So when Napster had "all you could listen to" subscriptions that required Windows media player and a certified device, why wasn't that a problem? Its the exact reverse of this, and noone said boo.
Actually, I did more research. It splices into the thermostat control line, so it looks like the thermostat is telling it the house is cooled down.
"IS THERE A DANGER THAT SAVER'S SWITCH WILL DAMAGE MY AIR CONDITIONER? No,because the Saver's Switch device controls like a thermostat it will not damage your air conditioner or compressor"
Here, in Minnesota, I have this already in my house. Hooked up to my air conditioner is a relay that the power company can shut down during peak usage time. I get a discount on my bill for having it (10 or 15% during the summer) and they only shut it off for a maximum of 15 minutes at a time, no more than once every 2 hours, so it doesn't have any major impact on the temp of my house.
I'm assuming you skipped reading the article.. there was a cargo fire in Philly that may have been caused by some lithium batteries that were being shipped, and the on-board systems can't put out lithium fires..
Besides, the limits listed at the dot website doesn't seem like it would impact many people.. you can carry spare camera batteries and laptop batteries, just not dozens of them.
Apparently you've never looked at paper currency. On the back side, on the bottom margin, there is a copyright notice on the $5 and $20 bills (all I have handy..)
Exactly. I do work overseas and have similar issues. Every country has rules like this, some worse than the US. Try getting a job in Canada and be a US Citizen. Its not that easy.
It becomes an issue of "do you have a right to air travel?" If you did, the TSA wouldn't be able to stop anyone from boarding a plane. you don't have a right to take a last minute trip across the country.
Your right to travel is not at risk. Your ability to travel via an aircraft may be hindered. You can still get in a car and drive, or take a bus, or take a train. That is why many people, who have said that security checkpoints at the airport are a constitutional issue limiting travel, haven't suceeded in getting rid of them.
My take.. I think if the feds are going to require this for access to federal buildings/aircraft, they should make a cheeper passport. Something along the lines of a green-card looking id. You send your details into the passport bureau and get issued a card, valid for 10-15 years, or maybe indefinately, for a reasonable fee.
Or, take the onus off the states to verify birth certificates/foreign documents. Most states don't have the knowledge/resources to verify this information. However, the passport agencies have copies of every birth certificate in the US, so they can confirm the validity, and they know most foreign documents. You send them into the feds, they verify and return some sort of letter/card to you, then the state issues your drivers license with a notation that your identity has been vetted. It should be voulentary, however. I don't like it, but I don't see how it'll be completely eliminated at this point. I hope its overturned, or at least changed.
I've had a passport since I was a baby. My parents always considered it a worthwhile expense, just in case its ever needed. Its less than $100 for 10 years. Its not expensive. There's acouple of years until REAL ID is supposed to go into effect. Make getting a REAL ID compatible license optional. Those that don't want to spend the money for a passport are welcome to get the RFID/encoded/everything on it drivers license.
So, basically, if you are poor, we consider you a criminal and you don't deserve to have the constitutional rights due to everyone else. I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and assume most poor people won't be using alot of this higher end HD-DVD equipment to begin with. Remember, we aren't talking about the $5 bargin bin DVDs at wal-mart
If you read the article, this also will open up the RealID debate. You'll have to prove who you are to the employer to get a job. Only accepted forms of ID will be RealID compatible licenses, or passport/birth certificate/etc to prove you're legal.
RealID was needed to access federal buildings and airports at first.. People fought it.. Now it'll be required to get a job.
Everything you mention above is also available from Napster and Yahoo music, using the Windows Media DRM scheme. The Windows Media DRM is more open than "fairplay." MS licensed it to multiple player companies and music stores. Apple refuses to license it to anyone.
It seems like MS may be a bit more of a leader on being open with their copy protection.
This is not an endorsement, but Apple is being very predatory/monopolistic with their music protection, compared with the next big DRM provider.
Their expansion into Minnesota, which has a large quantity of former canucks, failed miserably. Its very muchso a regional success when it has been successful.
I go to Toronto alot and love Tim's, but I don't think it would work everywhere in the states. There are lots of regional chains here that would be tough to compete against.
Too many gun owners simply can't control themselves OR their guns. a gun is an inanemate object. People seem to treat them as being evil in of themselves. Most legal gun owners are very safe. The people who have them illegally are the problem people. They've already broken many laws, why would adding more gun rules stop them? Look at Toronto, ON in gun-free Canada. Gun crimes are running rampent up there, even with full prohibition.
Only cops should have guns? The school shooting in Minnesota was done with a sheriff's guns. His son got to them and used them against his classmates. Cops can't even be trusted.
Disarm the cops and all the politicians, and then I'll consider disarming myself.
