He described the official "specification report" published for the first time today as giving a "horrifying picture of the impact" with more than 7 million losers: "A pensioner couple in inner London could find themselves paying 22% of their net income in poll tax, whereas a better off couple in the suburbs pay only 1%.
Specification of (a) types of webmasters that are not notified by default (e.g., malicious porn sites); (b) proportion of delistings (by % of requests and URLs) where the webmaster additionally removes information or applies robots.txt at source; and (c) proportion of delistings (by % of requests and URLs) where the webmaster lodges an objection.
Later, with Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University, it was turned into a full specification.
"Being able to put something in space at very low cost allows you to demonstrate the technology to get more money," says Dan Berkenstock, one of the company's founders.The CubeSat specification came out of the academic world in the late 1990s.
Often, however, the most interesting thing about a new technology is not what it is designed to do, but what it can do that was not in the original specification.
With the first phase of the Californian requirement being, in effect, the same as the Energy Star 4.0 specification that comes in next spring, manufacturers will have already started tooling up for the new lower-energy sets.They would have done so with or without any mandatory requirements from California.
It was sluggish to get going, taking years to issue its first specification, and generally trails developments.
Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party leader, fumes that Tony Blair, while berating the SNP for suggesting that a Scottish administration should have a minister for external affairs, had now set out the job specification for such a post.Indeed, this prosaically titled joint ministerial committee is no ordinary committee.
Suffice it to say that the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (promoter of the WiGig specification) recently merged with the Wi-Fi Alliance, the body responsible for certifying the IEEE's 802.11 family of wireless standards ("a", "b", "g", "n" and, coming soon, "ac").
The OSCE has reported that "high-grade military-specification jamming" is being used against its monitoring drones, suggesting an influx of more sophisticated kit into the region.
In May, a firm called SalvageSale.com began offering an online auction and trade exchange for "damaged, heavily discounted, distressed or sub-specification material" (junk) and "finished goods in commercial quantities" (lots of junk).Who buys the stuff?
