A CSV based scripting/DSL language could actually be viable, though terribly ugly. Admitedly HTML & CSS are arguable. You can write some pretty elaborate selectors in CSS, but I'd still consider it a declarative markup over a language. Its probably just a conspiracy to keep bash outside the top 10!
Blah blah 'real gamers' rhetoric is the most boring card played on Slashdot these days. You are a data point, and probably an insignifiant one if your world removes the revenues of casual/MMO/consoles from the world of gaming. Lets all stand up and applaud AC for their insightful and self-centered world view! *golfclap*
MMO's are a crappy comparison because: 1. It is SOO important to have a good set of people to play with that 'switching to MMO xyz' immediately becomes extremely difficult. Maybe in a series of multiverse guilds supported by some awesome gaming service hub could work like a guilds-out-of-games social service, but it doesn't exist, so the entropy moving from title to title is very hard at this point 2. MMO's in general wear you down in ways that make you never want to go back to MMO's. I like to grind once and a while because I'm sadistic, but I imagine a lot of people who've played MMO's never went back because the genre was so punishing 3. The entire 'point' of an MMO (as well as other genre titles) is to suck you into their playing system in a way that moving off to competitors becomes too high cost. Oh you wanna drop sub and play that -other- game? Well sure, but we'll delete your content after being idle for a certain time, etc.. like that
There are certainly some holy wars of gaming which have polarized gamers against one another, such as DOTA 2 / LOL. That doens't mean people can't enjoy the fruits of both, but people tend to stick to what they're used to for 'regularly played' games regardless of the competition. Realistically, the games are so close that anyone competent on one could be the same with some training for the other.
I'm sorry, weren't universities supposed to be about aristocrats with no real obligations learning to make the world a better place? When did this whole populace at large things enter academia? Oh that's right. it was about the time that 'society' deemed education a worthwhile pursuit.
Don't get me wrong, I think WAYY too many people enter academia for the wrong reasons. That's on society at large. Post-secondary eduction should not be an obligation for a 'good job'. It should be a true pursuit to make society a better place. It should be about researching thesis' that are actually relevant and innovative.
The US has almost 30% of the population with at least a batchelors. in the 40's that was 5%. This is a huge shift in the eductional system as a whole. Admitedly, there are a lot more jobs that require higher education or at least specialized vocational training than back then, but to the extent of 6x the original?
As I've been told many times, masters thesis' end up being cookie cutters year after year because with the huge glut of people working their way up the academia ladder aren't actually innovating anything, at least not much which a similarly trained student wouldn't consider obvious. They're just churning out regurgitated material to advance to the next level. Who can blame them? There were When they eventually gets spat out of the system at PHD or they run out of money, many are incapable of being valuable contributing members of society (at least as their eduction for the last 20+? years has accrued).
Probably not considering they do it already with phones, nexus players, chomecasts, etc.. Though I do hope they have a fallback partition / auto-recovery in the case of things going south. I probably won't be buying one as I have a good setup already, but depending on how its implemented, I could see recommending this to the aunt betsy's of the world.
For dev work sure, 16 is pretty good. I'd say 8 was a pretty good sweet spot. I've got 16 on my desktop, 16 on my laptop and 64 on my latest server and only the server comes close to using its capacity (2 DB's and some appservers).
The desktop workload is maybe 10GB when I'm testing a full stack IDE/Client/AppServer/Database, but generally speaking 8GB is generally fine unless I'm really hammering it. Add another couple GB max if I'm doing perf analysis over the full stack, but that's not very often at all.
I don't know if your your top of FF is counting graphics ram (I believe Linux does). My current windows based FF is 600MB with 6 tabs. Still a lot for 6 tabs, but oh well.
