Good points. I would also include that the ad server must send the entire ad within 100ms. Part of the reason I use adblock is so I'm not sitting there waiting for some ad server.
I believe the package name is ms-windows, but you have to enable another repository and sell your soul. I don't have it installed on my Linux box, so I can't really comment on it more than that.
That's me as well. I ordered one before this hack came out as I wanted an ebook reader. Now I can root it and install my own apps, very useful. I don't really care about the 3G, I'm on WiFi 90% of the time anyway. I'm curious to see what the various devs come up with for this. If the e-ink screen is accessible from standard Android apps, that would have some interesting applications. If nothing else, I could write a nicer book manager if I don't like the stock one.:)
HIPPA only requires that the PII be properly secured. Enforce S/MIME, PGP or similar and you're good to go. Not as easy as FAX, but if it's properly done it's not bad and it's MUCH more secure. An unauthorized user can walk away with a printed FAX, not so with an encrypted email. And you can guarantee that data is from who it claims to be from via the encryption keys. FAX is easy to spoof. The biggest use case I can see for them still that isn't really handled well is signatures. There are digital sigs, but they aren't really standardized as well as they could be, and PKI could be better. Digital capture devices are working pretty well for signatures these days though. My bank has started having me sign a digital pad rather than a paper slip now.
The point is, there are ways to deal with this. There's more learning curve than a FAX machine, but if we as technologists would build the proper tools, it doesn't have to be too bad and can probably be nearly as transparent as ye olde FAX machine.
The mandated cost was the problem, not the basic idea. How about this, mandate that the companies cannot merge or be otherwise owned by each other or by the same parent company and each company sets their own prices. One restriction, the cost for access to the lines is the same no matter who is asking. If SupercorpA gets the line for $10/mo, than SmallCompanyB gets the same line for the same price, no exceptions. That preserves the incentive for the company owning the lines to improve and keep decent service as they can charge more to cover those costs while maintaining open access in a way that provides reasonable profit all around.
I agree. I honestly think that we need a regulation that provides protection for cities and states building telecommunication lines so long as they are open-access. By that I mean that anyone can lease capacity for the same prices and all comers are allowed. There is no reason we should allow corporations to bring lawsuits just because someone wants to compete with them.
Yup. Plenty of small companies would be willing to do it though. Hell, if the govt wants to pay for the fiber and install, I'll start a small company to manage it and happily take $105K/year to do so. And I'll run it with an open access policy.
The more that they have been doing things like force me to watch previews by locking out the system from accepting commands, the less I have been buying. Maybe one day they will look at themselves and legitimately ask the question, why did they lose out on making sales to someone like me.
That's the biggest reason I rip and/or transcode movies to my file server. I don't want the stupid ads, previews, menus and other assorted bullshit. I want to press play and watch the damn movie. Particularly for kids movies, my kid doesn't want to watch your stupid ads, they want to watch the movie I *PAID FOR*. The "pirated" version is MORE useful and costs LESS. Note that I still buy movies and music I like, but I still put them on my server. I hate dealing with ads and menus, I just want the damn movie. And if they make it difficult to do that, I know where to get versions that someone else has already removed all the protections on. So I can download that and just leave my purchases on the shelf. I have BluRays, but I've watched the download instead because of irritating DRM BS. If the producers would offer me the same type of file for purchase directly, I would happily pay them and download direct. But instead I'm forced into playing these stupid games. Idiots. I'd probably own much more of their stuff as impulse buys if they did this. But since I have to go to the store or wait for the mail, I don't buy some things and instead I rent or netflix them.
I'm using the multiroom audio system from HTD and it works quite well. Much less expensive than the other similar products and works well. The whole setup was about $2000 USD, a little pricey, but compared to the other products out there it looks really cheap. The control pads pass IR back to the base so you can control the devices at the head end, you can also wire sources from the control pads. I plug an iPod into a control panel and start it, then any room in the house can listen to it.
The downside is it's all hardwired, so you need to be able to get wires to the proper locations. The control pads need Cat5, speaker wires go from the amp to the speakers directly. The system can send up to 8 sources to 6 zones. Each zone can choose what source it wants to listen to.
I've seen wireless and powerline based systems, but the reviews online didn't seem very good. The HTD system works very well for me. I'm also using their in-ceiling speakers and they sound quite good.
