I can run Netflix on Windows XP in a VM on Linux. But I can't run Netflix on Windows XP in a VM on Windows XP. This tells me two things. One, the DRM actually kicked in there somehow. Two, it doesn't kick in reliably enough to be worth one tenth of one shit. If you can capture the video output from vmware, and you can, then you can capture netflix streams without anything exotic.

OTOH I haven't tried this experiment using a guest OS which supports vsync on Silverlight video, i.e. Vista or later

The latter is how we got a bunch of shitty nuclear plants all over the planet. I'm not saying they're all crap, I'm just saying that a lot of them are.

O RLY? Hey, this might not be Fukushima-related. But I had to dig to find that story, because of all the claims that people are linking to saying "no one has died because of Fukushima radiation" as if you could prove a negative. You can't, so you should just stop trying. We can't prove that an unexplained cancer is from Fukushima either, which is what you nuclear playboys depend upon. You can't track a particular cancer back to a particular carcinogen. Hundreds or thousands have to die before you will admit statistical significance.

Still leaking. Enjoy your radioactive seafood. Unfortunately, all the world's oceans are connected, so we all pay the price for Japan's failure. Even more unfortunately, there's shitloads of plants just like that one... here in the USA

You're confused. No one is "blaming" "nuclear power". Nuclear power is just a technology. People are blaming humans for being too irresponsible to handle it. Individual humans might be sufficiently responsible, but the system is not designed so as to place them in control. It is only designed to self-perpetuate and to make some rich people richer. Given these facts, using nuclear power is irresponsible. If you have a proposal for a system which will cause nuclear power to only be used responsibly, I'm interested in hearing it.

People left warnings as to where tsunamis had surged in the past and hoped they would be heeded, they weren't; the plant could have been built with elevated generators but they're ugly so it wasn't. The plant could have been sited somewhere else, but it wasn't.

It wasn't because humans are what they are and as long as they are then using nuclear power is irresponsible, because humans are irresponsible.

Poppycock.

It doesn't make any sense to have all this shit on this mudball at all. We have sufficient space and robotics technology to begin to move heavy manufacturing into space where it won't bother anyone and refuse is easy to dispose of. But because the entrenched powers are profiting from raping the biosphere, nothing is changing. Again, because of human nature — there's a lot more of us than there are of them, but we're fighting amongst ourselves instead of uniting to kick out the pricks.

False dichotomy. There's a third option: Undoing things. They can be invaliding prior acts, which is what we really need. We don't need to "fix" the U SAP AT RIOT act, we need to eliminate it. Examples abound.

No, no it won't. Cognitive dissonance will prevent it. They have convinced themselves that they are good people on no basis whatsoever, and in order to protect that belief they will convince themselves that there is no way to achieve their goal but to ride roughshod over the constitution. Then they'll tell themselves that it's OK to violate the constitution as long as you're doing it to protect the constitution. Unfortunately, holding such a clearly contradictory belief is a kind of insanity.

And it's been around for well over 60 years. I can point at homes built in the 1950's that have this.

You dont see it today because Contractors are pretty dim bulbs and are building to maximize profit and not to build a good building.

What I wish....
FED, "Give us your encryption keys"
CORP: "EAD, DIAF!"

Reality....
FED: "Give us your encryption keys"
CORP: "Why?"
FED: "To fight terrorisim, you are not harboring terrorists are you?"
CORP:" Here's the keys, would you also like the keys to the bathrooms and the filing cabinets?"

Nobody, and I mean NOBODY steals "IP" via the HDMI stream, even though it's been completely broken for over a year. In fact I install devices for my clients to disable HDCP completely, all Theater installs come with an HDFury installed on the Bluray player and the cable box to disable that craptastic abortion called HDCP.

So all Rural people have to go back to driving to their post office to get mail? Yeah, this will never ever fly. It's nothing but mental masturbation. all AARP members will bitch to high hell about it and some congresscritter will cave in and kill it.

Or theyare smart and know that nobody cares to rip the HDMI stream but instead just download the movie in full HD from the pirate bay. or if you dont want to be tracked, rip the Bluray.

Yes, the Nexus 7 actually get's updates instantly, Samsung might roll them out in a year or two.

The protocol is fully open, linux OSS drivers will be available before the things are in wide spread use.

Like Wifi refusing to connect some times until you turn it off and on again on the Nexus 4 and the older Nexus HSPA+ OR the camera getting stuck on in the background and turning the phone into a pocket heater while it drains the phone battery in less than 30 minutes.