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Greaaaat. And since I decided to cheap out and buy my own modem ($40 once vs. $10/month to CableVision), **I'm** the person I have to contact to find out if my modem's vulnerable, and/or if there's a firmware patch. Hopefully TP-LINK's after-sales support is better than their pricing would seem...

DUCK SEASON! RABBIT SEASON! (ETA: A virtual self-downvote, since I can't actually vote down my own posts, for not writing "WABBIT SEASON!". 😒 #Disappoint )

Or Max Headroom. I kind of want his Apple Remote to be a vintage HP or TI segment-display calculator, ca. nineteen seventy-anything. One of those bulky brick dealies, festooned with tiny identical-size and -color buttons so you had to actually read the tiny labels. Roughly equivalent in terms...

Teach Alexa to scratch, and we'll talk.

Gay 👏 people's 👏 lives 👏 are 👏 not 👏 "alternative"! They're not "lifestyles", either! True, actually! And that right there is part of the problem. As the article notes and as Sarkeesian laments, there really isn't that much gay representation in games at all. The problem is that, not only are...

(Quoting heavily trimmed, since it was getting unwieldy... the original posts are up there for the finding, and they were all dutifully quoted in each of the previous replies prior to this one.) Thanks, you definitely make several excellent points. I definitely appreciate the depth and detail...

Aack! Damn you, Milton Friedman!!! *fistshake* (As I point out whenever anyone brings this up: Of all the concepts of modern capitalism, even freakin' Forbes calls that one... "The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value".)

That makes absolutely no sense. I get what you're going for, but it's wrong. You're looking at it as, "What are the chances that I'll die if I have an accident?" Figuring, hey: Most car accidents (the overwhelming plurality) aren't fatal. But in a plane (especially if we limit it to mid-air...

I'm pretty sure MBA programs, at least here in the US, teach that an ethical bar is one where they don't water down the drinks.

If only we'd deregulated the aircraft industry even further, Boeing could've been put in charge of handling their own accident investigation as well. Then all of this very alarming and not-at-all-profitable information could've been suppressed completely. And, let's be honest, wouldn't we all...

We are, yes — but Ars is unusual in the current age of web publishing, in that its comment system is implemented in a web forum. I completely agree, discussion forum sites are (for all intents and purposes) BBSes. Reddit is effectively a BBS, 4chan is effectively a BBS, the forums at Cracked...

Take any definition and that'll be the case, unless it's a wrong definition. The term "blog" came about as a shortened form of "web log". It literally has the word "web" in it!

As a perfect example of LiveJournal's unfocused flexibility, here's how their FAQ entry #135(!) still explains the possibilities for login: It starts off way too overly-technical, goes through a lot of tedious "stuff", and then way down at the bottom they sneak in a mention of some genuinely...

Ah, THAT old chestnut — "Maximizing Shareholder Value". A notion that's done more to ruin society over the past 40 years than even the worst politicians. (Yes, even that one.) You know you're messing up Capitalism when even fucking Forbes calls your theory of corporate governance, "The Dumbest...

... *sigh* I hate this frickin' country.

Wait... what exactly are you blaming the government for, here? You always had to buy an antenna to receive broadcast TV signals. It's just that way back when, TVs came with the antenna included: TVs were expensive, and broadcast was a relatively-common method of accessing programming. Now...

But that's what the Europeans are saying: why do we allow it to be set up that way? We don't have to, you know. We could regulate standardized pricing. It's not beyond our power. We only put up with this bullshit because we choose to. But the companies don't want things to change (and will...

Still beats Ajit Pai's FCC, which only blows Comcast.

Well, that man has no future in politics.

Wow, really? Not that I'd want to do this anyway*, but If I was looking to own a computer assembled out of hot air, I'd have bought a NeXT. * – (Especially given the bigger hurdle that I no longer have access to my original A2000, as it stayed with my parents, who've since moved.)