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If you like this, read his book-goes through his approach in building Lucy, his robot. Very different approach to traditional AI, but absolutely fascinating
Growing Up with Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps
He's also got a book about how he designed the creature game, both really interesting, highly recommended!

Thanks (to all three of ye). I enjoy being told "Blade Runner is actually called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" by three separate persons. I already knew that, and really didn't need to be told in triplicate, but I appreciate the effort. "E"

Oh and by the way, the book DOES have 'Blade Runner' in the title, which was added later to make it more marketable: http://www.amazon.com/Blade-Runner-Movie-Tie--Philip-Dick/dp/0345350472

K. W. Jeter published two attempts at writing a sequel to Blade Runner, inspired by the movie rather than PKD's original novel. The Edge of Human and Replicant Night waver along the edge between mediocre and horrifying throughout. I have little hope for a movie to do better.

K. W. Jeter published two attempts at writing a sequel to Blade Runner, inspired by the movie rather than PKD's original novel. The Edge of Human and Replicant Night waver along the edge between mediocre and horrifying throughout. I have little hope for a movie to do better.

Blade Runner is actually one of his lesser books. Philip has produced tons of great science-based fiction (and some fantasy):

http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Collection/dp/1598530496

The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Martian Time-Slip (1964)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965)
Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Ubik (1969)
Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
A Scanner Darkly (1977)
A Maze of Death (1970)
VALIS (1981)
The Divine Invasion (1981)
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

Sure why not:
First translated in 1859 to English by George Dasent
http://www.amazon.com/Popular-Tales-Norse-George-Dasent/dp/1438529686/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1299159712&sr=8-1

And a recent republication of the orginal book which was published in 1848:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6937139-norske-folkeeventyr

I bought the book 'The Internet CD' on a whim, and because it claimed to have a version of Linux on it. This was the same day I finished a marathon support sesson with SCO because an app vendor decided to remap the entire print subsystem on a SCO 4.2 server, and made it virtually impossible to install a new printer for ANY OTHER PURPOSE without paying them for a call. Not that SCO was cheap, but we had a contract. Only took 6 hours to rebuild that, ugh.

But the book had a CD that included Slackware 0.9, if I remember correctly. It was a mess, but it did survive, and I had Lynx running in two days... Hehe... Good times...

I miss a distro that fit on a CD. I miss being able to do EVERYTHING at command-line, by default. I miss Linuxconf too. I miss predictable file locations, 'service' working, and joe. I miss running my mail and web server on an old Athlon 1.3GHz board with 512MB RAM and a 40GB HD. For three years. Without a reboot.

Of course, to be fair, I miss the open proxy serving the needs of anonymous perv browsers all over the world. I miss being completely pwned by one of them when I shut it off. I miss trying to keep a 6-day Usenet feed via satellite. I miss dialing into the modem to resurrenct the old Cisco 2514 router, damn, that thing lasted forever. I miss the first realization that someone was trying to break into my hosts. I miss the first time I wrote a hosts.deny to stop them, and it lasted for 6 months. I miss calls in the night asking me why my server was sending 3 million emails through someone else's mail server.

Good times.

Better than home depot, Etymotic full frequency plugs are great:

http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er20.html

I've also had some friends use things like these in datacenters:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00009363P

They let you hear people talk (bandpass filter) without letting the low/high noise in.

That's an interesting perspective, considering some of the amazing consumer video cameras that have come out over the past few years. 1080p30 is now standard. But more than that, the color saturation and reproduction has gotten much better, movement tear is less common, and compression artifacting on your source feed is basically gone. Camcorders are moving into using 3-color chips. Good optical anti-shake still requires about a $500 price point camera (since that technology is pretty mature at this point), but digital anti-shake has gone from godawfully blurry to just a bit blurry.

Heck, 6 years ago most consumer grade cameras were interlaced. INTERLACED!

And on the high-end, the Reds have come out and taken professional production by storm. A video camera with high enough quality to take out single frames and use them as stills for full-size / full color fashion magazine covers? Add in the low-light cameras that will happily shoot at dusk or night with professional grade output, and we are truly living in the future.

I've got a typical 100 sheet writing pad. With pen, it weighs just over 1.1 lb. Maybe what you really need is this.

Also "Oath of Fealty" from Niven & Pournelle (the authors, IIRC) used inter-cranial communications between staff members with computers in their heads. Also my book "Cyberchild" uses brain comms as a plot element.

