Is there a streaming service out there like YouTubeTV, circa 2-3 years ago?

Love the service, and it used to be $35 a month. It had everything I wanted, including all the locals.

Then they decided to jack up the price to $50 and add a bunch of stupid channels I don't care about. Then they went ahead and hiked it up to $65 and added even more marginal channels I don't care about.

Hey, I get it, not everyone has my taste in channels. Feel free to add higher tiers at higher prices, and throw in the dumb NFL channel. Knock yourself out. But instead, they've chosen to become The Cable Company II

Look, the whole point of WSL2 is to let people run a fully-functional Linux environment without mucking around with VM systems or dual-booting. If you're going to set up VMware, just create a virtual machine and install Linux on that. You are not the target audience.

They were so close to naming it the Fuselage Upright Build Automated Robot...

Leaving aside the argument about the credit monitoring services themselves for a moment..

Freeze your credit record, if you haven't already. I did this years ago and it works really well. You give them a 6 digit PIN and without that PIN it's impossible to get so much as a cell phone much less open a line of credit. When you want to refi your home or some such, you just thaw it for a 10 day period and it re-freezes automatically.

"I shouldn't have to do that" is not going to much comfort if someone steals your identity.

Blah blah blah ..Good idea!,, blah blah ..Bad Idea!.. blah blah...

Could someone just post a link where I can sign up to get $1,000 a month?

I already make good money, but an extra grand would certainly help.

Actually, it would be more accurate to say they "Pulled a Hyunadia," i.e., overstated mileage.

Volkswagon's mileage data was correct; they were just spewing pollutants.

Versions from 1.98 (December, 2009) to 2.02 (December, 2015)

They certainly set a blistering development pace.

http://answers.microsoft.com/e...

If his computer was made by a manufacturer which is still around, he can get a recovery DVD from the company for a small fee.

If not, see the section of the page titled "What to do if you cannot get recovery media from your manufacturer". Basically, you take a retail copy of the OS in question and delete a .cfg file. That will allow you to install the OS using an OEM key. This is actually a lot easier if you use a thumb drive to install the OS rather than a DVD, since with a thumb drive your can just delete (or rename) the ei.cfg file.

he was once behind the infamous 'Star Wars' space laser project

You bastard. I had friends on Alderan.

I much prefer being able to see /etc/fstab than working with some nebulous class with functions that barely make sense.

Systemd will fix that soon enough.

Microsoft fixed the underlying vulnerability over a year ago.. Less than a month after it was first reported.

Do people really run computers with security patches turned off?
Computers connected to the internet?
Computers which are primarily used to open files emailed by random strangers?

Android has a back button, iOS and Windows do not.

Actually, Android and Windows Phone both have dedicated back buttons. iPhone is the outlier here.

What about notifications? I haven't seen Windows Phone's implementation, but Android notifications are light years ahead of the simple ones that iOS supports.

Notification functionality is pretty much identical on my Windows Phone and Nexus 5.

This stuff is all simple. The hard thing to emulate would be in-app advertisements and in-app purchases. Developers take that very seriously, for obvious reasons.

Not surprising. A few days ago, this nine year old kid was suspended for making "Terroristic Threats".

Specifically, he told one of his classmates that he had a magic ring forged at Mount Doom and he could make him disappear.

http://fw.to/kSQ7iAQ

Osama bin Laden managed to hide in plain sight for 6 years by doing something similar.

The basic approach of senior Al Qaeda figures was to use laptops but never connect them to the internet. Everything was based on thumb drives, which were moved around by trusted couriers. You couldn't plant a mole in there, because they basically didn't trust anyone they hadn't known for several generations.

He was eventually tracked down because his most trusted courier was on the phone with a friend being pestered about what he was doing, and the CIA happened to be listening.

Did you even glance at the linked screenshot?

The certificate is signed by some random, internal IP address. No browser would think it's a valid in the first place.