Unless the "battery problem" was that it caught fire and melted the phone.
But agreed in principle, of course, that non-replaceable batteries are a Bad Thing.

Marshall McLuhan disagrees.

Much of the world's economy has been based on that principle for decades.
(for quite plausible values of "useful" and "pointless")

A single font for all of them, as has been mentioned above, is possible but would be over 400MB, which is a problem for some of us.
Browsers will search other available fonts for a code point that's not in the current font, so you can install a collection of subset fonts that includes all the characters you are likely to need.

Ardour is a very capable DAW, but by itself it's not "A viable alternative to osx (and ms) for multimedia work". AV Linux is, however, a snapshot of Debian testing with numerous setup tweaks and a real time kernel that does make a usable OS for audio work. And includes Ardour, of course.

(if you're interested, watch the AV Linux forum., A new release is imminent...)

Bad form to reply to my own post, I know, but I've just realised this is not the thing that Leadsom proposed, which was the "movie-style" rating system reported elsewhere. Apologies for spreading confusion and misinformation.

Not that either proposal has much merit, of course, for similar reasons.

Panic not, it won't happen.

This is the brainchild of Andrea Leadsom, one of the two final contestants for leadership of the Tory party (and hence the post of PM until the next general election). According to a comment on this story on The Register, she already has a reputation around Westminster as a "self-serving simpleton". Theresa May (the other contestant) is generally expected to win.

The best way to use keyboard input is not just to look at the characters sent but to measure the keystroke timing, preferably in microseconds or shorter, and use only the lower order bits of the time values. It still requires care to make there there isn't bias in the times when keyboard interrupts are allowed to happen, but it can potentially generate a lot more entropy.

It's still MUCH slower than background noise from a microphone or thermal noise from a resistor, but at least it uses hardware that's already there.

For some purposes (and I don't know if this applies to Tor's intended use) I've heard that real physical sources of entropy simply don't generate it fast enough, especially after their output bit rate has been reduced by whitening to remove bias and correlation.

Not the lipo batteries, but a drone will have other components harder than bone. Even if the frame is plastic or carbon fibre, the motors will be metal and I'd expect them to do more damage to a turbine blade than bird bones. And there will be at least four of them.

As for the explosion of the battery, in an environment where jet fuel is being burned, that's just a little extra heat and flame.

Also, anyone selling baby care products and a whole range of related home stuff would place huge value on a list like that. It's well known to marketers that new parenthood is a time when people are likely to change their shopping habits. Those email addresses are going to get deluged with spam.

Oh, the irony! Remember when it was illegal to *export* strong encryption?

Many, many more than can afford $80k for a Tesla Model S.

Ardour does all that. All your effects are done in real time as you play the sound. 32 or more tracks of them (Ardour has no actual limit) Easy editing, seamless joins, full automation on every parameter if you want it. I've used both Ardour and Audacity: there is no comparison. I use Audacity for quick trimming and normalization of stereo material recorded on a pocket sound recorder, but anything more complicated gets done on Ardour.

You can argue about Ardour vs. Pro Tools, but basically they do the same kind of job. Many audio professionals use Pro Tools not because it's better than anything else but simply because if you ever send your work to another studio or get another engineer to work in your studio, that's what they'll expect.

Incidentally, Ardour also works on OSX and Windows now, but it's better supported (because more widely used so far) on Linux.

You have no idea about audio production on Linux if you think PulseAudio has anything to do with it.

If there's a limitation with Linux, that's it. Good quality software and hardware are available, but there's far less choice than there is for Windows, which is obviously supported by every manufacturer.