Cost vs. what? Plain old "dumb" bulbs? Sure, but then you're obviously not interested in this type of thing anyway.
But cost of this vs. other systems? OK, maybe a bit more expensive, but you're *getting* so much more. LIFX is an open system, uses existing standardized networking protocols and is *programmable*. That last point, I think is what makes LIFX so much more than other systems (oh, you can turn your lights on with your phone and select 8 different preset colors? How cute!)
I'm not astroturfing, I swear, I've been excited about these totally hackable lights since I heard about them months ago.
Speak for yourself, but I can't wait for these things.
As for cost, how much would it be to have whatever existing proprietary system installed in your home? That's the cost of the hardware itself (I'm guessing hundreds if not thousands), hiring an electrician, possibly ripping out and redoing some drywall for rewiring, etc.
These? Whatever the bulbs cost, however many you want. In my home, I'd say about 8-10 bulbs. Do you think whatever proprietary systems exist would cost $400-$500 for complete installation?
That there aren't millions of people storming the halls of government with torches and pitchforks is more telling than anything else of how oppressed the USA has become.
I'm not usually one to violate the first rule (never talk about X on X), but, seriously, Ask Slashdot is for technology and related advice, not a First World Problems thread.
Boy, I wish I had the problem of being *paid* to sit on my ass and wonder what to do my time. Don't quit or fuck it up, you have it good, man.
Could we please use this same logic to say that the human desire to openly and freely share thoughts and ideas is natural and therefore ineligible for legal protection? Thanks.
As I recall, it was Jack Velenti who repurposed the term in the 70s/80s in Hollywood's attempts to outlaw the VCR and make themselves *not* look like the assholes in this equation.
Host your own mail server. Of course, you'd probably have to upgrade your internet service to a tier where incoming mail ports aren't blocked. You'd also need to have SSL/TLS support, ensure everyone whom you email hosts their mail on your server and that you can personally trust them. Not exactly practical.
Instead of Skype, use a decentralized chat system like RetroShare. Takes some doing to trade PGP keys with friends, but works.
Use an encrypted proxy for all of your surfing. Practical and quite easy.
Use encrypted SIP for VoIP communications. No idea how easy or difficult this is, haven't researched it.
Throw away your landline and cell phone. Goodbye 911 service.
The point is that the middlemen have proven themselves unworthy of our trust and we should seek to avoid them. The larger and more daunting point is that this breakdown of trust could ultimately lead to a society's collapse.
Stop calling it piracy, damn it. Did he sail the high seas then rape and pillage? No, he sold cracked software. It's called "commercial copyright infringement," but that doesn't sound so sexy, does it?
Every time you call it piracy, you let the corporatists win.
If there is reasonable suspicion (multiple witnesses say they saw the driver phone-in-hand moments prior to the accident / driver was found unconscious or immobilized with the phone in their hand / phone is discovered serendipitously mid-call that started before the accident / etc.), I'm quite certain that current law already permits officers to perform such a search based on said suspicion.
I would be extremely wary of any proposition that seeks to broaden the power of police and lower standards of evidentiary permissibility, basically to make their jobs easier. The only way that's possible is by shaving away yet more of the public's scant-remaining rights.
Reversals are not 100% successful, cause a reduced potency rate and come at considerable expense (oh, yeah, and you still need to have someone slice up your junk... twice!). So, you shouldn't get one with the plan to have it reversed someday, but they are not absolutely irreversible.
It's on Slashdot, Reddit and other news aggregator comment threads where it will go unnoticed by the general public and make exactly jack shit of a difference.
But, really, what will make a difference? Most people are either apathetic (I'm not doing anything wrong, I don't care if they spy on me) or lazy (I don't have time to care about politics, I have a life!).
It astonishes me how people can be so incredibly shortsighted to think that society can't possibly devolve into the next holocaust. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.
If you think that, you underestimate the ability of government to fuck over your rights to give the appearance of being tough on [your group of do-no-gooders here]
Out here in Canada, several provinces have highly excessive traffic laws. It's entirely possible to be fined up to $5000, lose your license and have doubled insurance and licensing rates for the next decade when you get the license back in a year. Of course, you won't need your license because you'll have lost your job that you can no longer get to, your home that you can no longer make mortgage payments on, your ability to be with family and friends, your ability to have a life, all because... uh, your tires spun in the wet or needed to get to a specific hospital to save your newborn child's life when the ambulance wasn't an option (seriously read that, officers Retard and Bumblefuck nearly committed murder to enforce traffic law).
