But, you can't pause and rewind live TV with just a Roku box. You can't even receive live TV with a stand-alone Roku. They've done a pretty decent job of maintaining support for older boxes, as long as they have enough performance to support the newer apps.
I got a couple of Roku TVs for bedrooms - there's an app from my cable provider which streams all the channels I pay for, so I don't need to rent a STB for each of them. That alone will pay for them in 2 years (<$150 each). Plus, there's an app which does DLNA so I can stream content from my own server.
Roku's model with the TV seems to be to sell a reference design and let others make the hardware to that spec, then they take care of the code just like on their own boxes. They may even get a bit of a license fee, but I suspect not. They're building a revenue stream on services - taking a cut when they bill for a "channel," some relatively unobtrusive advertising, etc. They sure don't make a lot on hardware when selling their own $30 sticks.
The FidoNet judicial philosophy can be summed up in two rules:
1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others.
2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed.
But, the article makes more reference to people with Aperger Syndrome, where they may simply not understand how some things they see as completely innocent can cause offense and there's a SJW in every corner to scream that they've been offended.
"WTF is a self-flagellating SJW to do when the fight to uphold the victimization of ever smaller sets of imagined minorities ends up victimizing a minority?"
"Why have televisions, something that should be nothing but a passive interface for signals to be made visible with"
So, do you limit those signals to baseband video (e.g. HDMI)? Because those are called monitors, not TVs. Or do you include OTA DTV signals? If you include DTV signals, why would you exclude digital signals received via WiFi or Ethernet?I suspect that more people stream content than get it OTA.
Oh, and TVs have had "operating systems, computer parts, and memory" ever since the switch to DTV, over 8 years ago.
"Well these can also be obtained by a breach of a front-door, should we then forbid front-doors as well?"
Major non-sequitur. You're in control of your front door, not someone else. Make it as secure or insecure as you wish. Unlike a data breach, breaching a front door requires physical presence - come busting through and expect to get shot. A single breach of a government databank exposes millions of records, making it an attractive target. Breaching millions of front doors would be a lengthy, resource intensive process.
" will alert users of extensions that hijack proxy settings"
Next up, the user won't have a choice, like their removing legacy but perfectly functional encryption methods, or lying to users that "your network may be monitored" if you install a private CA on Android. For being a business based on the net, Google is pretty clueless about how it actually works (try doing plaintext email with their Android MUA).
"unlocking your phone with a password is considered different from using a fingerprint according to the law/police."
A fingerprint is physical, like a key. The taking of fingerprints does not fall within the category of either communication or testimony so as to be protected by the Fifth Amendment privilege. United States v. Wade, supra.
There's not much new for them. They're way ahead of the news for stuff to be offended about.
To the poster: attractive bodies of either sex are attractive, even if most of us aren't. Get over yourself and live with the fact that you're ugly. How old is this "body-positive" terminology, and where's the yin to the yang - is there a politically correct "body-negative" view? Sounds like a recent California manufactured thing to me. Sorry about you being unattractive and having to go for some "body-positive" shtick in a lame attempt to get laid..
Oh, bullshit. Fuck you are your redefinition of terms to fit your worldview. This is definitely censorship - they're deliberately interfering with legal speech because of the content. Whether you agree or disagree with that speech doesn't make a difference, it's still censorship.
Much more than that - there's choice, "oldest first", "newest first", etc. With visibility flavored by personal preference such as giving more weight to up-moderated posts, etc.
/. editors quite obviously don't even spend much time editing, they certainly don't move posts around. Witness all the crude AC posts which appear near the top if browsing at threshold -1.
Or his knowledge is limited to Rb(87) clocks, although he's still incorrect about the timekeeping being based on radioactive decay. Rb(87) is radioactive, but has an extremely long half-life, like 50 gigayears.
"Atomic clocks are based on the periodic decay of radioactive isotopes."
No, they aren't. Radioactive decay is random and would make a terrible clock. The second is defined in terms of a electron transitions of the cesium-133 atom, which is the only stable isotope. Hydrogen maser clocks are even more stable timekeepers, but again, not based on a radioactive isotope.
Allowing unapproved updates is the issue - if owners simply got a notice asking them to approve an update when they signed onto the website (along with an accurate changelog, so they could determine its importance), it wouldn't have spread as quickly, and would have given the vendor more time to withdraw it before it spread so widely.
The myth is that NASA spent millions developing the pens. Not true. They were developed privately, and NASA replaced mechanical pencils costing $130 each with pens costing <$3 each.
"It just shows you who Apple thinks itÃ(TM)s customer is. TheyÃ(TM)re choosing to favour their user experience over their app developers wish to be lazy "
Exactly the opposite of/., which favors their lazy developers over the improved user experience which would come with Unicode support.
So, "'The law of California states that all beaches should be open to the public up to the "mean high tide line.'" That's normal admiralty law pretty much everywhere.
But, the reports I've seen require that a gate be opened and the public allowed to travel an access road across private land. That's a completely different thing.
Access to the beach is available from the water side - bring a boat. Why is a public easement required across private land? At the very least, that's a "taking."
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But, you can't pause and rewind live TV with just a Roku box. You can't even receive live TV with a stand-alone Roku. They've done a pretty decent job of maintaining support for older boxes, as long as they have enough performance to support the newer apps.
I got a couple of Roku TVs for bedrooms - there's an app from my cable provider which streams all the channels I pay for, so I don't need to rent a STB for each of them. That alone will pay for them in 2 years (<$150 each). Plus, there's an app which does DLNA so I can stream content from my own server.
