Comment Re:there's a dongle for that. (Score 1) 392
Maybe they meant lossless compression of CD audio, that would reduce the bitrate by at least half.
If they meant "lossless compression" they shouldn't have said "uncompressed".
Maybe they meant lossless compression of CD audio, that would reduce the bitrate by at least half.
If they meant "lossless compression" they shouldn't have said "uncompressed".
Bluetooth has a megabit of bandwidth, you can certainly push uncompressed CD audio over it.
Last I checked, 44100 * 16 * 2 was over 1.4Mbps.
By using different protocol numbers in the IP headers, the designers of these protocols [...] made them harder to support, because routers have to explicitly know how to handle those nonstandard protocol numbers.
How do nonstandard protocol numbers make it harder for routers to route the packet? You have the destination IP: just forward the packet already. Oh, you want to be a firewall and block selected traffic or even do deep packet inspection? That's not routing.
Yes, anti-personnel is the danger. I wouldn't be surprised if the secret service don't already jam potential drone control frequencies for their high-value people. The real danger is with autonomous drones that use GPS or, worse, are smart enough to do without it. These things could be a poor man's mini cruise missile.
That many satellites could tip us over the space junk critical mass threshold. If a spacecraft is hit by something it tends to send debris flying everywhere. Some of the pieces can then hit other spacecraft causing more debris. Once you have enough spacecraft in orbit -- critical mass -- the chain reaction sustains itself long enough to destroying many spacecraft in the same orbital region. It's called the Kessler syndrome.
The contract wouldn't be between Uber and the government. The contract would be between Uber and the private individual who also happens to be a transport inspector, not even a police officer. Remember, it's a sting operation so they're not going to register as a government department. It's not so clear to me that this would fail in a civil case. Are there laws voiding contract terms that impede government officials in their duties? Lawyers anywhere?
I think $2000 would be a better number for Uber to try since it would be much more likely to be under the limit of a government-issued credit card but still more than the fine. They could be more subtle by making the passenger responsible for any financial consequences of their actions during the ride. That looks more innocuous but, with the right legal phraseology, could still cover transport inspectors' fines. But, as correctly noted, this is the way to get new legislation.
Could be treated just like speeding and red light camera tickets. The ticket is issued to the registered owner of the car.
Apparently not under the existing laws. If they go to the trouble of changing the law I think they'll go a different way, like nasty penalties for repeat offences and, more likely, finding a way to hit Uber directly with some conspiracy to offend law with huge penalties for corporations.
The problem, noted in TFA, is that the existing legislation doesn't have provisions for higher penalties for repeat offenders. Currently it seems they can't do anything more than fine them $1700 per infringement. Uber is paying the drivers' fines for them.
They could also wait a week to issue the fines
I don't see how this could work. They need to confirm the driver's identity to issue the fine which they're not going to be able to do without confronting the driver at the time of the ride. Just knowing the vehicle's registration isn't enough.
These rockets are really big. The square/cube means that big things are not as strong as little ones. Get two toy cars and smash them into each other. Now try the same thing with two full sized vehicles and compare the results. Sure you could catch a model rocket with a butterfly net and it will fly again. This idea just doesn't scale up.
There's already "Ephemeris Time" (ET) that doesn't have leap seconds. It's now exactly 26 seconds different from UTC. Go ahead and use that for system time if you like.
Isn't this what Wikileaks is for? Send it there first and then tip off media outlets. Of course the anonymity feature of Wikileaks is not so important in this case since they can probably guess who leaked it but it's still going to be hard to take down.
Like I said, TIFF is a container format. Saying that TIFF supports BPG is just like saying that HTML supports BPG. It's great in principle
I'm not saying that BPG files are any better in this respect at this stage, though the JavaScript decoder is nice. Obviously any JavaScript TIFF decoder would need to be _much_ bigger that the BPG
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
