Where I live, the council planted some fast growing trees. About 15 years back. These tore up the pavement, when they got big. Because the pavements are narrow, in places, this makes it impossible to… (View Post)

{firing-up-the-palantir-gesture} 1) they will ban VPNs 2) companies say they will have to stop working in the U.K. 3) the government will come up with VPN registration - even trying to demand control… (View Post)

If you want to secure access to certain sites for people below the age of x, you need to have a way of proving you are over x. 1) you use official identification documents to prove this. Online banks… (View Post)

The main difference is that a reckoning comes in the end. After the GFC, whole floors of useless drone at Shiti Group were ditched. We used to joke that the tower was shorter each morning. Anyone see… (View Post)

Sadly, no. Too Big Too Fail. What we need is more, and deeper failure. So : You run a bank. It fails. 1) You can kill your self - your family is provided for. 2) You can live the rest of your life on… (View Post)