Re: Kelvin?
Precisely, it involves pressure, in that the pressure is precisely defined… And since 0K is pretty much defined to be absolute zero, you don't need anything else. What do I miss?
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Weight, what? The perfect kilogram is nearly in Planck's grasp
Volvo to 'accept full liability' for crashes with its driverless cars
Tuesday 13th October 2015 07:00 GMT 
I believe doing this will be far more difficult with driverless cars. To begin with, the driverless car will be far more adept at avoiding the collision than a normal driver. And even if you manage it, the driverless car will have complete records of the accident, including the suicidal behavior which caused it.
Google uses humans as Matrix-style ‘data batteries’ – Open Xchange CEO
Saturday 10th October 2015 07:45 GMT
As far as I understand, Google already encrypts data from client to server, between servers, and at rest. They started doing this soon after the publication of the NSA slide which noted with a smiley that Google decrypted data as soon as it was on its network.
But that only makes it difficult for the NSA to hack user data. They can still get a secret court order (aka national security letter) and have Google hand it over.
FBI boss: No encryption backdoor law (but give us backdoors anyway)
Saturday 10th October 2015 06:11 GMT 
Die Gedanken sind frei…?
The government has not made it mandatory to submit to examinations by mind-reading machines who will delve into your mind and read your every thought, despite the obvious advantage this would be for national security.
The question is, is the reason they haven't done it that they don't think the government has the right to do it, or is it only that these machines do not exist — yet?
What's not up, Docs? Google Docs goes titsup in time for Friday beers
Israeli lander FOUND ON MOON (in 2017)
Assange™ offered 'plans for escape by flying fox to Harrods'
Safe harbour ruling: RELAX, Facebook and Google will be FINE!
Read our lips, no more EU roaming charges*
Want cheaper AT&T gigabit service? Move to a Google Fiber city
Autonomy ex-boss Lynch tells of poisonous life within HP in High Court showdown
Friday 2nd October 2015 12:31 GMT
Re: Despairing....
Quite a lot of people would say that this is a feature, not a bug. Would you rather have the workstation salesmen undermine their own unit by pushing an inferior product, just because it is made by the same company?
At best, this would be inefficient; at worst, it can land you in regulatory trouble: See Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Email keyword sniffing? We'd NEVER do that!
How to evade Apple's anti-malware Gatekeeper in OS X and really ruin a fanboy's week
It's BACK – Stagefright 2.0: Zillions of Android gadgets can be hijacked by MP3s, movie files
Thursday 1st October 2015 16:22 GMT
Carrier pushback
Carriers certainly have a history of putting conditions for selling Android phones. E.g Verizon Galaxy Nexus phones were the only ones not to have the Google Wallet feature, because Verizon was trying to push its own payment solution.
It's hard to believe now, but at some point in the past Android was an underdog, and Google had to convince carriers to sell Android phones.
FBI: We unmasked and collared child porn creep on Tor with spy tool
Tear teardown down, roars Apple: iFixit app yanked from store
Hands on with Google's Nexus 5X, 6P Android Marshmallow mobes
Uber's double Dutch moment: Cops raid offices a second time
Tesla X unfolds its Falcon wings, stumbles belatedly into the light
Yahoo!: Who! cares! what! US! taxman! thinks!, we'll! spinoff! Alibaba! anyway!
Tuesday 29th September 2015 13:33 GMT
Re: They takes their chances
I think Yahoo has just decided that they needed to get rid of their shares of Alibaba, one way or another, with or without being taxed for it. So they might as well go ahead and do it now, since all preparations have already been done.
The IRS doesn't seem willing to decide fast, and Yahoo doesn't want to wait the possibly years it will take, when anyway it wouldn't change their decision.
You want a 6% Google Tax? Get lost, German copyright bods told
Monday 28th September 2015 14:08 GMT
Money goes the other way
The Spain experiment shows that publishers are actually benefiting from news aggregators rather than the reverse. In fact, if I remember correctly, publishers who want their articles to show up on Yahoo News actually have to pay Yahoo.
