> because they created light during the movie

This is such an understatement too. I don't know why but some people have their phones set to "surface of the sun" levels of brightness when they're in the dark, and then they use their phone in the row in front of you it's like a laser burning a hole in your retina as you try to watch the screen.

No, keep phone usage out of cinemas. And turn down your screen brightness in the dark, people!

Absolutely not. Furry fandom isn't about being inappropriate with or harming actual animals. It's about enjoying the aspects of anthropomorphic animals.

Yes, it's a little weird. But not in a harmful or bad way. It's just people having consensual fun.

This is not the only way AT&T lies to you when you're using their service.

If you're in the US and roaming on an AT&T partner network, or if there's a natural disaster and disaster roaming is enabled and you're roaming on, for example, T-Mobile, it will still say "AT&T" even though you're not on their network.

This is specific to the US, too; if you go to say, Canada, it will say ROGERS or Bell or whatever. But if you're roaming within the US it will lie.

Also a few years ago your phone would say "4G" even though you were on a 3G network. AT&T justified it by saying their network performs like a 4G network. Seriously. It's like bad comedy.

Other providers don't seem to be as bad about this, but I'm sure they have their own issues too.

Fellow linux router user here... It just blows my mind the level of incompetence here. Local network configuration data should never leave the local network.

The ONLY reason a consumer router should be talking to the Internet at all is for firmware updates. Period.

Stuff like WiFi passwords and configuration data should NEVER leave the local network. Why is it being sent at all? What kind of shenanigans are afoot?

As if I needed more of a reason to distrust consumer networking equipment. My continued usage of a hand-configured Linux-based router is once again vindicated. Friends have called me needlessly paranoid about this stuff in the past; I should send them this article.

I never figured so much of the regulatory framework we depend on in the US was so fragile that a court ruling could take it down.

What's next, the FAA losing its authority? Will we have planes coming crashing down on our cities multiple times a year?

How do we even fix this? Congress is useless and the executive branch's hands are tied. And if Trump wins in November it'll just get worse because he doesn't care about anyone.

Why are they blocking access for random US states when they're a Canadian company? I doubt these states can claim jurisdiction over Canada.

Reminds me of an old joke.

"What's the fastest way to learn how to do ____ in Linux?"

"Post on a Linux forum, 'Linux sucks because it can't do ____."

Yeah, it's easy to forget just how freaking EXPENSIVE computer stuff was back then.

The IIgs was indeed old hat by 1991, but if you could buy one second hand for a few hundred bucks, or trade older hardware for it, it was a hell of a lot better than continuing to use an Apple IIe or similar older machine. Not to mention, if you were a heavy Apple II user, that continued compatibility with all your existing hardware and software was a nice touch.

I had an Apple IIe until 1993. Those last few years were painful. But my family was poor and the only reason I got a decent 486 system in 1993 was the money my grandmother left us when she passed away. Turns out she specifically told my mom she wanted me to have a nice computer since it was the future.

Thanks, Grandma. You were the best.

I remember when it used to be about the highest performance, quietest cooling, sleek designs, nice looking cable routing, etc...

Now it seems to be about how much RGB lighting you can cram into a case and big garish unnecessary skins on motherboards and other components. There's enough extra crap on that Asus board to probably hurt thermal performance rather than help. It doesn't even look that good; it's tacky as all hell.

I wish this industry would get back to the basics. I feel like if I want to buy a machine that doesn't look ridiculous, I have to buy a Dell or something like that.

>>7+ million new illegals in 2 years

>this isn't necessarily a "bad thing"

I wonder if people realize that our birth rate is down significantly, so we actually need immigration in order to
sustain our country? A lot of these immigrants, especially the younger ones, are going to be the people taking care of us when we're old and senile.

It's like people see "illegal immigrant" and think that means it's a bad person. No, it's a desperate person looking for a better life, which they will likely find and contribute to our nation.

I'm so tired of this ignorance.

Also the damn bridge was out for TWO YEARS. It should have been, you know, *repaired* during that time?

If you (as a content owner) remove media from a streaming service to get a tax writeoff, you should be required to release said media into the public domain to obtain that writeoff. In addition to that, it should be made available DRM-free for a specified amount of time.

It's unfair for them to have it both ways. If they refuse to make it available legitimately, it kind of ruins the argument against piracy.

Zero sympathy for these greedy companies.

Imagine going to jail for likely the rest of your life because you figured keeping a stolen car was more important than someone's life.

One way to do this would be to insert ads into the API, so clients like Apollo see the ads too, and mandate that third-party clients show the add.

They could remove the ads for Premium users.

I know that before all this, if ads became required in third-party clients I would understand that Reddit has to make money, and I would probably go premium to get rid of them. It's not a lot of money.