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andrewducker) wrote2022-12-08 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2022-12-08 12:00 pm
Entry tags:
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- atom,
- bbc,
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- bigotry,
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- children,
- china,
- coal,
- contracts,
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- dna,
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- genetics,
- globalwarming,
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- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
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- polls,
- prehistory,
- psychology,
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- scotland,
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- suicide,
- thefuture,
- trade,
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- uk,
- usa,
- vaccines
Interesting Links for 08-12-2022
- 1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)
- (tags:scotland independence polls )
- 2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )
- 3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes
- (tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )
- 4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
- (tags:genetics dna prehistory )
- 5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free
- (tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )
- 6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams
- (tags:exams children politics )
- 7. First UK coal mine in decades approved
- (tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )
- 8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)
- (tags:Europe China USA trade )
- 9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.
- (tags:vaccines pandemic )
- 10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms
- (tags:ai atom physics research )
- 11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)
- (tags:physics )
- 12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical
- (tags:twins genetics statistics )
- 13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs
- (tags:dogs behaviour psychology )
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If TV is delivered over the Internet instead of via broadcast, then presumably the simple thing is to turn the licence fee into an online subscription that unlocks your credentials to connect to the streaming server. Pro: enormous amount of effort saved on TV licence enforcement, and no further need for special legal support from the government.
If that happened, the BBC would presumably become just another streaming service alongside all the existing ones, competing with them on an equal basis. One wonders if they'd have any remaining reason to not pursue profit at the expense of public-service considerations, e.g. any impartiality they might have left!
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And yeah, I'm not sure what's going to happen with the license fee.
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Who is going to invest in the bandwidth for wireless internet throughout every A road, never mind every country lane ?
Bye-bye in car radio.
Though if someone *is* prepared to put 5G *with multicast IP* (so that the bandwidth on motorways isn't all taken up with 10K copies of the same radio channel) and/or a national wifi service (like Slovenia) with >95% coverage by area, great.
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