RMS wouldn't approve the Rasperry Pi because it needs the binary blob to boot. (I think regardless of this particular reverse engineering). Yes, RMS pushs for the most free computer he can get.
Obviously, this is not a good development. I also don't see this being that difficult for the utilities to detect through other means.
But the bigger question is control and oversight of these devices by the homeowners themselves. Homeowners should be allowed to directly access the data on their smart meter. It can be very advantageous to the homeowner to know when there power usage peaks among other items.
Smart meters will eventually have more control of turning off devices in the home. Homeowners need to be firmly in control of that kind of functionality. At the same time, utilities need to be able to verify the homeowner really is using what they expect.
According to statcounter: February 2012: "iOS",1.89 "Linux",0.83
February 2011: "Linux",0.76 "iOS",0.46
If iOS gets to have an effect, I don't see why desktop linux can't. In this case however, it seems like it would mostly hurt Firefox on Linux. But then again this is in 5 years. 5 years ago, there were a lot more sites with Quicktime, Realplayer, and Windows Media streaming. I barely see them at all today.
http://preyproject.com/ "Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever stolen or missing -- easily and all in one place. It's lightweight, open source software that gives you full and remote control, 24/7. "
Oh and the code is open, so if you want to add a more complicated "bricking" capability you could. https://github.com/prey
The anti-evolution people could patent evolution and then claim any teaching of it to be infringement.
Wouldn't they have to admit it's right first? Admitting it is "useful" is a requirement to get a patent. Theories that are wrong, are not usually very useful.
In the bill it provides a cost estimate. With a net positive effect, including this line, "The Department also estimates, based on a review of the FY 2012 and FY 2013 budget, state expenditures could decrease by approximately $300,000 in FY 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter through the implementation of open source software. "
There is a breakdown of the estimate for the cost part, broken down into possible new employees/time. Is there any breakdown of the estimated $300,000 in savings?
Awesome bill. How long have you been working on it?
My next question was about previous versions of the bill, (interested to see if there was an upstream health provision/contributing back), and it seems like the system does support that...
I made a petition on the site (to end the corn subsidy) but it takes upwards of 20 seconds to load, which is completely ridiculous. Most people assume it's a dead link.
Of course, this makes it harder to reach the 25,000 necessary in 30 days in order to get a response.... Any thoughts on why it is sooooo slow?
They just relaunched Build your own browser, (byob.mozilla.com), which should help customize the settings. (I haven't tried it yet as we customized it manually)
We deploy with WPKG and find it works quite well. Not all companies use the MSI deployment tools...
That's totally the premise from the latest transformers movie.. and I never thought I would say that they actually did a more convincing job in that movie than the above site...
The ZaReason MediaBox (http://zareason.com/shop/MediaBox-4220.html) but you have clearly outgrown that already...
Both ZaReason (http://zareason.com/shop/Servers/) and System76 (http://www.system76.com/servers/) have server models that look like they would meet your needs. I usually prefer to buy from one of them (ZaReason will ship with Debian already).
Another thing I would look at is using a video card for encoding. Couldn't find a link for how to do this, if anyone does please chime in.
As for filesystems ext4 is the easy choice. If you build it in a year (and have update software including fsck for btrfs) I would go with that.
For the software... what are using on the frontend/need to be compatible with?
They really must be incompetent to only make $13 Billion on 7.77 Trilllion of interest free money...
How long is the term on these loans? Has it been paid back? I though the Federal Reserve only loaned money for a very short period of time (which would make the $13 billion more understandable).
I disagree with Ron Paul on many issues, but he has been calling for the end of the undemocratic Federal Reserve for a long time.
Slashdot Mirror
That's bull.
RMS wouldn't approve the Rasperry Pi because it needs the binary blob to boot. (I think regardless of this particular reverse engineering). Yes, RMS pushs for the most free computer he can get.
Here are what the FSF actually uses (they install coreboot themselves when needed, btw), and they do actually exist:
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/systems
Obviously, this is not a good development. I also don't see this being that difficult for the utilities to detect through other means.
But the bigger question is control and oversight of these devices by the homeowners themselves. Homeowners should be allowed to directly access the data on their smart meter. It can be very advantageous to the homeowner to know when there power usage peaks among other items.
Smart meters will eventually have more control of turning off devices in the home. Homeowners need to be firmly in control of that kind of functionality. At the same time, utilities need to be able to verify the homeowner really is using what they expect.
Give http://open.mapquest.com/ a try. It uses OpenStreetMap data while including many mapquest features, including satellite imagery.
Is there a package that includes this functionality or is it all custom done?
