I don't believe there is any limitation regarding the number of workers that can be cut. The requirement is there has to be ample notice (60 days) when they do a mass layoff.

I bought the lifetime pass years ago specifically just for the media server to use with my personal collection. I think that's who they were appealing to with the lifetime pass back then. That said, I bought it years ago before they started adding all of these things (music, live TV, movies, etc) so I had no expectations other than occasional server updates (plus I hide all of that stuff from my menu anyway). I wonder how well they spell it out to new users/subscribers.

Those stories are still posted literally every day.

More people are accessing the internet via phones than computers on a home ISP connection. And many of those people are still paying by the GB of data transferred. More compression, less data sent.

Guess you didn't read your own Chicago 'fraud' source article. "a majority of those dead voters were most likely clerical errors, involving family members with the same names and addresses."

This was my first thought. A friend of mine just started working for a company that uses physical response to gauge the effectiveness of advertising. Creepy shit.

It doesn't say what the format was, but I suspect it was data stored on some medium like a hard drive. It does say they were "in possession of trade secrets," so they probably weren't charged for the 'contents of their brains.'

Not trying to be overly pedantic here, but wtf does OP mean in the first place by "I've been hacked twice"? Someone accessed one of his machines (the Commodore?) on the inside of his firewall through a regular ISP connection? Did someone "hack" into his Nest thermostat? If you don't understand basic equipment and security, I'm guessing you didn't find out you were "hacked" through a routine audit.

I know all the ./ goons like to act like they're above it all, but Facebook (or any other "service") can only take what you hand over. I have a facebook account that I use because it's less complicated for my parents (who are ~70) than other 'sharing' services. If I go on vacation or they want to see pics of some event or something, it's way easier to send to them via facebook or instagram. You don't have to live your life on there, you don't have to give all of your intimate secrets to it, you don't have to respond to any ads or anything else. If FB is vacuuming up every detail of your life, it's because you're providing every detail of your life.

How do you figure? If that were the case, there'd be a lot bigger race for these companies to move there. Apparently some of these items are missing, or all of these Googles and Amazons would be moving to Mississippi. Apparently some of these states aren't very attractive, can't make moving to their state very attractive or something. I won't claim to know what these factors are, but there are clearly some advantages or all of these businesses wouldn't concentrate in specific locations.

Well, the house voted 50+ times (and failed) to repeal the ACA during the last administration. Now we've got Trump and the GOP owns both houses. Maybe it works?

The difference is facebook is (ostensibly) limited to the people with whom you are *friends*. With reddit, anyone can up/downvote you. Facebook doesn't have the anonymity. I doubt the impact would be remotely comparable.

Well, no one predicted all of the graphics cards being produced would be snatched up to mine *coin rather than for entertainment/graphics usage.

It's a publicity stunt. Any real/profitable company already issues bonuses to their employees (and they don't issue press releases about it). Also, $2,500 is pretty sad. Didn't fucking WalMart do their big press release last week about issuing $1k bonuses? It's better than nothing, but it's pretty pathetic and definitely only for optics. I'd actually be embarrassed if my friends thought I had some awesome job at Apple and then they found out I got a shitty $2500 bonus (well, probably $1500 after taxes...and employees don't get to stash their cash overseas until the government cuts them a sweet deal to tax it at a dramatically lower rate).

I moved into my current apartment in Los Angeles (90025) less than six months ago (but checked again just now to see if anything had changed). No (serious) choice here. I can go with TWC ("Spectrum" now) or DSL/satellite ("Up to 25Mbs!"). You could technically say there's competition, but 6Mbs-25Mbs is not going to work for us.