if you think there's any similarity between checking hash similarities on binary files to identify copies or copyright infringement and being able to identify meaningful similarity in computer source code that has any relevance whatsoever to copyright infringement,
Again, if you bother to read TFA they don't mention computer code at all. This is a draft proposal that is focused on video, photo and music sharing. It's not even a finished proposal yet, let alone a draft law. And there is very little reason to think, based on the text, that it would apply to source code.
In fact copyright protections for source code and things like encryption keys are weaker in the EU than the US anyway. And Github does regularly process DMCA take-downs, where as EU based sites have far fewer legal obligations with regards to user posted copyrighted content.
It's interesting because we can potentially build up a map of these business relationships and see how they abuse our data to profile us, and because it will make tracking down the source of leaks easier. When one of these companies gets hit with a leak we can see all the upstream victims who shared data with them.
It's also a handy map of easy pickings for hackers looking to nab some PayPal data. Most of these companies that work is outsourced to have crap security.
I've seen a few that are just normal analogue/digital watches but also have a Bluetooth low-energy connection and a tiny LCD for displaying notifications. They vibrate as well.
Separate batteries for the watch and Bluetooth parts mean that the watch runs for years even if you forget to charge the Bluetooth part. Can't remember what the Bluetooth battery life was like. I think it was a Casio... Actually I think it was a Casio women's watch, but presumably they do men's as well.
They do. I read the proposal, and for a start it doesn't say what Github thinks it says. It also doesn't propose any magic filters or even any new tech.
Most sites that allow user uploads already have some filtering in place for illegal material like known child pornography images. The EU is simply proposing that these existing filters might also be used for known copyright infringing files, which in fact many sites already do anyway.
Basically they are saying that once an infringing file is identified and checked, its hash would be added to the database to prevent further uploads rather than the copyright holder having to spam copyright claims.
Personally I'm still opposed to it, but if you read the actual proposal they have done extensive impact assessments and gone to some lengths to ensure that the burden isn't too great.
Stock manipulation, or Intel trying to stem the bleeding. I hear that a lot of big customers are switching to AMD now, especially cloud/datacentre people.
Meltdown's security ramifications were bad enough, the 60%+ performance hit was even worse. But AMD has been putting out some really innovative kit for server use too. Encrypted RAM, with a different key for each VM and only 2-3% performance loss. Much cheaper parts with many more PCIe lanes and better support for IOMMU pass-through. ECC support even on the consumer stuff. Sockets that last for many years.
Intel must be very happy about this, even if they are not involved somehow.
Not sure how useful translating back and forth is as a test. I use Chinese/English translation extensively and never need to do it. Any business trying to write a document collaboratively, especially a legal one, won't use machine translation anyway.
I tested Microsoft's effort. It's not bad. Baidu is also quite good, and Google is okay. Sometimes it helps to try the same phrase in a couple of different ones. Microsoft and Baidu seem to give more natural translations, but Google is better at correcting errors like mis-spellings and mis-drawn Chinese characters.
It kinda is surprising, as toys are, as you point out, one of the few things left where in-store sales and browsing works best.
Kids these days want things like apps, subscriptions and video games, as well as traditional toys. Browsing isn't so important... And actually, even back when I was a kid most of the browsing I did was in catalogues.
Toys'R'Us could have survived that if they had been better at making attractive stores that kids wanted to go to. Not the big warehouses they built, but destinations. I think the industry term is "retail theatre". It's like those "Build a Bear" places, it's pretty much impossible to survive just selling stuffed toys on the high street but they offer an experience that kids want.
They essentially buy a business with the help of a massive loan, saddle the purchased business with the loan, and then extract every penny they can until the company cannot pay back the loan, and then it's bankruptcy, liquidation, and onto the next target.
We have similar stories in the UK with successful catalogue shops like Argos and Littlewoods. The problem seems to be that they were unable to see past their existing business model but "on the internet".
They thought no-one would want to pay for postage. They thought people wouldn't want to wait in for deliveries, or even trust shopping by mail. They thought their web sites should be just like their catalogues, and definitely not full of user's comments and honest reviews.
Actually Maplin, which just went bust, is a great example of this. First they did a catalogue on CD-ROM. Then the web site was a Flash monstrosity, where you actually had to flip through virtual pages and couldn't buy anything. Eventually they made it a normal site, but the search function and categories were terrible and half the stuff was out of stock permanently. User reviews were filtered so only positive ones appeared.
