Facebook is providing services to the French people. So they have to abide by French law.
If you want to talk about countries pushing their laws on others just have a look at the DMCA. This is a US law, yet it seems to be in effect everywhere around the world.
This isn't about stuff that a user explicitely clicks on. This is about code embedded into third party websites.
Pretty much every blog, every news site etc. have 'share on FB' buttons. And the mere fact that these buttons are loaded when I open the page sends Facebook information about me. Without me using Facebook or having a FB account.
You're solution parses as 'don't open any link unless you know beforehand where said link leads and that the page in question does not contain any Facebook tracking'. That's just not practical. And not every user knows how to block tracking mechanisms.
Victims of domestic abuse often have a 'normal' relationship with their abuser before and after thoses episodes. By your logic that would mean that no abuse did happen...
That doesn't work. The same book is often published by different publishers in different markets. If the US publisher gives Google a list of 'approved' resellers, Google would potentially block all the legal resellers for the UK, Australian etc. markets.
"You want a blue car? Nobody likes blue. Also, if you want a blue car, you can buy this red car. How is a blue car better then a red car?"
Or put differently: Saying one doesn't need one thing, because there is another thing that is kinda-sorta the same except it is different ist a strange argument. You may like rifftrax more than mst3k, but that doesn't mean that everybody has to share your opinion. Stay with riftrax and let everyone who want's to support mst3k. You're not losing anything by both existing in parallel.
Disclaimer: I don't know rifftrax and I don't care about mst3k.
But Palestine should exist as well. Yet every time Israeli settlers settle on occupied territory and the Israeli government does nothing about it, Israel is denying the existence and the right to exist for a Palestine state.
I don't know the details of this FairTax, but it sounds like one of those schemes that are designed to be 'fair' by putting the burden on others. It sounds like people with low income would be (comparatively) worse of as people who earn plenty. Assume the same amount of waste produced by both, the poor person would have to spent a larger part if their income in taxes.
I would think that quite a few technical inclined people know how their local time zone relates to UTC. Very few outside the Americas know how their local time zone relates to Pacific Time or Eastern Standard Time.
I actually think EU citizens have a right to be angry that their data is being handed over to the US en masse. [...] Actually, what you're saying is false. The case stems from a complaint brought by an Austrian citizen against Facebook.
You make it sound like Facebook forces does something with EU citizen data against their will. In fact, Schrems chooses to use Facebook and enter private data, knowing that it will end up on US servers, and that's the same with all other EU citizens whose data ends up on US servers: you do business with a US company (directly or indirectly) and your data ends up in the US.
Except, not. I never used Facebook. Yet Facebook send me emails suggesting that I know this or that Facebook user (mostly they were correct about me knowing those people) and that I might want to join Facebook to stay in contact with them. Which means that Facebook has information about me (from acquaintances that uploaded their address book) and processed that information about me to get even more data about me, with me ever agreeing to anything. I never did business with Facebook, yet data about me is on their US servers.
That means if I start a company in the US and I process any data of EU citizens, the EU thinks I'm subject to EU laws on data protection even if I have no presence in the EU at all. When people complain that the US wants to extend their laws to other countries, this seems like the EU wants to do the same to the US.
I despise the US surveillance and think there needs to be better data protection. However, I reject the criticism that only the US is trying to force their laws on other countries. The EU is trying to do the same.
If you process data of EU citizens, chances are that you are doing business in the EU. With the internet, a physical presence is not necessary anymore.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that North Korea IS hiding the fact that they are corrupt and only working for the elite.
It's just that we outside of N.K. don't get to hear much of their propaganda and instead a lot of the commentary from third parties. Ask a North Korean who only has access to the official N.K. news what he thinks about his country and the world and you might realize how dishonest N.K. is.
The data set is pretty much every Humble Bundle that contains games for Windows and Linux (which is most game bundles).
Let's have a look at one currently running bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/w... Average purchase: $2.82 Average Windows: $2.71 Average Mac: $3.25 Average Linux:$3.89
So Linux users are willing to pay 40% more than Windows users on a pay what you want scheme.
I supported more than 40 projects on Kickstarter. Almost all were successfully funded and almost all of those have delivered or are clearly on their way to deliver. But my success rate has nothing to do with self fulfilling things. It's just that I do not just support projects because I like the idea, but because I check the details and ask myself if the project seems reasonable and the project leads know what they are doing.
