I am sending my 11 year old over from Europe to US for a robotics competition (Vex IQ). They will be accompanied by a teacher.
Biggest part of "training" is telling them what is disallowed in the US. Do not be alone, ever. In the mall, on the streets, in the airport, anywhere. At home the 11 year olds roam the town alone. They go to school or gym, they visit friends, use public transport - all alone. They know their way around and there is no crime to be afraid of. In US, which is as safe a country as any European one, they cannot and must not.
The kids take those rules with disbelievement and some amusement. "Imagine if someone would call a police if I walked to school." But they are smart boyd and I am sure they will behave as told.
Why not? Visiting countries whose regimes you don't approve is mutual good for many reasons. The citizens there get a small breath of fresh air & thinking from you, and you see a warning example to avoid at home.
I have been to Russia many times, and will most probably visit it again, censorship and Putin or not.
Where have all your letters gone? Off to Facebook, everyone... (to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone")
Communications have split into three: - friends & family - on facebook, snapchat or whatever - promotions and ads - in email - official stuff - invoices, bills, formal notices etc - in email
There is nothing in my personal inbox any more that requires immediate answer. Google helpfully sorts the ads to a special folder to be ignored. I can then read & respond to official mail once a week or as I see fit.
Not answering my friends would be rude. This does not happen on email though.
1) Students will shift away from public media / platforms to new semi-private networks 2) OSINT surveillance services try to follow, but are blocked by privacy rules 3) Surveillance tries legal hacks to get backdoor access to networks and students' media
We will have a society where everyone is aware of someone listening in and potentiall taking action.
I have lived through the Soviet times in ex-USSR. We have been there and this is not nice.
I also have three kids (two teenagers and one younger). I strongly believe they should have options for privacy both from us the parents, the school and authorities.
500px is a Canadian company. Why should they pay an intelligence service of a foreign power? Maybe give the cash to Chinese or Russians instead of USA?
Not fiction, not history. This has happened before and probably many times.
I am currently reading "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It describes the regime and atmosphere in Soviet Russia before and after World War II. The setting is eerily similar. People are afraid to talk to each other from the fear that they might get wrong "connections". Anybody can be working for the secret police, your best friends or closest relatives cannot be trusted, you must assume at all times that every person you meet or talk to will "betray" you in some ridiculous but fatal way.
If you have read narratives about Germany before WWII, then the feeling is similar.
Great empires have been built on fear. They have all fallen - so far. We will see what will become of this one.
GDPR is very simple to comply with: - know how your business uses personal data - be open about it - inform your customers - secure the use of personal data by access control & logging - check your contracts with third parties, and try not to share personal data unless necessary - educate your employees
That's about it.
The real effect of GDPR is implementing reasonable data management practices across the board. Say I want to save the hair colour of customers. Shall I create a new database? Or should I put it into an existing one? New database is easier, I don't need to discuss with anyone, I'l just spin up a new mongo instance, done. But I'll lack all security that the old database already has. Now GDPR forces me to implement security, which means it will be easier to put the data into the existing DB, even if this has management overhead for me - I need to get my change into DB team's backlog, etc. However, in the long run I am better off with all data being in one place, not split across multiple platforms.
Or say I need to email / message / call my customers. GDPR incentivizes using service providers that have been already set up, with contracts and security and compliance in place. This is a price to pay, you won't be as flexible as you could, and you will pay extra for the compliance. However, this is a reasonable tradeoff.
Mom & Pop should thus know what personal data they have, know how they handle it, and say it out in a public statement. Not much to ask.
I worked in a company that tried to sell Amigas. In Eastern Europe. Around 1991-1993 or so.
At that time in that place, nobody was paying for software, ever. The prices were astronomical compared to the salaries and income. So we installed pirate stuff on anything that we sold.
For PC-s, this was easy. Word (pre-windows!) or WordPerfect, Quattro, Foxpro or some other database, some games. This got most purchasers through their needs. The economy was changing fast - socialism out, capitalism in. So all real sofware was custom-made anyway.
For Amiga, setting it up with a set of workable software was a nightmare. There were text editors, none of those worked. There were spreadsheets, none worked. And so on. There were games, which worked well and looked beautiful. But our customers needed something for bookkeeping, or document management, or whatever their need, and this just was. not. there.
For tech and UI, it was great, especially for the price. But it could not become commodity because it lacked what users actually need - software.
I live in Estonia; I quite like it here. I have had colleagues from all over the world, from Australia to Brazil to USA, all major European countries included. They have also liked it here.
Should Facebook change their documents or their behaviour?
