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EU lawmakers vote to ban sales of combustion engine cars from 2035

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Re: replacing a battery pack is fairly easy

Not if Emperor Elon (the last) gets his way. He wants batteries to be part of the structure of the vehicle. That makes replacing them an absolute nightmare. I don't think it will be too long before your lovely tesla is written off after a minor prang because the cost of repair is so prohibitive. Oh... and it can only be done at a Tesla service centre who love to take months to get even simple parts from the Elon Mothership.

Even skateboard chassis cars like the ID series need properly trained people to work on the main battery. 400V/800V/1000V and a lot of Amps are not to be sneezed at nor taken lightly.

As for the service costs of that Tesla. Perhaps that included a replacement Battery? Early Tesla's were like early Nissan Leaf's in that their battery degrades pretty quickly. Battery tech has moved on since those days (pre 2016/17)

Most Battery makers are now predicting 1,000,000 miles on a battery. That means you won't have to replace it in the lifetime of the car.

Makers like Kia/Hyundai have 7 year warranty on the whole car including the battery.

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The charger numbers seem a bit low.

This article says the following

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/06/09/workplace-charging-network-doubles-availability-of-uk-public-charge-points/

That’s according to a recent report on workplace chargers, which found there are 33,000 charge points at work vs 31,500 at public sites. Mobility group Transport & Environment, which commissioned the study,

Add the two together and you get 64,500 chargers.

Do we still need more? Yes. There are areas where DC charging of any level is simply does not exist.

Here... (40 miles SW of London) there are now 15 50kW DC chargers within 8 miles of my home including two at my local McD's not that you will catch me going there any time this side of the apocalypse.

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Makers of ad blockers and browser privacy extensions fear the end is near

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Does anyone need more justification

to consign Chrome to the great bit bucket in hell?

Google as we all know relies on their ability to slurp, slurp and slurp to its heart's content.

We... OTOH want to stop that.... well, we do if we value our privacy.

Chrome is banned from my network. It can't phone home due to the huge number of rules that are in my firewall.

That said, many people use Chrome for everything. The more enlightened will have add blockers and anti trackers installed but the writing on the wall from Google is clear.

Your time is up. We are coming for you. We own your internet history and content so get used to it sunshine.

At least for the time being, there are alternatives. Use them. There really is no excuse for delaying your switch away from Chrome.

It will be interesting to see how MS reacts to this move and will their copy of Chrome follow suit and give a competitor (aka Google) free rein to slurp everything from the millions of Windows users.

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We sat through Apple's product launch disguised as a dev event so you don't have to

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Re: Coffee Grinder?

That's ancient tech. Shouldn't you be all in on coffee makers that use those stupid pod things that cost an arm and a leg more than even ground coffee?

Note, I still buy roasted beans and use a grinder that dates from circa 1977.

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Microsoft delays next Exchange Server release to 2025

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Re: Well thank Satan for that.

I foresee a lot of people who currently support Exchange look at their retirement portfolio and then say...

Ok, 2025 is it and I'm gone. 'F' you MS, I'm not going to start learning how to get around your inevitable stupidity and general crappiness with the next product.

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Elon Musk orders Tesla execs back to the office

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Re: Ego Musk for President

Once Trump gets back in in 2024 and throws the US Constitution into the Shredder, there won't be anything to stop Lord Muck from becoming POTUS.

Mind you, we might have to fight the other evil billionaire, Baldy Bezos for the job of POTUS in 2028 (or when Trump dies on the job)

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Zero-day vuln in Microsoft Office: 'Follina' will work even when macros are disabled

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Just in time for...

Mega-super-giant Patch Tuesday.

Or...

maybe not. We shall have to wait and see how long it takes for MS to close this huge hole.

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Dutch public sector gets green light to use Google Workspace

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I hope that they like getting into bed

With the Devil, the borg and Big Brother all rolled into one.

This won't end well.

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This Windows malware uses PowerShell to inject malicious extension into Chrome

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Why?