Pussy. I've been hit by 15kV. 220 is a slight tickle compared to that. Tesla Coil primary, with a capacitor, I'm lucky to be alive. Don't try it, it hurts like hell.
Well, it keeps the power steering and brakes active for a minute anyway. Till your engine self-destructs from the over-RPM condition caused by an unloaded engine with an open throttle. Still, better than death caused by an out of control vehicle.
I built a new server when I installed OpenSolaris, so I just booted the new server and used NFS to copy the data over. It worked really well. raidz is working really well for me, you should set up a test array and try it out. Even as file devices just for testing.
Also, I did not vote, I was taught to vote my believes, not the lesser of 2 evils, and honestly, there is very little difference between them from my viewpoint.
Then you are part of the problem. It's not like there are only 2 candidates for most elections. Hell, deface the ballot if you must, but not voting is a vote for the status quo.
How about this.. we have a public referendum on what the public wants. Sure the public can be swayed, but atleast the public as a whole will have some visibility in front of the politicians, as it is right now, the politicians only real view is of whatever the lobbying entities put in front of them.. he who has the money makes the rules I guess.
I'm cool with that. But who writes the question being voted on? Any rules on advertising? It's easy to spin just about anything with the right PR firm at a LOT of money, which the telcos certainly have.
I'm ok with using the free market, once the telcos pay back all the free money they got and pay for the use of the right-of-ways they have been getting for free, and a monopoly at that. The barrier to entry for competitors has been huge, and it's really bad now. They have to attempt to compete against a monopoly that has had a century to build out infrastructure. That's not really a reasonable solution. The free market has not existed in telecommunications for near 100 years. You can't just expect it to kick in overnight. It's going to take some government intervention to counteract the past 100 years of government intervention. If you want to try that road, the first thing you need is a federal law banning local monopolies on telecom services. If anyone wants to build a network, the local and state governments have to let them. They get all the same right-of-way use that the existing telcos, cablecos, and even electric companies get, and they get it for free, same as the existing carriers. And they then have to listen to bitching from NIMBY morons screaming about them tearing up the roads, etc.. You pretty much have to make them immune to such lawsuits while you're at it, or they will get buried in court papers. And you have to deal with fighting among them when one of them digs up someone else's lines, etc.. And no, wireless won't cut it as a primary access medium. There's simply not enough bandwidth available for that.
I'm starting to think the only real way to fix this is to have the governments build the network itself, like they do the roads, and sell capacity to all comers at the same rates. That way, the network is neutral and the services are up to the providers and customers to decide. All the while, the providers are all at the same level of access. Or perhaps a law that prohibits service providers to own physical networks and the physical networks have to provide access to all comers at the same rates and service levels. That plus breaking the last mile monopoly would provide an environment that is workable for free market forces to compete. You don't have a free market when there's no competition. And no, dial-up is NOT competition for 20Mbps service. That's retarded. I would define a competitive ISP environment as one where any customer in a given area, say ZIP codes, has at least 5 equivalent speed up/down, and service level options available with no more than 2 of them being wireless. That was easy with dial-up, and not that hard with current tech, we just have greedy telcos and cablecos in the way.
Meh.. Keep your floppy. I haven't had one in any of my machines for about a decade now. Even if I don't have a CD drive in there, I have USB sticks with a bootable Linux on them and every modern motherboard can boot a USB stick. I've also been buying Asus boards in part because I can update the BIOS from a USB stick as well. I'm sure other makers are doing that as well these days though.
Floppies are useless ancient tech that I have no use for. If I need a custom Windows driver during install, I make a slipstream CD. Linux doesn't need such hacks, so I'm good there. I even keep a loose CD drive around for machines that don't normally have one connected. Pop the case, attach IDE cable, and it's running. I'll probably move to an eSATA version later.
I don't know how it is now, but I checked into a Dell netbook with Ubuntu pre-installed. It costs the same as getting a Windows license with the machine. In that case, I may as well get the Windows license and have more options available, even if I intend to install Ubuntu, Moblin, or even OSX on the hardware.
