This is one more case of DRM making life harder for the consumer. I live in a country with spotty, slow internet access. If I can't watch my movies without getting online, then I won't buy them.
You buy the UHD Blu-ray because you want the ultimate in video and sound for your home theater system. That pretty much Implies a first world income and access to services.
As long as you can capture the raw video and audio output you can copy anything into your own format.
Not a trivial problem.
Ultra HD Blu-ray will use primarily double-layer 66 GB discs (though 100 GB triple-layer discs are part of the spec) and will be capable of delivering up to 108 Mbps of data. To put this in perspective, consider that Netflix's 4K Ultra HD streams are delivered at about 16 Mbps and represent an average of 14 GB of total data for two hours of entertainment.
One interesting feature is the Digital Bridge, which makes it possible to make an exact bit for bit copy of an Ultra HD Blu-ray on an authorized media drive, or transfer files to an authorized mobile device. Though Victor Matsuda, Chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association Global Promotions Committee, has explained that the extent of support for this feature will be down to the individual UHD Blu-ray manufacturers.
A little very carefully worded, targeted advertising that diabetics are likely to see would allow them to make their own judgement on whether it would/could help them manage their condition.
So easy, so tempting. So dangerous a precedent.
What you suggest reminds me of the marketing of tobacco products, homeopathic remedies, etc.
Sure - any idiot with an arduino and some old-school hacking skills could do that - right? Sure - I don't claim to be all that clever! Go figure.
The problem is that before the FDA (and its predecessors) the market was flooded with quack cures and worthless medical devices.
It could happen again.
By the 1930s, muckraking journalists, consumer protection organizations, and federal regulators began mounting a campaign for stronger regulatory authority by publicizing a list of injurious products that had been ruled permissible under the 1906 law, including radioactive beverages, the mascara Lash lure, which caused blindness, and worthless "cures" for diabetes and tuberculosis. The resulting proposed law was unable to get through the Congress of the United States for five years, but was rapidly enacted into law following the public outcry over the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which over 100 people died after using a drug formulated with a toxic, untested solvent.
However, in an indicator that the FDA may be too lax in their approval process, in particular for medical devices, a 2011 study by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and Paul Brown of the National Research Center for Women and Families, and Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that most medical devices recalled in the last five years for "serious health problems or death" had been previously approved by the FDA using the less stringent, and cheaper, 510(k) process. In a few cases the devices had been deemed so low-risk that they did not need FDA regulation. Of the 113 devices recalled, 35 were for cardiovascular health purposes.
We don't see any signs of major civilizations, either in terms of visits, radio waves, or most importantly, megastructures and large-scale engineering projects.
This reads like the geek projecting his own love of fantastic high-tech megastructures on the universe. If you have a stable population, why are you building a Ringworld?
Considering the audience here on Slashdot, the true message to share and discuss is: "Stop Writing Software for Windows".
My software company has just ruled out all future Windows development. Yes, that means we'll lose some clients...
Most of us here don't have the luxury of pissing off 90% of our potential market and 100% of our existing Windows customers.
The use of cash involves several social costs to individuals --- especially the poor --- as well as business and the government.
For individuals, cash usage imposes a regressive tax with the highest impact on the unbanked.
By FDIC estimates, 8.2% of U.S. households are unbanked and 20.1% of U.S. households are underbanked. The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. Examples of such fees are those charged for payday lending, buy-here-pay-here auto loans, and check cashing. The unbanked have a five times higher risk of paying cash access fees on payroll and EBT cards.
Poorer consumers have to spend far more time getting cash. On average, Americans spend twenty-eight minutes a month travelling to get cash, but that time isn't evenly distributed. People who don't use a bank spend about five minutes longer getting to the place where they can get cash, and unemployed people spent nearly nine minutes more.
For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure.
U.S. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. These cash-dependent small businesses cannot afford sophisticated security and cash transportation services.
For the government, the annual value of under-reported taxes in the United States is $400 billion to $600 billion. According to the national taxpayer advocate's estimates, 52% of this gap is because of under-reporting by self-employed taxpayers. If even half of this under-reporting is directly enabled by a cash economy, the U.S. Treasury loses at least $100 billion annually because of cash.