Java has immense value, may the single greatest value outside of Windows/Office/Linux/C&C++ compilers, but it has practically no revenue. Almost all very large enterprise systems that sell for obsence amounts of money are built on or inter-operate with Java in fundamental ways. They don't sell PC language/runtime, so instead, Sun monitized:
1. Mobile platforms, because the 'market' for the runtime was only a few carriers they could get away with charging them big bucks for the dev. This market is now essentially dead with the end of 'dumb' phones and carrier/manufacturer locked platforms (IOS started the ball rolling, but Android gave it the knockout punch) 2. Very niche JVM improvements (like RTJava) which are technically still kicking around but very low on revenue 3. Add-on's to core functionality (Middle-ware servers). Despite there being significant OSS competition, they still make boat loads of money here
Oracle bought and kept Java for no other reason than it was a cornerstone to so many of their profitable businesses that they couldn't have it ruined by outsiders. The sad fact is that the biggest detriment to Java has been Oracle themselves, but that's a completely different matter.
1. The error they spewed was a runtime error that could never be caught in compilation (duplicate primary key in the DB table) 2. The static analysis built into Javac is way more than I've personally seen in stock C++ compilers (though my knowledge is limited). Hell, most of the time people leave compiler warnings off even when it keeps bad smells out of code (through some safety flags are too aggressive on error setting) 3. There are a boat load of off the shelf OSS static analysis tools for Java that find significantly more complicated coding errors if the built-in javac variants aren't sufficient
The good thing is a knowledgeable developer could look at that and find the source of that specific problem in 5 seconds.
So the solution is to double down on corruption? Your cynicism accomplishes nothing.
The only reason you have some level of accountability for these crimes, yes they are crimes, is to actively fight those attempting to perpetrate them. They may be largely ineffective for some scenarios, but it makes the world vastly better as a whole if it wasn't. Fifa scandle being the latest most notable example would never happen if we sat on our hands letting people have free reign. Want someone killed? Slip some cash into the right hands. Dig up dirt? Sure, just greese the right wheels. Dump 1000tons of waste into that lake? Well, how much is it worth to you? This is NOT the world I want to live in and shame on your for encouraging it.
Frankly, this is one of the main reasons I've been siding against economic open borders and free flow of liquidity. There are too many countries with big holes in their enforcement of financial crimes (if said crimes are even on the books).
You're on crack. I and my parents have all driven road trips through Mexico, and though road side inspections can sometimes be intimidating (young punk kids with AK's on their backs), they generally poke around your luggage for contraband and send us on our merry way (if they hadn't just wave us though, which is what normally happens).
You could... I don't know look at the batery meter and tell any red flags to battery life. There certainly are applications on any device that drain batteries pretty well. That said, there is a cost for having basically immediate callbacks to online services and that are largely invisible to the user.
Now maybe your phone was a lemon, or maybe your Winmo phone has a significantly bigger battery, who knows, not enough info. But by far most common reasons for 'idle' power drains (in no particular order):
1. Cell service (bad service areas seem to cause significantly higher battery drain for me subjectively) 2. Wifi (pings, kepalives, receving network broadcasts, etc.) 3. Bluetooth (if the comm isn't v4) 4. Background services (most likely account syncs and such, all OS's do it, but some more heavily than others) 5. CPU usage processing all of the above's callbacks, schedules, non-ideal program's polling
I've had many Android phones over the years, and battery life varied largely. One could barely survive a 12 hour day while another could maybe last 2 days of light use. I've had phones with apps eating 90% background use (it was doing the right thing, but badly), but most of the time, I did something to eat away my batteries.
Taking away the buzz word quotient, IOT is fine. Have appliances and devices that interact with one another in a clean, secure, interoperable way. That sounds great. I'd love more home automation and more safe interaction with the environment I walk through. The problems is nobody seems to talk to one another, they're horribly expensive, everyone's out to maximize the self-fullfilling non-existing profits in this space; all of which cripples any meaniungful adoption.
Just like 'cloud' before it, there was real meat behind the buzz, but it took time, open platform designs and simple integration before any real traction occurred in pushing LAN services into others' hosting.
