Posts by Roland6

>groupthink

I found that rather surprising, it’s not like we haven’t got the experience with which AIDS - a far less transmissible illness and even more recently with Ebola, spread around the world due to the ease of flying from a “hot zone” to down town first world country…

> As vegetation and wildlife are destroyed

The scientists are very worried about the melting of the perms frost, they know there is anthrax in there but don’t know what else has been lurking for a few thousand years…

Re: "Continuous innovation coming to Windows 11 in March"

Missed the last bit:

“ will be off for Windows-Update-managed devices until they are released as part of the next annual feature update”.

So not only is the off temporary, but given MS quality control over updates all the features will be installed (just not enabled until the annual feature update), so MS have just enlarged the attack surface…

Re: Backwards

This is the US, so effectively Biden is wanting business - who believe in paying minimal taxes, but still want the taxpayer funded handouts, to actually do something that is socially beneficial, namely the funding of childcare facilities potentially close to where.people - unable to WFH, will be working.

Re: “ Sorry, this content is not available in your region.”

For me link 1 “allegedly” - works

Link 2 “eight months” is uk region blocked

Link 3 “January 2023” works.

Given El Reg has a large uk audience - for reasons well understood by regular readers, it would make sense that el reg ensured all further information links they have inserted into articles work for at least uk and probably also other European readers.

This isn’t about not covering the issue, it is about quality of journalism. So does the offending website wcvb.com actually offer anything unique that isn’t available from other sources?

Personally, when I encounter such blindness to the RoW, I find another site that covers the points I am referencing and forget about the one playing stupid.

Re: “ Sorry, this content is not available in your region.”

No problems, but el reg do have regmedia.co.uk which previously was used to hold documents referenced by articles….

Re: late stage capitalism

Which is what you have with a duopoly…

To have ‘competition’ you need at least two companies to chose from. However, if you don’t buy enough from one, it will cease to trade result8ng in a monopoly; which probably end stage capitalism.

I don't get why they did not simply produce a femtocell as the mark 1 device as this would at least prove the base platform and provide a 5G device for a known market niche.

Re: Well...

Ie. all the rules of effective meeting that were being taught in the 1980's and probably decades earlier...

>Why did all user accounts contain the browser history of his admin account?

Well with next to no security, I came across many companies where the system had a generic 'staff' account, used by all as corporate systems were still hosted on larger systems with their own login/password security and only accessible via terminal emulation.

Obviously, over time we've become more security aware ...

Re: Tax could be a lot simpler

This looks like the financial transaction tax often spoken about, and like VAT it would be in addition to other taxes...

Re: Yep! About bloody time too!!

>a full tax return is filed every year by my wife with me as supplier of created materials, she pays the biz NI, etc.

Not clear whether you are employed by your wife or whether you are independently self-employed.

Either way, a nice little hobby that also pays, in that it probably accrues some beneficial tax losses...

Re: HMRC RTI

There is a bookkeeping difference between 'expense' and 'capital investment' and asset...

Many years back, one employer tightened their expense policy; someone had taken exception to us going out and buying an A0 plotter on expenses (working aboard, we needed it now, the local IT wholesaler had one in stock and would taxi it across town to us and the client would reimburse via expenses)...

Re: HMRC RTI

>Pattern has already been established.

Don't see how the OnlyFans business model fits the Uber, Pimlico Plumbers etc. pseudo self-employment models.

You should always claim 'losses' as they can be offset against future gains...

>So if an 'influencer' gets free stuff, isn't that a benefit in kind, and potentially taxable?

Welcome to the grey area of taxation where the tax will tend to review after the event to determine whether something should have been taxed. A lot hinges on "primary purpose" and the way in which you gained financially.

>someone gets sponsored by OnlyFresh...

Assuming the sponsorship is to say produce YouTube videos showing how to prepare OnlyFresh meals; once the meal has been produced, the food is waste... Hence you could invite friends round and share, however, if you were more commercial with respect to the consumption of the waste food, the tax man would be interested in your gains from this activity.

Whilst things seem clear cut, remember how HMRC and others have gone after ebay and Amazon traders. Plus there is a different and much lower threshold if you export to the EU...

https://www.rsmuk.com/ideas-and-insights/tax-voice-june-2021/new-eu-vat-rules-for-e-commerce-from-1-july-2021.

Given the current cash-strapped times, wouldn't be surprised if HMRC decide to lower the UK domestic VAT registration threshold...

I suspect OnlyFans charges VAT on the OnlyFans slice of the subscription and for payments processing.

You are forgetting your OnlyFans income is subject to VAT.

So regardless of any other tax you should be at least paying circa £166 pa to HMRC...

Re: Customer?

And if you pay VAT - which these influencers should be... HMRC require you to pay a third-party so you can use their software rather than directly enter your VAT data on HMRC's website...

Re: Complete stop

However, with roundabouts (mini or large), once people have performed their natural CSMA / CA and the first person has moved, it is then obvious as to who is the next driver to move etc. and thus traffic flows. With the 4-way stop, one car "going first" doesn't really help any other vehicle to move and thus enable traffic to flow.

Re: The data is not comparable

>That's why I always say that until autonomous software can be shown to be 10x safer than human driving statistics across ALL driving conditions

Expect some manipulation and massaging of the data. Watching some dashcam footage recently, it is clear that whilst autonomous software should avoid some of the accidents humans have, there are many it won't avoid and it will introduce its own new group of accident causes...

Re: Safer than a human driver?

>AP on highway is still a fully supervised system, but with the advantage that if the driver does fall asleep or has a medical event that their car won't crash immediately.

So it fails to ensure it is actually being fully supervised and respond accordingly... thus not intrinsically safe nor fail-safe...

It is perhaps noteworthy that people dislike getting on mass transit systems where there is no driver, even though such systems are designed to be fail-safe, yet are willingly paying for the privilege to travel in a car that doesn't even come close...