In their most common configuration they go back to the 60's.
Don't be a dip-shit. You know perfectly well that "100-240V white LED light bulbs to illuminate rooms" is what this discussion is about, not the tiny little low voltage red things in 1970s calculators.
I'm pretty certain that I've been wrong all these years and that it is digital
"On", "Off" and "On Longer" are discrete and thus digital.
In fact, "digital" doesn't need to only encode 2 values: remember that the word "digital" is the adjective form of "digit", and we have 10 discrete fingers. (Which is why we count in decimal and computers, which have only two discrete values, counts in binary.)
My silly power company is giving me $10 back on each of the LED's that I buy.
Or you're inefficiently paying for them via your tax dollars. For whatever the reason, my electric company doesn't offer such rebates (or isn't advertising it).
Anyway, we don't have any more incandescent bulbs. When the price dropped, we bought CFLs, installing them either (a) when incandescents burnt out, or (b) immediately in certain desk lamps where they are a burn hazard.
In a LED light the LEDs has a longer lifespan than the controller. You can see this in a LED streetlight.
I'll believe it when there's quite a few more years of real world results. In the mean time, let the first adopters with lots of disposable income (and a lot less sense) buy them.
Why bother to have switches at all when you can have lights controlled by your smart phone?
Not everyone has a smart phone.
Not everyone carries it around every moment of the night and day.
You can flip a light switch with your elbow when your arms are full.
The many 10s of millions of people with presbyopia and myopia don't need glasses to flip light switches.
Requiring everyone in a family -- from the very young to the very old to carry a smart phone, and to pay for all those contracts, is plain, fucking stupid.
But the capital cost of an LED bulb is so high that it off-sets the energy savings.
When the price of CFLs came down, I started putting them in my house, mainly for the convenience of not having to replace them as often. But only when the price dropped.
As an adult, with children, mortgage, etc, etc ad nauseum to pay, we'll be buying a big fat ZERO of these.
Now, if there were "intelligent light switches (and power outlets)" with built-in powerline network adapters and who's control protocol is openly documented (so that I could write Linux apps), then I'd consider it.
It's easy to draw the conclusion that git-hosting in the cloud, like Github or Bitbucket, will lead to sharing the sourcecode
Your "family jewels" live on someone else's machine, which is purposefully designed to let anyone on the Internet get access to it. So of course some Others* are going to get access to it even though you've password protected it.
* And it doesn't even have to be PRISM, Echelon or the DOJ. Your competition, plain old script kiddies, Russian cyber-criminals, Chinese hackers and a host of others might break in.
It sounds like a carefully worded statement that leaves open the possibility...
because, as Brett Buck mentioned, it might not have been the DOJ, OR it might have been the DOJ and the people who did it conveniently forgot to pass the information up the chain.
It's possible to add a bit of grep(1) and sed(1) to the apt package to comment out references to debian-multiple.org in the/etc/apt tree.
Honestly, though, this is the responsibility of the owner/sysadmin of the machine. There are dozens and dozens of non-canonical repositories, and Debian Developers can't be responsible for keeping track of all of them. The owner/sysadmin added the 3rd party repositories, and he should be responsible for maintaining them. I say that as a long-time Debian and now Ubuntu user who's added more than a few repositories.
Slashdot Mirror
Chrome is the only browser that reliably plays all of the videos on Youtube.
Please point to YT videos not playable by Linux Firefox with the current (v11.2.202.291, released on 14-Jun-2013) Flash plugin.
Illegal Aliens can't get a drivers license... so they are safe from these photo searches...
Except no. Google "illegal immigrant driver's license" and see that 8 states already allow it and CA already has a bill filed.
Cops are hired by the Mayor, but Sheriffs are elected officials with jurisdiction over city police.
You've never heard of Civil Service and Police Unions?
In their most common configuration they go back to the 60's.
Don't be a dip-shit. You know perfectly well that "100-240V white LED light bulbs to illuminate rooms" is what this discussion is about, not the tiny little low voltage red things in 1970s calculators.
No one's suggesting the only way to turn on the lights should be to use the smart phone
GP sure did when he wrote, Why bother to have switches at all when you can have lights controlled by your smart phone?
Morse is the orginal digital system, being sent with the fingers.
Counting -- with natural numbers -- is the original digital system, being sent with with our 10 digits.
