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  1. Re:How's this different from telephone deregulatio on US Copyright Office Sides With Cable Companies Against FCC's Set Top Rules (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Licensing is not an end user concern at least it should not be. They are not party to the negotiations etc etc. It was and should forever be legal to make a copy for personal use of things you legally had the right to watch. Aka time shifting.

    We took some steps back with the conversion to HD that needs to be corrected.

    It's got nothing to do with pirating, pirates will get the content. I can buy HDMI with HDCP to SDI converters and rip any digital stream off any box it's allowed since SDI is a professional standard.

  2. Re:It's like the Sixth Sense on Israel's SolidRun Creates Open Networking Kit Inspired By Raspberry Pi (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats makes it rather endearing to me.

  3. Re:This could've gone either way on Clerk Printed Lottery Tickets She Didn't Pay For But Didn't Break Hacking Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Who would it be trespassing? She was there during or immediately before/after assigned shifts. It was just theft we realy do not need to add with a computer to ever existing crime to be something special. Oh no she used a keycard to access a space, thats a comouter ya know so it's a whole nother crime above ya know theft makes no sense. Frankly the whole let's do the shotgun approach to crime does not make sense they are just abusing the system pushing for plea deals. One act one crime.

  4. Re:This could've gone either way on Clerk Printed Lottery Tickets She Didn't Pay For But Didn't Break Hacking Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because the physical world equivalent is she went into the store room and stole stuff while working there and having access to said store room. It would not seem reasonable to charge a store clerk with breaking and entering etc for going into the back room and stealing stuff and this is no different.

  5. Worth less than 2k well they are yahoo users, so thats mostly peoples grandma's?

  6. Re:Charter is probably right on Charter: City Giving Google Fiber Unfair Edge (courier-journal.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of that is because they are not a cable company. They are providing internet not TV. They money is that like any other new business these days with tax incentives? Free internet to government buildings within their footprint seems like a pretty trivial tack on. A studio thats for TV not internet and frankly they give every 501c company lots of free services that are internet related anyways, besides is it 1985 again you can stream to youtube with a phone most of the barriers to public access level programming are gone.

  7. Local storage / cloud storage on Slashdot Asks: What's Next For Netflix? (500ish.com) · · Score: 1

    They need to get local storage working. First it will be phones and tablets then it will be in home appliances.

  8. Re:Spying? on Google Fiber Reminds People It's a 'Real Business' (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on how close the vps is the encrypt/decrypt is pretty quick a few ms each way.

  9. Yup and thats perfectly fine still not a trademark issue.

  10. You do relize that all of them are happy to send you all of that? Ask USP or USPS they will send ya all of that for asking (not realy packing tape but boxes that seal and clear envelopes for the shipping label). So you would be all set to ship it back.

  11. Hand it to the delivery guy, leave it for them etc I've never had to go to the ups store ever.

  12. Has nothing to do with selling something 2nd hand.

  13. Re:3/4 million sold last year on Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 1

    My old HD homerun does a bang up job at that. Hells in the late 90's it was a directivo and pulling the data off that.

  14. Re:3/4 million sold last year on Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 1

    DVD take up a pile of physical space and are apt to get damaged? A DVD in HVEC is what a few hundred mb?

  15. Re:3/4 million sold last year on Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 1

    I can not figure out why you would keep DVD's around rip them once and be done with it. VHS is the same though the hardware to do so has a nominal cost.

  16. 3/4 million sold last year on Japan Will Make Its Last-Ever VCR This Month (mentalfloss.com) · · Score: 2

    Who in hell bought these?

  17. Actually do just fine without whatsapp and skype I just refuse messenger calls and use a third party app on the pc/phone.

  18. Or complete and utter lack of them. Wake me when they start support xmpp/sip for txt and voice.

  19. Re:If you want to get an appreciation for this on Technology Is Making Doctors Feel Like Glorified Data Entry Clerks (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    It's the companies that will make billions to implement it that are driving the changes. Yet if I dont get lab work done by an affiliated lab it's shows up as a fax and never gets coded into my online records. My daughters pediatricians electronic records is just a bunch of scans of paper docs to comply on paper without doing anything useful. I've actualy watch the input methods shrink no longer taking electronic weights glucose levels etc rather requiring hand input.

  20. Wiki has the Nett Warrior system using a samsung galaxy note II the replacement is 2015 thats a huge difference in tech what 2 whole android OS revisions etc. They also have them using a NSA approved firmware who who knows what issues.

  21. Re:The losing hand. on Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because we destroyed it when it didn't give us the results we wanted in the civil rights era.

  22. Re:Not a surprise... on Energy Prices Skyrocket in South Australia (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it does but the benefits far outweighs the problem. Cheap energy means we close down coal power plants it means the third world stops burning wood. Leaving some TV's on or running the AC more is not a big deal. Hells get energy cheap enough and people will got back to resistive heating as it's dirt cheap to install. If the input is cleaner than their oil furnace thats a good thing. Cheap means people naturally move to it and it's not cheap because of subsidies it's sustainable. Cheap displaces the dirty methods naturally without some government manipulation or regulation.

  23. Re:So much for rule of law on Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Morally right trumps lawful every time. That's why we have jury nullification. He exposed criminal activity by the administration.

  24. Re:option for surrender on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking somebody should be perk waking the people involved as they violated fed law in doing so.

  25. Re:option for surrender on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Charges for bomb disposal while dangerous will have a hard time killing somebody for giggles. They tend to be shape charges to separate the explosives from the triggering mechanism if at all possible limiting collateral damage to structures etc.