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Comment Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo (Score -1, Troll) 545

Lets see Rotavirus CDC numbers is 1 in 20-100k require surgery after getting the vaccine. The actual disease you might need IV fluids and prevention is by washing hands.

I would call that fsking unsafe the vaccine has a much much worse potential outcome than the disease. The bill lets a committee pick any new vaccines they wish to require, ya know those sorts of places that nobody cares about and you end up with it stacking phama reps.

Remember that this becomes an everybody must use something, regardless of price or safety because an unelected committee said so. This is good why?

Do not get wrong plenty of vaccines even with the potential adverse side effects are no brainers. But giving an unelected committee the power to decide what medications your kids will take is idiotic and prone to abuse. Sure this is backlash from the measles gave my kid autism (BTW autism is far better than dead thanks) that does not mean it's right or justified.

Comment Re:Not Wireless (Score 1) 75

15v or 19v watch how many companies will put a cheap LDO to get it down to a usable voltage like IDK say 5v. When it's in a case that then connects to USB. Watch as 2/3 to 3/4 goes into waste heat before even hitting the phone. What phones directly support this "standard". Looks like Car companies want to sell ya some cheap metal strips and call it a feature.

Comment Re:Lots of other stuff swirling around Common Core (Score 1) 284

An issue with CC was they took the opportunity to go in a new direction. Having a 5th grader I can tell you math is not about getting it right anymore but the process in the CC that my sons school uses. They use some very dubious methods lots of guess and check that they teach and are pushed to grade to. Problem is that process looks nothing like what we remember.

Comment Re:We need governmental regulation of IoT security (Score 1) 131

First off having codes does not mean having the rights, often thats a complex mess on a commercial app. Secondly the build environment is also a complex bit and needed to actually make things work.

It seems to make more sense to work towards the M&M security policy. An edge device that connects the home devices to the internet and deals with a lot of the security aspects. You still need communications security inside the house but if trust is only placed in that one gateway controler.

That said I see things moving to direct wifi connects for mains powered devices, a decent microcontroller and wifi module is down to a few bucks, that is far cheaper that any zwave etc radio. This coupled with every company's desire to have a cloud something that they can try to get a few bucks a month for "special" features to effectively get rent forever. Hell I got a battery powered wifi connected IoT device (wink propane gauge) already.

Comment Re:I call BS (Score 1) 184

Thats very dependant on whose implementation of raid 1. I've seen everything from read from one drive, stripe reads, and read from both and compare. Linux will actually let you choose from among some of those options.

ZFS and btrfs add a crc for a group of blocks and and detect which drive has the bad data, correct that and tract that it happened.

Comment Re:The best thing Keurig can do is die (Score 1) 369

TPM is very different it protects my keys for me, potentially even against physical attacks

Be have a far different opinion of how things are priced, media tends to charge what the market will stand, and used region coding (in many ways part of DRM) to artificially segment those markets. So I doubt that the consumer will see any savings. If anything I think prices will go up as piracy gets harder and less user friendly. In any event I'm talking about the hardware were all paying a hidden amount to support current DRM and implement future DRM.

DRM can not work "better", if I can watch something I can copy it the question is how much loss. Remember that the further up the stack the more places you need to have DRM.

I'm more in they should get one or the other, the FBI etc should go after large commercial pirates, the ones feeding the guys on the street selling DVD etc. We should not be going after people making backups or transcoding, things that were legal since the timeshifting case of the early 80's.

This is not an example of a DRM scheme, requiring the the LOC hold in escrow all DRM keys would require a new law. This is about being able to recover our digital heritage generations from now and has really nothing to do with the DRM itself. Merely picking a responsible party who is already tasked with cataloging and maintaining copies of these sorts of things.

Could their be good useful DRM sure, I doubt anybody major will ever implement it. Their are means today that can cost effectively curb piracy the corps involved choose not to use them.

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