Comment Re:DOCSIS (Score 1) 80
It will be DOCSIS 3.11 for Workgroups before DOCSIS 95.
Comment Re:100% Irrelevant in 2019 (Score 1) 105
The Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo Wii U also had firmware updates for consoles on game discs.
Submission + - Adelaide, South Australia to become base for Australian Space Agency (abc.net.au)
Badooleoo writes: South Australia which has a history with space events long ago is set to become the base for the Australian space industry.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have An sRGB Or AdobeRGB Rating?
dryriver writes: As anyone who buys professional computer monitors knows, the dynamic range of the display device you are looking at can be expressed quite usefully in terms of percentage sRGB coverage and percentage AdobeRGB coverage. The higher the percentage for each, the better and wider the dynamic range of the screen panel you are getting. People who work with professional video and photographs typically aim for a display that has 100 percent sRGB coverage and at least 70 to 80 percent AdobeRGB coverage. Laptop review site Notebookcheck ( https://www.notebookcheck.net/ ) for example uses professional optical testing equipment to check whether the advertised sRGB and AdobeRGB percentages and brightness in nits for any laptop display panel hold up in real life. This being the case, why do quote on quote "High Dynamic Range" capable TVs — which seem to be mostly 10 bits per channel to begin with — not have an sRGB or AdobeRGB rating quoted anywhere in their technical specs? Why don't professional TV reviewers use optical testing equipment — readily available — to measure the real world dynamic range of HDR or non-HDR TVs objectively, in hard numbers? Why do they simply say "the blacks on this TV were deep and pleasing, and the lighter tones were..." when this can be expressed better and more objectively in measured numbers or percentages? Do they think consumers are too unsophisticated to understand a simple number like "this OLED TV achieves a fairly average 66 percent AdobeRGB coverage"?
Submission + - Doctor Who won't return until 2020 (bbc.co.uk) 1
AmiMoJo writes: The next series of Doctor Who won't start until 2020, it's been confirmed. Series 11 ended on Sunday night, but after the festive special on New Year's Day, Jodie Whittaker won't be seen in the Tardis again next year.
Showrunner Chris Chibnall said work on the new series had already begun. The first episode of the series, the first to feature a female Doctor, drew a record audience. It saw the highest launch viewing figures for the sci-fi stalwart in a decade, with 10.9 million people tuning in. The series has been considered a ratings success, with viewing figures above those of the last two series when Peter Capaldi starred in the title role.
Showrunner Chris Chibnall said work on the new series had already begun. The first episode of the series, the first to feature a female Doctor, drew a record audience. It saw the highest launch viewing figures for the sci-fi stalwart in a decade, with 10.9 million people tuning in. The series has been considered a ratings success, with viewing figures above those of the last two series when Peter Capaldi starred in the title role.
Comment Re: I'd want to know how to disable the behavior (Score 1) 301
about:config
network.trr.mode = 5 to completely disable it
0 Off. To use operating system resolver.
1 Race native against TRR. Do both in parallel and go with the one that returns a result first. Most likely the native one will win.
2 First. Use TRR first, and only if the secure resolution fails use the operating system resolver.
3 Only. Only use TRR. Never use the native (after the initial setup).
4 Shadow. Runs the TRR resolves in parallel with the native for timing and measurements but uses only the native resolver results.
5 Off by choice This is the same as 0 but marks it as done by choice and not done by default.
Comment Re:Yep (Score 0) 133
A amateur radio not "an ham radio".
Comment Re:Stop calling it social media (Score 1) 312
A bigger problem is the media referring everything as social media when in fact they mean social network or website.
This then brainwashes people into saying shit like "I have social media accounts". No you don't you have a social networking accounts.
Social media = content.
Social network = website or service.
Comment Re:Bad design.... (Score 1) 137
You don't need to unlock or even have a SIM card inserted at all to call emergency on a mobile/cell phone. As long as it it powered on and can pickup any network it should work.
Even if there is no network it will keep trying.
Educating everybody including kids about this is important.
Submission + - What Bell Labs was like c.1967 1
niittyniemi writes: There's a rather interesting photo-gallery over at The Guardian
which gives an indication of what life was like at Bell Labs c.1967.
