Raising and teaching a child is a cooperative effort on the part of the teachers and the parents. Teachers are there to motivate students, to inspire them, and to figure out where attention is needed. That is the mark of a great teacher.
Parents cannot teach as well because they don't have the time if they are working two jobs, and teaching is not so easy. A great teacher is not only educated themselves but understands *how* to teach a child.
Where parents fit in is discipline and respect for the teacher, as well as a well rounded upbringing where morality and ethics are instilled in the child. If the parents are doing their job, then the teachers job is much easier.
When I said the problem is the teachers, I did not mean to denigrate teachers at all. I meant that teachers are vital to teach children, and that equipment will never be a substitute for an adult in a child's life.
There are a lot of teachers right now that are a problem, but I can hardly blame them when they face uphill battles everyday worse than any IT grunts day.
If things are going to change, regardless of technology, it is both parents and teachers that need to change.
We disable the data records and prevent them from being counted in reports, processes, etc. 30 day recycle schedule.
A user calls up and tells us they accidentally deleted something and please help!. We just wait 5 or 10 minutes and call them back and tell them it was very difficult but we located it on a drive scheduled for destruction this afternoon. It was really hard to get because the disk was spinning so fast. But we got it and be more careful next time:)
Appropriate that we are talking about children here.
How come every user turns into a whiny snotty little child every time they can't get their way and walks around stomping their feet with screams of "fascists!"?
Child is appropriate too. It indicates poor decision making skills, naivete, and a lack of sophistication to understand the true dangers.
Child: But.. But.. Why can't I hook up my iPad to the corporate wireless and use it for printing, Internet, and neato stuff like remote desktop! IT Manager: Well you see sweetie we have a hub and spoke configuration with MPLS back to our datacenter and it's dangerous for unknown equipment to have such access. It could be infected and hurt everyone else and then we would have to shut the playground down for a whole day to fix it. Child: What's MpeeLSSS's? Are the hubs and spokes like my tinker toys? IT Manager: No, it is not like your tinker toys. It allows us to connect a whole lot of playgrounds into one big playground. Child: I don't understand. I want to play with my SHINY!!! IT Manager: I'm sorry sweetie. It's too dangerous. Child: I hate you! *sniff*.... fucking fascist!
That's essentially how it goes down. Except for the really unlucky IT Managers and CTO's that have to deal with you Children of the Corn motherfuckers. That would be executives that don't care, read some articles on their plane trips to the executive retreat, and force you to make it happen and if anything bad happens it was because you could not do your job right.
Allegories aside, IT locking down corporate equipment to protect the company is not fascism. That is not to say that IT Managers don't have some character flaws as well. Poor social skills, inability to balance security and usability, and religious support of a single platform (MS fluffers).
However, and this has been brought up in the recent BYOD debates, IT exists for some very simple purposes.
1) To enable other workers to do their jobs by keeping equipment and platforms functioning at optimal levels. 2) To design and implement solutions that allow other workers to perform needed functions efficiently. 3) To protect the assets of the company, including the equipment and corporate data from being misused or falling outside of corporate control where it could cause damage to the company. 4) To minimize any downtime of the other workers through well thought out and balanced strategies for data backup, data integrity, data security, and plans for the implementations of new technologies and replacements of the old.
Now IT cannot do its job without exerting some measure of control over the device to prevent unsophisticated users (or worse those sophisticated enough to be arrogant and dangerous) from causing danger to the company.
BYOD is out of the question. Fundamentally, it cannot be allowed and will never be able to coexist with corporate equipment without allowing an unacceptable level of risk to data security and uptime.
You can scream fascist all you want. At the end of the day, it was never your equipment to begin with. It amazes me how many people on Slashdot don't get that. I understand there are a lot of people represented here that don't have a firm grasp on what security really *is*. The developers that just want it easy, don't want to understand the sysadmin side of things, and have to contend with overbearing IT dictating their tools. Not understanding the difference between personal property and corporate property is astonishing to me.
If it is your equipment, you are fully free to do with it as you like on your own terms. That does not mean you get to bring it into the company and make it part of the corporate ecosystem, make it IT's responsibility, and then tell them they have no control.
If it is corporate equipment that you get to take off premise, then you don't get to install whatever apps you want, connect it to whatever you want, do whatever you want.
We could take this even further and imagine a complete MS Surface desk that allows full interactivity, test taking, etc. Something like out of Serenity.
The problem is the teachers. Without supervision a child is going to do what comes naturally to them, which is poor decision making. That's why they need supervision and guidance. Teachers walking around, giving a course lecture, asking questions, etc. is how real learning happens in a child's life. Real learning does not happen by multiple choice either, but critical thinking and actually evaluating not just retained knowledge, but knowledge that has been understood in context.
