FWIW, I also own two Apple TV's, an Atom-based HDMI-out net top, a Chromecast, and now the Amazon Fire TV. I think the software needs a little work. They need to figure out the pairing issue with the remote. The game controlled needs a serious redesign though. It's painful. Or hopefully they will support third party controllers.

The Plex App on Fire TV is $0.99 and I bought it as well with some of the free Amazon "Coins" that I got from buying the Amazon Controller. I'll update some info when I get the device paired with my Plex Server.

My Amazon Fire TV arrived today. Initial impressions:

The box is a lot bigger than Apple TV and includes an external power brick (unlike AppleTV). The physical look and feel of the device and remove are very premium.

The controller is big and uncomfortable. D-PAD is very poorly positioned. This is worse than the Pre-S XBox Controller. It feels like the NVidia Shield a bit but that at least has an entire computer (roughly as powerful as the Fire TV) inside the controller. Seriously, I think they hired the Atari Jaguar controller design team here

First impression is that the UI is not as polished or pretty as the Apple TV but it seems usable. Voice Search is fairly fast but not nearly as "instant" as the commercials and videos online make it seem. Also, the results are only for Amazon Instant Video, Amazon App Store (and supposedly Hulu but I haven't seen any of those).

HBO GO is not on it yet. I installed Flixster to access my Ultraviolet Collection. Unfortunately, Flixster will not play any of my movies in HD and highly compressed 480 SD resolution is a mess on my 65" TV.

And my Fire TV remote seems to lose "pairing" a lot. I sometimes have to use the game controller to go to settings and then to Add Remote and it will find it again.

How does and old fashioned smoke detector fare at detecting fires that don't produce smoke?

So if you are running down the hallway waving your arms as you escape the building during a fire, you might disable the alarm before it warns other people.

Mozilla is an organization that officially places a higher value on openness and inclusiveness than profit in its charter and mission.

Having someone who is perceived as being bigotted and biased against a minority community as CEO is at odds with Mozilla's reason for existence.

Hence, he is a bad fit for CEO despite his other qualifications.

Nope... but I certainly wouldn't put them as the CEO of an organization that officially places a higher value on openness and inclusiveness than profit.

The CEO of a company can have religious beliefs. However, the Supreme Court of the US is about to decide if the a Corporation can have strongly religious beliefs based on the beliefs of it's CEO and if those beliefs justify not complying with Federal Laws (Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc).

The BMW technology detects oncoming traffic as well as cars in front of you and automatically dims the beams so as not to blind other drivers.

A number of missile defense systems involve using a high power laser that is reflected off a highly controllable (both in speed and accuracy) aiming mirror to destroy the missile. Even flying low and at hypersonic speeds, if there is a line of sight, then the missile could be targetted by the defense system's laser. Light moves quite a bit faster than a hypersonic missile last time I checked.

Can someone identify the music in the video?

Nest has fan cycling, the ability to run the fan after heating or cooling have completed (to get the rest of the warmth / cold more efficiency), and the ability to run the fan on demand for a user specified amount of time. You can also tell your Nest to run the fan for X minutes every hour (say 15 minutes per hour) to keep the air circulated in the house and to avoid heating / cooling differentials. All controllable from your iPhone or iOS or Android device.

Isn't Hegh'bat the equivalent of a Klingon Resignation?

This isn't necessarily true. Earlier Trim will improve the performance of the SSD drive because the drive knows more free space -- more free space allows the drive to 1) pre-emptively erase flash 2) coalesce fragmented blocks 3) more efficiently combine write blocks 4) perform wear levelling operations with less overhead.

Early trimming can have a similar effect to the manufacturer increasing slack space which increases performances on nearly all SSD's.

Did the Net-Security.org site repackage this article before it was repackaged by Slashdot?

It wasn't a rain forest. Yearly flooding of the Nile provided fertile soil and water which allowed for farming of the flood plain. Go a bit away from the Nile and you were still out in the dessert rather quickly. This is why nearly all major ancient Egyptian sites are along the Nile River (whereas a rainforest would have allowed for a more geographical dispersed population).

The Nile no longer floods every year though due to the construction of the Aswan damn.