You are recorded pretty much everywhere in public now, what makes you think putting them on people is any different? Why are you ok with the restaurant recording you from entrance to exit, but not me at the next table? What is the functional difference?
Would you kick out someone with a recording prosthetic eye? How about someone who uses a wearable to make up for lack of short term memory? How about Alzheimer's patients that rely on a wearable to guide them back home? The idea that you are going to be able to dictate where wearables are allowed is laughable at best. Sooner or later the American Disability Act will kick in and and you are fucked if you even try kicking someone out.
Finally, you are a moron if you think its appropriate to waste the police's time kicking out a patron with a wearable camera on. If you are going to be an ass, at least be man enough to enforce your own rules.
You just dont get it do you? What is the bar going to do when video cameras are woven into clothing? What about prosthetic eyeballs? I have the absolute natural right to videotape anything my eye can behold, period. Society is going to learn this one the hard way i think.
The problem is, most of us see that Apple has nowhere to go. As we wire up the world, and computers become ubiquitous, no one is going to need a $2000 laptop. Sure they will always hold a spot in the consumer space, but they really are going to experience a Tarkin's Grasp scenario.
Its quite naive to think Apple will be able to continue to force everyone through the APP Store. Its an untenable situation that will eventually be broken either by the market, or regulation. There are simply WAY too many use-cases that Apple flat out ignores due to their DRM stance.
Its only akin to an MMO because the devs forced it, jsut like Diablo III. What game designer in his right mind thought putting a hardcore mode in a game where a moment of lag can wipe out months of work?? Forcing online-only causes devs to give up some fundamental gameplay for monetization. THATS WHY WE GET UPSET.
It an unrealistic expectation that the game be made in a such a way that the offline use-case isnt ignored outright? This game was designed so that it cannot exist without EA servers, absolutely rubbish game design.
Why should copyrighted work get special treatment just because it doesn't follow the rules of decay? This should be shouted as a triumph, not lamented as a loss to creativity.
When did Cox turn flags on the content? I had a HDHOMRUNPRIME running on CableCARD last year until the Olympics melted the server. (was re-compressing to mp4 from MPEG-2, Q6600 just couldn't process that much video that fast.) I could record pretty much everything but HBO, Showtime etc. Now im just using antenna and the old school HDHomerun ATSC tuners so i havent tried premium cable in a while. Guess ill set it up at my in-laws and see what happens.
An armed drone strike is the functional equivalent of launching a manned jet strike. While there is a lot of hyperbole on both sides, this is one point we need to make sure stays absolutely clear. If you wouldn't hit it with an F-15 on US Soil, you shouldn't use a drone to do it.
Its not the only way to play. Millions of people make money from music outside of the labels. THe entire system is rigged, if you have dreams of being a rock star, you know what you are getting into. I have no sympathy for morons who sign bad contracts while reaching for the brass ring.
Happy birthday is the perfect example of why copyright should have a ubiquity-type clause like trademarks. Happy birthday is so deeply ingrained in our culture to say that one person 'owns' it is absurd and all copyright claims should be null and void by this point.
VOIP is not a direct, complete replacement for POTS. In POTS I have a direct hard line to the CO with generators ( i know, i asked when i did some contract work ), VOIP i get a battery in a closet at best.
The state DOES regularly seize property, ignores due process, lets corporation out of their pension obligations. It happens EVERY DAY. Terrible argument. A person is a person, a corporation is a legal construct that exists SOLELY at the goodwill of the people. We tell people EVERY DAY what they can and cant sell, where, for how much, it goes on and on, so the idea that we cant tell a collection of people to shut up and only speak with their own voice is obvious and natural.
It IS littering. Just because the courts are too stupid doesn't change the fact that strangers are allowed to dump pounds of paper on my property, legally. There is no other way to describe it.
The human needs for a direct live voice comm is really over exaggerated. A satellite comm setup, while not direct substitute for POTS is still an incredibly awesome comms tech. The latency is not bad enough to write off the idea of doing slightly delayed voice comms. I hate how people trivialize something so great. You have no imagination. There are a billion ways to communicate now and you get hung up on copper wire.
Took my 9 month old car in because the front brakes were grinding. They fixed that no problem but then came back and said 'now the rears needs to adjusted, that will be $90." I said flat out im not paying for a single repair on a car less then a year old. I seriously wanted to punch the guy in the face.
I ended up building a Core i5 mini-itx HTPC for slightly more then the cost of Tivo 'lifetime' service. Infinitely more powerful and flexible then any Tivo, ever. Records 4 streams, 3 TB of storage (+ a hot swap external bay), automatically strips out commercials and compresses the shows to more efficient formats. It is also significantly smaller then my Tivo Premiere and looks just as at home in the A/V rack. No subscription cost at all. When my Hard drive fills up I pull it out and add it to the NAS and pop in a new one for the DVR. Tivo is a joke.
In addition to the standard DVR duties my HTPC also does all this:
Minecraft server
Remote Potato Guide server
MCEBuddy
DYNDNS keep alive
Quake server
Virtual machine server
MAME, NES, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, PSX emulator w/ real arcade controls
If you like Tivo, awesome, but its expensive and technologically inferior on almost every front.
That network that isnt 'ours' crosses a billon public right-of-ways. They may own the wire, but we own the land it runs through, its not as simple as you make it to be. The public has a vested interest in regulating ISPs and we should be doing more to leash them.
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You are recorded pretty much everywhere in public now, what makes you think putting them on people is any different? Why are you ok with the restaurant recording you from entrance to exit, but not me at the next table? What is the functional difference?