According to statcounter:
February 2012:
"iOS",1.89
"Linux",0.83
February 2011:
"Linux",0.76
"iOS",0.46
If iOS gets to have an effect, I don't see why desktop linux can't. In this case however, it seems like it would mostly hurt Firefox on Linux. But then again this is in 5 years. 5 years ago, there were a lot more sites with Quicktime, Realplayer, and Windows Media streaming. I barely see them at all today.
http://preyproject.com/
"Prey lets you keep track of your laptop, phone and tablet whenever stolen or missing -- easily and all in one place. It's lightweight, open source software that gives you full and remote control, 24/7. "
Oh and the code is open, so if you want to add a more complicated "bricking" capability you could.
https://github.com/prey
The anti-evolution people could patent evolution and then claim any teaching of it to be infringement.
Wouldn't they have to admit it's right first? Admitting it is "useful" is a requirement to get a patent. Theories that are wrong, are not usually very useful.
I don't use linux, but I remember reading a while ago that linux introduced a feature to update the kernel w/o a reboot. Does this not apply?
It's not built-in for any major distros yet. It's called ksplice, which is owned by Oracle now. (It is GPLv2)
AFAIK it has not been mainstreamed.
I thought we were going in the other direction. You know the one were we don't have to pay a patent fee for online video.
And a link... http://duckduckgo.com/
ddg.gg is a short url that redirects...
They have sites explaining how they don't track or "bubble" you:
http://donttrack.us/
http://dontbubble.us/
In the states you can find (high fructose) corn syrup in hundreds of products it normally would never be in.
Learn more at http://endcornsubsidy.wordpress.com/
Sign a petition at http://wh.gov/K1t
In the bill it provides a cost estimate. With a net positive effect, including this line, "The Department also estimates, based on a review of the FY 2012 and FY 2013 budget, state expenditures could decrease by approximately $300,000 in FY 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter through the implementation of open source software. "
There is a breakdown of the estimate for the cost part, broken down into possible new employees/time. Is there any breakdown of the estimated $300,000 in savings?
Awesome bill. How long have you been working on it?
My next question was about previous versions of the bill, (interested to see if there was an upstream health provision/contributing back), and it seems like the system does support that...
Unfortunately: http://www.nhliberty.org/bills/view/2012/HB418/2012-01-04
I love this line: "Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404."
Sorta like this?
It's not currently available though, and I'm not sure how long it was really available for...
I made a petition on the site (to end the corn subsidy) but it takes upwards of 20 seconds to load, which is completely ridiculous. Most people assume it's a dead link.
Of course, this makes it harder to reach the 25,000 necessary in 30 days in order to get a response.... Any thoughts on why it is sooooo slow?
What? I don't get the opportunity to say that very often.
I mean I guess Bing might get to track an aggregate of DuckDuckGo users, but that's hardly the same thing....
I've pretty much switched to http://duckduckgo.com/
Check out http://dontbubble.us/ and http://donttrack.us/. This would be an example of bubbling, btw.
And if you don't find results (I'd say Google has better results about 20-30% of the time) !g brings that search term to Google.
They just relaunched Build your own browser, (byob.mozilla.com), which should help customize the settings. (I haven't tried it yet as we customized it manually)
We deploy with WPKG and find it works quite well. Not all companies use the MSI deployment tools...
That's totally the premise from the latest transformers movie.. and I never thought I would say that they actually did a more convincing job in that movie than the above site...
I swear I've changed that setting before...
Dammit.
The ZaReason MediaBox (http://zareason.com/shop/MediaBox-4220.html) but you have clearly outgrown that already... Both ZaReason (http://zareason.com/shop/Servers/) and System76 (http://www.system76.com/servers/) have server models that look like they would meet your needs. I usually prefer to buy from one of them (ZaReason will ship with Debian already). Another thing I would look at is using a video card for encoding. Couldn't find a link for how to do this, if anyone does please chime in. As for filesystems ext4 is the easy choice. If you build it in a year (and have update software including fsck for btrfs) I would go with that. For the software... what are using on the frontend/need to be compatible with?
On the last Daily Show they said it was over 7T, and not 1.2T.
For some reason I trust the Daily Show for more accurate news then real news outlets...
It's 7.77 Trillion over the larger crisis time. 1.2 Trillion was on a single day.. Yes the Daily Show is better than many news outlets at this point.
They really must be incompetent to only make $13 Billion on 7.77 Trilllion of interest free money... How long is the term on these loans? Has it been paid back? I though the Federal Reserve only loaned money for a very short period of time (which would make the $13 billion more understandable). I disagree with Ron Paul on many issues, but he has been calling for the end of the undemocratic Federal Reserve for a long time.
To Firefox
To Ubuntu
DuckDuckGo is more in line with Mozilla's Manifesto in that it:
The old site was one of the worst job sites on the internet. I'm not sure if it's any better, but I don't think it could have gotten worse.