I wonder what GDPR will do to the "telemetry" of Windows 10. EU citizens will have the right to know at May 25th. And no EULA can evade that.
Nothing. Windows 10's latest update makes it fully compliant. The GDPR does nothing to prevent data gathering. It just puts some requirements about management, e.g. deletion such as here: https://pureinfotech.com/delet...
What applications do these "nontechie relatives" use that has no replacement on macOS?
If we have learnt anything from the Netbook era it's that the answer is none, but they will just in general get pissed when ${random_windows_only_thing} doesn't work. So I have a question for you: If it works for them why force a change upon them?
Most people don't care about the altruistic shit that happens on Slashdot. Try explaining privacy to someone and they'll likely post about it on their Facebook page. Try and explain after years of telling people how important security updates are that it's bad they get forced upon them.
Well yes. Just pretending that you don't ignores years of precedents. It's the reason why companies like Apple will offer different warranties to customers in the EU vs the USA. It's the reason why when you pick up a product you'll find a laundry list of engravings on it all but one not relevant to you. It's the reason for long drawn out court cases between governments and corporations over data access.
Your best option is to pick your fight. In that regard in some cases where laws between governments and consumers conflict you pick the one you're likely to get done for. It's rare that you are at risk of being in a catch 22 situation.
First off all, "amateurism" is something of an overblown myth. Just because you don't get paid to do something doesn't mean you haven't put in a huge amount of time and effort.
Indeed, but there's few if any people who were able to put in 40hours a week into their hobby.
A lot of Olympic athletes are "amateurs" because they don't get paid
That hasn't been true on any kind of reasonable scale since the last world war, and those "Olympic" athletes that remain mostly are there not there based on skill, hell there's a share of them that are lucky not to drown in the swimming pool (minimum number of entrants for countries, points systems that get gamed by selecting your fights).
Why should someone who devoted their life to a vocation and happens to get paid for it be more or less worthy of accolades than someone who derives their income from some other profession? That makes zero sense.
Resources matter. Simply claiming they don't doesn't make it so.
There is nothing about talent that is more worthy of respect than there is about hard work.
I didn't say hard work. I said grinding. Making the achievement implies that you're still grinding on the side (on account of not getting paid for the achievement). Not only do they not have the resources to devote to their achievement, they have a competing agenda: putting food on the table. Claiming both are the same is asinine.
The reason that "funding and fancy equipment" exists is because it generally is necessary to solve a problem.
All the more reason to celebrate achievements by those who manage without. When raw talent comes up with something that supercomputers and a shitload of money doesn't then it should be celebrated. And yes I know many of engineers that are fluent in arcane branches of mathematics. I don't know any of them that have the time to dedicate 40+ hours a week to it like those people who are paid professionally to research the topic. Hurray for talent over funding.
I will not argue there. The Germans are building up a new form of reputation now, especially among the tow truck drivers. I had my misgivings going for a French car. But by all accounts it was a good one... despite their past reputation.
The really stupid people here are the ones who are still trying to argue that the breach of privacy is no big deal if you don't care about your own personal privacy.
Only if you have an over inflated view of privacy. Protip: Everything you do on Facebook says "this will be shared with ${insert_shitty_third_party_here}.
The only ones claiming any kind of "breach" are the ones who have no idea how Facebook has been worked from day 1.
Or you just do not care that people re-sell something that is theirs. If I buy a phone, I should be able to resell it. If I buy a ticket to a concert, I should be able to sell it.
No one cares about people reselling things. Everyone cares about computers reselling things, and you'd be the first one on here complaining if the entire world's supply of iPhone got sucked up on day one by a computer and trickle fed to consumers at twice the price.
You are talking about reselling. The topic here is scalping.
True, but Germany have also upped the amount of coal unfortunately.
You mean the brief blip where they did a safety assessment on their reactors (2013) before beginning their orderly program of shutting down nuclear without replacing them with coal?
Million Tonnes oil equivalent of Coal consumed in Germany:
There is a difference between accepting a known risk and accepting an unnecessary risk.
Whether the risk is unnecessary depends on the engineering constraints and the rewards. A rocket could explode. We don't *need* a manned space program. The entire space program could by many be deemed as an unacceptable risk given the cost of the equipment that can be lost.
You're just buying into the: rich people rather than dedicated people deserve entertainment.
You can eliminate scalping very easily: Record the name of the purchaser and check it against a photo ID. Now before you complain about the lack of the photo ID, remember that most of the western world doesn't have that issue as we get photo IDs easily from our government, even poor people and illegal immigrants.
Actually, the coal consumption in Germany is pretty leveled by now.
No it's not. It's dropped 4% y/y since 2013, after a slightly 2.8% uptick caused by the sudden shutdown and safety assessments of their nuclear reactors in 2012.
