What the difference between drug dealers and google ?
Fuck all, would appear to be the answer/ Neither gives a shit about the law, and both business models rely on getting users hooked.
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Given I was running a pretty solid version of Ubuntu (I can't remember if it was Dapper or Edgy) at the time I had Vista foisted on me at work, it should have been the easiest sell ever.
And still they blew it.
Even now with Win11 creating schisms, where is Mint ?
I have a few FB accounts I created back in the day that are still active. Hell they get more friend requests than I do.
I wonder if they are saleable ?
The only fake accounts I have that are more active are with LinkedIn. Apparently these people who have never existed have a shed load of colleagues and ex-colleagues.
One reason why I remain sceptical about a lot of SM ...
of the UK telling the EU what it's job is. Apparently the UK has decided that it's OK for the UK to (re)join the Lugano Convention although the EC don't quite see it that way.
Now the UK is telling the EU that the UKs data laws are OK with the EU. Surely that's for the EU to decide ?
And without exception it's "smart" speed recognition system manages to see the "5mph" signs that are in the roadworks lane next to the 30mph stretch I am driving.
Which pretty much does it for anything "artificial" about trying to imitate (not simulate) intelligence.
"Is a wookie a bear ?" should be the acid test for anything purporting to be self aware.
As far as English law is concerned, I don't think anyone has ever actually sued on the basis they have quantifiable loss anyway.
Certainly in every story about peoples data being lost, I have never read of anyone being able to claim damages.
Maybe I don't read the right sort of newspapers ?
About 18 months ago, I was suggesting that autonomous cars would herald the end of private car ownership as a complex mix of factors started to align.
The immediate rebuttal from most was how much they needed to drive to get to the office and that it was impossible for them to avoid that.
Then 2020 happened and proved (what I knew all along) that office working is mainly by convention, not necessity.
The current shit state of electric cars could be fixed at a stroke if they were able to slope off autonomously at night to recharge somewhere sensible, and be back by dawn.
The trick to pork barrel contracts is to bid low, get the gig, and then when you've completely queered the pitch for anyone else suddenly double, treble, quadruple your fee.
So, if you want to make (say) £10 billion from a contract, you bid £3 billion. Get the gig (and politicians will love you as you allow them to appear as if they are saving taxpayers money). Run it for a couple of years and then turn around and go "oh dear, unless you pay us another £7billion, this project will fail".
Rinse and repeat.
I invite commentards to reply with UK government contracts in this vein, starting with Universal Credit.
Was (because I haven't tried since) how once summoned, the Google assistant needed a fucking keypress to go away again.
No big deal unless you are using your phone as a sat nav, someone says "OK google" and you lose your screen until an illegal keypress.
With LinkedIn and Indeed being so easy to use directly by HR depts, there's almost no need for agencies nowadays.
Just finishing my first month having been contacted via my CV on LinkedIn directly. Registered with a shed load of agencies who managed between them the square root of fuck all. Turns out the CEO of my new gig doesn't trust them either. They have become yet another example of a layer that wants to extract wealth without adding value (see also: mobile phone resellers).
I lost count of the number of "project manager" jobs - certainly on LinkedIn - that were simply sucker bait for MLM type nonsense/
"Earn up to £100,000 from home as a project manager" being an example.
I actually posted about it on Linked in. Ironically.
VAT is paid from the end consumer, not the company.
So any refund should go to the poor saps who had no choice when BT(or GPO) charged them VAT ?????
I never saw a penny of that VAT HMRC was made to "give back" on Jaffa cakes either.
Hope it doesn't torpedo BTs case, but they really need to learn about "unjust enrichment" .....
While the UK, once actual Brexit happens, won't be covered by the rules it is unlikely that most large manufacturers will want to make separate UK-only Farrage-phones or tablets.
So the UK will have to just accept something made to rules that once it could help draft, but now can't ?
Remind me how "taking back control" works ?
Again ?
Bearing in mind some Apollo engineers said they were astounded by the air intake alone for Concorde.
And it flew regularly with civilian passengers unlike the rather showy one-shot Apollo with it's highly trained crew.
Although I'd be happy if we all put our handbags down and celebrated great engineering of the 20th century, whilst simultaneously weeping for the lack of development since then.
These all round ->