I don't know about the poster you are responding to, but I would support all of the above. While on a personal level, I don't see myself wanting same-sex or polygamy, I don't have a problem with other people doing it. There are some concerns I do have with incest, that it causes physical problems with offspring. I do believe that we should protect the rights of the unborn to some degree, so I would have to disagree with incest so long as offspring can be produced. If it is physically impossible for reproduction to occur in the relationship (one or both are unable to have children) then I see no reason for me to object to it other than "it's gross". As that is merely my opinion of "gross" and it harms no other people, I can't bring myself to object to it in law. I'll just choose not to do it myself. So yes, in that case, I have no problem with a marriage that includes close familial relationships. I don't like it personally, nor would I do it personally, but that's not a good enough reason to use government force to prevent it. Other people are entitled to disagree with me.
The only other caveat I have with marriage is that all parties are consenting adults. I don't mind polygamy, I DO mind child abuse.
While I agree that these sorts of changes require some re-working of laws and forms, I think they are necessary if we are to provide "equal protection under the law" for everyone. I also believe that such laws should include a provision that churches only have to perform ceremonies if they wish to. The government is not allowed to force religions to recognize marriages they disagree with or force acceptance of other beliefs on the various religions. That would be, in effect, a state religion. If you don't like the beliefs of a particular religion, you are free to locate another one. There are plenty of them out there. Or start your own I suppose. Whatever.
The only reasonable way to make this work is to force the companies involved to break up. The physical plant and the services MUST be separate companies with no special treatment for anyone. The owner of the physical network sells bandwidth to all comers at the same rate, and that is ALL they do. Data from A to B, charged either by rate-limit or per GB with the same price no matter who comes asking. I should be able to get the same rate for a connection as a Fortune 100 company. That will level the playing field and induce the company running the network to keep upgrading the network as they can sell more that way. I would also have some % improvement they have to make in overall speeds per year or something like that. And break the monopoly on the last mile physical wires as well. If someone else thinks they can do it better, fine, they can try, under the exact same rules.
Of course, it also requires an active enforcement from FCC or a local PUC. If a small local ISP has problems that the bigger guys don't, they should be able to get help.
I'd like to see the same thing done with cellular as well. Move everyone to the same network standard (the latest GSM) and use ALL the spectrum for everyone's networking. One company owns the towers and backhauls, and sells transport to the companies selling services like voice/data. Any phone that works will work on any provider as the network is the same. Just swap the SIM cards. Better coverage and speeds for everyone. I'd also like to see them break the contract model a little. It's fine to have a contract for the term of the subsidy, but it should be an upfront thing and you're just paying for the handset costs with a separate line item on the bill. Once the handset is payed for, it's no longer on the bill. So the cost of the handset is obvious and you don't pay for it unless you choose to finance your handsets. The cost of the service shouldn't include the cost of a handset. If I bring my own, I shouldn't have to pay for one anyway.
Both of these would spur competition and drive costs down and service levels up. All good things, unless you are making a ton of money from the current system. Why would you want to change and take a risk if you're that guy?
For software, I can see legit reasons to want to keep source under wraps for the duration of the copyright. So how about a compromise? If you want copyright protection, a full copy of the source code must be provided to the Library of Congress to be released after the copyright period expires. Combined with a reasonable copyright term, say, 10 years, this sort of thing should work fine. I still have install media that works for 10 year old OSes and computers that can run them. I agree about music/movies though, DRM should be banned so that the user can migrate the recordings to the latest technology. If you are going to sell the rights to use the works, the user has the right to use it however they want to so long as they don't distribute.
Unless you run Linux. Check the MythTV mailing list sometime, nearly every post referencing an ATI gfx chip can't get even basic stuff working. NVidia gave us VDPAU, ATI has yet to answer that one. I have no idea how ATI does in Windows for HTPCs as I don't run Windows on my HTPCs. The license alone would be 30% of the cost for the machine even if I wanted to use it. Too much for too little.
Use the isotope decay to charge a normal battery or capacitor. Still some potential loss, but it's something. And if you plug into your house at night, use it to power your fridge or something.:)
Your grandfather was likely exposed before he even got the shot. Flu virus takes time to make you notice symptoms. And the shot takes a week or so before it can prevent infection. This effect is why there are so many people that think the shot gave them the flu. They already had it, but just didn't know about it yet.
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Good points. I would also include that the ad server must send the entire ad within 100ms. Part of the reason I use adblock is so I'm not sitting there waiting for some ad server.