Wikipedia can deal with this. They have measures like temporary protection, which can be anything from only allowing editors with accounts to make changes to freezing the article completely until the storm blows over.
Anyway, most of the viewers of the video won't actually go to Wikipedia. They will read the snippet and leave it at that. I expect the conspiracy videos will start featuring carefully cherry-picked parts of the Wikipedia articles in them, so that viewers are mislead and don't bother check the actual source because they think they have seen it. It's already a common tactic on many conspiracy channels.
The Tesla forums seem to confirm this, as does the fact that European owners have fewer issues because the cars are re-assembled and re-tested in the Netherlands and so get a second round of QA testing. Faults like trim not aligning, falcon wing doors not working, excessive rattle and noise when accelerating etc. that plague US owners are much less common here.
In other words the warranty repairs that US owners have to take their new cars into the service centres for are done at the factory in the EU. Even so there are still lots of issues, but US quality control seems to have some major problems.
Some stuff is design flaws as well. The doors on the Model X would damage the paint, and the fix was a strip of ugly plastic until they could redesign them and replace them on affected cars (100% of them over time). Same with the original Model X drivetrain, it would eventually start getting noisy and juddering under acceleration and your choice was either to get it replaced at 6 month intervals or wait for a redesign.
Don't get me wrong, I'd still buy one, but with the expectation that it would need a lot of servicing. If you are willing to take a chance you can save a lot of money by buying a returned "lemon" for a hefty discount, which hopefully has had all its issues addressed.
"Programming" is a huge field. Some types are very well paid and in demand, some are not.
My friend is doing front end Javascript. Apparently demand is huge and he is raking it in. I know, front end Javascript of all things. But he says back end guys are ten a penny. He used to do it himself but front end pays twice as much.
There is also the question of quality. In embedded stuff there are a lot of electrical engineers who write a bit of code too. They can do okay firmware for simple stuff, but if you want a big system doing you need to pay someone good. So there are companies that pay peanuts for electrical engineers with a bit of C experience, and companies who pay well for real embedded C developers.
So being Jewish depends on you acting like a Jew, doing Jew stuff like participating in the religion etc. But being a woman isn't dependent on your acting like a woman, doing woman stuff like wearing women's clothing etc.
Also, lots of non-religious people identify as Jewish because it's both a religion and a race. But you don't have to have Jewish race to be Jewish.
IOW trying to narrowly, strictly define these labels is futile and not at all related to how people actually use them.
According to TFA it would pull the following from Wikipeida:
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e., the state of being male, female, or an intersex variation), sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender identity.[1][2][3] People who do not identify as men or women or with masculine or feminine gender pronouns are often grouped under the umbrella terms non-binary or genderqueer. Some cultures have specific gender roles that are distinct from "man" and "woman," such as the hijras of South Asia. These are often referred to as third genders.
Some conspiracy theories have started using citations to add credibility to their claims. It's become quite common, especially among the "rational" community which centres around YouTube, and has been adopted by sites like Brietbart.
The thing is, the sources actually debunk them in most cases. But they know that most people don't check sources, or if they do they don't read past the headline. In fact the YouTube rationals have developed a technique for ensuring this, where they show part of the article and read it out in the video, so that viewers think they have seen it and there is no deception. 9 times out of 10 if you scroll just past where the video stops it debunks them.
So all that will happen is the conspiracy theories will incorporate the Wikipedia article, carefully cherry picking paragraphs and/or editing them, so that their lazy readership doesn't even bother to check for themselves.
as to Corbyn, the Conservative party which you would likely label "right wing" is currently in power thus right wing is apparently okay as well...
Yes. But what does that have to do with the alt-right, those at the very far end of the spectrum? White supremacists, literal Nazis, nationalists etc.
Should we marginalize them as well? Communists for example?
Wait, you are the one suggesting segregation... Which would imply that these less mainstream groups are segregated from the mainstream public view. Did you mean something else?
As to regulation, who watches the watchmen?
Most democracies have multiple branches keeping each other in check. An independent judiciary, two theoretically independent branches of legislature, devolved government, that sort of thing.
Or look at it the other way around, if you have no watchmen then you can have no laws as they are all unenforceable. Did not work very well for Somalia.
Or the third and much more reasonable option, which is to simply not get upset about women following the established procedure (manager, HR, employment regulators, police) and wait for the outcome of any investigation before passing judgement on her character and truthfulness.
I have to ask, did that simply not occur to you or are you deliberately ignoring it to make a straw man?
