The only thing the GDPR has done is to drive consumers into EULA exhaustion
And yet here we are talking about privacy, so clearly the GDPR has done more than that.
Oh and many websites load faster for EU visitors, so no, the GDPR has done much more precisely becaue in many cases an EULA is not sufficient for GDPR compliance.
You don't circumvent the GDPR by such an agreement. All you do is get told what it was which was being hoovered up in the first place. Congradulations, you just discovered how "on the market" you already were while using your free services.
The same amount of energy as the country of Austria to prop up a market that in no way can achieve the goals of a functional currenty all the while the world is already buckling under the weight of man-kind's energy use.
If I ever meet Satoshi Nakamoto I will punch him in the face and then feed him to an endangered Orca.
I'm all for community ideas. But this is one that will likely have the biggest negative impact of any community project every, except if you were one of the few at the very top of the pyramid.
I doubt it. Sounds more like a bored lawyer gone rogue than an active decision by a company. It takes a lawyer to do something so mind bogglingly stupid.
Consider: If you were thinking about taking a company private (which means buying up stock), would you make an announcement that will raise the price of the stock so you have to pay more?
Was that a trick question? The answer is yes and it's not relevant to you in the slightest.
You can't just buy up a company for the current price of the stock and be done with it. You actually need to buy the stock for significantly more than the list price. This price is fixed in the offer in advance and is also the reason the price shoots up in the first place. It is also a price that is typically negotiated and the process of going private it something that can take well over a quarter while the stocks happily continue trading.
TL;DR: There's neither benefit no ability to keep going private a secret.
If an attack is targeted the choice of OS is quite irrelevant. This attack however didn't look targeted, but then also... wannacry. I would wager that the evening janitor they entrusted to set this up in his spare time would have done an even poorer job with a more esoteric OS.
Because of their VERY finicky nature (and usually being designed to be used on a closed intranet), they almost NEVER apply post-production patches.
Medical device and process control are two very different systems. Process control systems most definitely do get patched. Not instantly, they go through vendor approval first, but they most definitely do get patched.
Why does a synchronisation system even concern itself with filesystems?
Because of what it is trying to become. Dropbox has stopped being a glorified rsync a long time ago and is actively chasing OneDrive for feature parity. Things like presenting additional information to users about the status of the files, or presenting phantom files to users downloaded on demand. There's lots of reasons why syncing tools would care about the underlying filesystem.
Same reason why you can't run OneDrive on a FAT32 system half the features wouldn't work since they depend on additional features the filesystem have to offer.
Now that's why it would concern itself with it, as to whether there was a technical assessment by Dropbox on linux filesystems or they just decided to give everyone the middle finger and not dedicate any programming resources to the client is a different discussion.
My text editor doesn't give a shit what filesystem I'm using. There's no real reason Dropbox should, either;
Your text editor isn't in the business of presenting files to users in a way that is not traditional to the system itself. Your text editor doesn't notify the user via the file explorer that files are currently in a certain state (open, locked, awaiting sync, experienced sync errors, etc). Your text editor also isn't in the cloud storage business, a business that is moving more and more to actual cloud operation rather than being a glorified copy of rsync. Your text editor is not presenting phantom files to the OS which are downloaded on demand.
In summary, your text editor works with text. Dropbox works with files on a very fundamental level. It stands to reason that they need to care about the underlying filesystem.
Now as to the actual reasons why they depreciated support, I'm sure it's far more nefarious than that, but there's actual technical reasons why a program like Dropbox needs to understand the abilities of the underlying filesystem and not treat it as a dumb pipe via some API.
why would you trust a cloud storage provider to keep a copy of it?
Because the odds of someone directly hacking my account at dropbox and sucking my data out are lower than the odds of one of the many hotel staff who walk into my room unannounced lifting my laptop. It's like when someone asks why I have an encrypted external drive that auto-decrypts when connected to my computer without a password: The odds of the drive going missing without the computer are higher than the odds of losing both + the computer unlock password.
Security isn't an on or off thing. It's a sliding scale of risk profiles and associated mittigations.
Duckduckgo stopped being a front end for Google a long time ago. They actually federate searches from several search engines as well as their own sources to produce results. Not that that is really relevant. Most people don't complain about the quality of Google's search results, just all the other practices of the company.
Nobody should have to wait for permission from scientists before seeking justice. It is not the janitor's fault that no conclusive research has been done, so why should he be denied his day in court?
He should be free to go to court as much as he wants. He should also be free to be sent back home with nothing but lawyers fees.
Now be prepared I'm going to sue you for my black eye. What do you mean that it wasn't proven that you caused it? Clearly irrelevant. I want justice and you should pay for my black eye which I claim you caused.
Also, I'm fairly certain that you would in fact be caught alive near asbestos fire blanket in a raging fire.
