If AI overtakes biological intelligent beings, then why haven't we seen evidence of AI aliens? Just pushing off advanced intelligence from biology to machines doesn't solve the Fermi paradox.

Whaddya talking about? A driver may or may not be a car's owner... Think rental car or lending to a friend. Theft is with respect to the owner, Waymo, and has no nothing to do with any driver.

"They presumed that essenially all paying subscribers didn't inherently care about the 'additional' users of their account, it was a nice 'freebie' to share, but the other users didn't really factor into their 'subscribe/don't subscribe' logic."

That notion so obviously fails if what is going on is some form of: "I'll subscribe and let you use my account for X, where X is $3/mo or let me use your Disney account, or "you cook me dinner once a week", etc...

As I understand these new "sharing" rules, I can't even "share" with myself... For example, I cannot watch Netflix on my home TV and later on my office TV (or my vacation home TV)...

The rules are oriented towards "locations", "homes" -- whereas I'm just one guy that may have a few TV's in different locations... I can't even use MY account in a few locations. If I can't, I will cancel...

Older coots like myself didn't talk about KB of memory in those days. Bytes were not really a thing so much back then, not that bytes didn't exist, but they didn't have a fixed size and were mostly about characters. Everything instead was phrased in terms of words. First computer I ever touched had 8K core... that would be 8k of 16-bit words. A Data General Nova that I messed with had 4KW core -- the machine that lost out to the PDP-11 internally within DEC. That's the machine that really got people talking about bytes a lot....

Melinda held out for a long time, 27 years of knowing where the name "Micro Soft" came from...

subject to many hacks, but the Foscam cameras support FTP, email, HTTP, etc...

My own judgment is that Amazon has done a better job of producing (in my view) interesting content and originals, including the Boys, Homecoming, Goliath, Hunters, Jack Ryan, The Expanse, The Man in the High Castle, Good Omens, etc.

1) I totally agree with these observations: I've become quite disinterested in investing in the time to watch Netflix shows since it is highly likely they will get canceled too soon/before they mature.

2) In the past few years, I have come to realize that I like Amazon's shows much better on average than Netflix shows. Currently, The Boys, but also Homecoming, Jack Ryan, Hanna, Hunters, Goliath, Good Omen, Tales from the Loop, etc... not all excellent, but in general more watchable than Netflix shows (with a few exceptions, but those, again, often canceled...)

"You should be keeping radon out of the house by sealing the floor, and sufficiently ventilating any basement or sub-floor space."

In many houses this is not possible or financially feasible. Plenty of houses have "finished basements". Reasonable ventilation of those areas is not sufficient to clear out radon, particularly in the winter months. The point is, there has been a drive in the '80's and '90's to make houses more heat efficient by sealing them off, replacing windows, etc. A largely unforeseen consequence has been elevated radon levels.

Drafts are good as they clear out radon, unless you want lung cancer..

An issue with better residential insulation is that it keeps radon in the house longer, which will raise the incidence of lung cancer...

Apparently this postponement was the last straw: Regal Theaters just announced the closing of ALL of its locations, 500+...

Sad (and directly impacts since Regal runs/ran all of our local theaters...)

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At this point, Trump has nothing to lose. He will continue to do outrageous things to pander to his base. I'm surprised he hasn't figured out to give more $$ in COVID money to Americans to buy off the election, since he has already learned that spending money (increasing the deficit) has no consequence for him. He already also puts his name on all the stim checks to make people think he is helping them personally...

I remember Notepad from Windows 2.11, that was 1989, over 30 years ago. It was essentially the same simplistic little program -- hardly any change at all. It probably was even in Windows 1.0. Its hilarious that over the past 30+ years they deign to make these tiny micro "improvements" to Notepad.