Comment "...answer to GPS" (Score 1) 402
GPS is a question?
Comment Re:Delay? (Score 2, Informative) 66
Police in the UK use TETRA, an encrypted radio system.
Comment Re:So (Score 1) 66
Why does any organisation need a PR department?
Comment Re:So (Score 4, Insightful) 66
To be fair, this is two staff from the PR department doing the tweeting, not front-line police officers. Given the publicity they've received in return for those two person-days of effort, it seems like pretty good value to me.
Comment Excellent parodies also available. (Score 4, Funny) 66
Comment Re:Really... (Score 1) 334
Are those American ("English") gallons, or British ("Imperial") gallons? There's a 20% difference...
Comment Clothes dryer? (Score 2, Insightful) 330
My highly advanced clothes-line technology comes with an implicit display of its power consumption - zero.
Comment Re:Not the same race (Score 1) 85
I think it's a bit more complicated than that - Bloodhound *is* direct competition for Eagle, but not necessarily vice-versa. So whether or not they're in the same race depends on your perspective...
Comment A kick in the teeth... for whom? (Score 1) 197
Yes of course, it's the people who signed up for first-generation ID cards whom we should feel sorry for here. Poor dears.
Comment Re:Wrong question. (Score 1) 158
This is the DoE - how about Mushroom Cloud computing?
Comment Re:Whats the issue Apple have with Flash? (Score 1) 154
It seems to work fine for me.
Comment It's today? (Score 4, Insightful) 232
If
Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies 281
An anonymous reader writes "In a sign that patent trolls are getting desperate to keep their cases in East Texas — long known as the friendliest venue for their claims — some have taken to suing tiny, no-name companies that are run by East Texas residents. The hope is that, if at least one defendant is located in East Texas, the judge will keep the entire case there. Nate Neel, a Longview, Texas resident with a small open source software company called CitiWare, was sued by Bedrock Computer Technologies in June despite (he claims) having no customers or other meaningful operations of any kind. In response, Mr. Neel has posted a strongly worded letter to Bedrock's attorneys on his Web site. It will be interesting to see how East Texas judges respond to this abuse of process perpetrated against their own residents."
Hacking Hi-Def Graphics and Camerawork Into 4Kb 255
TRNick writes "The old home-computing art of hacking elaborate graphics and camerawork into tiny amounts of memory has been lost, right? Not so. The demoscene is keeping ingenious coding skills alive, and TechRadar finds out the latest developments. Winner of the 4kb competition at 2009's Breakpoint party was RGBA's demo 'Elevated,' a gorgeous scrolling demo featuring photo realistic landscapes and music, which fits into the memory used by one of your PC's desktop icons. This is really impressive stuff."
Comment Re:what kind of question is that? (Score 1) 526
Yeah, we couldn't stand the quality of the tea over there; secession was our only resort...
