Well, that's going to be tough. The bits that make them work cost a lot of money to develop. Like, a lot. Like, like, like, a ton. I think we find many things on this list that are not going to make the list, but you're asking to open up *everything* in hardware and software. That's the same as asking *everything* in a computer to be open sourced. Think that's going to happen soon? Might as well find Woz's home address and start collecting donations.

I would hope that this will allow custom ROM development to ease in complexity. In reference to 'Project Treble'. No idea if that's the case, but gosh, I would like that to be.

When there is a will there is a way.

How about having to change DMA settings and rebooting to get DOS games to work. Oh yeah. I need my Privateer.

Articles like this are the signs that paying for journalism (subscribing to the things you like to read) is a good thing. The title made my eyes burn, reading it, I cannot describe. Might as well have titled it "things are hard, I give up". I built my first PC at 13, with my own money from a paper route. Which at the time it was about a $900 build. I had the luck to plug in the AT power connectors backwards and fried my MB on the first power up. I saw the smoke, turned it off, cried a little, and realized I'd need to pony up more cash if I wanted to continue. Screw this guy. Yeah dude, things are fucking hard, working sucks, but they pay you to be there. If you don't want to do hard things that's cool, grow a beard and drink a lot of PBR or whatever it is you do. I have to say I've never felt so old for the 34 years I've been on this planet.

Too bad we do not have a DVR that can record protected content as Windows Media Center does. I'd love to move away from Windows 7 and 8, but it appears that I'll be keeping these little boxes running for quite some time. There isn't a viable alternative for use in any other OS that I am aware of that offers the same feature set a WMC (CableCARD support, namely). SiliconDust might have something cooking with their DVR software but that's still not out. If it works I'll be paying $60/year for it and would be happy to do so. Heck, I'd be happy to pay M$ $60/year for a native WMC on Windows 10. It's too bad they're not able to cut WMC away from their OS and sell it to a software/services/hardware company with an interest in building a DVR. Maybe there isn't enough money in it. It's sweet what Linux and BSD has to offer in terms of "just working" over the last 10 years. We've come a long way since installing Slackware felt a journey to another dimension. I play around with alternatives to WMC on Linux and Windows every couple of years and have yet to find an adequate replacement.

It's listed as supported, but isn't nearly as easy to setup as WMC. I've been working on moving to NextPVR on-and-off for a year. WMC is dead simple to setup and ALWAYS works. This may come as a shock but I have a Windows 8.1 box, which was upgraded from Windows 7 that has never missed a beat. Only reboots required are when I want to reboot or power down for hardware activity.

To be honest it's just trailers. It seems like the "Mob" of the internet is a bunch of kids that just like to yell what they think about EVERYTHING on the internet now. It's like an informed opinion after playing the game, demo, beta, whatever, but not just watching a TRAILER is illegal now. If you're not a fan of the direction of where the game is going vote with your dollar.

If T-Mobile can reduce the bandwidth of "almost all other video streaming" then they can do us a favor and not count that toward the data cap either. Personally, I'm getting sick of all these weird plans. It'd be nice to know how much data is costing carriers, as my understanding is that data is cheap, real cheap.

I want to post on slasdot about the idea Of giving up personal vehicles. Though please understand that self driving cars will be hacked to kill everyone. Wtf.

Anti-DRM folks will be rightly pissed but I for one welcome having the ability to use it in our current climate of control. No reason to ship a product that can't use current video markets just to make an anti-DRM point. If they want to be a part of the conversation they need to stay in business.

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I am in total agreement with arkham6. The AP does not go into the real numbers. This is your normal, mainstream, boring news story with bad statistics. What was the jump or drop in percentage of denied FOIA requests? Anyway... Just more hot air to keep us fighting over Obama.