If you just hand them a piece of technology and tell them this is what will teach you and walk away you have to be pretty foolish to be surprised when you check in a couple hours later and they did not use it for that purpose.
Home schooled? That is completely absurd beyond all measure. ADULTS have problems telecommuting. I am a very disciplined person, but even I must admit that when working from home it is far easier for me to get distracted and take longer breaks. Being in an office environment with people walking in to my office, me walking around and checking in with people, I get more done myself.
You cannot expect a child to have a device, even totally locked down, and then use it in a disciplined fashion to educate themselves.
There is no magic answer, no magic pill, no magic technology that will allow adults to walk away from their children and then expect learning and growth.
You hit part of the problem too. Teachers being underpaid, not respected, and having their hands tied when it comes to discipline. Adding technology that can be abused without fixing that fundamental problem is stupid and wasteful at this point.
Females and Eunuchs can have hands, but not penises. Females don't drive the creation of porn as consumers, and Eunuchs don't have a part in it either (no pun intended).
Plus you don't need you hands for masturbation. Apparently you missed the advanced class.
You DO realize that normal SD DVD had DRM too right? It had the SAME sorts of restrictions that BD has now and so did HD-DVD! The only difference was that the DRM was easier to defeat because they couldn't swap keys as they were compromised
I covered that in my other response to you.
I'd also argue that a laser beam does no damage to a DVD or BD. The damage these gets is from oxygen leaking into the media and oxidizing the metal. This is real, it's happened to some of my CD. Scratches happen but so long as they aren't on the label side they can be recovered with a buffer - a car wax like Nu-Finish with distillates works wonders too.
I never said laser beams did damage. The act of putting the media in the player does damage, even if ever so slightly. Your point about oxidation is also understood. Which is why even the best storage methods, short of a vacuum, will only marginally prolong storage life. Ultimately, shifting and validating the data across different mediums is the only long term storage solution.
BTW - where did the GP imply piracy at ALL in his posting?
I thought the reference to warez and torrents was more than enough. Torrents can be non infringing, but warez is kind of specifically stating infringement.
I DO see someone with the same issues I have archiving BD which is apparently a medium you've not educated yourself on enough.
I am very well educated on BD. That is why I choose to boycott it at all costs.
1) Even if doable, which keeps changing, a true BD backup takes up a *lot* more storage. I have seen torrents that are 25-30GB for a BD rip. Why even download it or rip it? 2) To rip it, I would have to purchase it. I would never do so because that would be voting with my wallet in the wrong direction. 3) Re-encoding has variable quality depending on the algorithm and the parameters. Piracy groups do it better, so I would never do it myself. In the end I would get something marginally better than DVD quality at 720p.
It's about not supporting their business model at any costs. I don't purchase Blueray technology at any level from player to content. It is getting worse too. They are pushing towards an Internet connected model so they can keep the encryption algorithms and keys variable with an undesirable side effect of direct control in my house and an unacceptable invasion of my privacy. I don't need their fucking permission or their knowledge when I decide to watch a movie. I purchased that legal entitlement, preferably with non-traceable cash, at the store.
Once I leave the store with the physical media, my legal entitlements are permanent and will only cease when the work enters the public domain. Anything else is unacceptable and they can blow me if they want to charge per use, per media shift, per time shift, etc.
When you pirate or purchase something based on Blueray you are endorsing, encouraging, and enabling a business model based on unethical ideology on the part of Big Content that has the ultimate goal of destroying the Public Domain and changing the philosophy of copyright to be permanent ownership and absolute control of content regardless of any and all considerations.
Of course you can point out that DVD has similar caveats, but DVD is known and considered by all sides to be so broken that the encryption and PUOs are laughable little speed bumps and not a serious impediment to any action by the consumer, infringing or not.
Perhaps so. There really is no choice unless you want to eventually become a victim of Big Content. The GP strongly implied piracy as the only cause of such massive storage requirements. It's not at all.
It has to be stored *somewhere* and since managing physical media is a pain in the ass and *every* single use causes damage, another solution must be found. Be it ever so slight, there is damage with physical media. It makes no sense if we own the legal entitlements to a copyrighted work to keep it stored in a manner that constantly degrades. We have the right, both legally and ethically to take measures to protect our legal entitlement those copyrighted works. Now it would be nice if copyright law was more sane and works actually made it into the public domain within a reasonable time period. My family would pay $50 a month for access to a massive online public library of books, music, and movies. That would be more cost effective than creating it ourselves.
What about our family heritage? It's not just photos. Artwork, birth certificates, personal documents, etc. I can see within the next 20 years that diaries would be easier to keep, and more private than FaceStupid, with software designed to do it.
The article brings up a good question. What is the best way to keep a massive digital library in good condition and the most convenient way to access the data?