Well, certainly laws against drug -users- are certainly ineffective and very much harmful in any form of rehbilitation or 'common good'. Even if they limited the crime to a slap on the wrist non-criminal fine, it would probably be sufficient to keep drugs out off the (literal) streets.
As for dealers (carrying pounds of coke for instance), I'm all for locking them up the same as always. Its one thing to be supportive of those in the worst situations, and its another to carte-blanche welcome harmful drugs into common accessibility.
Nah, e-sports is essentially worthless on consoles because even with a AAA cross platform console game (if it exists), pros using either console can't play with one another because of the fuck wits in Sony/Microsoft decided that content couldn't be shared outside of their content ecosystem, which includes online matchmaking / competitions.
5 minutes of my life wasted, but here's the synopsis of the cancelled talk:
"What drugs do to sexual performance, physiological reaction and pleasure is rarely discussed in - or out of - clinical or academic settings. Yet most people have sex under the influence of something (or many somethings) at some point in their lives.
In this underground talk, Violet Blue shares what sex-positive doctors, nurses, MFT's, clinic workers and crisis counselors have learned and compiled about the interactions of drugs and sex from over three decades of unofficial curriculum for use in peer-to-peer (and emergency) counseling. Whether you're curious about the effects of caffeine or street drugs on sex, or are the kind of person that keeps your fuzzy handcuffs next to a copy of The Pocket Pharmacopeia, this overview will help you engineer your sex life in our chemical soaked world. Or, it'll at least give you great party conversation fodder. "
Its very possible the grounds for cancellation were ridiculous, but clearly a talk on casual drug use may have some though very marginal use at a conference on security, but IMHO.
I'd call this the taxi distinction. Every time my girlfriend, sees a taxi she's terrified that they're going to do something dangerous or reckless. The reason? Quite a few taxi drivers are doing stupid things. Are all of them? Certainly not. Are they any more likely to do stupid things per km of driving vs. the general public? Almost certainly not, but the difference is this:
1. To my GF, all taxi drivers are the same. They represent the single very present danger of being in an accident, so she is terrified that all drivers (the good and the bad) act according to their 2. Taxi drivers are generally on the road much longer hours than we are, so statistically if nothing else, they're more likely to be involved in accidents.
Have these women had bad experiences (perceved or in real) in the workplace? Almost certainly. Are their experiences with men in general colored by these bad past experiences (much like my taxi analogy)? Very possible.
It really sucks to generalize, but no matter how much you want to fight against it, its ingrained in who we are to defend against people/things that have wronged them (or perception of wrongness).
They use MUMPS. I know its all supported by some people and I know the flames are coming, but really? MUMPS. I'd say integration could very well be considered a pain point in the language. In my cursory investigation, the recommended integration for other languages / technology chains is a Node.js based web services adapter... oh well.
Well, I installed a Windows 10 (preview) from scratch and installed firefox/chome. Both asked me to make it default, both got a windows prompt telling me the program wanted to be default, and both times I clicked yes. Default browser after this: The microsoft one. The only thing I could do to change the default was to specifically go to the default applications settings panel and update them specifically to use chome/firefox.
Now mind you, this was a recent pre RTM version so I can't say specifically if that was fixed in final, but if not, I imagine this can be quite miffing.
In all likelihood, the convicted rapist couldn't get their names removed anyways since its in the public's best interest to know, but hell slashdot thinks the whole law is a rubber stamp, so whatev's. Well, it really depends on the laws of the land, because sometimes countries allow for long-ago rapists' records to be expunged, so maybe right-to-be-forgotten would eventually kick in for 'reformed' rapists.
I can get paid under the table and the gov can't stop me I can cross borders and buy there to avoid local taxes
Just because I can avoid the rules doesn't mean the rules aren't important. Maybe eventually the majority of the world will agree on rules and there won't be places for cheating the system to happen, but something tells my that is your worst case scenario.
"Well, the creeper took nude pics of me walking around home naked and posted them on the internet. I was pissed until I realized that information just wants to be free, so like whatever."
