CableCard devices requires your PC software to follow DRM restrictions (copy once, copy never). So far only Windows Media Server have them implemented, any other OS/software such as MythTv will only receive the cable channels marked "copy freely" from the CableCard device (no premium channels, PPV, etc)
You are absolutely right, I didn't phrase it correctly. I didn't mean police brutality is acceptable under any circumstance. What i find really odd is this idea that citizens somehow are allowed to complain and hit back at officers trying to arrest them. Then they whine police brutality when police have to use force to restrain them. The fact I got modded troll says a lot.
Officers gave that dude clear instructions on what to do so they could restrain him and take him to the judge. He decided not to obey and tried to get away instead... result: DEAD
If a police officer gives you an order, YOU SHUT UP AND OBEY. No complaining, no resisting. It doesn't matter who is right, just stay quiet and save it for the judge.
It should be taught to everybody from elementary school that not obeying police might get you killed.
It is very likely that Kelly Thomas didn't follow police instructions so they had to use force. He would be still alive otherwise.
I am against police brutality WITHOUT REASON (officer beats you up without warning), but I think officers should be protected for anything that happens if their instructions are not followed.
BlueInnovation energy monitors is a 2 piece device where you have to install something by the meter itself.
The smartmeter I have in my house has a transmitter compatible with something called "Home Area Network" (HAN) devices. It doesn't need anything installed in the meter to transmit the readings.
Once you acquire HAN-compatible power monitor, you have to call your electric provider and activate it to allow the smartmeter to send data to it.
I have found many references to such devices being sold but nobody actually selling them.
I got my smartmeter here in Texas more than a year ago. So far the best data I can get is delayed by 2 days and at 15 minute intervals.
There are some mythical devices called HAN that you are supposed to buy somewhere to use for instant monitoring inside your house but I have yet to find anybody selling them.
Have you ever used a relational database as the datastore for a big object oriented application?
If you do, you will find most of the complexity in your application will lie in all the hacks used to make your domain model work with a relational database.
You can see this working with fluent nhibernate: create a complex object model and then look at how the automapper bends over backwards to generate a relational database schema matching it (and don't show that schema to your DBA or he might get a heart attack)
I think one of NoSQL aims is to solve this issue by replacing the relational database with a datastore that handles objects straight without hacky schemas or ORM libraries.
In South America (and probably Europe) gasoline is heavily taxed compared to diesel so it is artificially way more expensive. They can't tax diesel like that because it would raise costs on public and cargo transportation.
In the US, diesel is taxed just the same as gasoline. Since its demand is just a fraction of gasoline, it is actually more expensive to produce and therefore costs more than premium gasoline.
The price gap has decreased in the last 10 years and is now just 4% in my zip code. There is also many more gas stations selling diesel.
Software is already protected by by copyrights, having patent protection on software is double-dipping.
Patents on software don't make sense. THE COMPUTER ITSELF IS THE INVENTION and it is by definition, a multi-purpose machine. Patenting techniques you do in a computer is like patenting specific ways of driving a car, or combinations of musical notes.
Let's RTFR, or wait for Groklaw to dissect the ruling and publish their findings. So far Groklaw have shown Florian Muller tends to sensationalize these issues in a way they look really bad for Android while the opposite is true.
That's why you keep the DVD on the mail plan too...
Premium channels show original content series, about 4 new movies a month and a bunch of old ones. All this for $10 to $20 a month each.
In Netflix you get most of these old movies and others premium channels will never bother to play (been finding some great chinese and Thai movies there). And anything not available on streaming can come over the mail, one at a time.
So compare: the same 20 movies and original content over and over for $50+/month, or movies on demand and the rest over the mail for $16/month
Netflix streaming has pretty much made premium channels obsolete.
I disagree, Netflix streaming is comparable to PREMIUM CABLE. All these lame movies you find on HBO, STARZ, SHOWTIME, etc that you watch just because they are kinda ok and there is nothing else to watch you can get on netflix and play ON DEMAND by the hundredths.