I gave my advice for how my family handles it and I really wish people would just drop Blueray support all together. Never buy into a copyright model where your legal entitlements and ability to protect said legal entitlements is limited by greed and unethical conduct.
If 8TB is full, you need to stop the obsessive collection of warez/pr0n/torrentz you are never likely to watch again.
As opposed to the obsessive collecting of physical media that can be scratched and takes up 10x+ the space?
My family since the 80s has amassed literally 10k CD/DVDs as well as almost 100 laserdisc titles. Not to mention a buttload of VHS tapes that we offloaded years ago.
It has all been converted to digital storage. Since it is on multiple RAID 5 devices and I run a cron job that checks the MD5 sigs against a database I know that it is in good condition.
Of course this requires constant rollover of the data from hard drive to hard drive. Half the drives have failed over the years and it has moved between multiple NAS systems. We still have all the data.
In addition to that, we have over 100k family photos collected from all of our relatives scanned and tagged as well.
Our collection is nearing 20 TB. With the low cost of drives we have backups in lead lined containers in safety deposit boxes at two banks. We swap them out every year or so adding to it. I am really looking forward to long term archival storage that is write once and designed to last 100 years plus. I'll pay for that.
Now I know you may be thinking obsession, but we *paid* for it. Paying twice for music or movies is just plain insane and we never fell for the HD/Bluesuck shit they were shoving down our throats. Well my parents did, but Spiderman solved that problem the first time it could not be played because the encryption changed. Since then they are back on DVD only and we are waiting for a HD storage method that does not involve constant Big Brother monitoring and DRM in our houses.
Then there is the most obvious benefit of all. You only have to rip the music or movie one time. Been years since we bought an actual CD, but you get my point.
The convenience of having all of your media at your fingertips without touching physical media is pretty damn nice.
Guess how much storage space you need for thousands of DVD/CDs when they are packed into spindles and put into storage? A heck of lot less than you would expect. Fits in a closet.
If you really want Netflix cheap you can buy a Western Digital Live TV Plus. They are under $100 and do extremely well with Netflix and a bunch of other apps. I have gone through several firmware updates and they keep adding new apps. In addition to the apps you can do streaming from just about any kind of server and USB connected flash drives.
HDMI and even optical audio out if you needed it. Netflix has a lot of HD titles, plus 5.1 audio on quite a bit too. I believe the Ethernet is gigabit, but I don't know off the top of my head.
Only thing it does not do well at all is DVD ISO files.
For under $100 though with a nifty little remote you will find yourself using it for more than just Netflix on a regular basis.
Consider it a nice little addition to a HTPC.
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Are you saying Santa used to hand out shrooms? No wonder people looked forward to the celebration, saw elves, flying reindeer, live snowmen, etc.
The Remnibi, however, is exactly how you described, except that the military backing it up is a hell of a lot larger than the US's, and they've got the US' economy by the balls.
The Chinese military is not larger than the US military in 1:1 terms overall. Ground forces? Well yeah. Duh. How do they get their military anywhere? They never have. Their only aircraft carrier is an ancient retrofitted throwaway from Russia that is being used for training and experience.
The US military on the other hand, has been in Korea, Japan, all over the Pacific, Panama, France, Germany, Vietnam, Italy, etc. just in the last 100 years. Probably more places, but you get my point.
It's a rather pointless comparison. The US has much smaller ground forces but an incredibly larger ability to move those forces anywhere in the world. China cannot, and has not, moved its military anywhere farther than its own continent. The US could never even begin to hope to obtain a beachhead on Chinese soil, much less sustain actual ground conflict.
It's a stalemate. China could never move and protect ground forces to US soil without air and sea support at least as large as the US. The US does not have enough resources in both ground forces and sea/air support to do the same.
Nobody has anybody by the balls. It's just a bunch of bullshit the 1% likes to have us argue about because it distracts us from the larger problem. I'll let you figure out what that actually is.
Hint: Somebody has somebody else by the balls, but neither side is a country.
Considering the Taliban manual specifically prohibits any Taliban from being alone in a room with an unbearded man (boy), I bet it is so that nobody can record that evidence as well.
Which is incredibly ironic that they are trying to prevent obscenity when they are predominately pedophiles.
Before anybody mods this troll..... if it was false why would it have to be in the manual for the Taliban specifically?
There is a difference between fear and abhorrence.
You act like there are no rational considerations about GM food vs. "natural" food whatsoever. That is incorrect. I want the labels so that I can vote with my wallet.
GM food is abhorrent.
Nutritionally, there probably are no differences. I believe whatever differences there are in nutrition and taste have more to do with environment than they have to do with genetics. It's possible it might affect taste, but I don't really know.
