Nordo

I certainly would want it to happen if I lived there. I like all sorts of wildlife, but introducing invasive species is not something to be taken lightly.

Perhaps it's something for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to consider? They seem to be the one in charge of Burmese Python control in the Everglades.

These things need to be known. I don't think it should require the permission of anyone, whether the subject or the surrounding guerrilla soldiers.

What journalists should (and many do) think about is the impact on the good reputation of the subject. But the child is certainly not victim of any kind of libel here.

I think this is a good solution to the smartphone age questions of "revenge porn" and "creep shots", taking and disseminating photographs of factual events is essentially an act of journalism and should be subject to journalistic ethics.

I've always wondered if the headphone adapter contains a DAC or if it just acts as a breakout box for a DAC already in the phone. I found some people claiming it does, but none that I can see cite a source for it.

> Professional studio engineers will spend $3000 on a high-precision digital clock for their DACs because it makes a clearly audible difference.

I don't know what kind of frequency stability you really need (please enlighten me), but I checked on one of the components retailer websites, and found that even the most stable MEMS oscillators are only a few bucks a piece, any DAC or ADC manufacturer that claims that's worth a $3000 markup is running a scam.

> Software people don’t understand that human hearing, and human sensitivity to timbre and distortion, is spectacularly non-linear. Hearing isn’t a linear counting device with x volume levels.

As a "software person" I take exception to this. Who exactly of my colleagues claimed that it was? Not even the cheapest, most terribly sounding, incompetently designed child's toy's "what sound do cows make" 8-bit 8kHz DAC produces output with x discrete volume levels, it produces a continuous signal. A bad sounding signal perhaps, but a continuous one nonetheless. Plenty of software people know this, but do audiophiles?

> The difference is not one of loudness but of 'energy'

Aren't those the same? Put more joules into the speaker wire and more joules of sound pressure waves will come out of the speaker cone, which just means the sound will be louder (until you reach the mechanical limits of the speaker, of course, but no DAC in the world could possibly change those).