To say Germany's coal consumption is leveled is completely understating their efforts given the dramatic cut in baseload from their nuclear reduction.
And where is that basis? Fukushima was in 2011, late 2011 Germany announced the denuclearisation. In 2012 they actually started the process. Here's the yearly coal consumption numbers for Germany starting 2012 in millions of tonnes oil equivalent: 2012: 80.5 2013: 82.8 2014: 79.6 2015: 78.5 2016: 75.3
So what has denuclearisation done again? Germany's coal consumption is at its lowest level since the end of its major industrialisation.
Your poem is stupid and irrelevant. The existance of a system that allows for unrecorded communication in a world full of systems that allow for unrecorded communication is not some threat. If you want to preserve the records then put policies in place to preserve the records. If you think the policies won't work then you have already lost.
Seriously I can't believe you bothered to write all that shit.
The Prius 4 also nothing like a model 3. If you think they are at all the same, then you know nothing about cars.
If you think they are different then you know nothing about people. You jumped to a conclusion without ever asking the GP's criteria.
Hell, the Prius 4 isn't even as good as the Volt classic
Oh in what way? "Good" is something that is based on criteria, and if it surprises you that people have different criteria then maybe you should stop trying to define "good" for others.
The people who don't abandon a service which the media discovered did something it said it was doing from the begining? The media for blowing up this in incredible surprise? The people who thought that anyone on Facebook gave a shit when their data which was collected for marketing purposes was sold for marketing purposes? Or the people who thought that just because the magic word "election" was used, something would change?
Studies show continued cigarette loyalty after Surgeon General's warning.
Or more likely: people who share ${thing_on_internet} aren't disuaded when you point out to them that some read ${thing_on_internet}.
The first Surgeon General warning pointed out that cigarettes are bad for you. The CA "scandal" pointed out Facebook shares user data, something that every little Facebook app has warned that it does since back before Farmville was a thing.
I don't use Facebook, but from what I can see, most people who do act as though it's an addiction. Would you expect heroin addicts to quit
So you're not in a very good place to comment on people's behaviours. Your analogy of the heroin addict is way off the mark. Here's a better comparison sans analogy:
Would someone who shared something on a platform knowing full well it gets shared with advertisers for marketing purposes quit that platform because the media discovered that the marketing purpose was politicial?
There's no adiction involved. As I said from the onset the only people at all who think this is even remotely an issue are the media. The users who ultimately are happy with uploading things to the internet ultimatley don't give a shit if someone reads the things uploaded to the internet.
That said there is some evidence of Facebook adicition, but that is hardly normal across the entire population.
Perhaps you wanted to write that a bit different, not sure. The "government" is not involved at all
In Commonwealth countries if someone punches you, you go to the police, the police then arrest the person but to trialled as a criminal it is a government appointed *Crown* prosecutor, who brings the case to the court. That's what I meant. Judges still decide the case as normal, but the prosecutor in a criminal case is in the employ of the government.
You have reminded me though, it works differently in Germany where the courts are involved far earlier in the process (I learnt that by watching Der Bulle von Tölz. Yes we all have our strange vices:-) ).
But yes my point was the same: The USA would need to convince the responsible party in Germany to bring the case against him, they can't do it directly like in a civil matter. So if he hasn't broken a law in the eyes of the Germans its unlikely this will ever get even to a court.
That last part is a very good question. I also wonder if the German government would get some kind of guarantee that anyone extradited from Germany to an EU country would not be sent on to the USA.
California is trying to implement the tried and failed system called a democracy.
No what they are doing is called "direct democracy". There are plenty of democratic systems around the world that aren't / haven't failed. The most prominent of which is a representative democracy which works best in countries which haven't tended towards 2 party politics.
I don't share that opinion. Tesla was a buy and hold stock, but currently given their relative size in their field I believe they are way over valued. Don't get me wrong I think Tesla is in it for the long haul, but I think by the time they finally ramp up production to be a major auto company their competitors will also have offerings on the market providing direct competition and the emotional attachment to fancy new tech will be done.
Tesla, once it start shipping some serious volumes of cars and makes profits of them around about half of their competition I believe would be valued equally to their competition, and then only if their competition doesn't also get into the home / grid power business.
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I wonder what GDPR will do to the "telemetry" of Windows 10. EU citizens will have the right to know at May 25th. And no EULA can evade that.
Nothing. Windows 10's latest update makes it fully compliant. The GDPR does nothing to prevent data gathering. It just puts some requirements about management, e.g. deletion such as here: https://pureinfotech.com/delet...
What applications do these "nontechie relatives" use that has no replacement on macOS?
