DLNA interoperability can be surprisingly poor and using DLNA means using bandwidth-inefficient MPEG2 video and crummy stereo audio, which is kind of a let down if you have decent source files to work with.

Funny, true story:

My uncle was classified as a "First Responder", so according to some or other Homeland Security policy he's federally mandated to have always-on high speed internet access in his home.

There's nothing but state parks and corn fields around his property for probably five miles in any direction. Cable TV isn't even available in the nearest town, which has a population of a few hundred people.

So Verizon bought a 5m x 5x plot of cornfield directly across the street from his house and built a tiny little exchange. It serves my uncle and six homes that happen to be near enough to access it and it's the fastest DSL connection I've ever used.

From WHAT? Loading ,apks from torrent sites? Installing apps from random Chinese app stores? Clicking on every mobile porn site ad he could find? I've never encountered an Android device with a malware problem. I'm sure that they exist but for normal users of the Google and Amazon app stores I have a hard time believing that it's a serious problem.

I really don't care what other people do. A technology that's tied to a single piece of hardware for no reason other than inconvenience is in no way useful to me. It amazes me that so many people who own phones that are fully capable of using SMTP to deliver a message would instead bother to deal with all the limitations of texting in the first place.

Google Voice does a number of things far better than any other system that more than make up for whatever deficiencies the author believes it might have.

I will preface this by saying that I am a Sprint cellular customer, so Google Voice can be fully integrated into my telephone service.

1. My cell number is integrated in to Google Voice. This means that I can answer calls from anyplace I happen to be logged in to the desktop version of Gmail or have the Google Voice app installed. This means that I do not need to have my phone tied to my actual person 24 hours a day. I can answer a call while I'm reading on a tablet in my bathtub or while my phone is charging in another room.

2. Google Voice transcribes voicemails so that they are delivered as E-mails, so that I don't have to listen to them. This is worth actual money to me. I hate voice mail with a passion.

3. I dislike SMS messages because, again, I don't like having to have my telephone permanently anchored to my body. Google Voice allows me to filter and deliver SMS messages as if they were E-mails and to respond to them as such. SMS messages never hit my phone. I've never opened the SMS app on it. I just respond to e-mails. Again, this is a tremendously valuable service.

If I'm missing something from not having texts delivered to my phone, I don't know and I don't care what that is, because as far as I'm concerned, Google Voice is doing every single thing I want it to already.

If you have a compute task that's not bound by I/O or RAM such as media transcoding, a faster CPU can be quite helpful. My time to reencode a BD dropped by almost 30% in a move from Lynnfield to Ivy Bridge versions of i7; that's not insignificant for a process that still takes hours. Putting aside my dubious need, we're not that far from consumer 4k video and the increased demands that will bring.

you followed me from k5? who are you? you really need to get a life

you have no idea who i am and you don't know anything about me. forming these sort of obsessions and attachments on the internet is not healthy

so in addition to the us govt tracking my online movements i have to worry about creepy stalker trolls doing the same?

it has to feed off it's target at certain access points. these can be located and identified. they will also be protected. but each will have a weakness, no matter how many such access points, they can be hurt

let's kill it

it will be a box in a server room, a conduit under street, a transmitter on a roof

let's sabotage these fucking assholes

in the name of the founding principles of this country, fuck these goons

For staying true to the founding principles of this country, despite the corruption around him.

Those who would demonize him and prosecute him, have lost their way, and are the epitome of anti-Americanism, regardless of how that term is abused in the political arena.

at one time, assange did a good think with wikileaks in this world

now he's just an entertainment "news" story figure

It's genuinely enjoyable. I suggest the "Formula D" or "Gloom" episodes to get a taste of the experience, but when I found the series I binged and watched them all in a single afternoon. And then went out and bought $150 worth of games. It's been fundamental in my efforts to start a real-live gaming group, since the reaction to new episodes of TableTop has absolutely been one where one of my friends shows up with the thing from the most recent episode at our next outing. King of Tokyo and Once Upon a Time were both present at my last game night and no one even mentioned them at any of our earlier meetings.

Anyway, Wil Wheaton is infectiously enthusiastic about the games he's playing. Tabletop is truly more compelling than about 95% of the stuff that can be found on TV.

Well the legal definition specifies "lascivious" media rather than some laundry list of people, poses and acts. I suspect there's Kim Possible and My Little Pony erotic fan-art posted on Tumblr and Deviantart that meets the technical criteria for child pornography every day.

It might be worth pointing out that it's precisely this attitude that makes the issue of finding proper justice so damned important for this issue. The law protects the accused, the guilty and the innocent, and it not our place absent the facts presented to a learned judge or jury of peers to decide otherwise. But hey if you want to start burning witches or castrating the mentally ill there's probably someplace in central Africa that would be happy to have you.

the potential for some conspiratards to see themselves as they talk about "the government"

because it's all the same paranoid bullshit