Sidorov , Y U NO HTML5?

Gif? What's wrong with the canvas tag?

> requires a mere two kilograms of food to produce one kilogram of what it charmingly refers to as "insect meat", a far better feed-to-food ratio than, for example, a fatted calf, which requires eight kilograms of feed to produce one kilogram of beef

Here's a crazy idea, how about everyone just eats their damn vegetables and we get 2kg from 2kg of food instead of 1kg from 2kg of food?

Follow this simple yes-no rule

Windows 98 - Yes

Windows ME - No

Windowx XP - Yes

Windows Vista - No

Windows 7 - Yes

Windows 8 - No

Windows ??? - Yes

(ignoring 2000 for being "biz" oriented)

It's really very simple, all berating-related CO2 is CARBON NEUTRAL. **CARBON NEUTRAL**. ZERO NET GAIN IN ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS.

Every single atom of CO2 exhaled CAME FROM THE ATMOSPHERE. Plants take CO2 and turn it into sugars, animals eat those and turn them back into CO2.

The reason fossil fuels are bad is that you're taking CO2 that has been accumulating for millions and millions of years and releasing it all in one go, thus it's a **POSITIVE NET GAIN** ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE LEVELS.

Anyone trying to equate someone's breath with fossil fuels is a LYING HACK FOR THE OIL INDUSTRY.

The only possible link to any greenhouse gas emissions is if you eat slightly more, but again that's only because our food industry uses so much fossil fuel.

"That the agency has recreated the shot with the earth-bound test version of Curiosity could be a sign it is keen to prove the shots are easily achievable"

Or people could just download the bloody raw images that Nasa VERY KINDLY provide us all

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=84&camera=MAHLI

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=85&camera=MAHLI

"but Transport For London also has to hand over a proportion of every top-up to the companies running the scheme and would prefer to keep the dosh in-house."

Em, I seem to remember credit card companies charge processing fees themselves.

Talking about junk patents

US 7,672,470

"An audio/video (A/V) device having a volume control function for external audio reproduction units by using volume control buttons of a remote controller is provided"

You have got to be fucking kidding me, a combination of the Windows 95 volume control panel and an infra-red remote control is patentable? Seriously Apple AND Samsung can both sod off.

Seriously?

Are you trying to suggest it would be a good use of radio telescope time to do this? Sounds more like the Beeb were fobbing him off with excuses because it would be a bloody waste of license fee payers money, but didn't want to hurt his feelings too much.

I gave the latest version of RiscOS a whirl on my Pi last week, I was initially very impressed with how responsive it was compared to Linux, until I tried to do something CPU heavy (like installing software from their package manager apparently) and was reminded how terrible cooperative multitasking is...

Incredibly annoying

I had to install Windows 8 in a VM to look at a reported IE10 issue with our webapp, and I couldn't believe how annoying the interface was -

First off returning to Metro, I I jammed my mouse into the bottom left corner to get the Metro button, then moved it to the centre of the button to get a good click on it (because that's how I roll), and it just bloody disappeared! It was hard to get used to keeping the mouse in the exact lower left, and how the hell are you supposed to do that with a touchscreen?

Then there was MetroIE, I literally couldn't work out how to get the address bar, I tried doing the usual phone scrolling to the top or bottom, nada! It was only after my co-worker was trying random things that they found it, you have to press RMB on an empty part of the page (as RMB is STILL the the context menu on links), who the hell decided that trash and again how does that even work if you're using touch??

Finally it came time to turn the VM off, where's the shutdown button? Is it in that symbol on the charms menu that looks a bit like a power symbol? Nope. Is it in settings? Nope. Oh, wait, what about power settings? Yes that's it, Settings > Power isn't the power options, it's the shut down menu (Where the actual power settings are I don't know or care).

All in all Windows 8 feels like it's been thrown together by idiots who didn't even bother testing the UI themselves, and needless to say I won't be using it on any computers I own ever.

Xbox Music compatibility

Last I heard Xbox Music requires Windows 8 on the desktop, surely not working on anything other than that damned Metro interface is a pretty big disadvantage?

