Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward

Elon Musk slams New Jersey governor over Tesla direct sales ban

Re: Allow me to comment on another country's practices

>Are they unable to open their own dealerships a la Ford et al in the UK

The car maker doesn't own the dealership.

They sell the franchise to whatever local Arthur Daily wants to it. The customer then deals with the dealer, argues with them, gets their customer service, pays their servicing prices, and remembers the process as the face of the brand - it's like the difference in buying from an Apple store or Comet!

The other problem with Tesla, and electric cars generally, is there is no servicing - so no profit for the dealer, so they only way the dealer would make money is if Tesla wholesale the cars at 40% discount.

Re: Allow me to comment on another country's practices

>Does seem a bit dodgy - why should't they flog their motors directly?

Because then the poor consumer would be at the mercy of the evil car manufactures without having the services of honest car salesmen to protect their interests.

Scam emails tell people they have cancer to trick them into installing a money-stealing Trojan

Re: @ Jim Willsher

>I work for a government agency

Shouldn't you be exchanging documents by meeting on a bench in a park and picking up the other briefcase?

Tony Benn, daddy of Brit IT biz ICL and pro-tech politician, dies at 88

Re: All the wrong decisions for all the right reasons?

No, all the UK needs is duchy original biscuits, Hugh Grant movies and bankers

Facebook's Zuckerberg buttonholes Obama, rages against NSA dragnet spying

Re: NDA denies sending malware to "millions" of PC's

No it was just that they hacked 2,000,001 machines so that's not exactly a number of millions

Re: he 'called' Obama, eh?

But how much did you donate to the election campaign?

That NSA denial in full: As of right now, we're not pretending to be Facebook or Twitter

Re: Quelle surprise! - Why is Echalon upgrade such big news now?

Because Echelon was used by the US and UK to spy on the military activities of a USSR that sent millions of it's citizens to death camps and had 20,000 nukes pointed at us.

Using it to spy on every one of our own citizens 24x7 to make sure they had some dirt on anyone who ever complained to the local council is a little different.

Re: lol

>The NSA are stuffed.

More importantly Facebook are stuffed.

If foreigners start thinking that Facebook just equals NSA they might not "like" it so much.

If foreign companies believe that Facebook is being backdoored by the NSA to hack their machines, as Linkedin was, they might start blocking Facebook.

If BRIC countries start to think that Facebook is just an NSA hacking front then they might start blocking Facebook from their entire country

So Zuckerberg paid to elect a president which has just destroyed his business.

Amazon wants me to WEAR NAPPIES?! But I'm a 40-something MAN

Thats exactly why they are even more annoying than the targetted ads

It's as if when you went into a restaurant the waiter always recommended boiled rice - because it is very popular with a billion people in China or India

Brawling neighbours challenge 'quiet' cul-de-sac myth

Re: Tip toe through the cat crap

>Our American cousin's insistence on the right to bear arms seem to make sense here.

Surely a bear, especially an armed one, would be worse than cats?

BT caught in data gaffe drama: Whistleblower squeals over alleged email fail

HTTPS compulsory?

So is it actually an offence now to not use SSL?

Backdoor snoops can access files on your Samsung phone via the cell network – claim

And your closed source phone doesn't have any extra CPUs in the modem or screen or camera?

And you know that these extra CPUs don't have bus access?

And you know there are no errors in the OS - like a 10year old hole when displaying JPEGs - whihc give them unrestricted access

But at least you know that it doesn't matter because your commercial OS is pawned by a NSL anyway

Slash tuition fees for STEM students, biz boss body begs UK.gov

Re: Economic signalling

Of course not. Since any STEM student who was motivated by the thought of earning more than 16K would be working in banking anyway. By keeping wages low they attract only the truly dedicated !

Re: The liberal arts people will game this

Already been done - when the govt announced it wanted more STEM graduates to go into teaching, and offered bursaries, the number went up 500% overnight.

Of course most of them were domestic-scientists and sport-scientists

Re: Too bloody right!!

>what's the point of that

The point is to abolish youth unemployment by taking all 18-21 year olds off the market and having them pay 10k/year for the privilege. Even YTS paid you

San Francisco says yes to GIANT Apple flagship store, public plaza

Re: Apple invents the public plaza

But he previous Union Square didn't have rounded corners

UK's CASH POINTS to MISS Windows XP withdrawal date

And Windows7

Will be completely secure will it?

