BTW am I right in thinking UK DAB <> Europe DAB?
Something about the encoding?
I think I can sum up the position of a lot of El Reg commentards as
IP digital "radio." YES.
DAB digital radio NO.
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"..when DAB coverage and signal quality matches or exceeds FM for the vast majority of the country, and the size and cost of the receivers come down to more realistic sizes and levels, then, maybe, you might interest me in getting one of those things."
I think you've missed the one on battery life.
AFAIK DAB eats batteries.
"Sounds ideal. That way there's no hiding the price of the phone - if punters will pay £500 for an iPhone instead of £140 for a Moto G or £120 for a Lumia 620, then Apple deserves to get the extra. As a consumer, it's nice to have the handset price broken out."
Damm right. That's real competition.
You want new shiny? That's the realcost of it (but you won't be paying it every day of your bill).
Still need it that badly?
F**k em.
I knew this was coming once I saw the list of crap on the "banned" list.
"Esoterica" anyone? Anorexia promotion sites?
this looks like the sort of thing a middle class mum who couldn't program her browser web filter would be worried about.
There's an election coming up. I think the voters of her constituency should show their feelings to Claire Perry her tireless efforts to protect the UK population from itself.
for those who'd like to track green house gas emissions you might like to try here
Note that we can date the start of mfg of CFC's very accurately and knowing they are key contributors to Ozone depletion we can say that humans can influence global climate on the scale of a human lifetime (albeit a fairly long one).
"They use electronic sniffers to check for leaks, they don't sniff for the smell of the additive."
Well good for them.
And welcome to the site. This is only your 3rd post.
Perhaps you might like to look up the safety record of refineries and other chemical plants in the US, (especially Texas)?
Their definition of necessary maintenance can be quite loose.
BTW I'm not anti-capitalism, except by some American standards. I'm anti p**s poor maintenance and safety records.
I hope the difference is not too subtle for you to grasp?
"My idea is the genetically engineer the cow out of the process. We just have to splice the gene for converting grass to milk into the grass and fire the cows. Graminacae mammalari would undertake the whole process in one organism"
Unnecessary
IIRC there is a fairly simple supplement to the diet that will cut Methane release in cows. I think its part of why some pasture is bad for cow farts and some is not.
"So if the extracted natural gas is never meant to be released into the atmosphere as free methane, why would they count it as methane (greenhouse gas) emissions?"
Perhaps because there is a difference between meant and does
The stuff you burn in stoves and furnaces only smells because it has Mercaptan in it. Actual Metahne can leak without being noticed.
And fixing leaks in oil refineries and plastics plants costs money
When you're dealing with ppm concentrations a "small," as in too-expensive-to-fix leak is all you need to damage the environment.
"Why is the answer to our problems always "worse than we thought"? And why is the answer always "stop your way of life" or "pay us more money"?"
You would make a very good point except for one thing.
You're wrong.
As a check over El Reg's climate change stories would show you.
But please, rant on. Your point about vested interested is valid.
I think we need both the bottom up and the top down approach on occasions.
Note these revise the figures but not necessarily the model for how those gases are produced it may have limited use.
Changing those levels of release, given the power lobbies of both industries, is another matter...
*The most potentially dangerous type of DIY person I've ever met are country farmers. A working farm has tools, materials and seclusion and farmers are probably the most ingeniously practical people on Earth.
You might like to look up Frank Herbert's "Committee of the Whole."
You'll see why.
In reality it's about :-
1)Making Merkins feel insecure and reinforcing the "US is in a constant state of war with (well someone, although all the most recent US cases have been home brewed) and these "precautions" are necessary, along with a few others (as revealed by Edward Snowden, the dirty rat b**tard) we can't tell you about, but trust us, they are for your safety"
2)Ensuring assorted govt con-tractors get fat contracts.
3) Keeping a large bunch of fairly unemployable people employed (and the US has no govt make work programmes. Really?)
4)Offering opportunities for said employees to supplement their income by stealing anything they fancy while rummaging through your stuff.
Security? Talk to El Al. They've faced real terrorists.
So the theatre will go on until someone starts asking serious questions about the cost.
Yes his crimes are monstrous,
As were those of Jimmy Saville
As were those of Cyril Smith.
But then he did not have the protection of a large network of people to cover for and protect him.
If you actually believed the UK are the "Paedo Isles" you'd expect a case like this every day.
And yet that does not happen.
Perhaps there just aren't that many child molesters out there?
"Oh, that's right, none."
Actually you're wrong. But you're leading with style, not substance. And I am clearly bolder than you by definition.
"playground-level, over-embellished whining."
That actually sounds like a real grievance. What exactly am I "whining" about, AC?
Perhaps you could articulate it?