ToS and privacy policy only describe what a company does or promises to do. They are reflections, not the true thing. GDPR should change how our data is used, not how it is described.
What I remember about you can not be subject to contract between us..
GDPR applies to legal entities, not to persons. You mess up human memory and data collection of a company / database. GDPR is about the latter.
True, even a database cannot completely "forget" - there are logs and backups. However, a computer can effectively ACT as it forgot. It can omit your data from queries, not show it for the customer service agent or whoever, not pass it on to third parties, etc.
There are _so_ many things wrong with GDPR, but the basic principles are sound.
1) Information exchange is part of a contract. Eg, I pay you + I tell you something, you provide me a service. 2) Both sides of the contract - the service provided and information given - have terms and limits attached. 3) GDPR is about establishing standard rules for the limits. I want to know what you shall do with the data and who else shall access it via you.
Also remember that GDPR applies to legal entities, not natural persons. (Art 2, "Material scope".) You as a person can know my name and share it with whomever. You as an employee of a company or government agency - not any more.
The Slashdot community are nerds. Aging tech community sticking to our habits and beliefs - "google is evil", "rich e-mail is bad". We are outliers as far as email goes.
Our choices do not matter, as we do not represent the general user in any way. Go ask someone else.
Istanbul: I think taxis were the only option here.
Istanbul metro M1 ends at the airport.
Istanbul is a prime example of a huge city (15M) with well-working, comfortable public transport. Trams, metro, buses, taxes and boats (seabus / ferry) are everywhere. Tramway system is modern and works exceptionally well. I have been there with kids, the youngest being 3yo, and we had no trouble getting around.
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I am sending my 11 year old over from Europe to US for a robotics competition (Vex IQ). They will be accompanied by a teacher.
Biggest part of "training" is telling them what is disallowed in the US.
Do not be alone, ever. In the mall, on the streets, in the airport, anywhere.
At home the 11 year olds roam the town alone. They go to school or gym, they visit friends, use public transport - all alone. They know their way around and there is no crime to be afraid of.
In US, which is as safe a country as any European one, they cannot and must not.
The kids take those rules with disbelievement and some amusement. "Imagine if someone would call a police if I walked to school." But they are smart boyd and I am sure they will behave as told.
Just...
why???
Why not?
Visiting countries whose regimes you don't approve is mutual good for many reasons.
The citizens there get a small breath of fresh air & thinking from you, and you see a warning example to avoid at home.
I have been to Russia many times, and will most probably visit it again, censorship and Putin or not.
I bought it.
I own it.
I drive it as I like, traffic laws permitting.
How can the factory decide where it will drive?
Will China, Russia, etc comply with the "human loop" policy?
No they won't.
Will USA be forced to follow the choices that its advesaries will make?
Yes it will.
This policy will be dush and ashes very soon.
The arms race cannot be controlled by a single country.
Tibet comes first I guess?
Might also check this:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
Seconded.
This was one of the major reasons why I used Opera.
Other two being tabs (long before any other browser) and zoom (same).
Facebook Will Shut Down.
Facebook Will Shut Down!!!
Facebook Will Shut Down?????
Who else read the first words and was overcome with joy?
Where have all your letters gone?
Off to Facebook, everyone...
(to the tune of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone")
Communications have split into three:
- friends & family - on facebook, snapchat or whatever
- promotions and ads - in email
- official stuff - invoices, bills, formal notices etc - in email
There is nothing in my personal inbox any more that requires immediate answer. Google helpfully sorts the ads to a special folder to be ignored. I can then read & respond to official mail once a week or as I see fit.
Not answering my friends would be rude. This does not happen on email though.
1) Students will shift away from public media / platforms to new semi-private networks
2) OSINT surveillance services try to follow, but are blocked by privacy rules
3) Surveillance tries legal hacks to get backdoor access to networks and students' media
We will have a society where everyone is aware of someone listening in and potentiall taking action.
I have lived through the Soviet times in ex-USSR. We have been there and this is not nice.
I also have three kids (two teenagers and one younger). I strongly believe they should have options for privacy both from us the parents, the school and authorities.
The best to give this money to is the NSA.
500px is a Canadian company.
Why should they pay an intelligence service of a foreign power?
Maybe give the cash to Chinese or Russians instead of USA?
Not fiction, not history.
This has happened before and probably many times.
I am currently reading "The Gulag Archipelago" by Solzhenitsyn, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
It describes the regime and atmosphere in Soviet Russia before and after World War II. The setting is eerily similar. People are afraid to talk to each other from the fear that they might get wrong "connections". Anybody can be working for the secret police, your best friends or closest relatives cannot be trusted, you must assume at all times that every person you meet or talk to will "betray" you in some ridiculous but fatal way.
