It was a guy in the Netherlands and he lost his case, although I think an appeal was possible.
It's an interesting question. Being transgender is a well established and widely treated (in the developed world) medical condition. That guy just wanted to change his D.O.B. because he thought he was hot but not getting dates on Tinder because people were put off by his age...
Seems like it would make more sense to argue against having to give your age at all, or at least give your actual age as opposed to the one you wished to display, since the only thing it is used for is to filter you out of search results. Not sure that the ageism protections would extend to not allowing people to filter by age range though.
Make Equifax a non-profit for the next decade or two, with any money they make used to deal with identity theft and regulating the other credit reference agencies.
Japan has jail for companies, basically they are not allowed to do any business for a number of days but have to pay staff. It's means tested to avoid making people unemployed and can't be used as an excuse for layoffs etc. Equifax could do a 4 day week for a while.
How do you explain Trump then? He came in and disrupted the usual political landscape, a non-politician with no experience in office and few connections within the Republican party. Displaced a bunch of more mainstream, established candidates including Clinton and Cruz...
And yet he is also one of the most corrupt Presidents ever, loves giving jobs to his family and friends, uses the position to enrich himself, and at the very least seems to have surrounded himself with convicted/confessed criminals.
The problem is you need a lot of infrastructure. Poles, wires, grid connections, safety cut-out systems etc. Unlike trains it needs to be in a publicly accessible area too, further complicating maintenance and increasing costs.
My understanding is that it's to do with the way the almanac data describing the satellite orbits is transmitted. They send data for one point in time and the receiver extrapolates from there for the next 7 days. So the week number is associated with almanac data packages, and there is one package per week.
The data rate is extremely low (50 bps) so this trades some accuracy (as the predictions are never perfect and the error increases over time) for the ability to receive the data for all the satellites in a reasonable period of time. That allows a receiver to start from cold in a few minutes.
Those two are a little bit more limited in scope, in that they detect things in the cat's mouth rather than trying to determine if it's a cat or not and if the cat is healthy or in need of attention, but damn impressive for the time.
I wish someone would commercialize that tech. Mine brings all sorts of stuff home - mice, live birds, fish...
A slightly more humane option is to fix them so they can't reproduce.
Many people there keep cats to deal with rodents, but don't look after them properly and abandon them when they get pregnant or too old, so forcing them to get their cats neutered would be a good start. Aside from anything else it would extend the cat's working life considerably.
I used to do London to Tokyo via Helsinki, which only added an extra hour or so. But now if you want to pay the kind of prices I could go direct for a decade ago you have to go via South Korea or Hong Kong or Poland. A 12 hour flight became 13 hours via Finland and now 22 hours via SK in the best case.
Oh, and you have to change airports in SK, and the train ticket machine doesn't take credit cards, as I discovered.
There is also a move away from direct flights. Direct is faster but more expensive, the cheapest option is usually to have a stop over somewhere.
Luxury carriers like Emirates are more able to handle the higher costs, but the cheaper ones seem to have found that people are willing to add time to their journey to save money.
Unfortunately this has further polarized the market. It used to be that you could save maybe 100-150 Euro by adding an extra hour or two to your long distance 12 hour flight, but now it's more like saving 500 Euro but you have to add 8 hours, and there is nothing in-between.
GDPR makes the fine up to 4% of global turnover, which seems like a good way of scaling it to the size of the company. The money should go to the victims, although due to it being difficult to identify them that probably means it would be spent on providing everyone with stuff like identity fraud protection.
Could also be a rollover of days since some time in 1923 (16 bit signed int). 1923 is a popular epoch as that was when it was decided to settle on the modern calendar and dates before then can be ambiguous. It's also possible that it's just an overflow in the calculation using that value, that wasn't tested when it gets very large.
Either way, I wouldn't rely on it working after April 6th. There doesn't appear to be a firmware fix either.
1) They don't ask for specific consent to do that, which is required under GDPR.
2) They keep the data indefinitely, without any kind of anonymization, for the claimed purpose of improving their storytelling. If they kept it for you benefit that might be different, but they are keeping it to help themselves... Forever, and without asking first.
Would it really be so hard for them to ask up front "can we store this forever and use it, or would you prefer us to delete/anonymize the data after a while, noting that your progress will be lost?"
Google "record user session javascript" and see what comes up. Many platforms have to built in these days. The site can record every keystroke, every mouse movement or click, window resize events, scrolling, pretty much every interaction. Similar stuff exists for apps on mobile platforms too.
Developers love it, they can see how people interact with their work and reproduce bugs. Unfortunately it's also a privacy nightmare and somewhat difficult to block consistently.
100kWh is very small for a bus. 450kWh is not uncommon in China.
The main issue for reuse is that the batteries tend to be shaped and wired for the specific model of bus in question, and it's not trivial to hook them up to anything else. The Battery Management System (BMS) and charging requirements are probably all proprietary and locked behind NDAs. So you either need cooperation from the manufacturer or you have to strip the pack down and extract the cells, then build a new pack.