So compare netflix, even at $16/month with having all the premium channels for $50+/month.
Over and over we hear about this "scrap and start over" concept. It sounds like a great idea but you are assuming you can do a better job than the guys before and more often than not you will be wrong.
I used to suggest it but now I know better. I have seen new devs with little experience passionately suggest so called "total refactoring". It has never ended well.
Having another pair of eyes on your code is a very good idea but this whole concept of everybody getting together and put somebody's work to shame is bad for team dynamics and a waste of time.
I rather have a team dynamic where any developer can pick up a task involving work on somebody else's code, this way code reviews just happen naturally.
My thoughts exactly. Sadly our Supreme Court has a history of wiping their asses with the constitution. If they have done their jobs, slavery and racial discrimination would have never happened.
Supreme Court judges can be impeached, but that is very unlikely to ever happen.
Copyright should be long enough to encourage creating works for profit, and no longer
Agreed, the problem is copyright licensing income is one of the main passive income streams enjoyed by rich people including politicians, judges and lawyers. They will always legislate to keep, strengthen or expand their income streams.
I got an smartphone with pay as you go service. Just bought an HTC myTouch from newegg for around $180 and put my AT&T gophone card on it. Works fine.
Now if you use lots of data you will get raped with their pay as you go rates. In my case I use all these free wifi spots all over and complement it by buying 10Mb for $5 every 30 days or so.
Patent licenses are one of the main forms of passive income enjoyed by rich people along with copyrights and real state.
Software patents should not exist. These so called inventions should be protected by copyright instead but this is going to be very hard to change since the same rich people earning passive income from them is the people that pays lobbyists or happen to be the lawyers and judges that hear these cases.
Patent reform to the point of eliminating software patents can be done but it would require a massive effort similar to the Civil Rights movement.
I used to agree with that but after Fukushima I started informing myself.
Clean?, what about the expent fuel?. After you burn coal or gas no residues are left. With nuclear you have a tons of radioactive crap you must store and contain for centuries.
The biggest issue with nuclear power plants is what happens when containment fails: look at Fukushima where the "unthinkable" happened: all cooling backups failed, cores melted down and breached containment. There is no way to control it or stop it because meltdowns were not supposed to happen, it was "impossible".
Now imagine what would happen if we get into a war. All our enemy needs is to bomb our nuke plants. Then they just sit and wait until we all die from radioactive poisoning.
I could support nuke plants if there is a proven way to fully control and contain after a catastrophe. It could work if, for example, they don't make them so big but then they might not make business sense to build.
According to this documentary, US officials wanted reactors built in such a way they could contain a full meltdown. GE and Westinghouse lobbied hard and got their way by adding more cooling backups instead.
This means these reactors were built under the premise that a loss of cooling and therefore a full meltdown is "impossible", then Fukushima happened...
So now we have 3 reactors with several tons of radioactive fuel melted at the bottom of their containment vessels. I believe the presence of Iodine indicates the fuel is still firing up self-sustained nuclear reactions. There is no way to contain it, no way to control it.
I am not an anti-nuke nut but Fukushima might make me one. The problem with these nuclear plants is that, if the impossible happens, we are all fucked.
Show me a nuke design built in a way a meltdown can just not happen, or if it happens, can be fully contained, controlled and cleaned without affecting the environment.
Slashdot Mirror
CableCard devices requires your PC software to follow DRM restrictions (copy once, copy never). So far only Windows Media Server have them implemented, any other OS/software such as MythTv will only receive the cable channels marked "copy freely" from the CableCard device (no premium channels, PPV, etc)
You seem to think we have a rampant outbreak of police brutality. If that was the case, I would agree with you.
In any case if you feel like disobeying police commands, suit yourself. Just remember: they got guns.