In my book, anything coming from Google is malware. How can this extension (malicious or not) make it worse?

Coat... with a bottle of anti-fungicide (google version) in the pocket

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Experts: AI inventors' designs should be protected in law

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I've said this many times...

Politicians who are also lawyers only exist so that they can pass even more stupid laws that will keep their lawyer brethren in Country Club memberships until it is their turn to climb the greasy pole of the political ladder.

Is if any wonder that the great unwashed (those who are not lawyers) see lawyers and by implication politicians as slimy bastards who can not be trusted an inch.

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Hell No!

How can an AI stand up in court and defend their 'so-called invention' when they are sued by a sentient being (aka a Human).

Sadly, the USA is 'fscked' enough to pass this into law given the huge donors to the GQP who will be making sure that the SCOTUS does not consider this as a valid law.

AI's will then get the same rights as us humans under the US Constitution. The USA is doomed, it tell ye, doomed and we will not be that far behind.

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Elon Musk needs more cash for Twitter buy after Tesla margin loan lapses

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re: give Drumpf a platform

Drumpf has a platform... Truth Social. According to him, it is where all the action is and Twitter is a desert.

(since when had Drumpf ever been known to tell the truth eh?)

He's about to make about $100M from the deal that set it up at the expense of all the small trumpers/MAGA supporters who invested in it... and saw their investments become almost worthless overnight.

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Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers

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re: hones/internet weren't available before Starlink

But.... Lord Elon invented the Internet.... didn't you get the memo /s /s /s

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After an EMP attack

Not a lot of fancy electronics will be operational. Bins, pen and paper (plus Semaphore flags) is about all that is left that will work.

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Microsoft shows off Windows updates at Build dev event

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Re: print spooling

It would not surprise me to hear that MS is making print spooling :-

1) an extra $5.99/month

2) only work when connected to the mothership as all documents have to be printed via MS as they check the contents for illegal images (no prints of bums on photocopiers allowed)

Ok, so I'm joking but all the people I work with have the 'Meh' attitude when it comes to anything coming out of Redmond. They aren't migrating to W11 this side of 2025 if they can avoid it. I'm done with Windows so their faffing around with the UI and everything is irrelevant to me. And to think that once upon a time, I drank the MS koolaid and even was a certified developer. Oh... how silly I was.

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Clearview AI fined millions in the UK: No 'lawful reason' to collect Brits' images

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Only $7.5M?

It should be $7.5B. Then they might stop scraping images of all and sundry without a thought to the damage they are doing.

suck on this--> [see icon]

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Microsoft patches the patch that broke Windows authentication

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re: it's not a patch

agreed. More like a sneak peek of the clusterfuck that Windows is fast becoming.

Never mind... When Azure hosts all your windows systems this will all be a thing of the past other than 'glitches' like this will mean total TITSUP and MS sticking their collective fingers in their ears and shouting 'read the small print' and denying any liability for their mistakes.

meanwhile... those of us who saw the runes with W10 and left the ship even before the W11 drone strike will be laughing all the way to the bank and keeping their customers happy

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Arm, Microsoft at pains to say this CPU arch can be trusted with real server work

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If you think that ARM is so great

How about making Windows/ARM available for us normal folk to download and use?

Cue the image of sagebrush blowing through the deserts of Redmond.

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Cars in driver-assist mode hit a third of cyclists, all oncoming cars in tests

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Re: The point is we are further away

Please go and say that on a Tesla forum. They will not like it one little bit.

The Tesla cult/disciples are all in on Full Self Driving and RoboTaxis.

I think that you are 100% correct. The legal things alone will take years to sort out. Tesla will not want to have the liability for each and every crash that one of their cars is involved in unless Elon buys major insurance companies in every country where this is allowed.

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Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold over bot numbers claim

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re: he is a charlatan.

A snake oil salesman and a flim-flam artist all rolled into one.

I have to wonder how much due diligence he did before making the purchase announcement? If the chickens are coming home to roost and he ends up bailing out could he be liable for a whole raft of lawsuits? Or even another SEC investigation?

