If you are pissing people off you must be doing something right
While complete bollocks it must be music to Chinese ears to know America is so worried about them
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Not just defeating the restrictions, but making them ineffective ever after, while boosting local skills, knowledge and experience, and possibly even giving China the technological advantage which they too can control.
True, it will cost, but what price would anyone put on having sovereignty, not being beholden to America and her anti-competitive practices?
For a little bit more they could deliver under cost and potentially wipe out American competitors.
I don't think China is going to be at all worried. America should be.
I have immense difficulty understanding why anybody would want to take the language and adapt it to run server side.
If you ignore all the stuff which lets it interact with web pages in a browser it's really Just Another Programming Language (TM), one which looks a bit like C but simpler to use because of dynamic typing, not hard to get to grips with and use at all.
And that's what some people wanting to program microcontrollers are looking for.
Utterly dynamic languages are great for geniuses who can hold the entire context of a codebase in their heads at once.
And people who only write short and simple code, and that's what many using the Pico, Pico W and other RP2040 boards will be doing. It's a moderately powerful device, more than a micro but not a PC, perfect for tinkerers and beginners.
Kaluma isn't that new as I have an installation for the Pico on my PC dated 2021. I am sure it has been improved, and I don't mind it getting promotion.
As it was some years ago when I tried it I can't say much more than it seemed to work when I tested it back then.
I went in a different direction but if people want to use JavaScript then good luck to them. Each to their own. The more makers the better.
Setting aside advertising itself, telling an advertiser only that "the person viewing this page likes camping, sheep and condoms" is a lot less revealing than what can be had with cookies so I can see where Google are coming from.
And, having witnessed more than once the EFF pushing hyperbolic 'the sky is falling' nonsense, they no longer have the credibility they once had.
So, hard to say which side I'm on without more research.
Everybody else I met had some other views
The worse of which was "it doesn't do video editing well". Unfortunately, being unable to do what they were never intended to do, pressure was applied to turn notebooks into things they were never meant to be which were effectively killed off for the audience who wanted what notebooks offered.
I have had so few problems with VoIP that I can't criticise it. But I do worry what will happen when, not just the network goes down, but the cell towers as well.
That's when we will discover how fucked we are. Has any pilot programme actually tested that scenario? I doubt it.
In know what the law says about not driving faster than you can see/react
Never drive faster than your Guardian Angel can fly has served me well.
Probably wouldn't have helped here as I would have been looking over my shoulder trying to figure out what the fuck she was up to as I went over the edge of the missing bridge.
That would be the ground floor of a British Rail signal box where they racked the computers. Axle dust gets everywhere and there's a lot of it when you are track-side, have a lot of axles on a train, have a lot of trains, all slowing down as they pass, and the door is wedged open to let some fresh air in.
Not to worry U.S. you are still the world champs at blackmail. (do as we say or... sanctions)
I would suggest not. The trick with sanctions is to make it a better option to comply than not. That usually rests upon complying or going it alone, with going it alone having big risks and huge costs. It's often pragmatic to suck it up and comply.
But cutting someone off shifts the choice to going without or going it alone. Which is a no-brainer and inevitably forces acceptance of those risks and costs.
It staggers me that America would walk this path, force China into upping her game.
should we be worried enough about your parenting choices to call someone?
Hang on - How do you know the parent doesn't have those wank mags on his coffee table only because he retrieved them from under his kid's bed after finding out he'd been charged for some porn download?
Maybe the kid admitted to everything, handed those mags over.
But, sure; burn the witch. We can ask questions later.
a team of 10 could have delivered from any number of FOSS options
I suspect you are probably right, and maybe a script-kiddie in their bedroom could do better than what often is achieved.
But who's going to risk that when no one else does, when the usual suspects who ultimately get to do it have a vested interest in insisting it will be too complicated for anyone but themselves, that only they can and will deliver, when everyone else falls for their bullshit.
The false logic that they couldn't possibly fail given the eye watering sums they are charging, that anything else is too risky, usually wins the argument.
The electorate is going to punish him for this
You think so? And you think they are going to punish them by voting for parties who would go even further in re-establishing some sanity in our relations with the EU? Or maybe you think enough people will choose to vote for one of the parties of swivel-eyed loons to get them elected?
I don't see much evidence at all of anyone against rejoining Horizon, only the usual suspects who don't want us to have any relationship with the EU, hard right brexiteer extremists and their loyal fans, racists and bigots, who would rather see Britain destroy itself than have anything to do with the EU in any way.
