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  1. AppleTV is working in a space that is under-developed. You need to get out more. There is Roku, FireTV, random boxes running Kodi, Chromecast and oh all those smart TV's that have the likes of Netflix, Prime Video and other streaming/catchup services baked into the TV.

    On the other hand Apple exited the home WiFi just as whole home mesh networking with roaming between access points took off.

  2. Re:There are alternatives on National Parks Face Years of Damage From Government Shutdown (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, any wall built by the French was an abject failure.

    The issue here is Trump does not have an electoral mandate for a wall paid for by the USA. He was quite clear that Mexico was going to pay for it.

  3. Re: making stuff in red china with poor IP laws is on Chinese Tech Investors Flee Silicon Valley as Trump Tightens Scrutiny (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Part but not all of the reason Chinese goods are cheaper is that they don't have to worry about polluting the environment or workers rights (not that the USA is very hot the latter either). As such a tariff on goods manufactured in China to account for this will put the price up and make it more attractive to manufacture elsewhere. The trick is to target the tariff at any manufacturing not to western standards.

  4. Re:People don't understand what digital music is on Vinyl and Cassette Sales Continued To Grow Last Year (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Great, but the problem with all this is that it assumes that the limit to human hearing is 20kHz.

    Now you will say well yes it is, and a standard hearing test will agree. However a standard hearing test uses single frequencies, something no human ear heard till the invention of the tuning fork in 1711.

    So given the loss of harmonics to primary frequencies that can be heard, it is entirely possible that 20kHz is not enough.

    However given that compact cassettes roll off around 15kHz and vinyl is similar to a CD it's all bollocks.

    What I can say is that the quality that you can achieve today with a comparatively cheap system, blows away anything using either a turntable or compact cassettes even today. Anyone with a nostaglia for the hiss, cracks, rumble and wow/flutter is a deranged imbecile.

  5. Re: Do the arithmetic on A Flexible Way To Convert Waste Heat To Electricity (asianscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed the point. Some ICE cars recover energy from regenerative breaking to recharge the battery. Saves using crankshaft power which then boosts efficiency a small amount. What I like to call the Sir Dave Brailsford method.

  6. Exactly why is plastic in landfill a problem? The oil came out the ground was solidified, used and then returned underground.

  7. Re: The idiots? on UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The police did not release their names. Further the news outlets that published their names are now going to find themselves paying large amount of compensation to the couple because disclosing the names of people being questioned by the police *IS* illegal in England unless the police name them which they did not.

  8. Re: Where's the list of equipment? on Kansas is Trying to Unload $10M in Unused Computer Equipment (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure you could give it away. Cisco UMS and EMC Vplex, what a crock of shit.

  9. If they don't have shot guns then surely a quick call to one of the local clay pigeon shooting clubs would have got experienced shooters quite quickly.

    Seems though they have called the army in now. However quite why they did not do that at 09:00 this morning god only knows.

  10. True, but you would expect the Sussex Police forces Tactical Firearms Unit (the ones in which Gatwick resides) to have access to shotguns.

    Attempting to shot them down with pistols or rifles would be stupid, but you would have thought they would have broken out the shotguns by now

  11. More than just the USA on US Treasury Sanctions 16 Russians For Hacking, Election Meddling (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thing is that the sanctions mean that most Western banks are prohibited from providing them with services because they are also present in the USA. That's a lot more problematic.

    Further plenty of countries will be happy to arrest them pending extradition to the USA, including pretty much the entire EU amount others. They will also be unable to get diplomatic passports for pretty much anywhere now, and if Russia issues false identities to get them diplomatic passports they are invalid and that diplomatic immunity is out the window.

    For reference just ask Meng Wanzhou how that is working out for her...

    Basically if they ever want to step outside Russia they need to be very very careful where they go.

  12. Re:Linux uber system for Windows on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comes To Windows 10 in the Form of WLinux Enterprise (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    No the subsystem is not translating Linux system calls into appropriate Windows calls. It is translating them into NT kernel calls. Just like Win32 and Win64 are translated into the NT kernel calls. As such the Linux subsystem is no different to the Win32 subsystem. You don't in Windows get to make NT kernel calls directly (unless doing major hacking) and if you are not working at Microsoft documentation on them is sparse to none existent.

  13. Re:You forget Microsoft's announcements on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Comes To Windows 10 in the Form of WLinux Enterprise (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It is still important to many people. The login nodes for my HPC system at work are all simultaneous multi user. I guess you could do some per user VM shenanigans put just providing a beefy box (40 cores of Xeon Gold 6138 and 768GB of RAM) is a lot simpler.

  14. Re:Great News!!! on MIPS Goes Open Source (eetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All those SGI workstations must have been a figment of my imagination then?

