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I would tend to agree with Mr. Kleinfeld. 3D printing is a tweaky, fiddly process that requires a lot of time, energy, and specialized knowledge to get to work properly. The machines are finicky, the software requires far too much knowledge of detailed printer specs and the raw materials that feed printers are produced with little or no quality control resulting in unpredictable performance from the printer and frequent recalibration.

The printer designs are not particularly well done either, especially the bed leveling. Most use screws at the corners of the bed to do the leveling. That makes no sense as anyone who has had a geometry class will tell you. 3 points define a plane. Since one point can be fixed, there need only be two leveling screws. That is what I designed into my printer and it works perfectly. One screw adjusts tilt along the Y axis and the other adjusts tilt around the X axis and neither affects the other. Leveling took about 1 minute and now I can completely remove the print bed and replace it and never have to tweak the settings.

My printer is designed to print big(ish) stuff. The print bed is 300x300mm and vertical print capacity is 280mm. I designed it so that I could print full-sized human skulls from CT scan data. If you're going to print big stuff you have to have everything working reliably. I ran into the extruder problem early on and have been working on that for a while.

There seems to be two problems with extruder failures. One is the variations in quality of the filament and the other is in the design of the extruder itself. I can't do anything about the quality variations in the filament but I can make changes to the extruder design to make it more immune to those variations. My original extruder used a gear on a stepper to push filament into the hot-end. I found that the filament would often got hung up in the hot-end and the extruder would keep trying to push and the gear would carve a divot into the filament assuring that the extruder could never push that filament again. It is notable that I have never had the nozzle actually clog- every time the extruder has hung up I have been able to manually push the filament and have it come out the nozzle. My reedesign mimics a wire feeder in a MIG welder and uses two steppers to push the filament. Preliminary tests indicate that it is working, but further tests are ongoing.

Progress can be monitored here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/milwaukeemakerspace and on the blog at http://milwaukeemakerspace.org/

While there is probably a political angle to the decision, the reason for the delay is more prosaic:

Under the new law, companies with more than 50 employees must provide their workers with health insurance.* Those companies that do not comply are levied a per-employee tax penalty. Employees that do not receive coverage through their employer can purchase insurance on the open market, and low- and middle-income workers can avail themselves to government subsidies to purchase coverage. In other words, the government is attempting, through the tax code, to recoup the employee's health care subsidy from the employer.

In order to carry out the employer mandate, the Treasury Department needs to know which companies are opting out and also which employees are subsequently utilizing government subsidies for healthcare. This is a technical challenge that the IRS (the Tax Man) has determined they won't have ready in time for the Jan 1, 2014 deadline. Businesses, too, have complained that their duty and mechanism for reporting who they are covering with insurance is difficult and onerous. So the decision has been made to push back the deadline.

Because the whole mechanism is linked to taxes, it is difficult to push the deadline back by, say, six months, because it would be tough to figure out how to pro-rate both the subsidy and the penalty. Most health insurance contracts (employer-provided or otherwise) run from Jan 1 to Dec 31, anyway. So, they pushed the effective date back to the next tax / health insurance / calendar year.

Yes, the new deadline occurs after the 2014 elections. But considering there are national elections every two years in the United States, pushing any deadline back by one year yields a 50/50 chance of passing over an election year. Would pushing it back just six months be any better, how about two years?

* For those, both outside and inside the U.S., who are wondering why health insurance is a benefit attached to a person's job, rather than a social benefit from the government (like in most other countries) or something each person seeks on the open market (like automobile insurance), the answer is: "it's complicated." It isn't the result of any particular plan, that's for damn sure; but rather the long meandering course of history. Those who are curious should read Paul Starr's book The Social Transformation of American Medicine . The Affordable Care Act follows the path of having health insurance as a workplace benefit mostly because that is how most people in the U.S. already get it.

Basically if Apple were doing this we would have known long ago

CarrierIQ

B-b-b-but reflection!

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Why would you need money to trade for most things if you had a Star Trek replicator that could print out Mr. Fusion devices or solar panels or robot miners? Why would you need money to trade for software if, like with Debian GNU/Linux, production was planned by exchange of emails and IRC messages? Or why would you need money in a Native American Potlach gift economy?