Also "Oath of Fealty" from Niven & Pournelle (the authors, IIRC) used inter-cranial communications between staff members with computers in their heads. Also my book "Cyberchild" uses brain comms as a plot element.

There was a book by Will Cuppy (1894-1949) titled The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950; http://www.amazon.com/Decline-Fall-Practically-Everybody-Nonpareil/dp/0879235144) that was an absolutely funny take on history. Will Cuppy's style was to write very straightforward articles, but pepper them liberally with very funny footnotes. I remember seeing a paperback version of this as a kid, and got hooked.

Actually, the phrase "decline and fall" describes the shape of a drop-off not unlike the shallow slope leading to a cliff. Perfectly good English.

I picked up a cheapie DVD of the Fleischer Superman series somewhere. $5 or so. Amazon has one although it seems there are several releases of varying price and quality.

I know. It's not like Hoglund is an author of highly reviewed books about writing rootkits and exploiting software. Oh wait...

I know. It's not like Hoglund is an author of highly reviewed books about writing rootkits and exploiting software. Oh wait...

I know. It's not like Hoglund is an author of highly reviewed books about writing rootkits and exploiting software. Oh wait...

I know. It's not like Hoglund is an author of highly reviewed books about writing rootkits and exploiting software. Oh wait...

I actually held back. Anyone on SlashDot is twice as intelligent as necessary to setup an XBMC install that would blow Boxee out of the water. I bought three Boxee Boxes and sent all three back, don't regret it for a second.

I am just not interested in the work to get XBMC working. When I have tried to get XBMC software installed nothing ever works as easily as Boxee. For example, title scraping, box art, etc I couldn't get to work in XBMC. Boxee, it instantly all worked, categorized my content, got the IMDB information, everything. XBMC the design is lacking if you just want everything to work right after install. Also, I found the XBMC interface just not clear or as intuitive to figure out.

I actually held back.

Anyone on SlashDot is twice as intelligent as necessary to setup an XBMC install that would blow Boxee out of the water. I bought three Boxee Boxes and sent all three back, don't regret it for a second.

Yes http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Space-Theory-Cosmic-Creationism/dp/0671492632

By curious coincidence, I just finished reading Douglas Merrill's book Getting Organized in the Google Era, in which he goes on at considerable length about the wonders of Gmail for personal organization and the virtues of cloud computing, generally. I don't, however, remember him mentioning a thing about backups. I'd love to hear what he has to say about this mistake.

So when exactly was the "tipping point" (whatever THAT means!)

It's where a process of change turns from a gradual mode to a very sudden one, often due to the network effect and positive feedback.

Perhaps you could read a book or something? It's available in formats other than dead tree, if that's too unhip for you.

Other than your pedantry, I note, however, that you didn't address the real questions I raised, which I will rephrase and repeat for your convenience: 1. What was the "tipping point" for USB before the iMac?

2. What innovations has Apple been falsely credited with either: a) Inventing, either alone or in partnership with others; b) Bringing into the mainstream (e.g., USB was certainly not invented by Apple; but they arguably made it virtually ubiquitous)

I await your answers to my real questions with abated breath.

Oh, and to respond to your unnecessarily snarky comment regarding "dead tree" books being "too unhip": Other than "datasheets", "whitepapers" and other "non-book-y" stuff, I have NEVER read an entire book (or even a whole chapter of a book!) in electronic format. I sit at my desk at home, hunched up like Quasimodo in front of my computer, far too much as it is; so, until I can afford something like an iPad (notice I didn't say specifically an iPad), that lets me sit back and actually RELAX while viewing it, I don't think i will be jumping on the e-book train. That, and I really happen to like "dead tree" books. May be unhip; but old habits die hard, and there's something about that pulp-y smell with paperbacks that is strangely pleasant and reassuring.

So when exactly was the "tipping point" (whatever THAT means!)

It's where a process of change turns from a gradual mode to a very sudden one, often due to the network effect and positive feedback.

Perhaps you could read a book or something? It's available in formats other than dead tree, if that's too unhip for you.

1) you're arguing that you OWN the PS3 in its entirety, where in fact you only own the hardware and A LICENSE to use the software. That's clearly spelled out right on the box. You don't own the software, however you assume that you have the right to own it, which is as communist as it gets.

