I hate to reply to myself, but I am not sure that everyone knows what a "pinhole lens" is for CCTV cameras, as I didn't know when I was buying this stuff.
A CCTV pinhole lens is a lens that has a very small front opening usually 2-3mm, and a narrow lens part that can easily be embedded into the back side of a wall and then be almost invisible on the other side.
An example is here, compared to a normal CCTV type lens. That lens is $20 from B&H, and the camera is $120 from NewEgg, so this stuff isn't very expensive. A "high quality" CCTV lens is $50-$100, so even the good stuff isn't that expensive.
If surveillance camera are allowed, then why are people not allowed to hand-hold or otherwise have a camera on them?
If you complain about hidden cameras on a person, what about hidden cameras in a building, either with a pinhole lens, one-way mirror, or a dark dome over the camera?
Why should recording anything a police officer does during his working hours be bad?
If they want to make me having a camera on me illegal, make having any kind of surveillance camera illegal first, and then we can talk.
Too bad there isn't a hall-of-fame for Slashdot posts, where a post is so insightful that it becomes a classic. Parent is "Why is flash bad?" or "Why is flash good?", all in one.
Really, you ought to at least cursorily research subjects before commenting on them.
What on earth are you talking about?
This is/., most people couldn't even be bothered to read the article, much less look stuff up on Wikipedia.
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Sometimes companies have a key they sign the firmware with, and will not update to an un-signed key. That is valid with the GPL v2, and I think one of the biggest changes with the GPL v3.
So get a dvd player that will do 1080i over component. It has a problem going through my receiver, but connected directly to my TV over component I get 1080i on my LCD TV.
Actually I think the book example is more compelling for an external company to do the format shifting for you: most people can't scan and OCR a whole book very easily.
Not everyone is willing to get a very expensive non-destructive book scanner or to cut off the binding and run the pages through a self-feeding scanner.
Yes, I agree that Linux or Unix swept the computer operating systems on that list, in that all of the computers on those lists run either Linux or Unix.
From the summary:
Computers and handheld devices running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon's 'best of' list for 2007...
How is the Garmin Nuvi not a "handheld device"? Or the Canon A570IS?
That is my point, those are handheld devices that don't run linux.
If the author had said instead "Computers running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon's 'best of' list for 2007..." I would have no argument, but he tried to be too general, and isn't correct in that case.
# Apple 4 GB iPod nano (3rd Generation) Very stripped down OSX, hence a UNIX
Actually the iPods run a "commercial microkernel embedded operating system," made by PortalPlayer. From Wikipedia/iPod
I agree with you on the rest.
I didn't look too hard at the smaller items, but I would still consider them "electronics," just not "computers." As you said there isn't much of an OS on those, and definitely nothing the size of even a stripped down version of Linux.
Suunto T6 Wristop personal trainer with heart rate monitor
Accutire MS-4350B programmable digital tire gauge
Garmin nüvi 350 3.5-inch portable GPS navigator
Actron PocketScan diagnostic code reader
Jakks EyeClops Bionic Eye
Canon PowerShot A570IS 7.1MP digital camera
If you take the definition of "electronics" to be anything that has a microprocessor, ram, program storage, and I/O, then all of these would be "electronics", but I don't think any of them run Linux. I might be wrong, and some of them might run Linux, but I am sure that at least one of them doesn't.
If the Canon A570IS ran a GPLd OS, that would be awesome to modify that so that I can do things that Canon hadn't thought of or doesn't want users to be able to do, like time-lapse, recording RAW, changing the menu system, etc...
Yes, there are a lot of devices running Linux or Unix on the Amazon "Best-Of" list, but it isn't a sweep unless you mean "computers", but even then the line gets fuzzy.
Even more important, if google stops doing the Apps thing, or your network goes down, you still have your documents on your hard drive. Yes, you can use goffice to edit the files on mobile devices, but that would depend on wifi or cell phone coverage, not all of the world is covered by that.
Yes, there are a lot of laws, cases, and such about patents, trademarks, and copyrights. But, they are very different, and grouping them together confuses the issue. For example, when does "intellectual property" get protection under the law, how long does it last, and what does it give you a monopoly on? You can't answer that because it depends on whether it is a patent, trademark, or copyright.
