It's a shame the article doesn't give more information on what exactly they are developing. Okay, a more powerful laser can take down missiles, but you need a targeting system that can track them. It's not just a case of getting a faster computer - at that speed you are starting to have problems with the round trip time of radio waves from your radar system being too long to accurately predict where the missile will be at any significant distance, and by the time you figure it out it's too late.
I wonder if we will start to see greater heat shielding or other countermeasures on missiles. Of course hypersonic missiles are already shielded because the air resistance alone heats them up significantly.
There is no pretense, that this somehow guards some fundamental human right.
US human rights are rather weak though. In the EU they are much stronger, and privacy is one of them.
Not reporting is one thing. Mandatory amnesia is another.
So you agree that it's fine? It's not mandatory amnesia, it's just not reporting and in some cases requiring businesses to purge old data from storage, which again is completely normal and has been the case for centuries. Individuals are not required to erase their own memories.
Your whole argument appears to be a straw man because you didn't understand the rule and thought it applied to individual's memory.
So the EU is trying to get Google to stop doing something in America which is specifically protected in the US Constitution by punishing the EU subsidiaries.
That's what I said, you are agreeing with me. The point that the French are making is that just because some other country makes something legal, doesn't mean that some subsidiary in France can say "oh but it's legal over there, and even though we use all the data and services from that country in France we are still exempt from French law". Basically if google.fr used its own search database and services rather than just a localized version of the.com one, they wouldn't be making this argument.
it won't be long until China starts doing this to foreign companies with Chinese presence.
It already does. Remember the issues with Google and other mapping services displaying Taiwan and Tibet in ways not recognized by the Chinese government? Google pulled out of China over that and other similar issues.
they should build their own version of the Great Firewall and leave the rest of the world alone
Country grade firewalls are only required for blocking foreign sites. Google serves its sites from within France, from servers in French data centres, and their French subsidiary is, legally speaking, not a completely separate entity to the parent anyway.
I'm not defending the French here, I think this does go a bit too far. I'm just trying to explain the reasoning they are using and the legal situation in the EU, because most of the debate doesn't seem to be aware of it.
Basically it is only really effective against slow moving targets like drones and boats. It might get lucky with incoming missiles, but limited range is a big problem and the US doesn't even have effective tracking and targeting systems for current generation hypersonic missiles that Russia and India are rolling out.
So there is no regulation of personal data in the US? A credit reference agency can list your bankruptcy from the 70s? In the EU there are time limits, legally enforced. Credit reference agencies are legally required to "forget", by not reporting such things.
That makes us more free. Businesses can't oppress us with databases.
You can do the maths yourself. The cost of electricity from the diesel generator is given in the article, and it's high because burning diesel in a relatively small system (compared to a power station) is not very efficient.
Typical domestic payback periods in western Europe are well under 5 years now. India has better insolation... Run the numbers yourself if you like, it's all in the article.
>Why the distinction? If this right really is so fundamental as fans claim it to be, why should not it apply to other individuals?
Because the law can't regulate human memory. That would be crazy.
Also because in the EU it is common for businesses to be held to different standards, because they wield more power than individuals and their power needs to be kept in check. That's why we have better consumer and employment rights.
The rule doesn't apply to the web site hosting the data in most cases. It applies to companies providing information about individuals on request, i.e. Google when someone types in your name or credit reference agencies.
Things like newspapers are mostly not affected, but it's debatable if having a search box on their web site might create some liability.
The first question I have is; How much to install more energy efficient equipment on the train? Second question is; How does that cost/benefit compare to added solar panels and weight. Solar panels only help part of the time, energy efficiency improvements will help 24/7. Unfortunately these articles never give us that kind of critical information, they are more about the symbolic wonder of solar panels.
I think it's safe to assume that the rail company will have thought of that and done the calculations, don't you?
In any case, why not do both? In fact, that's probably what they are doing. It's a shame that TFA doesn't mention it, but I seriously doubt that there is any symbolism going on here.
It's just a practicality thing. You could do it, but aside from the engineering complexity (which will inevitably result in reduced reliability) the amount of energy left over after running the carriages is probably not worth the effort. Maybe in a future version where reliability has reached very high levels and been proven.
India is a pretty big place. 1.3 billion people. Sure, in some places people sit on the roof, but in other places the infrastructure is more modern and less crowded.
TFA mentions that those trains do 80 kph, which is way too fast to be hanging on to without large numbers of people being killed. The ones covered in people move very slowly.
The issue is probably not labour cost, it's likely supply. If you want to make a device like the Surface Hub, you need a massive LCD panel for a start. So either you carefully ship some massive LCD panels all the way from the factory in China/Korea/Japan or you just assemble the whole thing over there into a handy protective chassis. And if one panel fails QA you just get your supplier to send another one overnight.
It's a cascade failure. Once you get rid of a few key suppliers in one country, it becomes much harder to make other stuff, so that moves too... And the only way to reverse it is to coordinate starting multiple new businesses to build everything you need.
Tesla is having some success. Created demand for batteries, now owns a battery factory. Gotta be confident you are going to sell a lot of batteries though.