In Europe returns have to be free, except for postage in cases where there is nothing wrong with the item. If there is something wrong with it then the retailer pays postage as well. It's the law.
Overall it's a good thing. It protects consumers from being fleeced by things not matching the description or high shipping costs discouraging them from returning faulty items. Even when the item isn't faulty, the basic idea is that the consumer should have an opportunity to inspect it in person and reject it.
Another useful protection is that you don't have to return faulty items in original packaging. Some retailers used to screw people that way, especially with packaging that can't be opened without destroying it.
Your desired political ideology ALSO has no claim to the mainstream.
The current Labour Party under Corbyn is extremely mainstream. The biggest opposition party, with a realistic chance of being the next government. They are absolutely mainstream.
arbitrarily filtered
I don't think that word means what you think it means. In fact the main issue with it was that it wasn't arbitrary, it was algorithmic and creating a news bubble.
What I am suggesting is that you let the various groups define how the filters and algorithms that control how they see the site work.
Which is fine, but most people will just stick with the default.
You don't like the "right wing"... okay... why not simply suppress "right wing" users and sources so you never see them?
Because bubbles are bad and not all of their ideas are entirely without merit. Also, it's important to hear what they are saying in order to effectively argue against it.
Ideally people should be more tolerant and have good faith with the "marketplace of ideas" concept.
I would be all for such a marketplace, but unregulated capitalism doesn't work. In this marketplace of ideas you need a spam filter and some way of dealing with malicious actors. People will always try to abuse the system to amplify their messages, regardless of their merit.
It didn't start a discussion though, did it? Because most people are intelligent enough to spot a what-about-ism argument, especially the classic "but women are just as bad!" one. And in reality literally no-one here thinks that women are always blameless and never do bad things, so aren't going to rush to argue with you.
Slashdot Mirror
if you think there's any similarity between checking hash similarities on binary files to identify copies or copyright infringement and being able to identify meaningful similarity in computer source code that has any relevance whatsoever to copyright infringement,
Again, if you bother to read TFA they don't mention computer code at all. This is a draft proposal that is focused on video, photo and music sharing. It's not even a finished proposal yet, let alone a draft law. And there is very little reason to think, based on the text, that it would apply to source code.
In fact copyright protections for source code and things like encryption keys are weaker in the EU than the US anyway. And Github does regularly process DMCA take-downs, where as EU based sites have far fewer legal obligations with regards to user posted copyrighted content.
It's interesting because we can potentially build up a map of these business relationships and see how they abuse our data to profile us, and because it will make tracking down the source of leaks easier. When one of these companies gets hit with a leak we can see all the upstream victims who shared data with them.
It's also a handy map of easy pickings for hackers looking to nab some PayPal data. Most of these companies that work is outsourced to have crap security.
no lighting fires (and lights must be kept low); no working; no entertainment or pleasure; no traveling; and, for some, no talking or eating at all
I bet maternity wards are busy in September.
They will ask the ISP to disable their whole internet service. Remember that non-tech people often confuse only vaguely related things.
Wifi / internet
Hard drive / computer
USB / flash drive
Web Search / Bing
Why don't you just turn off useless notifications?
I've seen a few that are just normal analogue/digital watches but also have a Bluetooth low-energy connection and a tiny LCD for displaying notifications. They vibrate as well.
Separate batteries for the watch and Bluetooth parts mean that the watch runs for years even if you forget to charge the Bluetooth part. Can't remember what the Bluetooth battery life was like. I think it was a Casio... Actually I think it was a Casio women's watch, but presumably they do men's as well.
They do. I read the proposal, and for a start it doesn't say what Github thinks it says. It also doesn't propose any magic filters or even any new tech.
Most sites that allow user uploads already have some filtering in place for illegal material like known child pornography images. The EU is simply proposing that these existing filters might also be used for known copyright infringing files, which in fact many sites already do anyway.
Basically they are saying that once an infringing file is identified and checked, its hash would be added to the database to prevent further uploads rather than the copyright holder having to spam copyright claims.
Personally I'm still opposed to it, but if you read the actual proposal they have done extensive impact assessments and gone to some lengths to ensure that the burden isn't too great.
Stock manipulation, or Intel trying to stem the bleeding. I hear that a lot of big customers are switching to AMD now, especially cloud/datacentre people.
Meltdown's security ramifications were bad enough, the 60%+ performance hit was even worse. But AMD has been putting out some really innovative kit for server use too. Encrypted RAM, with a different key for each VM and only 2-3% performance loss. Much cheaper parts with many more PCIe lanes and better support for IOMMU pass-through. ECC support even on the consumer stuff. Sockets that last for many years.