Considering Google's whole profits come from getting paid to show links to websites, they probably have a very good knowledge of who profits from what. It is understandable that they refuse to pay up.
US watchdog POKES STICK at Google's Android over rival-blocking allegations
PETA monkey selfie lawsuit threatens wildlife photography, warns snapper at heart of row
iOS 9 security blooper lets you BYPASS PINs, eye up photos, contacts
You call THAT safe? Top EU legal bod says data sent to US is anything but
Cyber crims up the ante with Google Play brainteaser malware
Total War: Warhammer, Blood Bowl and other Games Workshop table-to-screen delights
Tuesday 22nd September 2015 14:39 GMT 
I had to stop playing Blood Bowl because I was getting too attached to my players. Still, I proudly remember my best catcher, who had attained the level of Legend. He had gained so much agility that he could easily intercept within the tackle zone of two enemy players, then just walk away and score a touch down.
My last match, against a Chaos team, had me losing 1-0, the only goal just before the end of the game, and right after the KO by fouling of my last player still present on the field.
Who probes the Google probers? EU Commish in watchdog's sights
Tuesday 22nd September 2015 08:48 GMT
They didn’t consult us about the settlement, despite saying publicly that they had asked everyone
I've been following the whole story for a while, but I can't say I remember reading about Interactive Labs. Does anybody knows what they do? A cursory search did not return much, which is probably due to Google deliberately removing them from the results… Or the fact that there are bazillions of web pages containing the words "interactive labs".
Get that OFF dot-com, hysterical France screeches at Google
Monday 21st September 2015 15:48 GMT
The law does not force the website to remove the information. Some of them may even official government websites which are legally mandated to make the information available forever. This goes counter to the idea that irrelevant information should not be displayed.
The idea of the EU is that you can both have your cake and eat it by keeping the data on the website, and telling Google not to display these results in queries for personal names.
Ahmed's clock wasn't a bomb, but it blew up the 'net and Zuckerberg, Obama want to meet him
Why the 'Dancing Baby' copyright case is just hi-tech victim shaming
Infosec lady flings sueball at Microsoft over 'gender discrimination'
Thursday 17th September 2015 12:51 GMT
This certainly puts in perspective the very visible efforts at our company to insist on non-discriminatory treatment of minorities, encouragements for women to go for promotion and so on.
It seems that at this point, any large US company that is not publicly and ostentatiously pushing for gender equality at all levels opens itself to this type of lawsuit. I would had assumed that Microsoft had enough internal efforts to cover its ass, but maybe this lawsuit will prove me wrong.
Uber is killing off iconic black cabs, warns Zac Goldsmith
Twitter sued for 'reading' private direct messages
BAN the ROBOT WHORES, says robot whore expert: 'These AREN'T BARBIES'
Unique astronaut job perk: Create a SHOOTING STAR by having a dump
Should take down mean stay down? EU’s Big Internet quiz leaks
Monday 14th September 2015 16:39 GMT 
Google has developed its ContentID music filtering technology to identify songs as they’re uploaded – but it refuses to turn it on.
Huh? Isn't ContentID famous for being not only turned on, but also trigger happy, and even abused by some media companies?
There was the time where it identified NASA footage of curiosity as being "owned" by a small TV company who hadn't bothered to remove it from their automatic uploads.
There was the time where half the let's play videos got flagged despite nobody having complained about it.
And a quick search finds many testimonials of how difficult it is for video creators to fight spurious claims from media outfits that are either by laziness or by dishonesty blindly confirming every single contested claim.
'Hey Siri, it's Obama, what should we do about Iran?'
Apple drinks Putin’s Kool-Vodka, shoves Russians' iCloud data into Russia – report
Friday 11th September 2015 07:28 GMT
Hang on a minute
Does the law say "private data should exclusively be kept in our country", in a funny attempt to keep it safe from prying governments which I'm sure is making the NSA roll on the floor laughing, or does the law say "there should be a copy of the private data in our country" so they can have a look at it themselves?
