Comment Re:No insurance? (Score 1) 142
An AM tower is the antenna; for a cell tower or an FM tower, you have a separate antenna mounted to it, thus the tower has to be designed and tuned for the frequency.
Alamo Drafthouse Blames 'Nationwide' Theater Outage on Sony Projector Fail (theverge.com) 52
An issue with Sony's projectors caused theater chain Alamo Drafthouse to close theaters entirely on New Year's Eve. "As of New Year's Day, however, most theaters and most showtimes now appear to be available, with a few exceptions," reports The Verge. From the report: It's not clear what happened. As New Year's Day is a holiday, we somewhat understandably haven't yet been able to reach Alamo or Sony spokespeople, and not every theater or every screening was affected. That didn't stop Alamo from blaming its Sony projectors for what at least one theater called a "nationwide" outage, however.
"Due to nation-wide technical difficulties with Sony, we aren't able to play any titles today," read part of a taped paper sign hanging inside a Woodbury, Minnesota location. That apparently didn't keep the customer who took a picture of that sign from watching The Apartment at that very same location, though: "When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn't know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn't work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch."
What might have only affected some screenings at some theaters? I've seen speculation on Reddit that it may have something to do with expired digital certificates used to unlock encrypted films, but we haven't heard that from Alamo or Sony. We're looking forward to finding out. Longtime Slashdot reader innocent_white_lamb suggests that "[a] cryptographic key used to master all movies distributed by Deluxe" was the culprit after it expired on December 30. "This means that almost all Hollywood movies will no longer play on many commercial cinema servers. In particular, many showings of Wonka and Aquaman had to be cancelled due to the expired encryption key." From their submitted story: Deluxe and the movie companies have been frantically trying to remaster and send out revised versions of current movies over the past few days. Nobody knows what will happen to older movie titles since everything mastered by Deluxe since 2011 may be affected and may need to be remastered if it is to be shown in movie theaters again. There are at least four separate threads discussing this matter on Film-Tech.com, notes innocent_white_lamb.
"Due to nation-wide technical difficulties with Sony, we aren't able to play any titles today," read part of a taped paper sign hanging inside a Woodbury, Minnesota location. That apparently didn't keep the customer who took a picture of that sign from watching The Apartment at that very same location, though: "When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn't know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn't work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch."
What might have only affected some screenings at some theaters? I've seen speculation on Reddit that it may have something to do with expired digital certificates used to unlock encrypted films, but we haven't heard that from Alamo or Sony. We're looking forward to finding out. Longtime Slashdot reader innocent_white_lamb suggests that "[a] cryptographic key used to master all movies distributed by Deluxe" was the culprit after it expired on December 30. "This means that almost all Hollywood movies will no longer play on many commercial cinema servers. In particular, many showings of Wonka and Aquaman had to be cancelled due to the expired encryption key." From their submitted story: Deluxe and the movie companies have been frantically trying to remaster and send out revised versions of current movies over the past few days. Nobody knows what will happen to older movie titles since everything mastered by Deluxe since 2011 may be affected and may need to be remastered if it is to be shown in movie theaters again. There are at least four separate threads discussing this matter on Film-Tech.com, notes innocent_white_lamb.
Comment Re:Shorted stocks (Score 1) 127
Might be safer sorting Ford or Toyota...
Comment Re:Think of all cars though (Score 1) 350
We have 2 BEV's they get plugged in when they return to the garage and unplugged when they leave the garage.
Thus they are always "full" (80 - 90% depending on what we set full to) when we leave. Thus we aren't changing once a week but each night as you can tell the car when electric prices are the least expensive.
Comment FAA Chief (Score 1) 170
The FAA Chief should be forced to log 1K hours on the new 737 MAX before signing off on it.
Comment Re:Typical Slashdot... (Score 5, Informative) 97
From the link:
"
America the beautiful / Samuel Ward [sound recording], Title: America the beautiful [sound recording] instrumental and vocal, Composer: Ward, Samuel. Arranger(s) Dragon, Carmen. Performing Ensemble: United States Navy Band. Lyricist: Bates, Katharine Lee. Publisher(s): Department of Defense. Form: sound recording.
Note(s): Taken from CD entitled: “Remembering the Navy Hour.” Featuring the Navy Band and Sea Chanters. Recorded by Sheffield Recording, Ltd., Inc. at the George Mason University Center for the Arts Concert Hall.
Credit: Performing Arts Encyclopedia, Library of Congress.
This Composition is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 “COPYRIGHT BASICS” from the U.S. Copyright Office. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain.
This composition is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Katharine Lee Bates (words), (August 12, 1859 â March 28, 1929), Samuel Augustus Ward (tune) (28 December 1847 â 28 September 1903), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31 of that date.
This media file is a work of a U.S. Department of Defense employee, made during the course of the person’s official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the media file is in the public domain.
Generally speaking, works created by U.S. Government employees are not eligible for copyright protection in the United States. See Circular 1 “COPYRIGHT BASICS” from the U.S. Copyright Office.
"
Comment Re:Umm, no (Score 1) 323
Care to post the perl script for others to look at and possibly use?
Comment $150 MRC for hotspot that doesn't travel with you? (Score 3, Insightful) 216
I just don't see the cost working out. On top of that if you have the car for 10-20 years it's going to be the same as having an old 8 track. Car NAV systems don't seem to age well, I don't see this keeping up with the times. 5G will be out before too much longer.
Comment MA: 06:30 Lines. (Score 1) 821
Voting started at 07:00 out by 07:30.
Comment The "witch hunt against Wikileaks" (Score 0) 915
I aggree it's time to end the "witch hunt against Wikileaks" and time for the proisicution and executions.
Comment Re:Talk about fear and desparation (Score 1) 269
RIM Still exists at least for now. Thus the vendor count is currently 4.
Comment Re:That could be very helpful. (Score 1) 521
That might be the case but the data doesn't need to be kept for very long. If the computer scanner ID's a car that shouldn't be on the road save just that section of video everything else doesn't need to be stored for very long.
Comment Re:Token ring (Score 1) 322
Thicknet with vampire taps ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap ) to then connect to the servers via AUI connectors.
Comment At least one more Class A /8 Block is free... (Score 1) 312
UBM just gave back the 45.0.0.0/8 block . It's not a small block and it's available, only 256 of these blocks exists and once you pull out the 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.0/8, 255.255.255.255 and multi-cast blocks this return counts. What other blocks have been returned and aren't counted as free?
Edited: whois 45.0.0.1
NetRange: 45.0.0.0 - 45.1.255.255
CIDR: 45.0.0.0/15
NetName: SHOWNET
NetHandle: NET-45-0-0-0-1
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: DNS.INTEROP.NET
RegDate: 1991-09-09
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-45-0-0-0-1
OrgName: Interop Show Network
Comment Re:Stop daily service to save money (Score 1) 252
Carriers only work 5 days a week but the route is currently covered 6 days a week. Drop a day a week and that would be quick way to save some $$'s.
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