This can't be /. - you let your family use windows?

Perfect way to have your own music server turned radio station, when there is no ethernet and lotsa wifi interference or range problems, can be a great way for getting your own music to the shed down the back of the yard.

The main downside is in only being able to control playlists etc from one central location - if you have some means of doing this(ie a netbook,computer or other device, you have enough network to setup something like the squeezebox. Still, setup a big playlist and just tune in to your own station.

You could also use this as a way of extending your squeezebox based music network as well, you can setup your own stream. I needed to put the output from an eeepc through an amplifier before putting the signal into the fm transmitter, but it worked very well.

For whole of house music it actually works better than software based syncronisation of the music servers, which can be be annoyingly a little out of sync due to network and cpu performance.

Just be careful of the amount of gain vs fm transmission laws, fines can be large for what could be taken as running a pirate radio station.

It actually works best in lower population density areas, as in the big cities there may not be a clear enough area available in the FM band for a reliable signal.

Something like this is great for getting the signal to the studio out the back tho....

http://www.fordray.com.au/Products/fmt_lp/fmt_lp.html

There are already a number of semi-automated legislation interpreters in the rule engine field, albeit like early OCR systems, but the application and testing of formal logic to new or amended acts cannot come soon enough! I can just imagine future proposals requiring successful test runs of existing and new test scenarios before voting proceeds.

Anyone remember the recent orwellian actions of Amazon, the Kindle, and the 'its a license not a book'?

This seems to ignore the director circuit - directors on the boards of large companies is a very small, close-knit group that often make decisions to further their own group.

Have a look at the list of boards that a director of a large public company is on, ostensibly as proof of their capability, but also representative of the highly inbred and insular nature of the group.

This group evolves from and rewards the executives who it sees as supporting the group, not some blind egalitarian principle of capitalism.

Shareholders provide the funds, and this is controlled by majority shareholders, and, yup, the same directors again on different boards.

Bit like the way government works I suppose.

It is a security measure