Still confused about Communism I see... I do not care about Sony's software. The loader key allows me to run MY OWN SOFTWARE, not Sony's. You are inventing strawmen. If I do not use Sony's software, how does their license prevent me from using my own property?

3) [deleted for brevity]Your right to free speech is not absolute, and even to the extent that you have it - it does not apply to commercial organizations, or individuals among themselves. I, for example, exercise my right to free speech right now, however it inconveniences you, apparently. That's what I call hypocrisy.

Huh?? Are you sure that English is your first language? Free speech "does not apply" to "individuals among themselves." WTF? Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech. Sony is whining to the courts that a Congressional law should censor the rights of free speech.

You do not inconvenience me. In fact, I find your lack of understanding humorous. I cannot even imagine what reason you have conjured for calling me a hypocrite. I have never tried to silence you, only educate you. Clearly, this is a fool's quest.

4) If I have the same car and figure out how to easily open it and tell others how to do it, and the next day your car is stolen using my method to open it - how would you feel?

I guess you have never seen a book on locksmithing. I thought I would enlighten you.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=automotive+locksmithing&x=0&y=0
You really should spend more of your time in the library. They have all sorts of books on forbidden knowledge you would just love to ban...

And finally, just to confuse you a little bit more. I am a Libertarian, not a Communist. I believe that you should NOT have usage rights over property you have sold to me. I do not advocate communal property or revoking property rights altogether. You unfortunately confuse property rights with copyright. You seem to think that legally granting a copyright, somehow prevents ownership of the underlying hardware. You want to disallow me from disassembling, studying, reverse engineering, and telling others what I have discovered. That is your "Utter BS."

http://www.amazon.com/WATTS-HOURS-LIGHT-INDUSTRIAL-INFRARED/dp/B000STDLFE

You're welcome. (Note: Heat lamps aren't covered by the bulb phaseout).

http://www.amazon.com/Philips-70-Watt-Halogena-Energy-Saver/dp/B001FA07UW

No one says you have to use CFLs. These are incandescents that meet the efficiency requirements.

http://www.amazon.com/Philips-40-Watt-Halogena-Energy-Saver/dp/B001FA07UM

Will be a lot brighter, maybe you can just use less of them.

The problem Linux has had is the ability to help a company keep it's lights on. When it's sold by companies like IBM or Redhat, people are paying for the name more than the product. The community, which is a strength of Linux, is rather harsh when you try stuff, screaming about the "free as in beer/speech" bit.

And that's fine. The strength of one's opinion is why we love Linux. Still, most ignore the fact that the free "as in beer" part still has to be paid by somebody. So the community ends up ditching the distro and going elsewhere. That's fine too. One has to wonder, though, how long companies or individuals will be willing to put up cash to finance a distro's infrastructure when the community has issues with recouping costs. If you've sent money (or time) their way in some way, shape or form, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about average users who give nothing back to the system other than notching the download meter count up by one. This mass hurd, while useful for gaining momentum, is also a fickle problem that needs to be addressed in some way.

"Free: The Future of a Radical Price", by Chris Anderson, is an interesting read on how "free" worked and works. Oh, and look, no affiliate link. Free link! :P And before anybody asks, I've paid for several distros directly from the teams as a way to show my support. The Lycoris team, for example, was doing a great job. Not everybody is lucky enough to have their efforts rewarded by a buyout, though.

If you can see the 100khz flicker I bet you could get that $1 million woo-woo prize James Randi is giving out.

Here is another light you can have and replace constantly.
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-72-Watt-EcoVantage-Light-Natural/dp/B001FA07UC

Something you and the rest of the drooling morons on that webpage probably don't know is that there is no ban on incandescents. Only on low efficiency lighting. So you can keep enjoying those that I linked far into the future.

Incandescents are not being banned. Just low efficiency lights.

Lo and behold:
http://www.amazon.com/Philips-40-Watt-Halogena-Energy-Saver/dp/B001FA07UM

Sorry, my pricing was wrong... it's $14.40 for a 60-watt version. I regret the error.

It has been that way for a LONG time now. Real science fiction (in novel and short story form) has been in decline at least since the 80's. Asimov's, Analog, and Interzone are three of the last remaining magazines that still pay decent money for short stories and novellas, and every year it seems like more and more science fiction publications go out (check out the opening essays in Gardner Dozois's "Years Best Science Fiction" anthology for a depressing chronicle of this over the years). It has become increasingly difficult for a lot of genre writers to make a living writing just science fiction (a lot of writers have been forced into fantasy and horror just to get by).