That isn't the argument being made here. The French are saying that because Google has a search business in France, they are covered by French law and thus the parent company to which it is linked must also comply.
It's similar to how just because a company is incorporated in some tax haven and sets up a subsidiary in France, doesn't mean that the French staff can't be held responsible if the parent company refuses to provide legally required financial information to the French authorities. Especially as the accountants are all in the EU anyway.
At least, that's their argument, but it seems that it's not getting reported. I'm not really convinced to be honest... They might have a reasonable case for saying that even accessing google.com from within the EU should be covered by EU laws, since the servers are located in the EU, but getting the results removed for people viewing from the US is unlikely to be supported by the EU court I think.
The SoC is an ARM CPU (designed in England), and a modem designed in Korea and China (check the patents). Don't know what audio codec they use but I doubt they bothered to do their own, probably grabbed some VHDL from Realtek or something. GPU was designed in the UK too, until recently, but sure where they got the latest one from.
iPhone battery life is rather poor compared to my Chinese OnePlus phone.
By that logic all Chinese companies need to do to claim that their phones are American is hire a guy in California to draw a rectangle on a sheet of paper and call that the design document. Sure, a lot of it was engineered overseas, just like the iPhone, but it was designed in California so it's an American phone!
I'd rather pay 1/3rd the price for a better spec phone, and then replace it after two years when the OS updates stop coming. I could install LegacyOS if I wanted more life out of it, but I'd rather give it to someone else and get a new one for myself.
It doesn't even seem to fit the American English definition. A trolley is either a wheeled device you push around, or short for trolleybus which is a vehicle powered by overhead electric cabling. The latter is usually on rails, or at least guided, so that it doesn't wonder away from its source of power.
This thing appears to be an electric bus. A fairly small one. The manufacturer doesn't describe it as a trolley.
By default Bitlocker only allows you to use a PIN number for pre-boot authentication. Reason being that the only keys on a keyboard that are guaranteed to be the same on every layout are the special function keys (F1...F10). You can disable that restriction via group policy.
In Chrome if you set it to remember passwords it will fill in the password field for you. Okay, someone accessing your machine can log in as you, but they can't actually find out what your password was because to reveal it they also need your OS account password. The "view password" feature in Chrome prompts for it.
I'll admit that this is a fairly weak layer of security, but it's still worth having in place.
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It's a shame the article doesn't give more information on what exactly they are developing. Okay, a more powerful laser can take down missiles, but you need a targeting system that can track them. It's not just a case of getting a faster computer - at that speed you are starting to have problems with the round trip time of radio waves from your radar system being too long to accurately predict where the missile will be at any significant distance, and by the time you figure it out it's too late.
I wonder if we will start to see greater heat shielding or other countermeasures on missiles. Of course hypersonic missiles are already shielded because the air resistance alone heats them up significantly.
There is no pretense, that this somehow guards some fundamental human right.
US human rights are rather weak though. In the EU they are much stronger, and privacy is one of them.
Not reporting is one thing. Mandatory amnesia is another.
So you agree that it's fine? It's not mandatory amnesia, it's just not reporting and in some cases requiring businesses to purge old data from storage, which again is completely normal and has been the case for centuries. Individuals are not required to erase their own memories.
Your whole argument appears to be a straw man because you didn't understand the rule and thought it applied to individual's memory.
So the EU is trying to get Google to stop doing something in America which is specifically protected in the US Constitution by punishing the EU subsidiaries.
That's what I said, you are agreeing with me. The point that the French are making is that just because some other country makes something legal, doesn't mean that some subsidiary in France can say "oh but it's legal over there, and even though we use all the data and services from that country in France we are still exempt from French law". Basically if google.fr used its own search database and services rather than just a localized version of the .com one, they wouldn't be making this argument.
it won't be long until China starts doing this to foreign companies with Chinese presence.
It already does. Remember the issues with Google and other mapping services displaying Taiwan and Tibet in ways not recognized by the Chinese government? Google pulled out of China over that and other similar issues.
they should build their own version of the Great Firewall and leave the rest of the world alone
Country grade firewalls are only required for blocking foreign sites. Google serves its sites from within France, from servers in French data centres, and their French subsidiary is, legally speaking, not a completely separate entity to the parent anyway.
I'm not defending the French here, I think this does go a bit too far. I'm just trying to explain the reasoning they are using and the legal situation in the EU, because most of the debate doesn't seem to be aware of it.
Basically it is only really effective against slow moving targets like drones and boats. It might get lucky with incoming missiles, but limited range is a big problem and the US doesn't even have effective tracking and targeting systems for current generation hypersonic missiles that Russia and India are rolling out.
Reminder: -1 overrated is not your personal censorship tool for things you disagree with, Stop ruining Slashdot.
So there is no regulation of personal data in the US? A credit reference agency can list your bankruptcy from the 70s? In the EU there are time limits, legally enforced. Credit reference agencies are legally required to "forget", by not reporting such things.
That makes us more free. Businesses can't oppress us with databases.
You can do the maths yourself. The cost of electricity from the diesel generator is given in the article, and it's high because burning diesel in a relatively small system (compared to a power station) is not very efficient.
