I imagine that the Prime Minister thinks that he can force Google and other emails providers to hand over emails to GCHQ and, crucially, the Prime Minister cannot comprehend the idea that people can set up their own email server.

The same argument goes for other protocols.

Probably, no one, other than politicians and Dail Mail readers, takes this seriously. It will be forgotten about after the next election.

The automakers would dearly love to ditch the dealership model of sales and go for direct sales.

Why did GM not do this in its recent bankruptcy in every state that allows direct sales?

Or you mean an industry wanting a new entrant in to that industry to be subject to the same regulations the rest of the industry is forced to follow, right?

You fail at reading comprehension. In this case, it is the car dealers who are trying to introduce new regulations that would disadvantage Tesla.

Even if legally in the clear, just dealing with an LEA when someone uses your machine as a child porn host is going to be unpleasant.

Imagine this in the UK:

Police:"We think you have kiddy porn on your computer, what are the contents of these encrypted files?"
You: "I don't know"
Police: "Tell us the password"
You: "I don't know it"
Judge: "Go to jail until you tell us the password!"

People's right to know about abuses of the law with

..with not being sued for contributory copyright infringement (or whatever it is called). Probably.

I use Pandora continuously at work, and I have discovered new music through it.

Radio, on the other hand, even if you hear a piece of music that you like, the chance of actually being told the name of the artist is close to zero. So, there is no chance to really "discover" music.

Because 99 percent of what happens in a cop's day is mind numbing, boring shit. All we need is the video of the incident. Maybe it should also come on when they call in a stop but to run that thing 24/7 is ridiculous.

So record a 30-minute loop all the time and if some kind of event happens, aoutmatically store the last 15 minutes and the following 15 minutes. The storage could be triggered by gunshot sound, tazer use, or manually, by the policaman. It's not difficult, dashcams for cars work like this (with automatic storage if certain levels of G-force are detected).

I'll come back to a point I have made earlier. I think that most Muslims are in denial.

A religion cannot allow someone to preach hate and murder in the largest mosque in a capital city for 5 years, only being stopped when the police stepped in, and still claim to be a peaceful religion.

This wasn't some tiny mosque in a backwater town of no-where. This was the largest mosque in London, for 5 years. This was hate and muder being preached in a large mainstream mosque.

There are some addresses on the internet that are only associated (except for misuse) with 1 device, these are "public IP".

There are some addresses on the internet that are intended to be associated with multiple devices, these are "private IP".

The key there is "intended". I think it would be possible for North Korea to use "Public IP" addresses, while its routers also advertise the "private IP" space. It's only convention (RFCs) that makes the 10.x space private. Within a small backwater of the Internet, if you control the routers, you could make the 10.x space public.

Can you really generalize that all the internal network must be from the 10.0.0.0/8 block?

No. I think that this is a huge over-reach in terms of inferring how the North Korean Internet/LAN is set up. All they have to do in North Korea is to configure their routers to route the 10.0.0.0/8 addresses as they want, amongst the "real" IP addresses. Yes, it breaks RFCs, but does anyone in power in Nort Korea care about RFCs?

I had a Black MacBook (2006) that ran for eight years until the CPU fan went kablooey

In my house we have, not one, but two working Thinkpad T43s. One of which is used daily (in fact it is rarely turned off).

They still want access to the internet,

This phone doesn't provide "access to the internet". It has a number of apps that allow you to interact with a small number of specific Internet services.

I guess I'm missing something. Why would anyone need or want to use a VPN to connect to Netflix?

Let's say that I normally live in the USA and I have a Netflix subscription. If I travel to Europe, and I want to stream a movie from Netflix, I am out of luck.

Or, hypothetically, I share my subscription with a family member who doesn't live in the USA.

When I upgraded hard drives on lap tops, I always used to buy external hard drives. Because they are cheaper, and you can copy the internal drive to the external one before you start work, and then just swap the drives. The last time I did this, to my surprise the case of the external drive had no screws!

I never buy external hard drives. I buy internal drives and enclosures. Frequently it is cheaper and, in my experience, those external drives have not had screws to open them for years.

I have detailed technical knowledge. However my time is not worth fixing every small gadget that breaks. If I break a blender, its simply not worth me sourcing parts, waiting, and then spending an hour repairing it.

This.

Decades ago, I worked for a large automotive parts supplier. A colleague wanted to get the bearings replaced in his alternator, so he strolled over to the alternator factory, where a friend of his worked and asked the friend to press in new bearings. When he picked up his "repaired" alternator, the casing had changed to that of a brand new model!

Then there is the time factor. A few months ago, when the alternator on my daughter's classic car failed, I just ordered a complete new unit. I could have ordered a diode pack, but I needed to get the car back on the road and I did not want to swap out the diode pack only to have to wait another week for another part if the diode pack was not the problem. I also did not want to take the alternator in and out more than necessary, because swapping it out is hard on my back. Not many years ago, I could have driven 10 miles up the road, bought a new diode pack and swapped it out, then replaced the alternator if the diode pack was not the problem, but now I have to rely on having parts shipped.