Imagine if Coca-Cola had a copyright on the words "Coca-Cola" and "Coke", and not just a trademark on them? Or if song writers got patents for writing songs, and nobody else could do anything similar for 20 years? What if Amazon's "One-Click" thing was just a copyright, and anybody could change the name to "single-click" and not be infringing?
It doesn't make much sense to lump them together just because they are laws about non-tangible things.
This article is only about copyright laws, so why not just say "copyrights" instead of "IP"?
Since the concept of intellectual property is almost completely meaningless, the title must be about Internet Protocol, and I bet close to 99% of the worlds computers have IP, and most use it every day.
Oh, you mean that 36.4% of the computers have tools installed that facilitate copyright infringement?
Can we please stop using the term "IP" or "Intellectual Property" and actually specify what we are talking about, which in this case is copyright infringement? Especially since the source articles never use either of those two term in them?
It would be very hard to infringe on trademarks using limewire or bittorrent in any way, and the same goes for patents unless the patents cover the implementation of the software.
Or people could rip songs from vinyl, tapes, or CDs that they already own. Or they could have cheap music from online sources that is cheaper than $1/track, like Amie Street.
How much would it cost to fill an iPod with songs from used CDs?
Yeah, same here for why I don't like Python. I find myself adding additional if/loop statements around a block of code often enough that I just couldn't imagine working with python where it isn't trivial to automatically indent the block of code, since the indent is the block of code. Copying/pasting code is another case where the indentation is not necessairly correct. I am not talking about duplicating code here, but something like taking a chunk of code and making it into a function call.
I really like how quite often the single-line if/then statements in Ruby could be read aloud directly and they would make sense, like: puts "hi there" if debug == true
Newspapers still have a virtual monopoly on one aspect of newsmaking: digging deep, traveling, researching, and fact-checking.
I call shenagains on that. Have you read any science or technology articles recently? Most reporters don't know much about any specilized fields, and couldn't be bothered to ask anyone who does actually know.
The advantage is that LEDs can be turned on in a few nanoseconds, which means that you could us PWM (pulsing) to dim leds at very high frequencies, 100KHz and higher is possible. However I am sure that at 500Hz you will not even notice it.
Then why don't they flash taillights at 500Hz and not the incredibly annoying 60Hz they do now?
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ISO dates have one HUGE advantage: They sort alphabetically into chronological order. Just as long as you add 0s before single-digit days/months, it doesn't matter what kind of field delimiter you use, they will all just sort correctly. Very, very useful.
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I hate to reply to myself, but I am not sure that everyone knows what a "pinhole lens" is for CCTV cameras, as I didn't know when I was buying this stuff.
A CCTV pinhole lens is a lens that has a very small front opening usually 2-3mm, and a narrow lens part that can easily be embedded into the back side of a wall and then be almost invisible on the other side.
An example is here, compared to a normal CCTV type lens. That lens is $20 from B&H, and the camera is $120 from NewEgg, so this stuff isn't very expensive. A "high quality" CCTV lens is $50-$100, so even the good stuff isn't that expensive.
If surveillance camera are allowed, then why are people not allowed to hand-hold or otherwise have a camera on them?
If you complain about hidden cameras on a person, what about hidden cameras in a building, either with a pinhole lens, one-way mirror, or a dark dome over the camera?
Why should recording anything a police officer does during his working hours be bad?
If they want to make me having a camera on me illegal, make having any kind of surveillance camera illegal first, and then we can talk.
Too bad there isn't a hall-of-fame for Slashdot posts, where a post is so insightful that it becomes a classic.
Parent is "Why is flash bad?" or "Why is flash good?", all in one.
What on earth are you talking about?
This is
Sometimes companies have a key they sign the firmware with, and will not update to an un-signed key. That is valid with the GPL v2, and I think one of the biggest changes with the GPL v3.
I bet linux has much better hardware support than Vista 64-bit.
That would a normal DVD drive and software. If you aren't in windows-land, it seems like that would just be software, since DRM isn't involved there.
So get a dvd player that will do 1080i over component. It has a problem going through my receiver, but connected directly to my TV over component I get 1080i on my LCD TV.
Best upconverting dvd player that I have found, and has the bonus of not prevening user operations.
Then you need a Better DVD player, one that doesn't prevent you from skipping that stuff.
Actually I think the book example is more compelling for an external company to do the format shifting for you: most people can't scan and OCR a whole book very easily.
Not everyone is willing to get a very expensive non-destructive book scanner or to cut off the binding and run the pages through a self-feeding scanner.
