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  1. Beam has already made a news in the game streaming community, for one reason and one reason only. Stream latency, beam had negligible latency of pushing the stream from ingest servers through their network and back out to the streaming clients, This is why interactivity works better on beam (it exists on twitch too, see "twitch plays Pokémon") . Unfortunately there is an issue with this, the low latency is due to low throughout compared to twitch which at any one time is handling thousands of streams to tens of thousands of clients.

  2. Re: This is the UK on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 1

    Well, too many cases for her to handle alone, which is why the local lords was appointed the task by her predecessors the this then became the court system used today. Also why the title of judge in the summary is Lord Judge...

  3. So the small claims court then? on UK Judge Calls For An Online Court Without Lawyers To Cut Costs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Here in the uk it already exists in the form of the small claims court, and one can initiate it online, all the judge is really suggesting is changing the charging structure for the court fees (one can currently claim upto £100,000 via the process, but above £10,000 the fee is a percentage of the claim) and he is suggesting moving the actual hearings away from a court room and onto video conferencing instead. Oh, the whole no lawyers thing is total baloney, to become a judge one has to have been a barrister for several years, so at some point if it gets that far...

  4. Re: In other news... on Amazon Partners With UK Government To Test Drone Deliveries (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't mind if they were closed circuit, are least then only people on the circuit can see the images, the problem is that almost no security cameras are CCTV these days, so any Tom, Dick and Harry government can read the data without a warrant and going and asking for the tapes with warrant in hand.

  5. Re: that still doesn't help you catch the buggers on UK Pilots' Union Calls For Laser Pointers To Be Classed As Offensive Weapons (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    There are uses for sinning lasers into the sky in focus. For example as a star sight on my telescope. Of course if I see a plane in the sky I return it of long before they get near the bean because it is already illegal to shine lasers at planes in the uk. We don't need more regulations, we need to enforce the ones we already have. Same goes for quadcopters which the same pilots union has been lobbying for more regulation too, no enforce the ones already in existence and educate people.

  6. Re: Yeah, right... on UK Wants Authority To Serve Warrants In U.S. (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Will this agreement be in addition to our supersede the UK USA information sharing agreement drawn up shortly after WWII that already stays all intelligence between the 5 eyes and divides the world and specifies which of the five eyes is responsible for spying on which parts. I'm sorry to tell you guys this, but all this is doing is pretending to be more open about it to please a few politicians.

  7. It's exactly that kind of congressional thinking that has left NASA with no ability to even get humans into space for the last 5 years.

    SpaceX currently only has the ability for fairly light lift to orbit for satellites and ISS cargo runs. SNC and Blue Origin are working off NASA's old technology to get humans to low Earth orbit. And Virgin Galactic is suborbital flight only (so lets not even consider this one for anything other than a joyride for rich men at the moment). Ultimately none of these are pushing the boundaries beyond what the Russians have kept reliably running for the last 5 decades.

    NASA is trying to push boundaries to move on beyond LEO however congressional politics have been flushing every attempt to even catch up down the drain every few years, and this whole session looks like they are finding excuses and setting it up to do it again as soon as Obama is out of office.

  8. Re: Please enlighten me on Dual GPU Battle: GTX 980 Ti SLI vs. Radeon R9 Fury X Crossfire · · Score: 1

    Okay, let's pretend 4k monitors didn't exist (they do). I give you another reason, supersampled anti-aliasing you render at a higher resolution, apply any effects and maybe fxaa and then downscale the frame at the end to native resolution, basically the downscaling the final frame is the best form of anti-aliasing one can actually have due to how downscaling algorithms derive pixel values from multiple sources pixels. That said, I wouldn't allow my computer to use such methods when I don't still get high enough framerates.

  9. Re: Please enlighten me on Dual GPU Battle: GTX 980 Ti SLI vs. Radeon R9 Fury X Crossfire · · Score: 1

    Okay, let's pretend 4k monitors didn't exist (they do). I give you another reason, supersampled anti-aliasing where you render at a higher resolution, apply any effects and maybe fxaa and then downscale the frame at the end to native resolution. Basically the downscaling the final frame is the best form of anti-aliasing one can actually have due to how downscaling algorithms derive pixel values from multiple sources pixels.

  10. Re: Bring-on the Apple haters on Hacking Team's RCS Android May Be the Most Sophisticated Android Malware Ever Exposed · · Score: 1

    How do you think you perform the jailbreak? Oh right you use an exploit. I remember the iPhone 3G had a website called let me jailbreak that for you. As for vl permissions, there is appops in android but you'll need to root to use it. At least 'till Android M is released.

  11. Re: The larger question: on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    Manufacturing process has bearing on firmware is flashed to an EEPROM.