I believe the package name is ms-windows, but you have to enable another repository and sell your soul. I don't have it installed on my Linux box, so I can't really comment on it more than that.
That's me as well. I ordered one before this hack came out as I wanted an ebook reader. Now I can root it and install my own apps, very useful. I don't really care about the 3G, I'm on WiFi 90% of the time anyway. I'm curious to see what the various devs come up with for this. If the e-ink screen is accessible from standard Android apps, that would have some interesting applications. If nothing else, I could write a nicer book manager if I don't like the stock one. :)
HIPPA only requires that the PII be properly secured. Enforce S/MIME, PGP or similar and you're good to go. Not as easy as FAX, but if it's properly done it's not bad and it's MUCH more secure. An unauthorized user can walk away with a printed FAX, not so with an encrypted email. And you can guarantee that data is from who it claims to be from via the encryption keys. FAX is easy to spoof. The biggest use case I can see for them still that isn't really handled well is signatures. There are digital sigs, but they aren't really standardized as well as they could be, and PKI could be better. Digital capture devices are working pretty well for signatures these days though. My bank has started having me sign a digital pad rather than a paper slip now.
The point is, there are ways to deal with this. There's more learning curve than a FAX machine, but if we as technologists would build the proper tools, it doesn't have to be too bad and can probably be nearly as transparent as ye olde FAX machine.
The mandated cost was the problem, not the basic idea. How about this, mandate that the companies cannot merge or be otherwise owned by each other or by the same parent company and each company sets their own prices. One restriction, the cost for access to the lines is the same no matter who is asking. If SupercorpA gets the line for $10/mo, than SmallCompanyB gets the same line for the same price, no exceptions. That preserves the incentive for the company owning the lines to improve and keep decent service as they can charge more to cover those costs while maintaining open access in a way that provides reasonable profit all around.
I agree. I honestly think that we need a regulation that provides protection for cities and states building telecommunication lines so long as they are open-access. By that I mean that anyone can lease capacity for the same prices and all comers are allowed. There is no reason we should allow corporations to bring lawsuits just because someone wants to compete with them.
Yup. Plenty of small companies would be willing to do it though. Hell, if the govt wants to pay for the fiber and install, I'll start a small company to manage it and happily take $105K/year to do so. And I'll run it with an open access policy.
The more that they have been doing things like force me to watch previews by locking out the system from accepting commands, the less I have been buying. Maybe one day they will look at themselves and legitimately ask the question, why did they lose out on making sales to someone like me.
That's the biggest reason I rip and/or transcode movies to my file server. I don't want the stupid ads, previews, menus and other assorted bullshit. I want to press play and watch the damn movie. Particularly for kids movies, my kid doesn't want to watch your stupid ads, they want to watch the movie I *PAID FOR*. The "pirated" version is MORE useful and costs LESS. Note that I still buy movies and music I like, but I still put them on my server. I hate dealing with ads and menus, I just want the damn movie. And if they make it difficult to do that, I know where to get versions that someone else has already removed all the protections on. So I can download that and just leave my purchases on the shelf. I have BluRays, but I've watched the download instead because of irritating DRM BS. If the producers would offer me the same type of file for purchase directly, I would happily pay them and download direct. But instead I'm forced into playing these stupid games. Idiots. I'd probably own much more of their stuff as impulse buys if they did this. But since I have to go to the store or wait for the mail, I don't buy some things and instead I rent or netflix them.
I'm using the multiroom audio system from HTD and it works quite well. Much less expensive than the other similar products and works well. The whole setup was about $2000 USD, a little pricey, but compared to the other products out there it looks really cheap. The control pads pass IR back to the base so you can control the devices at the head end, you can also wire sources from the control pads. I plug an iPod into a control panel and start it, then any room in the house can listen to it.
The downside is it's all hardwired, so you need to be able to get wires to the proper locations. The control pads need Cat5, speaker wires go from the amp to the speakers directly. The system can send up to 8 sources to 6 zones. Each zone can choose what source it wants to listen to.
I've seen wireless and powerline based systems, but the reviews online didn't seem very good. The HTD system works very well for me. I'm also using their in-ceiling speakers and they sound quite good.