It's a sad state of affairs for those of us who like serious science fiction. But there is still great stuff coming out (check out Dozois's above-mentioned anthology for the some of the best of the best).

I disagree with the general sentiment that the average consumer is blissfully ignorant of Sony's malfeasance when it comes to content protection. While the average consumer may not understand it from a big picture perspective, Sony's current position in the market has already been crippled by consumer reaction to how they protect their content.

Here's Sony's FY2009 sales by segment (slide 4). Their music division had 522.6 billion yen in sales for FY2009, or about $5.25 billion. Here's Apple's sales for roughly the same period (PDF warning). In FY2009, Apple sold $8.09 billion worth of iPods, and had ~$4 billion worth of music sales in the iTunes store.

What does everyone remember Sony being famous for? The Walkman. When the MP3 market took off, everyone just assumed that Sony would be a big player in it. Sony was synonymous with expensive but high quality portable music players, so it was natural to expect a fantastic MP3 player from them. But Sony's music division somehow managed to force their electronics division to encumber their MP3 players with heavy DRM. At first they wouldn't even play MP3s - you had to buy/convert to some proprietary format which, in preventing you from trading songs or converting to MP3, made it extraordinarily difficult just to put your music on the player. People warned each other in droves to stay away from it.

As a result, Sony has a negligible presence in the MP3 player market today. In order to protect their music division which has approx $5 billion/yr in sales, they missed the opportunity to grab the lead in a new electronics product market where the current leader makes over $12 billion/yr. They let the tail wag the dog, and paid dearly for it.

Have you actually read the series of emails that "hid the decline" comes from? 13 years of stolen emails, and a classic case of cherry picking, and that is the best that denialists can come up with.

You should really watch this (hide the decline starts at 4:10) and this, and try to pay attention.

Denial works by preventing your mind from processing information, and then making you forget about it afterwards. It is always felt as negativity in the body. You have to sit with that feeling if you really want to consider yourself "rational", whatever that means. See Goleman's Vital lies, simple truths for more information on the mechanisms of denial.

Consider this quote from Ronnie Laing's "Knows":

"The range of what we think and do
is limited by what we fail to notice.
And because we fail to notice
/that/ we fail to notice
there is little we can do
to change
until we notice
how failing to notice
shapes our thoughts and deeds."

This entire discussion is pursuant to the hypothetical where the governor actually ordered this site blocked, as opposed to what we've since discovered is the actual case of just a whitelist problem blown out of proportion.

1. The ALA case you're citing is inapplicable to the current issue. The issue in the ALA case was not core, political speech, so it did not receive strict scrutiny (much to the dismay of Souter as per his dissent). It received intermediate scrutiny as I discussed in my first command (see "TMP restrictions"). However, as discussed above, since in our hypothetical, the governor is only blocking pro-union websites, it is not content neutral. Hell, it's not even viewpoint neutral. So it would fail to survive intermediate scrutiny. To elaborate on viewpoint neutrality, a violation of viewpoint neutrality (i.e., viewpoint discrimination) is considered particularly bad and regulations/laws that result in such discrimination are considered facially unconstitutional. IN other words, they're basically smacked down right away.

In the ALA case, the libraries were instructed to block websites "harmful to minors," which is a content neutral, presumptively constitutional TMP restriction. Very much like how the FCC can ban the use of the word "cunt" on broadcast TV or radio at 4pm (again, a TMP restriction). Or can ban you from protesting the War in Iraq at 2pm across the street from a high school in session. Again, a TMP restriction.

I don't really care to delve any deeper into why your reasoning here is wrong (e.g., that one factor weighing in favor of the restrictions in the ALA case was that a library is not traditionally considered a public forum, but of course the capitol building would be considered a public forum) because it's sufficient to show that the case is distinguishable (as I have done) and move on.

2. Pretending for a moment that we're talking about Washington instead of Wisconsin here (because you're linking to WA discussion for some reason):

I don't care what someone thinks about the Washington Constitution and whether an Internet filter passes WA-constitutional muster in this case. Thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment, the First Amendment has been "incorporated" and applies not just to the Federal government, but to state governments as well. As such, regardless of whether the governor in our hypothetical is doing something OK under the WA constitution, my analysis still holds true for the US Constitution. And since it's the law of the land, the argument stops there. There is no need to even inquire as to whether it's WA-constitutional, because it's already US-unconstitutional, and the US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.

