Seatbelts make people poorer drivers? Not that I've noticed but frankly most folks just don't drive too well to begin with. I'v enever seen any stat that can correlate seatbelt usage with poorer driving and in fact I'll bet most stats you'll dig up will show lower death rates with the usage of seatbelts. I'll take those odds but by all means don't wear one if you don't want to.
Children in car seats? That's pretty much a no brainer and if you think the child was okay in someone's arms vs a child seat you're out of your mind. What's the decel of a vehicle running into another? 2G? 3G? More? Say the child weighs 45lbs, now in the accident they may weigh double or triple that weight - what happens when that person cannot hold on? Put a basketball in the rear package tray and slam on the brakes - where does the ball end up? Now imagine that was a child. Sure, a child in a car restraint may not come out 100% but it certainly beats the alternative of bouncing around. Child restraints *properly* support a child, something a parent cannot do struggling to hold them in an accident. Wouldn't it be great to manage to hold onto your child only to find that you've crushed their ribs or broken their spine? Or that the airbag blew between you and the windshield and your kid was crushed? That anyone would argue that car seats are no better than a parent holding their child is mind blowing and I sincerely hope you weren't serious. If you were and continue that practice I hope you at least do some research with an open enough mind to realize just how flawed your thinking is.
Ya' know I'd like to know where you live. In my neck of the woods police forces have INCREASED (noticeably) and usable mass transit is umm not available to say the least unless you wish to use a taxi. Your world sounds much nicer than mine! While folks in my area may get along without a car it's not easy. They're pretty likely to be run over as there are few sidewalks and no lanes for them on bicycles or on foot. I have to travel 18+ miles to work each day - one way - and that's a pretty short commute compared to some I know. I'd live closer to work but sadly I cannot afford a million++ dollar home. Telecommuting is not an option available to me nor will it ever be. If I had no car I'd have no job commensurate with my skills and would instead likely be flipping burgers at near minimum wage.
So, while I'm not quite to the point of arguing that driving is a right I do feel pretty strongly about the requirement to drive. I understand where the previous poster was coming from, many places in the US have little effective way of getting around sans car - we're too spread out for that.
Ah, you've messed up your terms! It's not reckless driving anymore it's "aggressive driving". In Maryland they have these neat signs that state "aggressive driver imaging in use". Sounds great right? Except that aggressive has been re-termed to mean speeding. So when a proposal to stop "aggressive" driving is put forth, much like children's laws or patriot laws, no one dares object. Thus we have speed cameras - nice huh? I want the magic camera that can catch the dumbass doing 90 in the far right lane swerving in and out of slower traffic not the stupid one that simply tickets every person going 5mph over the limit
I love it when Virginia goes on an "aggressive driver campaign" - in plainspeak it simply means they're going to slap a radar gun in every officer's hands, to hell with redlight runners or real dangers. Good luck ever disputing a bad radar ticket too, the judges think radar guns are made by the hand of God himself. At least with laser guns the officers will show you the reading and they actually have to AIM the thing. Not that I much like the dorks with the laser guns doing the Dirty Harry stance pointing gun looking things at me off the side of the road:-O
You're right - right now it's not logistically possible to do this for everyone. However it might be possible for a specific chosen few. And tomorrow it might be possible for a few more. Yeah, the proposed system works with just cars and cruisers but it's already being done elsewhere with fixed emplacements and data storage is getting cheaper. Why start down this road? Spot a few bad guys okay. Store the data forever? Not okay!
I'm with you on all but the child restraint thing. Yeah when I was a kid I rode on the trans hump or crawled into the rear package tray blah blah and I survived too - except that many didn't. Kids that age aren't old enough to understand that a seatbelt is really a good thing and could keep you from being killed, therefore it's up to the parents to strap them in. Sadly parents aren't all that bright sometimes so laws have been passed. If you're an adult and don't want to buckle up I'm okay with that and think a ticket for it is stupid. However if you've got a kid in the car and they aren't buckled up like Mario Andretti then you deserve a punch in the mouth AND a ticket! Sure, you understand the risk and maybe you drove slow - having been creamed by a jackass who came out of *nowhere* with zero chance to avoid it I have new respect for the word "accident" - they actually aren't generally planned. Watch a few of those damned VW commercials where cars get smacked out of nowhere and you'll get the idea. Not imagine a child between you and the steering wheel - you both might have died. It only takes one complete moron to truly ruin your life...