There's also no natural laws for right to life, speech, privacy, property, etc.. but we have laws to enforce them. I think a you need a better argument, like the actual material harm to society if you want anyone outside of the fringe to listen to you. Yes, I'm addressing you, not the topic at hand specifically.
Regarding the actual point you made in the end, the law apparently has some form of distinction between privacy and the information in the public's interest, so depending on the implementation of said laws, I can't see this being much harm (within their jurisdiction) assuming that the "public's interest" is held with sufficient weight.
Child pornography is almost universally illegal throughout the world. Certainly sexual exploitation laws vary throughout the world, given that children can legally marry in some countries (sigh). I don't know a single Country that allows distribution of said material, though it would add value to the discussion for the interested scholar.
No, there's hell to pay if said executives ever enter british controlled soil or are extradited. I'm not sure if the company in question's assets would be siezed pending trial, but I suppose that depends on the teeth of the laws in question.
Assuming that Google is actually in material breach of the law, then yes. They influence the laws, submit to the order (effectively giving up all right of control over their content internationally) or do like they did in China and completely exit the territory. Trust me from being in China for a trip, its a bitch to live without google services.
Note, all the French Newspaper publishers raising a stink will be even more screwed since all their cheap revenue AdSense will also fly away, but oh well. Back to hiring Ad sales guys!
Its almost like... in those cases the OS is a specially crafted web browsing tool instead of a GENERAL PURPOSE operating system.
Nobody's assuming that a phone / tablet / netbook have unlimited control (though it is nice when given), but for a general purpose OS, you expect fluidity. I guess some of the big shifts in Windows since 8 (maybe earlier, but in much smaller doses) has been their ham-strung proprietary and irreplacible components that lock down more and more of the OS. This may well be my last Windows if Linux Gaming becomes more of a thing. If the last couple years' growth has been any indication, it looks like a real possibility now.
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A CSV based scripting/DSL language could actually be viable, though terribly ugly. Admitedly HTML & CSS are arguable. You can write some pretty elaborate selectors in CSS, but I'd still consider it a declarative markup over a language. Its probably just a conspiracy to keep bash outside the top 10!
Blah blah 'real gamers' rhetoric is the most boring card played on Slashdot these days. You are a data point, and probably an insignifiant one if your world removes the revenues of casual/MMO/consoles from the world of gaming. Lets all stand up and applaud AC for their insightful and self-centered world view! *golfclap*
MMO's are a crappy comparison because:
1. It is SOO important to have a good set of people to play with that 'switching to MMO xyz' immediately becomes extremely difficult. Maybe in a series of multiverse guilds supported by some awesome gaming service hub could work like a guilds-out-of-games social service, but it doesn't exist, so the entropy moving from title to title is very hard at this point
2. MMO's in general wear you down in ways that make you never want to go back to MMO's. I like to grind once and a while because I'm sadistic, but I imagine a lot of people who've played MMO's never went back because the genre was so punishing
3. The entire 'point' of an MMO (as well as other genre titles) is to suck you into their playing system in a way that moving off to competitors becomes too high cost. Oh you wanna drop sub and play that -other- game? Well sure, but we'll delete your content after being idle for a certain time, etc.. like that
There are certainly some holy wars of gaming which have polarized gamers against one another, such as DOTA 2 / LOL. That doens't mean people can't enjoy the fruits of both, but people tend to stick to what they're used to for 'regularly played' games regardless of the competition. Realistically, the games are so close that anyone competent on one could be the same with some training for the other.
I'm sorry, weren't universities supposed to be about aristocrats with no real obligations learning to make the world a better place? When did this whole populace at large things enter academia? Oh that's right. it was about the time that 'society' deemed education a worthwhile pursuit.
Don't get me wrong, I think WAYY too many people enter academia for the wrong reasons. That's on society at large. Post-secondary eduction should not be an obligation for a 'good job'. It should be a true pursuit to make society a better place. It should be about researching thesis' that are actually relevant and innovative.