3. I don't think anyone in Wisconsin gives a rats ass what Washington law is.

I stand by my statement that this is not a FA issue

You can stand by it all you want; you'll remain wrong.

I highly suggest you buy this book and read it: http://www.amazon.com/First-Amendment-Third-Cass-Sunstein/dp/0735569290/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1298593504&sr=8-3 It's the textbook we used in my Free Speech class in law school. It also covers the Free Exercise and Establishment clauses, but my class was strictly about free speech and not about freedom of religion, to petition, or of association. It's very good, and you'll get a lot of background about things like the Lemon Test, TMP restrictions, various levels of constitutional scrutiny, viewpoint/content discrimination, public forums, prior restraint, etc., by reading the very cases that have shaped FA jurisprudence.

"because people were sick of banking panic after banking panic laying waste to the economy and people's lives and financial well being" - by circletimessquare (444983) on Thursday February 24, @12:10PM (#35301584) Homepage

J.P. Morgan was used to START the "panic", first!

Since everyone thought his word was "the word of God" financially? They believed his BULLSHIT!

This started the "run on the banks" by depositors... that in turn, floored the small bankers, which of course, opened THEM up for takeover by larger banks!

(I.E.-> The consortium that runs the Fed to this day pretty much, 13 "unnamed individuals" whose names I WILL post below)...

Even Woodrow Wilson, the president at the time, said "I have just signed a pact with the devil"... because there WAS NO OTHER WAY OUT, other than total ruination.

See Zeitgeist folks...

(Which, mind you, "the infamous they/powers that be" have TRIED TO GET REMOVED FROM THE INTERNET NO LESS MORE THAN A FEW TIMES NOW!)

It will tell you the EXACT SAME THINGS I HAVE NOW... &, if THAT'S NOT "GOOD ENOUGH"?

READ THE SAME BOOK I DID:

"THE SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE" by WILLIAM GREIDER http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Temple-Federal-Reserve-Country/dp/0671675567

(It's ALL ABOUT THE "FED" which is about as "federal" as FEDEX is (it's not)).

APK

P.S.=> These things, these "depressions/recessions" are ENGINEERED, on purpose, to FIRST impoverish you, & make you desperate... so you HAVE to "give up what you got cheap", so those engineering this type of SHIT can rob you blind... apk

So you no longer wonder why it is that a country that has a sovereign right to print money and has a printing press is over 12 TRILLION dollars in debt? And why that same country just created TRILLIONS for the banks to cover their stupidity? Maybe there was a better way to handle the crises you speak of. Check this out: http://www.slate.com/id/2271828/ A quote:The Fed makes money ex nihilo, pulling it out of thin air rather than taking it from its coffers. Then, it pushes the money into the economy by buying up assets from banks. If you want to know why there is such income disparity in this country look no further than the fed. And check out: http://www.amazon.com/Web-Debt-Ellen-Hodgson-Brown/dp/0979560888/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298568279&sr=8-1 Conspiracy theory? Hardly.

If you use anything other than these you're missing out.

Just read the raving reviews.

The U.S. wants him in prison. It serves their purposes even better if it's on rape charges (because those charges discredit him and tarnish his martyr status too). They don't just want him just taken out, they want him discredited. That's why they've been stirring up dissent among his former supporters too (some of whom were likely plants sent in for this very purpose).

After all, why make him a martyr by dragging him to the U.S. and charging him with dubious espionage charges when you can send him to prison as a rapist, with many of his "supporters" bad-mouthing him at the same time?

It's a smart move on the CIA's part. I'm actually surprised, as they have a very long history of fucking up these kinds of operations. Wouldn't surprise me to find out this wasn't their work, but some other U.S. agency (with some goddamn common sense).

Most of the publisher's costs are non-existent for e-books, just as most of the risk. Author would probably be better off self-publishing through amazon.

Maybe. The real question is: are there unaffiliated editors that authors can hire, rather than the other way around. It seems to me that that's the real monopoly that the publishing houses have, once you strip them of the dominance over distribution.

don't forget the people buying 500$ ethernet cable so that the sounds bits are properly aligned, they are just as bad

Authors can't (generally speaking, I suppose some poets and spoken-word types could) go on tour and perform their craft for a live audience.

