"with a name like that, it has to be going to the moon!"
As I recall, that's exactly why Luna is called that.
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Yep - I'd come in here specifically to say that Tesla are being investigated for this. It's really not the disengaging of the autopilot that's the issue, though; human drivers do need to be able to respond to emergencies. It's that the software reports back in such a way as to put the blame for the incident on the driver by saying they were in control.
Actions are only mistakes if they don't lead to the desired outcome. Since the desired outcomes here are 1) lining the pockets of business donors and 2) laying the groundwork for the privatisation of the NHS, it's hard to call this deliberate mismanagement a mistake.
That didn't bother me half as much as the fact that when I traded in my old S9+ for my S22, they asked me to return its charger in the box "if possible". As I still need that charger to, y'know, charge my new phone, I deemed that it was not possible and kept it. And let's be blunt: the only reason they wanted it was so they could charge me extra for a new one.
The government just rammed through plans to cut 90,000 civil service jobs by 2025, almost a quarter of the workforce. Some departments face reductions of up to 40%, which is unsustainable.
Luckily, Crapita and G4S will just have had some workers freed up and will be ready to plug the gaps. I'm sure it won't cost more than twice as much as the existing arrangements that don't put money in the pockets of Tory donors.
Minor pedant: the bill was voted down in the Senate, and the only dissenting Democrat was Joe Manchin. So even her hypocrisy only goes so far.
But you're right that Sinema and Manchin both need to be removed in the primaries, because they're both DINOSAURs - Democrat In Name Only, Screwing Up Abortion Rights.
No, Amazon need to stop strongly incentivising their drivers to be antisocial bastards. Amazon drivers aren't shitting in gardens and driving like maniacs because they're bad employees; they're doing it because Amazon are putting them on schedules so tight that they can't even spare two minutes to visit a lavatory. In some cases, such as when there are unlisted roadworks, drivers can't even spare time to deliver their parcels.
Now, think about this for a second. If an Amazon driver will be penalised for not meeting targets if they don't drive too fast, how does it help anything if they are also penalised if they do drive too fast?
The purpose of regulation is to ensure fairness and protect rights. Wherever there is an invested party, there will inevitably be someone who wants less regulation because the rights of others get in the way of maximising profits. In this case businesses, and the UK government acting on their behalf, are also invested parties, and they want less data protection regulation because data is one more thing they can sell.
I have you all beaten on the Richard front - my mother used to work with a bloke named Richard Head. And yes, he insisted on Richard.
There used to be a Charles Manson in my department, but his parents can't be blamed for that as he was born before the famous one became famous.
They're not going to receive as high a percentage as Russia gets for the gas itself, though.
That said, it's not an inconsiderable sum of money. I wonder if part of Putin's goals weren't to control the Ukrainian section of the pipeline so Russia could trouser all of the gas profits. Not the chief goal, of course, but it would be a nice little bonus.
Assorted NFTs - $0.
Money given to a scammer to claim "ownership" of said NFTs - $3m.
Crypto bros' faces when the natural results of total deregulation and zero oversight make the scam obvious - priceless.
There are lots of things that money can buy. For everything else, there's cryptocurrency.
I was with you right up until this point. I have never found any advocate of blockchain who can explain how it can be used to do anything more practically or efficiently than an already existing solution. Really, it's just an attempt to create a problem that it might be a solution to.
Let them fight.
Honestly, though, this has to be the most bizarre escalation of crime that I've ever heard of. The bros already got robbed when they bought nothing for something. The gangs broke in and stole the proof that the bros got robbed. The gangs then demand to rob the bros for a third time, and if the bros don't acquiesce then they won't be able to rob someone else to recoup the losses they incurred from the first robbery. But if they do pay up, they would have to rob that third party for more in order to break even - which is harder to do. And if they can't find a patsy at the new, higher price, they're even worse off.
Not that I'm saying their quandary is in the least bit unfair, but truly, these are the strangest times.
Today Facebook showed me adverts for multiple crypto scammers, pump and dump boiler rooms, snake oil salesmen and degree selling factories - all of whom I had previously instructed them to block. And that was 100% of the adverts they showed me.
Facebook never do the right thing if you are willing to pay them to do the wrong thing.