Ethically, there is all the difference in the world. Monsanto is a corporation so evil, they might as well be straight out of a James Bond movie. Their research is done under dangerous conditions, their greed-profit driven recklessness caused them to put in "death" codes into the plants, and they are litigious bastards with logic so twisted they are the Mafiaa's more evil twin.
I don't have a problem with the idea of genetic modification from any kind of philosophical viewpoint. My problem is with the corporations and IP law surrounding it.
To that end.... I damn well want the labels. I don't want Monsanto getting a fucking dime from me and if they all died tomorrow, the world would be a better place.
I would hardly say my disagreements with Monsanto's actions as a company are irrational. If you want to put that position forwards, you might as well say anybody who disagrees with the actions of the RIAA is irrational as well.
Fuck Monsanto. Fuck GM food. Fuck the idea of owning the "blueprints" of food, or anything alive either.
Somebody wants to do the research to benefit humanity in an open source like way? Tell me where to send the check. I'll support it.
The point of an environmental impact study, if they were putting the hot water directly back in the fjord, is what effects it has on the ecology. Even if it dissipates it could allow algae to form, etc.
I don't know what it might cause as it is not my field of study. Obviously, industries putting waste water back in the rivers has had effects elsewhere so it is worthwhile to study.
That is the only real concern I can imagine the "rabid" environmentalists "screaming" about in objection to this cooling method.
I am not saying it would problematic to put the water back in the fjord, just that it would be appropriate for experts to find out.
You're grouping environmentalists all in to one bucket. It doesn't work that way.
I am an avid environmentalist. According to you, I don't support Nuclear power in my backyard. Yet, I actually support it. Newer technologies mitigate a lot of the safety concerns and we can figure out better ways to store waste and even better technologies that yield less waste.
As for the transport of electricity I think there already is an excellent method. Aluminum Gallium power sources produce hydrogen from water and all you would need to do is ship them back to a Nuclear power plant where it would be vastly more efficient to remove the Oxygen to recondition the power source.
That's a pretty progressive idea.
I am not against the whole cooling from the fjord idea, but you would have to be a complete idiot not to realize that an environmental impact study would need to be conducted if the hot water was being put right back in the fjord. Of course they don't have to do that at all. They can just use passive heat exchangers with the surrounding air instead. Better yet, use the heat for surrounding buildings, offices, etc. or even convert it back into energy. So many more options than just dumping it back in the fjord.
There is a difference between "screaming hysteria" and "gee what happens when we raise the water temperatures around the datacenter a couple degrees?".
Economically competitive is just a cop out. What it really means, is that you have a limited commitment towards change. In my personal view, which has had heated debates, we are fucked already. Leave economics out of it and make the hard decisions now. That does mean start building as many nuclear reactors as possible right now because they are the most immediate solution to massive amounts of power generation that can be used immediately for heating, cooling, industry, etc.
Short term pain == Long term gain. Problem is nobody wants to sacrifice and any environmentalist that proposes serious sacrifice is labeled a hypocrite (appropriate in some situations) or just plain crazy.
As for off the grid people, all you can really do in the end is control your own actions and voice your opinions and ideas cogently and passionately and hope it helps. Those people you are denigrating are doing the sacrificing because it is what they can do. I sacrifice as much as possible, and writing on a laptop does not make me a hypocrite.
P.S - It's not so black and white when you label people. I propose extreme austerity measures but also very aggressive and progressive changes.
I think the bigger problem here is that you think Gilligan could help the Professor fix something. Kind of lost the credibility of your post there......
Considering the incredible marketing effort and designed failure in consumer electronics to always buy new crap, I really have to wonder if the average consumer electronic would survive long enough to need this technology.
I have a Number Nine 128 video card still working on an old P4 server. That's damn near 20 years old I think. No cracks in the PCB on that.
If I have motherboards that are 3,5,10 years old still working just fine and I fail to see the point of this technology in consumer products. Military and harsh environments certainly.
On a call I can press the back button and it will ask me if I want to "Continue Call and exit to the home screen". I can run any app I want from that point all with the icons.
Been using it for years now to get phone numbers for people, or look at some email, etc.
For the record, this patent was filed on January 6, 2008.
I know that the Pearl and Curve were released to market well before that date and had the same functionality from what I recall. I can't link to a manual or anything, but I distinctly remember being able to access other applications and data very easily while on the phone.
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You're wrong, and being simplistic.
Raising and teaching a child is a cooperative effort on the part of the teachers and the parents. Teachers are there to motivate students, to inspire them, and to figure out where attention is needed. That is the mark of a great teacher.
Parents cannot teach as well because they don't have the time if they are working two jobs, and teaching is not so easy. A great teacher is not only educated themselves but understands *how* to teach a child.
Where parents fit in is discipline and respect for the teacher, as well as a well rounded upbringing where morality and ethics are instilled in the child. If the parents are doing their job, then the teachers job is much easier.
