Laserdiscs were huge for being able to stop on a single frame - I worked for a place that used them for language teaching, so you had to stop dead on a sentence for it to make sense. At the time mpeg could only stop on iframes that could be 10 seconds apart, and paying to get iframes mastered where you needed them was mucho expensive (even decoding required hardware… mpeg encoding in software was a pipe dream).
Compressed video still has this problem to some extent but it’s mostly worked around in software.
Also the hardware to interface to a PC was basically a simple analogue capture card and a serial link for the control. Cheap, at least compared to the mpeg decoders of the day.
There are things called strict liability offences, for which intent is not required to prove guilt.
Possession of CSAM is one of those, although I’m not sure about the US (most other countries it is).
I’ve heard McDuff, Maccies, McDs and just plain McDonalds.
Banking is all about regulations, backed by authorities with teeth… and if his X ‘vision’ is to be met, regulations from multiple banking authorities around the world… Elon has shown he hates regulations because they’re biased against Nazis, or against him generally.
He wouldn’t have a good time…
Most people in the UK don’t think about tax, it just happens without their input.
If you have a small business or something more complex there are forms, but they’re not that complex… you mostly just tick boxes.
The US sounds like a dystopian nightmare the way they talk about tax.
I bet they’re just scanning the barcode… image recognition is way more expensive.
It’s encrypted on the client and bitwarden themselves can’t decrypt it (we assume, but there have been audits that seemed to confirm that).
If you want to you can just run your own server then they can’t see the traffic at all.
I just bought one from ebay from a guy that only sells libredrive compatible drives. But there’s a list here https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=79712#p79712
The line rental is £5 . They essentially wanted her to pay for broadband she didn’t want which is about 6 times more expensive plus an installation fee.
Nice little earner for BT. You can see why they’re so keen on it
Routing would be the hard bit I expect… if the person you were communicating was 10 hops away how to find the route? Things like BGP do that naturally, but really you don’t want to burden potentially nontechnical users with BGP…
Meh… it’s not that hard. Get something that’s libredrive compatible and run makemkv on it. Not had a failure yet.
The real downside is that blurays (esp. HD ones) are too expensive to get a decent collection.
Strikes me as way too early. Large parts of the country are stuck on copper because upgrading to fttp is deemed too expensive (I am, and I’m not exactly out in the sticks). Maybe in a few years … I’m lucky I restarted my line when I did.
Lik my mother. She has WiFi provided by the building manager. Doesn’t own a mobile phone and just uses her landline for talking to people.
BT already tried to ‘upgrade’ her but they wanted payment and a monthly fee… She told them to F off.
So apple got away with imessage then…
I’ve been getting it on and off for a couple of weeks and that’s my experience too… you get a ‘we want to enable this exciting new feature’ and you click no. They’ll ask again… which may push me to use firefox more.
It’s a mixture… forcing companies into roaming agreements, mandating USB C, CCS2, stuff like that.
Then they propose laws to effectively ban end to end encryption.
It’s more about bing being built into windows I think… but I suspect they may get away with it just because it has little market share despite being built into windows…
So apple is saying they don’t have 45 million active monthly users in a market of 750 million people and a 34% market share?
I’m sure ‘most of our customers don’t use our product’ isn’t what they were going for…
TBH though I suspect the EU will see through it - the purpose of the gatekeeper legislation isn’t really about numbers, it’s about market power - no one company should be able to dominate with a proprietary system. Which is precisely what apple is trying to do with imessage.
There are some well known ones, like L4sbot, that copy everything but they’re upfront about it with bot in their name.
There are a few others more sneaky.