Is this streaming service available to non-comcast customers? (Or is it available for comcast customers to use while away from home, and not on comcast's network). If so, then we definitely have a net neutrality problem. If not, I don't think comcast is doing anything wrong (in this case).
Let me make a silly analogy. Suppose that somebody figures out how to stream video over running water. This is implemented as an open-source standard, and now anybody can transmit video through a pipe of water - you just plug an adapter into your faucet, and you've got an HDMI connection. Naturally, the local water company takes advantage of this opportunity, and offers television service through your pipes. Is this fair to someone like netflix who does not own their own pipes? Should the water company be required to license use of their pipes for people like netflix to use?
That's all well and good for the blind, but what about the deaf? I think all cars should be required to make loud noises, and have gigantic strobe lights running all the time.
I used to drive a diesel. (Diesel engines take a while to heat up, so my car felt cold in the winter.) My car just happened to have heated seats. It's not a feature that I thought would be important when I purchased the car, but I must say, those seats did a great job keeping me warm until the engine warmed up enough to run the heater.
I used to drive a VW diesel (which I think for the purpose of this discussion is a similar category to a hybrid). I quite liked it, but I deal with snow and/or poorly maintained dirt roads often enough that I decided to get an all-wheel drive car. Unfortunately, there aren't really any good all wheel drive hybrid cars, so instead I got an old Subaru.
It's a shame - for 90% of my driving, the TDI was fantastic. But it's because of the 10% of the time I'm in a different environment I opted for something else.
The device is described as a robot-like device with exposed wires, resembling a handmade explosive device.
Let that be a warning to all the would-be explosive device manufacturers. Neatness counts! Exposed wires are just an indication that your explosive device is a low-quality explosive device.
Is this video service available to people with internet connections who are not comcast customers? If not, then it is a comcast-only thing, and they can charge as they please. But if this service is available to people outside of comcast's network, then it becomes a question of net neutrality.
I'm pretty sure an ebook reader can take down an airplane.... unlike electric shavers, which don't give off such interfering signals.
"Federal Aviation Administration regulations prohibit use of most portable electronic devices aboard aircraft, but they specifically exempt portable voice recorders, hearing aids, heart pacemakers and electric shavers because they don’t give off signals that might interfere with aircraft systems." http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=6275
About being in the line with people who know the drill... many airports have been putting up signs at the different lines - eg: This line is for "expert travelers", this line is for families, and others who need more time. Naturally, being the model of efficiency they are, these signs tend to be at the very front of the line, thus you'd have no chance of knowing which line you're in until you've been waiting in it for several minutes.
The problem is items on the side of a person become invisible. Simple solution: make a person stand sideways. Currently, an image of the front and back of a person is taken. Just add two side images, and this particular loophole is closed! Come on, TSA, was it really that difficult?
The average person doesn't have an RFID tag reader, and thus has no way of knowing that their passport has a functional RFID tag or not. What if it got damaged in shipment? Thus, a person could receive a brand new passport in the mail, and have absolutely no idea anything was wrong with it until he got to the airport.
I tried switching to dvorak once, and switching was the killer. I stuck with dvorak until I was in the 60-70wpm range. After a few weeks of using dvorak exclusively, I had to work on a lab computer. Entering my password was painful. And I don't think I could maintain a speed much faster than 20wpm once I was in. The idea of switching they layout of every computer I touch would have been too much effort to justify any possible speed increase.
That was when I decided to end my dvorak experiment, and switched back to qwerty. I never reached any conclusion as to whether dvorak or qwerty is better... but qwerty is definitely more popular. (This is also one of the major reasons I favor vi - it's just more commonly available than emacs)
It's about time! I can't even remember how many times I've been driving somewhere, and I see a bridge, and think "Gee, I wonder when that bridge was built." I have to stop my car, look up my GPS coordinates on google maps, so I can see the bridge name, search for it on wikipedia. And then, I have to wade through all kinds of extra information before I finally find the construction date. (This is assuming wikipedia actually has an entry for the particular bridge I'm looking at!)
This new technology is going to be huge among people like myself who won't drive over a bridge until we know what year it was constructed in!
I was once in line behind someone who had some ice. The TSA agent acted as if this was a common occurrence. He inspected the ice to make sure it was still solid (threw away any water that may have been there), and that was that.
I know nothing about potential liquid explosives, but I'm guessing their freezing point is not the same as water. Thus, allowing ice actually seems reasonable.
When you bury something, you place it beneath the surface of the earth. Sending a thing into space would seem to be the exact opposite (plus several orders of magnitude).
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Here's one that's been going 110 years and counting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light
Is this streaming service available to non-comcast customers? (Or is it available for comcast customers to use while away from home, and not on comcast's network). If so, then we definitely have a net neutrality problem. If not, I don't think comcast is doing anything wrong (in this case).
Let me make a silly analogy. Suppose that somebody figures out how to stream video over running water. This is implemented as an open-source standard, and now anybody can transmit video through a pipe of water - you just plug an adapter into your faucet, and you've got an HDMI connection. Naturally, the local water company takes advantage of this opportunity, and offers television service through your pipes. Is this fair to someone like netflix who does not own their own pipes? Should the water company be required to license use of their pipes for people like netflix to use?