    MIPS can do just fine to replace an x86 desktop. It also works just fine in the embedded space too.

    My routers at work have a 64 bit MIPS with 16 cores doing 1.8GHz (version of the silicon do 2.2GHz) with 16GB of DDR4 RAM. IT has a couple of SATA III ports on the SoC, and USB3. Do a version with less 10Gbps ports and some more PCI lanes for say an AMD GPU and that would do very nicely for my desktop thank you very much.

  15. Re:And why not? on Germany Refuses To Ban Huawei, Citing Lack of Real Evidence (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    Austria-Hungary only declared war (actually make a whole series of utterly unreasonable demands which if not met would lead to war) because it had the backing of Germany. The Kaiser could have told Austria-Hungry to got take a hike, but they wanted a war. Had Germany told Austria-Hungary to take a hike no war.

    The United Kingdom only entered the War because Germany decided to invade Belgium a neutral country which the UK had signed up to guarantee.

    The Kaiser and his Prussian mates in the German Army wanted a war and used the assassination as an excuse.

  16. Re:Of Course It Should on Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Right but I took the DNA sequence of a pig as it was written down, then synthesised the the DNA, assembled into a man made donor cell, and grew me some bacon that is not physically derived from any living pig. Is it Kosher and/or Halal ?

    Noting that this is clear cut for a vegetarian or vegan. They can have no ethical issues at all. Well they will because it removes part of their identity, but hey you get nut jobs on the fringes of veganism that worry about plants feelings if you cut them down, because they clearly need a science education.

    But hey

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda...

  17. Do suicide bombers count?

  18. Re:Why yes they do on Japan Plans For 100ft Tsunami (thesun.ie) · · Score: 1

    Noting that 1 litre (notice I am spelling it correctly here) is a cube with a 10cm edge. From this follows that a 1 cm cube of water has a mass of 1 gram.

    I would note that size of a persons foot varies far too much to equate it to 12 inches.

    A teaspoon is 5ml, I very much doubt the vast majority of people have the foggiest what power a horse has, and besides what breed? I would note that one atmosphere, is basically equal to one bar, because like 760mm of mercury is so bleeding obvious and 100,000 Pascals is not, with the bar being a freaking metric measure you twit. Remember children SI does not equal metric.

  19. It has, I have a PDF version. Hope your Latin is up to snuff mind you, if you want to understand what you are reading.

  20. Re:It's a bullshit argument on UK Just Banned the National Health Service From Buying Any More Fax Machines (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Worse than that, a whole range of devices from photocopies to multifunction printers come with a built in fax facility. So you would have to ban all dual usage devices too which I doubt they are doing.

  21. Re: so? on 22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    My sisters friend at school, husband dropped dead at the office 6 months after they got married. There was absolutely no indication of any issue and they say he was dead by the time he hit the floor. Despite extensive efforts they where unable to revive him. A couple of years ago a young footballer (soccer) in the English Premier League collapse on the pitch, and for the prompt actions from a cardiac consultant in the crowd would have died. Well he did, but with expert help at immediate hand they where able to revive him. People drop dead usually from undiagnosed heart conditions (the case in both instances here), it might be rare but it does happen.

  22. It only broke data connections, and possibly SMS. So you could still make a call.

  23. There is a near infinite supply of lithium in sea water. It costs more to extract that conventional mining so nobody does it at the moment. However it is something like 20USD a kilo from sea water compared to 3USD per kilo from mining. Lithium batteries are well over 100USD per kilo. And is only based on known reserves of lithium, which is not the same as exploitable reserves, and assumes no recycling.

  24. Re: Here's the important missing bit: on Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Saved $40 Million During Its First Year, Report Says (electrek.co) · · Score: 2

    For bulk storage of power pumped hydro is probably better than batteries. However even pumped hydro which is traditionally a super fast response, so for example Dinorwig in the UK can go from zero to 1800MW in 16 seconds if the turbines are kept spinning in air (with a reserve capacity of 9.1GWh) which is much better than even a gas turbine and orders of magnitude better than coal/nuclear it is still over two orders of magnitude slower than a battery pack which can respond in 100ms. Frankly every grid in the world could do with some of these for grid stabilization purposes. The battery pack is just amazing in this role.

  25. Re: All things considered... on SpaceX Sends Dragon To ISS But Falcon 9 Rocket Misses Landing Pad (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No it would be more like a pSeries box detecting a fault in a CPU core and shutting just that core down. It then takes you a couple of days to actually realize what is going on because you are not monitoring for core failures on your CPU's and the only outwardly visible sign of a problem is the overnight backups on TSM are taking longer (it was a TSM server) than normal which they occasionally did anyway due to some researcher dumping several TB of data onto the file server, and this was like a decade ago so that was a fair amount of data.