Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26124 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>Are you saying right to repair is a bad thing?
I'm saying that if the UK doesn't introduce the same right to repair standards as Eu ( because we have taken
back control to free us from oppressive Euro red tape ) then local makers are screwed having to meet higher standards for their export market while being undercut at home.
Hope this doesn't apply to a more important market than cell phones.
>What if the maker refuses to sell you the parts and insists that only their repair centres carry out the work?
That would be totally illegal. Unless it was a safety requirement, or cybersecurity, or they license the software from a 3rd party (with coincidentally the same name) in Elbonia where the law doesn't apply.
>This would screw up Android handset vendors, that's for sure...
Depends which ones.
The cheapest makers will just include Google's stock base android and rely on updates from Google, or even ship with Lineageos, that might give them an advantage over the likes of Samsung
>And that would be a bad thing how exactly?
Because a UK manufacturer would have to build to this standard if it wants to sell in Europe and apply this to all its products because the UK is a small market. But it is competing in its home market with cheaper imports that don't have to meet this standard
In operation Blair Freedom 2 - (this time it's personal), British Challenger tanks fired the concrete filled practice version of their HESH rounds.
This had the advantage of making holes in the walls of buildings, allowing the infantry to meet new friends - without converting the entire building to rubble.
>DNA testing is already in use in the UK to check for the usefulness or danger of medicines.
Yes and if that info is passed into the security services for whatever reason (perhaps a gene for un-Britishness) - how long until people are refusing the tests?
It's like using needles from vaccination programs to identity suspects, a good way of creating an unvaccinated population
>That does not mean the other half of the country that didn't vote for such a person deserves the repercussions
I thought that was why the Eu was sanctioning Harley Davidson and Bourbon makers - targeting Trump supporters directly. There were no Eu attacks on Apple and Tesla
Might be too late Even if official sanctions are lifted.
Somebody is going to want some compensation for all those aircraft 'nationalised' else they will be seized if they ever leave Russia. If they are seized in London are British airways going to trust that there will be no retaliation seizing of their planes if they ever fly to Moscow. Even if they trust the nice new democratic version Russia, will their insurance company?
If Russia pulls out of Ukraine tomorrow will every business in Europe suddenly rush to reset their trade networks so they rely on Russia again ?
In the good old days it was a rapid test of a 'computer scientist' vs a programmer.
CS courses seemed to love recursive functions as the ultimate elegance which could easily fit on a blackboard - so seemed to teach recursion as the cleverest thing a computer scientist could do.
Unfortunately computer scientists program imaginary computers with infinite memory (and are probably spherical and only operate in a vacuum).
>would be funded by a tax on launches (proportional to their mass).
So each US/Eu commercial launch will have $Bn of tax added to pay for clearing up cold war era missile tests, while 'glorious republic of Borat ex-CCCP launcher' will offer tax and regulation free launches to anyone
>If, on average, one collision creates more than one new piece of debris, then it is a lost cause
It's a little more complicated than that
If a collision in LEO creates a lot of smaller pieces there will be more drag and they will deorbit faster than the original big piece
A collision between two similar size pieces will end up with debris with a range of kinetic energies and so some will end up in higher orbits than the original
worst case is it if some idiot shoots at an object and ends up boosting some debris into much higher longer lived orbits
>Every administrative task should always be actively authorised at the recipient side
So millions of unpatched phones and cable modems on the internet until Granny remembers it's patch thursday, after her bridge club.
You do have to pay USA tax on illegal income, the IRS say this isn't an admission of guilt (because that would violate your 5th amendment rights).
They even allow deductions, so you can probably charge mileage for your getaway car.
>very embarrassing for an Ivy League university that has a business school churning out MBAs.
If she had done this the clever way, redirecting all the orders through a company her partner owns and marking stuff up 200% 'cos it's enterprise grade' then regularly retiring kit, selling it for pennies to another company her partner owns and replacing it.
If she had done this properly she would be getting donation requests and being put on committees
Why would you be stupid enough to give your money to a venture capital fund with no idea what they are going to invest in? Those poor people who backed Sequoia and A16Z and Kleiner-Perkins must be dumb.
Fortunately the SEC only allows rich people to invest in VC funds because its job is to protect poor stupid people.
So far it seems Tesla software security is pretty good (unlike their ability to detect tunnels painted on walls)
Probably cos Tesla is staffed by silicon valley type programmers rather than traditional automotive eng types = why would my car's internal canbus need security ?
>Unless they were wearing uniforms, it would be legitimate to simply have shot the bot farmers, rather than arrest them.
This was in a Ukrainian city, staffed by presumably Ukrainian nationals - albeit paid by Moscow.
You can't go shooting your own citizens/politicians for spreading political message paid for by Russia - unfortunately
>The likes of BT & ARM should always have some domestic majority
By which logic no other country should risk using ARM.
Going to be tricky to do computers if everybody is only going to be allowed to use domestic architectures, made in domestic fabs and running domestic apps on domestic OSs. It's going to be good for innovation when we have 192 competing computer designs again.