P.S. FWIW I wore no seatbelt myself until I became of age to drive. Then I watched a few vids, read some stats, and I decided belts were a good idea. I've now had my ass saved by them more than once so yeah, I'm a believer. Children don't have the data or the wherewithal to make life\death decisions so parents must try to be smart about it....
I live in Virginia - guess what they are bringing back. Yup, the red light cameras after having turned them off once already. I am aware of one individual who went to court on one of them. Seems the picture clearly showed his car being rear-ended and pushed through the light but he was ticketed anyway. D.C. is littered with both red light cams and manned speed cams - manned by off duty police apparently. I stay the heck away from that place!
Too late indeed. Say, how about that abuse of the wiretap law? How's that fight going now that it's been "abused"? National Security you say? Oh well it's okay then I guess....
I, and likely the ACLU, have no issues with the scanning - it really is just speeding up the officer's job and working more effectively. It's the data storage without deletion date that's an issue. If I've done nothing wrong why are you storing where my car was last spotted?
I researched these systems not too long ago and the article I read had the officer dumping the data at the end of his shift. Data storage time was minimal and not part of some huge consolidated "Skynet" (to borrow another poster's appropriate term). Indeed this simply speeds up what an officer normally does - even though they aren't supposed to do it while moving. However in this case the data is apparently being kept for an extended period of time. How bad could this get? Could it be made part of public record? Will we eventually be able to look it up in Google? Bad enough I get a speeding ticket and the court date can be found posted on Google. (yes, seriously) Seems to me an argument could be made that this is "public record" too. So, maybe one day I go for a new job and my apps are rejected without my knowledge because someone looked me up and found that my car was "seen" at a local strip joint. Or abortion clinic. Or Church\Mosque. Sounds far fetched but considering some of the mashups with Google's mapping service already I wouldn't be so sure. The "predator" ones are a pretty good example of this - especially when you find out some of the crap that can get you onto those lists and how hard it is to have a mistake removed...
Drop the data storage requirement or limit it to a SHORT period of time such that thefts could be tracked down and I'm okay with it. Watching the pseudo-Science of CSI where they can pull up a database of damned near anything to catch a thief is kewl and all but no I don't really want to live in a society where it's really that simple for Joe-Blow officer to pull up so much information on me. My reasoning being that I've met a few cops I wouldn't trust to help me across the street much less be trusted with that level of potential data access. It would only take one bad one to really make a mess and I'm quite sure there's far more than one out there...
Take a look at how this has been deployed in Canada. I saw one picture of a highway overpass when I researched this a few months ago that was capable of reading every single tag that passed by it - for 8 lanes of traffic. Realize that this need not be just something put on an officer's car, it can be stationary units setup discreetly all over a city. Now store that data for ever more and yeah I start to get creeped out about it. IMO this slope is indeed a bit slippery. Do "we" really trust these folks to be the custodians of this data?
P.S. Take a close look at the way things have been going in the U.K. to include speed cameras and cameras on street corners. They went so far as to propose banning GPS units that could store user input landmarks at one point because they were being used to warn of speed cameras. (lol) Sorry but the U.K. is exactly where I do *not* want to be in ten years.
I spoke to a rep at length about "upgrading" to their HD DVR. Despite a pretty long conversation and the rep's assurance that they found the new HD devices to work well in the end I declined to upgrade and expressed my anger\frustration at their having dropped TIVO. She said that many were upset but that the new DVRs worked great... really!
