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Comment Re:Just cancel (Score 1) 49

Why do people feel entitled to sue businesses to make them do what they want? Just cancel your sub. A class action will fail and only enrich lawyers.

The good news is if it fails, lawyers get nothing. What damages has the class suffered? Fewer bad movies and shows? Higher costs? IF Netflix get more expensive, cancel it. It's not like you need Netflix or HBO or whatever. I get creatives' concerns, especially if Netflix moves away from theatrical releases, which can change how they get paid at the back end. Should teh class get certified, opt out. If enough people do, the action becomes worthless for the lawyers and costly since they don't get paid.

Comment Re:The way to go (Score 1) 62

When you buy physical media, its yours, forever.

And you can rip them for portablity or to put on a server. Best of both worlds.

You can also rip data from streaming music services.

Quite true, but you are limited to the quality of the stream; and if a service decides to remove the video and your file gets corrupted/lost you can't redo it. Then again, DVD media is not eternal either. Both options have their pluses and minuses.

Comment Re:Normally I'd write most of that off as fluff (Score 1) 48

But this dude also invented the Super Soaker - now THAT's legit guy cred!

It'd make my year if he went back to that. Ever since Hasbro bought them, they've looked like these useless contraptions made by Dr. Seuss; we need to get back to the CPS2000 and the other turn-of-the-century models that were actually effective at their intended purpose.

Comment Re: ADHD does not exist (Score 1) 237

Why have any rules or standards at all? Just give all students full credit in everything. If we're going to make college the last bit of preparation standing between "children" and the real world, at some point we have to require them to do something hard.

It's ca;;ed the real world, and is coming at them with a clue by four. A HS near me no longer fails students, because well, it's easier to pass them and push them on than deal with parents who blame the school and teachers for their kid's performance.

Comment This isnâ(TM)t about the importance of theatr (Score 1) 58

Rather, itâ(TM)s about money. If Netflix goes streaming, all that money made in distribution, percentages of gross, etc. goes away. WB doesnâ(TM)t care because, except for payments such as percentages of gross, much of it rolls back to them eventually. All the creatives, OTOH, may lose out on a lot of money.

Comment Re:Such a strange system (Score 1) 96

And have the bus pointer the wrong way? I think worse, now you have a bus full of kids structured for a head on crash with oncoming traffic.

I doubt any bus driver would want to cross to the other side, it would be a challenge, even if cars cooperated. You'd have a line of blocked cars that would need to be let by, while holding up traffic behind you. If the driver doesn't have on red flashers when they start to move, a car could potentially legally pass them and the bus pull out into them. Then if the stop is near a corner, the driver may not see an oncoming car, setting up your scenario; or I've seen stops on a street with a 45 MPH limit, trying to cross that and then face oncoming traffic would be crazy.

Comment Re:Such a strange system (Score 1) 96

I can see how this system evolved in an US specific environment, but I wonder if it wouldn't have been safer to design schoolbusses with exits on both sides and just let the kids out on the right side of the road? For proper bus stops you can just put a zebra crossing sufficiently behind the stop to make it safe.

In general, bus stops are designed for the students to exit on the non-street side. The issue is kids who have to cross the street to get home since a stop serves multiple homes on both sides of a street. Retracing the route would double the bus transit time for some kids, who likely just get off the bus at the first stop and not theirs if the bus retraced the route so they could get off on their side of the street.

Comment Re:Missed one crucial point/reason (Score 3, Informative) 116

Having set up two Windows 11 PCs in the last couple of months it's amazing how much work it takes to get a usable OS after installing it.

The Windows 10 Decrapifier Script, combined with most of the tweaks available in WinUtil should reduce your workload pretty effectively.

Sad it needs to happen...but I hope it helps streamline things for you.

Comment Re:Or, you know... (Score 1) 64

but you couldn't carry that in your pocket, which seems to be the objective here.

True as that may be...for $2,450, one could buy a Galaxy S25 *AND* an S10+ Tablet *AND* a Michael Kors bag to put them in.

Or, with a few compromises...one could buy a Galaxy S25FE, a Galaxy Tab S10FE, a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 2-in-1, *and* a leather Samsonite briefcase to carry it all.

Props to Samsung for figuring out a way to enable those with a pile of money to visibly demonstrate their affluence, but that price tag is so eye-wateringly high that there's no amount of functionality that can justify just buying a phone and a tablet.

Comment Re:Color me curious.... (Score 1) 39

Given that most Bitcoin investors are just speculative hobbyists, a mixing service is a fun toy! Kind of like when all the open source nerds signed their emails with public keys so strong encrypted email was a fun hobby and totally not a way for organized criminals to communicate.

I suspect most of those speculative hobbyists aren't simply giving up a percentage of their holdings to use a fun toy; if you're speculating why give up a % of your return when you get no value from it? As for PGP and its ilk, there are probably a lot more legitimate users, which is why law enforcement used other means, such a taking over services clandestinely to be able to track organized crime; just like wiretaps allowed targeting suspected criminals without eliminating telephones. That's not to say governments aren't trying to get backdoors, and while I disagree with that approach, it's still allows targeting suspects without eliminating encryption. Of course, you have to rely on governments to play fair, something "for the children" arguments make the effort suspect and open to fishing expeditions.

Personally, I think taking it over surreptitiously would be a better move because then you can see and track both ends of the transaction; something they may have done but wouldn't admit to until they have some strong cases. They may have done that and after they had what they needed decided to shut it down. Who knows, I certainly don't.

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