The way I see it; this is a step towards giving leavers what they voted for, not what brexiteers keep pretending leavers voted for.
Most people appear to see this as one of the few things Sunak and this government has got right, that it was the delay in getting it which is lamentable. It won't save Tories from deservedly being put out of office, but that won't be because of this.
"its receivers will stay on to transmit data to Vikram. The lander has also paused data collection duties, but will keep its receivers on to send data back to Earth".
I suppose it may need to receive to know to send but the above just doesn't feel right, suggests receivers being used to transmit.
Easy. Fit a rechargeable battery and some sort of impulse recharging system in the calves and wrists and people can use it all day, every day. It will improve the health of nations as people are forced to do their 50,000 steps a day if they want to go online, and there will be no chance of it losing power just before the money shot.
Which led me to wonder what Captain Cyborg, Kevin Warwick, self-appointed test-bed for bio-engineering, is doing now? I haven't heard mention of him for a while now.
China won't give up working to acquire the technology any more than the US or the UK would.
Some people really do seem to think, that if we deny China access to the things she wants, she will simply give up on her ambitions, accept it as her fate.
It's supremacist thinking to imagine China could never get to where we are, have what we have, without us. It's wishful thinking to imagine we can keep China five years behind where we are. That's an over-stated advantage anyway, and laughable when China already has the lead in some fields.
Trump's, and now Biden's, trade war has perhaps been the best thing which could have happened to China. Not so great for America. We'll have to see what comes of it for everyone else.
I'm guessing we'll benefit from what China achieves, be busy trying to figure out how to survive the nuclear winter, or frantically trying to learn Chinese.
"It turned out that May 2023 "reconnaissance satellite" had no military utility for spying"
That was a very carefully worded conclusion. From what I recall it was carrying a satellite, which contained optical equipment, but would be considered crap by modern military standards and requirements outside of North Korea.
It seems a lot of effort to go to in providing plausible deniability should a ballistic missile test fail and it fell into enemy hands.
I'm not convinced by South Korean claims that it was merely a ballistic missile test, that the payload proves it was just that. But it's hard to blame them for taking the opportunity to demonise North Korea given they, and others, do see them as an existential threat.
It's not right, it's not fair and it's illegal in civilised countries (but it doesn't stop it happening, have a chat with the staff at your local petrol station and ask what happens if they get a drive off if you're in the UK)
It seems some cunts will want cashiers to cover the loss but decent people would consider those cunts as the cunts they are.
If it's a case of the driver coming in to pay, buying something else, and the cashier charging for that and forgetting about charging for fuel, it is more of a grey area, but even so, I would say a driver taking advantage of that is as guilty of a crime as deliberately driving off without attempting to pay.
Fundamentally no employee should be responsible for compensating employers for crimes committed by third-parties.
a group of teens come in & skip the bill, leaving the waitress having to cover them & finished her shift "In the hole" for the tab.
It's outrageous and ridiculous that any waitress should have to make up the shortfall. Same too for anyone who is punished for things they aren't responsible for, shouldn't be expected to be responsible for.
America could learn a lot from how civilised countries do things.
The easiest way to avoid needing Photo ID is to get a postal vote.
And, if you want the full Good Old-Fashioned Voting Experience (TM); you don't need to post it. You can take it to the Polling Station, go to a booth, cast your vote - you must however use a pen and not a pencil, complete the rest, hand it to election staff. Job done.
Friends don't let friends get disenfranchised - Pass it on.
If you are just blinding signing contracts without knowing what your signing then you have much bigger issues and REALLY need to get a lawyer to look over any paperwork before you sign it from now on.
It's Hobson's Choice really. Contracts will usually be overly permissive to start with and if you don't like the contract; "You can fuck off, darling. Next", and there are plenty of others willing to step forward and sell their souls to the studios and production companies,
How soon until being an extra becomes a thing of the past is hard to tell. When you need a Ben Hur quantity, perhaps, but for most productions it's probably going to be cheaper and easier to employ live-action extras, then faff about with CGI and all that's involved, for a while yet.
I am not cold-hearted enough to have no sympathy but it's a fact of life that some jobs do disappear over time. Change usually means losers as well as winners.
Whenever "that name is already in use" crops up I always add an 'X' on the end and try again. It at least means I have a record of what it was when I come to investigate a better resolution. And, if I need to add more than one 'X', it's reminder I really should start looking at resolving things properly.