You are absolutely right, I didn't phrase it correctly. I didn't mean police brutality is acceptable under any circumstance. What i find really odd is this idea that citizens somehow are allowed to complain and hit back at officers trying to arrest them. Then they whine police brutality when police have to use force to restrain them. The fact I got modded troll says a lot.
Officers gave that dude clear instructions on what to do so they could restrain him and take him to the judge. He decided not to obey and tried to get away instead... result: DEAD
They had judges in Nazi Germany?
Irrelevant, he wasn't in a state of mind to obey police however he was just fine a few minutes earlier while breaking into cars?
If a police officer gives you an order, YOU SHUT UP AND OBEY. No complaining, no resisting. It doesn't matter who is right, just stay quiet and save it for the judge.
It should be taught to everybody from elementary school that not obeying police might get you killed.
It is very likely that Kelly Thomas didn't follow police instructions so they had to use force. He would be still alive otherwise.
I am against police brutality WITHOUT REASON (officer beats you up without warning), but I think officers should be protected for anything that happens if their instructions are not followed.
If only there were a way to search the world for information about such things...
You, 6 digits id dare to tell a 5 digit id about google? :-p
None of the devices in these links is compatible with my smart meter.
Here is a device that is compatible with my smart meter (uses ZigBee) but nobody is selling it yet :-s
*facepalm*
BlueInnovation energy monitors is a 2 piece device where you have to install something by the meter itself.
The smartmeter I have in my house has a transmitter compatible with something called "Home Area Network" (HAN) devices. It doesn't need anything installed in the meter to transmit the readings.
Once you acquire HAN-compatible power monitor, you have to call your electric provider and activate it to allow the smartmeter to send data to it.
I have found many references to such devices being sold but nobody actually selling them.
I got my smartmeter here in Texas more than a year ago. So far the best data I can get is delayed by 2 days and at 15 minute intervals.
There are some mythical devices called HAN that you are supposed to buy somewhere to use for instant monitoring inside your house but I have yet to find anybody selling them.
Have you ever used a relational database as the datastore for a big object oriented application?
If you do, you will find most of the complexity in your application will lie in all the hacks used to make your domain model work with a relational database.
You can see this working with fluent nhibernate: create a complex object model and then look at how the automapper bends over backwards to generate a relational database schema matching it (and don't show that schema to your DBA or he might get a heart attack)
I think one of NoSQL aims is to solve this issue by replacing the relational database with a datastore that handles objects straight without hacky schemas or ORM libraries.
In South America (and probably Europe) gasoline is heavily taxed compared to diesel so it is artificially way more expensive. They can't tax diesel like that because it would raise costs on public and cargo transportation.
In the US, diesel is taxed just the same as gasoline. Since its demand is just a fraction of gasoline, it is actually more expensive to produce and therefore costs more than premium gasoline.
The price gap has decreased in the last 10 years and is now just 4% in my zip code. There is also many more gas stations selling diesel.
I agree but for other reasons:
Software is already protected by by copyrights, having patent protection on software is double-dipping.
Patents on software don't make sense. THE COMPUTER ITSELF IS THE INVENTION and it is by definition, a multi-purpose machine. Patenting techniques you do in a computer is like patenting specific ways of driving a car, or combinations of musical notes.
Let's RTFR, or wait for Groklaw to dissect the ruling and publish their findings. So far Groklaw have shown Florian Muller tends to sensationalize these issues in a way they look really bad for Android while the opposite is true.
That's why you keep the DVD on the mail plan too...
Premium channels show original content series, about 4 new movies a month and a bunch of old ones. All this for $10 to $20 a month each.
In Netflix you get most of these old movies and others premium channels will never bother to play (been finding some great chinese and Thai movies there). And anything not available on streaming can come over the mail, one at a time.
So compare: the same 20 movies and original content over and over for $50+/month, or movies on demand and the rest over the mail for $16/month
Netflix streaming has pretty much made premium channels obsolete.