Now if I can do that, somebody with a lot more insight in this process, like somebody working for Kickstarter, can do that even better. And thus most of the staff picks succeed because the Kickstarter staff tends to pick projects with a good chance of success.
For our non-German friends: Instead of judge and jury we have a panel of judges, some of whom (sometimes the whole panel with one exception) may not be studied lawyers but citizen 'drafted' to judge duty for a year or so.
Considering that the data is encrypted on the client and only stored in encrypted form on the servers, that won't do much good. Unless, of course, Wuala secretly copied the encryption keys.
Analog clocks show 12 hours, of course. An analog clock with 24 hours would be hard to read. But analog clocks usually don't show am/pm. And that's where we started: Getting up seeing a clock say AM.
And digital clocks here in Europe show the time in 24 hours. Unless the clock is a cheap import or runs an OS made by an American company that doesn't care about the differences between cultures.
People really really like having the clock say AM when they get up and PM when they go to bed
So that's why it always felt so wrong to me to get up at 07:00 and go to bed at 23:00... I'm missing the am/pm that hasn't been part of the clocks here in continental Europe since long before I was born.
Or to put it differently: Don't take you 'merican ways of looking at the world and just assume that everybody everywhere lives the same. Just because you are used to imperial units (Do you even realize how funny it is that the country that fought a war to get out from under the rule of the British Empire is still using IMPERIAL units?) and the 12-hour clock doesn't mean that others haven't moved on to something else.
The original plan was to release a Matchstick without DRM support. That version was ready to go in production and that was the version that the Kickstarter backers pledged to support.
But some months in, when the original product should already have been in production, Matchstick decided to revise their plans and to redesign the hardware to support DRM. So the backers where told that they would receive a different product then originally announced at a later date.
This was when I decided to get out and asked for my money back. Todays announcement shows me I was right.
Matchstick should have stayed with their original plan and added DRM vor version 2.
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The owner of the phone is dead. Reading TFA does, indeed, sometime reveal relevant information.
"impose their laws on the rest of the world"?
Facebook is providing services to the French people. So they have to abide by French law.
If you want to talk about countries pushing their laws on others just have a look at the DMCA. This is a US law, yet it seems to be in effect everywhere around the world.
This isn't about stuff that a user explicitely clicks on.
This is about code embedded into third party websites.
Pretty much every blog, every news site etc. have 'share on FB' buttons. And the mere fact that these buttons are loaded when I open the page sends Facebook information about me. Without me using Facebook or having a FB account.
You're solution parses as 'don't open any link unless you know beforehand where said link leads and that the page in question does not contain any Facebook tracking'. That's just not practical. And not every user knows how to block tracking mechanisms.
Victims of domestic abuse often have a 'normal' relationship with their abuser before and after thoses episodes.
By your logic that would mean that no abuse did happen...
That doesn't work.
The same book is often published by different publishers in different markets.
If the US publisher gives Google a list of 'approved' resellers, Google would potentially block all the legal resellers for the UK, Australian etc. markets.
"You want a blue car? Nobody likes blue. Also, if you want a blue car, you can buy this red car. How is a blue car better then a red car?"
Or put differently: Saying one doesn't need one thing, because there is another thing that is kinda-sorta the same except it is different ist a strange argument.
You may like rifftrax more than mst3k, but that doesn't mean that everybody has to share your opinion. Stay with riftrax and let everyone who want's to support mst3k.
You're not losing anything by both existing in parallel.
Disclaimer: I don't know rifftrax and I don't care about mst3k.
This is only have the story.
Yes, Israel exists and should go on existing.
But Palestine should exist as well.
Yet every time Israeli settlers settle on occupied territory and the Israeli government does nothing about it, Israel is denying the existence and the right to exist for a Palestine state.
I don't know the details of this FairTax, but it sounds like one of those schemes that are designed to be 'fair' by putting the burden on others.
It sounds like people with low income would be (comparatively) worse of as people who earn plenty. Assume the same amount of waste produced by both, the poor person would have to spent a larger part if their income in taxes.
I would think that quite a few technical inclined people know how their local time zone relates to UTC.
Very few outside the Americas know how their local time zone relates to Pacific Time or Eastern Standard Time.
You make it sound like Facebook forces does something with EU citizen data against their will. In fact, Schrems chooses to use Facebook and enter private data, knowing that it will end up on US servers, and that's the same with all other EU citizens whose data ends up on US servers: you do business with a US company (directly or indirectly) and your data ends up in the US.
Except, not.