Yeah, that's totally fair and reasonable. Be careful what you wish for.
No, I t don't think he should be in prison. He should be ordered to work, under strict supervision, until he repays every victim he defrauded.
I fervently believe that prison should be reserved only for the very most violent and unrelenting among us. It should be used as a way to keep the public safe, not as a form of official revenge... er, sorry, "justice" (*splurt*)
No, it's a travesty that something as minor, insignificant and non-violent as hacking the website of some hick-ass midwest high school can even carry a potential sentence (or that it can result in anything more than a reprimand, for that matter) which overlaps with that of something as despicable, repugnant and heinous as the gang-rape of a minor.
I remember one time I was getting a medical diagnostic scan and the computers for operating the equipment were running some flavor of Linux or Unix. Not exactly what I'd call a toy.
No, desktop Linux isn't there yet, but it has made *huge* strides since it's infancy. I still remember ongoing forum threads of people excited that their computers *actually* worked ran Linux! Today, Ubuntu runs on pretty well anything other than maybe high end or obscure hardware.
Really, the only thing preventing mass acceptance at this point is good software. If Microsoft keeps chugging down the Metro koolaid, we may actually see some Linux desktop adoption.
The problems with laws that provide "just in case" excessive power to government after a horrific event
is that they will always abuse it and that the precedent has been set. New-found power to a government are freedoms lost forever.
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Cost vs. what? Plain old "dumb" bulbs? Sure, but then you're obviously not interested in this type of thing anyway.
But cost of this vs. other systems? OK, maybe a bit more expensive, but you're *getting* so much more. LIFX is an open system, uses existing standardized networking protocols and is *programmable*. That last point, I think is what makes LIFX so much more than other systems (oh, you can turn your lights on with your phone and select 8 different preset colors? How cute!)
I'm not astroturfing, I swear, I've been excited about these totally hackable lights since I heard about them months ago.
It's a matter of balancing cost and convenience. Putting the brains in each bulb makes it more generally accessible and effortlessly scalable.
Speak for yourself, but I can't wait for these things.
As for cost, how much would it be to have whatever existing proprietary system installed in your home? That's the cost of the hardware itself (I'm guessing hundreds if not thousands), hiring an electrician, possibly ripping out and redoing some drywall for rewiring, etc.
These? Whatever the bulbs cost, however many you want. In my home, I'd say about 8-10 bulbs. Do you think whatever proprietary systems exist would cost $400-$500 for complete installation?
Now that's what I call a vocal minority.
"[U.S. director of national intelligence James Clapper] has come out vocally to condemn Snowden as a traitor to the public interest and the country"
I simply cannot wrap my head around this. How is it in public's interest to be constantly surveiled in violation of the bill of rights?
These aren't the secrets you're looking for
The third was just an excuse to get a female terminator with big boobs
Mmmm nope, not seeing the downside...
He's right.
That there aren't millions of people storming the halls of government with torches and pitchforks is more telling than anything else of how oppressed the USA has become.
I'm not usually one to violate the first rule (never talk about X on X), but, seriously, Ask Slashdot is for technology and related advice, not a First World Problems thread.
Boy, I wish I had the problem of being *paid* to sit on my ass and wonder what to do my time. Don't quit or fuck it up, you have it good, man.
Could we please use this same logic to say that the human desire to openly and freely share thoughts and ideas is natural and therefore ineligible for legal protection? Thanks.
As I recall, it was Jack Velenti who repurposed the term in the 70s/80s in Hollywood's attempts to outlaw the VCR and make themselves *not* look like the assholes in this equation.
You forgot the most important part: get off my lawn! ;)
You could...
Host your own mail server. Of course, you'd probably have to upgrade your internet service to a tier where incoming mail ports aren't blocked. You'd also need to have SSL/TLS support, ensure everyone whom you email hosts their mail on your server and that you can personally trust them. Not exactly practical.
Instead of Skype, use a decentralized chat system like RetroShare. Takes some doing to trade PGP keys with friends, but works.