I couldn't bring myself to do it and stuck with the SD unit for now. If ComCast didn't add up to be more expensive for pretty much the same thing I'd get one of the S3 boxes and call it a day. I hope to hell that Direct has some clue as to how badly they screwed up dropping TIVO and that one day it bites them in the ass. I left DISH after multiple years of service becasue I wanted a decent DVR and their's was REALLY bad, I think I will eventually be leaving Direct for the same reasons despite being otherwise happy with the service:-(
It would have been better had I not put in extra trailing slashes. I use the Dock-n-Talk for my SO, the moment she rolls into the driveway and shuts the car off it synchs with her phone via BlueTooth. This is a backup to our VOIP service. Unfortunatly it can only do one phone at a time and you must do the BT sych up crap to switch, the Asterisk Cell Channel code is supposed to do multiple from a single BT USB dongle but I've not yet tried it out.
The devices that allow for a physical dock generally only work with specific phones and while I had some trepidation about using the BT wireless stuff it has turned out to work REALLY well for us once you get the phone setup not to powersave by shutting off BT. We charge our phones right next to the device so it works well. I have 2 line cordless phones and this is our 2nd line. Except for an occasional rare lockup requiring a power cycle it's worked flawless for over a year now...
Suggest you use Google. Dock N Talk and Cell docks aren't hard to find. Oh okay I did it for you. Sorry but you're talking out of your ass on this one.
Seriously? Is that for the HD units or for the SD units too? If so I've heard no furor over it and no one has been calling me up trying to sell me their own units. If my signal goes dead in August due to this then I'll likely dump them...
That wasn't a troll, I was serious. The lack of CableCard is a killer for Myth and that's part of the reason why the cable corps like it. you have an STB now with a firewire outputm, the CableCard will eventually replace it. Most places only send non-premium channels out via QAM - my cable company Comcast for instance. They are only required, I believe, to send out that which can be gotten OTA so if you're getting more feel lucky and do not be surprised if it changes one day.
Bottom line is that the content providers (yack) want to restrict what we can record and what we do with it - HBO is a perfect example with others happy to follow their lead first chance they get. Right now you're actually doing pretty good - many people aren't so lucky. I can get few OTA channels and not many via QAM either. Myth would do very little at all for me without CableCard support - never mind the PITA it is to set it up. What I and most others want is an appliance and the TIVO is exactly that - anyone in the household can figure it out. I have a DTIVO and I love it, it's a shame that Direct is too stupid to use TIVO for their HD boxes or I'd have had one of those 6 months ago. Instead I'm stuck watching SD on an HD set or doing a series of contortions that no one in my house but me understands to watch QAM or Torrent'd HD. I've complained to DTV and I may have to go with more expensive cable and an S3 or this new box just to keep a solid working interface. Sadly hacking these new ones SUX so I may be left with Bittorent if there's some show out there I want to take on the road with me to play on my PSP. I'm so pissed off about the situation I've stuck to watching SD on a 47inch HD set just because my options ALL suck right now. Be glad you've found yourself more fortunate but do NOT expect it to last as what you're doing is exactly what the content providers do NOT want...
Considering that the CableCard hardware requires some sort of handshake and authorization done by the tech installing it I'm betting that no you won't even find illegal ways of turning it on. CableCard was SUPPOSED to make access to cable content easier, thank you FCC, instead it was turned into an opportunity for the cable companies to screw us yet again. Myth is going to have a very hard time surviving when STBs are no longer used and QAM only supports the same stuff you can get OTA. I think that sux but I see no way for anyone to fight the media companies on this right now. I guess we can all hope IPTV takes off...
I don't care if they report my clicks anonymously, I've never seen an ad pushed into the UI, and I can get 30 second skip by pressing a few buttons - hardly a hack. It records what I want when I want it, allows me Season Passes that work even when a shows changes time slots, and the UI is simple enough for even strangers to use. Stop posting FUD.
Yup, a shinier useful UI that works as expected unlike so many others with no work - just like the appliance it is. I have mine rebooted about once every 6months if that too.
No, Direct severed their ties with TIVO. They will not have any sort of decoder card for that slot - that's a CableCard slot designed by the CABLE industry. Right now if you want SAT and TIVO you're stuck with an SD DTIVO as I am. I'm ready to go HD myself but I refuse to believe the Direct HD DVR is any good considering their track record. I've also experienced the DISH stuff - no thanks you only get to fool me once. Cable is more expensive but I'm really close to spending more just to get what I want and telling Direct so long. That they cut ties with TIVO REALLY pisses me off. Worse, they are slowly moving to new encoding that the old DTIVO boxes will be unable to decode. Nice huh?