Pussy. I've been hit by 15kV. 220 is a slight tickle compared to that. Tesla Coil primary, with a capacitor, I'm lucky to be alive. Don't try it, it hurts like hell.
Well, it keeps the power steering and brakes active for a minute anyway. Till your engine self-destructs from the over-RPM condition caused by an unloaded engine with an open throttle. Still, better than death caused by an out of control vehicle.
I built a new server when I installed OpenSolaris, so I just booted the new server and used NFS to copy the data over. It worked really well. raidz is working really well for me, you should set up a test array and try it out. Even as file devices just for testing.
Can't you put some decent SATA drives in there along with the crap PATA units and use "zfs replace"?
Also, I did not vote, I was taught to vote my believes, not the lesser of 2 evils, and honestly, there is very little difference between them from my viewpoint.
Then you are part of the problem. It's not like there are only 2 candidates for most elections. Hell, deface the ballot if you must, but not voting is a vote for the status quo.
How about this.. we have a public referendum on what the public wants. Sure the public can be swayed, but atleast the public as a whole will have some visibility in front of the politicians, as it is right now, the politicians only real view is of whatever the lobbying entities put in front of them.. he who has the money makes the rules I guess.
I'm cool with that. But who writes the question being voted on? Any rules on advertising? It's easy to spin just about anything with the right PR firm at a LOT of money, which the telcos certainly have.
I'm ok with using the free market, once the telcos pay back all the free money they got and pay for the use of the right-of-ways they have been getting for free, and a monopoly at that. The barrier to entry for competitors has been huge, and it's really bad now. They have to attempt to compete against a monopoly that has had a century to build out infrastructure. That's not really a reasonable solution. The free market has not existed in telecommunications for near 100 years. You can't just expect it to kick in overnight. It's going to take some government intervention to counteract the past 100 years of government intervention. If you want to try that road, the first thing you need is a federal law banning local monopolies on telecom services. If anyone wants to build a network, the local and state governments have to let them. They get all the same right-of-way use that the existing telcos, cablecos, and even electric companies get, and they get it for free, same as the existing carriers. And they then have to listen to bitching from NIMBY morons screaming about them tearing up the roads, etc.. You pretty much have to make them immune to such lawsuits while you're at it, or they will get buried in court papers. And you have to deal with fighting among them when one of them digs up someone else's lines, etc.. And no, wireless won't cut it as a primary access medium. There's simply not enough bandwidth available for that.
I'm starting to think the only real way to fix this is to have the governments build the network itself, like they do the roads, and sell capacity to all comers at the same rates. That way, the network is neutral and the services are up to the providers and customers to decide. All the while, the providers are all at the same level of access. Or perhaps a law that prohibits service providers to own physical networks and the physical networks have to provide access to all comers at the same rates and service levels. That plus breaking the last mile monopoly would provide an environment that is workable for free market forces to compete. You don't have a free market when there's no competition. And no, dial-up is NOT competition for 20Mbps service. That's retarded. I would define a competitive ISP environment as one where any customer in a given area, say ZIP codes, has at least 5 equivalent speed up/down, and service level options available with no more than 2 of them being wireless. That was easy with dial-up, and not that hard with current tech, we just have greedy telcos and cablecos in the way.
Meh.. Keep your floppy. I haven't had one in any of my machines for about a decade now. Even if I don't have a CD drive in there, I have USB sticks with a bootable Linux on them and every modern motherboard can boot a USB stick. I've also been buying Asus boards in part because I can update the BIOS from a USB stick as well. I'm sure other makers are doing that as well these days though.
Floppies are useless ancient tech that I have no use for. If I need a custom Windows driver during install, I make a slipstream CD. Linux doesn't need such hacks, so I'm good there. I even keep a loose CD drive around for machines that don't normally have one connected. Pop the case, attach IDE cable, and it's running. I'll probably move to an eSATA version later.
I don't know how it is now, but I checked into a Dell netbook with Ubuntu pre-installed. It costs the same as getting a Windows license with the machine. In that case, I may as well get the Windows license and have more options available, even if I intend to install Ubuntu, Moblin, or even OSX on the hardware.