What's now popped into my head is wondering if I could apply for Musk sponsorship?
[Read the question c a r e f u l l y. He could be anywhere]
Wouldn't walking one mile south, east, north, then west, and being back at the starting point, require the hunter to be half a mile north of the equator?
It's been a long, hot, sticky, icky day, so I might not be firing on all five cylinders.
But I'm pretty sure there aren't that many polar bears living near the equator. At least not out of choice.
It is one of the expected experiences of an outage that the provider who is failing to deliver a service will be the last to acknowledge it, will even refuse to admit there is a problem.
And, when they do, no matter how great the outage was, "only a few customers have been affected".
Soon after the Raspberry Pi launched Oracle were making a big thing of Java being 'free for use on a Pi' so, having decided to consider it as a possibility, I tried to find out exactly what that meant, what the licensing terms were, what was actually free and what wasn't, how much choosing Oracle Java would cost me.
That was a Fucking Nightmare (TM) and even the guy pushing Java for use on the Pi was never clearer than mud.
It left me feeling like I was being talked into being scammed or set-up in some way so I quickly concluded I would never use Oracle Java nor have anything to do with Oracle, ever. Fuck 'em.
Nothing Oracle has done since has convinced me I was wrong in that decision.
I am happy to believe he doesn't know the PIN as I can never remember my PINs for old phones and bank cards unless written down.
And it doesn't matter to me if he does or doesn't; I don't believe anyone should be obliged to act against their own interests even though we have sunk so low that we have enacted legislation to make it so.
I would ask why the Cabinet Office or whoever took the phone off Boris and locked it in a secure safe two years ago didn't make a record of the PIN then?
They are the ones who have failed to do what they would reasonably have been expected to do, not Boris, not anyone else.
It's not just the right to be forgotten; there's a need to keep up with facts as they are.
Fact yesterday may be that so-and-so was a convicted paedophile drug-dealing terrorist murderer. Fact today may be that they are entirely innocent and a victim of a horrendous miscarriage of justice.
What's an AI trained only on yesterday's facts going to say about so-and-so?
And to think we laughed when Moss claimed to have the Internet in a box...
We also know that Johnson saw himself as the new Curchill.
What bemuses me is that he could have achieved it by pushing for a tiered EU, which to me is where it always needed to be heading, and now seems to be heading, albeit slower than snail's pace.
He could have been the one hailed for having "got the EU sorted" but instead nailed his flag to the mast of a small minority of nationalistic and selfish bigots. His big mistake was to aim to win through division rather than through uniting.
Ironically his failure was lack of ambition, failing to understand how great he could have been.
The EU hasn't slammed the door on us since we stormed out but there's zero chance of us getting what brexiteers want, membership benefits without being a member, having our cake and eating it, which they always promised we would get.
We are indeed world leaders in duplicity, mendacity and sophistry but the EU can see right through that.
Even now brexiteers see it as some sort of god-given right to be given what they want and it's "punishing us" to deny them that.
We will only secure meaningful deals and make brexit work - if we don't abandon it, once the grown-ups take back control.
After seeing the way they have punished the UK for wanting to leave, it has cooled my opinion of them somewhat.
That they haven't punished us is what most surprises me.
Not really; that's just a turn of phrase. The EU behaved exactly as I expected it to, calmly putting our tantrum and throwing our toys out the pram behind them and carrying on as normal.
That must have been the real kicker for those who lied that the EU needed us more than we needed them, believed the fantasy that the EU would quickly collapse without us.
I'm still finding it hard to read that name "Threads" and get an immediate happy feeling.
I have always called posts and replies on particular topics in newsgroups and forums "threads" so it's just a shrug from me, no emotion either way; feels a reasonable name to choose.
The huge data grab which comes with it I could get emotional about but, as I have no intention of signing-up myself, it's still a "meh".
I might however pull the Threads DVD from the 'cataclysmic doom and oh shit" section of my bookcase to celebrate its arrival.
It seems to me most successful countries will bring in immigrants as a 'not quite slave labour' force to do all the shit and low paid jobs the natives don't want to do, freeing natives up to get educated, advance themselves, and make their countries world beating.
But brexiteers want to to give our high-paid and skilled jobs to foreign workers while forcing natives to do the shit jobs no one wants to do.
I was never convinced they were batting on our side.