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While I haven't tried on any DRM'd ebooks, Calibre's converters have to options to play with all kinds of spacing and punctuation during conversion (smart punctuation, transliterate unicode to ascii). I've used them when converting text documents and saved web pages to epub, and they make very nice ebooks. I have a hard time believing that this kind of steganography would survive such a reformatting, but I guess we'll hear about it eventually if it does.
> $1400 gets a 50" TV with a 3840x2160 resolution.
That was my thought as well. Rather than getting a 2x2 1920x1080 monitor array, using the $1400 50" Seiki 4K TV as a monitor will give you the same real estate, seamlessly. You only need one Radeon 7970 (or better) to drive it, simplifying the configuration. $1800 for that configuration is not bad at all.
I'm sure that eventually someone will realize that companies are deriving a benefit from an asset they don't own (not on their books), and thus should be paying tax and or compensation.
Mandatory car analogy: New software makes a computer a new machine the same way switching from Exxon gas to Shell gas gives you a new car.
While we are at it, can we make cell phones support WiFi for phone calls?
The phones already have the hardware to do this. People could make calls from places where cell reception sucks but they had Wifi internet. It would also reduce the burden on cell towers as people eliminate landlines and use their cell phones at home, where they probably already have WiFi routers. It also would eliminate the need for those stupid microcells: you could just use your regular wi-fi router for calls without needing to pay for their box.
You want Republic Wireless. We have it, and it works great.
Hmm. Belkin. Linksys. These are a few companies, that have guest defaults on routers, out-of-the-box.
Which doesn't address either issue.
In order to do this without exposing your LAN to security issues, and not create liability issues because of the action of guests, it would require more setup than most end-users are capable of.
The WiFi interface would have to be kept separate (not bridged to the LAN), and the WiFi interface would have to be VPN'd to a (legally) safe termination. If companies want users to be able to use open WiFi, they need to step up to make this a default configuration on routers. Sure, those that use openwrt or dd-wrt can configure this, but there's a vanishingly small percentage of users with that skill set.
Public libraries were one of the great achievements of Western civilization. However, it seems to me their time has passed. Classic books are available freely anything, and for books still in copyright, a variety of online "for profit" lending options make more sense than somehow tying reading to a physical building. Book rentals generally are cheaper than a milkshake at McDonalds, and healthier too.
You sound like you haven't been to the library in a long while. I get all my TV and movie DVDs from the library. All my e-books (which I can check-out online from home via the web). All my CDs. And free WiFi when I'm onsite. Why are you paying for free stuff?
To the "tablets are a fad" crowd?
They were a lot louder 2 years ago.
Tablet makers addressed the issue by including HID support, so that keyboards / mice could be used. Some even include a standard size USB port, supporting thumb-drives in addition to input devices. This lets people use a tablet as a laptop when / if needed, and leave the excess baggage behind when it's not.
Microsoft, you drop secure boot, and Google will give you a YouTube app?
Because, for fucks sake, a giant software company like Microsoft can't code one up in a weekend. How sad is that?
The boot sector issue has already been solved by most BIOS by (optionally, under user control in the BIOS configuration) preventing writes to the sector. The only time you need to unlock it is when you want to update the bootloader (relatively rare). I'm still at a loss for the value-add presented by secure boot.
By this reasoning, all the "bad lip reading" YouTube videos are authentic, because of the continuous ENF on the dubbed track. I don't think so.
It eventually will be, you'll just have to wait longer. $500 isn't reasonable if it costs $1000 to install, which it does.
I paid about $300 installation when cable Internet was first offered in my area - back when it was 8Mb/512kb. $1000 for the upgrade seems reasonable.
Google: 200 Billion Broadband Scandal
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