Typical domestic payback periods in western Europe are well under 5 years now. India has better insolation... Run the numbers yourself if you like, it's all in the article.
>Why the distinction? If this right really is so fundamental as fans claim it to be, why should not it apply to other individuals?
Because the law can't regulate human memory. That would be crazy.
Also because in the EU it is common for businesses to be held to different standards, because they wield more power than individuals and their power needs to be kept in check. That's why we have better consumer and employment rights.
The rule doesn't apply to the web site hosting the data in most cases. It applies to companies providing information about individuals on request, i.e. Google when someone types in your name or credit reference agencies.
Things like newspapers are mostly not affected, but it's debatable if having a search box on their web site might create some liability.
The right to be forgotten applies to businesses storing and using personal data. It doesn't apply to you.
The right is very real. Companies like Google have respected it, courts have enforced it.
What "support" would they need? It's their money. The sums on pay back time suggest less than a year.
The first question I have is; How much to install more energy efficient equipment on the train? Second question is; How does that cost/benefit compare to added solar panels and weight. Solar panels only help part of the time, energy efficiency improvements will help 24/7. Unfortunately these articles never give us that kind of critical information, they are more about the symbolic wonder of solar panels.
I think it's safe to assume that the rail company will have thought of that and done the calculations, don't you?
In any case, why not do both? In fact, that's probably what they are doing. It's a shame that TFA doesn't mention it, but I seriously doubt that there is any symbolism going on here.
It's just a practicality thing. You could do it, but aside from the engineering complexity (which will inevitably result in reduced reliability) the amount of energy left over after running the carriages is probably not worth the effort. Maybe in a future version where reliability has reached very high levels and been proven.
India is a pretty big place. 1.3 billion people. Sure, in some places people sit on the roof, but in other places the infrastructure is more modern and less crowded.
TFA mentions that those trains do 80 kph, which is way too fast to be hanging on to without large numbers of people being killed. The ones covered in people move very slowly.
The issue is probably not labour cost, it's likely supply. If you want to make a device like the Surface Hub, you need a massive LCD panel for a start. So either you carefully ship some massive LCD panels all the way from the factory in China/Korea/Japan or you just assemble the whole thing over there into a handy protective chassis. And if one panel fails QA you just get your supplier to send another one overnight.
It's a cascade failure. Once you get rid of a few key suppliers in one country, it becomes much harder to make other stuff, so that moves too... And the only way to reverse it is to coordinate starting multiple new businesses to build everything you need.
Tesla is having some success. Created demand for batteries, now owns a battery factory. Gotta be confident you are going to sell a lot of batteries though.
That isn't the argument being made here. The French are saying that because Google has a search business in France, they are covered by French law and thus the parent company to which it is linked must also comply.
It's similar to how just because a company is incorporated in some tax haven and sets up a subsidiary in France, doesn't mean that the French staff can't be held responsible if the parent company refuses to provide legally required financial information to the French authorities. Especially as the accountants are all in the EU anyway.
At least, that's their argument, but it seems that it's not getting reported. I'm not really convinced to be honest... They might have a reasonable case for saying that even accessing google.com from within the EU should be covered by EU laws, since the servers are located in the EU, but getting the results removed for people viewing from the US is unlikely to be supported by the EU court I think.
The SoC is an ARM CPU (designed in England), and a modem designed in Korea and China (check the patents). Don't know what audio codec they use but I doubt they bothered to do their own, probably grabbed some VHDL from Realtek or something. GPU was designed in the UK too, until recently, but sure where they got the latest one from.
iPhone battery life is rather poor compared to my Chinese OnePlus phone.
In France they call them chariots.
Just wanted to mention that.
By that logic all Chinese companies need to do to claim that their phones are American is hire a guy in California to draw a rectangle on a sheet of paper and call that the design document. Sure, a lot of it was engineered overseas, just like the iPhone, but it was designed in California so it's an American phone!
I'd rather pay 1/3rd the price for a better spec phone, and then replace it after two years when the OS updates stop coming. I could install LegacyOS if I wanted more life out of it, but I'd rather give it to someone else and get a new one for myself.
Don't tell me you call a car bonnet a "hood" even though you don't pull it over your head.
It doesn't even seem to fit the American English definition. A trolley is either a wheeled device you push around, or short for trolleybus which is a vehicle powered by overhead electric cabling. The latter is usually on rails, or at least guided, so that it doesn't wonder away from its source of power.
This thing appears to be an electric bus. A fairly small one. The manufacturer doesn't describe it as a trolley.
What could be more wonderful than funding bike paths?
Funding bike paths with a tax on pollution or unhealthy food.
By default Bitlocker only allows you to use a PIN number for pre-boot authentication. Reason being that the only keys on a keyboard that are guaranteed to be the same on every layout are the special function keys (F1...F10). You can disable that restriction via group policy.
In Chrome if you set it to remember passwords it will fill in the password field for you. Okay, someone accessing your machine can log in as you, but they can't actually find out what your password was because to reveal it they also need your OS account password. The "view password" feature in Chrome prompts for it.
I'll admit that this is a fairly weak layer of security, but it's still worth having in place.