Nope, because they are banned and the alternatives are equally as effective.;-)
But yes we are generally in agreement in contained panels. I think the hysteria has exposed more people to asbestos than would otherwise have been exposed. I decided last time I inspected my roof (corrugated asbestos) to get it re-sealed. My local school on the other hand closed a building off for a month and had a borderline hazmat bubble built around it (think of the children) because the perfectly fine condition panels was made of asbestos. Just coat the thing in paint if you're worried, but in generally don't be. That stuff lasts a really long time.
My Municipal Airport sells ONLY leaded aviation fuel for piston-engine planes.
What they sell is a form of avgas called 100LL. Take a guess at what the LL stands for. If you guessed Low-Lead and then further realised that it is very much different from any fuel that was used back in the day when cars used copious amounts of tetraethyl lead to increase octane then you deserve some internet points.
The only cases where fuel with the same amount of lead is used as in the past are rare engines requiring very high octane e.g. 115 grade, special events for very unique aircraft, and some military cases.
Unfortunately the asbestos used in insulation was also the most friable form and dangerous to health that we used. I live in an asbestos house. But I wouldn't be caught... errr. alive near an asbestos fire blanket, or a place with asbestos insulation.
Are you coughing due to a punctured lung from driving your old unsafe car? Maybe you should get a new car given the safety advancements. Just because it goes forward when you hit the accelerator doesn't mean they are the same as what came the year before. The problem is they are the same across manufacturers but not the same across time.
There's been far more innovation year over year in cars than in smartphones. Maybe you should go to a motorshow.
Why? Nintendo is a poster child of a company that doesn't troll old works out of existence using IP laws and instead continuously updates and republishes and makes available its IP.
I'm generally against the takedown of old works, but Nintendo doesn't have old works, just a current active library.
IP Protection laws need to be on a "use it or lose it" basis.
Two problems with that:
a) It won't change TFS. Nintendo actively use and sell their old IP. b) All that will happen is a bare minimum release to keep the IP legally active. Sell a single old cartridge with the code on it: It's still active, look, just because you can't play it anymore doesn't mean it isn't still being "used" as IP.
If you're ok with that sort of language, you're part of the problem.
Actually I'm part of the solution since something was communicated and I understood it. The fact that you can't and the GP can't find meaning in it is part of the problem.
But then I don't expect much of any thinking ability from someone who starts their post with an insult.
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is not only ignorant of French culture
Just because French culture is defined as a breakfast made of a bagette and a cigarette doesn't mean they shouldn't be actively mocked.
The only thing the GDPR has done is to drive consumers into EULA exhaustion
And yet here we are talking about privacy, so clearly the GDPR has done more than that.
Oh and many websites load faster for EU visitors, so no, the GDPR has done much more precisely becaue in many cases an EULA is not sufficient for GDPR compliance.
You don't circumvent the GDPR by such an agreement. All you do is get told what it was which was being hoovered up in the first place. Congradulations, you just discovered how "on the market" you already were while using your free services.
and the energy of their unusual convictions.
The same amount of energy as the country of Austria to prop up a market that in no way can achieve the goals of a functional currenty all the while the world is already buckling under the weight of man-kind's energy use.
If I ever meet Satoshi Nakamoto I will punch him in the face and then feed him to an endangered Orca.
I'm all for community ideas. But this is one that will likely have the biggest negative impact of any community project every, except if you were one of the few at the very top of the pyramid.
Instead they get the lawyers involved
I doubt it. Sounds more like a bored lawyer gone rogue than an active decision by a company. It takes a lawyer to do something so mind bogglingly stupid.
Consider: If you were thinking about taking a company private (which means buying up stock), would you make an announcement that will raise the price of the stock so you have to pay more?
Was that a trick question? The answer is yes and it's not relevant to you in the slightest.
You can't just buy up a company for the current price of the stock and be done with it. You actually need to buy the stock for significantly more than the list price. This price is fixed in the offer in advance and is also the reason the price shoots up in the first place. It is also a price that is typically negotiated and the process of going private it something that can take well over a quarter while the stocks happily continue trading.
TL;DR: There's neither benefit no ability to keep going private a secret.
If an attack is targeted the choice of OS is quite irrelevant. This attack however didn't look targeted, but then also ... wannacry. I would wager that the evening janitor they entrusted to set this up in his spare time would have done an even poorer job with a more esoteric OS.
Because of their VERY finicky nature (and usually being designed to be used on a closed intranet), they almost NEVER apply post-production patches.
Medical device and process control are two very different systems. Process control systems most definitely do get patched. Not instantly, they go through vendor approval first, but they most definitely do get patched.
LOL. That would probably give me the biggest chance of them all. People aren't very good at chasing others while carrying heavy powertools.
Why does a synchronisation system even concern itself with filesystems?
Because of what it is trying to become. Dropbox has stopped being a glorified rsync a long time ago and is actively chasing OneDrive for feature parity. Things like presenting additional information to users about the status of the files, or presenting phantom files to users downloaded on demand. There's lots of reasons why syncing tools would care about the underlying filesystem.
Same reason why you can't run OneDrive on a FAT32 system half the features wouldn't work since they depend on additional features the filesystem have to offer.
