CDs are the best way to get the best sound quality for a reasonable price. They are useless physical objects so i only keep the rips. Good that it's legal now ! (I'm no longer in the UK, but wasn't caught ;)

The gains from not compressing are probably negated by the disk I/O latency caused by not being able to cache the gigabytes of audio content or the memory usage due to keeping it in RAM.

[I'm all for lossles audio, but they could at least have done FLAC and saved half the space]

Sorry to be pedantic, but why would you give only the number of vertical lines (1280)? Since 2276x1280 is such an unusual resolution (I can only assume 16:9 when using the ???p notation), it would be clearer to give the number of pixels in both directions. Another piece of info missing is the DPI, without which one can't relate "pt" to pixels. [at least we know it's a progressive scan monitor, thank god you don't have to code on an interlaced display]

Oh yeah? Then I'm going to start my own country, with blackjack and hookers, and nobody can do anything about it. In fact, forget about the country.

This could actually work, just replace "decryption" with "IR". Make the bus completely dark in the visible spectrum and make everyone wear IR goggles. There is the problem of photo flashes, in that case the bus could have light detectors, and when a flash is detected, saturate the bus with strong IR like suggested above, while decreasing the sensitivity of the googles. Another alternative is to use materials which have specular reflections in the visible range around the bus, so the flash saturates the camera itself. What do I get for solving it? ("no goggles" wasn't part of the requirements;)

Somewhat off topic, but I'm put off by the resolution of eInk devices. The readers I have seen have relatively low pixel density compared to recent phones, tablets and laptops. Any experience with reading equations and formulae on these? How about diagrams, figures?

If the shops don't want people to hold up the queue looking for 9.99, they should set the price to 10.00

Not the only one. I'm currently mining for litecoin just to keep the house warm ;)

(sorry, couple of keys are fucked). Wow. I was coviced it was a joke util i read the referece. This is mad. Last item's proaly worded like that from the list provider to distiguish from por, the cesors had to go ahead ad check that ox for some reaso

FTFY...shudder

that's really bad, but thanks for the info

No time to read all TFA, but this doens't apply to sync writes, right? I believe SSDs without power protection will honour sync calls from the OS and make sure it's all written before returning. SSDs with power loss protection will ignore sync calls, and maybe even make sure all async data is written. This makes them faster, but not necessarily more reliable (as shown in the article) (right?)

Yes, this is not a surprise. quite possibly, 90 % of business say that IP as in the internet is not important either. There are many small non-tech businesses

A while ago they were blocking Java outright. Click to play is a great compromise: it's much harder for an attacker to get the user to click on something than to simply load something in the background. It's also much easier for users to log into their bank or view scientific illustrations in Java (possibly other things too:).

Java has been slow at patching bugs, so I understand why they're getting the stick harder than flash. And their installer is insane, you have to install the 32 bit java to make it work in the browser, but that's not obvious from the download page

Aslo, if you use people on welfare to draw conclusions, you're already selecting for people with poor work ethic, as it's currently not considered socially acceptable to be on welfare