BREXIT - Is This Really Still Rumbling On? 😴
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More balance here.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/22/windows_crowdstrike_kernel_eu/
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So if I understand correctly, the reason MS have to offer this level of access to third parties is because that is how their own security offering - MS Defender - operates. They must therefore offer a level playing field to third parties.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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MS had to do a deal with the European Commission in 2009. This was part of it. Apple and Google have, so far, not suffered the same experience although it may happen soon. MS probably has a legitimate chip on its shoulder about this.
But yes, another option would have been to make MS defender less effective and therefore Windows less secure.
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I wouldn't remotely claim to be an expert on security, but as noted above, Apple don't allow this level of access and there are still plenty of security options available. If Crowdstrike can screw up the OS with an update, so can MS. Perhaps the ubiquity of MS is itself a security flaw.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Apple isn't, yet, subject to the same agreement. You can say that MS should have done something else, but bringing up Apple isn't relevant.
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I don't believe Apple offer a separate security app comparable with MS Defender, so they're all third party. I would expect the same anti-monopoly principle to apply in due course. I guess Apple don't have the business IT dominance of Windows, so are further down the list. Efforts to combat anti-competitive practices are certainly not something peculiar to the EU.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I’m no computer expert but as a user I think Apple have their own security. What MS does is up to them.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
There are security features built into the OS, but they don't include a free antivirus app. They do offer other apps but there are plenty of reasonably priced, good alternatives.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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A brexit benefit :https://www.ft.com/content/e34aaaf8-451f-4210-9d77-0d479e9de219
If you like housebuilding anyway.
Ministers are set to change environmental rules to allow housebuilders in England to start projects that could pollute rivers so long as they carry out mitigation work before the homes are sold.
Nutrient neutrality regulations came to the fore last September when the House of Lords defeated the Conservative government’s attempts to rip up EU-derived laws that forced developers to mitigate pollution from new schemes. The rules, introduced under an EU directive on habitats and reinforced by a 2018 European Court of Justice ruling, have been applied to dozens of local councils in England, requiring them to limit river pollution — especially from phosphates, nitrates and sulphates — by restricting housebuilding.
The property industry has long complained that Natural England, a government agency, has blocked large numbers of new developments because of the rules, which are designed to protect the country’s waterways.
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In principle that should be a good move and free up thousands of potential houses that have been stalled. My understanding is that there is evidence that the nutrients are generally a result of farm runoff and that residential development has very little impact (luckily I got out of the drainage side of things before this started to become a big issue and haven't followed in particularly closely).
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Further on in the article it basically says the law is causing huge planning bottlenecks and the end result is the same if it's done differently, which is the plan.
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160,000 potential new homes are currently blocked by the moratorium according to the HBF.
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Imagine being so upset about a plastic bottle top that you feel compelled to write a few hundred words for a national newspaper.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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I thought you were onboard now: VAT on school fees and easier to build houses.
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I can spot minor individual advantages and still see the whole thing as a disaster. I’m not a salesman for rejoin.
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Given we've had plenty of chance since 2016 to see how imperfect the EU is, the size of the majority in this poll might give Starmer some cause to privately consider how unambiguous the offer is at the next election. Still not holding my breath though.
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I would guess it would depend on what deal was on the table though.
I suspect it would be closer if we were required to join the Euro.
It'll be interesting to see which of the two main parties soften their position first ...
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Those voting to rejoin possibly think they will rejoin on the previous deal. They are deluded, we blew it. Big time!
Next stage will be a much poorer deal, which will probably make it unacceptable. We should never have come out but spilt milk etc....
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I think the counter point to my own arguement is that the average voter is shall we say low information/poorly engaged.
I also think the whole argument around them not giving us such a good deal is probably overplayed by those who are desperate not to revisit the question.
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You think?
We had a spectacular deal which gave us control over everything, including the things that we voted to come out to avoid. I said this at the time, Westminster could simply have done more. Chances are the Euro will be a condition.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
As if the continentals want us offshore f-wits back in. Aye right.
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I suspect out f-wit rating will depend on how long the UK decides to keep the Wrecker Party out. My suspicion would be that there are groups within the EU who might like the pragmatic and rules-respecting UK of old back in the fold, if there's enough confidence that the UK has had enough of the Johnson-Farage disruptors in government, not least to counterbalance the disruptors elsewhere in the EU, and should the US become an instable partner under Trump.
But sure, there will be very strong arguments for them not wanting to touch the UK with a metric bargepole, given recent history.
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I think we had a very good deal, I don't think we'll get as good a deal, but I think the fundamentals of why we had such a good deal are still largely there.
I also don't think the Euro is as much of a deal-breaker as people think.
Part of me suspects we will end up with a Norway type relationship though.
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'Told you so' no.237: it's still the EU's fault even after we've left it. It wasn't that we were in it that was the problem in their minds, just that it was there at all.
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Meanwhile services exports are booming.
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Genuine question: is that because of (or at least helped by) Brexit?
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