If they actually cared about the most popular films, they'd go by ticket sales numbers rather than gross income. But they don't. They just want to be able to market every new blockbuster as the most "popular" (read: hyped) film ever.

It's not as if the computing hardware in them is a significant portion of the price. A very powerful single board computer costs $50, and I'm sure with their manufacturing pipelines the limited hardware these devices need costs them a lot less than that.

Here I am hoping for mutually assured destruction...

Where's my survivalist guide when I need it?

It's not a zero sum game. You don't have to make a profit at the expense of others; you can also do so in benefitting them. I mean, most businesses would insist that this is what they do, including Clearview, but many are simply lying, and many others have been overcome by cognitive dissonance. As the old adage says, "it's impossible to convince a man of something that will cost him his livelihood."

Signal is very slowly working on becoming accessible without a phone number. The thing about Signal is that their entire raison d'être is to do things right and securely, and to do it right the first time. This means that major changes take time. If you want (any given feature) fast, you're looking in the wrong place.

The included on phone rather than paying $200 for a GPS was the first nail in tomtom's coffin, but the second was the free, real-time data updates instead of having to plug that GPS into a computer and pay $50/year for new data...

What is this? Gaining traction how? And what does that even mean? Well, at least the fact that they're from 2004, 2007 and 2015 demonstrates that Slashdot hasn't lost a beat compared to its regular standard of posting timely news.

Make sure you have a reasonably recent version (though it's been available for a while now) then click the "Windows" menu on the menu bar, followed by "Single Window Mode."

There were other pandemics in the 20th century. The next deadliest is HIV/AIDS that has so far has had a death toll about on the order of magnitude of Spanish Flu. There were a few other flu pandemics with total death tolls about where COVID-19 is at now. As a total non-expert making wild speculations, we were much more internationally mobile in 2019 than in the 50s or 60s, which almost certainly increased the spread of this pandemic. The Spanish Flu is thought to have originated in the USA and was spread worldwide by American soldiers during WWI, so it had the travel angle going for it too.

Trebek was Canadian.

To be fair, he *did* announce it... the headline is perfectly accurate.

The thing is, this isn't just a cost analysis; the value of beauty and its benefits to human well-being are vastly underestimated in these sorts of discussions. Of course this won't make much sense to city dwellers who can't really see the sky anyway (I am in that group), but there is something profoundly human and healthy about marveling at the beauty of the night sky (or unspoiled wilderness, or an ocean, or a mountain range, or any other natural phenomenon). Even expanding knowledge and scientific progress shouldn't be pursued at the expense of such unquantifiable benefits.

Yeah, I had a G (5 I think, but I'm not sure) that had its charging port die in less than eight months. I'd also changed roms (this was the reason I'd purchased the phone), so no warranty. Tried replacing the power port myself, but every replacement I found online was missing a capacitor and so didn't work, I think they were for a very slightly different model.

Even if it doesn't reduce deaths, speeding recovery could be extremely valuable in situations when hospitals are swamped and overcapacity.

(Note: I'm not a Trump supporter; I'm not even American. But it could well still be a helpful treatment.)