If your infrastructure makes a Win7 machine secure - ie. your ATMs don't

regularly login to facebook - then it will be secure for WindowsXP

CIA hacked Senate PCs to delete torture reports. And Senator Feinstein is outraged

A hypocritical politician

Not at all hypocritical.

She approves of the NSA spying on potential terrorists - like all Americans and all foreigners.

But anyone in government can't possibly be a bad guy so it is wrong to spy on them,

Re: Found Jesus. Then Lost Him at the Bar

If you want to cover up information you put it in a Powerpoint

Re: Heh

1, But the law doesn't apply to "cross border areas" which is anywhere within 100mi of a coastline or the canada/Mexico border.

2, Washington isn't a state

3, We're the fscking CIA, we don't need no steenkin laws

Universal Music mulls 'all you can eat' buffet of song downloads

It could work

Only include "new artists" who go out of fashion in 6months and are replaced by the next "new artist" - then you don't have to worry about keeping customers.

But keep charging 20quid for 20year old albums by real musicians.

A business model formerly known as "the singles chart"

Barclays warns freelance techies of DOUBLE DIGIT rate cut

Re: I'm possibly wrong

> should be getting more per working hour ...because they are taking more risk

No - a contractor should be getting more per hour because that's what the market can stand

Or more likely - it comes off a different budget and it would take too much politics to get your head count increased, so it doesn't matter if it costs more in the long run it's easier to get a temp

Re: Perspective

Capitalism would suggest that if you are paying somebody in the top 1% of salary then it is because you need their skills and you can't find anyone to do it cheaper.

So logically if they walked out the door you would be in trouble.

If it was easy to just pick up the phone and replace them with staff willing to work for 600quid then why haven't you already done so ?

Bletchley Park board member quits amid TNMOC split-off spat

> females may smoothen the talk a bit, allowing a consensus to be reached.

AKA - "The Thatcher effect"

Hey, MoJ, we're not your Buddi: Brit firm abandons 'frustrating' crim-tagging contract

Re: £1 billion for tags?

Or just invest in some chain and some heavy iron balls.

The price of scrap steel is pretty low at the moment

Re: Dullards

And work without a view of the sky

And have a battery that lasted weeks

And was tamperproof

And could survive years of use by an antagonistic user but wasn't as large and heavy as the Army's new "portable" radios

And has to meet arbitrary govt standard 314159 which means you need to certify that the plant in China that makes the GPS chip is also certified to GS314159 - which you can't do so you have to buy the GPS chip from Thales for 10x the price

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Re: Dullards

The police order a bunch of Vauxhall Astras as patrol cars.

They then request that they fly and are invisibile

GM claims they want the development of a product that doesn't exist

Apple to grieving sons: NO, you cannot have access to your dead mum's iPad

Re: Well done

>open up access to bank accounts

You own the contents of your bank account so you can will it to someone

Do you own your AppleId or do you pay for Apple for a service?

You don't inherit a netflix account or frequent flyer status

Roku flashes $50 HDMI TV web dongle at anyone sick of Google's stick

Re: 1$ <> 1£

US students pay $50-100K to go to college so paying $200 for a textbook is noise.

UK students (until recently) didn't and so resented spending on anything other than beer - so you sell the same textbook for £30.

Students in India can't afford either so you sell it, printed on cheap paper, for $3

Local content?

So can it stream content on any of my local machines or am I just paying to access their pay-per-view?

Psssst. Don't tell the Bride, but BBC Three is about to be jilted

Am I getting old ?

I automatically assume anything on TV is going to be dummed down to the point of painfullness. When was the last time Horizon was watchable compared to "In Our Time"?

About the last time TV compared to Radio4 was the port of Absolute Power.

Although a TV version of Cabin Pressure or Hut33 shouldn't be too expensive

Re: Kill off BBC3

Some CGI to overlay tellytuby costumes on MPs and parliament channel could be watchable.

Re: How much does..

Top gear is on netflix for $5/month

More old top gear is on UK netflix = $5/month for a VPN

New top gear is on iPlayer + $5/month for a VPN

Very fabric of space-time RIPPED apart in latest Hubble pic

Re: Space is BIG ...

There is almost no destruction - if you were in the galaxy you wouldn't even notice.

