Me? I need to get an upgraded detector to catch the one asshole I found out there with a modern LIDAR.

Perhaps not speeding in the first place would work better?

Whilst CFLs worked as a stop-gap until LED lights could become feasible, I do wonder if they have done long term harm to people's acceptance of efficient lighting - for a long time, "energy efficient lighting" is going to be associated with "takes 5 minutes to get bright enough to see" thanks to CFLs...

That said, I might miss CFLs in my bedside lights if I ever have to replace them with LEDs - that's the one place where a slow start-up is quite nice!

Calling Mayday properly requires selecting the Guard frequency to transmit on. Everybody normally flies commercial and military aircraft with the guard receiver selected so anybody around will hear the shout... and perform relay duties if required. But to make a proper Mayday call requires actually selecting the emergency frequency on the radio to transmit on. Some aircraft also allow the pilot to set the Crash Position Indicator transmitter going as well in advance of the crash so the satellite systems can pick it up and triangulate on them...

"A spokesman for Clinton defended her use of the personal email account and said she has been complying with the "letter and spirit of the rules.""

So exactly what shady deals has she been concocting with her rich chums then? And leaving no email trail?

these will seriously fsck up the Severn Estuary ecosystem not to mention destroy the Severn Bore... and massively increase flood risk on the Gloucestershire flood plain... don't want another event like back in 2007 where we came within inches of the flood topping over the hastily constructed defences at the power distribution centre and killing power to most of Gloucestershire...

My guess is:

If you recover the clock from the stream, you just need to roughly control the motor (CD) RPM and stream what you read. If you run your own clock you need a buffer and you then either need to dynamically tweak the motor speed based on how fast the buffer is filling/draining, or you need to read the CD a bit too fast and stop/resume every so often. Clock recovery sounds much simpler to me.

but it does... pirate bay only caters to currently popular works... it does not run torrents of old stuff that is trapped in limbo and in danger of disappearing from the public when the copyright expires as there aren't any copies anymore of it to digitise...

"and if they later receive an NSL, they remove the statement, thus communicating that event to the public without violating any laws."

all very well until the gag warrant is worded to prevent you from removing the statement...

with any sense it would include it's own UPS to allow it to successfully write out to the discs all the pending writes and then spin down...

These sats are going into LEO, not GEO, so their position in the sky won't be fixed. I imagine you'll used a phased array antenna to track them. The good points being: lower latency, no requirement to see the southern horizon specifically. The bad point being that you'll need a view of a bigger chunk of the sky to avoid signal dropouts as the satellites move - how big a chunk depends on how many satellites they have up there (and therefore how many are above the horizon at the same time). If they have enough satellites, it may work out better for you.

it isn't going to get much information with me running it in DOSBox on Linux...

Although crazies keep voting for UKIP, who have said they want to legalise firearms...

Great! $malware got read access to your bank details.

So now instead of having a single copy of the file, you have a separate copy saved by each application that has been used to process it - creating a mountain of almost-identical files that the user has to keep track of is not a user friendly way of doing things.

Better is to have a versioned filesystem - each time a file is changed (by any application!) the delta is saved and the filesystem keeps the old data hidden away. Most of the time everything behaves as normal - you have one copy of a file, no matter how many times it is edited. If you need to roll back some changes then you just ask to see previous versions of that file, much like a source control system. And indeed, there are a number of file systems that do exactly this - if you care about such things there's nothing stopping you doing it.

It doesn't stop malware reading your files or modifying them, but it does mean you can recover the unmodified versions... but then doing backups (which everyone should be doing anyway) gives you similar protection.

Because anything else would require popping up numerous "would you like to allow this application to do $foo" boxes, and then you end up training the user to just hit "yes" on everything because it's too damned annoying to make a decision every time when the vast vast majority of access requests really are legitimate.

Sandboxing based on applications making their own decisions and being relatively trustworthy might not be a bad plan though - i.e. if your web browser has an immutable list of files it needs access to, and you trust your web browser, that provides some level of protection when some malware compromises the browser, so long as the immutable list really is immutable and the malware can't modify it.

Well no, if you can roll back everything that happened between the "all clear" scan and the "you've been cracked" scan then that's certainly much better than nothing.

You don't know what most software ACTUALLY does, even if you did install it - most software people use is closed source, but even the open source is a black box unless you actually audit it.

I've gone and done it again...