"The fact that in general (ignoring this case for a sec) a lot of this is treated as juvenile "crime" at least offers a way out without the horrors of permanent attachment to a sex offenders register - "
That's not what happened in at least one other US case El Reg has reported where it was not rape, just basically sending indecent selfies to BF/GFs
That case went down as Mfg, possession and distribution of CP despite all involved being consenting and no physical behavior.
What it really seems to come down to is a)Is it an election year b)Does the DA want to get reelected c)Does he feel the need to play the "Tough on crime" card quite so hard?
rea
"Seriously: the revelations get worse and worse as it goes. Next they'll say they track women's credit card usage to tell when their menstrual cycles are when certain stores are visited. (Because you never know when new terrorists are being made in the bedroom.)"
Sweet $deity do you have to go round giving them ideas now?
Joking aside you not be aware of the training given to the German GSG9 anti terrorist unit.
If you have to two terrorists, one man, one women in a room and you have to decide which one to shoot first "shoot the women first.*"
Which I think was also the title of the book.
"Only because he happened to bring along the greatest dead reckoning navigator in the history of human kind (of course the dude was a Kiwi).""
It's actually "ded" reckoning.
I know. It looks like a spelling mistake, and it is 99% of the time, except here.
It's a contraction. The actual word is deduced reckoning.
I don't know if it's actually true, or if they were a Kiwi however.
But there is a also what has been called "The sickener factor."
It's designed to discourage you before you start the test. It's to test your determination to succeed, despite apparently insurmountable odds.
Think of it as the inverse Koboyashi Maru scenario.
""Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success."
The story goes that he was inundated with thousands of responses, similar I suppose to the talk of one-way manned missions to Mars in recent days."
Shackleton also managed to get his men back alive
Because no one would would want to set up collections of (possibly) PDF documents on separate memory cards, right?
Kind of like IDK a library of books for a special purpose.
What is it with companies that go so far and then just turn to s**t?
"it had substantially overpaid for the software firm."
True.
" hundreds of millions of dollars of Autonomy's pre-acquisition revenue had been improperly recorded, that key documents were missing and that "
So the question is why did it pay at all if the paperwork was incomplete and some (at least) was suspect.
Thumbs up for the judge on this.
Let's be clear. HP's decision to buy Autonomy effectively took $10Bn, piled it up and burned it.
It's money that could not be used for more useful tasks within the company.
It's not money that could be used to add to the dividend to stockholders.
""Allow me please: http://www.fourmilab.ch/autofile/www/chapter2_35.html
So did any of the other language interfaces appear?
I think people misunderstood my original comment.
LISP has a reputation of being tricky to implement well (mostly in the garbage collection side) so it's a tough target to implement and (perceived) to be an odd choice for what is likely to be a pretty compute heavy application.
It's a real "left field" choice.
And I quite like that.
Because that's at the core of this.
I think a lot of people are walking around with assorted dodgy genes.
Nothing will happen to them and provided their spouses don't have them nothing will happen to their children. It does mean they should watch certain behaviors and avoid exposure to certain things.
But apparently this is all a bit complicated for a lot of people.
Explaining this seems to be a large part of what "genetic counseling" about.
Anything that ships out of the US above the VHDL level must be viewed as suspect.
And where's the "encryption engine" coming from?
If you're going to be serious about privacy lets do it right.
Why pay more for the illusion of security when you can buy cheap and know you have none (and plan accordingly) ?
Given what Snowden has shown about NSA willingness to compromise US hardware and software companies this is not paranoid, it's merely realistic.
Wow.
That would make one of them the third legitimate use for this technique I've heard of (I gather it's popular with malware writers, but apart from them it's not really clear who else). The othere 2 were the AT&T "Blit" bitmapped graphics terminal and the Apollo Guidance Computer.
The article does not give enough tech detail to understand what they've done. I'm getting (having nosed through Wikipedia)
1)Dalvik is a special JVM. It reads its own file format that is more compact than Java .class files.
2)RIM engineers have ported it.
3)But QNX <> Chrome <>Linux (IIRC Chrome has been formerly forked from Linux)
4)Their hack operates below the kernel function call level and operates right at the software interupt (SWI) instruction level (actual ARM op code) AFAIK a OS kernel call can have multiple SWI calls inside it.
5) But I'm b**gered if I know how.
So thumbs up for the hack, whatever it is.
Only time will tell however if the management manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. :(
"Based on current form; given that Google have taken baby steps into phone production and that they have all those partners to keep sweet, I'd say that they'll make a point of breaking things for Blackberry on the next release."
The old MS strategy of "Windows ain't done will Lotus won't run?"
Surely not.
The trouble with a lot of the DMCA is it was written by and for Big Media, like AFP and Getty., often the content "copyright holders."
It's good to see some of the actual content producers (you know, the actual creative types, who in photojournalism may well risk their lives to get a shot).
Thumbs up. I hope he fights the appeal.
Doesn't everyone deserved to have their work (whatever it is) be paid for their work?