NO! It's a generic USB wireless card that they have specced to work with their drivers. If you buy a decent non-borked USB wireless adapter it will work just as well - as it does on mine today....
Uh huh, I don't see that holding up in court. I can see it now - they portscan your box, figure out you've setup a WEB server in violation of TOS, and then send the cops to arrest you for trespass of all things. Never fly because it's stupid nor would it in this case. This isn't a whole lot better than a software license that buries your owing the first born to the software company in case of purchase. Got *any* case law examples to back up your assertion that violating TOS is a criminal offense aka computer trespass? Anyone convicted? Particularly in cases where the company asserts they can change their TOS at any time as a sort of living document without the users being given explicit notice this is bound to fail. You give TOS too much weight.
The S3 can still be hacked mind you however you must unsolder an EPROM, flash another, solder a socket, and then proceed with hacks - same with soem of th elater S2 boxes - yuck! However since they have apparently removed some of the code in the S3 rather than just turning it off like they did with the DTIVO there's not too much going on last I checked the DealDatabase forums. Actually, some of the coders seem to be lying a bit low on this too since no one wants the CableCard twits to go nutz and pull the S3 certificate
Frankly right now TIVO is a mess! I enjoy my DTIVO and all but the HD stuff is ugly so I'm sitting tight watching Sd on an HD set...
Yes, writes are slower! However depending upon what it is you're trying to do that's not a really bad penalty. For a home user who wants to have a large NAS feeding an HTPC this works out great. Do NOT try to rip a DVD straight to it though (lol) as I found the performance maddening but ripping local, copying in background, and then streaming works very well in my case. The author has open sourced his changes to GPL code but has NOT done so with his management application which is his right, it's a pay for play application that I support and is geared for home users. It could perhaps be taken in other directions too, I've suggested it on the Ubuntu @ home forum that's building a home server to counter Microsoft's effort:-) Having used this software for more than a year I've found it mostly meets my needs and has gotten me through 2 drive failures no problems but did fail me when I did something stupid software wise but only lost two drives worth of data. I do not bitch about that too much as it was beta code I was running, oh well.
If you get too stuck getting to the source you might ask on their forums or if I can figure out, again, how to get at the source perhaps send it along. I cannot add much of anything to tweaking it but would happily enable others so inclined so long a sit's not a deluge of requests;-)
BINGO! I've been reading the comments here wondering when the F someone was going to ask this. If someone runs off with my personal NAS then yeah I'm protected. If someone kicks in my door and logs in via a workstation or using their machine having observed my password this does NOTHING. Perhaps I could have a key secured on my workstation which is kewl but what about my XBMC'd XBOX? My aTV? My just about anything HTPCish that's like an appliance that wants to access it? Couldn't I just as easily have a PGP'd file that appears as a F/S for my workstations to send things too and leave the rest wide open and be just as secure?
I dunno' but from the first read of this article I couldn't help but wonder exactly WHAT he was trying to protect. Physical theft of the disks okay but at home I'm more concerned with the *AAs kicking down my door and whining about my having ripped all my DVD to the media server than I am someone sneaking in and snatching up my HDs. Frankly if someone has gotten into my home to do that I have bigger issues - as will they when the dogs spot them!:-D
Neat idea and perhaps an improvement over his other setup but I'm not sure this is nearly as cool as some might think when they read the headline for it....
Just to clarify - unRAID doesn't have RAID either. Each disk is ReiserFS formatted as standard and can be pulled\mounted elsewhere. The only thing really non-standard is the use of a parity disk to store ones and zeros from the other drives. Drives spin down unless in use and parity will spin down too unless a write is being done. I have 12 drives in my system and normally 10 of them are sleeping while Bittorrent runs on a workstation writing to it. Performance isn't as good as some installations but for streaming it rox! Do SATA and performance is better, mine is all IDE. There are free versions available too and source is available when you boot it up....
