I'm just going to leave this here for those who are too lazy to find out the actual facts! Scroll down to the first of the Promoted Comments for some Real Science.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

I am frankly disgusted by some of the posters here. So here are some facts. 1. In order to do detailed weather forecasting today you use a weather model that covers THE WHOLE EARTH! So if you interfere with the data anywhere you effect the whole model. 2. The signals the satellites are measuring are the reflection of the Suns radiation from water molecules in the atmosphere. The narrow frequency band they use is dictated by the physics, and the signals are very small. There is no other way to do this. ANY other radiation in or adjacent to these signals will COMPLETELY SWAMP THEM! 3. The scientific community has been warning of this for years, and as far as I can tell THE WHOLE OF THE REST OF THE WORLD HAVE LISTENED AND ACTED ACCORDINGLY! 4. If the FCC think they can get away with this because it would only effect the US, they are IGNORANT FOOLS! So instead of talking BS, get some education and learn the actual facts!

Firstly as far as I am aware this does not mean you can't watch Netflix on an Apple device. All it means is that if you want to send Netflix from one Apple device to another Apple device via AirPlay, you can't. Since Netflix already supplies an app for iOS and Apple TV, what is the problem? As far as I can see this only effects the "most convenience" way to use your Apple kit with Netflix. So now it might take a few seconds longer, because you have to use a different app! Talk about childish bleating from the Twitterati! Get a grip!

I have two HP printers. Both were bought second hand as demo units: a very old LaserJet 2300dn and an OfficeJet PRO 8610dn. I refurbished the LaserJet myself. I've been using HP office printers at home for more than 15 years, as they pretty much work out-of-the-box with Linux, and there is a mature 3rd party ink/toner industry.

A couple of years ago a firmware "update" was pushed out which disabled them both from using 3rd party ink. Users made a huge fuss and generated a lot of bad publicity, particularly from the small business community. HP folded and issued a firmware update. Now you get a warning about 3rd party ink/toner, which you can dismiss with a button push. In the case of the laser it is 3 buttons at once.

If Epson are trying the same trick, then the bad publicity should make them think again. The HP story should also be resurrected, and maybe others will also think twice. This sort of business model should be outlawed. As other commenters have said, if you buy a piece of hardware, then you OWN it!

I think the last sentence should say "Nearly all of the cloud is Linux, public or private, .....".

From my own experience I would say that the Kernel is Linux, or vice versus. The rest is the GUI. Only Windows has the GUI embedded.

And on the subject of embedded, All of my media devices that are less than 6 years old are Linux. That quite surprised me as early versions of a couple were still running Win CE! My TV, DVD player, NAS boxes, MP3 player and media center are all Linux, though for some it took a bit of research to establish this. My old Samsung DVD was Win CE, but the new one which has an almost identical interface is Linux. I suspect there is a lot more than people realize running Linux, even if it is just the kernel with a pared down interface.

The tech on Cassini is at least 20 years old! Have you any idea how much effort goes into keeping the spacecraft weight down? And another thing. How come nobody here knows who the scientist in charge of the Cassini Imaging Team is? Caroline Porco was one of Sagan's grad students working on Voyager. She worked out how to take the famous "Family Portrait" montage with the Pale Blue dot photo. Do you think it might be possible that she knows what she what she was doing with this project? When you say "CCD tech has improved since then", do you realise it was launched in 1997?

In the UK, all "public" education used to be free. This included university tuition fees. Since the system changed, regular increases in fees began to price out students from low-income families. As a consequence, most universities started actively "recruiting" abroad. This has led to a large pool of UK educated foreign students competing for UK jobs. With problems with STEM education producing enough local and qualified candidates, IT & science jobs have seen an increase in foreign born workers. However recent changes to visa regulations either planned or implemented have made it more difficult for foreign students. If the percentage of foreign goes down, the universities income is disproportionately effected. Foreign students pay higher fees. So the bottom line is that if your national education system can't provide enough local candidates, employers have to look abroad. If local students can't afford tuition fees, then the educational establishments make less money, and that will probably lead to loss of staff and researchers and a lowering of standards. The unintended consequence of a rash and ill thought out plan form an incompetent who is only interested in his TV ratings is that your tech sector is F**KED! On the bright side, I suspect that the backlash is going to destroy the GOP and all the Trumpinistas they have been supporting. Someone will point at The Donald and say "YOUR FIRED!".