He should learn to shut his gob and just get on with running Tesla and Space-X

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Appeals court unleashes Texas's anti-Big-Tech content-no-moderation law

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PReventing the removal of 'misinformation'

It is only 'misinformation' if it was not Abbot's 'misinformation'. He's as guilty as any in the GQP of spreading lie after lie after lie.

Texans should remember how much his latest stunt at the border will cost them this year, next year and for decades after when they vote for the next governor in November.

With Mexico moving much of their freight over to New Mexico, TX will lose big time. Abbott is flim-flamming about everything he can to divert attention from that.

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Microsoft tests ‘Suggested Actions’ in Windows 11. Insiders: Can we turn it off?

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Re: Just. Stop.

No can do. Besides, it is not your computer anymore. It belongs to us. The sooner you understand that the better.

You clearly didn't read the (very) small print in the EULA that you agreed to. We take full ownership of the computer and we control everything you do on OUR machine.

Stop arguing or we'll lock it down so tight that you won't even be able to log in.

Yours Microsoft.

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Apple to replace future iPhone Lightning port with USB-C next year, this guy claims

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Re: Still doesn't change anything ....

There are plenty of others out there who will be getting one.

Tim Apple does not care about what the likes of you, me and even the esteemed hacks that work on this site think. He works in millions of sales.

TBH, this move has been coming for a long time. It is not that startling although the likes of Kuo will milk it for a long time.

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Rocky Linux sponsor CIQ secures $26m funding for CentOS successor

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Re: Source of the source ?

The source RPM's comes from RedHat. They remove the RH branding and add their own, As the source is all GPL2 this is allowed. This was how CentOS started and how a number of other clones have worked for years. Alma Linux does the same.

If you dig around on the RH site, I'm sure that you can find the source RPM's.

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Jeffrey Snover claims Microsoft demoted him for inventing PowerShell

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At the risk of being downvoted to hell

(you need to be an old-timer to get this)

Bring back DCL.

Compared to Powershell it was pretty good.

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iOS, Android stores host more than 1.5 million 'abandoned' apps

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Re: Once you're a Google 'subject', you always will be.

Google Rule 1

Google never forgets anything.

Google Rule 2

See Rule 1

Google sucks. Don't neet do say any more.

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Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS. Only Microsoft needs to

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Re: "but if 2022 has any lessons for us, it's that we can't have good things"

That should be...

but if 2022 has any lessons for us, it's that we can't have good things because some [redacted] politician or cable news anchor wants to ban it and stop us from having fun.

Wanna have fun? Watch out Fun is an endangered activity and could damage your health, wealth and well being.

[Yours... The Ministry of Truth]

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RISC-V CEO seeks 'world domination' by winning over the likes of Intel

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re: Redmond tells us they are looking at RISC-V to diversify their risk.

If Intel is on board then Microsoft will be as well. After all, they have to keep the WINTEL monopoly flying high, don't they?

This gives MS the perfect excuse to ignore Windows on ARM from now on. That looks like it is a dead duck.

If their OS assets won't run on silicon from the likes of Apple (and others) then they and Intel can raise a huge glass of something nice and say 'Job Done'.

"The job is not done until Lotus won't run'

Yes folks, we have been here before.

If this fails then heads will roll in Intel and MS but not the top people naturally.

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Twitter buyout: Larry Ellison bursts into Elon's office, slaps $1b down on the desk

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It could have been worse...

If Emperor Musk had brought in Bezos and Zuck.

But... there is still time.

Personally, I hope all involved lose a lot of pocket change in this. But Mush should have paid for it all out of his own... sorry Tesla's pocket. Why would the richest man in the world need loans for this deal? Something smells here. Perhaps he isn't as rich as his sycophants like to make out?

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Google cancels bi-annual performance reviews, shifts to GRAD system

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Just another excuse

not to give anyone outside the "C" level execs a pay rise.