    SSDs do not optimize for small frequent writes as a) the blocks a strictly limited number leveltimes, fancy wear levelling algorithms must calculate where actually put each write. b) to write a block already containing data a slow erase operation has to happen first and all data in that block gets erased. what SSDs do optimise for is lots of reads. Finally most other manufactures already included in their laptops for the, Apple was quite late to that party.

  12. Re:Option: Linksys WRT1900ac on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 2

    The open source firmware does not run on the WRT1900ac yet as there are issues in the wireless drivers.

    To the questioner though, I recomend 802.11ac over 802.11n. Myself I'm using ASUS RT-68Us for my network, good hardware and the stock firmware is actually pretty good but they support openwrt tomato and dd-wrt too. There is also a NETGEAR box it that that has better hardware and supports the open source firmware but apparently the stock firmware is pretty bad. However compared to WRT54-GLs these routers are about twice the price.

  13. Re: Your Results Will Vary on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 1

    Just because one does not vote it as mathematics didn't mean it's not mathematics. Only education can fix this, and this education is currently sorely lacking.

  14. Re: Equating language to math is insulting on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 1

    Are you going to argue that recursion and iteration is not mathematics? Yes you may not understand everything in the branch of mathematics that you are applying, but one is still applying it, that doesn't make it sent less mathematics.

  15. Re: Your Results Will Vary on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 1

    Formal logic is a branch of mathematics. It's part of a branch that is called decision and discrete mathematics. Programmers specialise in the application of that branch, just as staticians specialise in statistics and probability.

  16. first up let's get one thing straight. on Math, Programming, and Language Learning · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Programming is mathematics, it is the application of decision and discrete mathematics. Not all mathematics is infinitesimal calculus (there are different kinds of calculus), algebra or geometry.

  17. Re: Why in America? on Amazon Seeks US Exemption To Test Delivery Drones · · Score: 1

    If we are telling about the same incident involving a NYPD helicopter as I think we are, I believe the NYPD is being asked some serious questions over their involvement, seems to me both sides were likely breaking the law. I believe all the regulations state that one should not endanger other air traffic, which means both sides should give way, similar rules exist for boats where all craft must do what they can to avoid an incident.

    As for the Phantom 2 flying near airfeilds, it carries onboard a database of airfields coordinates and used this to enforce strict limits on altitude around those coordinates (including a no fly zones altogether). This is actually an issue I'm the UK were you can get a commercial licence to operate unmanned aircraft and it's registered to a specific aircraft with proficiency test on operation of that aircraft being done at an airfield.

  18. Re:if they float they are guilty on Life Sentences For Serious Cyberattacks Proposed In Britain · · Score: 2

    Aapparently we are just over a decade behind the US where a hacker could "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone".

  19. Re: This research should receive enormous funding. on Scientists Find Method To Reliably Teleport Data · · Score: 1

    'Ye cannae change the laws o' physics'

    Classical information is still limited by the speed of light. Quantum teleportation can not be used for traditional communications.

  20. Re: a photovoltaic cell converts light into electr on Could Earth's Infrared Emissions Be a New Renewable Energy Source? · · Score: 1

    Partly though thermovoltaic cells do exist.

  21. Re: Exactly on New Mozilla Encoder Improves JPEG Compression · · Score: 1

    1) PNG8 can support full alpha transparency.
    2) PNG is better with fewer colours And blocks of one shade, as it compresses by merging close shades. JPEG is better to compress With lots of different colours like photos as it merges neighbouring pixels.

  22. Re: This shit is already polluting the SF Bay Area on Comcast Turning Chicago Homes Into Xfinity Hotspots · · Score: 1

    It runs in and channel as the homeowners meeting SSID. At least BT ones in the uk do.

  23. Re: Why? on Google Chrome 31 Is Out: Web Payments, Portable Native Client · · Score: 1

    For the sake of security then we shouldn't be allowing the browser to run any remotely fetched code, whether it is high level or low level is irrelevant. Fundamentally it is a form of remote code execution fire both JavaScript and c/c++. If you are going to allow it, the chrome team has come up with a good method to make it as secure as possible running all such code in a managed sandbox environment with extremely limited APIs.

  24. Re: Damn poop detector is going off again on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 1

    You forgot my favourites, national security and in the national interest. Whatever they mean!

  25. This is all a bad joke on German Federal Police Helicopter Circles US Consulate · · Score: 1

    As already pointed out, The west German government was upto their necks in supporting this during the cold war, they know how it worked and were willing partners. Not to mention, under the UKUSA Securty Agreement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement, Europe and European Russia are under the UK's responsibility to spy on, the least they could have done is fly over the right consulate.