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Seatbelts make people poorer drivers? Not that I've noticed but frankly most folks just don't drive too well to begin with. I'v enever seen any stat that can correlate seatbelt usage with poorer driving and in fact I'll bet most stats you'll dig up will show lower death rates with the usage of seatbelts. I'll take those odds but by all means don't wear one if you don't want to.
Children in car seats? That's pretty much a no brainer and if you think the child was okay in someone's arms vs a child seat you're out of your mind. What's the decel of a vehicle running into another? 2G? 3G? More? Say the child weighs 45lbs, now in the accident they may weigh double or triple that weight - what happens when that person cannot hold on? Put a basketball in the rear package tray and slam on the brakes - where does the ball end up? Now imagine that was a child. Sure, a child in a car restraint may not come out 100% but it certainly beats the alternative of bouncing around. Child restraints *properly* support a child, something a parent cannot do struggling to hold them in an accident. Wouldn't it be great to manage to hold onto your child only to find that you've crushed their ribs or broken their spine? Or that the airbag blew between you and the windshield and your kid was crushed? That anyone would argue that car seats are no better than a parent holding their child is mind blowing and I sincerely hope you weren't serious. If you were and continue that practice I hope you at least do some research with an open enough mind to realize just how flawed your thinking is.
Ya' know I'd like to know where you live. In my neck of the woods police forces have INCREASED (noticeably) and usable mass transit is umm not available to say the least unless you wish to use a taxi. Your world sounds much nicer than mine! While folks in my area may get along without a car it's not easy. They're pretty likely to be run over as there are few sidewalks and no lanes for them on bicycles or on foot. I have to travel 18+ miles to work each day - one way - and that's a pretty short commute compared to some I know. I'd live closer to work but sadly I cannot afford a million++ dollar home. Telecommuting is not an option available to me nor will it ever be. If I had no car I'd have no job commensurate with my skills and would instead likely be flipping burgers at near minimum wage.
So, while I'm not quite to the point of arguing that driving is a right I do feel pretty strongly about the requirement to drive. I understand where the previous poster was coming from, many places in the US have little effective way of getting around sans car - we're too spread out for that.
Ah, you've messed up your terms! It's not reckless driving anymore it's "aggressive driving". In Maryland they have these neat signs that state "aggressive driver imaging in use". Sounds great right? Except that aggressive has been re-termed to mean speeding. So when a proposal to stop "aggressive" driving is put forth, much like children's laws or patriot laws, no one dares object. Thus we have speed cameras - nice huh? I want the magic camera that can catch the dumbass doing 90 in the far right lane swerving in and out of slower traffic not the stupid one that simply tickets every person going 5mph over the limit
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I love it when Virginia goes on an "aggressive driver campaign" - in plainspeak it simply means they're going to slap a radar gun in every officer's hands, to hell with redlight runners or real dangers. Good luck ever disputing a bad radar ticket too, the judges think radar guns are made by the hand of God himself. At least with laser guns the officers will show you the reading and they actually have to AIM the thing. Not that I much like the dorks with the laser guns doing the Dirty Harry stance pointing gun looking things at me off the side of the road
You're right - right now it's not logistically possible to do this for everyone. However it might be possible for a specific chosen few. And tomorrow it might be possible for a few more. Yeah, the proposed system works with just cars and cruisers but it's already being done elsewhere with fixed emplacements and data storage is getting cheaper. Why start down this road? Spot a few bad guys okay. Store the data forever? Not okay!
I'm with you on all but the child restraint thing. Yeah when I was a kid I rode on the trans hump or crawled into the rear package tray blah blah and I survived too - except that many didn't. Kids that age aren't old enough to understand that a seatbelt is really a good thing and could keep you from being killed, therefore it's up to the parents to strap them in. Sadly parents aren't all that bright sometimes so laws have been passed. If you're an adult and don't want to buckle up I'm okay with that and think a ticket for it is stupid. However if you've got a kid in the car and they aren't buckled up like Mario Andretti then you deserve a punch in the mouth AND a ticket! Sure, you understand the risk and maybe you drove slow - having been creamed by a jackass who came out of *nowhere* with zero chance to avoid it I have new respect for the word "accident" - they actually aren't generally planned. Watch a few of those damned VW commercials where cars get smacked out of nowhere and you'll get the idea. Not imagine a child between you and the steering wheel - you both might have died. It only takes one complete moron to truly ruin your life...
