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Once the rules have quashed adequacy with GDPR, and the EU have ruled that this is the case, we'll have a huddle of politicians crawling atop on another to squawk that:
"This ruling clearly shows that the EU continue to act in bad faith when dealing with the UK. Our data protection measures are harsh, fair, and sufficient to protect the privacy of all citizens. The EU continue to show it's true colours".
I thought part of the issue is that Musk can't just pay a billion dollars and walk away. Or am I wrong.
As I understand it he has to pay a billion dollars if the deal doesn't go through, but the deal has to go through unless some very serious things go wrong - all of which would be stipulated in the contract.
So he's kicking and screaming because it's the only way he knows how to try and create an illusion of something being wrong.
Twitter can, and seemingly will, take him to court and have the courts decide if there is any reason for the contract and thus the deal not to go through. If there isn't any reason, then whether Musk wants it or not, he's on the hook for the $54.20/share.
Remember Musk apparently waived any rights to due diligence via the contract, so some slight differences won't cut it.
Not all UK publications are stuffed with great citizens it would seem:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/11/uber_leak/
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62057321
Even here:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11001327/Uber-met-George-Osborne-Matt-Hancock-Michael-Gove-leak-124-000-emails-texts-reveals.html
Presumably, though, any webpage that displays an ad would have an interest in giving at least coarse topic information about their webpage. After all it's also in their interest for the ad to perform well.
Given time and enough visitors you could potentially refine the topic, based on which ads seem to perform well, all without having to know who clicked any ad, but simply knowing that a given ad was clicked.
Conceivably you could "upgrade" the digger so that it automatically shuts off when a signal is sent that it is about to dig into a cable.
Whether the cost savings from not digging into cables can offset the costs from multiple unnecessary stoppages remains to be seen of course.
Perhaps the stopper can come from digger-producers as part of the subscription you pay for your digger-use-license....
Their website is neat looking. And it appears they have arrived at a prototype stage at least.
That might be a reason for the funding. Usually you like to fund either research or things that are close to ready.
If this might become economically viable, then supporting it now is a way to speed it up. The submarines seem smaller than the word usually conjures up - cargo capacity around 5kg.
There's a test run from London to Amsterdam slated for January 2022. Interesting.
https://www.oceanways.co/mission-one
Actual prison would work a lot better as a deterrent I think.
Oh no, a fine the size of my yearly salary? No problem, since I'm mostly paid with bonuses, stock options, and with other non-salary compensation.
3 years in actual physical jail? No phone, no laptop, no PA, no nothing.
That'll hurt.
My biggest caution is the controller part of it, the triggers and sticks.
I've had my fair share of controllers, and a sizeable chunk tend to develop issues with these components. Some after little use and some after mild use (that is to say playing excessive amounts of Rocket League). On a controller it's not too much of a hurdle. I feel alright opening that up to give some required maintenance of whatever sort I have laying around, but with a more expensive and advanced machine I'm not sure I'd feel quite so eager to engage in home-repair.
I could see myself forking over the cash, but I hope to see some information on replacement ease for these wear and tear parts. The machine won't last forever, but from my experience the computer bits won't be outdated before the controller bits will break - and that would suck.
For a Switch the controllers are separate entities - that doesn't seem to be the case with the Deck.
Also a note on the reservation fee - that fee counts towards the purchase price, so it's mostly there to ensure that you're serious about it and discourage fake reservations, as per the Deck FAQ:
"Does the reservation fee count towards my Steam Deck purchase price?
Yes."
If Apple could just raise their prices to make up the lost revenue, then Apple would already have raised prices to that level. Otherwise Apple is currently leaving money on the table.
The point that almost everyone would choose Google anyway leads naturally to the question of why Google is wasting all that cash on being the default search.
Seems like not only Apple, but also Google is happily either leaving money on the table or throwing money away for no reason.
We all know that the truth of why they are paying billions to be made the default is that it works to keep people using Google..
This fact does fly in the face of this initial defence offered by Google.
The defence is basically that nobody is forced to use Google and it's super easy to change, so people would just do that if they wanted something else - thus Google is actually what people choose (aka they aren't forced).
Which would imply that - given Google is obviously what people prefer (given that they don't switch even though it's super simple - see paragraph above) - people would do that super easy thing and switch the search to Google if Google wasn't the default.
