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Comment Re:This guy expects Chinas collapse ... (Score 1) 40

China is like the EU - perpetually on the verge of collapse, if you believe the "experts".

They do this not to hide bad numbers, to be prevent the kind of thing you see happening on Wall Street all the time. They don't want a huge speculative gambling market, they don't want people betting against their economy, and they don't want people making short term decisions based on quarterly data.

Comment Re:Selling commemorative T-Shirt for Bon Jovi (Score 1) 105

If the $ sign didn't give you away, the assumption that the law works like that did. The UK is not the US, the law doesn't allow you to get around the wording like that. Courts generally interpret the intention of the law, and look for ways for it to practically implement that intention.

Such obvious fraud would be, well, fraud.

Comment Re:Finally⦠(Score 1) 94

If GDPR had been properly enforced, the current style of cookie banners should have been blocked from the start.

Recital 32 states that consent cannot be forced or coerced. Putting up a big banner that obscures half the page is coercion. Making it more clicks to opt out than to accept is coercion, and what's more GDPR clearly says that everything must be opt in, not out.

Comment Re: At lot of USA auto vendors also do OTA updates (Score 1) 45

It was probably marketed as a feature when they bought the busses. "Remote monitoring and diagnostics", to help warn of any maintenance issues that may arise soon, so you can plan for the bus to be off the road for a while. GPS tacking so you know where you fleet is and can show expected arrival times at bus stops.

Presumably some European bus manufacturer saw that it was being out-competed, and started spreading a bit of FUD.

Comment Re:How dense can they be? (Score 1) 45

It depends who you are. If you are the government, then obviously you don't consider yourself much of a threat, so the biggest risk is other nations accessing your vehicles.

If you are a citizen, the biggest threat is your own government. The Chinese government likely has little to no interest in you, but your own government certainly does.

Comment Re:Good to see (Score 2) 25

Apple's usual problem with FRAND patents is that it's own patent portfolio is largely worthless. Nobody is going to exchange a valuable WiFi patent for a design patent on rounded corners. Apple could just pay the licencing fees, but doesn't like to.

It's not just Broadcom they have to licence from either. A lot of the WiFi 6 and 7 stuff was invented by Huawei. Apple's cellular modems require paying Huawei too.

Comment Re:If cloudflare leaves japan (Score 1) 22

That would be a rather extreme reaction. Would be much easier and more profitable to simply respond to requests to discontinue service to sites offering pirate manga.

The real issue here is that it was a request from a private company, not a court. The law in Japan is such that if you are made aware of something like this, there is an onus on you to look into it and decide what to do, and face the consequences if you disagree with the request. It's similar to many countries. A copyright arbitration court would be a good idea.

Comment Re:Electric Trucker (Score 2) 59

Electric trucks and other commercial vehicles have another big advantage over fossil - you can use them indoors with no risk of gassing everyone to death. Drive them right into the warehouse, or the mine. Do your loading and unloading in a covered, heated environment.

No issues with running refrigeration and other electrical items like lifts either, because you have a massive battery and can plug it in to charge if needed.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 59

Europe has long distance EV trucks, and they are just fine. 1.2MW chargers too.

China developed very large EV battery packs years before we did though. They had busses with 400kWh packs back in the mid 2010s. It's actually a little surprising that it's taken them this long to electrify trucks.

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