P.S. FWIW I wore no seatbelt myself until I became of age to drive. Then I watched a few vids, read some stats, and I decided belts were a good idea. I've now had my ass saved by them more than once so yeah, I'm a believer. Children don't have the data or the wherewithal to make life\death decisions so parents must try to be smart about it....
I live in Virginia - guess what they are bringing back. Yup, the red light cameras after having turned them off once already. I am aware of one individual who went to court on one of them. Seems the picture clearly showed his car being rear-ended and pushed through the light but he was ticketed anyway. D.C. is littered with both red light cams and manned speed cams - manned by off duty police apparently. I stay the heck away from that place!
Too late indeed. Say, how about that abuse of the wiretap law? How's that fight going now that it's been "abused"? National Security you say? Oh well it's okay then I guess....
I, and likely the ACLU, have no issues with the scanning - it really is just speeding up the officer's job and working more effectively. It's the data storage without deletion date that's an issue. If I've done nothing wrong why are you storing where my car was last spotted?
I researched these systems not too long ago and the article I read had the officer dumping the data at the end of his shift. Data storage time was minimal and not part of some huge consolidated "Skynet" (to borrow another poster's appropriate term). Indeed this simply speeds up what an officer normally does - even though they aren't supposed to do it while moving. However in this case the data is apparently being kept for an extended period of time. How bad could this get? Could it be made part of public record? Will we eventually be able to look it up in Google? Bad enough I get a speeding ticket and the court date can be found posted on Google. (yes, seriously) Seems to me an argument could be made that this is "public record" too. So, maybe one day I go for a new job and my apps are rejected without my knowledge because someone looked me up and found that my car was "seen" at a local strip joint. Or abortion clinic. Or Church\Mosque. Sounds far fetched but considering some of the mashups with Google's mapping service already I wouldn't be so sure. The "predator" ones are a pretty good example of this - especially when you find out some of the crap that can get you onto those lists and how hard it is to have a mistake removed...
Drop the data storage requirement or limit it to a SHORT period of time such that thefts could be tracked down and I'm okay with it. Watching the pseudo-Science of CSI where they can pull up a database of damned near anything to catch a thief is kewl and all but no I don't really want to live in a society where it's really that simple for Joe-Blow officer to pull up so much information on me. My reasoning being that I've met a few cops I wouldn't trust to help me across the street much less be trusted with that level of potential data access. It would only take one bad one to really make a mess and I'm quite sure there's far more than one out there...
Take a look at how this has been deployed in Canada. I saw one picture of a highway overpass when I researched this a few months ago that was capable of reading every single tag that passed by it - for 8 lanes of traffic. Realize that this need not be just something put on an officer's car, it can be stationary units setup discreetly all over a city. Now store that data for ever more and yeah I start to get creeped out about it. IMO this slope is indeed a bit slippery. Do "we" really trust these folks to be the custodians of this data?
P.S. Take a close look at the way things have been going in the U.K. to include speed cameras and cameras on street corners. They went so far as to propose banning GPS units that could store user input landmarks at one point because they were being used to warn of speed cameras. (lol) Sorry but the U.K. is exactly where I do *not* want to be in ten years.
I spoke to a rep at length about "upgrading" to their HD DVR. Despite a pretty long conversation and the rep's assurance that they found the new HD devices to work well in the end I declined to upgrade and expressed my anger\frustration at their having dropped TIVO. She said that many were upset but that the new DVRs worked great... really!
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I couldn't bring myself to do it and stuck with the SD unit for now. If ComCast didn't add up to be more expensive for pretty much the same thing I'd get one of the S3 boxes and call it a day. I hope to hell that Direct has some clue as to how badly they screwed up dropping TIVO and that one day it bites them in the ass. I left DISH after multiple years of service becasue I wanted a decent DVR and their's was REALLY bad, I think I will eventually be leaving Direct for the same reasons despite being otherwise happy with the service
It would have been better had I not put in extra trailing slashes. I use the Dock-n-Talk for my SO, the moment she rolls into the driveway and shuts the car off it synchs with her phone via BlueTooth. This is a backup to our VOIP service. Unfortunatly it can only do one phone at a time and you must do the BT sych up crap to switch, the Asterisk Cell Channel code is supposed to do multiple from a single BT USB dongle but I've not yet tried it out.
