Many many years ago, back when napster was all of the rage, we had record labels searching the web with bots looking for hosted media. There was a movement with generated lists of mp3 and fake files on our websites. I thought I had an archive of mine, but it seems to have been removed by me, too long ago.

This story reminds me of that time, good on him.

I hope they bring back Clippy for this, part of the Bob 2.0 services :) /s

Sure, but it will cost you $10 per rental (guessing here) and you have to get out of your lazyboy to go figure out what you want to get for the night/weekend.

Don't forget to rewind :)

Both mine and my daughters house has no internet connectivity (we are in adjoining cells) through starlink.

my dish is reporting obstructions, even after a reboot

That's my guess anyway :)

LOL, far from it, network engineer, but jack of all trades in IT.

Over my career, I've worked with a lot of different companies and it's the full gambit of people. You always get those that take advantage of the system and do little to know work, usually just enough to get by and not get caught.

I went from an iPhone 11 to the 16, it was due. I really do like the additional action button and dedicated camera buttons. I use my camera a lot, so that was a nice addition. Probably a 14 or 15 upgrade to 16 wouldn't be as noticeable.

Only one very specific version is vulnerable. My guess is that they have the root password hardcoded during dev and they missed the step about changing it when it shipped. 12.5.1su4 is the version. Older and newer versions are fine. https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.co...

It's still an attack vector though, and yes, they missed it.

Don't forget about the $250 an hour, including travel, for the repair tech to plug in his laptop and authorize the replacement.

Not defending Zippy at all, just laughing that you are posting on a site that is funded by ads.

I'd gladly pay a subscription for /. if they would let me get rid of the ads.

Agreed with your sentiments on them.

I think I've tried all of the major players, from the original google chromecast, first gen fire-sticks up to a couple of years ago, and many roku's over the years.

I've found the roku's to be more stable with what I use them for, a couple of streaming services, including my own plex server. With the current gen working with airplay, etc, they are pretty great.

Also, I've found that the low end ones are slower, but if you go up to the premiere / premium roku's, the performance is much better.

I can hit the netflix button on the remote and it's at my login screen (user selection) within 2 seconds. The older stick I carry with me in my backpack for hotels takes a few seconds to do the same thing (once you have it on the network of course).

As others have said, you get what you pay for, pay a bit more and get faster startup times.

Also, as someone else mentioned, can you buy a non-smart tv today? especially if you want a bigger screen, better screen, etc? I bought what I'd call a mid-end Sony tv last year, has all of the built in crap, but I like my roku's, so I didn't even configure the on-board stuff, just plugged in the hdmi.and I'm good. Roku remotes can now control the volume/power once programmed.

WSJ certainly doesn't mind the search engines using/scraping their data. I know this is over simplifying the concept, but the point stands.

NetDisco is definitely something to look at if you have manageable switches. We use it at CompUSA to manage over 2000 switches and routers and to keep track of all ip, mac, host, port, etc info.