Forgot to mention: The WD Live Hub also supports Netflix, Pandora, Hulu Plus, etc. You can also write your own plugins. For $180, it's farking priceless as a media client.
I too have a spouse; TED (Torrent Episode Downloader) + uTorrent + WD Live Hub. Episodes are automatically downloaded via the Windows VM on an ESXi host to a NAS that the WD Live Hub can read and index. Wife proof. Also, I don't watch sports, so YMMV.
Eventually, I plan on storing all the content in OpenStack's object storage system, when time permits.
I believe in paying for the content if I can't get it somewhere else; give me a way to pay for it *and I will* (i.e Netflix, Hulu, I pay for my music via Amazon/Cloudplayer, etc).
I *am not* going to pay Comcast $100+/month for hundreds of channels I will never watch.
This just in: Economic incentives effect how humans make decisions. UPS drivers face different delivery metrics than FedEx Ground and Express, hence how they handle deliveries differently.
Genomes have *a lot* of redundant data across multiple genomes. It's not hard to do de-duplication and compression when you're storing multiple genomes in the same storage system.
The 2.9 billion base pairs of the haploid human genome correspond to a maximum of about 725 megabytes of data, since every base pair can be coded by 2 bits. Since individual genomes vary by less than 1% from each other, they can be losslessly compressed to roughly 4 megabytes.
Disclaimer: I have worked on genome data storage and analysis projects.
Next Futurama episode needs to include a red light camera that flashes, takes a picture polaird-style, and announces loudly "I AM THE LAW" a la Judge Dredd.
Hopefully this will be sorted out of the illness and death of those who refuse to be vaccinated. Seems it'll clear the problem right up. Natural selection, or something to that effect.
More bluntly, is it the responsibility of the parent or of the state to keep the child healthy?
When it affects the health of other individuals? The state. If you don't want to vaccinate your children, they should be required to never leave the house.
If its such a big issue, just have the public schools refuse admission to children who are not vaccinated, and make sure the kids are either privately or home schooled.
Wrong. Because those kids are still going to go out in public.
The solution is simple. You let the market do the work. If you're able to be vaccinated but you refuse, you're required to purchase insurance that covers any liability costs from your causing an outbreak. This is no different than requiring car insurance for the liability risks involved. You can elect to be a fool, but you will cover the costs for your stupidity.
Child Protective Services =! Tyranny. Your rights end where the child's begins. Sometimes, yes, you're life is being lived incorrectly, and the government steps in to help you if you are old enough to do it yourself.
50K people a year die in car accidents; doesn't look like that stops any of us from getting in the car to drive to the office, the mall, the grocery store, etc.
I fly Southwest and Virgin America quite frequently; I've watched Netflix and Hulu on my Macbook Air each time. Also, my entire movie collection has been ripped to MP4s with Handbrake and are stored in the provider who is behind Nimbus.io ($6/100GB/month of storage).
Sooooo $40/month is too expensive for you? If so, mobile broadband of any kind is probably too much for you (except perhaps a 200MB/month plan; ATT may have that).
Wifi at work? Check. Wifi at home? Check. Wifi at houses of friends? Check. Problem?
Turn on Google Maps Location History services; wait for it to collect data. You'd be surprised how little time you spend elsewhere besides home, work, etc.
With regards to poverty, Comcast has a $15/month cheapie plan if you qualify based on income.
2GB for $40/month (2G speeds after specified data limit) 5GB for $50/month (2G speeds after specified data limit) 10GB for $80/month (2G speeds after specified data limit)
I'm on their $50/month unlimited plan (talk, text, data). Sure, it throttles down to 2G speeds after 2GB of data. So? Planning on buying the Galaxy Nexus when it launches, and I can live with those restrictions for $50/month.
"Grass-fed beef has a distinctly different and “grassy” flavor compared with feed-lot beef and also costs more. A recent comparison in The Village Voice cooked up one-pound grass-fed and grain-fed steaks. The grass-fed meat tasted better, according to the article, but at $26 a pound, also cost about three times more."
Sure, there are tons of grazing animals. They still cost three times more per pound than cornfed or CAFO operation beef.
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Forgot to mention: The WD Live Hub also supports Netflix, Pandora, Hulu Plus, etc. You can also write your own plugins. For $180, it's farking priceless as a media client.
I too have a spouse; TED (Torrent Episode Downloader) + uTorrent + WD Live Hub. Episodes are automatically downloaded via the Windows VM on an ESXi host to a NAS that the WD Live Hub can read and index. Wife proof. Also, I don't watch sports, so YMMV.
Eventually, I plan on storing all the content in OpenStack's object storage system, when time permits.