If we have learnt anything from the Netbook era it's that the answer is none, but they will just in general get pissed when ${random_windows_only_thing} doesn't work. So I have a question for you: If it works for them why force a change upon them?
Most people don't care about the altruistic shit that happens on Slashdot. Try explaining privacy to someone and they'll likely post about it on their Facebook page. Try and explain after years of telling people how important security updates are that it's bad they get forced upon them.
You'll get laughed at.
Well yes. Just pretending that you don't ignores years of precedents. It's the reason why companies like Apple will offer different warranties to customers in the EU vs the USA. It's the reason why when you pick up a product you'll find a laundry list of engravings on it all but one not relevant to you. It's the reason for long drawn out court cases between governments and corporations over data access.
Your best option is to pick your fight. In that regard in some cases where laws between governments and consumers conflict you pick the one you're likely to get done for. It's rare that you are at risk of being in a catch 22 situation.
First off all, "amateurism" is something of an overblown myth. Just because you don't get paid to do something doesn't mean you haven't put in a huge amount of time and effort.
Indeed, but there's few if any people who were able to put in 40hours a week into their hobby.
A lot of Olympic athletes are "amateurs" because they don't get paid
That hasn't been true on any kind of reasonable scale since the last world war, and those "Olympic" athletes that remain mostly are there not there based on skill, hell there's a share of them that are lucky not to drown in the swimming pool (minimum number of entrants for countries, points systems that get gamed by selecting your fights).
Why should someone who devoted their life to a vocation and happens to get paid for it be more or less worthy of accolades than someone who derives their income from some other profession? That makes zero sense.
Resources matter. Simply claiming they don't doesn't make it so.
There is nothing about talent that is more worthy of respect than there is about hard work.
I didn't say hard work. I said grinding. Making the achievement implies that you're still grinding on the side (on account of not getting paid for the achievement). Not only do they not have the resources to devote to their achievement, they have a competing agenda: putting food on the table. Claiming both are the same is asinine.
The reason that "funding and fancy equipment" exists is because it generally is necessary to solve a problem.
All the more reason to celebrate achievements by those who manage without. When raw talent comes up with something that supercomputers and a shitload of money doesn't then it should be celebrated. And yes I know many of engineers that are fluent in arcane branches of mathematics. I don't know any of them that have the time to dedicate 40+ hours a week to it like those people who are paid professionally to research the topic. Hurray for talent over funding.
I will not argue there. The Germans are building up a new form of reputation now, especially among the tow truck drivers. I had my misgivings going for a French car. But by all accounts it was a good one ... despite their past reputation.
The really stupid people here are the ones who are still trying to argue that the breach of privacy is no big deal if you don't care about your own personal privacy.
Only if you have an over inflated view of privacy. Protip: Everything you do on Facebook says "this will be shared with ${insert_shitty_third_party_here}.
The only ones claiming any kind of "breach" are the ones who have no idea how Facebook has been worked from day 1.
Or you just do not care that people re-sell something that is theirs. If I buy a phone, I should be able to resell it. If I buy a ticket to a concert, I should be able to sell it.
No one cares about people reselling things. Everyone cares about computers reselling things, and you'd be the first one on here complaining if the entire world's supply of iPhone got sucked up on day one by a computer and trickle fed to consumers at twice the price.
You are talking about reselling. The topic here is scalping.
Scope matters.
True, but Germany have also upped the amount of coal unfortunately.
You mean the brief blip where they did a safety assessment on their reactors (2013) before beginning their orderly program of shutting down nuclear without replacing them with coal?
Million Tonnes oil equivalent of Coal consumed in Germany:
2012: 80.5
2013: 82.8
2014: 79.6
2015: 78.5
2016: 75.3
There is a difference between accepting a known risk and accepting an unnecessary risk.
Whether the risk is unnecessary depends on the engineering constraints and the rewards. A rocket could explode. We don't *need* a manned space program. The entire space program could by many be deemed as an unacceptable risk given the cost of the equipment that can be lost.
You're just buying into the: rich people rather than dedicated people deserve entertainment.
You can eliminate scalping very easily: Record the name of the purchaser and check it against a photo ID. Now before you complain about the lack of the photo ID, remember that most of the western world doesn't have that issue as we get photo IDs easily from our government, even poor people and illegal immigrants.
Actually, the coal consumption in Germany is pretty leveled by now.
No it's not. It's dropped 4% y/y since 2013, after a slightly 2.8% uptick caused by the sudden shutdown and safety assessments of their nuclear reactors in 2012.
To say Germany's coal consumption is leveled is completely understating their efforts given the dramatic cut in baseload from their nuclear reduction.
That sort of divergence between review and user ratings is usually a pretty good indication
of business as usual in the game reviewing world.
That's the effect of denuclearization: more coal.