The devices that allow for a physical dock generally only work with specific phones and while I had some trepidation about using the BT wireless stuff it has turned out to work REALLY well for us once you get the phone setup not to powersave by shutting off BT. We charge our phones right next to the device so it works well. I have 2 line cordless phones and this is our 2nd line. Except for an occasional rare lockup requiring a power cycle it's worked flawless for over a year now...
Suggest you use Google. Dock N Talk and Cell docks aren't hard to find. Oh okay I did it for you. Sorry but you're talking out of your ass on this one.
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Yeah, I own one of the Dock n Talks. The new Asterisk also supports BT cell channels that do much the same thing but I've not yet tried it out.
Seriously? Is that for the HD units or for the SD units too? If so I've heard no furor over it and no one has been calling me up trying to sell me their own units. If my signal goes dead in August due to this then I'll likely dump them...
That wasn't a troll, I was serious. The lack of CableCard is a killer for Myth and that's part of the reason why the cable corps like it. you have an STB now with a firewire outputm, the CableCard will eventually replace it. Most places only send non-premium channels out via QAM - my cable company Comcast for instance. They are only required, I believe, to send out that which can be gotten OTA so if you're getting more feel lucky and do not be surprised if it changes one day.
Bottom line is that the content providers (yack) want to restrict what we can record and what we do with it - HBO is a perfect example with others happy to follow their lead first chance they get. Right now you're actually doing pretty good - many people aren't so lucky. I can get few OTA channels and not many via QAM either. Myth would do very little at all for me without CableCard support - never mind the PITA it is to set it up. What I and most others want is an appliance and the TIVO is exactly that - anyone in the household can figure it out. I have a DTIVO and I love it, it's a shame that Direct is too stupid to use TIVO for their HD boxes or I'd have had one of those 6 months ago. Instead I'm stuck watching SD on an HD set or doing a series of contortions that no one in my house but me understands to watch QAM or Torrent'd HD. I've complained to DTV and I may have to go with more expensive cable and an S3 or this new box just to keep a solid working interface. Sadly hacking these new ones SUX so I may be left with Bittorent if there's some show out there I want to take on the road with me to play on my PSP. I'm so pissed off about the situation I've stuck to watching SD on a 47inch HD set just because my options ALL suck right now. Be glad you've found yourself more fortunate but do NOT expect it to last as what you're doing is exactly what the content providers do NOT want...
Considering that the CableCard hardware requires some sort of handshake and authorization done by the tech installing it I'm betting that no you won't even find illegal ways of turning it on. CableCard was SUPPOSED to make access to cable content easier, thank you FCC, instead it was turned into an opportunity for the cable companies to screw us yet again. Myth is going to have a very hard time surviving when STBs are no longer used and QAM only supports the same stuff you can get OTA. I think that sux but I see no way for anyone to fight the media companies on this right now. I guess we can all hope IPTV takes off...
I rip and transcode from my TIVO, can stream to other TIVO too....
I don't care if they report my clicks anonymously, I've never seen an ad pushed into the UI, and I can get 30 second skip by pressing a few buttons - hardly a hack. It records what I want when I want it, allows me Season Passes that work even when a shows changes time slots, and the UI is simple enough for even strangers to use. Stop posting FUD.
Yup, a shinier useful UI that works as expected unlike so many others with no work - just like the appliance it is. I have mine rebooted about once every 6months if that too.
No, Direct severed their ties with TIVO. They will not have any sort of decoder card for that slot - that's a CableCard slot designed by the CABLE industry. Right now if you want SAT and TIVO you're stuck with an SD DTIVO as I am. I'm ready to go HD myself but I refuse to believe the Direct HD DVR is any good considering their track record. I've also experienced the DISH stuff - no thanks you only get to fool me once. Cable is more expensive but I'm really close to spending more just to get what I want and telling Direct so long. That they cut ties with TIVO REALLY pisses me off. Worse, they are slowly moving to new encoding that the old DTIVO boxes will be unable to decode. Nice huh?
