have a fully-working model of the universe, then we can declare it impossible. Until then, avoid being too certain. The history is science is littered with fools who made certain declarations based on current, incomplete theory.

Based on what we know to date, FTL travel appears to be impossible.

"The police told me they'd be back if it happened again." For what crime? Is it normal for police in Canada to threaten to invade an innocent couple's home for doing something legal?

Tor is a thorn in the side of despotic regimes. They will harass anybody who runs an exit node. Best case, they break down a door and find some pot in an ash tray, then lock this couple up for a few years. It's good for the police union, good for the prison industry, and good for the black ops programs funding their budget with drug smuggling.

Win-win-win (unless you're a subject of the regime).

his country is full of extremely stupid, gullible, and ridiculously-overarmed people, and a small subset of whom probably thinks it would be a good thing to bring harm to the First Lady.

Meanwhile, Jefferson often complained about the never-ending parade of people who walked into his office at all hours of the day to complain.

But he didn't have a Department of Education. Or bombing campaigns in sixteen countries (the Barbary Pirates not withstanding).

There's no possibility that aliens capable of FTL would find us remotely interesting. Once you get to that technology, energy and resource problems either have been solved, or become very easily solvable.

And if they care at all about things like us, they already have had probes in our system for eons, by all averages. It would be absurd to think they can't build self-replicating probes at our level of technology plus a few hundred years as a minimum. Once you have that, if you care about the galaxy, you map it.

There's nothing we can tell them that they don't already know. They haven't destroyed us, so they won't.

I do not see them giving it away for free when it is an advertised premium feature in another app.

You know, this was the #1 requested feature for the YouTube app for years and then Google finally implemented it but made it a $120/yr option and threatened lawsuits against apps that provided the capability already if they didn't withdraw from the market. It was probably the most Evil thing I've ever seen Google do.

XPosed Framework has a module that remedies this problem. I would have been glad to pay $10 for an app, but $500 over the expected life of my phone? That's more than the phone costs. I don't want to listen to their music catalog - just some old lectures while I'm doing housework.

Why do I think that if he journalist impersonated an FBI agent, the DOJ's opinion would be very different?

Rules are for thee, not for me. Back to work, subject.

and they ensure that the company uses every [sic] they have got, leaving them with no choice but to demonstrate their defense capabilities to the attacker.

This doesn't make sense. To require them to use every defense they have would require the attacker to be precisely calibrated with the defenses the company has.

It's much more likely that the attacker has more offenses that the company doesn't have defenses for or that the attacker has fewer attacks and that the company has defenses that are not employed.

Even more likely is a disjoint match - the attacker has attacks the company is not prepared for and the company is prepared for some attacks the attacker is not employing.

The only way the statement could make sense as written is if the attacker has a priori inside knowledge of the companies' defenses. That would be a much bigger story. More likely is that at least some of the claims in the article are not well-founded and/or outright propaganda.

With 60%+ of the workforce working in farming, the Industrial Revolution was predicted to cause massive unemployment that the society could never recover from.

Same shit different century.

Hint: human desire is infinite.

So what is the statute of limitations on mass murder as a result of fraudulent practice. Have proof, let's see the convictions, let's demand the convictions (victims in the millions, seriously).

You're kidding, right? A government agency signed off on it so nobody gets prosecuted for malicious intent. That's the point of government - to shield certain individuals from liability for what would otherwise be crimes (e.g. extortion of taxes).

Both GSM and CDMA are on the way out.

But it'll be at least a decade before the areas which are now (still) only 2G get VoLTE transmitters, much less the 3G sites.

Watch the indicator on your phone as you drive through the countryside. 3G has been out how long and they still have 2G-only areas?

But ~$100m caught fire. Too soon? Oh well.

And most of Slashdot shit on their attempt to expand Internet access to these people.

I don't pull out the "privilege" card often but, man they quack like ducks.

US customers pay tax in addition to the list price, so they aren't getting these for $90.

"Residents of certain high-tax US states", you mean.

I pay the price that Amazon posts on their products, no more. Live free or die.

You mean you dont trust a neocon "physicians" group?

Neocons are essentially Trotskyites who were using the conservative groups as camouflage. They've recently (9/11) come out of hiding and have pursued their Team America: World Police agenda since. Bush (aka Rove), et. al, especially psychos like Wolfowitz.

Clinton, former Goldwater-girl herself, is a true-blue neocon. So much so, that the traditional Republican nocons have endorsed her over Trump.

The AAPS seems to be made up of regular old conservatives.