DVB-S is the satellite equivalent of DVB-T which is Mpeg2.

DVB-S2 is the equivalent of DVB-T2 which is Mpeg 4.

The only difference is that nowhere in the UK is mpeg2 used for HD terrestrial broadcasts, whereas satellite broadcasting still frequently uses mpeg2 for HD content.

DVB-T (Mpeg2) is used for SD broadcasts in the UK. DVB-T2 (MPeg4) is used for all the HD channels (terrestrially).

Francis Maude (the minister setting this up) - "Through the excellent work of GCHQ, in partnership with other government departments, the private sector and academia, we are able to counter threats and ensure together we are stronger and more aware."

And if the spy agencies are the threat? Who will protect us from those who wish to protect us?

Perhaps the course will be teaching people how to evade the mass surveillance of GCHQ and their pals at the NSA? Seems unlikely!

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen

... "seperate"

The government has files on everyone (or nearly everyone); people never suspected of, or implicated in, any crime.

How is this different from what the Stasi did?

The founders of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights had, at the time, just faced down a global fascist hegemony, which made those rights seem just and proper and self-evident for great peace and wellbeing.

Now those founding states are becoming a global fascists hegemony ... they're not so keen on them.

Quelle suprise! :)

The whole G+ real-name crap kept me away but it did teach me something I wouldn't have otherwise known if I *had* started using the service:

I can get along perfectly fine without Google +.

©ne Ring to Rule Them All

So, pretty clearly, there is a huge problem with SSNs being used in the USA as both identifier and authenticator. And this has been know for years, and many people have suffered as a result of this really really stupid system, whose flaws are obvious to everyone using the system.

So how long will it take to get something changed?

Thanks. Its contributions like yours thant make /. a still tolerable place.

>Stop allowing the perpetrators to hide behind the corporate veil.

Then what's the point of a corporation!? (See my sig. below.)

He'll be schmoozing with the various copyright cartel lobbyists, who'll be blowing smoke up his arse and whispering sweet little lies in his ears.

Recompense will come in the "you scratch our backs, we'll scratch yours" format at some point in the future. That's the way it usually worls: 'favours' for 'favours'.

Finally someone (of note) says what everyone has been thinking (and saying).

Without the ability to challenge, it amounts to totalitarianism.

In 2050 Firefox will be a wood-pulp mill in Finland.