Especially as most studios want to charge 3x the cos for 3D blu-ray..

Last time they rarely ever applied promotions to 3D content. So the regular blu-ray would be $12- $20. But then they would want $35-$60 for the 3D version. It is very hard to justify paying 2x-4x the cost of the 2D.

Google at least allows you to add other app stores to your Android device. Apple, big Foxtrot-Uniform.

I think if they force Google to, then Google better be able to turn-a-round and have Apple forced to do the same.

And when that happens, folks are less likely to jump ship, and be burned.

Corporations are also colluding to keep labor costs down. So that large employers are not offering incentives to draw employees because many are contemplating layoffs and down sizing.

They grew up hearing their hearing the slightly older generation decrying the BS corporate America has continuously hit GenX with. And have decided that if the corporations want these sorts of things, they damn well better pay a livable wage or the companies can go f*** themselves.

Which many companies are doing, as we have seen where retail outlets haven't even been able to keep their hours due to staffing, or had entire fast food store employees quit. Maybe it is time for companies to actually pay up. Instead of wanting degreed employees for the same wages they were paying 25 years ago.

SpaceX is a commercial space company. Arguably, the first legitimate one (yes, Bezos and a few others have their companies, but none of those are fully functioning delivering satellites, payloads, and passengers into space).

Until very recently, ALL space launches and programs were handled by NASA and the government. ALL of these rules, procedures, and policies are in fact new. Many are legacy procedures from the hey day of the Apollo space program. For commercial space ventures to thrive there is going to need to be more fluidity of processes and procedures, regulations will need to be relaxed and made more reasonable. A simple change should not be reliant upon a 3 month period of time and to be told two days beforehand that they will not have time to address the matter. There should be a requirement that any change be logged to the flight plan. But it should not be dependent on a small government agency to micromanage every detail.

All these regulations and procedures are new for commercial space, and they need to adjust to the needs of a fledgling industry. (And filing a lawsuit is generally how you get change done in government + lobbying congress.)

If the FAA doesn't adjust, eventually what will happen is that SpaceX and the entire commercial space industry will move outside of the country. Either become entirely seaborn, or more likely pick a tiny island nation on the equator to build their spaceports. And they will just bypass the government entirely. This will eventually happen anyways.

One day, it will make more sense to simply mine an asteroid, 3D print parts, build spaceships in space, and have companies who are not bound by ANY nation. And don't get approval for deploying ships or satellites, only to land their ships.

Most cops are too stupid to figure that out... LOLZ

Wrong decision, probably because of bad defendant case. This is often how bad decisions are made. They argued the 5th,.. but this case is a 4th amendment case.

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,"

Secure in papers and effects (phone is effects).

Secure in their persons, who does the thumb belong to?

We will be the first generation to die younger than our predecessors in ages.

That jet has a major design flaw IMHO. The two fuselages are interconnected at a single point. Were an engine or mechanical failure to impact one side of the aircraft, it is likely the torque will be so great that it will tear the aircraft apart.

The tail should have been connected like a P-38 to minimize flex so that the aircraft doesn't torque itself apart.

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Not impressed in the least. I mean, how can you have an API Management product that didn't even provide a count of consumers registered for a given API. And did not even apply an alphabetic sort on the list. SMH

What sucks is that this acquisition will probably mean we are stuck with webMethods for a few more years.

*sighs*

I always hate Consumer Report's problem statements because it's like failed transmissions and peeling paint or poorly fitted trim are treated equivalently.

I want to know serious problems only, motors, transmissions, suspension/breaking, HVAC. The big pricey things. I am far less concerned about cosmetics.

Change password every 30 days?

Why, worst security choice ever. This results in one of two things.

1) People writing password down on things like sticky-notes.

2) People having to rely on patterns. Which means, on or about the first of every month, you will see passwords change. You can almost guarantee most of those changes will be 11 > 12, or Nov > Dec. On January, a large portion of all passwords will change from 23 > 24.

If you want to reduce the effort for hackers to crack a stolen password list, requiring your users to change their password every 30 days is the way to go.

Just DUMB.

Require longer passwords, pass phrases, and you can have way more complexity and people will still remember it.

At first I was planning to come on and be dismissive of Mr. Nolan. But he made the one point that I believe is valid. His point isn't really about streaming but about ephemeral existence. With Blu Ray, you buy it, you have it. In a 100 years people can find that copy. But the movie studios, and big industry in general, no longer want us to own anything, be it a movie or a farm tractor. They want it all to be pay-to-use licensing models.

The result of this, is that ONLY the existence of piracy is protecting movies. If SONY decides a movie they made is no longer politically acceptable, we may never see it again. Unless someone pirated the stream and illegally made a copy.

This is a totally legit concern.

When was the last time they adjusted what items were included in the inflation index? (Like when they changed steak to ground beef, arguing both were beef.)

Like what things were dropped and what were added this month?