"I havent heard anyone else complain about cell coverage phone coverage or asking friends"
Then you're either not listening, or living in a very insular world. My spouse and I live in Fairfield County (i.e. southern-most CT) -- just 10 miles from the I-95 corridor -- and work in Westchester County, NY (40 minutes from NYC), just 10 minutes from I-684. We, and MANY people we know, get NO coverage at home or on our commute-route. The carrier DOES make a difference, and people with Verizon seem to do best in our area. ATT (our current carrier) is worst.
"I use a DVR to reduce my time wasted on television."
Oh, the irony . . .;-)
"The MythTV thing seems more like a Heathkit approach"
btw... I'm really regretting that I didn't get into the whole Heathkit thing when I was a kid. For quite some time now, I've been seriously lusting to get into DIY / self-teach electronics -- from basics, through building test gear, to doing serious home-fab of embedded comms boards, "TOE"s, NPUs, etc.
But the only aids I recall seeing marketed, are things like "Gee, kids, this kit comes with 1,000 different real-world experiments and nifty tricks you can do!"
I vaguely recall reading allusions to Tivo and/or Replay having actually crippled *later* models (for DRM concerns, etc.). IOW, *older* models are sometimes more capable than newer ones.
Can someone give me a summary (or some links) about which commercial unit (brand + model) is the most capable (especially DRM-wise), and how it compares to the best available DIY option?
I don't understand why people are fixating on the "guide" issue. If you don't have a guide, can't you still do programming manually, just like with a VCR? Can you do this with Myth? With Tivo?
1. public wifi. Yes, it's not typically in a town's purvue [purview?], but a lot of small towns are doing it.
2. ALL PUBLIC DATA which is available by walking into city hall, should be available on the web. My town has web access to assessor's data, but not up-to-date; yet I CAN get the latest data at an online terminal in city hall. And last week I asked for a list of all addresses with demolition permits in the last three years. It's not on the web, but they were happy to make me wait three days and pay $26 for them to run one simple SQL query. Finally, the complete public library catalog, WITHOUT needing a library card just to see the catalog.
"letters are sent out automatically to people who are flagged during their internet robots' scans"
irrelevant. At some point they must start pursuing people who haven't answered. Doing so dissipates their resources. And, if they pursue court action or ISP-disconnect, erroneously, against a large number of innocents, they'll eventually get painfully slapped down by state A.-G.s, judges, and consumer class-actions.
"These planets are only 10-15 times bigger than Earth"
Why do we assume that life is most likely where gravity is close to ours? Consider the organisms discovered only in the last 30 years, which thrive in environmental extremes of heat and pressure.
And it need not be non-"intelligent" life: consider the pressures sustained by sperm whales and giant squid.
For that matter, is it guaranteed that large diameter = crushing gravity? Might there realistically be a planetary giant with significantly lower density?
Or might crushing gravity be reduced by the gravity of surrounding bodies, e.g. moons or binary/ternary stars, or by a single star orbited by a non-rotating planet?
"You can have a hole in your heart and 60 seconds later it's sealed."
ummm...how large a hole can you have for SIXTY SECONDS without already being doomed to eventual death from shock or brain hypoxia or circulatory collapse?
and how long does it take from the time the hole is created until the time it's realized, exposed, and then treated?
I do see the utility of searching for files using booleans, etc. But why is this preferable to a g-p search capability which could *also* search from/dev, piped-ls, etc.?
"Mediachest is excellent because the RIAA and MPAA and FBI and whomever else cannot I repeat CANNOT get you on law breaking. As the 'swapping' happens offline, they have no way to find out about it."
"can you say "Sting Operation" boys and girls? How the hell do you think they catch kiddie porn freaks who try to meet up with kids offline? Do you know you're not setting yourself up to illegally distribute songs offline with a cop of FBI agent?"
I meet you online, then arrange to ship to you, or hand to you, my ORIGINAL legal media. How is THAT illegal? And how are YOU caught if you make a copy?
(actually, URLs). This the second tantalizing/. story about this subject which teases us by not disclosing: exactly WHO are the makers and vendors of the liberalized equipment containing the subject chips?
1. You make an excellent point about how people have a false sense of security merely because they're physically isolated. However...
2. "with P2P programs, you are essentially advertising to the entire world that you have something to share" Actually, certain p2p architectures make it impossible to prove that the file was ever resident at the immediately-adjacent node, or to prove the identity of the contributing node. Combine this with encryption, and you have plausible deniability to the claim that the immediately-adjacent node had any way of knowing anything about the content being relayed.
One recurring theme is powerful well-funded RIAA pursuing individuals who are forced to settle in order to avoid worse consequences.
Question: is there any such thing as a "reverse class-action"? IOW, is there any way that multiple defendants can gather and force RIAA to pursue them all as one joint defendant, so that they could pool their defensive resources?
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"I havent heard anyone else complain about cell coverage phone coverage or asking friends"
Then you're either not listening, or living in a very insular world.
My spouse and I live in Fairfield County (i.e. southern-most CT) --
just 10 miles from the I-95 corridor --
and work in Westchester County, NY (40 minutes from NYC), just 10 minutes from I-684.
We, and MANY people we know, get NO coverage at home or on our commute-route.
The carrier DOES make a difference, and people with Verizon seem to do best in our area.
ATT (our current carrier) is worst.
"I use a DVR to reduce my time wasted on television."
;-)
Oh, the irony . . .
"The MythTV thing seems more like a Heathkit approach"
btw...
I'm really regretting that I didn't get into the whole Heathkit thing when I was a kid.