So when you wake up in the middle of the night to an intruder, you better make sure you have your rfid ring on? Or if your spouse is home alone, you have to have multiple users registered?
I know I go to the range and regularly share my guns with others. I'd have to have dozens of users registered, or multiple rings in multiple sizes for others to use..
I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that cops are exempted from this. NJ wanted to pass a bill requiring electronic smart guns by a certain date, and they excluded cops. They said the technology wasn't reliable enough for cops. I'm sure the same would happen here.
that would be tresspassing. The property owner asked him to leave. He didn't. Physically, he's tresspassing in their parking lot.. If he was on the street, as others have said, it may be more difficult, unless there is a city ordinance against parking on the street for X amount of time per day.
an IPO is a gamble. Try walking into a casino office.. "I put $500 into your slot machine and was expecting $600. I now have $200. Please refund me the difference."
All over the registration site for the IPO it said you may lose your money. This IPO didn't work out as well as some expected. Any time you buy into an IPO, you shouldn't expect the 400% return on your investment some have seen. You have to buy and hold. Wait a year.. see what happens. You should only buy stock with money you could afford to burn, or lose in Vegas.
you apparently think spamcop never has false positives on their blackhole lists. I had a user that was getting alot of spam. They left my ISP and as a courtesy, I put in a.forward for the user, on their request. The new ISP thought I was relaying spam, and reported me to some blacklists. Apparently, they never bothered to actually try to relay through my mailserver, as I did have it locked down. It too me quite awhile to get removed, and most of the spots that had blacklisted me wouldn't tell me.. "you sent spam. you're bad. you're evil" is the reply I got from most.
Alot of people do get falsely listed, and its a PITA to get removed. I invited some to try to relay through me and they didn't try and didn't care.
The gun thing is the best analogy. Gun crimes still happen in England all the time. Criminals didn't turn in their guns.
As far as safety with children, more die every year in car accidents and drownings. Do we ban bathtubs, pools and cars? Once anything is invoked "for the children" or "to protect the children" its bad. It will be used as artillery in the next election because he didn't vote "for the children"
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So when Napster had "all you could listen to" subscriptions that required Windows media player and a certified device, why wasn't that a problem? Its the exact reverse of this, and noone said boo.
Actually, I did more research. It splices into the thermostat control line, so it looks like the thermostat is telling it the house is cooled down.
"IS THERE A DANGER THAT SAVER'S SWITCH WILL
DAMAGE MY AIR CONDITIONER?
No,because the Saver's Switch device controls like a thermostat it will not
damage your air conditioner or compressor"
its approved by the air conditioning companies. It hooks into the air conditioner, not just a relay on the power line. Its not a 100% power cut off.
Here, in Minnesota, I have this already in my house. Hooked up to my air conditioner is a relay that the power company can shut down during peak usage time. I get a discount on my bill for having it (10 or 15% during the summer) and they only shut it off for a maximum of 15 minutes at a time, no more than once every 2 hours, so it doesn't have any major impact on the temp of my house.
I'm assuming you skipped reading the article.. there was a cargo fire in Philly that may have been caused by some lithium batteries that were being shipped, and the on-board systems can't put out lithium fires..
Besides, the limits listed at the dot website doesn't seem like it would impact many people.. you can carry spare camera batteries and laptop batteries, just not dozens of them.
And what does this have to do with comcast? The article was centering on Comcast..
Apparently you've never looked at paper currency. On the back side, on the bottom margin, there is a copyright notice on the $5 and $20 bills (all I have handy..)
I'm sure they would sell both if Apple would license the AC4 DRM, which microsoft does do for the WMA DRM.
Exactly. I do work overseas and have similar issues. Every country has rules like this, some worse than the US. Try getting a job in Canada and be a US Citizen. Its not that easy.
It becomes an issue of "do you have a right to air travel?" If you did, the TSA wouldn't be able to stop anyone from boarding a plane. you don't have a right to take a last minute trip across the country.
Your right to travel is not at risk. Your ability to travel via an aircraft may be hindered. You can still get in a car and drive, or take a bus, or take a train. That is why many people, who have said that security checkpoints at the airport are a constitutional issue limiting travel, haven't suceeded in getting rid of them.
My take.. I think if the feds are going to require this for access to federal buildings/aircraft, they should make a cheeper passport. Something along the lines of a green-card looking id. You send your details into the passport bureau and get issued a card, valid for 10-15 years, or maybe indefinately, for a reasonable fee.
Or, take the onus off the states to verify birth certificates/foreign documents. Most states don't have the knowledge/resources to verify this information. However, the passport agencies have copies of every birth certificate in the US, so they can confirm the validity, and they know most foreign documents. You send them into the feds, they verify and return some sort of letter/card to you, then the state issues your drivers license with a notation that your identity has been vetted. It should be voulentary, however. I don't like it, but I don't see how it'll be completely eliminated at this point. I hope its overturned, or at least changed.
