I remember as an astronomy undergrad in Cardiff 5 years ago always being so skeptical of the gravitational wave group, always saying "this year we'll make the detection!" Well, they've made me eat my words. Hats off to them!
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The Register Lecture: Great gravitational waves! LIGO's next cosmic act
Herschel Space Observatory spots galaxies merging
I did my undergad project on this stuff
It's quite remarkable just how many galaxies are merging in the distant universe. The IR data from Herschel makes them really easy to spot, because all the dust gets heated by merger-induced star formation. ~20% of galaxies that have IR signatures are merging, which results in some really nice images in the optical region from Hubble.
Ten... PC games you may have missed
Virgin Media's latest throttling rules
Everything you thought you knew about cybercrims is WRONG
Virtual and real worlds collide in gamers' minds
Oxfam's 'Grow' world hunger plan: More peasants
Channel 4 4OD to hit PS3
NSA: Secret 'Perfect Citizen' project does not spy on US
Computer grads can't even get jobs offering personal services
"Personal Services"
Assuming the stats were using HMRC's definition of a Personal Services Company, that simply means that a lot of biologists have started or joined very very small companies. In fast, the only reliable definition of a "Personal Service Company" I could find was here: http://www.contractorcalculator.co.uk/what_is_a_personal_service_company.aspx
relating to contractors.
"And so the term personal service company began to be used by HMRC to describe businesses they considered as tax evaders and potentially the subject of tax investigations. "
And this is HMRC's take: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/ir35/
Of course this is much more boring than assuming the statistics mean there are 165 prostitutes or escorts who could represent you in court.
Landmark ISP piracy case could kick thousands offline
@Worldwide implications?
Well, the majority of the film companies that are taking iiNet to court will be multinational. This is a test case for them...notice it's against Australia's third largest ISP, not the actual largest. If the film companies win the case, their legal teams around the world will formulate similar cases to see if the case can be replicated.
Virgin Media in 'which Whitchurch' whoopsie
IE icon too familiar for Microsoft EU settlement?
ESA lifts world's largest telecoms satellite
Broadband tax of £6 per year to fund rural fibre rollout
Rural areas...
are definitely not affluent. Here I am in Shropshire, look out of my window into a village that is mainly council housing. This village is less than 2 miles from a mid sized market town. My 'broadband' doesn't go beyond 1.5Mbps. People saying this is the city funding the rural areas are wrong. It's just everyone funding BT.