The implications for a shortfall in tax revenues are quite direct in terms of their impact on the poor (even after accounting for the fact that many of those who under-report are themselves poor).
About 12% of the federal budget in 2012 supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to poor families. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. The existence of the tax gap puts pressure on the government to cut back on safety net programs, because they are the ones that are among the first to get cut.
The DOD is transitioning to Win 10. In due course others in the institutional, small business and enterprise markets will follow suit. The geek knows this, but taking a question about Win 10 seriously won't win him a quick and dirty mod-up on Slashdot.
Windows only means VR games will only be available on Windows? Seeing as how Valves own OS is Ubuntu based, one would think they'd support that as well.
It's called jury nullification, and the legal system really, really, really doesn't like it, even though its totally a thing.
It may be a thing. But the odds are better in Powerball. The American juror is, after all, most likely to be middle aged, middle class, small-C conservative. Someone who isn't given to cutting corners or refusing to accept the consequences of his actions.
...before the US and EU follows suit. You will only be allowed on the Internet with approved devices and approved content. You don't think this is possible? Think of the children and the terrorists! Why do you hate children and don't you want to protect your Freedoms?
Inbred. Self-referential and paranoid. The greatest threat to Slashdot is internal. There is nothing needed more here than new blood.
TP-Link is about to see their sales decline. Their cheap shit was eagerly consumed by DIY types putting openWRT on it and frankly you could do some interesting things with it.
The TP-Link router is a mass market consumer product that retails for $20 and up when purchased from outlets like Amazon.com.
The DIY market is microscopic and always has been.
But tracking may be the only way to keep the very young and the very old out of trouble on the road.
Some seniors know when it is time to surrender their keys, some don't. Some kids can be trusted with a car, some can't. I've taken some of the calls which send you to
The practicality of actually doing a repair or modification is not relevant to whether or not one should have the right to attempt the repair or modification. Those are separate issues.
If repair is impractical, your "right to repair" is meaningless.
Unless, of course, what you really want is assurance that the manufacturer will bail you out if you screw up badly enough.
The Constitution evolves by amendments. It does not evolve because you want it to mean something entirely different.
The framers of the Constitution believed in structural checks and balances. But they were not much given to casting their own vision of how the country should evolve in stone. That is the fundamental reason why the Constitution is short, spare, and has been amended only 27 times in the past 225 years.
It would be great to have Wikipedia akin to Wolfram Alpha but less math and more about factual primary sources,
The problem with primary sources is that they are rarely accessible to the general reader. The appeal of a traditional encyclopedia like the Britannica lay in the opportunity to explore in some depth subjects outside your own specialty.
It may be good for attracting page impressions but it results such bad feeling among posters that it doesn't make business sense to allow them when you're trying to revive/.s fortunes.
If the geek can't accept an open and frank discussion of gender issues in tech, then Slashdot has no future.
What is it to be here, a white male fraternity of insecure adolescents who circle the wagons whenever a breath of fresh air threatens the status quo?
This does not make any sense at all. Why should the heirs of the artist be allowed to benefit from the artist's work? No other job provides benefits for heirs after the death of the worker unless that worker has saved some of their income and put it into a suitable savings vehicle.
This is much too narrow a view.
My father's farm has been in the family for two hundred years. No one has ever questioned a son's right to benefit from his inheritance --- that has always been the whole purpose of the thing. Why should the inheritance of intangible property be treated any differently?
Mary Chesnut used her diary and notes to work toward a final version in 1881 --- 1884. Based on her drafts, historians do not believe she was finished with her work. Because Chesnut had no children, before her death she gave her diary to her closest friend Isabella D. Martin and urged her to have it published. The diary was first published in 1905 as a heavily edited and abridged edition. Ben Ames Williams' 1949 version was described as more readable, but sacrificing historical reliability and many of Chesnut's literary references. The 1981 version by C. Vann Woodward retained more of her original work, provides an overview of her life and society in the introduction, and was annotated to identify fully the large cast of characters, places and events.
The expiration of the copyright on Steamboat Willie gives you the right to produce derivatives based on Steamboat Willie and only Steamboat Willie. Eight minutes of silent-era sight gags with a synchronized sound track and a thin narrative thread. Walt Disney Animation Studios' Steamboat Willie
The character designs --- which is what the geek really wants --- are trademarked, and without them you do not have the Mouse in any recognizable form.