Sure they can. It's called "a reading".

"tough shit, start waiting tables and give up the writing thing if you're not popular?"

And that is different from the current business model how exactly? Sure, it ain't as bad as in music industry, but still...

Unless you are selling at least tens of thousands of each book - you're not going to be making a living from writing alone.
At 10% royalty a $20 hard copy owned by a publisher and a $2 self-published, self-marketed e-book make the same amount of money per book for the author.
Granted, minus the advance, promotion and various other services that the publisher would provide. Also, minus any copyright limitations.

If anything, authors need to demand a larger piece of a smaller cake for the e-versions of their books.
Most of the publisher's costs are non-existent for e-books, just as most of the risk. Author would probably be better off self-publishing through amazon.

Here's your sign

In The execution channel, Ken McLeod imagines a camera firmware that can recognizes when 'pain or suffering' is being filmed and automatically transmits it to a pirate TV. It's not that far off when your average virus now listens to your calls...

That's because you're doing it wrong. If you're already paying for Amazon Prime then the total cost actually is lower. The cost of Prime is a sunk cost.

The comparison shopping happens in the month before one plunks down the money for Prime. How does one know whether or not he plans to buy enough things online in the next 12 months to make Prime worth it, especially if he routinely orders enough items that Amazon can fulfill to hit the $25 minimum for free Super Saver Shipping?

we're still stuck waiting for DVDs in the mail for most reasonably modern and/or highly rated content.

Actually not, just you just have to pay per rental of the newer stuff instead of getting it flat-rate.

I don't have a problem with that in principle, although $4 for the newest releases is more than I would pay except on very rare occasions.

Amazon is going to have a problem on their hands if they stop offering this service to Prime customers a few months from now. I can't believe that Amazon would entice people with a service, have them fork over cash, then say, "we have altered the deal..." Yet it appears that's exactly what Amazon is considering. I just read the Prime Terms and Conditions, which include this gem, "We may remove access to Prime instant videos as a Prime benefit at any time." Somehow, this little tidbit didn't make it to the letter from Bezos on the Amazon home page. The letter mentions how this service is a reason to sign up for Prime.

If I were a class action lawyer, I'd start working on the paperwork for the lawsuit now, so that it will be ready if/when Amazon decides to pull the plug. I'd sign up for a Prime Membership so that I could be the lead plaintiff in the suit instead of wasting time trying to find somebody else.

Nor to anyone who currently get free Amazon shipping via a family member who is a member of Amazon Prime. The free video only applies to the single Amazon Prime member account:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200572880

"Prime instant videos require an Amazon Prime membership and are not included with the free shipping benefits provided by Amazon Mom, Amazon Student, or if you are a guest of an Amazon Prime member. To watch Prime instant videos, sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership at http://www.amazon.com/primevideos. If you are a member of Amazon Mom and sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership, you will lose any additional months of Amazon Prime shipping benefits you may have earned."

Amazon video on demand:
http://www.amazon.com/Video-On-Demand/b/ref=&node=16261631

Subset of "Prime Eligible" movies that Amazon will stream free to Prime members today (2153 results):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_al_bw_srch?rh=n%3A16261631%2Cp_85%3A1&page=1&rw_html_to_wsrp=1&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1G4XGFTBQHGKXW5S6ZP3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1288998822&pf_rd_i=16261631

Nor to anyone who currently get free Amazon shipping via a family member who is a member of Amazon Prime. The free video only applies to the single Amazon Prime member account:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200572880

"Prime instant videos require an Amazon Prime membership and are not included with the free shipping benefits provided by Amazon Mom, Amazon Student, or if you are a guest of an Amazon Prime member. To watch Prime instant videos, sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership at http://www.amazon.com/primevideos. If you are a member of Amazon Mom and sign up for a $79 Amazon Prime membership, you will lose any additional months of Amazon Prime shipping benefits you may have earned."

Amazon video on demand:
http://www.amazon.com/Video-On-Demand/b/ref=&node=16261631

Subset of "Prime Eligible" movies that Amazon will stream free to Prime members today (2153 results):
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=s9_al_bw_srch?rh=n%3A16261631%2Cp_85%3A1&page=1&rw_html_to_wsrp=1&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=1G4XGFTBQHGKXW5S6ZP3&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1288998822&pf_rd_i=16261631