I was in a cinema recently with Atmos sound and to be honest I didn't think there was a huge deal of difference to other systems which offer spatial sound. It was nice boomy sound but I wasn't thinking this is nothing like I've ever heard before. It was more or less the same.

I find it unsurprising that Atmos will fall on its ass in home cinema. Who is going to plaster their walls and ceilings with speakers?

Insurance policies always have legalese which absolve them of paying out when the vehicle is used in an improper fashion. At best it might offer basic 3rd party insurance which might not include you as a paying passenger or limit your claim. And you assume someone has insurance to begin with.

Taxis are considered as small public vehicles and usually have additional standards they must meet with regard to cleanliness, luggage capacity, suitable vehicle models, safety equipment (fire extinguisher, first aid kit etc.), accessibility features like handholds, floor lighting etc. That's in addition to inspection to ensure the car is roadworthy. In some countries the schedule for testing is stricter for taxis too due to the additional wear and tear. And you assume someone has their car inspected to begin with.

Which doesn't test a person's geographic knowledge. Nor does it say if the person was caught drink driving and banned for a year, or if they previously raped someone. And you assume they have a licence to begin with.

A feat which can be accomplished with any other navigational app, e.g. Waze.

I should hope so too. I doubt those ratings have much to say about a driver's criminal background or compliance with public transport laws.

So you're demanding that someone prove an unknown quantity is more dangerous or less competent than a known quantity?

And if their standard was the schmoo it could have said 12 sczars. I shan't explain how many sczars are in one schmoo because I find it hysterical that people use some other form of measurement and not know this.

If the Telegraph is using imperial, it's probably as some weak protest against Europe (and almost the entire world) and their fangle dangle standard system of weights and measures.

We cured your husband's cancer but we accidentally vegetablised him by blocking a few veins in his brain with liquid metal.

The clue was where I said Surface Pro 2/3. It sits somewhere between the 2 and 3 in terms of spec. It has a similar form factor as the 3, a choice of i3/i5 processor, similar storage and RAM options and a resolution of the Surface 2. It's a lot cheaper and comes with proper chiclet keyboard which also adds some extra ports and speakers.

I haven't had such problems with the Miix. My biggest gripe is the touch pad doesn't have software for me to set up gestures (e.g. vertical scroll), and the keyboard stand is perfectly fine for desks but it isn't much good for perching in bed - it's too easy for the tablet to topple forward.

RT was a stillborn concept from the beginning. Windows without Windows compatibility is a stupid idea. It was even worse for having a desktop mode and all that bloat as a kludge to support a half baked port of MS Office.

Perhaps it might have enjoyed more success if they had added x86 emulation and LLVM-esque runtime support to Visual Studio and C++ so a large portion of desktop apps could be recompiled for it.

It's similarly specced to a Surface Pro 2/3 but considerably cheaper and includes a keyboard. I think by far the biggest issue with the Surface Pro is the keyboard is a pricey extra for an already pricey tablet.

If they bundled the keyboard with these things they'd sell a hell of a lot more of them. They're not bad devices, just too expensive. And let's be blunt, Windows without a keyboard is worse than fucking useless.

Thanks for the link. Yes exactly that sort of thing.

Not necessarily. The FBI could have supplied Google & Microsoft with a long list of md5 / sha1 hashcodes for abuse images which they obtained in raids or forums and these providers have programmed their system to raise a flag whenever they get a hit. Then a human might go in to confirm the match and from there its just a matter of informing the police. It may well be there are other ways of "fingerprinting" an image that are more resilient than a hash code and still useful enough for matching pictures against a known set of bad ones.

Perhaps it will come out in the trial how the file was identified.

Anyway it's more proof (if any were needed) why it's an incredibly bad idea to use a cloud service to store anything illegal. At least encrypt the data. Better yet don't put it up there at all.

I'm sorry but parents DO have a right to complain. Apple / Google / Microsoft are facilitators of a system which not only encourages but profits from games charging money for in-app purchases. It means that the controls are begrudging implemented and usually flipped to off position by default. And it is not hard to find games aimed at young kids where the game encourages the player to purchase $50-100 bundles of coins, skins or whatever. They don't want to tip the applecart so to speak.

And yeah parental responsibility does come into it but so does the power of the default. The default for kid rated games should be purchase restrictions. If the account holder wants to flip it the other way they can do so, but that should be the default. And in being the default it would change the landscape of these games for the better since they'd have to focus on engaging game play instead of skinner box random rewards for cash as they do now.

Thanks Ayn for completely understanding the problem.

Impose a maximum in-game purchase to the game's rating and impose a maximum spend per account per month. i.e. an E for everyone game may have a max spend of $5. If a user wants to override these settings then they can from the account settings. The power of the default mean the majority won't and thus people will be protected from nasty surprises. Oh and ban more than 1 in game currency that maps onto real world money and require them to show a dollar / euro / pound value against any purchase that uses it.

Aside from protecting users it deters games from being glorified skinner boxes with cow-clicker complexity and micropayments galore and encourages producers to start making actual games again.