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Posts by Tromos
1188 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Sep 2013
A Quid A Day for NOSH? Luxury!
Google throws a 180 on its plans for Dart language
US threatened Berlin with intel blackout over Snowden asylum: report
Our 4King benders are so ace we're going full OLED, says LG
Re: Life?
About 6 years ago I got a media player with a small (about 1.8") OLED screen. 2 years ago, the blue and green had darkened considerably. Currently, the screen appears to be dark unless the room lights are turned off whereby a faint red image can be seen. No doubt the tech has improved over the intervening years, but as the sole point of these is superb picture quality, even a slight degradation after a few years is unacceptable for a TV. In the 40 Euro media player (it was priced the same as the LCD version for a limited period) I didn't mind so much, and it still plays MP3s alright although the track names can only be made out in pitch darkness.
You – yes, YOU – can now 3D print your very own Paul McCartney
Shock development: Darkweb drug n' gun dealers are untrustworthy
Osbo: Choose a IoT fridge. Choose spirit-crushing driverless cars
Samsung puts eight-core processor IN A WATCH
German chancellor DECLARES WAR on crap rural Wi-Fi
UK government says goodbye sat navs, hello Xbox, e-cigs and Spotify
Honey, I shrunk the Windows footprint
Vodafone Pay TV launch rumoured for November
Attack of the Digital People: The BBC goes fully Bong
Forget viruses: Evil USB drive 'fries laptops with a power surge'
We've read all 400 pages of the FCC's baffling net neutrality rules – here's what YOU need to know
Google MURDERS Google Code, orders everyone out to GitHub and co
Sir Terry remembered: Dickens' fire, Tolkien's imagination, and the wit of Wodehouse
LUST for APPLE WATCH drove me to crime, says alleged meth dealer
$17,000 Apple Watch: Pointless bling, right? HA! You're WRONG
iTunes snafu: DNS fail borked Apple's app & iTunes stores for 10 HOURS
Going on holiday? Mexico wants your personal data
Do as the EU does
Mexico could drop the requirement for PNR data from the airlines and request it from the passengers themselves. As the EU requires all non-EU passengers to fill out a landing card, there cannot be any objections to the reciprocal process. For my personal convenience, just let them have the damn data, everybody who really wants it has got it anyway.
'Rowhammer' attack flips bits in memory to root Linux
Oi. APPLE fanboi! You with the $10k and pocket on fire! Fancy a WATCH?
Is there a cure for cancer sitting at the back of the medicine cabinet already?
BILLION email address spam scam: Feds collar two blokes, hunt another
Re: Spammers stealing from spammers
All that usually happens when you hit the 'unsubscribe' link on spam is that you are verifying that the email address is correct and currently active which then makes it much more valuable to sell on to other spammers. If the price for 10000 addresses is 5 euros, the same number of verified active ones can fetch 25 to 50.
Google creeps up on another sector: Adds car insurance to Compare
Top Euro court ends mega ebook VAT slash in France, Luxembourg
MEGA PATENT DUMP! Ericsson, Smartflash blitz Apple: iPhone, iPad menaced by sales block
Elementary, my dear penguin: It's the second beta of Freya
Take the minimum suggested payment of $10 in conjunction with the statement "We feel that an entire operating system that has taken years of development and refinement is worth funding." Generously estimate the additional lines of code and resources that have gone into this as about 0.1%. This prices each copy of the entire OS at $10000.
As Duncan Bannatyne would say - "That's a crazy valuation. I'm oot."
Google offers 'INFINITY MILLION DOLLARS' for bugs in Chrome
MP resigns as security committee chair amid 'cash-for-access' claims
Get yourself connected: GrovePi+ Starter Kit
Re: When I were a Lad
I had one of those Philips Electronic Engineers kits. While most of the competition used modules that plugged in, the Philips was just a means of connecting together standard electronics components. This made it easy to go 'off-piste' and do your own thing years before the solderless breadboard, as we now know it, existed.
The GrovePi+ kit reminds me more of those modular electronic kits like the Tandy/Radio Shack ones. For about half the money you can get the Philips type equivalent from Amazon including LCD display, sensors, buzzers, LEDs, servomotors, connecting wires and one of those modern solderless breadboards. It might not be as neat or quick as the GrovePi+ but I reckon the educational value and expansion potential more than makes up for this.
'Utterly unusable' MS Word dumped by SciFi author Charles Stross
Marconi: The West of England's very own Italian wireless pioneer
OLPC spin-off teases modular 'Infinity' computer
Norton Internet Security antivirus update 'borked Internet Explorer'
Did NSA, GCHQ steal the secret key in YOUR phone SIM? It's LIKELY
HOLY SEA SNAILS! Their TEETH are strong enough to build a plane
Your hard drives were riddled with NSA spyware for years
Boffins grasp Big Knob, get ready to go ALL THE WAY at the LHC proton-punisher
Violin-fiddling boffins learn that 'F-HOLES' are secret to Stradivarius' SUPERIOR sound
Lightbulb moment for visible light networking: 200 Gbps without a fibre
I would have thought line of sight considerations would render this technology marginal. People tend to place access points and desks near to walls and, unless they are the same wall, the user's body would tend to block the straight line path. Bouncing off a mirrored ceiling might help, but this would chew into the already very limited range. I don't see this as viable beyond some niche applications.