If I stand at just the right spot at the end of the hallway, I can see into every room of my house. I'm impressed that they think that they'll sell a bunch of units to people who have a house the size of small museum, with just 2 people rattling around in it (and maybe the help, but they wouldn't be allowed to use it).

Perhaps it's time for Wikipedia to offer an onion site address. Given that some guy pulled put together a demo in 2017 https://www.vice.com/en/article/theres-now-a-dark-web-version-of-wikipedia-tor-alec-muffett/, that might need to be brushed off. Yes, your Tor traffic is almost certainly not going to exit into another restrictive area, but it's always best to keep your traffic entirely within the Tor network.

Google is now a branch of the federal government? This will certainly come as a surprise to them!

Who did people think were paying for the servers and bandwidth? If you're not paying, then you're not the customer. Real VPN providers are cheap; if you don't spring the couple bucks a year that one of them costs, well, you sort of deserve what you get.

I can't think of anything I want less than endless flocks of drones constantly buzzing overhead. You thought the national parks were bad? Just you wait!

That's nice, but donating one laptop seems...stingy? Very "thoughts and prayers"? A reasonable laptop is like $300, less for corporations, especially for a $90 billion dollar company.

So what would the plan be then, "law enforcement" backdoor, and require it by force of law? Seems pretty straightforward.

That's basically it. The newer Fire TV stick is perfectly capable, unlike the laggy first gen. Install Kodi, use native apps for everything else, profit.

I'll just do exactly what I did before their family plan was cheap- use (Resilio) sync on all machines with my server as one of the peers, and an unlimited Crashplan subscription on the server backing up all of the sync directories. It's not necessarily quite as convenient as just having the Crashplan client on all of the machines, but it's pretty much set-and-forget, and still only $10/month.

Too bad too, I was just singing praises of Crashplan yesterday. Oh well.

Oh god, don't give them ideas, before mandatory exploratory surgery becomes the next requirement!

I just cancelled my trial of Vue for the same reason. I basically got it for sports (I know, right?), and had to jump through hoops of "starting the playback from the DVR list and not the TV list", had to be very careful to not catch up to the present (which disables DVR functions), and then when the game ran over its "official" time slot (as every game does, ever) it dropped me into whatever after game program, and I couldn't rewind to see the 30 minutes I'd missed. Pass. I'd love to save the $50/mo from my satellite subscription, but if the service doesn't actually work, then I'm just wasting the entire $85.

"No."

See, that was easy! Technological solution to a sociological problem, and so on.

ProtonMail already exists, has 2 million users, excellent security and architectural design, zero knowledge on the part of the provider, 2 factor authentication, optional two password setup (one for the account, another to decrypt the inbox), is located in Switzerland instead of the US, etc. It's also trivial to use, the importance of which can't be overstated.

In contrast, the new LavaBit is promising end-to-end encryption "later this year", as opposed to PM, which has always had it. It's concerning that a single SSL certificate was the only barrier between the users and total decryption. More competition is always good, but this looks like a significant step down from an existing service.

There is, as yet, insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

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There are two simple reasons for this: usage of YOUTUBE COMMUNITY has declined, and as a company we're pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind of focus will make for a better user experience.

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