Use an encrypted proxy for all of your surfing. Practical and quite easy.
Use encrypted SIP for VoIP communications. No idea how easy or difficult this is, haven't researched it.
Throw away your landline and cell phone. Goodbye 911 service.
The point is that the middlemen have proven themselves unworthy of our trust and we should seek to avoid them. The larger and more daunting point is that this breakdown of trust could ultimately lead to a society's collapse.
Stop calling it piracy, damn it. Did he sail the high seas then rape and pillage? No, he sold cracked software. It's called "commercial copyright infringement," but that doesn't sound so sexy, does it?
Every time you call it piracy, you let the corporatists win.
If there is reasonable suspicion (multiple witnesses say they saw the driver phone-in-hand moments prior to the accident / driver was found unconscious or immobilized with the phone in their hand / phone is discovered serendipitously mid-call that started before the accident / etc.), I'm quite certain that current law already permits officers to perform such a search based on said suspicion.
I would be extremely wary of any proposition that seeks to broaden the power of police and lower standards of evidentiary permissibility, basically to make their jobs easier. The only way that's possible is by shaving away yet more of the public's scant-remaining rights.
Choosing what products to buy based on which one has the fewest deplorable anti-features rather than best actual features. Great.
A quick Wikipedia query shows that you're wrong to classify a vasectomy as "irreversible".
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasectomy_reversal
Reversals are not 100% successful, cause a reduced potency rate and come at considerable expense (oh, yeah, and you still need to have someone slice up your junk ... twice!). So, you shouldn't get one with the plan to have it reversed someday, but they are not absolutely irreversible.
It's on Slashdot, Reddit and other news aggregator comment threads where it will go unnoticed by the general public and make exactly jack shit of a difference.
But, really, what will make a difference? Most people are either apathetic (I'm not doing anything wrong, I don't care if they spy on me) or lazy (I don't have time to care about politics, I have a life!).
It astonishes me how people can be so incredibly shortsighted to think that society can't possibly devolve into the next holocaust. Evil prevails when good men do nothing.
If you think that, you underestimate the ability of government to fuck over your rights to give the appearance of being tough on [your group of do-no-gooders here]
... uh, your tires spun in the wet or needed to get to a specific hospital to save your newborn child's life when the ambulance wasn't an option (seriously read that, officers Retard and Bumblefuck nearly committed murder to enforce traffic law).
Out here in Canada, several provinces have highly excessive traffic laws. It's entirely possible to be fined up to $5000, lose your license and have doubled insurance and licensing rates for the next decade when you get the license back in a year. Of course, you won't need your license because you'll have lost your job that you can no longer get to, your home that you can no longer make mortgage payments on, your ability to be with family and friends, your ability to have a life, all because
Yeah, that's totally fair and reasonable. Be careful what you wish for.
No, I t don't think he should be in prison. He should be ordered to work, under strict supervision, until he repays every victim he defrauded.
I fervently believe that prison should be reserved only for the very most violent and unrelenting among us. It should be used as a way to keep the public safe, not as a form of official revenge ... er, sorry, "justice" (*splurt*)
No, it's a travesty that something as minor, insignificant and non-violent as hacking the website of some hick-ass midwest high school can even carry a potential sentence (or that it can result in anything more than a reprimand, for that matter) which overlaps with that of something as despicable, repugnant and heinous as the gang-rape of a minor.
Oh yeah, then how did you post that? ;)
I remember one time I was getting a medical diagnostic scan and the computers for operating the equipment were running some flavor of Linux or Unix. Not exactly what I'd call a toy.
No, desktop Linux isn't there yet, but it has made *huge* strides since it's infancy. I still remember ongoing forum threads of people excited that their computers *actually* worked ran Linux! Today, Ubuntu runs on pretty well anything other than maybe high end or obscure hardware.
Really, the only thing preventing mass acceptance at this point is good software. If Microsoft keeps chugging down the Metro koolaid, we may actually see some Linux desktop adoption.
Exactly. Now when the difficult-or-impossible-to-upgrade internals are obsolete or worn out, they can sell you an entirely new system.
Also known as the Apple business model.
The problems with laws that provide "just in case" excessive power to government after a horrific event is that they will always abuse it and that the precedent has been set. New-found power to a government are freedoms lost forever.