Imagine buying an extremely expensive luxury vehicle, whose features are completely at the whim of some thin skinned billionaire.

Just remotely turning on and off different things in your car depending on who pissed him off, or pandered to him, that week.

TL;DW - he needs reference screen grabs to make his screen accurate props, but lately in browser DRM has been making it harder and harder to take screenshots (specifically using a Mac on Amazon streaming service). So if he gets frustrated enough, he'll just torrent a HQ copy and use that instead.

DRM is making it annoying for everyone, and you never own anything if you don't have an unrestricted local copy.

Why does dropbox have the ability to see your files at all? That seems like a pretty bad security flaw in the first place.

And HTTPS relies on hosts managing SSL certificates. Web services don't use them until it hits a critical mass, then it becomes weird and broken when you aren't using it.

This just needs some time to settle in.

I initially read the headline as referring to maintenance costs, but it's actually because people who rent EVs were using them under the rent to gig economy business they had. As in, people would rent cars to go do Uber Eats deliveries and such, as the EVs weren't being rented as often as expected from regular rental business. The people who rented these EVs were more likely to damage the vehicle than people who rented gas cars, and the repairs for that damage were more costly to fix.

There wasn't a great explanation as to why the EV rentals were more likely to get into accidents, but it's possible that the EVs were more confusing to operate, or more likely to be driven more aggressively due to the acceleration and performance. It's also possible that the EV models they had were more prone to other issues, like blind spots, worse breaking, or insufficient self-driving, but they didn't seem to distinguish between different makes and models as being more prone to damage.

Good luck, there's a reason that conservatism is inundated with hate.

It might be a lot easier to re-evaluate your own moral compass and realize that maybe if everyone you want to hang out with is full of hate, you need to find a new crowd.

Get rid of the debt ceiling and move those debates to where they belong, in the budget.

You are getting some dangerous advice in this thread that can make things worse.

You already have a bite, that's a huge sign that you have escalated past the normal behavior stuff. Talk to a professional, talk to a local organization, like the local humane society, respected training center, or your vet, and get some real advice.

Pushing back and acting violent towards a violent dog can get you hurt and the dog put down.

People in here are missing the point. Yeah, Applebees, Olive Garden, IHOP, etc. aren't "classy", they're cheap chain sit-down restaurants. They appeal to a wide audience, cause they are clean, the food is fine, they serve a variety of drinks, and you can go there semi-regularly as long as you have some disposable income.

Sure, you're not going to see multi-millionaires who grew up rich going there, those people go to the "fancy" chains, like Ruth's Chris Steak House. But you'd probably see a 6 figure tech job family sitting in a both next to a plumber family sitting next to a doctor family. Which is something you don't really see at most other places.

Depends on what the goal is. Heavy vehicles do disproportionately more damage to the infrastructure.

They might want to encourage smaller, lighter cars, regardless of type. They certainly make small city EVs, as well as just encouraging walking, biking, public transportation, etc.

I guess that's a good thing, but that % should be way higher for someone that committed treason, among numerous other crimes (as well as being just a terrible person in general.)

Before people jump in here to talk about how battery technology never comes to market... Every single one of these discoveries teaches us something new, sometimes it reveals tech that's unsustainable, sometimes it's un-manufacturable, but it always gives us another direction to look for things.

Tech goes relatively slowly from lab results to store shelves, so stuff you read about 10-20 years ago are what are in your devices today. This could very easily be the way that your phone runs in 2035.

This could be as game changing as lithium ion was back in the early 2000's, or it could go the way of most lab results. We won't know until we keep poking at it and figuring out what it is useful for.

Good, now give the parents 4 day work weeks (with the same pay) so they can spend more time with their kids.

0:36 Gaming.
4:38 Microsoft Office.
5:31 Photoshop.
7:15 Ecosystem of Linux.
9:39 Hardware compatibility.

Very telling that big sites are only promoting VPN services that heavily advertise... i.e. - give commissions on signups.

The list of providers they "tested" aren't even that complete, they didn't even bother to pretend to check out ones that won't give a kickback for promotion.