Just another day raking it in for the 0.1%.

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Engineer gets Windows 11 working on a Surface Duo

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Meanwhile...

in Microsoft HQ, SATNAD is yelling at his engineers and telling them to make sure that this can't happen again.

MS Level C droids are control freaks. They do not like their restrictions being bypassed. W11 is their pig and only they are allowed to put any lipstick on it.

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Elliott Management to WDC board: Spin out or sell flash biz

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Why?

because that would require real work rather than speculating with other people's money.

Companies like Elliot Management are the worst sort of leeches in existence. They invest in a company and want to double or triple their return in 12 or 18 months. They are willing to destroy a company to get it.

I'd love for them to try it on with a really big company who would have the resources to fight back dirty.

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Worried about being replaced by a robot? Become a physicist

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Re: Doing my bit for the little guy(gal)

Ten seconds with Google would have found a reference to the law.

Here is just one link.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2022/04/18/tennessee-bill-penalizing-homelessness-passes-legislature-after-debate-citing-hitler/7287979001/

I have to assume that is where the OP got the link to 1930's Germany.

With the SCOTUS effectively outlawing any Abortion in the USA, the plot of the Handmaid's tale looks like becoming fact pretty soon.

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Apple to bin apps that go three years without updates

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Re: Oh...THAT business model

What about all those apps that cost £0.00? 30% of that is still nowt...

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Intel says costly 10nm ramp will counter PC slowdown

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I call that BS

If he thinks that producing 10nm chips will revitalise the PC world then he is sadly mistaken.

This might be a message that the stockholders can swallow but out in the real world things are a tad different.

People and companies all over the world (apart from the oil/gas giants) are fighting rising costs. Food, energy and raw materials are all increasing in price rapidly. After over decade of low, low inflation people and companies are hurting.

Just because you are colluding with Microsoft to make/force people upgrade their PC's to run the monstrosity that is Windows 11... won't return Intel to their past glories.

Most people with W10 on their laptop/desktop already have more than enough computing power to do what they want (gamers apart). With everything under the sun, going into the cloud, then it is not your leccy that is powering it (directly that is) but someone else's. You will foot the bill but indirectly.

What USP will make people move to your 10nm chips Mr Intel?

A lot of people are seeing what the future looks like with ARM powered devices. After all, they already have a super powered device in the shape of their phones. What more do they need eh?

Sorry Mr Intel, you are as Jethro Tull said, 'Living in the Past'.

I am done buying X86 based CPU's in any shape or form. I suspect that I am not alone there.

This makes for interesting reading and to me, is a sign of the times ahead.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/04/30/1728232/mac-studios-m1-ultra-chip-outperforms-on-computational-fluid-dynamics-benchmarks

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Elon Musk flogs $8.4bn of Tesla shares amid Twitter offer drama

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Re: Irony

And post takeover don't you dare post anything that is critical of Tesla/Space X/etc/etc/etc. I'm sure that will get you not only banned but sued as well. Like DJT aka No 45, Elon does not care about the right of free speech unless it is his right. (see icon)

If twitter becomes the place for the right wing loonies in the USA (Marjorie 'jewish space lasers' Taylor Greene as just one example) then the exodus of people to other platforms will become a tidal wave.

If this post gets me blacklisted from ever owning a Tesla then so be it. If fact, bring it on. There are plenty of other choices that are a lot better value than his computers on wheels.

{let the cult downvoting begin}

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Windows 10 still growing, but Win 11 had another bad month, says AdDuplex

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Re: holy mother of god - what is this abomination?

That abomination as you so eloquently describe it... is just MS's way of telling you that you don't really own the computer that they so graciously allow you to install their product on. As time goes by will have less and less control of the hardware that you have shelled out £££ for. If they could make it work like a 3270 Terminal and get away with it then they would. Then they'd have total control over your computer life.

Vote with your feet... erase W11 and install a saner OS such as BSD or Linux.

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Elon Musk set to buy Twitter in $44b deal, promises stuff

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Re: Does anyone really believe ...

