Non-IT News Thread
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June postscript: 5 unusual things you can make in an Internet-connected oven
The June helps you push toaster oven boundaries... with more and less success.
Earlier this month, Ars reviewed the June Oven, an Internet-connected, seven-in-one device that pushes the boundaries of the traditional toaster oven. Overall, I felt pretty positive about the June, especially the internal camera that allows you to watch your food cook (and share that view with others if you so desire).
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Netflix welcomes 2019 with Stranger Things 3 release date: July 4
"One summer can change everything."
Just before 2018 ended, Netflix tweeted out another trailer for Stranger Things 3 (the above video is a shortened version from Netflix's YouTube channel). The nearly four-minute-long clip takes viewers back to New Years' Eve 1985, specifically Dick Clark's iconic New Year's Rockin' Eve broadcast. Mysterious interferences interrupt the broadcast, sending static onto the screen along with strange messages like "when blue and yellow meet in the west."
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There is a ton of exciting space stuff on tap for 2019
New rockets, commercial crew, planetary missions, and even SpaceX's Starship.
The year 2018 saw some great moments in spaceflight, such as the dazzling launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket in February and the flight of Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spacecraft to 82km above the Earth's surface. But in many ways, 2018 was a developmental year for what could be some amazing spaceflight achievements in 2019.
So with the dawn of a new year, we're looking ahead to what may come in 2019 for those eagerly waiting as the government and private spaceflight push back against the final frontier.
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Original Star Control creators deploy nuclear option against Stardock
Steam and GOG remove Star Control: Origins from sale following DMCA takedown filing.
The ongoing legal battle between original Star Control creators Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III and Star Control: Origins developer Stardock escalated significantly on the last day of 2018. Following a favorable court decision, Ford and Reiche filed DMCA takedown requests with Steam and GOG over allegations that Star Control: Origins infringes on Ford and Reiche's copyrights. Steam and GOG both removed Star Control: Origins from their respective stores, cutting off significant revenue sources for Stardock.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
New Year's Eve beach bonfire sparks 'firenados' in the Netherlands
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46727838If you didn't watch the video... Things really spiraled out of control, ha ha.
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
New Year's Eve beach bonfire sparks 'firenados' in the Netherlands
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46727838If you didn't watch the video... Things really spiraled out of control, ha ha.
LOL
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@dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
New Year's Eve beach bonfire sparks 'firenados' in the Netherlands
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46727838If you didn't watch the video... Things really spiraled out of control, ha ha.
Man... I could just keep watching that video. It's oddly satisfying. Really pulls you in.
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Study: Famed Domesday Book was completed later than historians thought
New analysis of surviving satellite documents puts the date between 1098 and 1114.
At Christmas in 1085, William the Conqueror decided to commission a kingdom-wide survey of England, sending census takers into every shire to take stock both of the population and its resources: land, livestock, castles and abbeys, and so forth. The result was the Domesday Book, a tome that provided an unparalleled record of daily life in 11th-century England, long revered and studied by medieval historians. It got its moniker because the English complained that its decisions could not be appealed, just like on the Day of Judgement.
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Netflix delivers a blow to Apple’s services story by ending in-app subscriptions
Apple is pushing services with in-app subs, but it just lost one of the biggest.
Netflix will no longer offer in-app subscription purchases for users of iOS devices like iPhones and iPads, VentureBeat reports. The change cuts off a substantial amount of revenue for Apple at a time when it is working hard to encourage app developers to adopt in-app subscriptions as a model, and when it depends on its services business to tell a growth story to its shareholders.
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Ajit Pai thanks Congress for helping him kill net neutrality rules
Ajit Pai today celebrated a victory in his ongoing quest to prevent the US government from enforcing net neutrality rules.
The Pai-led Federal Communications Commission repealed Obama-era net neutrality rules, but the repeal could have been reversed by Congress if it acted before the end of its session. Democrats won a vote to reverse the repeal in the Senate but weren't able to get enough votes in the House of Representatives before time ran out.
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Searching Google Images for the word Idiot brings up images of President Donald Trump
Not an article, just funny.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Netflix delivers a blow to Apple’s services story by ending in-app subscriptions
Apple is pushing services with in-app subs, but it just lost one of the biggest.
Netflix will no longer offer in-app subscription purchases for users of iOS devices like iPhones and iPads, VentureBeat reports. The change cuts off a substantial amount of revenue for Apple at a time when it is working hard to encourage app developers to adopt in-app subscriptions as a model, and when it depends on its services business to tell a growth story to its shareholders.
Frankly, considering 120 Million, I'm surprised it took this long. Sure it's a PITA to log into the website vs the app to setup payment, but it's mostly a once and done, at least for a few years until your CC expiration date comes along.
The bigger kick is games with in app purchases. Very few people are going to leave the game, visit a website, buy their daily shit, then return to the game when they can just play a different game that doesn't require that monkeying around.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Searching Google Images for the word Idiot brings up images of President Donald Trump
Not an article, just funny.
Surprise = zero
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@EddieJennings said in Non-IT News Thread:
@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Searching Google Images for the word Idiot brings up images of President Donald Trump
Not an article, just funny.
Surprise = zero
I know, right? I was hoping he'd at least linked to a LMGTFY search, lol.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
Searching Google Images for the word Idiot brings up images of President Donald Trump
Not an article, just funny.
He's an entertaining fool at least.
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NASA probe finds a snowman-shaped relic of the early Solar System
"This may be the most primitive object seen by any spacecraft."
After the New Horizons mission zoomed by the then-unknown Ultima Thule object in the outer Solar System early on New Year's Day, the spacecraft began returning data to Earth via a deep-space network. Although only about 1 percent of that data is now on the ground, scientists were able to share some top-line findings on Wednesday.
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Couple bangs on live TV.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
Couple bangs on live TV.
I saw that. Watched a doctor (on youtube) talking about it and they think it may just have been dry humping. Although the way they're acting they may have been extremely high.
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@coliver Why on earth would they have been sober in New Orleans on new year's eve?
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@RojoLoco said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver Why on earth would they have been sober in New Orleans on new year's eve?
I'm not blaming them.