Sounds like something that could be improved with regulation - force the information necessary to operate the battery to be published, and then people can build their own home battery packs. Well, in the case of a bus it would be more like an apartment block or neighbourhood scale backup battery.
With Unix they didn't really pick 32 bits as being "good enough", it was just the largest they could easily handle at the time.
With GPS they probably just assumed that the military would update or replace receivers when necessary. Civilian use wasn't a major concern, and due to the cost of the equipment they probably didn't consider the use-case where every cheap $10 smart device from China has a GPS receiver in it.
A compliance car is one built for the primary purpose of reducing fleet emissions and complying with the rules. The iPace is helping do that, but it's not it's main reason for existing. Jaguar bet heavily on diesel and are now seeing sales suffer badly because of the scandals and a general move away from that fuel, so need to pivot fast to electric. It's a genuine effort by them to build a solid EV that their customers will want to buy.
A compliance car is something like the Fiat 500e, where minimal effort was made and they aren't very interested in selling too many of them. Try finding it on Fiat's web site. The iPace is on the front page of Jaguar's, second only to the XF.
Conditions for most Chinese people have improved immeasurably in the last few decades. Factory jobs are sought after, the conditions are pretty good now too because there is so much competition for good workers. The young are rejecting the old "996" model (work from 9 AM to 9 PM, 6 days a week) seeing opportunities in education and new industries.
Economic development brings social development and liberalization.
Nothing will happen any time soon because for most Chinese people things are improving rapidly, and they are are happy about it. I've seen the house where my wife grew up - it's made of stone, no windows, no plumbing... And now her mother lives in a seven story mansion, as do most of her old neighbours.
The Communist Party knows that things will have to keep changing though, if they want to avoid the firing squad forever. It will be interesting to see which direction they go with it. In some ways Hong Kong is an experiment for them, to see what the mainland's future could be like.
Except that California is one of the wealthiest states with the highest wages, where as the poorer ones where most people are making under $50k are the ones that vote Republican, i.e. for tax and benefit cuts.
The Guardian has managed to make a voluntary donation model work for them. The site is free with some ads, or you can donate. I was actually surprised that it worked, but they are now doing pretty well from it.
Seems that even generic news outlets can provide enough quality to get people to give them money, even when the content is ad-supported free anyway.
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It was a guy in the Netherlands and he lost his case, although I think an appeal was possible.
It's an interesting question. Being transgender is a well established and widely treated (in the developed world) medical condition. That guy just wanted to change his D.O.B. because he thought he was hot but not getting dates on Tinder because people were put off by his age...
Seems like it would make more sense to argue against having to give your age at all, or at least give your actual age as opposed to the one you wished to display, since the only thing it is used for is to filter you out of search results. Not sure that the ageism protections would extend to not allowing people to filter by age range though.
Make Equifax a non-profit for the next decade or two, with any money they make used to deal with identity theft and regulating the other credit reference agencies.
Japan has jail for companies, basically they are not allowed to do any business for a number of days but have to pay staff. It's means tested to avoid making people unemployed and can't be used as an excuse for layoffs etc. Equifax could do a 4 day week for a while.
How do you explain Trump then? He came in and disrupted the usual political landscape, a non-politician with no experience in office and few connections within the Republican party. Displaced a bunch of more mainstream, established candidates including Clinton and Cruz...
And yet he is also one of the most corrupt Presidents ever, loves giving jobs to his family and friends, uses the position to enrich himself, and at the very least seems to have surrounded himself with convicted/confessed criminals.
The problem is you need a lot of infrastructure. Poles, wires, grid connections, safety cut-out systems etc. Unlike trains it needs to be in a publicly accessible area too, further complicating maintenance and increasing costs.
My understanding is that it's to do with the way the almanac data describing the satellite orbits is transmitted. They send data for one point in time and the receiver extrapolates from there for the next 7 days. So the week number is associated with almanac data packages, and there is one package per week.
The data rate is extremely low (50 bps) so this trades some accuracy (as the predictions are never perfect and the error increases over time) for the ability to receive the data for all the satellites in a reasonable period of time. That allows a receiver to start from cold in a few minutes.
Found it: https://lmb.informatik.uni-fre...
Which mentions an even older project from around 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Those two are a little bit more limited in scope, in that they detect things in the cat's mouth rather than trying to determine if it's a cat or not and if the cat is healthy or in need of attention, but damn impressive for the time.
I wish someone would commercialize that tech. Mine brings all sorts of stuff home - mice, live birds, fish...
Probably for the safety of the dogs as well. When cats and dogs exist in the same space, cats are usually the dominant ones.
A slightly more humane option is to fix them so they can't reproduce.
Many people there keep cats to deal with rodents, but don't look after them properly and abandon them when they get pregnant or too old, so forcing them to get their cats neutered would be a good start. Aside from anything else it would extend the cat's working life considerably.
I used to do London to Tokyo via Helsinki, which only added an extra hour or so. But now if you want to pay the kind of prices I could go direct for a decade ago you have to go via South Korea or Hong Kong or Poland. A 12 hour flight became 13 hours via Finland and now 22 hours via SK in the best case.