I never used Facebook. Yet Facebook send me emails suggesting that I know this or that Facebook user (mostly they were correct about me knowing those people) and that I might want to join Facebook to stay in contact with them.
Which means that Facebook has information about me (from acquaintances that uploaded their address book) and processed that information about me to get even more data about me, with me ever agreeing to anything. I never did business with Facebook, yet data about me is on their US servers.
That means if I start a company in the US and I process any data of EU citizens, the EU thinks I'm subject to EU laws on data protection even if I have no presence in the EU at all. When people complain that the US wants to extend their laws to other countries, this seems like the EU wants to do the same to the US.
I despise the US surveillance and think there needs to be better data protection. However, I reject the criticism that only the US is trying to force their laws on other countries. The EU is trying to do the same.
If you process data of EU citizens, chances are that you are doing business in the EU. With the internet, a physical presence is not necessary anymore.
Insider? As far as I can tell the five shortlisted names are public knowledge.
No, it shouldn't. There is no trademark that can be infringed yet, so there can be no trademark infringement.
Actually, I'm pretty sure that North Korea IS hiding the fact that they are corrupt and only working for the elite.
It's just that we outside of N.K. don't get to hear much of their propaganda and instead a lot of the commentary from third parties. Ask a North Korean who only has access to the official N.K. news what he thinks about his country and the world and you might realize how dishonest N.K. is.
The data set is pretty much every Humble Bundle that contains games for Windows and Linux (which is most game bundles).
Let's have a look at one currently running bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/w...
Average purchase: $2.82
Average Windows: $2.71
Average Mac: $3.25
Average Linux:$3.89
So Linux users are willing to pay 40% more than Windows users on a pay what you want scheme.
Re-writing history? Like changing the name from Denali to Mt. McKinley in the first place?
I supported more than 40 projects on Kickstarter. Almost all were successfully funded and almost all of those have delivered or are clearly on their way to deliver.
But my success rate has nothing to do with self fulfilling things. It's just that I do not just support projects because I like the idea, but because I check the details and ask myself if the project seems reasonable and the project leads know what they are doing.
Now if I can do that, somebody with a lot more insight in this process, like somebody working for Kickstarter, can do that even better.
And thus most of the staff picks succeed because the Kickstarter staff tends to pick projects with a good chance of success.
.But we do have lay judges (Schöffen)
For our non-German friends: Instead of judge and jury we have a panel of judges, some of whom (sometimes the whole panel with one exception) may not be studied lawyers but citizen 'drafted' to judge duty for a year or so.
OneDrive? Does it work straight forward and reliable under Linux?
Some of us live in both worlds. (Or even 3, throwing OS X in the mix.)
Does your hard drive give you a 3 months notice before it breaks and leaves you without a backup?
This cloud provider just did.
Considering that the data is encrypted on the client and only stored in encrypted form on the servers, that won't do much good.
Unless, of course, Wuala secretly copied the encryption keys.
Analog clocks show 12 hours, of course. An analog clock with 24 hours would be hard to read.
But analog clocks usually don't show am/pm. And that's where we started: Getting up seeing a clock say AM.
And digital clocks here in Europe show the time in 24 hours. Unless the clock is a cheap import or runs an OS made by an American company that doesn't care about the differences between cultures.
People really really like having the clock say AM when they get up and PM when they go to bed
So that's why it always felt so wrong to me to get up at 07:00 and go to bed at 23:00... I'm missing the am/pm that hasn't been part of the clocks here in continental Europe since long before I was born.
Or to put it differently: Don't take you 'merican ways of looking at the world and just assume that everybody everywhere lives the same. Just because you are used to imperial units (Do you even realize how funny it is that the country that fought a war to get out from under the rule of the British Empire is still using IMPERIAL units?) and the 12-hour clock doesn't mean that others haven't moved on to something else.
In the same way that Oracle always ticks the little install crapware in your browser checkbox for you when you update Java.
I only update Java by downloading the offline installer. No crapware there.
Actually: Not that nice at all.
The original plan was to release a Matchstick without DRM support. That version was ready to go in production and that was the version that the Kickstarter backers pledged to support.
But some months in, when the original product should already have been in production, Matchstick decided to revise their plans and to redesign the hardware to support DRM. So the backers where told that they would receive a different product then originally announced at a later date.
This was when I decided to get out and asked for my money back.
Todays announcement shows me I was right.
Matchstick should have stayed with their original plan and added DRM vor version 2.