Even if electric power, water, sewer, trash pickup, and gas for indoor heating (in areas that get snow) are included in your rent, other services with recurring payments include home and mobile Internet access, renter's insurance, car insurance, and health insurance.

A lot of shows on streaming services are never released on DVD.

When I've asked others what has improved about GitHub over the past seven years of ownership by Microsoft, people have told me free private repositories are the big one.

Source addresses of the attack are known. The ISPs know which customer was using that address at that time, and dealing with the customer is their problem not the attack target's. If they don't deal with it, they get to deal with lots of angry customers who've suddenly lost connectivity to the majority of the Internet because entire blocks of the ISP's address space are being blocked by Cloudflare et. al..

Time for a law that says that if the manufacturer removes any functionality from a product that was present when it was purchased or originally offered for purchase, any owner of that product is automatically entitled to a refund of 100% of the original purchase price (if they can provide a receipt) or 100% of the initial manufacturer's recommended price (if no receipt is available) upon demand. The manufacturer may, if the owner can't present a receipt, require the owner to provide the serial number, photograph of the serial number and/or photograph of the entire item to claim the refund, and may require the owner to return the item at the manufacturer's expense.

It's time to go after the source of the problem: the compromised devices. Identify them and force the ISPs that serve them to block outgoing traffic from that customer, on pain of having entire netblocks blocked by Cloudflare etc..

It's not that long ago that I found myself with a box of 8" floppy discs from a legacy product and no way to read them. Yes, the software on them was long obsolete. But I would have liked to be able to preserve a bit of company heritage.

The product in question (Glenayre GL-3000) had been updated in the interim to use 3.5" floppies, though with a bespoke format. I figured out how to use Linux and creative parameters to dd to write disc images. We packaged this as a bootable CD for customers to write their own disc images. After a sharp drop in floppy quality around 2005 I discussed other storage options with my boss (e.g. USB) but the business case just wasn't there.

...laura

Your suggestion is defeated by parents' habit of handing a phone to a child as a digital babysitter. It's how we lost comment sections on animated videos on YouTube in December 2019.

Until 2009, no other device could play iTunes Store purchases, and there weren't a lot of other legal downloadable music stores. This was one factor for the iPod to iPhone progression. Another was that Google required cellular telephony support in all certified Android devices prior to sometime in the 2.3 "Gingerbread" cycle, which made it impossible to make a direct counterpart to the iPod touch.

You can play Apple Music from the Music app on the phone. Unless I missed something, you can't play it from other apps on the phone. And the Music app can't play files written by libimobiledevice, only the music library. You need iTunes to send music to the phone in a form that the Music app can play.

My roommate tried that patch with my help, and iTunes stopped being able to sync purchased music to her iPhone.

I researched online and found these limits:
- iTunes app for Windows uses a driver called Apple Mobile Device Service to sync to an iPhone, which (like other drivers) Wine cannot run
- libimobiledevice for Linux can sync files but cannot update the music library
- The Music app included with iOS can play only music from the music library and cannot import files
- VLC app can play music from files but cannot play rented music from her Apple Music family plan, making it impossible to mix the two in a playlist

At a minimum repositories should require that all packages be signed by the maintainer(s), with signatures verified upon download by keys not fetched from the repository itself. The tech is already there using GPG. The main thing that should be added is that the repository should sign maintainer GPG keys after having verified that that maintainer owns the packages signed by his key, that way clients can check for that as well and avoid packages signed by keys that don't own the package. Best practice here would be for maintainers to use a separate key for signing packages.

Requiring 2FA and such would be recommended, but with signature checking even if an attacker compromised the maintainer's account on the repository they still couldn't upload a package with the correct signature.

This won't solve the problem of maintainer systems being compromised, but that's a very non-trivial problem to solve. Nor would it solve the problem of a maintainer giving legitimate privileges to upload official packages to a party they don't realize is untrustworthy, but again that's non-trivial to solve. Neither of those problems is something there's a technical solution for, I'm afraid. And of course it creates a problem with key rollover and succession, getting clients to use the new keys at the correct point, but that merely requires some effort to get the protocol right.

What is the safe and effective treatment for gender dysphoria?

I'm starting to think prevention of gender dysphoria has to occur on a social level. It would start with cracking down on parents and K-12 teachers who perpetuate gender stereotypes ("you're not allowed to do this because you're a boy") to children in their care.

Given the right wing's crackdown on abortion on a fetal personhood theory, why shouldn't adoption be promoted?

I own only one Monster cable. And that's because Monster's component cable for Wii was less expensive than Nintendo's.

The first version of Kodi ran on an Xbox console with 64 MB of RAM.

23% of that debt is owned by the Bank of England ("Gilt and Treasury Bill Holding"), which in turn is owned by... the British government.

Some more background information: https://www.taxresearch.org.uk...

In short, it is a choice to be beholden to the bond markets in this way. It is a political choice to outsource the fiscal margins of government spending to the financial sector, and paying them lavishly for that privilege. And no, I'm not saying this means you can spend endlessly on anything without very bad consequences. It's just that it's a very expensive way to provide the money supply and private savings, while giving enormous budgetary power to a sector that has proven time and again that it's unable to properly manage the economy's funding (if it's even interested in that at all, rather than just in enriching itself).