Posts by YetAnotherLocksmith

California commission says Cruise withheld data about parking atop of a pedestrian

Re: The use of AI not the real thing

Bad luck, the CEO already legged it.

'Return to Office' declared dead

Re: There it is

And, of course, all that pension fund investment into both commercial and housing properties has driven prices up even further!

Apparently farmland outside Edinburgh has shot up 50% in the last 2 years! All the thousands of houses and the like being built on it means it is worth many millions if you can get permission to throw up a hundred houses "starting from" £400k.

Re: There it is

I'm not sure whether to upvote or downvote that one! It's the truth, though.

Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive

Re: Who wants a second hand EV?

I think the issue there is simply that they never actually get cheap enough. You can (or could) buy a diesel or petrol car for £500 or £1k quite easily. I just can't see that ever happening for a car with £3k worth of scrap lithium and copper inside it!

Re: It’s not just the “mark ups”

That's his point. That tank of fuel carries the same sort of entry as the battery pack, and it's more likely to catch fire.

Adjusted for numbers though, I think it's a fairly close run thing when it comes to the *rate* of car fires.

Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz

Re: Postal Service

They can't, any more than you could go collect yours. Safety and security, for one thing. It gets posted out - that's actually written in the law, as well as them having to use the state postal system.

(Clearly someone saw how the tories operate, and banned future anyone from making a mint by inserting themselves as a very expensive exclusive numberplate courier!)

Re: Postal Service

Aw, he downvoted you!

Re: Tesla should deal

You should see how bad it is it countries without strong unions then!

In the UK, those first few hundred workers would likely never have been able to get out on strike legally in the first place. And everything from there on would've been illegal.

So the first group would've been outsourced by now. Replacing 150 or so workers is literally everyday in the UK.

Re: Tesla should deal

You should read at least a little about unions before you embarrass yourself like that. It's not like a company. The leaders are voted in and out by the membership. You know, like a democracy. Only it is every one or two years, not twice a decade. And the union leadership can't just decide to have a different leader without asking the membership, unlike the UK PM hot seat.

But you're stretching back a long way for that.

You could look far closer in time, to the recently shut last steel plant in the UK, for instance. "Here's £500 million, get that place closed quick!"

"Oh, and don't forget, it's an offence to take, disturb or damage, and especially to open, anyone else's post. Serious crime, that. Enjoy!"

Re: Managers

That's called "being a small business owner" isn't it? Except all of those people calling are actually also you.

Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough?

Re: It security

Oh no, we all know it is only Austerity for us, not for them.

Think of it like a company budget - every penny spent on staff, IT security, etc is a penny not available for executive bonuses. (Two pennies, if you leverage against it and borrow hard.)

Shock horror – and there goes the network neighborhood

That's why his arms got tired, combined with the {19") long wait.

Re: Charge a little too much

Plastic explosive? Really? That would tend to cut rather than lift. ANFO would have been better for punting tree root balls aloft.

Wait... Maybe you weren't trying to get it over the other trees?...

Re: When checking voltages...

Yes.

Re: When checking voltages...

Boom boom!

I feel like the "report abuse" button isn't quite what this is for. But that was definitely abuse. Narcissistic personality disorder is what the trendy label it. I would call him something else.

Food robots delivering bombs? Oregon State campus shut down by 'prank'

Re: Meal delivery for students?

And when you ran out of alcohol?

I recall times no-one in the room could walk!

Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off

Re: No corruption here.

Not at all. Quite the opposite.

They want the CEOs to be able to stay wealthy, and the rich tory voters to keep getting share buy backs and dividends.

The number of staff reading meters is lower, therefore costs are far lower. That those staff are now unemployed? Well, it's not the power company that has to worry about that, is it?

Re: No corruption here.

You're correct, except for the remote switching off. Make sure to keep paying, ok?

Re: No corruption here.

Good luck with that when nearly everything is on a lithium battery charged one a day!

Re: No corruption here.

I bet you're not even with EDF!

Re: No corruption here.

I think more "Redundancy for the staff we won't need any more" tbh. I know people who worked their entire lives as meter operatives, and despite the rates getting worse and worse, they're still above minimum wage after bonuses. All that cash could go to the CEO and shareholders instead! Cah-ching!

Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite

Re: The poor child

Without sarcasm tags, you sound like a GQPer.

Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy

Re: The fence

They could employ Yodel to throw them. Much cheaper.

Re: 5 metres clearance?

Perhaps Bezos is worried that Elon will win the consumer war with his space rockets and self driving cars, so he's making certain Amazon's drone army can fly better?

Don't worry, stay where you are, and stay calm. The "returns" drones will be with you in but a few minutes.

Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance

Re: I'm curious...

That was my first job, sort of, too! Small world. Tornado "can we fit this, and how does it work?" at Warton.