If you have read narratives about Germany before WWII, then the feeling is similar.
Great empires have been built on fear.
They have all fallen - so far.
We will see what will become of this one.
GDPR is very simple to comply with:
- know how your business uses personal data
- be open about it - inform your customers
- secure the use of personal data by access control & logging
- check your contracts with third parties, and try not to share personal data unless necessary
- educate your employees
That's about it.
The real effect of GDPR is implementing reasonable data management practices across the board.
Say I want to save the hair colour of customers. Shall I create a new database? Or should I put it into an existing one? New database is easier, I don't need to discuss with anyone, I'l just spin up a new mongo instance, done. But I'll lack all security that the old database already has. Now GDPR forces me to implement security, which means it will be easier to put the data into the existing DB, even if this has management overhead for me - I need to get my change into DB team's backlog, etc. However, in the long run I am better off with all data being in one place, not split across multiple platforms.
Or say I need to email / message / call my customers. GDPR incentivizes using service providers that have been already set up, with contracts and security and compliance in place. This is a price to pay, you won't be as flexible as you could, and you will pay extra for the compliance. However, this is a reasonable tradeoff.
Mom & Pop should thus know what personal data they have, know how they handle it, and say it out in a public statement.
Not much to ask.
Everybody uses science.
And science will happen regardless of US or its troubles.
But - where will it happen, who will use it and who will benefit from it?
Yes it was, "but".
I worked in a company that tried to sell Amigas.
In Eastern Europe.
Around 1991-1993 or so.
At that time in that place, nobody was paying for software, ever. The prices were astronomical compared to the salaries and income. So we installed pirate stuff on anything that we sold.
For PC-s, this was easy.
Word (pre-windows!) or WordPerfect, Quattro, Foxpro or some other database, some games. This got most purchasers through their needs. The economy was changing fast - socialism out, capitalism in. So all real sofware was custom-made anyway.
For Amiga, setting it up with a set of workable software was a nightmare. There were text editors, none of those worked. There were spreadsheets, none worked. And so on. There were games, which worked well and looked beautiful. But our customers needed something for bookkeeping, or document management, or whatever their need, and this just was. not. there.
For tech and UI, it was great, especially for the price.
But it could not become commodity because it lacked what users actually need - software.
to any other nation than US.
And maybe even to US.
I live in Estonia; I quite like it here.
I have had colleagues from all over the world, from Australia to Brazil to USA, all major European countries included. They have also liked it here.
Should Facebook change their documents or their behaviour?
ToS and privacy policy only describe what a company does or promises to do.
They are reflections, not the true thing.
GDPR should change how our data is used, not how it is described.
If we're really ambitious about meeting our climate targets...
Who "we"?
GDPR applies to legal entities, not to persons.
You mess up human memory and data collection of a company / database.
GDPR is about the latter.
True, even a database cannot completely "forget" - there are logs and backups.
However, a computer can effectively ACT as it forgot.
It can omit your data from queries, not show it for the customer service agent or whoever, not pass it on to third parties, etc.
There are _so_ many things wrong with GDPR, but the basic principles are sound.
1) Information exchange is part of a contract. Eg, I pay you + I tell you something, you provide me a service.
2) Both sides of the contract - the service provided and information given - have terms and limits attached.
3) GDPR is about establishing standard rules for the limits. I want to know what you shall do with the data and who else shall access it via you.
Also remember that GDPR applies to legal entities, not natural persons. (Art 2, "Material scope".)
You as a person can know my name and share it with whomever.
You as an employee of a company or government agency - not any more.
Ambiguity exists in all natural languages, and in many forms.
The Slashdot community are nerds.
Aging tech community sticking to our habits and beliefs - "google is evil", "rich e-mail is bad".
We are outliers as far as email goes.
Our choices do not matter, as we do not represent the general user in any way.
Go ask someone else.
Istanbul: I think taxis were the only option here.
Istanbul metro M1 ends at the airport.
Istanbul is a prime example of a huge city (15M) with well-working, comfortable public transport. Trams, metro, buses, taxes and boats (seabus / ferry) are everywhere. Tramway system is modern and works exceptionally well. I have been there with kids, the youngest being 3yo, and we had no trouble getting around.
MOST major airports have GREAT public transit.
Trust me, I fly a lot.
Maybe you speak about the US?
But my last US destination was Dallas. DART took me from my downtown hotel to DFW in no time. Cost me $5.
European languages and dialects die all the same.
A small language next to me (Livonian) went extinct in 2013.