Yes. Almost all my media is streamed ... from my basement. It was a pain to set up, but now the kids can watch whatever they want without the pains of going through DVD or BluRay menus. A plus is that the home videos are easily accessible as well.

Speaking to a medical doctor, there's apparently a belief in the medical field that complications from LASIK procedures are under-reported.

Are there any short term and 5 year followup studies of the procedure?

Less of a problem than men killing other men, statistically.

I stream from my basement. Buy the discs (or, more recently, rent them from Redbox or borrow them from the library) and rip them. A NAS in the basement holds everything, and xbmc on computers in the livingroom and bedroom for the streaming.

Total cost $1000. Being able to stream whatever movie I own within 15 seconds of turning the TV on? Priceless.

Best part? The NAS accepts ssh connections from outside the home. I have a similar setup in a friend's house and my parents, both of which do a 'rsync over ssh' every time they turn the system on (with logs stored on my NAS so I know the syncs are occurring). Now I get distributed remote mirrors and they get streaming from their basements.

#1 - You're not that interesting.

#2 - Connected devices can have interesting power management solutions. It's not just adjusting the home temperature when it figures out no one's going to be home for 8 hours. What about adjusting when the fridge uses the most power during times when electricity is the cheapest? Or sending you a text message if the motion detectors go off but your car is not in the driveway/garage? Or have lights go on just after dusk (regardless of time of year) and go out at a random time between 10 and 11pm (unless motion suggests people are home)?

The upfront cost of these devices are a bit more. To be absorbed by early adopters, of course. But when the prices come down and the kinks straightened out, they can be quite useful.

OnTopic: My neighbor showed me the app he had on his phone to monitor his pool. It allowed him to monitor temperature, pH, turn the filter and heater on, etc. The installer gave it a default 4 digit passcode, which was apparently the same four digit passcode that every other installation had. Since the ID number of the pool was adjustable, my neighbor joked that he would sometimes log into random people's pools and flash their pool lights (and had others do it to him as well). Fortunately no one's raised the pool temperature to 90 degrees or something like that (yet).

Presumably he'll get some sort of mandatory time in front of a psychiatrist to make sure he's fit for active duty.

What they should have done is lease or sell the boxes to their subscribers and charge a monthly service fee to keep their boxes from being attacked by viruses, etc.

That way they can't be sued for anything but installing commodity software at the owner's request.

More and more I only believe Consumer Reports. They don't accept donated items for review. They purchase their own from a normal middleman to make sure what they get is what a normal person would get.

That being said, it's remarkable they're still in business.

Actually it would be fantastically good with a slight tweeking of the iOS UI. All you do is detect that the device is hooked into a keyboard dock and show the running tasks bar at all times. Unplug it from the dock and the tasks bar disappears.

I'm sorry. I didn't realize that Wayland 1.5 was an alpha release. Presumably it will be complete when it hits 1.0?

It's an awesome sight, and then the Japanese government was told that the U.S. had another thousand bombs of the same caliber.

The Japanese command crunched the numbers and saw that it would exterminate their race. More importantly, it showed them unequivocally that the Japanese were inferior to U.S. firepower and technological prowess.

Only works when the last working version isn't broken.

Want an example? Get an original iPad and install Google+. The version that installs won't let you get past the login screen. It's that last version that's compatible with the original iPad.

Steps:
1 - Get a RAID similar to your main storage to use as backup.
2 - Put the second RAID in a relative's house, where you can get access to it.
3 - Have this backup run an rsync over ssh once a week/month, pointing at your main storage array.

With proper ssh key exchange set up ahead of time and using an ssh username and port that are non-obvious (with ssh on your main system only allowing known keys and not username/password combinations), you'll do pretty well against everyone except a malignant government entity.

If I had to give up my privacy for a free lunch I would run the other way. And I'm sure he would have if he had a choice.

That choice was taken from him by a tabloid journalist. (I don't care who printed the story. It was tabloid journalism at it's worst.)

So I'm not the only one who's ears perked up when they thought they heard about the Cardassians show? :-)