Intel must be very happy about this, even if they are not involved somehow.
Not sure how useful translating back and forth is as a test. I use Chinese/English translation extensively and never need to do it. Any business trying to write a document collaboratively, especially a legal one, won't use machine translation anyway.
I tested Microsoft's effort. It's not bad. Baidu is also quite good, and Google is okay. Sometimes it helps to try the same phrase in a couple of different ones. Microsoft and Baidu seem to give more natural translations, but Google is better at correcting errors like mis-spellings and mis-drawn Chinese characters.
It kinda is surprising, as toys are, as you point out, one of the few things left where in-store sales and browsing works best.
Kids these days want things like apps, subscriptions and video games, as well as traditional toys. Browsing isn't so important... And actually, even back when I was a kid most of the browsing I did was in catalogues.
Toys'R'Us could have survived that if they had been better at making attractive stores that kids wanted to go to. Not the big warehouses they built, but destinations. I think the industry term is "retail theatre". It's like those "Build a Bear" places, it's pretty much impossible to survive just selling stuffed toys on the high street but they offer an experience that kids want.
They essentially buy a business with the help of a massive loan, saddle the purchased business with the loan, and then extract every penny they can until the company cannot pay back the loan, and then it's bankruptcy, liquidation, and onto the next target.
Which idiots keep lending them all this money?
We have similar stories in the UK with successful catalogue shops like Argos and Littlewoods. The problem seems to be that they were unable to see past their existing business model but "on the internet".
They thought no-one would want to pay for postage. They thought people wouldn't want to wait in for deliveries, or even trust shopping by mail. They thought their web sites should be just like their catalogues, and definitely not full of user's comments and honest reviews.
Actually Maplin, which just went bust, is a great example of this. First they did a catalogue on CD-ROM. Then the web site was a Flash monstrosity, where you actually had to flip through virtual pages and couldn't buy anything. Eventually they made it a normal site, but the search function and categories were terrible and half the stuff was out of stock permanently. User reviews were filtered so only positive ones appeared.
Wikipedia can deal with this. They have measures like temporary protection, which can be anything from only allowing editors with accounts to make changes to freezing the article completely until the storm blows over.
Anyway, most of the viewers of the video won't actually go to Wikipedia. They will read the snippet and leave it at that. I expect the conspiracy videos will start featuring carefully cherry-picked parts of the Wikipedia articles in them, so that viewers are mislead and don't bother check the actual source because they think they have seen it. It's already a common tactic on many conspiracy channels.
The Tesla forums seem to confirm this, as does the fact that European owners have fewer issues because the cars are re-assembled and re-tested in the Netherlands and so get a second round of QA testing. Faults like trim not aligning, falcon wing doors not working, excessive rattle and noise when accelerating etc. that plague US owners are much less common here.
In other words the warranty repairs that US owners have to take their new cars into the service centres for are done at the factory in the EU. Even so there are still lots of issues, but US quality control seems to have some major problems.
Some stuff is design flaws as well. The doors on the Model X would damage the paint, and the fix was a strip of ugly plastic until they could redesign them and replace them on affected cars (100% of them over time). Same with the original Model X drivetrain, it would eventually start getting noisy and juddering under acceleration and your choice was either to get it replaced at 6 month intervals or wait for a redesign.
Don't get me wrong, I'd still buy one, but with the expectation that it would need a lot of servicing. If you are willing to take a chance you can save a lot of money by buying a returned "lemon" for a hefty discount, which hopefully has had all its issues addressed.
Fair enough. I'll do it.
"Programming" is a huge field. Some types are very well paid and in demand, some are not.
My friend is doing front end Javascript. Apparently demand is huge and he is raking it in. I know, front end Javascript of all things. But he says back end guys are ten a penny. He used to do it himself but front end pays twice as much.
There is also the question of quality. In embedded stuff there are a lot of electrical engineers who write a bit of code too. They can do okay firmware for simple stuff, but if you want a big system doing you need to pay someone good. So there are companies that pay peanuts for electrical engineers with a bit of C experience, and companies who pay well for real embedded C developers.
I bet they haven't fixed the mouse wheel anyway.
Seriously. The mouse wheel being shit is the Achilles' heel of Linux desktop it seems. Only Fedora with KDE and an imwheel hack is even usable.