Remember how the Telegraph started doing their Russia supplement about 15 years ago while Boris was a columnist there? They were being paid £400k a year by Russia for that. At the same time, a certain Mr Johnson's salary rose from £25k a year to over £200k a year. And then Boris waved through Evgeny Lebedev's entry into the Lords declaring that there was no security risk, despite the fact that Lebedev's father was not just a crony of Putin but a senior KGB officer. Do you think that Boris could have done that without the support of his party?
The Tories aren't removing Boris because they've taken the same Russian money. They took it to support Brexit; they took it to ignore the sale of London's skyline to the oligarchs; most of all, they took it to fill the party coffers and to line their own pockets. And now they have allowed the likes of Abramovitch and Deripaska to bypass the worst effects of sanctioning. Some other oligarchs weren't even added to the list.
Getting rid of Boris will achieve nothing. We need to get rid of them all.
Pay attention to what Visa and Mastercard have actually done here. They have not ceased operations inside Russia, only blocked transactions into and out of Russia. They are still claiming fees and interest from their Russian customers, just as they did before. Anton in St Petersburg can't buy from Wladislaw in Wroclaw any more, but he can still do all his shopping at Sergei's store down the street - which is 95% of what he uses his card for. Well, 100% now because Wladislaw told Anton to stick his roubles up his arse when the invasion began.
In other words, Visa and Mastercard are trying to steal valour by refusing to process payments that other companies were already refusing to accept.
A few years back the Russians ran a referendum in one of their conquests - South Ossetia, I think, but I can't be certain in the last 10 minutes of my lunch break - asking the people if they wanted to be part of Russia. Ballots were supposedly secret, but voters were not allowed to fold their papers and the ballot boxes were transparent ... and guarded. And amazingly, over 90% of voters had a surpassing love for the Rodina.
Fascist dictators don't as a rule get elected - at least, not re-elected - and your choice to support and facilitate them or not is somewhat limited by the consequences if you don't. A lot of Russians want Putin gone, but they are too frightened to say so. For every one of the thousands of protestors on the streets, there will be ten more at home. But they know that these sanctions will end only when Putin does, and it is hoped that will in time bring more and more of them out against him.
You're misunderstanding the situation. The question now is not whether Putin meets his end; that was decided when he invaded Ukraine. The question is rather how he meets his end.
Putin has done everything he can to frame NATO opposition to his aggression as an existential threat to Russia. And he has said - and this is a minor paraphrase at most - that if Russia has no place in the world, why should the world continue to exist? There is a very real possibility that he will use nuclear weapons not to save himself, but to take everyone else with him.
If by "shine" you mean "with the fire of an earthbound Sun" or "glow in the dark for the next 10,000 years", perhaps. It's one thing to expect Putin to show restraint with the Armageddon dildos when he gets his nose bloodied in Ukraine, and quite another to suggest that he would hold back if Russia should be invaded on multiple fronts.
I gave Lost Ark a try. I thought I'd play a Gunslinger as I liked the idea. Gunslingers have to be female, and after rolling my eyes a bit at some of the outfits I was able to pick out a modest-looking suit that I could play without feeling like I should personally be wearing a grubby raincoat.
The game begins, and lo! my character is now wearing a low cut blouse and leather micro-shorts like a porn parody of Lara Croft. I play through the prologue thinking "well, this is just starter gear and I'll get the outfit I selected in creation soon". Nope. I played to the end of the prologue and I'm still looking like a weeaboo wank fantasy. Also every cut scene is following my character at arse-level as she wiggles her butt with every step, and other characters in those cut scenes are watching her that way as well.
Logged out, uninstalled, deleted from Steam library. There is absolutely no excuse for this in modern gaming.
Or we did if we watched The Book of Boba Fett. No spoilers, but that includes a deepfaked character whose voice was even synthesised. And even though you knew what it was, it was still tough to tell. If it's getting that good in TV - not even in a movie - then it's going to spread wide, and soon.
Add Kickstarter as well, then. If I had a dollar for every project I've seen that was someone pushing an AliExpress product (knockoff or otherwise) at 300% markup, I'd have enough to buy the real article at retail.
(The IT angle? Kickstarter are themselves moving in to blockchain, which is Scammer-Helping Information Technology.)
"a moniker she earned after presiding over TalkTalk..."
If I'm not mistaken, did she not earn that moniker here in the article that was linked to? I've not seen it anywhere else.
(I'll let it slide, though - it's a nice classical allusion to her namesake Dido of Carthage, and the Reg writer didn't even smugly point out how clever they were.)