One of two items holding me back...

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3449279%26cid=42850649

When Firefox/Linux supports playing H264 with the video tag it looks to get even easier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQBTWd49j4

There are legitimate uses of similar technologies for some of the above purposes, INSIDE of a company/government/or similar.

When you get to 3rd parties using DRM it completely breaks down. DRM is not the right tactic there. I don't want an intricate mess of 3rd parties restricting other 3rd parties in what they can do. That is a security nightmare.

> Wouldn't you want it to self destruct?
No. How would you do that? Embed executable code in my medical records? Once someone has my medical records I would prefer assuming that they have them (could have taken screen shots or with an actual camera). Auditing is used quite effectively to find who accessed medical records and fire them.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/40970.wss

Below are the speedtests of two different routers using a wired connection.

Actiontec (about 2011) – 53.22 MB (down) 8.23 (up)
Linksys WRT54G v2 (about 2004) – 23 MB (down) 7.76 (up)

http://bryanquigley.com/libre-software/on-upgrading-routers

No, I'm saying they should not be allowed to deploy consumer level DRM to general consumers. Many businesses have legitimate uses for DRM technology, Medical field to limit copying of patient records, Defense, businesses with trade secrets, etc.

You are only allowed to put our gasoline in your car. (Now if they simply don't support other hardware, I'm fine with that).

I'm more ok with this as long as their enforement mechanism is the law and not spyware/DRM.

I am, but I wouldn't go so far as to make them illegal. I would certainly make some parts of common licenses illegal, like the restriction on studying how the program works, etc.

[citation needed]
You've got the problem, I do not believe that is true. In fact, let's say you buy a car from a common dealer and don't fully read the contract and it stipulates that you can only drive it on the third sunday of the month. Do you think a judge would through out that provision? I do.

I do have some problems with copyright in the US, but I don't really see why it's relevant. (It is way to long, this mickey mouse copyright we have in the US).

I'm fine not having the right to copy your content, except for purposes considered fair use. I'm not fine with you enforcing that I don't have my fair use rights and that you will are able to follow me around and make sure I don't break your interuption of copyright law.

How is DRM not anti-consumer?

I guess it could theoretically be less anti-competitive. It's making the internet less accesible by any device, which harms the devies that are built by people who don't want to handcuff their users.

DRM is bad.[1]
HTML5 is good.
If a bad thing is included in something good, that thing is still bad.
Therefore, DRM in HTML5 is bad.

[1] It should be obvious DRM is bad, but: https://www.eff.org/issues/drm

In fact, Consumer oriented DRM should be illegal. It's an anti-competive anti-consumer dangerous practice. (I'm totally fine with the military using DRM to protect confidential information, etc).

I also read that and was worried North Korea (*) had attacked them... but thought the wording was a bit weird.

* Maybe they feel like China backstabbed them for not supporting them in the recent "confrontation".

Outright Ban (or at least tax/warning) on Consumer-level DRM:
It's anti-competitive consumer restrictive technology that doesn't help anyone (except I guess those that make it). The music industry has realized this, but other industries haven't. We are wasting bandwidth, silicon, power, and making it much harder for free operating systems to compete.

Consumer right to at least inspect all code Utilities/Others place in their houses/cars:
I'm particularly thinking about smart grid technologies. In an ideal world both the utility and the homeowner could run code on the device and verify what the other does. Obviously some areas would be off limit (like the homeowner fully disabling reporting).

Internet providers/Cell phone providers can only provide 1 year contract to consumers. (Consumers being able to move a bit easier may help improve competition).

Internet capable devices need to be supported with security updates for at least 3 years after that company sells the last device.

BAN FAX MACHINES from all government offices and remove the provisions that make them considered "secure". (Sorry, fax machines really annoy me.)

All generic hardware must support at least two operating systems (one of which much be open source). This allows you to repurpose them more easily in the future.

More funds for NASA http://www.penny4nasa.org/

Make Weather.gov a better source to get weather directly from

Make USAJobs.gov actually the only website you need to go to for applying for government jobs

Make Navy contracters use standard networking for ships instead of running a bunch of different networks for different systems.

Wow.. I'm going to stop typing now.

Is Glass indestructible?
Can I use Glass while operating a jackhammer?
Is it OK to go scuba diving with Glass?

https://support.google.com/glass/answer/3064131?hl=en&ref_topic=3063354

> Anyway, long rant short: Windows 8 managed to break the ability to turn your PC off!

Gnome 3.0 did that. They eventually reverted it. Impressive how UI people do seem to think alike.. Oh right, Apple somewhat started that trend...

but when Apple does it, it makes it more usable :) /sarcasm

I have a couple potential takers already. Microsoft really messed up with Windows 8 because people are really looking for alternatives. It's been nice to have people ask, "What other choices do I have?"