Not being a minor, and not having been one for many years, I didn't know the difference in cost. At $82 for 5 years, thats still less than $20/yr.
I've had a passport since I was a baby. My parents always considered it a worthwhile expense, just in case its ever needed. Its less than $100 for 10 years. Its not expensive. There's acouple of years until REAL ID is supposed to go into effect. Make getting a REAL ID compatible license optional. Those that don't want to spend the money for a passport are welcome to get the RFID/encoded/everything on it drivers license.
So, basically, if you are poor, we consider you a criminal and you don't deserve to have the constitutional rights due to everyone else.
I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and assume most poor people won't be using alot of this higher end HD-DVD equipment to begin with. Remember, we aren't talking about the $5 bargin bin DVDs at wal-mart
If you read the article, this also will open up the RealID debate. You'll have to prove who you are to the employer to get a job. Only accepted forms of ID will be RealID compatible licenses, or passport/birth certificate/etc to prove you're legal.
RealID was needed to access federal buildings and airports at first.. People fought it.. Now it'll be required to get a job.
I pay $19.95/mo for my blackberry service, not the $29.95/mo mentioned above.. plus, none of the currently supported BB support wifi anyways.
Everything you mention above is also available from Napster and Yahoo music, using the Windows Media DRM scheme. The Windows Media DRM is more open than "fairplay." MS licensed it to multiple player companies and music stores. Apple refuses to license it to anyone.
It seems like MS may be a bit more of a leader on being open with their copy protection.
This is not an endorsement, but Apple is being very predatory/monopolistic with their music protection, compared with the next big DRM provider.
People express used to operate like that.
Their expansion into Minnesota, which has a large quantity of former canucks, failed miserably. Its very muchso a regional success when it has been successful.
I go to Toronto alot and love Tim's, but I don't think it would work everywhere in the states. There are lots of regional chains here that would be tough to compete against.
Too many gun owners simply can't control themselves OR their guns.
a gun is an inanemate object. People seem to treat them as being evil in of themselves. Most legal gun owners are very safe. The people who have them illegally are the problem people. They've already broken many laws, why would adding more gun rules stop them? Look at Toronto, ON in gun-free Canada. Gun crimes are running rampent up there, even with full prohibition.
Only cops should have guns? The school shooting in Minnesota was done with a sheriff's guns. His son got to them and used them against his classmates. Cops can't even be trusted.
Disarm the cops and all the politicians, and then I'll consider disarming myself.
So when you wake up in the middle of the night to an intruder, you better make sure you have your rfid ring on? Or if your spouse is home alone, you have to have multiple users registered?
I know I go to the range and regularly share my guns with others. I'd have to have dozens of users registered, or multiple rings in multiple sizes for others to use..
I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that cops are exempted from this. NJ wanted to pass a bill requiring electronic smart guns by a certain date, and they excluded cops. They said the technology wasn't reliable enough for cops. I'm sure the same would happen here.
that would be tresspassing. The property owner asked him to leave. He didn't. Physically, he's tresspassing in their parking lot.. If he was on the street, as others have said, it may be more difficult, unless there is a city ordinance against parking on the street for X amount of time per day.
an IPO is a gamble. Try walking into a casino office.. "I put $500 into your slot machine and was expecting $600. I now have $200. Please refund me the difference."
All over the registration site for the IPO it said you may lose your money. This IPO didn't work out as well as some expected. Any time you buy into an IPO, you shouldn't expect the 400% return on your investment some have seen. You have to buy and hold. Wait a year.. see what happens. You should only buy stock with money you could afford to burn, or lose in Vegas.
you apparently think spamcop never has false positives on their blackhole lists. I had a user that was getting alot of spam. They left my ISP and as a courtesy, I put in a .forward for the user, on their request. The new ISP thought I was relaying spam, and reported me to some blacklists. Apparently, they never bothered to actually try to relay through my mailserver, as I did have it locked down. It too me quite awhile to get removed, and most of the spots that had blacklisted me wouldn't tell me.. "you sent spam. you're bad. you're evil" is the reply I got from most.
Alot of people do get falsely listed, and its a PITA to get removed. I invited some to try to relay through me and they didn't try and didn't care.
The gun thing is the best analogy. Gun crimes still happen in England all the time. Criminals didn't turn in their guns.
As far as safety with children, more die every year in car accidents and drownings. Do we ban bathtubs, pools and cars? Once anything is invoked "for the children" or "to protect the children" its bad. It will be used as artillery in the next election because he didn't vote "for the children"