When I said the problem is the teachers, I did not mean to denigrate teachers at all. I meant that teachers are vital to teach children, and that equipment will never be a substitute for an adult in a child's life.
There are a lot of teachers right now that are a problem, but I can hardly blame them when they face uphill battles everyday worse than any IT grunts day.
If things are going to change, regardless of technology, it is both parents and teachers that need to change.
LMFAO.
I knew I was not the only one doing that :)
We disable the data records and prevent them from being counted in reports, processes, etc. 30 day recycle schedule.
A user calls up and tells us they accidentally deleted something and please help!. We just wait 5 or 10 minutes and call them back and tell them it was very difficult but we located it on a drive scheduled for destruction this afternoon. It was really hard to get because the disk was spinning so fast. But we got it and be more careful next time :)
Appropriate that we are talking about children here.
How come every user turns into a whiny snotty little child every time they can't get their way and walks around stomping their feet with screams of "fascists!"?
Child is appropriate too. It indicates poor decision making skills, naivete, and a lack of sophistication to understand the true dangers.
Child: But.. But.. Why can't I hook up my iPad to the corporate wireless and use it for printing, Internet, and neato stuff like remote desktop!
IT Manager: Well you see sweetie we have a hub and spoke configuration with MPLS back to our datacenter and it's dangerous for unknown equipment to have such access. It could be infected and hurt everyone else and then we would have to shut the playground down for a whole day to fix it.
Child: What's MpeeLSSS's? Are the hubs and spokes like my tinker toys?
IT Manager: No, it is not like your tinker toys. It allows us to connect a whole lot of playgrounds into one big playground.
Child: I don't understand. I want to play with my SHINY!!!
IT Manager: I'm sorry sweetie. It's too dangerous.
Child: I hate you! *sniff*.... fucking fascist!
That's essentially how it goes down. Except for the really unlucky IT Managers and CTO's that have to deal with you Children of the Corn motherfuckers. That would be executives that don't care, read some articles on their plane trips to the executive retreat, and force you to make it happen and if anything bad happens it was because you could not do your job right.
Allegories aside, IT locking down corporate equipment to protect the company is not fascism. That is not to say that IT Managers don't have some character flaws as well. Poor social skills, inability to balance security and usability, and religious support of a single platform (MS fluffers).
However, and this has been brought up in the recent BYOD debates, IT exists for some very simple purposes.
1) To enable other workers to do their jobs by keeping equipment and platforms functioning at optimal levels.
2) To design and implement solutions that allow other workers to perform needed functions efficiently.
3) To protect the assets of the company, including the equipment and corporate data from being misused or falling outside of corporate control where it could cause damage to the company.
4) To minimize any downtime of the other workers through well thought out and balanced strategies for data backup, data integrity, data security, and plans for the implementations of new technologies and replacements of the old.
Now IT cannot do its job without exerting some measure of control over the device to prevent unsophisticated users (or worse those sophisticated enough to be arrogant and dangerous) from causing danger to the company.
BYOD is out of the question. Fundamentally, it cannot be allowed and will never be able to coexist with corporate equipment without allowing an unacceptable level of risk to data security and uptime.
You can scream fascist all you want. At the end of the day, it was never your equipment to begin with. It amazes me how many people on Slashdot don't get that. I understand there are a lot of people represented here that don't have a firm grasp on what security really *is*. The developers that just want it easy, don't want to understand the sysadmin side of things, and have to contend with overbearing IT dictating their tools. Not understanding the difference between personal property and corporate property is astonishing to me.
If it is your equipment, you are fully free to do with it as you like on your own terms. That does not mean you get to bring it into the company and make it part of the corporate ecosystem, make it IT's responsibility, and then tell them they have no control.
If it is corporate equipment that you get to take off premise, then you don't get to install whatever apps you want, connect it to whatever you want, do whatever you want.
It really is not that
That's why the technology is not the problem.
We could take this even further and imagine a complete MS Surface desk that allows full interactivity, test taking, etc. Something like out of Serenity.
The problem is the teachers. Without supervision a child is going to do what comes naturally to them, which is poor decision making. That's why they need supervision and guidance. Teachers walking around, giving a course lecture, asking questions, etc. is how real learning happens in a child's life. Real learning does not happen by multiple choice either, but critical thinking and actually evaluating not just retained knowledge, but knowledge that has been understood in context.
If you just hand them a piece of technology and tell them this is what will teach you and walk away you have to be pretty foolish to be surprised when you check in a couple hours later and they did not use it for that purpose.
Home schooled? That is completely absurd beyond all measure. ADULTS have problems telecommuting. I am a very disciplined person, but even I must admit that when working from home it is far easier for me to get distracted and take longer breaks. Being in an office environment with people walking in to my office, me walking around and checking in with people, I get more done myself.