The US has almost 30% of the population with at least a batchelors. in the 40's that was 5%. This is a huge shift in the eductional system as a whole. Admitedly, there are a lot more jobs that require higher education or at least specialized vocational training than back then, but to the extent of 6x the original?
As I've been told many times, masters thesis' end up being cookie cutters year after year because with the huge glut of people working their way up the academia ladder aren't actually innovating anything, at least not much which a similarly trained student wouldn't consider obvious. They're just churning out regurgitated material to advance to the next level. Who can blame them? There were When they eventually gets spat out of the system at PHD or they run out of money, many are incapable of being valuable contributing members of society (at least as their eduction for the last 20+? years has accrued).
Probably not considering they do it already with phones, nexus players, chomecasts, etc.. Though I do hope they have a fallback partition / auto-recovery in the case of things going south. I probably won't be buying one as I have a good setup already, but depending on how its implemented, I could see recommending this to the aunt betsy's of the world.
For dev work sure, 16 is pretty good. I'd say 8 was a pretty good sweet spot. I've got 16 on my desktop, 16 on my laptop and 64 on my latest server and only the server comes close to using its capacity (2 DB's and some appservers).
The desktop workload is maybe 10GB when I'm testing a full stack IDE/Client/AppServer/Database, but generally speaking 8GB is generally fine unless I'm really hammering it. Add another couple GB max if I'm doing perf analysis over the full stack, but that's not very often at all.
I don't know if your your top of FF is counting graphics ram (I believe Linux does). My current windows based FF is 600MB with 6 tabs. Still a lot for 6 tabs, but oh well.
Java has immense value, may the single greatest value outside of Windows/Office/Linux/C&C++ compilers, but it has practically no revenue. Almost all very large enterprise systems that sell for obsence amounts of money are built on or inter-operate with Java in fundamental ways. They don't sell PC language/runtime, so instead, Sun monitized:
1. Mobile platforms, because the 'market' for the runtime was only a few carriers they could get away with charging them big bucks for the dev. This market is now essentially dead with the end of 'dumb' phones and carrier/manufacturer locked platforms (IOS started the ball rolling, but Android gave it the knockout punch)
2. Very niche JVM improvements (like RTJava) which are technically still kicking around but very low on revenue
3. Add-on's to core functionality (Middle-ware servers). Despite there being significant OSS competition, they still make boat loads of money here
Oracle bought and kept Java for no other reason than it was a cornerstone to so many of their profitable businesses that they couldn't have it ruined by outsiders. The sad fact is that the biggest detriment to Java has been Oracle themselves, but that's a completely different matter.
It's a bad comparison since:
1. The error they spewed was a runtime error that could never be caught in compilation (duplicate primary key in the DB table)
2. The static analysis built into Javac is way more than I've personally seen in stock C++ compilers (though my knowledge is limited). Hell, most of the time people leave compiler warnings off even when it keeps bad smells out of code (through some safety flags are too aggressive on error setting)
3. There are a boat load of off the shelf OSS static analysis tools for Java that find significantly more complicated coding errors if the built-in javac variants aren't sufficient
The good thing is a knowledgeable developer could look at that and find the source of that specific problem in 5 seconds.
So the solution is to double down on corruption? Your cynicism accomplishes nothing.
The only reason you have some level of accountability for these crimes, yes they are crimes, is to actively fight those attempting to perpetrate them. They may be largely ineffective for some scenarios, but it makes the world vastly better as a whole if it wasn't. Fifa scandle being the latest most notable example would never happen if we sat on our hands letting people have free reign. Want someone killed? Slip some cash into the right hands. Dig up dirt? Sure, just greese the right wheels. Dump 1000tons of waste into that lake? Well, how much is it worth to you? This is NOT the world I want to live in and shame on your for encouraging it.