I disagree, Netflix streaming is comparable to PREMIUM CABLE. All these lame movies you find on HBO, STARZ, SHOWTIME, etc that you watch just because they are kinda ok and there is nothing else to watch you can get on netflix and play ON DEMAND by the hundredths.
So compare netflix, even at $16/month with having all the premium channels for $50+/month.
Over and over we hear about this "scrap and start over" concept. It sounds like a great idea but you are assuming you can do a better job than the guys before and more often than not you will be wrong.
I used to suggest it but now I know better. I have seen new devs with little experience passionately suggest so called "total refactoring". It has never ended well.
Having another pair of eyes on your code is a very good idea but this whole concept of everybody getting together and put somebody's work to shame is bad for team dynamics and a waste of time.
I rather have a team dynamic where any developer can pick up a task involving work on somebody else's code, this way code reviews just happen naturally.
As long as you don't count the costs of building it, decommissioning and storing nuclear waste for thousands of years.
My thoughts exactly. Sadly our Supreme Court has a history of wiping their asses with the constitution. If they have done their jobs, slavery and racial discrimination would have never happened.
Supreme Court judges can be impeached, but that is very unlikely to ever happen.
Copyright should be long enough to encourage creating works for profit, and no longer
Agreed, the problem is copyright licensing income is one of the main passive income streams enjoyed by rich people including politicians, judges and lawyers. They will always legislate to keep, strengthen or expand their income streams.
I got an smartphone with pay as you go service. Just bought an HTC myTouch from newegg for around $180 and put my AT&T gophone card on it. Works fine.
Now if you use lots of data you will get raped with their pay as you go rates. In my case I use all these free wifi spots all over and complement it by buying 10Mb for $5 every 30 days or so.
Patent licenses are one of the main forms of passive income enjoyed by rich people along with copyrights and real state.
Software patents should not exist. These so called inventions should be protected by copyright instead but this is going to be very hard to change since the same rich people earning passive income from them is the people that pays lobbyists or happen to be the lawyers and judges that hear these cases.
Patent reform to the point of eliminating software patents can be done but it would require a massive effort similar to the Civil Rights movement.
I used to watch Formula One races in the 80s and they had in-car computers sending wireless telemetry to the pits.
As for alternative fuel, I believe in these times most racing cars were using Jet fuel, ethanol or other crap like that.
I used to agree with that but after Fukushima I started informing myself.
Clean?, what about the expent fuel?. After you burn coal or gas no residues are left. With nuclear you have a tons of radioactive crap you must store and contain for centuries.
The biggest issue with nuclear power plants is what happens when containment fails: look at Fukushima where the "unthinkable" happened: all cooling backups failed, cores melted down and breached containment. There is no way to control it or stop it because meltdowns were not supposed to happen, it was "impossible".
Now imagine what would happen if we get into a war. All our enemy needs is to bomb our nuke plants. Then they just sit and wait until we all die from radioactive poisoning.
I could support nuke plants if there is a proven way to fully control and contain after a catastrophe. It could work if, for example, they don't make them so big but then they might not make business sense to build.
According to this documentary, US officials wanted reactors built in such a way they could contain a full meltdown. GE and Westinghouse lobbied hard and got their way by adding more cooling backups instead.
This means these reactors were built under the premise that a loss of cooling and therefore a full meltdown is "impossible", then Fukushima happened...
So now we have 3 reactors with several tons of radioactive fuel melted at the bottom of their containment vessels. I believe the presence of Iodine indicates the fuel is still firing up self-sustained nuclear reactions. There is no way to contain it, no way to control it.
I am not an anti-nuke nut but Fukushima might make me one. The problem with these nuclear plants is that, if the impossible happens, we are all fucked.
Show me a nuke design built in a way a meltdown can just not happen, or if it happens, can be fully contained, controlled and cleaned without affecting the environment.