Space is big and stars are a long way apart

Your 'funny' cat pics are weighing down the web, so here's a better JPEG encoder from Mozilla

Re: KitPEG

Slight error, DCT is Discrete Canine Transform and is a cruder version of the more elegant Fast Feline Transform (FFT) used for smoother purrier cat pictures

The web has certainly moved on from the earlier days when it was dominated by the somewhat limited, Giraffe Image Format and the rather more limited appeal of Porn N' Gerbils files.

NASA robot plans mid-2020s trip: Europa. Wet, radioactive life forms (hopefully). Bliss

Re: I'm not sure if I'm missing something here

I think NASA is going to continue having difficulties getting other countries on board.

It has cancelled too many projects because of budget cuts leaving European and Japanese partners with a lot of time and money invested in a bit of kit that won't fly.

Chinese, Brazilian and Indian partners are annoyed at export rules that prevent US partners sharing the details of anything more advanced than an Apple-II with them - and have decided to just build their own infrastructure.

And I don't think there is going top be much political will on either side for a joint US - USSR++ mission

CIA snoops snooped on Senate to spy spy torture report – report

Re: well - the German language has a very fine

And a word to describe the CIA's activities against congress = "putsch"

re:Won't they get into trouble for that?

Yes it just needs a senator and a prosecutor to stand up against an agency that has details of all their secrets and whose job is blackmailing and killing people.

Would you work for BlackBerry boss Chen? He says his biz has 50:50 chance of success

Re: Inconceivable!

I bet there is a guarantee in his contract that he gets paid a bonus even if they do go bust

Aargh! My EYEBALLS are MELLLTING! Curse this DEVIL LAPTOP

Re: Is this like certain other things?

>Well, I heard you can die from smoking cannabis . . .

There was a study where rats were given cannabis to smoke and then terriers wearing SWAT team jackets were released into the cage.

Hey doc, what's the PC's prognosis? A. Long-term growth below zero

Re: It's always puzzled me.

I think the same thing was said about that new fangled 35mm stuff.

Re: New Hammer

Stanley did design a new hammer. Since nobody uses hammers to knock in nails anymore (they have nail guns) they designed a hammer for all the prying, lifting, nudging, breaking and percussive maintenance tasks that hammers are still used for.

It's been very successful

Bitcoin bank Flexcoin pulls plug after cyber-robbers nick $610,000

Re: I believe that a well-implemented cybercurrency would be a good thing...

Since none of the banks 'own' bitcoins it is difficult to have a run on them.

You can only have a run on a bank because it has lent out money you put in, these bitcoin banks are really either exchanges or safe deposit boxes.

Ever get the impression a telesales op was being held prisoner?

Re: But ... but ... but ... jobs

>but only if we stop immigration and EU migrants

Monday Britain stops eu workers from entering Britain

Tuesday France puts a $10,000 fee on each British truck leaving the Chunnel,

Wednesday Germany puts a $10,000 import levy on each car made in Sunderland

Thrusday Britain closes down

>, and we REQUIRE the unemployed to move or commute where the work is.

Good news unemployed yoof in Middlesborough, we have a cleaning job for you in London, it's minimum wage and zero hour contract. You don't mind commuting do you?

US gov claims it spent TOO MUCH on wiretaps – and blames SPRINT

Re: A jury trial huh?

> yet they want to take their chances with a jury?

Remember the government gets to pick the jury.

Plus the government has a list of all the websites each jury member visited and pictures of them naked if they use Yahoo

Microsoft to get in XP users' faces with one last warning

Re: Yes I predict it will be exactly as terrible as Y2K!

Banks mostly dealt with Y2K years before. Sold a 25year mortgage in 1980? Guess when it became due!

Very few avionics systems need to know the date and don't store it as time_t.

> I don't think an ATM, running Windows Embedded (which is not end of support) would be connect to the internet and set to download automatic updates.

And what colour is the sky on your planet?

There are lots of ATMs running off-the-shelf WindowsXP/2000 and most of them are connected to the bank branch LAN which is connected to t'internet. You wouldn't believe how much we saved compared to the old embedded ATMs and all those leased lines.

Cyber battle apparently under way in Russia-Ukraine conflict

Re: so this will be the 550 GCHQ JTRIG'ers doing False Flag?

Except British Intelligence would immediately charge against the wrong web sites, be wiped out but regard it as a glorious historical incident.