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Frankly, this is one of the main reasons I've been siding against economic open borders and free flow of liquidity. There are too many countries with big holes in their enforcement of financial crimes (if said crimes are even on the books).
You're on crack. I and my parents have all driven road trips through Mexico, and though road side inspections can sometimes be intimidating (young punk kids with AK's on their backs), they generally poke around your luggage for contraband and send us on our merry way (if they hadn't just wave us though, which is what normally happens).
You could... I don't know look at the batery meter and tell any red flags to battery life. There certainly are applications on any device that drain batteries pretty well. That said, there is a cost for having basically immediate callbacks to online services and that are largely invisible to the user.
Now maybe your phone was a lemon, or maybe your Winmo phone has a significantly bigger battery, who knows, not enough info. But by far most common reasons for 'idle' power drains (in no particular order):
1. Cell service (bad service areas seem to cause significantly higher battery drain for me subjectively)
2. Wifi (pings, kepalives, receving network broadcasts, etc.)
3. Bluetooth (if the comm isn't v4)
4. Background services (most likely account syncs and such, all OS's do it, but some more heavily than others)
5. CPU usage processing all of the above's callbacks, schedules, non-ideal program's polling
I've had many Android phones over the years, and battery life varied largely. One could barely survive a 12 hour day while another could maybe last 2 days of light use. I've had phones with apps eating 90% background use (it was doing the right thing, but badly), but most of the time, I did something to eat away my batteries.
Taking away the buzz word quotient, IOT is fine. Have appliances and devices that interact with one another in a clean, secure, interoperable way. That sounds great. I'd love more home automation and more safe interaction with the environment I walk through. The problems is nobody seems to talk to one another, they're horribly expensive, everyone's out to maximize the self-fullfilling non-existing profits in this space; all of which cripples any meaniungful adoption.
Just like 'cloud' before it, there was real meat behind the buzz, but it took time, open platform designs and simple integration before any real traction occurred in pushing LAN services into others' hosting.
Well, certainly laws against drug -users- are certainly ineffective and very much harmful in any form of rehbilitation or 'common good'. Even if they limited the crime to a slap on the wrist non-criminal fine, it would probably be sufficient to keep drugs out off the (literal) streets.
As for dealers (carrying pounds of coke for instance), I'm all for locking them up the same as always. Its one thing to be supportive of those in the worst situations, and its another to carte-blanche welcome harmful drugs into common accessibility.
To be fair, the vast majority of the money raised (continues to be raised) is given by the DOTA community at large.
Nah, e-sports is essentially worthless on consoles because even with a AAA cross platform console game (if it exists), pros using either console can't play with one another because of the fuck wits in Sony/Microsoft decided that content couldn't be shared outside of their content ecosystem, which includes online matchmaking / competitions.
5 minutes of my life wasted, but here's the synopsis of the cancelled talk:
"What drugs do to sexual performance, physiological reaction and pleasure is rarely discussed in - or out of - clinical or academic settings. Yet most people have sex under the influence of something (or many somethings) at some point in their lives.
In this underground talk, Violet Blue shares what sex-positive doctors, nurses, MFT's, clinic workers and crisis counselors have learned and compiled about the interactions of drugs and sex from over three decades of unofficial curriculum for use in peer-to-peer (and emergency) counseling. Whether you're curious about the effects of caffeine or street drugs on sex, or are the kind of person that keeps your fuzzy handcuffs next to a copy of The Pocket Pharmacopeia, this overview will
help you engineer your sex life in our chemical soaked world. Or, it'll at least give you great party conversation fodder. "
Its very possible the grounds for cancellation were ridiculous, but clearly a talk on casual drug use may have some though very marginal use at a conference on security, but IMHO.
I'd call this the taxi distinction. Every time my girlfriend, sees a taxi she's terrified that they're going to do something dangerous or reckless. The reason? Quite a few taxi drivers are doing stupid things. Are all of them? Certainly not. Are they any more likely to do stupid things per km of driving vs. the general public? Almost certainly not, but the difference is this:
1. To my GF, all taxi drivers are the same. They represent the single very present danger of being in an accident, so she is terrified that all drivers (the good and the bad) act according to their
2. Taxi drivers are generally on the road much longer hours than we are, so statistically if nothing else, they're more likely to be involved in accidents.