Oh, and you have to change airports in SK, and the train ticket machine doesn't take credit cards, as I discovered.
Thanks, that was very informative.
There is also a move away from direct flights. Direct is faster but more expensive, the cheapest option is usually to have a stop over somewhere.
Luxury carriers like Emirates are more able to handle the higher costs, but the cheaper ones seem to have found that people are willing to add time to their journey to save money.
Unfortunately this has further polarized the market. It used to be that you could save maybe 100-150 Euro by adding an extra hour or two to your long distance 12 hour flight, but now it's more like saving 500 Euro but you have to add 8 hours, and there is nothing in-between.
13 bits of week numbers is about 137 years... Shouldn't it be good for at least a century? Presumably they moved the epoch for the new field as well.
GDPR makes the fine up to 4% of global turnover, which seems like a good way of scaling it to the size of the company. The money should go to the victims, although due to it being difficult to identify them that probably means it would be spent on providing everyone with stuff like identity fraud protection.
Could also be a rollover of days since some time in 1923 (16 bit signed int). 1923 is a popular epoch as that was when it was decided to settle on the modern calendar and dates before then can be ambiguous. It's also possible that it's just an overflow in the calculation using that value, that wasn't tested when it gets very large.
Either way, I wouldn't rely on it working after April 6th. There doesn't appear to be a firmware fix either.
The only person at risk of being sued would be the government in that case, not the companies that were forced to use their ToS.
The issues are:
1) They don't ask for specific consent to do that, which is required under GDPR.
2) They keep the data indefinitely, without any kind of anonymization, for the claimed purpose of improving their storytelling. If they kept it for you benefit that might be different, but they are keeping it to help themselves... Forever, and without asking first.
Would it really be so hard for them to ask up front "can we store this forever and use it, or would you prefer us to delete/anonymize the data after a while, noting that your progress will be lost?"
Been happening for years.
Google "record user session javascript" and see what comes up. Many platforms have to built in these days. The site can record every keystroke, every mouse movement or click, window resize events, scrolling, pretty much every interaction. Similar stuff exists for apps on mobile platforms too.
Developers love it, they can see how people interact with their work and reproduce bugs. Unfortunately it's also a privacy nightmare and somewhat difficult to block consistently.
100kWh is very small for a bus. 450kWh is not uncommon in China.
The main issue for reuse is that the batteries tend to be shaped and wired for the specific model of bus in question, and it's not trivial to hook them up to anything else. The Battery Management System (BMS) and charging requirements are probably all proprietary and locked behind NDAs. So you either need cooperation from the manufacturer or you have to strip the pack down and extract the cells, then build a new pack.
Sounds like something that could be improved with regulation - force the information necessary to operate the battery to be published, and then people can build their own home battery packs. Well, in the case of a bus it would be more like an apartment block or neighbourhood scale backup battery.
With Unix they didn't really pick 32 bits as being "good enough", it was just the largest they could easily handle at the time.
With GPS they probably just assumed that the military would update or replace receivers when necessary. Civilian use wasn't a major concern, and due to the cost of the equipment they probably didn't consider the use-case where every cheap $10 smart device from China has a GPS receiver in it.
The PayPal one is famously longer then Hamlet... Or was that Apple?
Regulation is needed. Make a few standard terms and let companies only pick one of them. Read once, applies the same everywhere.
That also means we get to decide the terms, e.g. there won't be a "we own all your photos and can sell them" option.
A compliance car is one built for the primary purpose of reducing fleet emissions and complying with the rules. The iPace is helping do that, but it's not it's main reason for existing. Jaguar bet heavily on diesel and are now seeing sales suffer badly because of the scandals and a general move away from that fuel, so need to pivot fast to electric. It's a genuine effort by them to build a solid EV that their customers will want to buy.
A compliance car is something like the Fiat 500e, where minimal effort was made and they aren't very interested in selling too many of them. Try finding it on Fiat's web site. The iPace is on the front page of Jaguar's, second only to the XF.
Conditions for most Chinese people have improved immeasurably in the last few decades. Factory jobs are sought after, the conditions are pretty good now too because there is so much competition for good workers. The young are rejecting the old "996" model (work from 9 AM to 9 PM, 6 days a week) seeing opportunities in education and new industries.
Economic development brings social development and liberalization.
Nothing will happen any time soon because for most Chinese people things are improving rapidly, and they are are happy about it. I've seen the house where my wife grew up - it's made of stone, no windows, no plumbing... And now her mother lives in a seven story mansion, as do most of her old neighbours.
The Communist Party knows that things will have to keep changing though, if they want to avoid the firing squad forever. It will be interesting to see which direction they go with it. In some ways Hong Kong is an experiment for them, to see what the mainland's future could be like.
Except that California is one of the wealthiest states with the highest wages, where as the poorer ones where most people are making under $50k are the ones that vote Republican, i.e. for tax and benefit cuts.
The Guardian has managed to make a voluntary donation model work for them. The site is free with some ads, or you can donate. I was actually surprised that it worked, but they are now doing pretty well from it.
Seems that even generic news outlets can provide enough quality to get people to give them money, even when the content is ad-supported free anyway.