I don't know about the poster you are responding to, but I would support all of the above. While on a personal level, I don't see myself wanting same-sex or polygamy, I don't have a problem with other people doing it. There are some concerns I do have with incest, that it causes physical problems with offspring. I do believe that we should protect the rights of the unborn to some degree, so I would have to disagree with incest so long as offspring can be produced. If it is physically impossible for reproduction to occur in the relationship (one or both are unable to have children) then I see no reason for me to object to it other than "it's gross". As that is merely my opinion of "gross" and it harms no other people, I can't bring myself to object to it in law. I'll just choose not to do it myself. So yes, in that case, I have no problem with a marriage that includes close familial relationships. I don't like it personally, nor would I do it personally, but that's not a good enough reason to use government force to prevent it. Other people are entitled to disagree with me.
The only other caveat I have with marriage is that all parties are consenting adults. I don't mind polygamy, I DO mind child abuse.
While I agree that these sorts of changes require some re-working of laws and forms, I think they are necessary if we are to provide "equal protection under the law" for everyone. I also believe that such laws should include a provision that churches only have to perform ceremonies if they wish to. The government is not allowed to force religions to recognize marriages they disagree with or force acceptance of other beliefs on the various religions. That would be, in effect, a state religion. If you don't like the beliefs of a particular religion, you are free to locate another one. There are plenty of them out there. Or start your own I suppose. Whatever.
The only reasonable way to make this work is to force the companies involved to break up. The physical plant and the services MUST be separate companies with no special treatment for anyone. The owner of the physical network sells bandwidth to all comers at the same rate, and that is ALL they do. Data from A to B, charged either by rate-limit or per GB with the same price no matter who comes asking. I should be able to get the same rate for a connection as a Fortune 100 company. That will level the playing field and induce the company running the network to keep upgrading the network as they can sell more that way. I would also have some % improvement they have to make in overall speeds per year or something like that. And break the monopoly on the last mile physical wires as well. If someone else thinks they can do it better, fine, they can try, under the exact same rules.
Of course, it also requires an active enforcement from FCC or a local PUC. If a small local ISP has problems that the bigger guys don't, they should be able to get help.
I'd like to see the same thing done with cellular as well. Move everyone to the same network standard (the latest GSM) and use ALL the spectrum for everyone's networking. One company owns the towers and backhauls, and sells transport to the companies selling services like voice/data. Any phone that works will work on any provider as the network is the same. Just swap the SIM cards. Better coverage and speeds for everyone. I'd also like to see them break the contract model a little. It's fine to have a contract for the term of the subsidy, but it should be an upfront thing and you're just paying for the handset costs with a separate line item on the bill. Once the handset is payed for, it's no longer on the bill. So the cost of the handset is obvious and you don't pay for it unless you choose to finance your handsets. The cost of the service shouldn't include the cost of a handset. If I bring my own, I shouldn't have to pay for one anyway.
Both of these would spur competition and drive costs down and service levels up. All good things, unless you are making a ton of money from the current system. Why would you want to change and take a risk if you're that guy?
For software, I can see legit reasons to want to keep source under wraps for the duration of the copyright. So how about a compromise? If you want copyright protection, a full copy of the source code must be provided to the Library of Congress to be released after the copyright period expires. Combined with a reasonable copyright term, say, 10 years, this sort of thing should work fine. I still have install media that works for 10 year old OSes and computers that can run them. I agree about music/movies though, DRM should be banned so that the user can migrate the recordings to the latest technology. If you are going to sell the rights to use the works, the user has the right to use it however they want to so long as they don't distribute.
Unless you run Linux. Check the MythTV mailing list sometime, nearly every post referencing an ATI gfx chip can't get even basic stuff working. NVidia gave us VDPAU, ATI has yet to answer that one. I have no idea how ATI does in Windows for HTPCs as I don't run Windows on my HTPCs. The license alone would be 30% of the cost for the machine even if I wanted to use it. Too much for too little.
And use the waste heat to warm up your house.....
Use the isotope decay to charge a normal battery or capacitor. Still some potential loss, but it's something. And if you plug into your house at night, use it to power your fridge or something. :)
Negative review: Seller packaged the item poorly and the containment battery seems to be damag@!%!#&^* .... NO CARRIER
Your grandfather was likely exposed before he even got the shot. Flu virus takes time to make you notice symptoms. And the shot takes a week or so before it can prevent infection. This effect is why there are so many people that think the shot gave them the flu. They already had it, but just didn't know about it yet.