So, riders and pedestrians are being injured more due to the higher speeds of e-bikes than ordinary bicycles? But, it also says that e-bikes should be limited to 15mph when propelled by the motor.

You need to spend no more than a couple of minutes in any built-up area in the UK to see that many of the alleged 'e-bikes' are vastly more powerful than that. They are quite obviously unlicensed electrically powered motorbikes with some entirely nugatory pedals added.

So, the conclusion we should reach is that if you allow huge numbers of people to suddenly ride motorbikes without any training, protective clothing or requirement to obey any traffic rules then many of them - and any unfortunate pedestrian who can't jump out of the way in time - will receive serious injuries. Why is this surprising?

Well, Apple's ProMotion screen has been using variable display frequencies for years. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxu...

Yeah how much is it gonna cost? BMW already make you buy a subscription just to get "connected charging" where you can see and control your charge session from your phone. Bet you anything if you want V2L/V2H you will have to be paying. I was a very loyal BMW customer until about 10 years ago. It's a total clown show today.

Every time they talk about this damn thing it's a different size and works by a different mechanism. Explanations given vary from this magnetic field mumbo jumbo to essentially just being a near perfect dead reckoning integrator.

Anyone have links to any actual papers or journalism on the subject that hasnt been oversimplified to the point where it is just nonsense?

Well, to be technically accurate the government didn't actually "pass a law". Doing that in secret would have been extremely difficult but not needed as the relevant legislation already existed. It was simply necessary to persuade a judge to sign the relevant documents. Super-injunctions have been used before, but not for issues of this nature.

More interesting is whether the foreign press - who would not be subject to UK law - managed to report about this. I certainly didn't see it mentioned in Slashdot but perhaps they didn't know. Did anyone see any mention in a none-UK news site prior to yesterday?

Won't this problem automatically fix itself? Surely, if fewer children are born then the population will decrease. Therefore, through the basic economics of supply and demand the cost of houses will go down.

As I understand it, the issue is almost entirely about the danger - real or perceived - of fireworks starting fires.

Now, I've never been to California and I don't suppose that I ever will, but from what I've seen and heard I strongly suspect that California in July is significantly more "flammable" than the UK in November.

The drive to the bottom line (see what I did there?) is a slippery slope. A good CEO will balance profitability with employee satisfaction. Why? Because a company's employees should be their best customers. If you have "half" as many customers right out of the gate, the company is going to do worse as a result. People who talk about AI eliminating jobs forget that their business model relies on a base of customers willing to spend their money on the product. If people are out of work, they aren't going to buy a shiny new car.

At the end of the day it all comes down to employers. If everyone - or at least practically everyone - is getting AI to do all their college work for them then the college degree basically becomes worthless because it is no longer any measure of knowledge or ability in whatever subject it is supposed to represent. If employers wish to identify capably potential employees for any job other than operating AI then they need to test the candidates themselves. Further more they need to physically do this in person by bringing candidates in and testing them face to face with no phones allowed.

Presumably this will lead to an "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King" scenario where most candidates know practically nothing about their professed subject and any student who has done even a modicum of actual real study will appear to shine!

If colleges want to retain any real purpose at all in education then they need to adopt the same approach and only award degrees to students who can sit in a real physical room with their lecturers and provide cogent answers to questions asked!

Actually, this isn't entirely true. Whilst it is the case in the UK that you have to submit a tax return if you earn over a certain threshold (currently about $66,000 equivalent) there are other reasons why you might need to. The most common ones are: none-salary income such as rent from a lodger and being self-employed. I believe that about 30% of UK adults fall into one or more of these categories whilst the rest of us simply have it all worked out by our employers and the government and get the tax deducted directly from our pay. All of the figures are available for us to check if we think that there might have been an error.

I am nearing retirement age and I have never had to submit tax return but my wife has to submit one each year as she is self employed. She can do this entirely online via a gov.uk website and it typically takes her about half an hour once a year - although her submission is very simple and she is able to leave most of the boxes blank. I suspect that for someone with a more complex business it might take a couple of hours once they have gathered the required information from their accounts.

I will admit that I find all of this American fretting about the costs and complexity of filing your tax returns very funny!

It's annoying that you have to change your mac address every 20 minutes, but yeah. Free wifi (after hoop jumping) has been available for quite a while on many airlines.

MCP may very well stand for "Model Context Protocol", but in the 1980's it stood for the villain of the Tron series, Master Control Program. Will tying AI together be a good thing or will we see the rise of another kind of MCP?

Did I miss it, or does the article give no indication at all of how big this contrivance would have to be in order to produce useful amounts of electricity?