They don't give specific recommendations, but the EFF has a good list of things to look for in a provider. https://ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vpn-thats-right-you

LeVar Burton is a national treasure, his podcast is amazing.

https://www.levarburtonpodcast.com/

Basically Reading Rainbow for adults.

As long as 10 is supported, I'm not updating. At least I'm not hammered with ads like on 11.

If 10 is sunset, I'll probably switch back to Linux. I rarely game on my laptop anyway.

Fewer vacation days? Heck no. If I wanted to burn vacation to get a 4 day week, I'd do it already.

Longer commute? Heck no. WFH or I walk.

Pay cut? Heck no. You KNOW that 99% of people will be just as productive with a 4 day work week as a 5 day, so why take less money for the same output?

Taking a step back in career? Not like I'm shooting for being a VP or anything, so I guess I don't care if I don't get promoted to senior middle manager meeting organizer, so who cares on that one.

I understand how you feel, but reading your story, I think when you were grabbing the product and telling him to "just drop it an leave" is what ended your career.

It sucks, you got attacked, but you don't need to trade your personal safety for some store product.

Just based on this story here, where you are giving a very one sided view of the situation, you intentionally put yourself at risk and kept escalating. I hate that a criminal put you in a situation where you ended up getting fired, but there was more than one mistake here.

Yay! Another megacorp to water down anything unique about these megaproperties!

She was performing sexual acts in front of stranger's children, at a theater. I don't care what country you live in, that's not appropriate behavior.

Distributed content is always good, just hope they have a good way to drive traffic to their site.

Back in the day this was how all Internet content was

Cause there's billions of people who claim to be his followers, and climate change is the biggest issue humanity has ever faced.

Having the leader of one of the largest religions pushing for ecological improvements is a good thing.

Quit naming them in the titles! Just let their legacy evaporate.

TL;DR - A combination of more competition from China in Android smartphones, and an increase in Apple sales, caused Apple to overtake Samsung.

These psychopaths want him as close to the top of the line of successions as possible.

Nobody that is pro-US army should support Trump, cause Trump is obviously anti-US army.

Nobody that is pro-US should support Trump, cause Trump is obviously anti-US.

Nobody should support Trump.

Biggest problem is that they cheap out on the tech parts. Nobody complains that an iPad has a touch screen, cause it works. But an appliance tends to have a crappy UI, running on a crappy touch screen, powered by a crappy CPU.

If they just used quality parts, it'd probably be fine, and the only issue would be expensive replacement for an entire assembly, instead of small, cheap parts that can be fixed.

Left. Widescreen monitors make a task bar at top or bottom take up too much real estate.

It's an interesting story anyway, kind of fun how the early days of the internet people just decided to build stuff and that random little tool from decades ago continue to be the backbone of much of the world. Imagine if all that stuff was proprietary...

This started long before Obama, and was way more serious in the case of Nixon.

You can say that Obama perpetuated a long standing tradition, but he certainly didn't start the precedent.

He improperly designed five bridges, this is just the one that collapsed, starting the investigation.

Now he's prohibited from working on bridge projects for 5 years. I think that's prudent, he could have easily killed people.

Wondering if this was just due to negligence, or if there were other systemic issues that allowed or encouraged these design problems, like pressure from management, or improper reviews. Feels like a pretty big failure to not have this work checked by at least one other engineer.

Eventually, Disney is going to own all of corporate media. Your choices are going to be bland, flavorless, Disney mass market appeal, or independent cinema.

There just needs to be a better way to market and distribute independent media.

Sounds like FDA approval requires holding all details of the technology, including all source code, in escrow.

If the company ever stops supporting the product, for any reason at all, all of the details become public property.

I liked this choice. The tri-color seemed a little busy to me.

Don't let a bunch of dicks ruin your day. You look amazing, and nobody can take that away.

I have two of them, and I think they are great. That being said, they are significantly more expensive than similar options from Dell (or Lenovo, HP, etc.) They just don't have the volume of production needed to compete.

MAYBE you'll end up ahead with upgradability or repairability, but honestly, you're paying more to support good company practices.

I'm planning on keeping these laptops for a long time and upgrading when I need to, but we have to be realistic that most people aren't going to stomach a minimum of 30% premium for options they don't care about.

Probably stored it for 10 years, declared it expired, and then sent it to be destroyed.