Mickey Mouse appears as a character in over 200 films, videos, and video games --- and god alone knows how often in other media. Mickey Mouse (Character) You would have a hell of time coming up with an original --- non-infringing --- story for the Mouse.
or for any of the other franchised Disney characters.
Slashdot Mirror
Market share is not everything. Just look at Apple.
The Alienware Steam Machine I linked to earlier is ranks about #240 in desktop sales at Amazon. While a pimped-out Cybertron Win 10 gaming rig retailing at $6,000 ranks about #40. CybertronPC Thallium X99 Red Gaming Desktop-Intel i7-5960X, 64GB DDR4,3x NVIDIA GTX980 Ti, Microsoft Windows 10
This should make it easier for developers to write and optimize games for SteamOS
It's difficult to get solid numbers on Steam Machine sales. But they don't appear to be setting the world on fire:
Alienware Steam Machine ASM100-6980BLK Desktop Console (Intel Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPU 3.1 Stars. #3,293 in Computers & Accessories #237 in Computers & Accessories > Desktops
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey: January 2016 doesn't offer much to feed on:
Windows 95%
Win 10 64 Bit 33% and Trending upward.
OSX 4% No change.
Linux 1% No change.
Ubuntu 0.4%. Mint 0.2%
This is one more case of DRM making life harder for the consumer. I live in a country with spotty, slow internet access. If I can't watch my movies without getting online, then I won't buy them.
You buy the UHD Blu-ray because you want the ultimate in video and sound for your home theater system. That pretty much Implies a first world income and access to services.
As long as you can capture the raw video and audio output you can copy anything into your own format.
Not a trivial problem.
Ultra HD Blu-ray will use primarily double-layer 66 GB discs (though 100 GB triple-layer discs are part of the spec) and will be capable of delivering up to 108 Mbps of data. To put this in perspective, consider that Netflix's 4K Ultra HD streams are delivered at about 16 Mbps and represent an average of 14 GB of total data for two hours of entertainment.
Ultra HD Blu-ray arrives March 2016; here's everything we know
And maybe not worth the trouble.
One interesting feature is the Digital Bridge, which makes it possible to make an exact bit for bit copy of an Ultra HD Blu-ray on an authorized media drive, or transfer files to an authorized mobile device. Though Victor Matsuda, Chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association Global Promotions Committee, has explained that the extent of support for this feature will be down to the individual UHD Blu-ray manufacturers.
Ultra HD Blu-ray: All you need to know about 4K Blu-ray players, discs and the rest Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/...
A little very carefully worded, targeted advertising that diabetics are likely to see would allow them to make their own judgement on whether it would/could help them manage their condition.
So easy, so tempting. So dangerous a precedent.
What you suggest reminds me of the marketing of tobacco products, homeopathic remedies, etc.
Sure - any idiot with an arduino and some old-school hacking skills could do that - right? Sure - I don't claim to be all that clever!
Go figure.
The problem is that before the FDA (and its predecessors) the market was flooded with quack cures and worthless medical devices.
It could happen again.
By the 1930s, muckraking journalists, consumer protection organizations, and federal regulators began mounting a campaign for stronger regulatory authority by publicizing a list of injurious products that had been ruled permissible under the 1906 law, including radioactive beverages, the mascara Lash lure, which caused blindness, and worthless "cures" for diabetes and tuberculosis. The resulting proposed law was unable to get through the Congress of the United States for five years, but was rapidly enacted into law following the public outcry over the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which over 100 people died after using a drug formulated with a toxic, untested solvent.
However, in an indicator that the FDA may be too lax in their approval process, in particular for medical devices, a 2011 study by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and Paul Brown of the National Research Center for Women and Families, and Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that most medical devices recalled in the last five years for "serious health problems or death" had been previously approved by the FDA using the less stringent, and cheaper, 510(k) process. In a few cases the devices had been deemed so low-risk that they did not need FDA regulation. Of the 113 devices recalled, 35 were for cardiovascular health purposes.
Food and Drug Administration
We don't see any signs of major civilizations, either in terms of visits, radio waves, or most importantly, megastructures and large-scale engineering projects.