Now that's why it would concern itself with it, as to whether there was a technical assessment by Dropbox on linux filesystems or they just decided to give everyone the middle finger and not dedicate any programming resources to the client is a different discussion.
I know right! Personally I use OneDrive!
My text editor doesn't give a shit what filesystem I'm using. There's no real reason Dropbox should, either;
Your text editor isn't in the business of presenting files to users in a way that is not traditional to the system itself. Your text editor doesn't notify the user via the file explorer that files are currently in a certain state (open, locked, awaiting sync, experienced sync errors, etc). Your text editor also isn't in the cloud storage business, a business that is moving more and more to actual cloud operation rather than being a glorified copy of rsync. Your text editor is not presenting phantom files to the OS which are downloaded on demand.
In summary, your text editor works with text. Dropbox works with files on a very fundamental level. It stands to reason that they need to care about the underlying filesystem.
Now as to the actual reasons why they depreciated support, I'm sure it's far more nefarious than that, but there's actual technical reasons why a program like Dropbox needs to understand the abilities of the underlying filesystem and not treat it as a dumb pipe via some API.
why would you trust a cloud storage provider to keep a copy of it?
Because the odds of someone directly hacking my account at dropbox and sucking my data out are lower than the odds of one of the many hotel staff who walk into my room unannounced lifting my laptop. It's like when someone asks why I have an encrypted external drive that auto-decrypts when connected to my computer without a password: The odds of the drive going missing without the computer are higher than the odds of losing both + the computer unlock password.
Security isn't an on or off thing. It's a sliding scale of risk profiles and associated mittigations.
Duckduckgo stopped being a front end for Google a long time ago. They actually federate searches from several search engines as well as their own sources to produce results. Not that that is really relevant. Most people don't complain about the quality of Google's search results, just all the other practices of the company.
but I don't care if people are getting shot, clubbed, stabbed, or throttled to death.
I do. If you're going to attack me please for the love of god do it with a club, knife or rope. At least then I have a fighting chance.
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Nobody should have to wait for permission from scientists before seeking justice. It is not the janitor's fault that no conclusive research has been done, so why should he be denied his day in court?
He should be free to go to court as much as he wants. He should also be free to be sent back home with nothing but lawyers fees.
Now be prepared I'm going to sue you for my black eye. What do you mean that it wasn't proven that you caused it? Clearly irrelevant. I want justice and you should pay for my black eye which I claim you caused.
Also, I'm fairly certain that you would in fact be caught alive near asbestos fire blanket in a raging fire.
Nope, because they are banned and the alternatives are equally as effective. ;-)
But yes we are generally in agreement in contained panels. I think the hysteria has exposed more people to asbestos than would otherwise have been exposed. I decided last time I inspected my roof (corrugated asbestos) to get it re-sealed. My local school on the other hand closed a building off for a month and had a borderline hazmat bubble built around it (think of the children) because the perfectly fine condition panels was made of asbestos. Just coat the thing in paint if you're worried, but in generally don't be. That stuff lasts a really long time.
My Municipal Airport sells ONLY leaded aviation fuel for piston-engine planes.
What they sell is a form of avgas called 100LL. Take a guess at what the LL stands for. If you guessed Low-Lead and then further realised that it is very much different from any fuel that was used back in the day when cars used copious amounts of tetraethyl lead to increase octane then you deserve some internet points.
The only cases where fuel with the same amount of lead is used as in the past are rare engines requiring very high octane e.g. 115 grade, special events for very unique aircraft, and some military cases.
Unfortunately the asbestos used in insulation was also the most friable form and dangerous to health that we used. I live in an asbestos house. But I wouldn't be caught... errr. alive near an asbestos fire blanket, or a place with asbestos insulation.
*cough* cars
Are you coughing due to a punctured lung from driving your old unsafe car? Maybe you should get a new car given the safety advancements. Just because it goes forward when you hit the accelerator doesn't mean they are the same as what came the year before. The problem is they are the same across manufacturers but not the same across time.
There's been far more innovation year over year in cars than in smartphones. Maybe you should go to a motorshow.
is a global boycott.
Why? Nintendo is a poster child of a company that doesn't troll old works out of existence using IP laws and instead continuously updates and republishes and makes available its IP.
I'm generally against the takedown of old works, but Nintendo doesn't have old works, just a current active library.
I want to make money indefinitely
So do I, but since I live in reality I don't.
IP Protection laws need to be on a "use it or lose it" basis.
Two problems with that:
a) It won't change TFS. Nintendo actively use and sell their old IP.
b) All that will happen is a bare minimum release to keep the IP legally active. Sell a single old cartridge with the code on it: It's still active, look, just because you can't play it anymore doesn't mean it isn't still being "used" as IP.
If you're ok with that sort of language, you're part of the problem.
Actually I'm part of the solution since something was communicated and I understood it. The fact that you can't and the GP can't find meaning in it is part of the problem.
But then I don't expect much of any thinking ability from someone who starts their post with an insult.