You cannot expect a child to have a device, even totally locked down, and then use it in a disciplined fashion to educate themselves.
There is no magic answer, no magic pill, no magic technology that will allow adults to walk away from their children and then expect learning and growth.
You hit part of the problem too. Teachers being underpaid, not respected, and having their hands tied when it comes to discipline. Adding technology that can be abused without fixing that fundamental problem is stupid and wasteful at this point.
Nope.
Females and Eunuchs can have hands, but not penises. Females don't drive the creation of porn as consumers, and Eunuchs don't have a part in it either (no pun intended).
Plus you don't need you hands for masturbation. Apparently you missed the advanced class.
You DO realize that normal SD DVD had DRM too right? It had the SAME sorts of restrictions that BD has now and so did HD-DVD! The only difference was that the DRM was easier to defeat because they couldn't swap keys as they were compromised
I covered that in my other response to you.
I'd also argue that a laser beam does no damage to a DVD or BD. The damage these gets is from oxygen leaking into the media and oxidizing the metal. This is real, it's happened to some of my CD. Scratches happen but so long as they aren't on the label side they can be recovered with a buffer - a car wax like Nu-Finish with distillates works wonders too.
I never said laser beams did damage. The act of putting the media in the player does damage, even if ever so slightly. Your point about oxidation is also understood. Which is why even the best storage methods, short of a vacuum, will only marginally prolong storage life. Ultimately, shifting and validating the data across different mediums is the only long term storage solution.
BTW - where did the GP imply piracy at ALL in his posting?
I thought the reference to warez and torrents was more than enough. Torrents can be non infringing, but warez is kind of specifically stating infringement.
I DO see someone with the same issues I have archiving BD which is apparently a medium you've not educated yourself on enough.
I am very well educated on BD. That is why I choose to boycott it at all costs.
BD is never an option for multiple reasons.
1) Even if doable, which keeps changing, a true BD backup takes up a *lot* more storage. I have seen torrents that are 25-30GB for a BD rip. Why even download it or rip it?
2) To rip it, I would have to purchase it. I would never do so because that would be voting with my wallet in the wrong direction.
3) Re-encoding has variable quality depending on the algorithm and the parameters. Piracy groups do it better, so I would never do it myself. In the end I would get something marginally better than DVD quality at 720p.
It's about not supporting their business model at any costs. I don't purchase Blueray technology at any level from player to content. It is getting worse too. They are pushing towards an Internet connected model so they can keep the encryption algorithms and keys variable with an undesirable side effect of direct control in my house and an unacceptable invasion of my privacy. I don't need their fucking permission or their knowledge when I decide to watch a movie . I purchased that legal entitlement, preferably with non-traceable cash, at the store.
Once I leave the store with the physical media, my legal entitlements are permanent and will only cease when the work enters the public domain. Anything else is unacceptable and they can blow me if they want to charge per use, per media shift, per time shift, etc.
When you pirate or purchase something based on Blueray you are endorsing, encouraging, and enabling a business model based on unethical ideology on the part of Big Content that has the ultimate goal of destroying the Public Domain and changing the philosophy of copyright to be permanent ownership and absolute control of content regardless of any and all considerations.
Of course you can point out that DVD has similar caveats, but DVD is known and considered by all sides to be so broken that the encryption and PUOs are laughable little speed bumps and not a serious impediment to any action by the consumer, infringing or not.
Perhaps so. There really is no choice unless you want to eventually become a victim of Big Content. The GP strongly implied piracy as the only cause of such massive storage requirements. It's not at all.
It has to be stored *somewhere* and since managing physical media is a pain in the ass and *every* single use causes damage, another solution must be found. Be it ever so slight, there is damage with physical media. It makes no sense if we own the legal entitlements to a copyrighted work to keep it stored in a manner that constantly degrades. We have the right, both legally and ethically to take measures to protect our legal entitlement those copyrighted works. Now it would be nice if copyright law was more sane and works actually made it into the public domain within a reasonable time period. My family would pay $50 a month for access to a massive online public library of books, music, and movies. That would be more cost effective than creating it ourselves.
What about our family heritage? It's not just photos. Artwork, birth certificates, personal documents, etc. I can see within the next 20 years that diaries would be easier to keep, and more private than FaceStupid, with software designed to do it.
The article brings up a good question. What is the best way to keep a massive digital library in good condition and the most convenient way to access the data?
I gave my advice for how my family handles it and I really wish people would just drop Blueray support all together. Never buy into a copyright model where your legal entitlements and ability to protect said legal entitlements is limited by greed and unethical conduct.
If 8TB is full, you need to stop the obsessive collection of warez/pr0n/torrentz you are never likely to watch again.
