you can't have inspiration without pirat(e)

having been around (online) in 1997 i can assure you video cds and avi files were rampant on irc networks at the time. real player was around as soon as yahoo was launched (acoording to wikis) and while real encoder wasn't free it wasn't long after the release of the fraunhauffer codecs for audio that mysterious mpeg-4 as divx came along.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4135826-in-the-courts-of-the-sun i have the first book it was the best thing i've read in a while didn't realize it was a trilogy until i looked it up for you i will read the other two books sometime...

"Pfft can't do anything via HDMI without HDCP to keep movie studios happy."

not true at all. my alienware laptop will only accept inbound HDCP codes from modern updating gaming consoles, as such trying to display a desktop on the laptops display doesn't work because HDCP is not fully implemented in windows linux etc. yes if you use powerdvd to play a bluray it will use HDCP but in truth the windows and linux devices don't use HDCP by default unless software with the current HDCP key is used. to protect that key it is not included with windows. and powerdvd uses encryption to protect its key. make a roll your own home theater pc based on an open source distribution and all your 'ripped' or 'downloaded' content will play to any hdmi device and it will play just fine

parents should accept their childrens flaws. flaws are the only thing that makes us valuable. too bad the 1% are trying to make themselves the most wealth and as such the most uniformity among society so they can be milked into running their empires without ever becoming a real threat to the PTB.

as i understand the ceramic or silver substrate will bond it and make it stable enough for use as a microchip.

"I know a company has to be profitable to keep people employed"

woah hold on there as long as the company has buzzwords they can reel em in on wall street and run at losses for many many years before the aftermath comes along.

i find usb (powered) bluray burners ($80+ on amazon) work on any usb 2.0 or better connection. if you're on a budget a bd-rom/dvd-rw or just a dvd-rw will work. i recommend BD simply because i prefer it to dvd.

"Show me one other alternate universe. Is that so much to ask?"

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

  it is an alternative to the debian universe repository. hey you said one not what type.

"this exploit could be used to turn Fuelbands into data mules."

all 65k of memory they have too sure you can fit a forkbomb but a 65k data mule?

ok, we can grow enough algae to power all our diesel road fuel consumption. what about the energy to mine all the iron and to electro-magnetically extract it. what about to power all the computers, every iphone requires an infrastructure that is the equivalent of one refrigerator worth of power per user. what about computers that do jobs for humans, what about buildings necessary to shelter humans. what about roads, what about air transit?

sustainability is great, proving the technology works is great. but as long as sustainability isn't on the political agenda then we will never see it happen. as for the plastic, plastic can be made from corn, methane and a lot of other things besides oil. plastic also usually recycles well.

outlook? the germy infection vector for millions finally on android and ios? clearly seal number 4 http://madearth.net/index.php/doomsday/seven-doors/signs

"Eventually the CD might not be supported,"

welcome to the 21st century where music is listened to on phones. devices that are obsolete in 2 years but can store all your music on a tiny bitty chip unless you've been torrenting the best music of the past 100,000 years.

as to 'not supported' there are chinese firms still selling 8 track tape playing devices, despite the fact that all of the remaining tapes should have deteriorated now. they also sell vhs decks which the local wal-mart actually has a model on the shelf. blu-ray playback is not going away anytime soon. i have 2 bluray writers, one for the desktop and one usb powered one for the laptop(s). reel to reel tape decks may now be considered obsolete but there are people who still use them in the industry.

there will be pushes to make new fancier stuff, yes. it is called marketing. the vast majority of my cd-rs are still readable and only some of them have bitrot. but i wasn't organized with my cd-rs so i have a considerable number of discs i don't really know if i still have the data or not. most of the data isn't really mission critical and despite losing my music collection about 4 times now (from windows formatted hard drives) the back ups cd-rs and dvds and now 1 bluray, i have only lost 1 song to bitrot 1 song and it was all because i had backups that survived longer than hard drives.

i recommend HDDs and BD-R discs for backup. BD-R while subject to bitrot are still the lowest energy overhead per GB in the consumer space. HDDs are the cheapest per GB but if left running so as to automate backups draws more power and powering off a HDD in the consumer space means you have to be there to power it on for archival use. though there will at some point be a 'smartphone' app to remotely put them to standby via software. this can already be done with a NAS and Wake-on-LAN and a little scripting. but then the energy requirements are significantly higher on a NAS than on a usb hdd. anyways using both media HDD and Blu-ray offers a better chance of not losing everything. flash memory is nice but i wouldn't expect it to last forever, my compact flash devices suffered from an issue where the memory would take more and more power from devices until the cameras running them couldn't power them from fresh batteries, could have been the camera but it is hard to say but i wouldn't consider any flash memory as reliable when compared to hdds and bluray devices.