But in that case it sure seems like a massive waste of money to pay for exclusivity deals, so why do they do it?
You realise that the other game platform wouldn't have that game that Epic bought exclusivity for, right?
You realise this was all done to avoid having to actually compete against Steam - and therefore actually having to make a decent product or do something that helps us - the consumers. I would like competition between marketplaces - to encourage cheaper games, better features etc., but that's a fight that Epic is scared to go into; hence the exclusivity deals.
It was and is a horrible practice, that should not be encouraged.
I'm not American, so it might simply be differences between cultures, but why on Earth does the employer (Facebook) have information about employees including:
"medical information, personal financial documents, and private information about family members of employees."
None of that seems like it would be particularly relevant (or even legal?) for an employer to possess?
Blood and organ donations usually don't pay, because that creates unwanted incentives.
"Well Grandma is probably on her way out, and that nice Mr. Edward Vil says he'll pay us $10,000 if we unplug her now."
Or
"I need food. Someone buy my kidney!"
The only comparison I can see would be the developers of these programs purposefully putting in exploits for their mates to "discover" later on. That might be happening, but surely there is some tracking happening. "Herbert, this is the 14th flaw found in your coding", so doesn't seem like it would be a great move.
You could approach developers of companies to pay them to include vulnerabilities for you to discover, but then you have to figure out how much you'll likely get and I doubt the amount you'll be willing to hand back is enough to get developers to intentionally make bad code.
He obviously can't get a billion pounds from Uber on the grounds that Uber hasn't paid VAT.
He can get a legal ruling that states, that Uber must pay VAT, which means they will owe money to the UK who will be getting the billion pounds. For him it seems that will merely mean that he can claim the £1,xx on a returns form somewhere in the bureaucracy.
In what way would he ever have any standing to get VAT money from rides others have bought from Uber (Or should that be from their respective Uber driver who is in no way an employee of Uber?)?
- No you are not under arrest. No you may not see a lawyer. Yes you did provide us with the code to open your laptop, but you'll have to provide us the code to your well-encrypted cloud storage container as well - national security you understand. No you may not use the toilet.
Here's a link to my comment in the previous article about this story:
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/3671363
And here it is in full:
"There seem to be details missing in this piece?
As others have pointed out Huawei are surely free to trade their own products to Iran, though possibly (I don't know) at the cost of being able to do business in the US?
As far as I know the issue is, that Huawei have been allegedly circumventing a ban on selling US-products to Iran, by selling HP products to Iran via a separate company (Skycom) - one where Weng was briefly a board member, and which at least at one point was entirely owned by a management company owned by the Huawei parent company.
There was a news report of this way back in 2013 already:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-skycom/exclusive-huawei-cfo-linked-to-firm-that-offered-hp-gear-to-iran-idUSBRE90U0CC20130131"
As others have pointed out Huawei are surely free to trade their own products to Iran, though possibly (I don't know) at the cost of being able to do business in the US?
As far as I know the issue is, that Huawei have been allegedly circumventing a ban on selling US-products to Iran, by selling HP products to Iran via a separate company (Skycom) - one where Weng was briefly a board member, and which at least at one point was entirely owned by a management company owned by the Huawei parent company.
There was a news report of this way back in 2013 already:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-skycom/exclusive-huawei-cfo-linked-to-firm-that-offered-hp-gear-to-iran-idUSBRE90U0CC20130131
Is this not a situation where capitalism might actually be good for something?
YT: "Well we'll just leave the EU then!"
EU: "Oh noes... What should we do"
Group of EU Citizens: "We'll start our own streaming service with blackjac... a slightly altered system and the possibility for content creators on YT to also upload to our service for both the EU audience and beyond."
YT: "But that'll mean videos on your platform will be viewable by both EU and non-EU citizens... That's a better value-offer for content creators than we're offering... Oh no!"
YT melts away/fixes itself.
(or maybe an existing platform will do it. Whatever)
How's about author's life + 50, but no more than 70?
Get the best of both worlds - though perhaps author's life + 10, but no more than 30 might seem more reasonable to me.
If your song suddenly resurges after 30 years, then hopefully you'll have other ways of supporting you by then - and you can still take the band on tour, since the original creator ought to attract a crowd (assuming the song is popular enough).
