Posts by 0laf

Possibly what the OP is referring to is the trade in price.

To my understanding government policy put a heavy onus on the trade to sell new EVs, not used EVs. So the trade in is unwanted by the dealership as it detracts from chances of selling a new car (and hitting gov targets and avoiding fines). So they dealership offers the owner a derisable trade in figure.

But a dealer being a dealer they'll take the car wack on a markup and stick it somewhere.

Stick a 3yr old Taycan on webuyanycar and it'll give you a ballpark figure.

[click click] just did that and on a low mileage 4yr old Taycan they offer £40k (I know they'll offer less on the day but as a ballpark normal trade in). On a car that was probably specced at about £95k new that's a 58% loss in 4yr. Not great for a Porsche but not unusual or excessive for most car brands.

Re: It's only economically sensible to replace human labor with AI...

That kind of long term thinking won't get you anywhere in this company!

We need to keep the shareholders happy this quarter.

Re: MPs on a jury duty style system

It's a global disaster in the making tbh. It seems to be a universal rule that those who will succeed in politics are exactly those people who should be taken around the back of a shed and disposed of for the benefit of the rest of us. I've known people who have gone into local politics with the intention of putting their money where their mouth is and trying to make things better. For the most part these people are undermined and ground down by the majority of fellow politicians who are sociopathic narcissists. Eventually most give up and leave politics before they lose their sanity and health.

I also love the term 'professional politician',. What that seems to mean now is someone who went to Oxbridge to study politics and economics before using Ma and Pa's money to get an unpaid internship with the family friend MP as a SPAD. Then being dropped into a safe seat when they have made enough friends or logged enough dirt on collegues.

Experience of having an actual job or not having a trust fund to fall back on is to be avoided.

What we end up with then are mentally defective, rich people with no experience of anything outside academia or employment in within their parents social circle.

Re: Problems and solutions not welcome

Kindof but not quite.

You can't cross the borders with Councils, Scottish councils are very different to English councils with additional responsibilities plus have to act under Scottish Law and have to deal with Holyrood not just Westminster. They can play together just not very easily with English peers.

Even where functions are identical the pressure is not normally to mirror systems and services in both authorities but to remove the service and have it carried out entirely by the other. Inevitably this would result in job losses to one party. Normally no elected member wants to be seen as the one taking job losses, so since both authorties cannot 'win' the service inevitably the idea is abandonded.

In addition there are political rivalries to deal with and unless party lines are similar in neighbouring authorities the elected members will not normally play nice with each other. Political point scoring will always win out over services to citizens. I freely admit than there are elected members who are there to do good for their community but they are usually crowded out by the sociopaths who just want to see their face in the papers and pretend they are part of some important political drama.

Re: The real question

Training users has become the easy catch-all excuse to underinvest in technology but more inportantly skills.

Public sector is usually pretty good at finding capital funding for new toys but very bad at funding the bodies to run and maintain those toys.

So you get the boardroom able to talk big words about investment in security, meanwhile that investment is never properly configured or maintained or the guy that did do it leaves and is never replaced. The £300k security wonder become a black box that just uses up electricity and collects dust.

Been seeing the same problem for close to 30yr. Beancounters can never see value in people. If they'd paid £40k for a skilled admin they might never have needed the £300k box.

Re: No change

Apology accepted with due grace.

I am resoundingly bitter, jaded and very likely washed up by those decades as a blamehound and cleaner of shit stained fans and the walls behind them.

Still fighting the good fight that people who stay "hacker" really mean "cracker"

Re: Magically surviving

No I don't think so, Crapita are right up there (down there?) in the crapola stakes. Northgate might top them tbh.

Capita have a few large monopoly products with no easy escape route. It's often less hassle to keep big shitty suppliers than the replace them with another.

Re: That's not what he said

"AI is the new outsourcing"

I shall use that.

Re: Being polite is great

Never shit on the little people. The PA, the guy on reception, the security guy, the cleaner etc. One, why would you? they're working just as hard as you but in a different way. Two, often these are the people who will get you out of trouble when you fuck up. Grab the notebook you've forgotton, find a spot in the bosses diary etc.

As other have said it's worth being decent to everyone that doesn't deserve to be treated badly, if you are burning a bridge make sure you mean it.

Not American. But have done US based training and indeed legal non-compliance and fines were simply to be considered a business risk and or expense. The ethics of actions leading to that situation were not even a consideration.

Re: It proves climate change is a hoax

I think it proves that governments are lying gobshites that will say anything and climb on any bandwagon that suits them at any moment.

The fact that WFO/WFH and climate targets could possible be linked in a positive or negative way is of absolutely bugger all interest to them.

Ensureing their own, their donors and their friends commercial property portfolios continue to hold value is of far more importance.

I don't think's it's got anything to do with the truth about climate change at all.

Re: Well if Meta are going to get roasted for this one

If you can authenticate using only one of two available factors then it's a single factor login in.

For access to personal information this should be considered abreach of the GDPR under article 32. And MFA is certainly not state of the art by any means

Well they've hit a good few squares on "cyber incident bingo" so far and see to be aiming for the full house.

I await for "victim of a sophisticated attack" to be announced before I'll shoute "house".

Re: GDPR breach here we come

Tab may imply personal or senstive personal informaiton. e.g. if a significant number of tabs feature cancer, or specific types of cancer then coupled with an IP address (which is personal information currently) then this may be seen to be correlating a health condition with an individual which equals special category data. MS will not have lawfully obtained consent to take this data in this way.

It doesn't matter if it would be impossible for you or I to correlate this information, MS has extensive records on users and the processing power to carry out that matching exercise.

Similary it can be enougn to have the tab for any employment union open, union membership being considered special category data.

A letter to any EU regulator should at least be enough to make MS consider if this might affect its share price in the short term at least.