This was the year that Dennis Ritchie joined Bell Labs and went on to produce a body of work which has been pretty much unrivalled in its influence on the modern computing landscape, even some 50 years later.
What's noticeable about the pictures, is that they are of woman. I don't think this is a result of the photographer just photographing "eye candy". I think it's because he was surrounded by women, whom from his comments he very much respected and hence photographed.
In those times, wrangling with a computer was very much seen as "clerical work" and therefore the domain of woman. This can be seen as far back as Bletchley Park and before that Ada Lovelace.
Yet 50 years later, the IT industry has turned full-circle. Look at any IT company and the percentage of women doing software development or similar is woeful. Why and how has this happened? Discuss.
This was the year that Dennis Ritchie joined Bell Labs and went on to produce a body of work which has been pretty much unrivalled in its influence on the modern computing landscape, even some 50 years later.
What's noticeable about the pictures, is that they are of woman. I don't think this is a result of the photographer just photographing "eye candy". I think it's because he was surrounded by women, whom from his comments he very much respected and hence photographed.
In those times, wrangling with a computer was very much seen as "clerical work" and therefore the domain of woman. This can be seen as far back as Bletchley Park and before that Ada Lovelace.
Yet 50 years later, the IT industry has turned full-circle. Look at any IT company and the percentage of women doing software development or similar is woeful. Why and how has this happened? Discuss.
Submission + - Dallas Buyers Club abandons fight against Australian pirates (theage.com.au)
aphelion_rock writes: It's a happy day for Aussie pirates: The Hollywood studio behind the film Dallas Buyers Club has abandoned its fight to extract huge sums of cash from alleged copyright infringers.
Dallas Buyers Club LLC had until midday Thursday to lodge a second appeal against an August Federal Court decision which effectively prevented it from engaging in so-called "speculative invoicing" in Australia.
Dallas Buyers Club LLC had until midday Thursday to lodge a second appeal against an August Federal Court decision which effectively prevented it from engaging in so-called "speculative invoicing" in Australia.
Comment Community Wireless Networks (Score 5, Informative) 90
Air-Stream in South Australia have been doing this successfully for a long time and is one of the largest wireless community networks in the world.
Also WACAN in Western Australia is doing well.
Submission + - Serious Flaw Patched In Intel Driver Update Utility (csoonline.com)
itwbennett writes: The flaw in a utility that helps users download the latest drivers for their Intel hardware components stems from the tool using unencrypted HTTP connections to check for driver updates. It was discovered by researchers from Core Security and was reported to Intel in November. The Core Security researchers found that the utility was checking for new driver versions by downloading XML files from Intel's website over HTTP. These files included the IDs of hardware components, the latest driver versions available for them and the corresponding download URLs. Intel Driver Update Utility users are strongly advised to download the latest version from Intel's support website.
Submission + - Uncooperative Russian ISP Prevents Cisco from Shutting Down Cybercriminal Gang
An anonymous reader writes: Cisco's Talos research team has managed to identify and partially shut down a cyber-criminal group that is using the RIG exploit kit to infect users with spambots via a malvertising campaign. Their investigation led them back to Russian ISP Eurobyte, who didn't bother answering critical emails and allowed the campaign to go on even today. In October 2015, Cisco's researchers also thwarted the activity of another group of cyber-criminals that made around $30 million from distributing ransomware.
Submission + - Sony attempts to trademark "Let's Play"
An anonymous reader writes: Why is it that kids these days spend days upon days watching people play video games on Youtube and Twitch when they could spend those days playing games themselves? While we may never find out why, Let's Plays are an established part of today's gaming ecosystem, and the publishers want their piece of the pie.
Nintendo lost love by forcefully taking the proceeds from ad revenue on Youtube for its videos, but Sony... never settling for second-best... has recently filed to trademark the phrase. I don't know what's more surprising: Sony's audacity to grab a phrase with recorded usage as far back as 2007... or that EA didn't think of it first.
Nintendo lost love by forcefully taking the proceeds from ad revenue on Youtube for its videos, but Sony... never settling for second-best... has recently filed to trademark the phrase. I don't know what's more surprising: Sony's audacity to grab a phrase with recorded usage as far back as 2007... or that EA didn't think of it first.
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