Roku's model with the TV seems to be to sell a reference design and let others make the hardware to that spec, then they take care of the code just like on their own boxes. They may even get a bit of a license fee, but I suspect not. They're building a revenue stream on services - taking a cut when they bill for a "channel," some relatively unobtrusive advertising, etc. They sure don't make a lot on hardware when selling their own $30 sticks.
ITYM "idiot boxes."
... and after all, they're self driving cars, not me driving cars. They can drive themselves around all they want, as long as they stay out of my way.
But, the article makes more reference to people with Aperger Syndrome, where they may simply not understand how some things they see as completely innocent can cause offense and there's a SJW in every corner to scream that they've been offended.
"WTF is a self-flagellating SJW to do when the fight to uphold the victimization of ever smaller sets of imagined minorities ends up victimizing a minority?"
Hopefully, their head asplode.
Be careful, or "welcoming and inclusive" becomes sexual harassment. It's hard to steer between the fine lines of groupthink.
"Why have televisions, something that should be nothing but a passive interface for signals to be made visible with"
So, do you limit those signals to baseband video (e.g. HDMI)? Because those are called monitors, not TVs. Or do you include OTA DTV signals? If you include DTV signals, why would you exclude digital signals received via WiFi or Ethernet?I suspect that more people stream content than get it OTA.
Oh, and TVs have had "operating systems, computer parts, and memory" ever since the switch to DTV, over 8 years ago.
"Well these can also be obtained by a breach of a front-door, should we then forbid front-doors as well?"
Major non-sequitur. You're in control of your front door, not someone else. Make it as secure or insecure as you wish. Unlike a data breach, breaching a front door requires physical presence - come busting through and expect to get shot. A single breach of a government databank exposes millions of records, making it an attractive target. Breaching millions of front doors would be a lengthy, resource intensive process.
"Hijack" is a biased and erroneous pejorative. There are legitimate reasons for an extension to control the proxy.
" will alert users of extensions that hijack proxy settings"
Next up, the user won't have a choice, like their removing legacy but perfectly functional encryption methods, or lying to users that "your network may be monitored" if you install a private CA on Android. For being a business based on the net, Google is pretty clueless about how it actually works (try doing plaintext email with their Android MUA).
"The CNBC article says both that Bannon resigned and that Trump fired him."
I can see that: "You can't resign, you work for me. You're fired."
"unlocking your phone with a password is considered different from using a fingerprint according to the law/police."
A fingerprint is physical, like a key. The taking of fingerprints does not fall within the category of either communication or testimony so as to be protected by the Fifth Amendment privilege. United States v. Wade, supra.
A PIN is knowledge, and protected.
"Censorship's original definition applies only to government."
Unfortunately for you, we live in modern times, and the Roman senate no longer exists. Your point is on your head.
"Slashdot news for SJWs"
There's not much new for them. They're way ahead of the news for stuff to be offended about.
To the poster: attractive bodies of either sex are attractive, even if most of us aren't. Get over yourself and live with the fact that you're ugly. How old is this "body-positive" terminology, and where's the yin to the yang - is there a politically correct "body-negative" view? Sounds like a recent California manufactured thing to me. Sorry about you being unattractive and having to go for some "body-positive" shtick in a lame attempt to get laid..
"Their is no censorship here."
Oh, bullshit. Fuck you are your redefinition of terms to fit your worldview. This is definitely censorship - they're deliberately interfering with legal speech because of the content. Whether you agree or disagree with that speech doesn't make a difference, it's still censorship.
Much more than that - there's choice, "oldest first", "newest first", etc. With visibility flavored by personal preference such as giving more weight to up-moderated posts, etc.
/. editors quite obviously don't even spend much time editing, they certainly don't move posts around. Witness all the crude AC posts which appear near the top if browsing at threshold -1.
Rb(87), which is used for clocks, is radioactive, although not much.
Or his knowledge is limited to Rb(87) clocks, although he's still incorrect about the timekeeping being based on radioactive decay. Rb(87) is radioactive, but has an extremely long half-life, like 50 gigayears.
"Atomic clocks are based on the periodic decay of radioactive isotopes."
No, they aren't. Radioactive decay is random and would make a terrible clock. The second is defined in terms of a electron transitions of the cesium-133 atom, which is the only stable isotope. Hydrogen maser clocks are even more stable timekeepers, but again, not based on a radioactive isotope.
Allowing unapproved updates is the issue - if owners simply got a notice asking them to approve an update when they signed onto the website (along with an accurate changelog, so they could determine its importance), it wouldn't have spread as quickly, and would have given the vendor more time to withdraw it before it spread so widely.
Also, beta testing.
The myth is that NASA spent millions developing the pens. Not true. They were developed privately, and NASA replaced mechanical pencils costing $130 each with pens costing <$3 each.
Curly quotes have been around and working fine since, well, before Gutenberg. It's typewriters which made the change.
Ahhh. Your problem is you don't know the difference between an apostrophe and single or curly quotes.
"It just shows you who Apple thinks itÃ(TM)s customer is. TheyÃ(TM)re choosing to favour their user experience over their app developers wish to be lazy "
/., which favors their lazy developers over the improved user experience which would come with Unicode support.
Exactly the opposite of
So, "'The law of California states that all beaches should be open to the public up to the "mean high tide line.'" That's normal admiralty law pretty much everywhere.
But, the reports I've seen require that a gate be opened and the public allowed to travel an access road across private land. That's a completely different thing.
Access to the beach is available from the water side - bring a boat. Why is a public easement required across private land? At the very least, that's a "taking."