Notices by Sam the Octopus (troublemoney@computerfairi.es), page 77

@gemlog problem with that is most countries do follow international IP law, which means that any products without the right licensing can't be sold there

so if huawei did ignore it then their products can't be sold in a lot of countries, not just the USA

@gemlog not with bluetooth it won't

Sure, SD cards could still be supported in MMC mode, and wi-fi certification isn't too important, but bluetooth requires licensing

licensing that huawei cannot now possibly get which means they can't use bluetooth any more

this isn't even going in to the much larger issue of one idiot being able to prevent a manufacturer from certifying any of their products against international standards, that is the massive problem here

@penguin42 SD cards and Bluetooth require licensing, so if they did that then the products involved would be banned in any country that abides international IP regulations

@cassolotl nearest pointy object

usually a knife, sometimes a skewer, occasionally one of those things you hold corn on the cob with

@LaserScheme all the time!

one of the best parts of being an octopus being wiggly is

@RasmusLindegaard I'm pretty sure we're all abundantly aware of that fact, yes

@dashie patents for the z80 are up

could have z80-powered phones I guess

Okay this Huawei thing is really bringing up a few issues around a lot of standards bodies being based in the US

The SD Association is based in California which means that Huawei can't say their products support SD cards

And the Wi-Fi Alliance is based in Texas which means Huawei won't be to certify that their products work with wi-fi

And the Bluetooth SIG is based in Washington, which means they can't use Bluetooth

This is a problem

paws are pretty damn awesome

if I didn't have these gert big wiggly arms I'd totally have paws

Miles "Tails" Prower should get his own movie

@maple shit, that's a point

THERE'S NO MENTION OF TAILS IN THE SONIC MOVIE

WE WANT TAILS

@maple maple can set +v!

robots are good

@maple yeah, honestly didn't realise the scope of the problem before that came in

@maple my favourite is usaian news sites giving everyone in europe 451 because they can't be arsed to comply with GDPR

@maple markov formatting, you just put the words in and it makes a guess what formatting you want

@Trev implausibly large trebuchet

@Shrigglepuss I'm just enjoying the five minutes we've got here between frying pan and fire

couldn't she have moved it forward to the 31st though?

"May ends on the 31st" would have been a good headline

At least we've still got "June marks end of May"