This reads like the geek projecting his own love of fantastic high-tech megastructures on the universe. If you have a stable population, why are you building a Ringworld?
Considering the audience here on Slashdot, the true message to share and discuss is: "Stop Writing Software for Windows".
My software company has just ruled out all future Windows development. Yes, that means we'll lose some clients...
Most of us here don't have the luxury of pissing off 90% of our potential market and 100% of our existing Windows customers.
Hmmm, I guess my 100+ games on OSX and Linux are a figment of my imagination. As are several AAA games.
The key word here being several.
I posted a summary of the January Steam Hardware & Software Survey here earlier.
Short and sweet, it's 95% Windows, 4% OSX and 1% Linux, with no single Linux distro polling above 0.2%. Win 10 closing in on 35%.
The use of cash involves several social costs to individuals --- especially the poor --- as well as business and the government.
For individuals, cash usage imposes a regressive tax with the highest impact on the unbanked.
By FDIC estimates, 8.2% of U.S. households are unbanked and 20.1% of U.S. households are underbanked. The unbanked pay four times more in fees to access their money than those with bank accounts, and they pay $4 higher fees per month for cash access on average than those with formal financial services. Examples of such fees are those charged for payday lending, buy-here-pay-here auto loans, and check cashing. The unbanked have a five times higher risk of paying cash access fees on payroll and EBT cards.
Poorer consumers have to spend far more time getting cash. On average, Americans spend twenty-eight minutes a month travelling to get cash, but that time isn't evenly distributed. People who don't use a bank spend about five minutes longer getting to the place where they can get cash, and unemployed people spent nearly nine minutes more.
For businesses, paper money has to be managed: it must be stored, guarded, and accounted for. It can be difficult to transport and is inherently insecure.
U.S. retail businesses lose about $40 billion annually because of the theft of cash alone. This cost is also disproportionately borne by mom-and-pops, many of which operate in poor neighborhoods and rural areas. These cash-dependent small businesses cannot afford sophisticated security and cash transportation services.
For the government, the annual value of under-reported taxes in the United States is $400 billion to $600 billion. According to the national taxpayer advocate's estimates, 52% of this gap is because of under-reporting by self-employed taxpayers. If even half of this under-reporting is directly enabled by a cash economy, the U.S. Treasury loses at least $100 billion annually because of cash.
The implications for a shortfall in tax revenues are quite direct in terms of their impact on the poor (even after accounting for the fact that many of those who under-report are themselves poor).
About 12% of the federal budget in 2012 supported programs that provide aid (other than health insurance or Social Security benefits) to poor families. Such government safety net programs kept some 25 million people out of poverty in 2010. The existence of the tax gap puts pressure on the government to cut back on safety net programs, because they are the ones that are among the first to get cut.
The Hidden Costs of Cash [Harvard Business Review, June 26, 2014]
One sentence: Don't use it.
One sentence: Don't waste his time.
The DOD is transitioning to Win 10. In due course others in the institutional, small business and enterprise markets will follow suit. The geek knows this, but taking a question about Win 10 seriously won't win him a quick and dirty mod-up on Slashdot.
Windows only means VR games will only be available on Windows? Seeing as how Valves own OS is Ubuntu based, one would think they'd support that as well.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey: January 2016
Windows --- All Flavors 95.4% [No change]
Win 7 64 bit 34.3%
Win 10 64 bit 32.8% [Up 1.5%]
Win 8.1 64 bit 14.0%
OSX --- All Flavors 3.55% [No change]
Linux --- All Flavors 0.95% [No change]
Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS 64 bit 0.2%
Ubuntu 15.10 64 bit 0.2%
Linux 64 bit 0.1%
Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa 64 bit 0.1%
It would be mean to remind folks here how often Linux Mint has been suggested as a plausible migration path away from Windows.
What I find more interesting and unexpected are the stats for Language. The US has 41 million native Spanish speakers and only Mexico has more.
English 46%
Russian 18%
Simplified Chinese 6%
Spanish 5%
It's called jury nullification, and the legal system really, really, really doesn't like it, even though its totally a thing.