By the way, on the intentional destruction of Potlach in America:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potlatch
"At potlatch gatherings, a family or hereditary leader hosts guests in their family's house and holds a feast for their guests. The main purpose of the potlatch is the redistribution and reciprocity of wealth. ... Within it, hierarchical relations within and between clans, villages, and nations, are observed and reinforced through the distribution or sometimes destruction of wealth, dance performances, and other ceremonies. ...
    Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1884 in an amendment to the Indian Act[8] and the United States in the late 19th century, largely at the urging of missionaries and government agents who considered it "a worse than useless custom" that was seen as wasteful, unproductive, and contrary to civilized values.[9]
    The potlatch was seen as a key target in assimilation policies and agendas. Missionary William Duncan wrote in 1875 that the potlatch was "by far the most formidable of all obstacles in the way of Indians becoming Christians, or even civilized."[10] Thus in 1884, the Indian Act was revised to include clauses banning the Potlatch and making it illegal to practice."

Money may be useful in an economy based mostly on exchange. My point is that other types of economies are possible -- and indeed have even existed in the past. Examples:
http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Dictionary_of_Alternatives.html?id=IKZVKMPEQCEC

But if we do use money, then a "basic income" is a way to make the system work better, given every human's moral claim on the fruits of the commons they are otherwise usually excluded from in various legal ways.

There's already a competing open standard.

It's what I use with my android devices (via BubbleUPNP), XBMC and my Squeezebox.

What happens after the plant generates 43.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity? Does it self destruct?

Assuming that they meant 43.5 million KWh per year, that's still only about 5MW of power on average, which is likely less than half what the datacenter will consume. And when the sun is not at its peak, it'll be drawing power from NV Energy's conventional fossil fuel plants.

One other meme on this: http://pcast.ideascale.com/a/dtd/The-need-for-FOSS-intelligence-tools-for-sensemaking-etc./76207-8319
"As with that notion of "mutual security", the US intelligence community needs to look beyond seeing an intelligence tool as just something proprietary that gives a "friendly" analyst some advantage over an "unfriendly" analyst. Instead, the intelligence community could begin to see the potential for a free and open source intelligence tool as a way to promote "friendship" across the planet by dispelling some of the gloom of "want and ignorance" (see the scene in "A Christmas Carol" with Scrooge and a Christmas Spirit) that we still have all too much of around the planet. So, beyond supporting legitimate US intelligence needs (useful with their own closed sources of data), supporting a free and open source intelligence tool (and related open datasets) could become a strategic part of US (or other nation's) "diplomacy" and constructive outreach.
    Now, there are many people out there (including computer scientists) who may raise legitimate concerns about privacy or other important issues in regards to any system that can support the intelligence community (as well as civilian needs). As I see it, there is a race going on. The race is between two trends. On the one hand, the internet can be used to profile and round up dissenters to the scarcity-based economic status quo (thus legitimate worries about privacy and something like TIA). On the other hand, the internet can be used to change the status quo in various ways (better designs, better science, stronger social networks advocating for some healthy mix of a basic income, a gift economy, democratic resource-based planning, improved local subsistence, etc., all supported by better structured arguments like with the Genoa II approach) to the point where there is abundance for all and rounding up dissenters to mainstream economics is a non-issue because material abundance is everywhere. So, as Bucky Fuller said, whether is will be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race to the very end. While I can't guarantee success at the second option of using the internet for abundance for all, I can guarantee that if we do nothing, the first option of using the internet to round up dissenters (or really, anybody who is different, like was done using IBM computers in WWII Germany) will probably prevail. So, I feel the global public really needs access to these sorts of sensemaking tools in an open source way, and the way to use them is not so much to "fight back" as to "transform and/or transcend the system". As Bucky Fuller said, you never change thing by fighting the old paradigm directly; you change things by inventing a new way that makes the old paradigm obsolete."

Some attempts by us at such FOSS tools:
http://www.rakontu.org/
https://code.google.com/p/rakontu/
https://github.com/pdfernhout/Pointrel20130202
https://github.com/pdfernhout/Pointrel20120623

We've built other stuff in the past, but sadly it is proprietary. Hopefully people can go beyond all this in their own ways.