I believe in paying for the content if I can't get it somewhere else; give me a way to pay for it *and I will* (i.e Netflix, Hulu, I pay for my music via Amazon/Cloudplayer, etc).
I *am not* going to pay Comcast $100+/month for hundreds of channels I will never watch.
PVR? Is that like Netflix, Hulu Plus, and The Pirate Bay combined?
This just in: Economic incentives effect how humans make decisions. UPS drivers face different delivery metrics than FedEx Ground and Express, hence how they handle deliveries differently.
Unless his current company fires him for looking elsewhere. Don't think it hasn't been done before.
This is how Dropbox works storing objects in S3, but they do it with 2MB chunks of data.
I had more storage than that across both spinning disk and tape archives at Fermilab working on the USCMS Tier-1 team. 28PB? Not that big of a deal.
Genomes have *a lot* of redundant data across multiple genomes. It's not hard to do de-duplication and compression when you're storing multiple genomes in the same storage system.
Wikipedia seems to agree with me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome#Information_content
The 2.9 billion base pairs of the haploid human genome correspond to a maximum of about 725 megabytes of data, since every base pair can be coded by 2 bits. Since individual genomes vary by less than 1% from each other, they can be losslessly compressed to roughly 4 megabytes.
Disclaimer: I have worked on genome data storage and analysis projects.
Next Futurama episode needs to include a red light camera that flashes, takes a picture polaird-style, and announces loudly "I AM THE LAW" a la Judge Dredd.
I wish I could "favorite" Slashdot posts. Thank you for the info! Also wish I lived close enough to Duke to take one of your classes.
Can you think of anything more scary than that?
Yes. Completely ignorant parents putting my own children at risk because they feel its their right to do so.
Hopefully this will be sorted out of the illness and death of those who refuse to be vaccinated. Seems it'll clear the problem right up. Natural selection, or something to that effect.
Religious exemptions are a scam. There is no case where public health should ever be trumped by religious belief.
More bluntly, is it the responsibility of the parent or of the state to keep the child healthy?
When it affects the health of other individuals? The state. If you don't want to vaccinate your children, they should be required to never leave the house.
If its such a big issue, just have the public schools refuse admission to children who are not vaccinated, and make sure the kids are either privately or home schooled.
Wrong. Because those kids are still going to go out in public.
The solution is simple. You let the market do the work. If you're able to be vaccinated but you refuse, you're required to purchase insurance that covers any liability costs from your causing an outbreak. This is no different than requiring car insurance for the liability risks involved. You can elect to be a fool, but you will cover the costs for your stupidity.
Child Protective Services =! Tyranny. Your rights end where the child's begins. Sometimes, yes, you're life is being lived incorrectly, and the government steps in to help you if you are old enough to do it yourself.
Still alive. 28 years old.
Self-driving electric cars that you can request on demand via mobile phone > bus driven by person that has to stick to a route
50K people a year die in car accidents; doesn't look like that stops any of us from getting in the car to drive to the office, the mall, the grocery store, etc.
I fly Southwest and Virgin America quite frequently; I've watched Netflix and Hulu on my Macbook Air each time. Also, my entire movie collection has been ripped to MP4s with Handbrake and are stored in the provider who is behind Nimbus.io ($6/100GB/month of storage).
Drives? I don't need no stickin CD/DVD drives.
Sooooo $40/month is too expensive for you? If so, mobile broadband of any kind is probably too much for you (except perhaps a 200MB/month plan; ATT may have that).
Wifi at work? Check. Wifi at home? Check. Wifi at houses of friends? Check. Problem?
Turn on Google Maps Location History services; wait for it to collect data. You'd be surprised how little time you spend elsewhere besides home, work, etc.
With regards to poverty, Comcast has a $15/month cheapie plan if you qualify based on income.
T-Mobile: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/mobile-broadband-plans.aspx
2GB for $40/month (2G speeds after specified data limit)
5GB for $50/month (2G speeds after specified data limit)
10GB for $80/month (2G speeds after specified data limit)
I'm on their $50/month unlimited plan (talk, text, data). Sure, it throttles down to 2G speeds after 2GB of data. So? Planning on buying the Galaxy Nexus when it launches, and I can live with those restrictions for $50/month.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/switching-to-grass-fed-beef/
"Grass-fed beef has a distinctly different and “grassy” flavor compared with feed-lot beef and also costs more. A recent comparison in The Village Voice cooked up one-pound grass-fed and grain-fed steaks. The grass-fed meat tasted better, according to the article, but at $26 a pound, also cost about three times more."
Sure, there are tons of grazing animals. They still cost three times more per pound than cornfed or CAFO operation beef.