I haven't spent money on a proper VR headset, but I've collected a few freebie (or £3-5) cardboard headsets in the past few years. The current demos on the google cardboard app aren't impressive, but if you revert back to the version that included the Google Earth demo (was it 1.8?) then it's a great free VR experience. Google have 3D'd a lot more of the world since Google Earth was included in the app, and running the old app uses the new data. You can "superman" fly through most of the world's cities in 3D, not only down round the main attractions, but through suburbs and surrounding towns and villages. In Wales you can swoop and fly in 3D through castles, mountains and over lakes.

Google in their wisdom have removed this from later versions of the app, and restricted it to the £150+ headsets, for no reason that I can see other than to drive headset sales, but revert the app back a couple of years and you get today's 3D data which has pretty good coverage even for a low-populace country.

You said that out loud? Imagining that's some kind of clever sophistry maybe, or are you that thick?

If you're under 16 and stolen somebody's slashdot id, I'll give you a tiny pass to go and attempt to educate yourself; otherwise get to fuck.

I really don't get the hate on 'they' for singular. Don't you use it totally naturally for somebody whose gender you don't know? As in: "somebody's been stealing my milk from the fridge. Yesterday they took half a pint!".

Or: "somebody really loves my art, they left a great anonymous review."

Is this not in common use in the US? Do you say "it left an anonymous review"? Or do you avoid it saying "I got a great anonymous review"?

Am I missing something? My first language is not English, but I think I'm pretty fluent in UK usage.

Running on (your own) Rasperry Pi, the BBC yesterday launched the BBC box, an implementation of Databox which allows you to process your own data exported from various platforms (examples given include iPlayer, spotiify, Instagram, Strava, Monzo) to give you insights based on your own data, which you control and can export to others based on your permissions.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/...

Never said? How about the memo from him on 2016-03-31,
"Make a one-time payment of $5-10 billon"
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

C'mon, everybody and their aunt have been pointing to instances where he said this, not commentary, or interpretation, he did say it.

Parma ham (you may have heard of it) has banned nitrites for 25 years, using salt (NaCl) alone. Still delicious.

Same as Word 2007 PDF export then! Maybe they were after a bug-for-bug compatibilty!

Even MS's wolverine TCP stack was available for 3.11 in '94.

Erm, unless you installed the free(ish) Trumpet Winsock. Get your point about IPX, though that was mostly LAN only.

* --auto-tune

Have you tried powertop (which has an --autotune - but not sure how reliable that is)? Useful to turn off stuff you never use that's draining battery.

If you didn't know about it already, this is an interesting article about mains frequency and how it can be used to timestamp electrical recordings:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...

This. I was wondering why Musk would be calling the boss of Tesla ("isn't that him?") a "Troll heavily invested in oil industry". Thought he was having another meltdown. Terrible subediting.

Hmm - wonder if since the victim used to work for godaddy that this was a grievance thing? Maybe he used to have the domain and perceived that it was taken from him by nefarious means? Anybody got a subscription to a whois history service that can take a peek? Doesn't condone this nutter's action, but surely there's more to this than a random attempt to grab a (presumably) valuable domain? I mean there are other more obvious targets if you're willing to do this at gunpoint!

Such as the EU. Brexit will leave the UK outside of this, and pressure for trade deals will sacrifice those kinds of protections that a large market can demand. The UK will diminish, and have to accept lower consumer protection, affecting consumer rights and leading to environmental impacts. What a ridiculous sacrifice on an altar of platitudinous "taking back control".