Are you in the UK? All series 1 to 4 of The Good Life are available on the BBC Store, either individually or in pairs. https://store.bbc.com/the-good...

Oh dear. I love that this is now a thing! Back in the days when remote controls worked through long wires, you could pretty much guarantee that when you pressed a button on the remote, whatever was supposed to happen would happen immediately. Sometimes there was an electromechanical switch in the way which could take a while to operate. Over the years the remotes became "wireless". The earlier ones with Infra-red connection were still quick, depending on complexity and implementation. Dedicated control hardware could help. Now we have digital media devices, which are just computers of various types, with Bluetooth connectivity. Low and behold the whole thing has become slower, flaky and very clunky! So what is happening in the car? You press a physical button on the steering wheel. The car's distributed computer system detects somehow, and sends it to the required device over a data bus of some kind. This at the very least, means detecting a physical switch, turning this into a code, putting the code on a data bus (I believe the CAN-BUS system is asynchronous? I don't know.) The control system decodes this off the bus, looks up where it has to send the command, finds that it is a paired Bluetooth device, re-encodes it and send it to the Bluetooth transmitter. The Bluetooth system has to connect, exchange handshakes, send the command. The device decodes the command and executes it. Many stages to go through. They may each be fast, but there will be some latency. So you press the button, and it takes a second or two for a response. this is called control lag. Many years ago (I think over 20) I was at a demo for some remote control gear for professional film cameras. The device was a wireless remote to allow the camera assistant to operate the iris, focus and zoom on the lens without being tied to the camera by a cable. The operators hated it because of the delay. This was a direct, dedicated, radio link over at most about 5 metres (15 feet for those on the wrong side of the water!). I am not a camera operator and I hated it. Recently I tried out some Bluetooth headphones with remote for my music player and gave up after 20 minutes for the same reason. Slow and clunky. Quite frankly I can't see how you could make this any faster without designing dedicated hardware so the whole system was integrated. As far as I have been able to find out, these car entertainment systems us off-the-shelf hardware, and in some cases the processing is being done in more than one device. You could integrate the hardware and have only on software package, but it would still be slower that doing it with a wired control. I can't see a solution that the manufacturers would go for. Cost alone has driven the way things are now. Very sad. Always two steps forward, and one step back.

Good handle! There are two "industries" driving the advances in imaging tech that have given us megapixel sensors in our smart phones. One is spy satellites, the other is astrophysics. You can't compartmentalise science. You either have science, which includes astrophysics, or you don't have real science. A BTW, how many of you posting crap on this thread have actually watched the show and read the article? Many, a few, none?

I agree, that this is just laziness. I can view the archive sessions, using Firefox 2, with the MPlayer plug-in on Suse Linux 10.2 and Mandriva Free2007. There were no live sessions when I looked this morning.

I've come across other sites, which are so badly coded they won't work properly. If the streaming server has been correctly configured, and the website is fully HTML & W3C compliant then the platform and browser shouldn't matter. None of the Micro$oft web design tools generate fully compliant code, and their server tools are similar.

My test is that if I can play the streams on CNN, then my browser/plug-in setup is working properly. However there are some sites, which detect your browser, and if it is on their "not-approved" list (i.e. the ones they are too lazy to test with), then they throw you off to a page insisting you install, or upgrade to IE 6 or whatever. That is just plain bad design, and trying to hide behind a "legal problem" is stupid and lazy.

I suggest the Council of the EU look at what has been done by some states and cities in Germany, and by DB railway, and the MUST read the legislation passed by the Brazilian government regarding the issue of Open Source Software.