As opposed to the obsessive collecting of physical media that can be scratched and takes up 10x+ the space?
My family since the 80s has amassed literally 10k CD/DVDs as well as almost 100 laserdisc titles. Not to mention a buttload of VHS tapes that we offloaded years ago.
It has all been converted to digital storage. Since it is on multiple RAID 5 devices and I run a cron job that checks the MD5 sigs against a database I know that it is in good condition.
Of course this requires constant rollover of the data from hard drive to hard drive. Half the drives have failed over the years and it has moved between multiple NAS systems. We still have all the data.
In addition to that, we have over 100k family photos collected from all of our relatives scanned and tagged as well.
Our collection is nearing 20 TB. With the low cost of drives we have backups in lead lined containers in safety deposit boxes at two banks. We swap them out every year or so adding to it. I am really looking forward to long term archival storage that is write once and designed to last 100 years plus. I'll pay for that.
Now I know you may be thinking obsession, but we *paid* for it. Paying twice for music or movies is just plain insane and we never fell for the HD/Bluesuck shit they were shoving down our throats. Well my parents did, but Spiderman solved that problem the first time it could not be played because the encryption changed. Since then they are back on DVD only and we are waiting for a HD storage method that does not involve constant Big Brother monitoring and DRM in our houses.
Then there is the most obvious benefit of all. You only have to rip the music or movie one time. Been years since we bought an actual CD, but you get my point.
The convenience of having all of your media at your fingertips without touching physical media is pretty damn nice.
Guess how much storage space you need for thousands of DVD/CDs when they are packed into spindles and put into storage? A heck of lot less than you would expect. Fits in a closet.
If you really want Netflix cheap you can buy a Western Digital Live TV Plus. They are under $100 and do extremely well with Netflix and a bunch of other apps. I have gone through several firmware updates and they keep adding new apps. In addition to the apps you can do streaming from just about any kind of server and USB connected flash drives.
HDMI and even optical audio out if you needed it. Netflix has a lot of HD titles, plus 5.1 audio on quite a bit too. I believe the Ethernet is gigabit, but I don't know off the top of my head.
Only thing it does not do well at all is DVD ISO files.
For under $100 though with a nifty little remote you will find yourself using it for more than just Netflix on a regular basis.
Consider it a nice little addition to a HTPC.
Wait......
Are you saying Santa used to hand out shrooms? No wonder people looked forward to the celebration, saw elves, flying reindeer, live snowmen, etc.
All we give him is cookies and milk in return.
What percentage of Americans do you think could identify New Mexico if handed an unlabeled map of the US?
The Remnibi, however, is exactly how you described, except that the military backing it up is a hell of a lot larger than the US's, and they've got the US' economy by the balls.
The Chinese military is not larger than the US military in 1:1 terms overall. Ground forces? Well yeah. Duh. How do they get their military anywhere? They never have. Their only aircraft carrier is an ancient retrofitted throwaway from Russia that is being used for training and experience.
The US military on the other hand, has been in Korea, Japan, all over the Pacific, Panama, France, Germany, Vietnam, Italy, etc. just in the last 100 years. Probably more places, but you get my point.
It's a rather pointless comparison. The US has much smaller ground forces but an incredibly larger ability to move those forces anywhere in the world. China cannot, and has not, moved its military anywhere farther than its own continent. The US could never even begin to hope to obtain a beachhead on Chinese soil, much less sustain actual ground conflict.
It's a stalemate. China could never move and protect ground forces to US soil without air and sea support at least as large as the US. The US does not have enough resources in both ground forces and sea/air support to do the same.
Nobody has anybody by the balls. It's just a bunch of bullshit the 1% likes to have us argue about because it distracts us from the larger problem. I'll let you figure out what that actually is.
Hint: Somebody has somebody else by the balls, but neither side is a country.
Jeeez. Okay. Fine.
If we are going to distill it down to the absolute fundamental requirement it is going to be a penis . That is the biggest enabler of porn.
Considering the Taliban manual specifically prohibits any Taliban from being alone in a room with an unbearded man (boy), I bet it is so that nobody can record that evidence as well.
Which is incredibly ironic that they are trying to prevent obscenity when they are predominately pedophiles.
Before anybody mods this troll..... if it was false why would it have to be in the manual for the Taliban specifically?
After all, hard-drives are the bigger enablers of porn.,/quote>
Uhhhh no. It's Ethernet cables.
There is a difference between fear and abhorrence.
You act like there are no rational considerations about GM food vs. "natural" food whatsoever. That is incorrect. I want the labels so that I can vote with my wallet.
GM food is abhorrent.
Nutritionally, there probably are no differences. I believe whatever differences there are in nutrition and taste have more to do with environment than they have to do with genetics. It's possible it might affect taste, but I don't really know.
