Redbox used to buy the disks in bulk, rather than renting them from manufacturers, and sold them when they were done with them, so it shouldn't be a difficult thing to resell them if you by a box of them.

... you're acting like it's already dying, even when it's still good?

299 times 80% charge means 299 times you told the battery it was "OK to be limited". I'd rather have the actual capacity available.

Personally, I don't kill a battery in a single day. Does charging my iPhone every two days make it last longer? Or should I go three days, when it will actually be low?

(no, I'm not a phone addict)

Yes, they came earlier, but... That wasn't something I used on line. Over the air, yes, but not to a commercial service.

Sears used a slower service for their TELEX machine when I worked there. Wait, does that make ME old, too?

I remember some of that. First at 300 baud acoustic-coupled, then 1200, then 2400. Finally was given a SYSOP account. Then gave it up when AOL took over.

It hurt the wallet when that happened, but I didn't care that much. I'd lived through the era when forums were new, and how quickly things rolled over, even when we got all the way to 1024 messages in the database... almost 3 days!

It's not dumb if you're the government.

A lot of stuff is being "made convenient" now for phones that used to be considered by us old farts to need to be kept secure. Fortunately, it's still acceptable to have it separate and NOT ON THE PHONE in most states.

Website says 18 hours (36 in low power mode). Which part of the day would you do without the watch to have it monitor you at night?

You describe non-commercial goals. We're talking commercial stuff here.

Is excelling at a marathon a commercial goal? Usually, no, but participating in one has goals. Thousands participate with a goal to complete it. A select few, though, are doing it "to be the best". When a city or other organization puts on such a marathon, they aren't seeking the best in choosing the people allowed to participate, though. They're making an opportunity for people to "have fun".

War is (or used to be) something where winning was expected. It's relatively new (last 70 or 80 years) that OUR goal is to keep a war going, and keep the deaths (on our side at least) within margins.

Famine? Depends on who it affects. Some people make it a goal to kill others.

Climate change? Control over something seems to be the goal nowadays. It doesn't matter which way it changes, someone wants to claim control to "fix it".

If your job is to do "XYZZY", it isn't to do "OK" at doing "XYZZY". You were hired to be the best at "XYZZY" you can be.You may be able to get by with being only mediocre at "XYZZY", but that should not be your GOAL.

This is not how things are supposed to be done in a free society. Setting out to be mediocre does not improve life for anyone.

If being mediocre is truly the goal, why bother?

But you don't close the browser if the phone is still "on". You just make it "not visible for now."

If you want to close a program on a phone (Android or Apple), you have to jump through some hoops, or actually turn the phone OFF. Otherwise, whatever you were doing before is still there.

And stop allowing shipping around it, since the thieves weren't carrying them across the line personally.

The question comes down to, who is going to pay for the mandatory insurance?

Many places have mandatory car insurance. They also have mandatory registration... and yet, there are thousands of cars in cities like Milwaukee that have no license, and no insurance either. Insurance for a mere BICYCLE? Heaven forbid!

These are high-end bikes. The owners probably do have insurance on them. It didn't stop them from being stolen. It didn't get the police to care enough to do more than write the report so their insurance claim could go through.

The person arrested probably wasn't even a big link in the chain. The feds got involved with the charges (international shipping), so there's no saying whether or not San Francisco did more than provide officers to make the arrest. Heck, their claim to have seized ONE stolen bike, already boxed up to ship out of state, means he probably could have gotten away with it if the seizure had been a few hours later. Having $200K of cash isn't a crime... just very suspicious.

where will the idea of all those Japanese novels and manga (where the hero/heroine dies and takes a job in a fantasy world) go?

You used a phrase that does not apply to government stuff... "well executed".

... means another 10,000 hits on my non-Windows web servers trying to exploit it.

And then they'll pause a week or so, until the next vulnerability hits the news, and start over.

No, it's more a warning that, if you've EVER accessed a Disney-related service, do not access any OTHER Disney-related service that may cause injury (or death), such as an amusement park (or restaurant).

Since corporate ownership is so convoluted nowadays, it's probably not a good idea to watch weather on a Disney-related TV station or website, if you might find yourself in a dangerous area, like, well, anywhere with storms.