It may be a thing. But the odds are better in Powerball. The American juror is, after all, most likely to be middle aged, middle class, small-C conservative. Someone who isn't given to cutting corners or refusing to accept the consequences of his actions.
...before the US and EU follows suit. You will only be allowed on the Internet with approved devices and approved content. You don't think this is possible? Think of the children and the terrorists! Why do you hate children and don't you want to protect your Freedoms?
Inbred. Self-referential and paranoid. The greatest threat to Slashdot is internal. There is nothing needed more here than new blood.
TP-Link is about to see their sales decline. Their cheap shit was eagerly consumed by DIY types putting openWRT on it and frankly you could do some interesting things with it.
The TP-Link router is a mass market consumer product that retails for $20 and up when purchased from outlets like Amazon.com.
The DIY market is microscopic and always has been.
I meant to say simply that I have no desire to attend another visitation for a death that should not have been allowed to happen.
The geek isn't going to want to hear this.
But tracking may be the only way to keep the very young and the very old out of trouble on the road.
Some seniors know when it is time to surrender their keys, some don't. Some kids can be trusted with a car, some can't. I've taken some of the calls which send you to
The practicality of actually doing a repair or modification is not relevant to whether or not one should have the right to attempt the repair or modification. Those are separate issues.
If repair is impractical, your "right to repair" is meaningless.
Unless, of course, what you really want is assurance that the manufacturer will bail you out if you screw up badly enough.
The Constitution evolves by amendments. It does not evolve because you want it to mean something entirely different.
The framers of the Constitution believed in structural checks and balances. But they were not much given to casting their own vision of how the country should evolve in stone. That is the fundamental reason why the Constitution is short, spare, and has been amended only 27 times in the past 225 years.
It would be great to have Wikipedia akin to Wolfram Alpha but less math and more about factual primary sources,
The problem with primary sources is that they are rarely accessible to the general reader. The appeal of a traditional encyclopedia like the Britannica lay in the opportunity to explore in some depth subjects outside your own specialty.
It may be good for attracting page impressions but it results such bad feeling among posters that it doesn't make business sense to allow them when you're trying to revive /.s fortunes.
If the geek can't accept an open and frank discussion of gender issues in tech, then Slashdot has no future.
What is it to be here, a white male fraternity of insecure adolescents who circle the wagons whenever a breath of fresh air threatens the status quo?
This is the kind of person/entity that has the balls to do what is right regardless of the penalty. A true hero.
The woman and the site are Russian. So tell me what she has put at risk.
This does not make any sense at all. Why should the heirs of the artist be allowed to benefit from the artist's work? No other job provides benefits for heirs after the death of the worker unless that worker has saved some of their income and put it into a suitable savings vehicle.
This is much too narrow a view.
My father's farm has been in the family for two hundred years. No one has ever questioned a son's right to benefit from his inheritance --- that has always been the whole purpose of the thing. Why should the inheritance of intangible property be treated any differently?
real diaries don't have multiple editions.
Not true.
Mary Chesnut used her diary and notes to work toward a final version in 1881 --- 1884. Based on her drafts, historians do not believe she was finished with her work. Because Chesnut had no children, before her death she gave her diary to her closest friend Isabella D. Martin and urged her to have it published. The diary was first published in 1905 as a heavily edited and abridged edition. Ben Ames Williams' 1949 version was described as more readable, but sacrificing historical reliability and many of Chesnut's literary references. The 1981 version by C. Vann Woodward retained more of her original work, provides an overview of her life and society in the introduction, and was annotated to identify fully the large cast of characters, places and events.
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Well speaking of Mickey Mouse...
Forget Mickey Mouse.
The expiration of the copyright on Steamboat Willie gives you the right to produce derivatives based on Steamboat Willie and only Steamboat Willie. Eight minutes of silent-era sight gags with a synchronized sound track and a thin narrative thread. Walt Disney Animation Studios' Steamboat Willie
The character designs --- which is what the geek really wants --- are trademarked, and without them you do not have the Mouse in any recognizable form.
Mickey Mouse appears as a character in over 200 films, videos, and video games --- and god alone knows how often in other media. Mickey Mouse (Character) You would have a hell of time coming up with an original --- non-infringing --- story for the Mouse.
or for any of the other franchised Disney characters.