Ethically, there is all the difference in the world. Monsanto is a corporation so evil, they might as well be straight out of a James Bond movie. Their research is done under dangerous conditions, their greed-profit driven recklessness caused them to put in "death" codes into the plants, and they are litigious bastards with logic so twisted they are the Mafiaa's more evil twin.
I don't have a problem with the idea of genetic modification from any kind of philosophical viewpoint. My problem is with the corporations and IP law surrounding it.
To that end.... I damn well want the labels. I don't want Monsanto getting a fucking dime from me and if they all died tomorrow, the world would be a better place.
I would hardly say my disagreements with Monsanto's actions as a company are irrational. If you want to put that position forwards, you might as well say anybody who disagrees with the actions of the RIAA is irrational as well.
Fuck Monsanto. Fuck GM food. Fuck the idea of owning the "blueprints" of food, or anything alive either.
Somebody wants to do the research to benefit humanity in an open source like way? Tell me where to send the check. I'll support it.
* The excessively flatulent need not apply.
Define "excessively".
Volume?
Frequency?
Decibels?
That's a bit ambiguous. Would that impress the ladies or strike fear in the hearts of Chinese food buffet owners everywhere?
The point of an environmental impact study, if they were putting the hot water directly back in the fjord, is what effects it has on the ecology. Even if it dissipates it could allow algae to form, etc.
I don't know what it might cause as it is not my field of study. Obviously, industries putting waste water back in the rivers has had effects elsewhere so it is worthwhile to study.
That is the only real concern I can imagine the "rabid" environmentalists "screaming" about in objection to this cooling method.
I am not saying it would problematic to put the water back in the fjord, just that it would be appropriate for experts to find out.
You're grouping environmentalists all in to one bucket. It doesn't work that way.
I am an avid environmentalist. According to you, I don't support Nuclear power in my backyard. Yet, I actually support it. Newer technologies mitigate a lot of the safety concerns and we can figure out better ways to store waste and even better technologies that yield less waste.
As for the transport of electricity I think there already is an excellent method. Aluminum Gallium power sources produce hydrogen from water and all you would need to do is ship them back to a Nuclear power plant where it would be vastly more efficient to remove the Oxygen to recondition the power source.
That's a pretty progressive idea.
I am not against the whole cooling from the fjord idea, but you would have to be a complete idiot not to realize that an environmental impact study would need to be conducted if the hot water was being put right back in the fjord. Of course they don't have to do that at all. They can just use passive heat exchangers with the surrounding air instead. Better yet, use the heat for surrounding buildings, offices, etc. or even convert it back into energy. So many more options than just dumping it back in the fjord.
There is a difference between "screaming hysteria" and "gee what happens when we raise the water temperatures around the datacenter a couple degrees?".
Economically competitive is just a cop out. What it really means, is that you have a limited commitment towards change. In my personal view, which has had heated debates, we are fucked already. Leave economics out of it and make the hard decisions now. That does mean start building as many nuclear reactors as possible right now because they are the most immediate solution to massive amounts of power generation that can be used immediately for heating, cooling, industry, etc.
Short term pain == Long term gain. Problem is nobody wants to sacrifice and any environmentalist that proposes serious sacrifice is labeled a hypocrite (appropriate in some situations) or just plain crazy.
As for off the grid people, all you can really do in the end is control your own actions and voice your opinions and ideas cogently and passionately and hope it helps. Those people you are denigrating are doing the sacrificing because it is what they can do. I sacrifice as much as possible, and writing on a laptop does not make me a hypocrite.
P.S - It's not so black and white when you label people. I propose extreme austerity measures but also very aggressive and progressive changes.
I'm not gonna be loading a spare box with it and surfing porn vid sites
Well you get right on that. Let us know how the security "research" turns out Wally.
I think the bigger problem here is that you think Gilligan could help the Professor fix something. Kind of lost the credibility of your post there......
Considering the incredible marketing effort and designed failure in consumer electronics to always buy new crap, I really have to wonder if the average consumer electronic would survive long enough to need this technology.
I have a Number Nine 128 video card still working on an old P4 server. That's damn near 20 years old I think. No cracks in the PCB on that.
If I have motherboards that are 3,5,10 years old still working just fine and I fail to see the point of this technology in consumer products. Military and harsh environments certainly.
I was about to say that.
On a call I can press the back button and it will ask me if I want to "Continue Call and exit to the home screen". I can run any app I want from that point all with the icons.
Been using it for years now to get phone numbers for people, or look at some email, etc.
For the record, this patent was filed on January 6, 2008.
I know that the Pearl and Curve were released to market well before that date and had the same functionality from what I recall. I can't link to a manual or anything, but I distinctly remember being able to access other applications and data very easily while on the phone.