"That manifest"? What a crass phrase to describe people. You related to Bill Winters by any chance?

Thats a unimog - an actual truck for actual work, usually off-road. Looks like some halfwit with too much money has converted it to be his penis compensator.

Itt would be great to get massive funding for ReactOS instead of reactors.

That is basically rule by Kangeroo court.

Good thing hardly anyone bar a few paranoids has used PGP in email for a few decades. Even criminals use app based protected messaging services now.

Agreed. It was a badly design function from the get go - yeah let's have a function that copies a string and nul terminates except when it doesnt. Genius.

"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."

Very useful.

Except neural networks currently control the lane keep assist in modern cars, never mind self drive ones. So clearly they now do work for process control.

... they've put a language interface on top of a standard search engine or database? I'm pretty sure thats not a new idea.

Seems to me the cars have no way of knowing about works that they cant look up on a database and their visual systems/models arnt yet up to the job of being able to spot possibly badly laid out dividers or cones up ahead, at least until it's too late. Probably not an easy fix.

I think you are reading the document wrong. The European Commission is not a legislator, it just proposes laws.

First for all there will the Digital Fairness Act presented and MEPs are free to put into it whatever they feel is suitable to protect consumers including stopping kill-games language.

Also, the MEPs could use the Cloud and Development Act to strengthen reverse engineering and interoperability rights for game servers.

The interesting aspect is here:
"Rightsholders remain in principle free to determine whether and how their protected works may
be used, including by imposing temporal limits or other conditions on the uses authorised under
licences to third parties in accordance with Union copyright law."
While that is true the limit was not announced upfront.

The European Software Directive states in Recital 13:

"(13) The exclusive rights of the author to prevent the unauthorised reproduction of his work should be subject to a limited exception in the case of a computer program to allow the reproduction technically necessary for the use of that program by the lawful acquirer. This means that the acts of loading and running necessary for the use of a copy of a program which has been lawfully acquired, and the act of correction of its errors, may not be prohibited by contract. In the absence of specific contractual provisions, including when a copy of the program has been sold, any other act necessary for the use of the copy of a program may be performed in accordance with its intended purpose by a lawful acquirer of that copy."

The EC itself will proceed with a CoC style approach:
"While a legislative initiative to establish an obligation for publishers that sell or license video
games to consumers in the European Union to keep them in a playable state, as requested by the
ECI, is not envisaged, the Commission intends to initiate stakeholder exchanges by the end of
2026 to explore the possibility of elaborating a self-regulatory/industry-led code of conduct to
improve the management of video games’ end-of-life and strengthen transparency to consumers.
In addition, the Commission plans to present its report on the application of Directive (EU)
2019/770 by the end of 2026, covering also its application to the discontinuation of digital content
and services. "

This is not the end of the road.

"To the first point: entire sectors have grown to depend on the employment of undocumented immigrants."

Yes, and those sectors pay no employee tax and probably very little if any business tax at all. They pay the "employees" very little some of whom are forced to by stuff from their employers because they're effective slaves. But yeah, other than than its all great.

"restaurant owners protested"

Only the dodgy ones who didn't want to pay a proper wage and tax.

"If you remove that workforce from the country, you automatically raise the cost of a number of things and you slow down the economy"

Oh dear, you really don't understand economics do you. Companies employing illegals and undercutting companies that try to do the right thing soon leads to the latter going out of business with criminals in charge of the former.

"The fact that it has worked in the past is irrelevant to the fact that it is unreliable in the present, and that nobody sane should bet on it being reliable in the future. It's not rocket science."

Well apparently it is rocket science to you since you believed the EU had kept the peace since WW2 which was 50 years before the EU was even created. But given your lack of basic knowledge elsewhere I'm not surprised.

Feel free to have the last word to make even more of a fool of yourself.

The trouble is its cant be handled by parents , kids are too savvy. And no, I dont know what the solution is either other than physically depriving them of their phones because this ban will work as well as it has in australia , ie not very well.

"What do you think would happen to European economies without all these migrants who are there illegally?"

Those illegals contribute nothing unless you're stupid enough to believe the black market adds to GDP, so the economies would do just fine, in fact probably somewhat better as there'd be less crime.

" Until it does, you are making my point for me."

So because the US is wavering now NATO had no influence on keeping the peace for the last 70 years? Wow, just wow, you really have drunk the Brussels kool aid.

Parliament - or at least an elected cabinet - should create the laws!