That's all well and good for the blind, but what about the deaf? I think all cars should be required to make loud noises, and have gigantic strobe lights running all the time.
I used to drive a diesel. (Diesel engines take a while to heat up, so my car felt cold in the winter.) My car just happened to have heated seats. It's not a feature that I thought would be important when I purchased the car, but I must say, those seats did a great job keeping me warm until the engine warmed up enough to run the heater.
I used to drive a VW diesel (which I think for the purpose of this discussion is a similar category to a hybrid). I quite liked it, but I deal with snow and/or poorly maintained dirt roads often enough that I decided to get an all-wheel drive car. Unfortunately, there aren't really any good all wheel drive hybrid cars, so instead I got an old Subaru.
It's a shame - for 90% of my driving, the TDI was fantastic. But it's because of the 10% of the time I'm in a different environment I opted for something else.
The device is described as a robot-like device with exposed wires, resembling a handmade explosive device.
Let that be a warning to all the would-be explosive device manufacturers. Neatness counts! Exposed wires are just an indication that your explosive device is a low-quality explosive device.
and it's idiots
Was that intentional?
Is this video service available to people with internet connections who are not comcast customers? If not, then it is a comcast-only thing, and they can charge as they please. But if this service is available to people outside of comcast's network, then it becomes a question of net neutrality.
I'm pretty sure an ebook reader can take down an airplane.... unlike electric shavers, which don't give off such interfering signals.
"Federal Aviation Administration regulations prohibit use of most portable electronic devices aboard aircraft, but they specifically exempt portable voice recorders, hearing aids, heart pacemakers and electric shavers because they don’t give off signals that might interfere with aircraft systems."
http://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsid=6275
About being in the line with people who know the drill... many airports have been putting up signs at the different lines - eg: This line is for "expert travelers", this line is for families, and others who need more time. Naturally, being the model of efficiency they are, these signs tend to be at the very front of the line, thus you'd have no chance of knowing which line you're in until you've been waiting in it for several minutes.
The problem is items on the side of a person become invisible. Simple solution: make a person stand sideways.
Currently, an image of the front and back of a person is taken. Just add two side images, and this particular loophole is closed! Come on, TSA, was it really that difficult?
And all this time, I thought the first D in DVD stood for "Digital". Apparently, I was wrong - it probably stands for DRM.
I can buy TWO Ford Focus 40mpg cars for the same price as a Volt.
Wow, I haven't heard anybody else suggest that simple technique for getting 80 mpg.
Remember to connect them in series. If you connect them in parallel, you'll just get the 40mpg, but you can drive twice as fast.
But you (and most of Europe) have public transit that doesn't totally suck.
Except that it has Wil Wheaton in it.
Read his reviews - they're great! In some cases, better than the episode they're reviewing.
http://www.aoltv.com/bloggers/wil-wheaton/
The average person doesn't have an RFID tag reader, and thus has no way of knowing that their passport has a functional RFID tag or not. What if it got damaged in shipment? Thus, a person could receive a brand new passport in the mail, and have absolutely no idea anything was wrong with it until he got to the airport.
I wonder, do the blind have the same "health woes" when aging as the sighted?
Yeah, I absolutely hate black lights for this reason. It never occurred to me that perhaps others don't as much of this spectrum as I do.
I tried switching to dvorak once, and switching was the killer. I stuck with dvorak until I was in the 60-70wpm range. After a few weeks of using dvorak exclusively, I had to work on a lab computer. Entering my password was painful. And I don't think I could maintain a speed much faster than 20wpm once I was in. The idea of switching they layout of every computer I touch would have been too much effort to justify any possible speed increase.
That was when I decided to end my dvorak experiment, and switched back to qwerty. I never reached any conclusion as to whether dvorak or qwerty is better... but qwerty is definitely more popular. (This is also one of the major reasons I favor vi - it's just more commonly available than emacs)
for men it will say "WARNING - foreign objects hidden in front of pants"
In front of pants?! I don't want to imagine how you wear your pants.
The US is losing potential revenue? They can add additional taxes and fees to airplane tickets to make up the difference. Problem solved.
Indeed! I think the best augmentation of reality in this case would allow you to single-task more effectively.
However, things being as they are, I think the best we can hope for would be this, augmented with advertisements.
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It's about time! I can't even remember how many times I've been driving somewhere, and I see a bridge, and think "Gee, I wonder when that bridge was built." I have to stop my car, look up my GPS coordinates on google maps, so I can see the bridge name, search for it on wikipedia. And then, I have to wade through all kinds of extra information before I finally find the construction date. (This is assuming wikipedia actually has an entry for the particular bridge I'm looking at!)
This new technology is going to be huge among people like myself who won't drive over a bridge until we know what year it was constructed in!
I was once in line behind someone who had some ice. The TSA agent acted as if this was a common occurrence. He inspected the ice to make sure it was still solid (threw away any water that may have been there), and that was that.
I know nothing about potential liquid explosives, but I'm guessing their freezing point is not the same as water. Thus, allowing ice actually seems reasonable.
When you bury something, you place it beneath the surface of the earth. Sending a thing into space would seem to be the exact opposite (plus several orders of magnitude).