I'm pretty certain that I've been wrong all these years and that it is digital
"On", "Off" and "On Longer" are discrete and thus digital.
In fact, "digital" doesn't need to only encode 2 values: remember that the word "digital" is the adjective form of "digit", and we have 10 discrete fingers. (Which is why we count in decimal and computers, which have only two discrete values, counts in binary.)
5 character Baudot coding
That's 5 bit encoding, which makes it digital.
That's exactly what they are doing with traffic lights.
And most likely built with sturdier and higher quality components.
If you are an adult with children, mortgage, etc. how could you have time to write Linux apps?
Everyone's gotta have a hobby. (Mine's more of writing bash and Python scripts, not C code.)
My silly power company is giving me $10 back on each of the LED's that I buy.
Or you're inefficiently paying for them via your tax dollars. For whatever the reason, my electric company doesn't offer such rebates (or isn't advertising it).
Anyway, we don't have any more incandescent bulbs. When the price dropped, we bought CFLs, installing them either (a) when incandescents burnt out, or (b) immediately in certain desk lamps where they are a burn hazard.
LED light bulbs have been in modern use for 50ish years?
If you're still using incandescent lights an LED will save a few times its cost in electricity.
Since LEDs are a metric ass-load more expensive than incandescents, they'll need to last an appropriately metric ass-load longer than incandescents.
But since CFLs were also supposed to last 10-15 years but don't, color me skeptical in believing LED light manufacturers claims of light bulb nirvana.
In a LED light the LEDs has a longer lifespan than the controller. You can see this in a LED streetlight.
I'll believe it when there's quite a few more years of real world results. In the mean time, let the first adopters with lots of disposable income (and a lot less sense) buy them.
At least since the 1950s. Possibly even the 1930s.
Why bother to have switches at all when you can have lights controlled by your smart phone?
Not everyone has a smart phone.
Not everyone carries it around every moment of the night and day.
You can flip a light switch with your elbow when your arms are full.
The many 10s of millions of people with presbyopia and myopia don't need glasses to flip light switches.
Requiring everyone in a family -- from the very young to the very old to carry a smart phone, and to pay for all those contracts, is plain, fucking stupid.
But the capital cost of an LED bulb is so high that it off-sets the energy savings.
When the price of CFLs came down, I started putting them in my house, mainly for the convenience of not having to replace them as often. But only when the price dropped.
Interesting.
Does Insteon have an open protocol? IOW, does it work with Linux? Can I write bash scripts to control and monitor my house?
The bulb will last more than 15 years.
Because that's what the manufacturer says?
Your arguments are ludicrous.
Believing self-serving advertisements is ludicrous.
So how many are you going to buy?
As an adult, with children, mortgage, etc, etc ad nauseum to pay, we'll be buying a big fat ZERO of these.
Now, if there were "intelligent light switches (and power outlets)" with built-in powerline network adapters and who's control protocol is openly documented (so that I could write Linux apps), then I'd consider it.
And doesn't have actual scalar integers.
biofeedback, which was the self-help craze of the 1970s. It didn't work very well. (No, I didn't RTFA.)
It's easy to draw the conclusion that git-hosting in the cloud, like Github or Bitbucket, will lead to sharing the sourcecode
Your "family jewels" live on someone else's machine, which is purposefully designed to let anyone on the Internet get access to it. So of course some Others* are going to get access to it even though you've password protected it.
* And it doesn't even have to be PRISM, Echelon or the DOJ. Your competition, plain old script kiddies, Russian cyber-criminals, Chinese hackers and a host of others might break in.
It sounds like a carefully worded statement that leaves open the possibility ...
because, as Brett Buck mentioned, it might not have been the DOJ, OR it might have been the DOJ and the people who did it conveniently forgot to pass the information up the chain.
Plausible deniability, doncha know.
include as an OS update
Put it in a kernel update? Shirley, you jest!
It's possible to add a bit of grep(1) and sed(1) to the apt package to comment out references to debian-multiple.org in the /etc/apt tree.
Honestly, though, this is the responsibility of the owner/sysadmin of the machine. There are dozens and dozens of non-canonical repositories, and Debian Developers can't be responsible for keeping track of all of them. The owner/sysadmin added the 3rd party repositories, and he should be responsible for maintaining them. I say that as a long-time Debian and now Ubuntu user who's added more than a few repositories.