A billion dollars could see a good start on this project. :-) Or a "basic income" for all, to give coders who want to do this the time to do it.

http://www.pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transcending-militarism.html
"Likewise, even United States three-letter agencies like the NSA and the CIA, as well as their foreign counterparts, are becoming ironic institutions in many ways. Despite probably having more computing power per square foot than any other place in the world, they seem not to have thought much about the implications of all that computer power and organized information to transform the world into a place of abundance for all. Cheap computing makes possible just about cheap everything else, as does the ability to make better designs through shared computing. ...
There is a fundamental mismatch between 21st century reality and 20th century security thinking. Those "security" agencies are using those tools of abundance, cooperation, and sharing mainly from a mindset of scarcity, competition, and secrecy. Given the power of 21st century technology as an amplifier (including as weapons of mass destruction), a scarcity-based approach to using such technology ultimately is just making us all insecure. Such powerful technologies of abundance, designed, organized, and used from a mindset of scarcity could well ironically doom us all whether through military robots, nukes, plagues, propaganda, or whatever else... Or alternatively, as Bucky Fuller and others have suggested, we could use such technologies to build a world that is abundant and secure for all."

Going forward, there are many other implications of trends from "better, faster, cheaper". We should think about the positive trends and try to help amplify them. Related suggestions by me in areas of collective intelligence for mutual intrinsic security, space settlement, and health sensemaking:
http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/09/paul-fernhout-open-letter-to-the-intelligence-advanced-programs-research-agency-iarpa/
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/oscomak/SSI_Fernhout2001_web.html
https://www.changemakers.com/morehealth/entries/health-sensemaking

Or, read "The Skills of Xanadu" for ideas from the 1950s by Theodore Sturgeon which helped inspire Ted Nelson and hypertext and so the world wide web:
http://books.google.com/books?id=wpuJQrxHZXAC&pg=PA51&lpg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false

Or look to groups like the Maker community or sustainable technology community inventing new ways of local subsistence.

Something I wrote thirteen years ago to Doug Engelbart's Unrev-II mailing list, and we are still more-or-less following predicted exponential trends:
"[unrev-II] Singularity in twenty to forty years?"
http://www.dougengelbart.org/colloquium/forum/discussion/0126.html
"Below are six "explosive" technology trends that all appear to culminate in around twenty years. Even if some of them don't pan out, the others will revolutionize our world (for good or bad). ...
You may argue the dates -- ten years for some, forty for others. You may point out Y2K didn't melt things down, that AI researchers predicted AIs by now, that fusion power was supposed to be here by now, etc. And you would be right to be skeptical. My point is that these are trends in many different areas -- any one of which would make this world radically different. Together, they spell awesome change -- in economics, politics, lifestyle, relationships, and values.
It is quite likely we are heading for a singularity in

TFA noted that some of the data was home screen contents - which tells me that they're researching usage patterns, most used widgets or other usage type information. So, why not send them data that's so ridiculous that their conclusions end up being entirely wrong. Maybe someone can turn it into an app that captures the real data and replaces it with what we want them to see.

How funny would it be if all of the sudden all moto usage research showed that a huge number of users were replacing all of their home screen widgets with Neko. Even funnier would be to report that everyone has that famous Rick Astley song on their home screen.

"...Their Swords Into Plowshares..." - United Nations (for pics see: pics)

1000bT Gigabit Ethernet actually uses all 4 pairs of your good old CAT-5e or better cable. This Gigabit DSL is actually very useful for providing broadband internet from a cheap and small "Outdoor DSLAM" to everyone within 100m.

RTFA.

It was misleading because the summary and headline intentionally left off and totally ignored the following line from the article so that it could have a better chance of getting posted on Slashdot.

There’s every chance this is a temporary solution until Microsoft completes its wider management restructuring.

So... what you're trying to do is deflect a bluntly stated fact by desperately clinging to speculation by TFA's writer? Funny, around these parts it's generally the other way around, where we use facts to shut down rampant, baseless speculation, but if that's the way you like to see it, I guess we can't stop you.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

A major reorg of MS is imminent,

While it's likely a good guess, as the end of major development cycle often brings big changes and most CEO's don't tend to collect direct reports, claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

Please RTFA or buy a fucking clue. I am so tired of stupid Slashdot stories and commeters who only get their Microsoft news from Slashdot and don't even RTFA. This is turning into something worse than reddit, same with the Secure Boot and Vista DRM FUD that was spread on here.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/23/4457082/microsoft-reorg-expected-by-july-1st-rumor

http://bgr.com/2013/06/24/microsoft-reorganization-2013-windows/

http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/2/4486278/don-mattrick-microsoft-exit-major-reorg-rumor

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Microsoft-reorganization-may-lead-to-unified-Windows-department-finally_id44442

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=microsoft+reorganization&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

>claiming that a reorg 'is imminent' is misleading and likely biased in itself. Are you afraid of competition?