Oh good, so this means we can do whatever we like during our lifetimes because the mess we make will only affect future generations, right?

> The original ban on advertising between 2am and 6am

FYI that should be "8pm to 6am" (It was 20:00 not 02:00)

A l33t hax0r can also view password hits by entering an incorrect password on said PC.

A solution looking for a problem

And this is better than a Bluetooth keyboard, how?

Hey Reg, what's a laptopis? :)

> According to the scientists' new paper, published in hefty climate journal Nature Climate Change, the cooling effect of orbital shifting on the climate has been up to four times as powerful as anthropogenic (human-caused) warming pressures

This is the thing, we're currently experience a short warming snap despite an overall cooling trend, and the only variable that accounts for this is atmospheric CO2. Models say we should be currently getting cooler, not warmer, if not for an increase in CO2 levels.

Right so because elevated CO2 levels are good for /some/ plants that means climate change on a whole is good?

Just because savanna trees may grow better doesn't mean that slightly elevated temperatures won't wreck, say, rainforests. I suppose El Reg would be happy to see tropical ecosystems completely disappear with biodiversity loss that would take millions of years to recover from just so savanna trees will grow a little better and we can continue using fossil fuels that will catastrophically run out soon if we don't switch to alternatives anyway?

Not a keyboard

The future is now as Apple presents the new, magical, Macbook Wheel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

But more to the point

Have they registered virgin.xxx ?

Already been looked at

Multiple investigations by UEA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the British House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, several independent panels, Mann's home institution Pennsylvania State University and even prominent former climate skeptic Richard Muller found no evidence of any misleading or wrong-doing by the climate gate team.

But then I guess that's what you'd expect from a massive global conspiracy to send civilisation back tot he stone-age by preventing fossil fuel usage, right?

Keep an eye on 1991 VG

Its next close approach to earth will be in 2017. I'm not saying it's an alien probe, BUT IT'S AN ALIEN PROBE!

Go EASY on your EBEs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdI_MmN-Lp4#t=4m25s

This notice issued by the Brain Information Council

Good to use off the shelf components...

I'm sure it's cheaper to use iPads instead of custom built solutions, but surely there are evern cheaper tablets (eg. Android) available?

Proof or GTFO

Anyone can claim to have stolen the census data, I'll believe it when I download it.

Aren't bitcoins inherently traceable?

I thought that, due to the requirement that all transactions must be logged to prevent someone spending the same bitcoins twice, that bitcoins were inherently traceable? And if the thief hasn't spent them yet he could transfer them first thus saving some or all of his hoard...

Major astronomy fail

Someone's flunked their astronomy/physics 101

"The data was three days old by the time Ehman spotted Wow!, meaning that if it were a message, the sender could have moved on for lack of a reply."

Closest star to earth *in any direction*: 4 Light Years

Any country?

"I want this luggage to move out from Libya immediately, i will make arrangement how to meet up, with you in any country of your choice"

Any country? Can you meet me at Heathrow? I'll call for a driver to pick you up, I'll get him to wear a name badge so you can find him, his name is Mr. "Police"

Heat pipes?

This seems to basically be a development of phase change heat pipes. I don't really care how efficient it is vs solid copper, I want to know how much more (or not) efficient it is against existing heat pipe technology.

What SD card?

The Nexus S doesn't have an SD card slot

Please hurry

Ok, if Wikileaks does have some dirt on Murdoch, please please PLEASE release it before he takes over Sky! Maybe we could recruit Anonymous to get the website taken down to hasten the release of the insurance file? :)

Damn Wikileaks and their slow retraction process!

Pirate software, much?

Is this really any different from any other method of pirating commercial software? Sure without the extra checks it may be even easier to copy apps, but even with all the DRM and copy protection in the world all it takes is one hacker to modify the binary to remove the checks and it'll be all over torrent anyway.

And that bit about malware is just alarmist FUD, it's true of any method of pirating software and has nothing to do with the app store.