So being Jewish depends on you acting like a Jew, doing Jew stuff like participating in the religion etc. But being a woman isn't dependent on your acting like a woman, doing woman stuff like wearing women's clothing etc.
Also, lots of non-religious people identify as Jewish because it's both a religion and a race. But you don't have to have Jewish race to be Jewish.
IOW trying to narrowly, strictly define these labels is futile and not at all related to how people actually use them.
Looking for jobs in Europe there are plenty, and they seem more than interesting in non-female non-minority candidates.
Is the US really that bad? Have you considered a formal complaint on the grounds of discrimination?
According to TFA it would pull the following from Wikipeida:
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex (i.e., the state of being male, female, or an intersex variation), sex-based social structures (i.e., gender roles), or gender identity.[1][2][3] People who do not identify as men or women or with masculine or feminine gender pronouns are often grouped under the umbrella terms non-binary or genderqueer. Some cultures have specific gender roles that are distinct from "man" and "woman," such as the hijras of South Asia. These are often referred to as third genders.
Perhaps you can think of a better example.
Some conspiracy theories have started using citations to add credibility to their claims. It's become quite common, especially among the "rational" community which centres around YouTube, and has been adopted by sites like Brietbart.
The thing is, the sources actually debunk them in most cases. But they know that most people don't check sources, or if they do they don't read past the headline. In fact the YouTube rationals have developed a technique for ensuring this, where they show part of the article and read it out in the video, so that viewers think they have seen it and there is no deception. 9 times out of 10 if you scroll just past where the video stops it debunks them.
So all that will happen is the conspiracy theories will incorporate the Wikipedia article, carefully cherry picking paragraphs and/or editing them, so that their lazy readership doesn't even bother to check for themselves.
as to Corbyn, the Conservative party which you would likely label "right wing" is currently in power thus right wing is apparently okay as well...
Yes. But what does that have to do with the alt-right, those at the very far end of the spectrum? White supremacists, literal Nazis, nationalists etc.
Should we marginalize them as well? Communists for example?
Wait, you are the one suggesting segregation... Which would imply that these less mainstream groups are segregated from the mainstream public view. Did you mean something else?
As to regulation, who watches the watchmen?
Most democracies have multiple branches keeping each other in check. An independent judiciary, two theoretically independent branches of legislature, devolved government, that sort of thing.
Or look at it the other way around, if you have no watchmen then you can have no laws as they are all unenforceable. Did not work very well for Somalia.
Or the third and much more reasonable option, which is to simply not get upset about women following the established procedure (manager, HR, employment regulators, police) and wait for the outcome of any investigation before passing judgement on her character and truthfulness.
I have to ask, did that simply not occur to you or are you deliberately ignoring it to make a straw man?
In Europe returns have to be free, except for postage in cases where there is nothing wrong with the item. If there is something wrong with it then the retailer pays postage as well. It's the law.
Overall it's a good thing. It protects consumers from being fleeced by things not matching the description or high shipping costs discouraging them from returning faulty items. Even when the item isn't faulty, the basic idea is that the consumer should have an opportunity to inspect it in person and reject it.
Another useful protection is that you don't have to return faulty items in original packaging. Some retailers used to screw people that way, especially with packaging that can't be opened without destroying it.
Your desired political ideology ALSO has no claim to the mainstream.
The current Labour Party under Corbyn is extremely mainstream. The biggest opposition party, with a realistic chance of being the next government. They are absolutely mainstream.
arbitrarily filtered
I don't think that word means what you think it means. In fact the main issue with it was that it wasn't arbitrary, it was algorithmic and creating a news bubble.
What I am suggesting is that you let the various groups define how the filters and algorithms that control how they see the site work.
Which is fine, but most people will just stick with the default.
You don't like the "right wing"... okay... why not simply suppress "right wing" users and sources so you never see them?
Because bubbles are bad and not all of their ideas are entirely without merit. Also, it's important to hear what they are saying in order to effectively argue against it.
Ideally people should be more tolerant and have good faith with the "marketplace of ideas" concept.
I would be all for such a marketplace, but unregulated capitalism doesn't work. In this marketplace of ideas you need a spam filter and some way of dealing with malicious actors. People will always try to abuse the system to amplify their messages, regardless of their merit.
It didn't start a discussion though, did it? Because most people are intelligent enough to spot a what-about-ism argument, especially the classic "but women are just as bad!" one. And in reality literally no-one here thinks that women are always blameless and never do bad things, so aren't going to rush to argue with you.