Posts by Gordon 10 3872 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Its says very little to those 2 things explicitly. It says we don't understand the mechanisms at work here even enough to classify what they may be. Certainly not "cosmic" whatever that may be. Sounds like something we should call Dr Strange for.
I presume you meant Solar or specifically Cosmic ray interactions in cloud formations. Either that or you were having a 60's hippy flashback. Cosmic man!
Indeed. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Google was deliberately pinging some valid requests back simply to create some noise around the issue.
Conversely I wouldn't be at all surprised if those 18 people are complete f*cktards and have no clue what the content of the ruling was and are expecting Google to "delete t'interwebs" just to get their nudie prod picture removed.
Im not sure comparing R&D spend between M&S and Samsung is useful in this case.
1. The lag between R&D spending and Patent granting is HUGE - it probably takes 10 years to realise the R&D spend in a granted payment.
2. Most of that $3.29 payment probably comes from 5, 10 or 20 year old Windows and Dos patents, and is no guide to what M$ is doing now.
3. Samsung and M$ have vastly different commercial interests outside of the mobile and computing sectors - we don't know how their internal sectors breakdown that overall R&D budget. Its entirely possible that MS's Nokia division has a fraction of the R&D budget that Samsungs phone division has or vice versa.
It's my favourite episode of the series so far. Dodgy science, dodgy sets and effects. It could have been an episode from the original series.
On top of that we get some cracking dialogue and brilliant acting between Capaldi and Coleman, and the real Capaldi Doctor appears and he's a cracker forcing his companion to make the decisions.
It has redeemed the series for me.
"Give people 3 years grace and then start moving to AVC."
When the average life of TV equipment should reasonably be measured in decades (as it always was before the LCD flat panel explosion) - how do you work that one out?
Nice contribution to our throwaway society sir!
I bet you bought a 3D tv didn't you?
Ok I haven't watched the video but does the payload on the Pi include automated Wifi crackers against the in-house wifi? Otherwise how does it communicate back to the Black Hat? Is he (for its always a he) sat outside in a car or at the starbucks across the road?
If its just speculative - send one to me - I could do with some free pi. Although our mail room does xray stuff so the chances of it getting to me are slim.
If the other companies have settled without any court action its utterly irrelevant to the judge in the case.
Just because others have taken what they probably perceived as the cheap way out doesn't mean Apple or any other have to follow suit. Indeed - it appears for now they been been vindicated for not doing so.
Gap was a triumph simply because at the end of the last book your were cheering for an evil rapist, mentally wrecked woman, whiny manchild, and a weak emasculated pirate. And they were the good guys!
Never have so many utterly flawed characters appeared together in a sci fi series.
It Has never left my top 3 sci/fi fantasy novels/series since I read it.
I think you're casting it too black and white. With ~$50Bn in the bank - that reduces the attack surface in all sorts of ways not applicable for smaller companies.
There has got to be massive tech industry pressure behind the scenes to kill off the MS vs DOJ Dublin data center case.
Hope the mirror gets the book thrown at them.
MP's have enough opportunies for stupidity without some rag creating more of them. It also sounds like it was a random fishing expedition rather than targeting a serial shagger love rat type although we could speculate how far it may have gone if allowed...
I also suspect you could put a sizable proportion of the male population in the same scenario with the same result. One of my friends marriages started the same way. Fortunately she wasn't a Mirror journo. Unfortunately she was another kind of nut job.
My thoughts exactly. Why in earth did the journo introduce so many uneeded stages. It was ludicrous.
The same kit with a CD vs an mp3. Just using a CD drive in your PC vs mp3 is enough for the first round of testing. No messing around with speakers and amps just decent headphones. If you can haer a didfernce at 320kbps then take it further.
Totally pointless article.
Isn't this department of the bleeding obvious time again*?
Low price = low room for movement
High price = lots more room for movement.
i.e. prices of real things tend to get less elastic as they approach zero. Especially if there are some underlying base or floor costs.
*Disclaimer - Im not even sure what a Transit price is.
What do you base this bizarre ramble on? the America regulators are equal opportunity finers - just look at the record fines handed out to American banks.
The FCC have shown themselves to be far less predatory that some of the others.
don't get me wrong I think a US adventure would be a mistake - Voda needs to fix its network under-investment in Europe - but its in the US interests to keep another player alive in the mobile space.
If you want universal coverage mandate it as part of the License terms for all networks not just o2.
You had the perfect opportunity when 4g came along and you blew it.
Alternatively all that free 2g spectrum that Vodafone and O2 got in the early days. Mandate that for continual usage of it, especially for new services they both accept 99.9 geographical population coverage.
Give them an incentive to share and they'll soon divide up the rural parts and come to some network sharing agreement.
These guys weren't whistleblowers they part of a conspiracy to smear a man by creating witness statements that were untrue. Regardless is the word plebs were used the second they stepped over the line to do that they were in the wrong doubly so because they were serving police officers. Its also unclear as to which mobiles they were using - if it was their police issue ones the Met was well within their rights to do anything they liked with the phone records.
Frankly given News Corps shoddy record the Sun guy should have be more flipping careful.
There are huge parts of RIPA that are troubling - but anyone who uses the Plebgate mess to moan about it should be picking their ground more carefully as the whole thing is a moral swamp of dubious stories and actions.
In summary valid points but ludicrous example to make them with.
The content is mostly the work of the editors. I think most of its under Creative Commons type licensing - therefore a critical mass of editors should fork themselves off elsewhere. Jimbo will come crawling back when the donations start drying up.
Devil icon as he has a good line in (pitch)forks.
Your forgot the 95% of apps on Play that ask to too many permissions for no good reason.
For instance it took me 4 attempts from the first page of torch app hits to find one that didn't want to slurp my contacts or monitor the phone dialer.
Apple may be control freaky but by luck or design that freakery tends towards far more consumer protection than Google's laissez-faire approach. If it inconveniences the El Reg elites (who are not representative consumers) or developers - tough.
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