If that is misleading and biased, then what you said is just plain dumb and shows how Slashdot has declined into a sad circlejerk of deluded 14 year olds railing against M$ after reading made up stories to gather karma points. Point out a fact that's not anti-MS or is anti-Apple or anti-Google and get overrated mods for days. Last one out turn the lights off.

From what I have seen of large open pit mines (the northern Minnesota iron mines) the barren land is where they are actively doing mining operations not the surronding areas. The piles of overburden aren't an issue as trees seem to love to grow on a giant pile of topsoil. The tailings fields/ponds may be different for nickle than for iron but I wouldn't think it would be radically different as it isn't like gold mining where they use arsenic on talings fields to get as much gold as possible. You can clearly see the large iron mines up in northern Minnesota from space and they are huge holes in the ground but the native vegetation grows all around them without issue.

As mentioned in alt.privacy in 1993:-

A lot of people think that PGP encryption is unbreakable and that the
NSA/FBI/CIA/MJ12 cannot read their mail. This is wrong, and it can be a deadly
mistake. In Idaho, a left-wing activist by the name of Craig Steingold was
arrested _one day_ before he and others wee to stage a protest at government
buildings; the police had a copy of a message sent by Steingold to another
activist, a message which had been encrypted with PGP and sent through E-mail.

                Since version 2.1, PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy") has been rigged to
allow the NSA to easily break encoded messages. Early in 1992, the author,
Paul Zimmerman, was arrested by Government agents. He was told that he
would be set up for trafficking narcotics unless he complied. The Government
agency's demands were simple: He was to put a virtually undetectable
trapdoor, designed by the NSA, into all future releases of PGP, and to
tell no-one.

                After reading this, you may think of using an earlier version of
PGP. However, any version found on an FTP site or bulletin board has been
doctored. Only use copies acquired before 1992, and do NOT use a recent
compiler to compile them. Virtually ALL popular compilers have been
modified to insert the trapdoor (consisting of a few trivial changes) into
any version of PGP prior to 2.1. Members of the boards of Novell, Microsoft,
Borland, AT&T and other companies were persuaded into giving the order for the
modification (each ot these companies' boards contains at least one Trilateral
Commission member or Bilderberg Committee attendant).

                It took the agency more to modify GNU C, but eventually they did it.
The Free Software Foundation was threatened with "an IRS investigation",
in other words, with being forced out of business, unless they complied. The
result is that all versions of GCC on the FTP sites and all versions above
2.2.3, contain code to modify PGP and insert the trapdoor. Recompiling GCC
with itself will not help; the code is inserted by the compiler into
itself. Recompiling with another compiler may help, as long as the compiler
is older than from 1992.

You can already do multiple Gmail users. Try https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1 and see what you get. I know you can get to multiple logins through Gmail settings, but the link works quickly for me. Increment the final digit for more. Your "other services" would still be a problem, though.

"Their Swords Into Plowshares..." - United Nations (for pics see: https://www.google.com/search?q=united+nations+plowshares&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=g97SUYC_J8Pk0QHejIFI&biw=1366&bih=617&sei=h97SUa6aKsm00AGvjYGQAg#imgdii=_)

Dean Baker, a linux advocate btw, would disagree about the quality of Samuelson's economics reporting.

people who just plain don't like being told what to do, even when it's the _right_ thing.

Also, the iPad fallacy is just that, a fallacy. Those people aren't worse off because they don't have an iPad. They're worse off because 76% of them are living Paycheck to Paycheck. The highest percentage since the 1940s!

wages are going down, prices are going up. Sure, _toys_ are cheaper. But housing, food and medicine all cost a _lot_ more. You're lunch is more like $6 or $7 now, even at McDonalds, and you're probably making $9/$9.50.

Also, I'd be interested in _which_ logical fallacy you'd like to site disproves the broad statistical evidence of declining wages and what debate techniques you would use to show prices are going down.

wages are going down, prices are going up. Sure, _toys_ are cheaper. But housing, food and medicine all cost a _lot_ more. You're lunch is more like $6 or $7 now, even at McDonalds, and you're probably making $9/$9.50.

