The Core

OTOH insurers are giving a break to cars with anti-theft devices: Tracking, theft alerts to owner, remote engine shut-down.

The tracking is a double edge sword of course, re. privacy.

From my favorite search engine:

http://searchengineland.com/duckduckgo-adds-date-filters-sitelinks-search-features-250998?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed-main

> cooked

I have the same feeling.  That said, I find myself posting less and less personal stuff online.

I learned a lot from that.  I always thought corn liquor or bourbon was king forever in the South.  Interesting bit on Southern beer too, Prohibition really did a lot of damage to our Sacred Drinking Heritage.

>crap

Yes.  I replaced my 6 yr old dishwasher.  New one takes twice as long to go through a wash cycle.  Uses less water to meet EPA standards which is probably good for California and the SW USA but I have no shortage of water here.   Does not clean as well as the old one and is drawing electricity all during the longer cycle.

Over the stove microwave died after 4 years, nice lady at the independent repair shop told me the $$ numbers over the phone to maybe fix it, and said "you might do better just going to Lowes and get a new one."

Neighbors, all with appliances about the same age as mine, have had refrigerators, dishwashers, microwaves all die.  And yes it is often the circuit boards that fail.  Seems like the fancier the appliances with more electronic bells and whistles fail first.

Lack of maintenance might also be an American habit.  I remember seeing a documentary about a bridge in New England.  There had been a bridge there since colonial times.  Like 8 bridges in all.  Each one either was allowed to collapse or had to be condemned due to lack of maintenance starting from the first bridge which was a privately owned  toll bridge to later publicly owned bridges after the road became state owned.

It's here, Ver. 1.0 of Vivaldi the browser for power users.  The stacked tabs are handy.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/04/06/vivaldis-browser/

Added:

Uses less memory too:

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/vivaldi-browser-hits-version-1-061540742.html

Reddit may have been served with a national Security letter.  Recipients of such letters are forbidden to either confirm or deny their being served with such letters.  But they can say if they have never been the recipient of said letters.  Libraries in the US sometimes use this "canary" indicator.  Anyway, Reddit just published their annual report and omitted the line saying, they have never been the recipient of a national security letter.  People noticed.

This comes from the Daily Mail so take it with a grain of salt.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3519294/Social-media-users-raise-concern-Reddit-changes-transparency-report.html

Not surprised.