If I were to wear a watch, I'd like to be able to comfortably wear it while sleeping. I'd like it to record my vitals. I hear variation in sleep vitals is a pretty good way to detect illness early on.

Maybe it could vibrate at me when I snore, before it wakes my bed partner. Or vibrate to wake me in the morning, since I can apparently sleep though any noise. Hey maybe my bed could be one big charging mat!

But I don't like to wear a watch, so never mind.

I was at an event last weekend that had a photo booth. Before using it, you had to sign a waiver letting them use the photo for whatever they want.

Who owns the scan of you in this case?

That only applies when transparency is not a competing security mechanism.

In this case, transparency protects from institutional and insider attacks on the system of self-governance. Obscurity simply protects the mechanism from observation. One must ask which is more important.

What's with the guards by the vending machines in terminals? What would happen if I insisted on using the vending machines?

The airports I fly through have nooks with vending machines. When I go through (always day or early evening), there's always a guard. I tried to use the vending machines a couple times and was told "no" and they're only for when the shops are closed.

What goes? Whose policy is it? Do the shop vendors pay separately for this extra protection?

While I'm sure the Corporate Parents of slashdot and linked in are in all sorts of rage and feeling dirty and used, think of the users. As a user of both, I'm certainly displeased.

A virtual protest may be asynchronous, but could go on for quite some time. It could be one more thing encouraging the less corrupt elements to help reign in such abuses.

Does that mean Pixel Qi dead?

I've been looking forward for years for their displays to go mainstream.

Yes. Here, I'll do it for you. DRM is today's buggy whip manufacturers' mechanism for forcing the buggy whip to stay in use.

Watch this TED video for some hints about what's going on beyond the desperate measures of the Content Industrial Machine.

I'm pretty sure that stuff like this only occurs to people who battle such urges in their own life.

I suppose he must get off on such things, so naturally thinks everybody else must too.

Same goes for most other moral crusaders.

What's a sane response to this sort of thing? I like this one: http://cpontius.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/fear-of-the-dark/ .

The proprietary extensions were there before, all the way back to mysql ab. You just had to pay for them before.

From the article, they are enterprise monitor and enterprise backup. Backup at least has been reimplemented by percona as xtrabackup.

They won't have anymore telecommuters. One of our workers awhile back was resident in pakistan. No way are we going to let our data over the wire in the clear, so we can't hire from there anymore.

I can only imagine the discussion that preceded the writing: Let's trick those zealots into trading their core values of freedom and openness for hierarchy and control by dangling shiny irrelevancies in front of them. Then we'll have have fewer targets and might gain some traction. Sure why not, everything else has failed.

It's persecution.

The mechanism / perpetrator just happen to be called "prosecution".

That's "white list" to you. :(

Have they addressed subtitles for streaming yet? In particular, subtitles for the hearing impaired: english subtitles for english language shows.

Also, are they ever going to support linux?

If they addressed those issues, I'd be happy to use streaming rather than disks.