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Comment Re:Usual corporate BS and flannel (Score 1) 52

I am a crank fellow slashdoter, but a HDHomeRun device, and Plex make this pretty simple to do for OTA transmissions.
Just plug the HDHomeRun into your antenna and network, Plex found it scanned the channels, and even presents a nice guide.
Plex makes anything recorded pretty easily available to any of our devices in the house, or even out of (if I were so inclined to enable that).

Comment Re:Looks like a [1st gen] Honda Ridgeline (Score 1) 115

I'd say more Avalanche than Ridgeline, which was also produced by GM and came out before the Ridgeline did.
Either way I like the look, but I prefer their small trucks. Hopefully this tech will make it down to the Colorado line some day. Though probably by that time, the Colorado will be the same size as the current Hummer.

Comment Re:The bought-and-paid-for-EC (Score 2) 246

The electoral college was /not/ designed to reduce the voting power of the majority of people, it was designed to ensure that the states had voting rights relative to their population.

Do you have something you can cite that shows this, because it's not my understanding, and it doesn't even make sense.

A popular vote ensure that the states had voting rights relative to their population. More population, more votes.

My understanding (possibly misguided) was that the electoral college was designed to ensure that states with less population still had at least some voice in the decision making.

Comment Re:Why would they? They will not. (Score 4, Insightful) 153

But this is stupid because it also blocks the highly desirable goal of giving traffic priority to Netflix, which many would pay extra for. What is wrong with letting most people do something that is beneficial for them and they would like? Preventing that is how we got the war on drugs.

That may be your highly desirable goal. My goal is not to allow Netflix to have anymore traffic priority then Hulu, or HBO, or XFinity. The internet is what it is because newcomers were able to come and play with a minimum barrier to entry, to me protecting that is of the utmost importance. This is not analogous to the war on drugs. This is more like complaining that a law against price gouging is curtailing the price gougers freedoms.

ISP's are supposed to provide access to the internet, not their selected version of the internet

Why? Why does it have to be that way? What if that's what a lot of people want and are willing to pay for?

If people did not want that they would not pay for it and it would die off.

I would argue that it doesn't have to be this way, but it should be as long as most people have only one choice of broadband provider. You want this world where people have choices. Then we need some form of line sharing agreement so that I actually have a choice to make.
Also, this version of the internet has been tried before. It's what AOL was doing, and people left it in droves as soon as they could.

Comment Re:BUILD your own NAS (Score 4, Informative) 98

Amazon gives free unlimited backup account with prime (which is around $99)

I checked on this because I it sounded too good. Here's what I found.

Your Amazon Prime membership comes with Amazon Prime Photos, unlimited photo storage and 5 GB for videos, music, and other files.

Unlimited backup of any files is $60 a year.

Comment Re:this is quite normal, said the panda-fish-robot (Score 1) 105

I'm not sure I believe this is true. I've been to many concerts where they've stated no recording devices.
The music industry has not successfully sued (settled maybe) very many "home" pirates, but I don't recall sample quality coming up in any of the lawsuits I've read about.
The movie industry on the other hand has a history of going after cam quality videos.
It seems that they are much more likely to go after well known exploiters, those they can make money off of, or those they can make precedent off of before they worry about the low vs high quality.

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