And where is that basis? Fukushima was in 2011, late 2011 Germany announced the denuclearisation. In 2012 they actually started the process. Here's the yearly coal consumption numbers for Germany starting 2012 in millions of tonnes oil equivalent:
2012: 80.5
2013: 82.8
2014: 79.6
2015: 78.5
2016: 75.3
So what has denuclearisation done again? Germany's coal consumption is at its lowest level since the end of its major industrialisation.
Your poem is stupid and irrelevant. The existance of a system that allows for unrecorded communication in a world full of systems that allow for unrecorded communication is not some threat. If you want to preserve the records then put policies in place to preserve the records. If you think the policies won't work then you have already lost.
Seriously I can't believe you bothered to write all that shit.
The Prius 4 also nothing like a model 3. If you think they are at all the same, then you know nothing about cars.
If you think they are different then you know nothing about people. You jumped to a conclusion without ever asking the GP's criteria.
Hell, the Prius 4 isn't even as good as the Volt classic
Oh in what way? "Good" is something that is based on criteria, and if it surprises you that people have different criteria then maybe you should stop trying to define "good" for others.
No, there is so much "trial and testing" going on because the FDA, drug companies, and doctors are covering their asses.
So what you're saying is people aren't certain. Glad you agreed with me.
Define in this context. Who are stupid?
The people who don't abandon a service which the media discovered did something it said it was doing from the begining?
The media for blowing up this in incredible surprise?
The people who thought that anyone on Facebook gave a shit when their data which was collected for marketing purposes was sold for marketing purposes?
Or the people who thought that just because the magic word "election" was used, something would change?
Studies show continued cigarette loyalty after Surgeon General's warning.
Or more likely: people who share ${thing_on_internet} aren't disuaded when you point out to them that some read ${thing_on_internet}.
The first Surgeon General warning pointed out that cigarettes are bad for you. The CA "scandal" pointed out Facebook shares user data, something that every little Facebook app has warned that it does since back before Farmville was a thing.
I don't use Facebook, but from what I can see, most people who do act as though it's an addiction. Would you expect heroin addicts to quit
So you're not in a very good place to comment on people's behaviours. Your analogy of the heroin addict is way off the mark. Here's a better comparison sans analogy:
Would someone who shared something on a platform knowing full well it gets shared with advertisers for marketing purposes quit that platform because the media discovered that the marketing purpose was politicial?
There's no adiction involved. As I said from the onset the only people at all who think this is even remotely an issue are the media. The users who ultimately are happy with uploading things to the internet ultimatley don't give a shit if someone reads the things uploaded to the internet.
That said there is some evidence of Facebook adicition, but that is hardly normal across the entire population.
Not quite. There ultimately was no mob at all. A bunch of hastags on twitter, a bit of bashing about in the media, and .... no one cared.
Perhaps you wanted to write that a bit different, not sure. The "government" is not involved at all
In Commonwealth countries if someone punches you, you go to the police, the police then arrest the person but to trialled as a criminal it is a government appointed *Crown* prosecutor, who brings the case to the court. That's what I meant. Judges still decide the case as normal, but the prosecutor in a criminal case is in the employ of the government.
You have reminded me though, it works differently in Germany where the courts are involved far earlier in the process (I learnt that by watching Der Bulle von Tölz. Yes we all have our strange vices :-) ).
But yes my point was the same: The USA would need to convince the responsible party in Germany to bring the case against him, they can't do it directly like in a civil matter. So if he hasn't broken a law in the eyes of the Germans its unlikely this will ever get even to a court.
That last part is a very good question. I also wonder if the German government would get some kind of guarantee that anyone extradited from Germany to an EU country would not be sent on to the USA.
California is trying to implement the tried and failed system called a democracy.
No what they are doing is called "direct democracy". There are plenty of democratic systems around the world that aren't / haven't failed. The most prominent of which is a representative democracy which works best in countries which haven't tended towards 2 party politics.
Tesla is a "buy and hold" stock in my opinion
I don't share that opinion. Tesla was a buy and hold stock, but currently given their relative size in their field I believe they are way over valued. Don't get me wrong I think Tesla is in it for the long haul, but I think by the time they finally ramp up production to be a major auto company their competitors will also have offerings on the market providing direct competition and the emotional attachment to fancy new tech will be done.
Tesla, once it start shipping some serious volumes of cars and makes profits of them around about half of their competition I believe would be valued equally to their competition, and then only if their competition doesn't also get into the home / grid power business.
Tesla's stock is high risk right now.
I will try to explain this in simple, non emotional terms. Tesla is not profitable. This means that they spend more money than they take in.
Every company undergoing phenomenal growth is not profitable, that's the whole point of getting investments in the first place.