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Comment Not the whole story (Score 1) 113

What they don't mention in that article is that Dyson's ventilators don't have regulatory approval yet, and probably won't for quite a while. Hence the UK government has cancelled the order and is concentrating on buying ventilators made to previously existing designs that have already been tested.

So it's not that the UK doesn't need more ventilators (although the requirement is less than first thought), it's that the UK doesn't need Dyson's untested, unapproved, ventilators. (src).

Comment Re:Lol, sure, if... (Score 1) 99

Another change from terrestrial GPS receivers is that you wouldn't need to account for the differing speed of light through the atmosphere.

It's possible (for someone who knows a lot more than me) to build your own GPS receiver from first principals, which avoids the limits placed on commercial receivers (>1900km/s and/or >18,000m). Here's an example which uses a custom FPGA board, coupled to a Raspberry Pi. If a sufficiently dedicated and knowledgable person can build one at home, I suspect a satellite manufacturer could build an extra-terrestrial* version

(Apparently although GPS signals at the Earth's surface are around -130dBm, the noise floor is higher at -110dBm, which implies some RF wizardry I don't even begin to understand).

* in the literal sense of 'off Earth'

Comment Add-on supply (Score 1) 188

I suspect there'll be a market for something like a PicoPSU, to allow a 12V-only PSU to be plugged into a board which converts to all the required voltages, without requiring the motherboard to do it.

And/or, some power supplies might come with a switch to enable/disable the non-12V rails, so it can be used with either class of system.

Comment Re:I think we all know how this is going to go in (Score 1) 62

"The UK's age verification system for online pornography became mandatory on July 15."
Yeah, but nothing was actually done, so they've postponed it again.
This time it's supposed to be because of the EU (of course), and totally not because every single online company in the UK has told the government that it's unworkable.

Comment Re: And more revisionist history (Score 1) 231

If you do have black USB cables, you can always put a dab of white paint or tip-ex (assuming they still make it, you must still be able to buy it right?), on the logo to make it more obvious.
With the cable I use to charge my phone etc. I can tell without looking, because the cable has a built in curve now, from hanging over the edge of the table.

Comment Re:Warranty (Score 1) 166

I unlocked the bootloader on my Motorola (you just go onto their website and they will give you a code), and now every time I turn it on I get a message saying that because the bootloader is unlocked, my warranty is void. So in this case is the manufacturer lying to me?

Not that I'm bothered, it wasn't an expensive phone, and I doubt anything that goes wrong with it would fall under the warranty either, even if it hadn't run out already.

Comment Re:Occam's Razor (Score 4, Insightful) 1024

Mate, I've seen some Fox news and I can tell you that by international standards your "US Leftist media" is being pretty polite.

It took me a few minutes to be sure that it wasn't a piss-take on a statical news show. The amount of distortion would be flat out illegal in a lot of countries I think (as shown when they do have news from outside the US, and get it so hilariously wrong)

I'm afraid to say it's reality's well known liberal bias, raising it's head again.

Comment Re:Anyone shocked? (Score 1) 104

"Nations keep logs of all networked computer use from every ISP for some time"
And they do that by recording the MAC address, which can be easily spoofed.

There's no way of restricting access to a network that can't be bypassed, other than by making the network so restricted as to be entirely useless. For an example, look at gaming consoles, where Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony try to limit network access to only approved (un-rooted) devices, that can only run approved software. Have they succeeded? Nope.
Oh, and before you say that a government would have better luck than a technology company, have a look around at large government IT projects. How many of them actually work?

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