Would you kick out someone with a recording prosthetic eye? How about someone who uses a wearable to make up for lack of short term memory? How about Alzheimer's patients that rely on a wearable to guide them back home? The idea that you are going to be able to dictate where wearables are allowed is laughable at best. Sooner or later the American Disability Act will kick in and and you are fucked if you even try kicking someone out.
Finally, you are a moron if you think its appropriate to waste the police's time kicking out a patron with a wearable camera on. If you are going to be an ass, at least be man enough to enforce your own rules.
You just dont get it do you? What is the bar going to do when video cameras are woven into clothing? What about prosthetic eyeballs? I have the absolute natural right to videotape anything my eye can behold, period. Society is going to learn this one the hard way i think.
The problem is, most of us see that Apple has nowhere to go. As we wire up the world, and computers become ubiquitous, no one is going to need a $2000 laptop. Sure they will always hold a spot in the consumer space, but they really are going to experience a Tarkin's Grasp scenario.
Its quite naive to think Apple will be able to continue to force everyone through the APP Store. Its an untenable situation that will eventually be broken either by the market, or regulation. There are simply WAY too many use-cases that Apple flat out ignores due to their DRM stance.
Its only akin to an MMO because the devs forced it, jsut like Diablo III. What game designer in his right mind thought putting a hardcore mode in a game where a moment of lag can wipe out months of work?? Forcing online-only causes devs to give up some fundamental gameplay for monetization. THATS WHY WE GET UPSET.
It an unrealistic expectation that the game be made in a such a way that the offline use-case isnt ignored outright? This game was designed so that it cannot exist without EA servers, absolutely rubbish game design.
Why should copyrighted work get special treatment just because it doesn't follow the rules of decay? This should be shouted as a triumph, not lamented as a loss to creativity.
When did Cox turn flags on the content? I had a HDHOMRUNPRIME running on CableCARD last year until the Olympics melted the server. (was re-compressing to mp4 from MPEG-2, Q6600 just couldn't process that much video that fast.) I could record pretty much everything but HBO, Showtime etc. Now im just using antenna and the old school HDHomerun ATSC tuners so i havent tried premium cable in a while. Guess ill set it up at my in-laws and see what happens.
An armed drone strike is the functional equivalent of launching a manned jet strike. While there is a lot of hyperbole on both sides, this is one point we need to make sure stays absolutely clear. If you wouldn't hit it with an F-15 on US Soil, you shouldn't use a drone to do it.
Its not the only way to play. Millions of people make money from music outside of the labels. THe entire system is rigged, if you have dreams of being a rock star, you know what you are getting into. I have no sympathy for morons who sign bad contracts while reaching for the brass ring.
Happy birthday is the perfect example of why copyright should have a ubiquity-type clause like trademarks. Happy birthday is so deeply ingrained in our culture to say that one person 'owns' it is absurd and all copyright claims should be null and void by this point.
VOIP is not a direct, complete replacement for POTS. In POTS I have a direct hard line to the CO with generators ( i know, i asked when i did some contract work ), VOIP i get a battery in a closet at best.
The state DOES regularly seize property, ignores due process, lets corporation out of their pension obligations. It happens EVERY DAY. Terrible argument. A person is a person, a corporation is a legal construct that exists SOLELY at the goodwill of the people. We tell people EVERY DAY what they can and cant sell, where, for how much, it goes on and on, so the idea that we cant tell a collection of people to shut up and only speak with their own voice is obvious and natural.
It IS littering. Just because the courts are too stupid doesn't change the fact that strangers are allowed to dump pounds of paper on my property, legally. There is no other way to describe it.
The human needs for a direct live voice comm is really over exaggerated. A satellite comm setup, while not direct substitute for POTS is still an incredibly awesome comms tech. The latency is not bad enough to write off the idea of doing slightly delayed voice comms. I hate how people trivialize something so great. You have no imagination. There are a billion ways to communicate now and you get hung up on copper wire.
In case you havent figured it out yet, the future is going to be very fragmented. Start learning to glue stuff together or get left behind.
Took my 9 month old car in because the front brakes were grinding. They fixed that no problem but then came back and said 'now the rears needs to adjusted, that will be $90." I said flat out im not paying for a single repair on a car less then a year old. I seriously wanted to punch the guy in the face.
Remote Potato is how you interface with the channel guide remotely. Setup recordings, download shows etc.
I ended up building a Core i5 mini-itx HTPC for slightly more then the cost of Tivo 'lifetime' service. Infinitely more powerful and flexible then any Tivo, ever. Records 4 streams, 3 TB of storage (+ a hot swap external bay), automatically strips out commercials and compresses the shows to more efficient formats. It is also significantly smaller then my Tivo Premiere and looks just as at home in the A/V rack. No subscription cost at all. When my Hard drive fills up I pull it out and add it to the NAS and pop in a new one for the DVR. Tivo is a joke.
In addition to the standard DVR duties my HTPC also does all this:
Minecraft server
Remote Potato Guide server
MCEBuddy
DYNDNS keep alive
Quake server
Virtual machine server
MAME, NES, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, PSX emulator w/ real arcade controls
If you like Tivo, awesome, but its expensive and technologically inferior on almost every front.
Civilized human beings do not torture their enemies, ever. There is no context that justifies TORTURING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING, EVER.
That network that isnt 'ours' crosses a billon public right-of-ways. They may own the wire, but we own the land it runs through, its not as simple as you make it to be. The public has a vested interest in regulating ISPs and we should be doing more to leash them.
That Tivo thing pissed me off. Not only do i consider Tivo service outrageously overpriced, they had the gall to insert ads too.
Protect the Second by ignoring the First? Lovely logic process.
All-metal weapons sometimes catastrophically fail too... just sayin.