Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-2-2010

[andrewducker]

• HDBaseT - run TV, network, and power over Cat5e/Cat6 cable with RJ45 connectors.
  Now this should make life significantly easier in some ways.
  (tags: cable network tv technology)
• Hot Nerds Reading Comics
  I love how the internet fills every niche
  (tags: comics nerd nsfw)
• UK firm paid bribes to sell Iraqis toxic fuel additive
  (tags: iraq business children corruption environment health uk)
• Google to Add Pay to Cover a Tax for Same-Sex Benefits
  (tags: google news taxes homosexuality)

Comments

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

I am pleased by the useful 'nerd' and 'nerdette' tags. Also, did you see Wonder Woman in the news a couple of day ago?

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Betty Page hairstyles and tattoos seems to be a running theme in hot nerds reading comics?

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Running power over Cat5 was done years ago - admittedly it was done by the BOFH to bump off yet another boss but that's not the point :)

[andrewducker]

Oh, Power over Ethernet's been around since 2003 - but having a single cable type that will do that, network, video and apparently USB as well would be great.

[simont]

Presumably that cable needs some fairly vigorous internal shielding to protect the high-bandwidth data lines from the emissions of the power lines...

[andrewducker]

Yeah - I assume that the standard ethernet speeds work fine, but the high-speed ones would presumably have a harder time of it.

I am confused as to why it can carry 8GBit/s of video, but only 100MBit/s of data...

[simont]

If those figures are accurate, I'm sure somebody will work out a way to use the video line for data soon enough.

For instance, IP over HDTV: the ideal way for free-standing household robots to receive updates from the main home server! They just flick the television on and spend thirty seconds TFTPing down the day's orders and firmware upgrades, then they're all set to do the right lot of housework and not crash in the middle of it.

Only snag is, if a good programme comes on during those 30 seconds, they won't get anything done all morning.