Yeah you can't trust USA numbers for anything these days. Oh wait yeah China's the discussion. It's hard to keep track with all the authoritarian governments fucking up statistics these days. What were the jobs numbers for October again?

Yeah the Chinese EV rise is a complete myth. It's just a complete coincidence that transport based emissions are dropping, overall emissions have peaked, fuel use is declining despite an increase in the number of vehicles and higher traffic, and that for the first time this century Beijing had so little smog they could see the mountains.

Nothing at all to do with the "booking scandal" which showed that EVs are a myth rather than actually being an incredibly minor and brief quirk in a large industry.

Or they could appeal and possibly win allowing them to continue serving a region with 123million customers without issue.

The "they could just leave" crowd are usually insanely short sighted as to why someone decided to go there in the first place.

Another reminder: Everyone is playing, and the game is ongoing. This isn't very newsworthy. An appeal is underway and nothing is final.

On the one hand they were posted to Youtube so significant level of control has been given up.
On the other hand unlisted videos are at the initial mercy of the distribution rights of the person who uploaded them. They don't show up in feeds or video lists unless they were explicitly shared by someone so calling them "public" is a bit of a misnomer.

It's like your bedroom is "public" simply because someone could in theory look through the window. Or that your favourite music becomes "public" when you bought it. Both are not considered public by law, copyright or otherwise.

Jeesh I wonder why that is... Did you read what the article was about?

Unlikely. They are unlisted videos so they don't show up in user's video list. The user would need to make a specific playlist to include unlisted videos in their channel feed.

"Whitehouse prepares document to force yet another fight in the Supreme Court."

These day's it's quite obvious that the only line in the constitution that any republican has ever read is the 2nd Amendement. And even then they didn't read it properly.

But the problem with American capitalism (and maybe any capitalism anywhere) is that money also allows those with money to keep others from getting money. It would make sense if it were a level paying field and your birthplace didn't matter. These people are being rewarded for getting to level 100 in a game where they got to start at level 80 and the levels get easier as they go up.

They may risk creating a viable competitor but they have to balance that with losing customers by complying with governments. They earn their income from keeping customers happy, not governments.

So what you are saying is BEV trucks would be a huge bonus because adding electricity along such highways to supply new charging stations is a one time exercise vs trucking in diesel to gas station regularly. Sure, investment will be needed but it just money, not the ongoing logistics problem that diesel would be on such routes.

Actually for many such routes a solar farm and batteries could do the job instead of new cables. I saw some pictures one Tesla already did for one of their desert based charging locations. I think it was earlier this year it came online.

A login cookie doesn't need consent, but it does need explicit information to the user. Yes a popup is required for any session tracking cookies. What isn't required is an opt-out mechanism.

No one is being tricked here. The banners are explicit in their intent and outcome (and actually dark pattern banners are illegal). The reason the banners exist is because tracking companies don't stop tracking just because they were told they need to ask for consent. They just ask knowing users will mash any button on the screen to make the popup disappear.

A completely voluntary scheme not backed by any regulation in any country is ignored? This is my shocked face. I'm shocked I tell you, I may look like I'm questioning your intelligence but trust me I'm as shocked as you are about this revelation.

Hint: A law being passed won't have the same outcome as someone saying "hey I have an idea, how about I send some metadata in the http request header and you can decide what to do with it".

Managing cookies on a domain level is wildly inaccurate and messy compared to managing cookies by classification of how they impact you.

Bugs that affect a small number of users are a great euphemism for "oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck we're about to get fined... but it's okay I'm sure Americans will just say it's unfair that we break EU laws and that the EU is in the wrong".

I'm glad you discovered the problem with your approach. The domain tells you nothing about the functionality or the necessity of a cookie. It's a dead end way to manage the entire situation that succeeds in only breaking internet functionality.

Probably because it's factually incorrect and precisely no EU rules apply outside of the EU or to companies which don't do business in the EU.

False. Precisely none of the EU regulations apply outside the EU. If you want to do business in the EU, follow their rules, if you don't want to then doing. You're more than welcome to ignore that massive market.

Just don't be a French company like Amazon S.a.r.l, or an Irish company like Apple Operations Europe Ltd, or Apple International Sales Ltd, or a German company like Microsoft Deutschland GmbH. You're free to not be a multinational and then you don't need to comply with any EU rules (which again, apply exclusively in the EU to EU residents).