Whatever he promises will:-

- Be years late - FSD trip across the USA in 2016

- have its price increased every month (he's gotta get the $44B back somehow)

- Have feature removed without warning because he was told that no one used it (Granny charger and lumbar support in the seats)

- Have automatic banning for anyone who dares comment on things like those above.

Emperor Elon the 1st... He who must be obeyed.

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Elon Musk's Twitter mega-takeover likely imminent

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Re: Tesla & CA

My guess is that he'll build another GigaFactory in Texas (where he still can't sell his crap directly to punters) and gradually shut down Freemont. That will solve the labour issues in one fell swoop.

He'll do anything he can to make himself even richer. Then he can buy a whole country.

Muskovia where everyone pays homage to the emperor on a daily basis and only Tesla's are allowed.

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Skipping CentOS Stream? AlmaLinux 9 Beta is here

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So far so good

I've been moving my CentOS servers over to AlmaLinux 8 for a couple of months now. It is rock solid and works very well.

RH/IBM shot themselves in both feet by messing around with CentOS. Kudos to the people behind this and RockLinux for picking up the baton and looking after the community.

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Judge dismisses Microsoft's challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain

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Re: £270 million ?

Punitive Damages : to teach MS a lesson or three perhaps? (nah. Who am I kidding?)

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Logitech Lift: Vertical mouse for those with small hands

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Good on the face of it

The photo shows one made for us Lefties. Try getting any rodent designed for L-H users? Even contacting the makers results in nothing.

I'd like one also designed for those of us with giant hands.

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Elon Musk's latest launch: An unsolicited Twitter takeover

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Re: Sorry Elon, but what's the point ?

You forgot that Pump and Dump schemes are illegal.

The US SEC would love nothing more than to take Elon down a peg or three.

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Blood pressure monitor won't arrive for Apple Watch before 2024 – report

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Coming in 2024?

As will a few dozen lawsuits saying that El Fruity stole their patented technology

I wonder how many lawyers all over the world make their entire income from filing suit against Apple?

Any guesses?

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South Yorkshire to test fiber broadband through water pipes

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re: Peoples' Republic of South Yorkshire

That's no way to describe part of GOC!

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French court pulls SpaceX's Starlink license

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Re: Not quite...

Hey! Don't forget Goonhilly! Without that site, we would never have gotten to see live pictures of "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind' (from a Hollywood back lot /s)

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re: decent broadband internet access at a decent price

Once upon a time, you could order a Tesla Model 3 for under $40K. Then Elon saw the light and started to raise prices and make himself even wealthier than he was.

He'll do the same with Starlink. The early adopters get a good deal but then the prices start to go up well beyond levels of inflation or taxation.

US Economic Pricing 101. Get them hooked and then... [you fill in the blanks]

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Microsoft, NXP unveil Arm-based Windows 10 IoT Enterprise experience

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Re: Aren't we supposed to be moving on from Windows 10?

Shhhhh... Don't say that or the MS bots will be all over your post downvoting it.

Sooner or later (or maybe never?) MS will have to take Windows on ARM seriously.

Apple has shown what is possible in terms of a Desktop system on a SOC. We know that a whole heap of other makers are working their socks off trying to keep up with Apple.

The ARM market is maturing fast. If MS does not wake up then, and it won't be the first time that they have missed the boat. Remember how the TCP/IP stack was a bolt on?

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Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter, sends share price to the Moon

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Re: Trump vs Musk

Sorry to wet your face but Elon Musk can't stand for POTUS because he was not born in the good ole USofA.

Only natural born loonies can stand for election under the GQP ticket.

I predict Trump + DeathSantis to be the MAGA/Q pick for 2024.

Unless Trump is in Jail by then. In that case, it will be DeathSantis + Boebert/Palin/MTG

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Microsoft debuts System Center 2022

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A simple question...

Does MS ever 'finish' a product before releasing it?

Or... is 50%/60%/70% complete good enough?

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