We should, however, also be careful that this is what is being done.
It can easily turn into talks or courses, where ethical theories are discussed, but really we're just looking for a plausible way to defend current practices - perhaps with a few tweaks to make us all feel as though we've really changed for the better.
Awareness and tools are great, but putting a pseudo-ethical veneer onto a field is not.
I think you all misunderstood me.
I know SJW stands for Social Justice Warrior.
I meant to ask: What does "SJWing" - as a verb - mean in this context? What exactly are the Google staffers doing that can be described as SJWing?
If I am to go by one of the replies I've gotten, it means Google has employed people who "end up unemployable".
I was asking for some specifics to help me understand what the comment was meant to say. Do Google hire people to simply roam around doing SJW stuff - and in that case what is that stuff specifically and why is it good or bad - and why do Google think it worth paying someone for?
I ask, because until there's some actual meaning placed to the term SJWing, it's a catch-all into which we can all pour our best or worst interpretations, and then argue endlessly because we aren't arguing about the same thing at all.
Just a note for Bombastic Bob.
I actually got through your entire first post, but I simply could not for the second.
You do REALIZE that writing LIKE this, just makes READING more annoying, RIGHT?
IT'S not HELPFUL, and it DOES not actually give emphasis to the WORDS. It's just ANNOYING for any "reader".
I could easily imagine some earlier points in the meeting simply having additional documents added, which then shifted the numbering of the documents, in order to preserve a progression from 1-X instead of going 1-15, then 22-26, then 16-21.
So if that's the only evidence of personal tampering - in this particular instance - then I find it somewhat lacking.
That being said, I hope Battistelli is punished and the EPO brought back to some semblance of sanity.
Also I can't help wondering what's in document 18 (now 23), since it seems like it must be relevant to the case, but apparently isn't? Perhaps it's a sign that the linear progression I speak of above isn't actually relevant...
Moria could work.
But I think you'd need to make the whole thing an anthology series.
So you get 2-4 episodes focusing solely on one aspect of the story.
Moria storyline could run through everything since the Hobbit up until "Mellon" (heard in the dark after a "time passes" sequence, at which point a door cracks open and the episode ends), without having to keep apace with other stories being told.
It'd be less restrictive and so long as they don't write themselves into a corner (Whoops, forgot that person X was shown during one anthology to do this at this time - now we need X to do something else at the same time), it could be quite enjoyable.
Invest heavily in exterior decorations - check
Force slaves to mimic merriment on a nightly basis - check
Haul off wagons of empty pots in the morning to simulate cleaning - check
Haul in wagons of empty pots in the afternoon to simulate filling your stock - check
Wait for rich dude to demand an estate swap - check
"Software vendor/car manufacture could/should be required to prove that the recipient car has successfully installed the patch "
But the issue would be, that the insurance company claims you didn't have Patch 1.0001 installed, you'll say you tried, but the system didn't work, and software vendor will claim that you probably didn't try because see how many other times it did install without trouble.
It's in the interest of both insurer and software vendor that you didn't try to update - so if you did you best have a video recording of your attempt.
if the voice differentiation can be fooled.
If parents limit the usability of the device for children, then surely those children will try to imitate their parents' voices to undo this, no?
Will there be some kind of codeword or will it simply be voice for id?
"No no, it's mom speaking. I just have a cold"
It was falsely reported by ElReg, and others I'm sure, that he changed his story a week later.
The story we're now hearing is actually the story he told the police and courts on the day he was found. It happened behind closed doors at the courts, so the only publicly known story was the initial one about dropping her off.
I commented this same fact on the relevant article:
https://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/2/2017/08/22/private_sub_captain_says_reporter_died/#c_3268431
Just a note. According to the courts he originally told the courts that she had died and he had buried her at sea, but due to closed doors that information was not revealed.
About a week later it was decided to release this information partly to end any discussions of searching for her, and what could have happened.
So he might initially (when he was pulled from the boat) have given one story, but - as far as I know - he has maintained the now-revealed version of events from the very first day in court - that is last Saturday.
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/retskorrespondent-peter-madsens-forklaring-skal-afmystificere-ubaadssagen (second to last section of this article)