Also, I'd be interested in _which_ logical fallacy you'd like to site disproves the broad statistical evidence of declining wages and what debate techniques you would use to show prices are going down.

Their game was also probably programmed to be played with one hand. Nudge, nudge. Wink wink. Say no more..

Turns out it's bullshit:

The BND is the only German intelligence service tasked with collecting and analyzing foreign intelligence, collecting intelligence necessary for the production of knowledge about foreign countries necessary for the foreign and security policy of the Federal Republic of Germany information ( 1 BNDG). This information will be sent to the federal government and covers many topics: politics, economy, military, science, or technology. To obtain this information available to the BND many methods of intelligence collection available, although the majority comes from the "OSINT" designated study open sources such as newspapers, radio and television or the Internet. In addition, the BND is also using intelligence methods, such as the recruitment and management of agents abroad (Operational Procurement) and electronic surveillance (Technical Procurement). This happens on many levels and includes the phone, as well as secret surveillance of audio and video recordings and monitoring the Internet.

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBundesnachrichtendienst&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8

What should really "creep you out" is the history of the BND on the same page.

What exactly do you mean by "Google spies"? As far as we can tell, Google protects your privacy much better than anybody else: For Chrome they document precisely what they send home, most of this can be switched off. They provide source code to most of Chrome and Android, so people can actually check what's being sent. Android mostly sends home only what's required for their services, e.g. they send home location information only if you use wifi location services. Their browsers and servers support much better data protection than anybody else's. Both Microsoft and Apple are much worse here. And the biggest data leak are the carriers anyway, they always get to know where you are and who you call. So what exactly could any other mobile OS do better than Google when it comes to privacy?

What exactly do you mean by "Google spies"? As far as we can tell, Google protects your privacy much better than anybody else: For Chrome they document precisely what they send home, most of this can be switched off. They provide source code to most of Chrome and Android, so people can actually check what's being sent. Android mostly sends home only what's required for their services, e.g. they send home location information only if you use wifi location services. Their browsers and servers support much better data protection than anybody else's. Both Microsoft and Apple are much worse here. And the biggest data leak are the carriers anyway, they always get to know where you are and who you call. So what exactly could any other mobile OS do better than Google when it comes to privacy?

I want to see Chernobyl please.

There are plenty of panoramio photos in the area. It is not the same experience as 360 degree photography, but there are enough photos that it wouldn't be my first choice.

There are seventeen million sole proprietors in the US. Many of those are on-call.

Fortunately if you can run a business, you're smart enough to figure out how to use an app like Shush! and mute your phone.

I don't think these are the people who are causing trouble though. If you have a couple of free hours and cash to enjoy a movie, you're going to do that.

There are apps for that for android.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ayman.utils.timedprofiles&hl=sv

For instance.

A quick Google search says otherwise

Like this?

This link maybe more useful for exploring: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hashima+island&ll=32.627828,129.738579&spn=0.011439,0.015364&hnear=Hashima+Island&t=m&z=16

A place I went, a "lost city" in the Sahara

> So you don't have to go back through flight school?

GIYF..

Is THAT why my gamepads are never supported? I was wondering how developers that brilliant could be that stupid. I should have kept the old saying in mind: If it's screwed up, it must have been a lawyer or marketer behind it.

Microsoft brought out XInput.dll on Windows with the 360. XInput.dll is a user-space interface for xusb20.sys to provide support for Xbox 360 gamepads. That's it. Games ported from 360 use XInput instead of DirectInput which does not exist on 360.

Older games used DirectInput which uses USB HID so supports any standard compliant gamepad, joystick or whatever.

If you're having trouble with this crap, try x360ce which provides a hacked XInput.dll that uses DirectInput internally so you can use standard gamepads with the XInput-only games.

