If the wood isn't burned then where would the lead go instead?

We already use all the wood we need for applications in building, furniture etc. The wood that gets burned in stoves generally isn't good enough for those applications anyway. So, if it isn't burned then presumably it will sit around and slowly rot away. So what happens to the lead then? Does it go back into the soil? Will it leach into rivers and streams to mostly end up in the sea? Perhaps bacteria and fungi which attack the wood will release it into the air anyway?

I've no idea of the answers to this, but it seems to me that if you are going to worry about lead being released by burning then you have to at least explain how that compares with the none burning alternative.

Well, that's certainly very kind of them, not least because one of the other big libraries (alternatekicadlibrary.com) seems to have gone a bit quiet with no update since Aug 2024.

Has this already happened - the title suggests not ("Set to Get")?

I just selected some random city in South Korea and Google maps seemed to be working just fine, including Street View and satellite images. Do I gather that it is something to do with the accuracy of the latitude and longitude values that are displayed?

Can I start by saying that I am completely opposed to the mass collection of DNA from those who have not been convicted of a crime.

However, in cases like this where DNA evidence has produced a very short list of suspects for a very serious crime, I can't help wondering if it should really be necessary to lurk around trying to collect discarded cigarettes.

Surely a mechanism could be invented allowing a judge to permit the police to collect DNA from a small number of suspects on the understanding that no DNA records will be retained from those who are eliminated from the enquiry.

Whilst Linux might struggle with propitiatory Mac hardware, I don't think that this is a fundamental issue with Linux and ARM. For several years my desktop, which I use every day, has been a ARM64 based Raspberry Pi running Gentoo Linux. I have to say that I don't experience any significant problems and the great majority of the software seems to work just fine.

It is already the case - and has been for ages - that you have to prove that you have the right to work in the UK before you can start a job by producing various paper documents. However, there are also huge numbers of people working who don't have that right. Ergo, unscrupulous employers don't do the required checks because then they can pay the illegal workers less and not bother with tedious things like taxes and workplace safety.

Nobody (not least from the government) ever explained how this "digital ID" would make any difference. The dodgy employers simply wouldn't bother to check that either!

You don't have this already??? Here in the UK, headlight alignment has been part of the mandatory annual inspection (MOT) for as long as I can remember and certainly from way before the invention of LED headlamps.

Here's a thought. If you want to be taken seriously as a scientific institution then don't say things that are clearly complete rubbish like "The @NCAR_Science is quite literally our global mothership." Perhaps, at a considerable stretch, it is figuratively our "global mothership" but even that sounds a little unlikely!

Just a quick thought, but do they mean that it adjusts the intensity of the regenerative braking? The electric cars I have driven (not many) have a "D" mode where there is little to no regenerative braking when you lift off the accelerator and a "B" mode for use in traffic where the "Engine Braking" effect is much stronger. I understand that some cars allow you to adjust how powerful the "B" mode effect is. Perhaps this is what the "left paddle" does?

I've been trying to read the news reports about this all day and I still can't figure out some basic facts.

- I've got the message that you will need one in order to get a legitimate job (obviously not for one in the grey economy) but what about people like me who are retired? Will we be required to have one of these stupid digital IDs even if we have no intention of working?

- What about unpaid voluntary work?

- I don't have a smart phone but the news constantly refers to making sure that the system is available for those who are "Unable to use a smart phone". What about people who are able to but chose not to own one? Will people have to somehow demonstrate that they have a disability which presents them using a smart phone before they will be offered an alternative?

So, riders and pedestrians are being injured more due to the higher speeds of e-bikes than ordinary bicycles? But, it also says that e-bikes should be limited to 15mph when propelled by the motor.

You need to spend no more than a couple of minutes in any built-up area in the UK to see that many of the alleged 'e-bikes' are vastly more powerful than that. They are quite obviously unlicensed electrically powered motorbikes with some entirely nugatory pedals added.

So, the conclusion we should reach is that if you allow huge numbers of people to suddenly ride motorbikes without any training, protective clothing or requirement to obey any traffic rules then many of them - and any unfortunate pedestrian who can't jump out of the way in time - will receive serious injuries. Why is this surprising?

Well, to be technically accurate the government didn't actually "pass a law". Doing that in secret would have been extremely difficult but not needed as the relevant legislation already existed. It was simply necessary to persuade a judge to sign the relevant documents. Super-injunctions have been used before, but not for issues of this nature.

More interesting is whether the foreign press - who would not be subject to UK law - managed to report about this. I certainly didn't see it mentioned in Slashdot but perhaps they didn't know. Did anyone see any mention in a none-UK news site prior to yesterday?

Won't this problem automatically fix itself? Surely, if fewer children are born then the population will decrease. Therefore, through the basic economics of supply and demand the cost of houses will go down.

As I understand it, the issue is almost entirely about the danger - real or perceived - of fireworks starting fires.

Now, I've never been to California and I don't suppose that I ever will, but from what I've seen and heard I strongly suspect that California in July is significantly more "flammable" than the UK in November.

At the end of the day it all comes down to employers. If everyone - or at least practically everyone - is getting AI to do all their college work for them then the college degree basically becomes worthless because it is no longer any measure of knowledge or ability in whatever subject it is supposed to represent. If employers wish to identify capably potential employees for any job other than operating AI then they need to test the candidates themselves. Further more they need to physically do this in person by bringing candidates in and testing them face to face with no phones allowed.

Presumably this will lead to an "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King" scenario where most candidates know practically nothing about their professed subject and any student who has done even a modicum of actual real study will appear to shine!

If colleges want to retain any real purpose at all in education then they need to adopt the same approach and only award degrees to students who can sit in a real physical room with their lecturers and provide cogent answers to questions asked!