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I love most of the interface. There's still a few bugs that haven't been addressed, but it's 95% solidly done.

The telemetry capture is a huge issue for me and also no longer releasing the contents of updates. I've done what I can to limit or minimize how much information is collected, but I shouldn't have to do that.

When Microsoft released their metrics on Windows 10 usage (for example, how many times their Photos app had been used), people should've been absolutely livid. Who knows what else is captured besides the process list?

It's way too black box for me.

Just booted it. The EULA is frightening to say the least.

1. "You agree that you irrevocably waive any and all ownership, legal and moral rights to your user content."

2. You're also not allowed to oppose "the basic principles determined in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China", harm it's "national honor and interests", or undermine it's "national religious policy, promoting cults and superstitions".

3. Also, you're not allowed to spread rumor, disturb social order, or undermine social stability.

There's other strange rules of conduct that just turned me off from the entire project. Besides, it doesn't see either of my wireless adapters and the desktop blanked out when it attempted to adjust my screen resolution:)

I'm still interested in getting completely off Windows 10, so I'll stick with Linux for now.

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I've never understood that about deducting charitable donations. I've always had the principle that I shouldn't be getting anything for my charity. Otherwise, it wouldn't really be a donation to me. It would be make it conditional. I'm giving this money away, but give me some back from the taxpayers?

I might sound like a sucker, but that's just always been my thought on it. My mother once said something to me like that as a kid and I've applied it donating.

Played it for the first time at a Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. It's everything I had heard and it is offensive. It's also an absolute blast to play with the right people.

I think you're proving his point though.

If they were that powerful, they'd just hit the "Turn off Daesh and Al Qaeda" switches at the controls, wouldn't you think?

It isn't as simple as you're making it. The CIA has been successful and very not successful in its history.

Fire Stick ($39) will do ALL of that except for 4k. We haven't used anything in the house except Netflix and Kodi for a year. It's a wonderful little stick. Too bad Amazon had to be an ass and remove Kodi from their store (you just sideload it instead now).

What do you mean? Are you referring to playing stuff off of a NAS?

Our two Fire Sticks play of our NAS just fine. We even push video downloads in Kodi back to the NAS no problem. It took about an hour from pulling out of the box, to installing Kodi, configuring my streaming services and pointing it to our shared folders on the NAS.

Are you authenticating by using the Wifi and Bluetooth addresses for input? What would stop someone from spoofing the known devices if so?

Just wondering about the setup.

So....it's basically a technology that duplicates the retinal projection in Star Trek TNG's "The Game"?

Interesting if it works that well. I could see people using this far more than the others coming out.

Vaping was the only way that worked for me. I smoked cigarettes for 20 years and tried patches, nicotine gum, lozenges, and medications. Vaping did it. I worked my way down from 24mg and eventually stopped a few weeks after I had been on 0mg.

I have ZERO desire to ever smoke again. It's been about 4 years now and I'm still not (nor ever plan to be) an asshole ex-smoker telling other people to quit. Cigarette smoke still smells delicious though and I tell smokers when I'm near enough to smell it:)

Good luck. I don't think you'll have a problem.

Exactly. Uber has a whole bunch of people literally climbing over each over to put themselves out of business.

I'm not sure what the solution is with this whole mess though.

Exactly. The moment I get a cold contact like this, I'll put your business on the "Never use them for any reason" list.

After I send them an email explaining why.

I'm gonna place my bet that the entire app thing is a hoax. Perhaps, it's going to end up as some type of documentary about privacy?

So, just immediately publish my research next time instead? Got it.

>Please use Google Chrome:)

No, because I don't normally use that browser. So, I guess the user doesn't get to know why, will just ignore the site and move on to something else.

I do actually know, but I'm pointing out the major problem from the user's perspective. If a everyday non-technical person visits, they're just going to assume the page is broken. You usually only get one (very short) attempt at getting the user interested enough to interact with your site.

They should be displaying the simple explanation why their site won't work on Firefox, IE, Safari, Opera, etc.

Ohhh. I like that idea. I'm going to start doing that.

Ha. This took me back to being 8 years old again. My mom loved/hated the fact that her kids had graph paper ALL OVER the house because we were building sprites for games on the C64.

Boy, assembly was a bitch at first.

In 6th grade (1986), my Georgia school was terribly poor and outdated. The newest book on space had a sentence I will never forget as long as I live: "If we ever land on the moon, we may find it is teeming with life."

It was difficult to be a child in rural Georgia that wanted to read everything in existence on space, physics, etc. before the internet.

That was a really good article and explained a lot of things I hadn't considered about the whole "servant economy" problem.

You hear a lot of fans gushing that Uber-type companies are awesome, but there's a ton of reasons why it shouldn't be done this way. If they had to compete with some of the things that a lot of employees (and companies) expect as very basic requirements, it wouldn't be nearly as disruptive (if much at all).

You want a realistic answer? "Finders keepers. We made it."

Now, I do agree that it's a massive chunk and it could be better used given up to the rest of the internet, but honestly we should be pushing harder on ipv6 instead.

The whole "They are the greatest force against peace and for suffering the world has ever known" part is a matter of opinion and I disagree with that statement.

Unfortunately, it might end up being the most appropriate analogy. Hopefully, any that aren't already arrested are caught before they retaliate.

I respect this woman more every time I hear about her in the news. I'm glad to see a huge player try to stand up for others like that. It's remarkable considering she clearly understands she could end up helping someone that takes a sale from her.

Wow. It's hard to make out, but that definitely looks like a plane.