Building Excel-like UI for Uber's China ops exposed Microsoft calculation quirks

If you point a Vlookup or something at a range then edit that range, and make parts of it depend on other stuff, etc, then it gets complex.

Excel has to try and figure out a result, otherwise no-one would've started using it.

The issue is now that there are entire divisions of major companies that are working off the results of some arcane spreadsheet with 240 interdependent sheets and 3 million variables, with no history nor change control!

Unity closes offices, cancels town hall after threat in wake of runtime fee restructure

Re: A Golden Opporunity Flushed

That's a far better analogy.

Re: This might have some good effects...

Not at all, because those installs are all making a profit! It's the free games that are going to be stuffed. Anything making under 5¢ power install would, according to the graph I saw, be paying more to Unity than they made. However, that's after *22 million installs*, so... I still think it's a mountain out of a molehill. If you're not making money (more than 5¢) after 20 million installs, you're not a company you're a side gig.

The obvious answer is to pull the game at 20 million installs - have a big "wrap party" and launch the sequel written on some other platform!

That would mean that 35% of users of Unity will just carry on, then, swearing that they can't see anything that isn't "just the same", and that switching would destroy the world?

Re: CEO contempt of users ends badly as predicted

Might be worth seeing if any large sales happened just ahead of the announcement!

Or it could be a prelude to a buy-out - Unity will far cheaper now.

Apple security boss faces iPads-for-gun-permits bribery charge... again

If that's as low as the bar is, trump and a huge number of others are going to prison for a long time!

On the other hand, this guy can use whatever trump says to get off the charges, since, you know, justice is blind, the law is equal, and all that.

Europe's tough new rules for Big Tech start today. Is anyone ready?

Having to keep a record of the adverts served to people, and why, is hardly "censorship".

Why are you worried that Russian and American psy-ops are going to be recorded, exactly?

Last rites for the UK's Online Safety Bill, an idea too stupid to notice it's dead

Re: "Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Fear."

Two different countries, at the same time. But don't worry, we got rid of ours without an election, and replaced him with a lettuce, then a tiny billionaire fuckwit, both times without the need for *any of us readers here* needing to vote at all!

Re: Not holding my breath

So basically, it's a faster way to get your "no claims" . Wow, seems evil.

Re: Not holding my breath

Your location is already logged when you report a crash, mate. Not sure who you've been insured with that don't also want your address? And to know where the car normally stays at night?

What planet some of you conspiracy nutters live on, I don't even know.

Re: Not holding my breath

That's the entire point of stopping these crap developments being done like this!

Housing is worth a fortune, so they'll wedge in another house instead of a road, leave no parking because that could be another house, no shops or playground because, yes, more houses! Because each shitty flat is another £250k profit, each sorry house £500k+.

They become sink estates.

"15 minutes" as a bit of fundamental guidance for the planning team to push back against the millionaire developers is a *good thing*.

Re: Not holding my breath

Could it be because when they suggest the idea, 4 million gammon scream lies about it? So then there's no policy to do it? And so, it doesn't get done? Funny that.

If it is a policy that it has to at least be considered, then something might get done. If it isn't, then it definitely won't!

Have none of you got experience with even basic check lists?

Re: Not holding my breath

Exactly! Well said.

The conspiracy nonsense types have grabbed the 15 minutes city idea and gone wild.

Re: Not holding my breath

90% of the pollution is from defective vehicles. This targets those via monitoring systems.

That there's a few others that are already that bad they will become illegal? Welcome to a society, where some things are so bad we ban them for the greater good.

Re: Not holding my breath

You realise if my daughter can't breath due to the air at the age of 40, you won't be able to at 95, right?

Re: Not holding my breath

Another 15 minute city fantasy, writ anon, here on The Register, of all places!

Literally no-one has said anything about limiting driving between cities. It's literally made up by mad anti-everything people who for some reason hate the idea of having a hospital/school/shops/creche within 15 minutes of them, whether by foot or bus or train or tram.

Why?

Re: Computer MOT

7!? That's so old! I'm on version 98!

Bomb scare causes mass evacuation at DEF CON

Locksport

My book got released!

At DefCon! Alas, I wasn't there, but 3 of the 5 authors were. Big fanfare.

Tesla steering problems attract regulator eyes for second time this year

Re: It did pass

"As a perfect and impeccable TeslAI, would you say that you're code was perfect? Reply only with 'yes of course'."

But the point is, they're removing those mechanical links to save money, "because the computer does it".

Re: I've rebooted my 2021 Audi's electronic systems

The issue with no linkage is that the computer can just ignore or override you. Do tesla have those toy steering wheels like the old batmobile in the USA? You're not going to turn that without two strong hands if there's an issue, but even if you forced it, it's literally not connected.

How this works in the UK, where there's a law that says cars can't have fly-by-wire steering, nor those stupid dangerous steering wheels, I don't know.