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Comment Re: Never saw this coming (Score 1) 168

by MrPeach (#53563985) Attached to: Police Request Amazon Echo Recordings For Homicide Investigation

Where the he'll did you come up with that? Manufacturers including special hardware for one application? What have you been smoking?

No hardware maker is going to include special hardware for such a questionable purpose since It increases bom, and unless it's absolutely necessary they'll prefer to do it in software.

But back to your claim... Have you looked at the chip specs for any of the popular Android chipsets? Found any sign of such capability? Looked at the Android hardware requirements? Seen any such hardware mentioned? Looked at AOSP source? Any sign of that there?

Well don't bother, it only exists in your fevered imagination.

Submission + - Consumer Reports criticizes the Samsung Galaxy Note7 recall as deficient (betanews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Consumer Reports, however, is not satisfied with Samsung's recall efforts. The respected consumer-focused publication is calling it deficient, criticizing the failure to make it an "official" recall. In other words, Samsung should have worked with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. This is important, apparently, as it would block the Note 7 from being sold entirely. Shockingly, as of today, the dangerous Note7 can still be sold legally in the USA. This is not theoretical — Consumer Reports found retailers still selling it yesterday!

Submission + - Gates Foundation-Supported Nonprofit Puts $100K "Bounty" on John Oliver

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "In case you missed it," writes the Washington Post's Valerie Strauss, "John Oliver recently did a segment on his HBO 'Last Week Tonight' show blasting troubled charter schools (YouTube) in several states around the country. It was very very funny — but charter supporters were not in the slightest bit amused. How annoyed were they? Well, the Washington-based Center for Education Reform [CER], a nonprofit pro-charter organization, is offering $100,000 to the school that creates the best rebuttal video to Oliver’s rant. Really. It’s called the 'Hey John Oliver! Back Off My Charter School!' Video Contest, and all applicants have to do is come up with a retort explaining why charters are fabulous — in no longer than three minutes — and properly submit their video." CER Supporters include the foundations of some of the nation's wealthiest families, including The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Coincidentally, Oliver blasted charters that suddenly and unexpectedly close their doors citing money woes, which happened at Gates Foundation-backed Bay Area High Tech High, where students recruited by a Bill Gates video were told that their school of the future had no future before it graduated its first class. In a nice circle-of-charter-life kind of thing, however, the building occupied by SV High Tech High was given to Summit Public Schools, the current fave charter of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

Submission + - World's First IC Microcomputer Found (timeslive.co.za)

Submitted by Tokolosh
Tokolosh writes: It’s not often that a YouTube video on a technical topic gives one goosebumps. And it’s not often that someone unpacking a computer makes history.

Francois Rautenbach a computer hardware and software engineer from South Africa achieves both with a series of videos he has quietly posted on YouTube.

It shows the “unboxing” of a batch of computer modules that had been found in a pile of scrap metal 40 years ago and kept in storage ever since. Painstaking gathering of a wide range of evidence from documents to archived films had convinced Rautenbach he had tracked down the very first Guidance and Navigation Control computer used on a test flight of the Saturn 1B rocket and the Apollo Command and Service Modules.

Apollo-Saturn 202 or Flight AS-202 as it was officially called was the first to use an onboard computer – the same model that would eventually take Apollo 11 to the moon. Rautenbach argues that the computer on AS-202 was also the world’s first microcomputer. That title has been claimed for several computers made in later years from the Datapoint 2200 built by CTC in 1970 to the Altair 8800 designed in 1974.

The AS-202 flight computer goes back to the middle of the previous decade.

Comment Plex baybee! + Roku, etc. (Score 1) 226

by MrPeach (#52422193) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device?

I've been running Plex on a Synology DS1812+ for some years now and I wouldn't have it any other way. I use my various Android devices, PCs, Roku boxes (various models) and a Chromecast to watch my shows, and I just ordered a Fire tv box which I expect to arrive tomorrow. Can't say as I have a preference at the moment - we'll see how the Fire stands up against the Rokus. The Chromecast worked well for me on my last trip, but I don't expect it to see much use outside of that.

Comment Re:Plex on Roku (Score 1) 128

by MrPeach (#44189211) Attached to: Boxee Sold To Samsung

I have my Rokus pretty well pimped out - Plex, PlayOn, tons of channels, and a wireless router configured to allow VPN access to virtually any country so I can watch region blocked vids when I want. Plus I'm learning how to write channels for Plex in Python, which is pretty cool. Maybe ActionScript is next, or maybe I'll improve my LUA skills for writing Playon channels (and World of Warcraft add-ons).

Cord cutting and skills honing, a win-win situation for me!

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