Check out ganeti as well: https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/

Features
Ganeti provides the following features for managed instances:

Support for Xen virtualization:
Support for PVM and HVM instances
Live migration support
Virtual console (on PVM) or VNC (on HVM) to control instances
Support for virtio or emulated devices

Support for KVM virtualization: (from Ganeti 2.0)
Live migration support
Support for fully virtualized instances
Support for semi-virtualized instances (kernel residing on the host)
Support for VNC or serial access
Support for virtio or emulated devices

Recommended cluster size 1-40 physical nodes

Disk management:
Plain LVM volumes
Files (from Ganeti 2.0)
across-the-network raid1 (using DRBD) for quick recovery in case of physical system failure

Instance disk partitioning supported from Ganeti 2.0

Export/import mechanism for backup purposes or migration between clusters, or

Automated instance migration across clusters (since Ganeti 2.2)

North Brother Island

I see they have some pictures of spot locations, but a full street view walk around would be nice.

Somehow I found pics of this abandoned area creepier, even before I found at it was the place Typhoid Mary was locked up.

It works the other way too. If you don't cool the servers at all, eventually they stop consuming power ;-)

Eventually. But not as soon as you might think. Modern servers can tolerate heat fairly well, and many data centers waste money on excessive cooling. As long as you are within the temp spec, there is little evidence that you gain reliability by additional cooling. Google has published data on the reliability of hundreds of thousands of disk drives. They found that the reliability was actually better at the high end of the temperature range. This is one reason that Google runs "hot" datacenters today.

There's Google's "Verbatim tool". However it's a ballache to use, and I can't see a simple way of using it by default, other than modifying the querystring in Chrome.

Why the quick assumption that students' data is stored overseas? Six of Google's data centers are in the USA, one is in South America (not exactly "overseas", but still out of the country), three are in Europe and three are in Asia. I would think that most data in North America is stored on North American servers, which is probably best for speed and access.

News is breaking today that Facebook is doing the same thing. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043271/facebook-moves-to-remove-ads-displayed-with-controversial-content.html

I don't have any insider knowledge, but I suspect it has something to do with this: https://www.google.com/search?q=coppa+july+1st

My post 3 years ago: http://opengov.ideascale.com/a/dtd/8412-4049
"Why Is This Idea Important?: This project is essential to US national security, to provide a technologically literate populace who has learned about post-scarcity technology in a hands-on way. The greatest challenge our society faces right now is post-scarcity technology (like robots, AI, nanotech, biotech, etc.) in the hands of people still obsessed with fighting over scarcity (whether in big organizations or in small groups). This project would help educate our entire society about the potential of these technologies to produce abundance for all. So, why 21,000 flexible fabrication facilities across the USA at a cost of US$50 billion? To understand that, consider a few historical trends. ..."

Too bad the opengov software munged the formatting.

Also mentioned here:
http://pcast.ideascale.com/a/dtd/44897-8319
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg/openmanufacturing/sAqgfZ9291A/ZQKlJXBNIAcJ

you're too lazy to google.

The best part is the Ouya can work as a thin client for your Steam box. nVidia supports this natively via their Shield device and a gtx 650 or higher video card (those video cards have a built in x264 encoder), it's rumored that this functionality will be extended to Tegra 3 devices (which would include the Ouya).

For older video cards (and until nVidia expands the capability), there's Kainy. Which will allow you to do the same.

This is why Slashdot needs editing, I forgot to link the GTV app visibility guidelines.

https://developers.google.com/tv/android/docs/gtv_market_filtering

I would imagine these will carry through mostly unchanged to any console.

Well, been using this for a good long while and it seems to work a treat where HTTPS is supported.

I do believe some sort of movement to embrace HTTPS as a mandatory option by everyone is overdue and the time is ripe for it to strike.

I agree. You might want to install HTTPS Finder as well. It works alongside HTTPS Everywhere, detecting HTTPS support and creating rules for sites that aren't already on the list supplied with HTTPS Everywhere.

Cheers for the pointer. Following up now.

Well, been using this for a good long while and it seems to work a treat where HTTPS is supported.

I do believe some sort of movement to embrace HTTPS as a mandatory option by everyone is overdue and the time is ripe for it to strike.

I agree. You might want to install HTTPS Finder as well. It works alongside HTTPS Everywhere, detecting HTTPS support and creating rules for sites that aren't already on the list supplied with HTTPS Everywhere.

You can't have netflix on linux

False.

now deploy it to web users so that it can run on a wide audience with no dependencies, true "write once run everywhere", and runs in an actually functional sandbox (as opposed to the nightmares of java or activeX).

Of course Chromes NACL does that as well-- apparenly you can now get NACL games in the chrome app store.