From the summary:
How is the Garmin Nuvi not a "handheld device"?
Or the Canon A570IS?
That is my point, those are handheld devices that don't run linux.
If the author had said instead "Computers running default GNU Linux or Unix OSes have swept Amazon's 'best of' list for 2007..." I would have no argument, but he tried to be too general, and isn't correct in that case.
Actually the iPods run a "commercial microkernel embedded operating system," made by PortalPlayer. From Wikipedia/iPod
I agree with you on the rest.
I didn't look too hard at the smaller items, but I would still consider them "electronics," just not "computers." As you said there isn't much of an OS on those, and definitely nothing the size of even a stripped down version of Linux.
If you take the definition of "electronics" to be anything that has a microprocessor, ram, program storage, and I/O, then all of these would be "electronics", but I don't think any of them run Linux. I might be wrong, and some of them might run Linux, but I am sure that at least one of them doesn't.
If the Canon A570IS ran a GPLd OS, that would be awesome to modify that so that I can do things that Canon hadn't thought of or doesn't want users to be able to do, like time-lapse, recording RAW, changing the menu system, etc...
Yes, there are a lot of devices running Linux or Unix on the Amazon "Best-Of" list, but it isn't a sweep unless you mean "computers", but even then the line gets fuzzy.
Even more important, if google stops doing the Apps thing, or your network goes down, you still have your documents on your hard drive. Yes, you can use goffice to edit the files on mobile devices, but that would depend on wifi or cell phone coverage, not all of the world is covered by that.
Yes, there are a lot of laws, cases, and such about patents, trademarks, and copyrights. But, they are very different, and grouping them together confuses the issue. For example, when does "intellectual property" get protection under the law, how long does it last, and what does it give you a monopoly on? You can't answer that because it depends on whether it is a patent, trademark, or copyright.
Imagine if Coca-Cola had a copyright on the words "Coca-Cola" and "Coke", and not just a trademark on them? Or if song writers got patents for writing songs, and nobody else could do anything similar for 20 years? What if Amazon's "One-Click" thing was just a copyright, and anybody could change the name to "single-click" and not be infringing?
It doesn't make much sense to lump them together just because they are laws about non-tangible things.
This article is only about copyright laws, so why not just say "copyrights" instead of "IP"?
Since the concept of intellectual property is almost completely meaningless, the title must be about Internet Protocol, and I bet close to 99% of the worlds computers have IP, and most use it every day.
Oh, you mean that 36.4% of the computers have tools installed that facilitate copyright infringement?
Can we please stop using the term "IP" or "Intellectual Property" and actually specify what we are talking about, which in this case is copyright infringement? Especially since the source articles never use either of those two term in them?
It would be very hard to infringe on trademarks using limewire or bittorrent in any way, and the same goes for patents unless the patents cover the implementation of the software.
Or people could rip songs from vinyl, tapes, or CDs that they already own. Or they could have cheap music from online sources that is cheaper than $1/track, like Amie Street.
How much would it cost to fill an iPod with songs from used CDs?
Yeah, same here for why I don't like Python.
I find myself adding additional if/loop statements around a block of code often enough that I just couldn't imagine working with python where it isn't trivial to automatically indent the block of code, since the indent is the block of code. Copying/pasting code is another case where the indentation is not necessairly correct. I am not talking about duplicating code here, but something like taking a chunk of code and making it into a function call.
I really like how quite often the single-line if/then statements in Ruby could be read aloud directly and they would make sense, like:
puts "hi there" if debug == true
I call shenagains on that. Have you read any science or technology articles recently? Most reporters don't know much about any specilized fields, and couldn't be bothered to ask anyone who does actually know.
Then why don't they flash taillights at 500Hz and not the incredibly annoying 60Hz they do now?
And who is going to pay for those Mandatory abortions?
/. is making AD revenue off page views including your comment. And then some people even pay, and then post comments, so that /. is making money off them directly and then from the content they might provide.
ISO dates have one HUGE advantage:
They sort alphabetically into chronological order. Just as long as you add 0s before single-digit days/months, it doesn't matter what kind of field delimiter you use, they will all just sort correctly. Very, very useful.
I think I will try to talk about "car gas" instead of traffic from now on, that is quite awesome, but very nerdy.
"The car gas was quite thick this morning"
"Smog?"
"No, lots of cars going slowly"