NO! It's a generic USB wireless card that they have specced to work with their drivers. If you buy a decent non-borked USB wireless adapter it will work just as well - as it does on mine today....
Myth sounds great! Where can I get a CableCard adapter for it? Oh.....
Uh huh, I don't see that holding up in court. I can see it now - they portscan your box, figure out you've setup a WEB server in violation of TOS, and then send the cops to arrest you for trespass of all things. Never fly because it's stupid nor would it in this case. This isn't a whole lot better than a software license that buries your owing the first born to the software company in case of purchase. Got *any* case law examples to back up your assertion that violating TOS is a criminal offense aka computer trespass? Anyone convicted? Particularly in cases where the company asserts they can change their TOS at any time as a sort of living document without the users being given explicit notice this is bound to fail. You give TOS too much weight.
Since when did violating TOS constitute violation of the law?
The S3 can still be hacked mind you however you must unsolder an EPROM, flash another, solder a socket, and then proceed with hacks - same with soem of th elater S2 boxes - yuck! However since they have apparently removed some of the code in the S3 rather than just turning it off like they did with the DTIVO there's not too much going on last I checked the DealDatabase forums. Actually, some of the coders seem to be lying a bit low on this too since no one wants the CableCard twits to go nutz and pull the S3 certificate
Frankly right now TIVO is a mess! I enjoy my DTIVO and all but the HD stuff is ugly so I'm sitting tight watching Sd on an HD set...
Yes, writes are slower! However depending upon what it is you're trying to do that's not a really bad penalty. For a home user who wants to have a large NAS feeding an HTPC this works out great. Do NOT try to rip a DVD straight to it though (lol) as I found the performance maddening but ripping local, copying in background, and then streaming works very well in my case. The author has open sourced his changes to GPL code but has NOT done so with his management application which is his right, it's a pay for play application that I support and is geared for home users. It could perhaps be taken in other directions too, I've suggested it on the Ubuntu @ home forum that's building a home server to counter Microsoft's effort :-) Having used this software for more than a year I've found it mostly meets my needs and has gotten me through 2 drive failures no problems but did fail me when I did something stupid software wise but only lost two drives worth of data. I do not bitch about that too much as it was beta code I was running, oh well.
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If you get too stuck getting to the source you might ask on their forums or if I can figure out, again, how to get at the source perhaps send it along. I cannot add much of anything to tweaking it but would happily enable others so inclined so long a sit's not a deluge of requests
BINGO! I've been reading the comments here wondering when the F someone was going to ask this. If someone runs off with my personal NAS then yeah I'm protected. If someone kicks in my door and logs in via a workstation or using their machine having observed my password this does NOTHING. Perhaps I could have a key secured on my workstation which is kewl but what about my XBMC'd XBOX? My aTV? My just about anything HTPCish that's like an appliance that wants to access it? Couldn't I just as easily have a PGP'd file that appears as a F/S for my workstations to send things too and leave the rest wide open and be just as secure?
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I dunno' but from the first read of this article I couldn't help but wonder exactly WHAT he was trying to protect. Physical theft of the disks okay but at home I'm more concerned with the *AAs kicking down my door and whining about my having ripped all my DVD to the media server than I am someone sneaking in and snatching up my HDs. Frankly if someone has gotten into my home to do that I have bigger issues - as will they when the dogs spot them!
Neat idea and perhaps an improvement over his other setup but I'm not sure this is nearly as cool as some might think when they read the headline for it....
Just to clarify - unRAID doesn't have RAID either. Each disk is ReiserFS formatted as standard and can be pulled\mounted elsewhere. The only thing really non-standard is the use of a parity disk to store ones and zeros from the other drives. Drives spin down unless in use and parity will spin down too unless a write is being done. I have 12 drives in my system and normally 10 of them are sleeping while Bittorrent runs on a workstation writing to it. Performance isn't as good as some installations but for streaming it rox! Do SATA and performance is better, mine is all IDE. There are free versions available too and source is available when you boot it up....