Posts by The entire Radio 1 playlist commitee

Millionaire staffers pop corks at Atlassian as Oz biz raises $462m

Sirs, I salute you

NZ unfurls proposed new flag

I like it

Donald Trump wants Bill Gates to 'close the Internet', Jeff Bezos to pay tax

Re: The biggest threat facing America today is political correctness

Sheer nonsense.

The biggest threat facing America today is political correctness

These words he said just a couple of months ago. Only 20 years out of date as well as being as completely wrong then as it is now.

Revenge porn 'king' Hunter Moore sent down for 2.5 years, fined $2k

Re: Interesting Tweet

There is also the law. I think CEO's are still required to look after the capital - i.e. the investors and shareholders money - by law. So yes employees and customers are secondary to that.

British woman loses £1.6 million to romance scam love rats

Yes its almost as if Women are from another planet

Its a psychological trap - people fall into it. Its real and it happens.

Think of it in a similar way to something like - for example - depression. The depressed sufferer is stuck in a mental situation that they cannot see a way out of. Yet someone comes along and says "oh come on, cheer up, I don't know why you are so glum".

Meet ARM1, grandfather of today's mobe, tablet CPUs – watch it crunch code live in a browser

Re: Layout Vs Schematic

Yeh you just have to tell them that every now and then ... and keep the blinds closed

Snooping Scottish plod to be taken to tribunal by spied-on detective

Scots - generally nice people

US gourmets sizzle in bacon-scented underwear

Pig

The animal that just keeps on giving

Indian scientists teach computers to see by watching Cricket

Re: AIs that understand cricket could have an impact on global politics

England vs South Africa

Plusnet ignores GCHQ, spits out plaintext passwords to customers

Plusnet

The impression I get is a BT-owned sub-company manned by interns. Still it is cheap.

Changing my password to something I don't use anywhere else as soon as I get home home ...

El Reg unchains the Vulture Velo cycling jersey

Can we have a long-sleeved version for the off roaders?

Irish electricity company threatens to cut off graveyard

I've been to Castlegregory

Its a fabulous part of the country. Do go if you ever get the chance.

Rdio's collapse another nail in the coffin of the 'digital economy'

Re: @ The entire Radio 1 playlist commitee

"giving alms to beggars"

I was thinking more along the lines of busking. Anyway, what I intended to point towards is a post-capitalist system of rewarding artists for their work. Now that reproduction is trivial and the means of distribution is almost ubiquitous (here in the west, anyway).

Being a bunch of experts in this matter...

I do think the answer lies in some form of voluntary payment from consumers to artists. A radically different form of market where it is _the done thing_ to pay what you think is fair for what you enjoy. We already have the technology needed to make this work. Perhaps the distributors will have to accept their role and wodge of money will be greatly reduced, unless they can be trusted again to nurture and develop talent like perhaps they did way, way back.

Prudish Indian censors cut James Bond Spectre snogging scenes

Don't talk baloney you airhead

Nokia publishes offer for remaining Alca-Lu shares

Suggestions for new merged name welcome ....

Lucanok?

Konacul?

Nokkilucatellicent?

Car radars gain sharper vision after ITU assigns special spectrum slice

Re: Resolution

But if you shrink the antenna by 3x (as the article suggests) then you get the same resolution you had before.

DS5: Vive la différence ... oh, and throw away the Citroën badge

"just look at the sweep of those A-pillars"

I would do if any of your pictures showed the car in profile.

Apple's design 'drives up support costs, makes gadgets harder to use'

One word comment, no need for explanatory text

iTunes

Rise of the handy machines: UK gears up for first Robotics Week

I notice that "Universities and Science minister Jo Johnson" doesn't know what engineers do.

Hubble finds lonely 'void galaxy' floating in cosmic nothingness

Re: A bit confused here...

Regarding: " some of the stars they see are actually galaxies"

Other galaxies don't look like stars, they look like dim smudges of light.

IT contractors raise alarm over HMRC mulling 'one-month' nudge onto payrolls

Does anyone think that the rules should be fair and everyone who's earning should pay income taxes?

Big Bang left us with a perfect random number generator

PKD had a lot of crazy ideas. And he started writing because he needed to earn money. Did the two never meet?

Einstein's brain to be picked by satellites

I can't wait for the mainstream media to report on the findings.

"European team of scientists finally prove Einstein was right"

Linus Torvalds targeted by honeytraps, claims Eric S. Raymond

Re: Programmers are party people

She may not be a hot chick in your eyes. But she looks like a laugh and definitely a party person. Plus she hangs around with geeks. What's not to like?

Cash injection fuels SABRE spaceplane engine

An incredible machine but so far all it does is convert money into dreams and hot air.

Windows 10 is an antique (and you might be too) says Google man

xubuntu just works - perhaps its similar to XP I can't remember or care.

Boffins solve bacon crisis with newly-patented plant

You get all the iodine you ever need from iodised table salt - they iodize it for a reason. Sea salt is richer.

Quorn is not food, devils or otherwise. It is fungus-derived glop. Don't let them try to fool you into thinking otherwise.

Has Voyager 1 escaped the Sun yet? Yes, but also no, say boffins

LOL

Sounds like a dream job until you consider how much legacy code there must be. You'd have trouble getting any of the tooling to work. But surely they don't update code on the probe anymore? I guess they just have to simulate or emulate it somehow so any new commands can be verified before being sent.

I'm hoping it just suddenly disappears mid-trans ......

Yamaha unleashes motorcycling robot

I'm guessing it can also play the piano.

The MotoGP bikes all have increasingly sophisticated systems for rider assistance but the riders are also incredibly skilled and the top guys are highly experienced, having made their way up through succeeding in the various feed-in classes.

It occurs to me that Yamaha may be able to learn a lot about the hidden secrets of getting a bike and rider around a track in the minimal time, if they can continue development of the robot and the bikes in tandem.

'Profoundly stupid' Dubliner's hoax call lost Intel 6,000 hours of production

But how does that amount to 6000 hours of lost production? Did they close the plant for a whole year?

Online daters swindled out of £33m last year – police

Yeeah I nearly fell for that one

Mutant space germs threaten International Space Station

Re: Start treating the ISS as what it is...

... its the only way to be sure

UK competition watchdog provisionally clears BT's £12.5bn EE gobble

Combined behemoth to have beetroot-themed corporate branding?