Have these women had bad experiences (perceved or in real) in the workplace? Almost certainly.
Are their experiences with men in general colored by these bad past experiences (much like my taxi analogy)? Very possible.
It really sucks to generalize, but no matter how much you want to fight against it, its ingrained in who we are to defend against people/things that have wronged them (or perception of wrongness).
They use MUMPS. I know its all supported by some people and I know the flames are coming, but really? MUMPS. I'd say integration could very well be considered a pain point in the language. In my cursory investigation, the recommended integration for other languages / technology chains is a Node.js based web services adapter... oh well.
Well, I installed a Windows 10 (preview) from scratch and installed firefox/chome. Both asked me to make it default, both got a windows prompt telling me the program wanted to be default, and both times I clicked yes. Default browser after this: The microsoft one. The only thing I could do to change the default was to specifically go to the default applications settings panel and update them specifically to use chome/firefox.
Now mind you, this was a recent pre RTM version so I can't say specifically if that was fixed in final, but if not, I imagine this can be quite miffing.
In all likelihood, the convicted rapist couldn't get their names removed anyways since its in the public's best interest to know, but hell slashdot thinks the whole law is a rubber stamp, so whatev's. Well, it really depends on the laws of the land, because sometimes countries allow for long-ago rapists' records to be expunged, so maybe right-to-be-forgotten would eventually kick in for 'reformed' rapists.
I can get paid under the table and the gov can't stop me
I can cross borders and buy there to avoid local taxes
Just because I can avoid the rules doesn't mean the rules aren't important. Maybe eventually the majority of the world will agree on rules and there won't be places for cheating the system to happen, but something tells my that is your worst case scenario.
"Well, the creeper took nude pics of me walking around home naked and posted them on the internet. I was pissed until I realized that information just wants to be free, so like whatever."
There's also no natural laws for right to life, speech, privacy, property, etc.. but we have laws to enforce them. I think a you need a better argument, like the actual material harm to society if you want anyone outside of the fringe to listen to you. Yes, I'm addressing you, not the topic at hand specifically.
Regarding the actual point you made in the end, the law apparently has some form of distinction between privacy and the information in the public's interest, so depending on the implementation of said laws, I can't see this being much harm (within their jurisdiction) assuming that the "public's interest" is held with sufficient weight.
Child pornography is almost universally illegal throughout the world. Certainly sexual exploitation laws vary throughout the world, given that children can legally marry in some countries (sigh). I don't know a single Country that allows distribution of said material, though it would add value to the discussion for the interested scholar.
No, there's hell to pay if said executives ever enter british controlled soil or are extradited. I'm not sure if the company in question's assets would be siezed pending trial, but I suppose that depends on the teeth of the laws in question.
Assuming that Google is actually in material breach of the law, then yes. They influence the laws, submit to the order (effectively giving up all right of control over their content internationally) or do like they did in China and completely exit the territory. Trust me from being in China for a trip, its a bitch to live without google services.
Note, all the French Newspaper publishers raising a stink will be even more screwed since all their cheap revenue AdSense will also fly away, but oh well. Back to hiring Ad sales guys!
Its almost like... in those cases the OS is a specially crafted web browsing tool instead of a GENERAL PURPOSE operating system.
Nobody's assuming that a phone / tablet / netbook have unlimited control (though it is nice when given), but for a general purpose OS, you expect fluidity. I guess some of the big shifts in Windows since 8 (maybe earlier, but in much smaller doses) has been their ham-strung proprietary and irreplacible components that lock down more and more of the OS. This may well be my last Windows if Linux Gaming becomes more of a thing. If the last couple years' growth has been any indication, it looks like a real possibility now.