Well, let's say its successor: VMS runs on VAX, which was the predecessor of WNT, of which W200X and W1X are successors.

From the car-rentals terms-of-service: "Force Majeure: Liigu is not liable for any delay in meeting its obligations due to causes outside its reasonable control, including acts of God, riots, war, malicious acts of damage, fires, or electricity supply failure."

So Crowdstrike ist considered as God? What else is out of their control? ;-)

The problem with a keyless-solution is multilayered. You are dependent from:
- the mobile phone working
- the mobile phone being charged (is there a power-connection nearby?)
- the app on the mobile phone being up2date and working
- ther authentication working (finger-print readable?)
- the internet connection being available
- the cluod-service being accessible
- the crowstrike-software used by the vendor
- the servers and software used by the vendor
- the bluetooth-receiver in the car functioning too with all ist software and connections

The people cannot even open their rental cars because the app cannot establish a connection to the cloud. Stupid idea to make everything dependent from the cloud of a single company. Where are the good old keys?

I live in Italy, and it is well known, that the coldest days are when in the night before the sky had no clouds.
Clouds not only reflect part of sunlight during the day, but also reflect thermal radiation from the soil day AND night!
So seeding more clouds will actually lead to higher temperatures on earth. This is a fact that can already be observed.

Huawei had a larger market share globally than Apple or Samsung. When Donald Trump decided that Huawei was controlled by the Chinese secret services and banned the import of their products and forced Google to not supply the Android-OS to Huawei, Huawei lost a lot of market share. Even in Europe, where there was no embargo on Huawei products, the market share went down because the new mobile devices had no longer Android installed and existing devices no longer received updates. This led people, out of fear, to avoiding buying Huawei and other Chinese products, such as those from Xiaomi. An iPhone seemed to be a safe product for many, since support will not be excluded in the future many are convinced. It's not technological superiority or price (both would put chinese products on the top), but political decisions that shifted market share in favor of Apple.

are 40% of workers working in a call centre?!?
That's the only job I see can be fully substituted by AI.

Most of those privacy policies are identical. The smaller the company or owner of the website, the smaller the budget to hire a consultant, or the interest in adapting the privacy policy to own circumstances. Many website tools provide ready-made terms and conditions and are adopted without the slightest adjustment. Even the placeholders for the company name remain often untouched. Incidentally, the longer a privacy page is, the more complete it appears to the webmaster, who then adopts and copies it blindly. Therefore, the "standard" privacy policies are getting longer and longer - but the content is usually completely out of place. When told, the webmaster replies: "Who cares? Nobody will read it!" - and he's 99,99% right.

I'm still waiting for the final issues of my 3 year subscription to Byte. Byte was closed midway. Such a pity!

You're not seeing the obvious: Those orange lines (exchanges with Germany) are mostly above the line (import, not export) at almost every hour of the day. Today's few hours were an exception that proves the rule. You can also select a whole week or a whole month and see that France imports electricity from Germany almost every hour of the day.

The fairy tale about the priority of renewable energies is nonsense. When there is too much energy or consumption is low, wind turbines have to shut down first, while nuclear and coal provide a constant load. I live in central Europe and I often see wind farms where half the turbines are shut down - there is excess supply!

It's funny you link rte-france. This tool enables you to see the import/export for days in the past. Go back ANY day in 2022, and you'll hardly find a day, when exports to Germany where higher than imports.

And for the emissions: I already wrote elsewhere, that Germany is phasing out coal too in the next decade.

Wait till 2038, when Germany will phase out coal too! The decision was already taken in 2020.

No it's not - it's very farsighted and saves them a lot of money.
Germany has decided to phase out nuclear in 2023 an coal in 2038 (maybe even earlier).
Solar and wind are on the rise and a LOT cheaper:
See: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.statcdn.com%2FInfogr...

Facts:

In august 2022 France had only 40% of its nuclear plants working - without Germany France would have had a black-out:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.swr.de%2Fswraktuell%2F...

Germany has decided in 2020 to phase out coal till 2038, but they are planning to anticipate the end to 2030.

Solar, wind and other renewables are a lot cheaper than nuclear, gas or coal.
See: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fde.statista.com%2Finfogr...

Mod parent up: insightful.
In fact, last year France had shut down half of its nuclear plants and imported a lot of energy from Germany. And to fulfill France's needs, Germany had to ramp up its production by burning more gas an coal. Germany had several days a year where 100% of its energy was produced by renewable sources. Germany has so many wind-turbines in the North Sea, that they even don't know where to put all that energy: transportation to the south reached the capacity of the high tension power lines. They need now to upgrade transmission lines from north to south. Germany can easily do without those 3 nuclear plants and also coal will soon be phased out.