For quite some time now, I've been seriously lusting to get into DIY / self-teach electronics --
from basics, through building test gear, to doing serious home-fab of embedded comms boards, "TOE"s, NPUs, etc.
But the only aids I recall seeing marketed, are things like "Gee, kids, this kit comes with 1,000 different real-world experiments and nifty tricks you can do!"
Suggestions?
I vaguely recall reading allusions to Tivo and/or Replay having actually crippled *later* models (for DRM concerns, etc.).
IOW, *older* models are sometimes more capable than newer ones.
Can someone give me a summary (or some links) about which commercial unit (brand + model) is the most capable (especially DRM-wise), and how it compares to the best available DIY option?
I don't understand why people are fixating on the "guide" issue.
If you don't have a guide, can't you still do programming manually, just like with a VCR?
Can you do this with Myth? With Tivo?
1. public wifi.
Yes, it's not typically in a town's purvue [purview?], but a lot of small towns are doing it.
2. ALL PUBLIC DATA which is available by walking into city hall,
should be available on the web.
My town has web access to assessor's data, but not up-to-date;
yet I CAN get the latest data at an online terminal in city hall.
And last week I asked for a list of all addresses with demolition permits in the last three years. It's not on the web, but they were happy to make me wait three days and pay $26 for them to run one simple SQL query.
Finally, the complete public library catalog, WITHOUT needing a library card just to see the catalog.
"letters are sent out automatically to people who are flagged during their internet robots' scans"
irrelevant.
At some point they must start pursuing people who haven't answered.
Doing so dissipates their resources.
And, if they pursue court action or ISP-disconnect, erroneously, against a large number of innocents, they'll eventually get painfully slapped down by state A.-G.s, judges, and consumer class-actions.
causAtive, not "causitive"
"Eventually, they do just become a visage of what they once were."
Perhaps you meant "vestige".
Yes, I AM being an asshole today, thank you.
Sorry.
Look at the bright side:
I only do it to people whom I think might actually care.
the star is well-DESERVED, not "well desired"
"These planets are only 10-15 times bigger than Earth"
Why do we assume that life is most likely where gravity is close to ours?
Consider the organisms discovered only in the last 30 years,
which thrive in environmental extremes of heat and pressure.
And it need not be non-"intelligent" life:
consider the pressures sustained by sperm whales and giant squid.
For that matter, is it guaranteed that large diameter = crushing gravity?
Might there realistically be a planetary giant with significantly lower density?
Or might crushing gravity be reduced by the gravity of surrounding bodies,
e.g. moons or binary/ternary stars,
or by a single star orbited by a non-rotating planet?
"You can have a hole in your heart and 60 seconds later it's sealed."
ummm...how large a hole can you have for SIXTY SECONDS without already being doomed to eventual death from shock or brain hypoxia or circulatory collapse?
and how long does it take from the time the hole is created until the time it's realized, exposed, and then treated?
I do see the utility of searching for files using booleans, etc. /dev, piped-ls, etc.?
But why is this preferable to a g-p search capability which could *also* search from
'goo-gleh' (noun)
googler ('goog-lay'), v.t.
quandAry
"All Sirius subscribers have a login and password so they can stream Sirius channels over the internet"
is it compressed, like the radio version?
do you know the resolution?
how does the quality compare to CD?
"I have Sirius, and it suffers from a signficant amount of digital artifacts."
what about the broadband (non-radio) TCP stream which sirius offers?
$40USe rs/ xmpcr-toslink-digital-output-board.html
http://www.myradiostore.us/xm-radio-receiv
"Mediachest is excellent because the RIAA and MPAA and FBI and whomever else cannot I repeat CANNOT get you on law breaking. As the 'swapping' happens offline, they have no way to find out about it."
"can you say "Sting Operation" boys and girls? How the hell do you think they catch kiddie porn freaks who try to meet up with kids offline? Do you know you're not setting yourself up to illegally distribute songs offline with a cop of FBI agent?"
I meet you online, then arrange to ship to you, or hand to you, my ORIGINAL legal media.
How is THAT illegal?
And how are YOU caught if you make a copy?
(actually, URLs). /. story about this subject which teases us by not disclosing:
This the second tantalizing
exactly WHO are the makers and vendors of the liberalized equipment containing the subject chips?
(I quit looking after the first 50 posts.)
Ummm . . . the first time I heard of it?
"Get a very, very large number of people to confess to file sharing"
They could still be sued individually, at RIAA's discretion --
not to mention the "recruitment" problems.
My point is, is there a way to gather a bunch of people ALREADY BEING PURSUED, as a single defendant?
"I can pull my cell phone out of my pocket and catch up with the latest news and sports scores in an instant"
And you can't do this with text, or even still images?
1. You make an excellent point about how people have a false sense of security merely because they're physically isolated. However...
2. "with P2P programs, you are essentially advertising to the entire world that you have something to share"
Actually, certain p2p architectures make it impossible to prove that the file was ever resident at the immediately-adjacent node, or to prove the identity of the contributing node. Combine this with encryption, and you have plausible deniability to the claim that the immediately-adjacent node had any way of knowing anything about the content being relayed.
One recurring theme is powerful well-funded RIAA pursuing individuals who are forced to settle in order to avoid worse consequences.
Question:
is there any such thing as a "reverse class-action"?
IOW, is there any way that multiple defendants can gather and force RIAA to pursue them all as one joint defendant, so that they could pool their defensive resources?
"THAT's why Google is cut from whole cloth with every new hire chosen to be of the body."
Is there anyone who can parse this?
"chosen to be of the body"?
Is that even English?
I don't agree that Whorf is "discredited ", but the post is thoroughly informative.