The point is: facebook would loose money. Germany is am important market and it is probably causing a lot os ressource use at fb. its in the own interest of fb to either server ads there or not serve them.
Well the discussion is moot. Facebook is ad-financed. Ads for Germany are sponsored by German businesses, i guess. If facebook is sued in court for doing something illegal, then businesses financing that would support a crime financially.
No business would risk the fall-out from this. They would be bashed in the classical media (which would enjoy it since the more they bash, the higher their own rates for ads will be...).
off peak power usage is a technology of the 60s-80s, e.g. for heating to use electricity used in industry during the daytime.
i always imagined a smart grid would mean that not everybody turns on at 2am but that you get even a little bit a better rate but letting the company decide when your car will be charged (e.g. sometimes between 1am and 8am).
As I recall the Sun/Microsoft suit prohibited Microsoft from having their own Java implementation,
Wrong. It prohibited them from having an incompatible implementation and calling it java, very similar the current case of oracle vs. google.
in the process against ms it was about the name. in the process against google its about the patents. However the core of both is: work for the platform and fall under special regulations for the platform or not.
Really. I use linux since 1995. The Desktop environments are a mess. Constantly changing. And if serious players (Ubuntu) decide to contribute they usually do not enhance old environments (e.g. gnome) but they start a terribly half cooked approach fitting one purpose.
Copy and past still does not work correctly (strangely enough this effects now also applies to some windows programs) . Good features go missing. Transporting configurations between systems is a mess. Icon positions are not stored in extended attributes.
If if compare the usability experience of the 1993 WPS on OS/2 and *any* modern Desktop Environment in terms of consistency, accessibility and general performance, WPS beats them all.
Well the problem is simple. If facebook offers such a service then it falls under the laws existing in Germany. If they offer the service to identify me personally against their database on photos which other people upload then they need my permission to do so.
The problem is that as long as facebook does not require any valid identification to get an account there, there is no way that would prevent the following: somebody uploads a photo of mine as his account photo and then asks facebook to look for him (that is, me) and then he or she can easily find out what i am doing even if i never touched anything there or my name is not mentioned. Very practical if you are an employer (applications in Germany still contain your photo).....
It should be noted how that works. In Germany every institution which processes personal data has to have a "Datenschutzbeauftragter" (Personal privacy protection responsible), ans this since the early 90s (as far as i remember). And there are one of these for each of the Countries in Germany.
As fas as i understand the west German strong movement and awareness for the issue arose in 1987 census, which caused a lot of work for the courts and polarized the population against government data collection. Before that the "Rasterfahndung" (a sieving of registration office and other data to find terrorism suspects) in the 1970s deepened the split between the different political views in Germany (IMHO prolonging the support for the terroristic "red army fraction" in the population). About former East Germany it can only be said that people who were spied upon all the time and having disadvantaged in life if saying privately the wrong thing may not feel very well about being tracked.
Last but not least one of the first large-scale usage of automated population databases (on Hollerith puchcards) in Germany was the organization of the Holocaust.
All these are good reasons that Germany should be extra-careful about data collections. And germans should be, too, but every time i stand in the shop at the cashier is am asked if i use a customer point card (which then would probably allow the company behind to correlate my buying of underwear with the books i buy).
I for my part can only say that i am lucky that i forbid even friends to put photos of me to an uncontrolled space in the Internet. There is only a
is one way to go to plain AVR devices. I like plain AVR C programming. you can get a simple MCU for $2/piece, so its realistic even for things where you need 10s of MCUs (or where the MCU is most likely lost).
I can easily imagine a situation where on an MCU with 64 bytes of ram, the additional counter you need to maintain not NUL terminated strings is an issue (e.g. when sending out data in an interrupt routine...).
for xp counting the machines on the internet is an underestimation. neither my vm nor the oscilloscopes in the lab nor the network analyser nor the cnc control panel will be ever on the internet.
no if it is dual licensed or they have rights to use it from some other fact (there are a lot of reasons i may imagine for this), then they may do this.
1 the dispute whether a pice of code written on your free time but used on your job is your copyright or your employers copyright is complicated. i woild argue that using/testing the code at work and then magically switching roles when leaving the door is prpblematic
2 it seems your former employer has not tried to sue you for gpling the code. i would recommend not to stimulate a legal test whether this was lawful but let them ignore the issue for some time (that would make their decision to gpl it a better legal fact since possible damages are not caused by you alone)
3 thay being said ot was probably stupid to mention it here. by this you did the maximum damage to your former employer. everybody pf relevance will now realize there is a free alternative. and your employer will realizw this too
4 it would be nice if people understand there is a difference between copyright and license. if i own code i can release it under any license i like.
5 the best for both of you, you and your employer would probably be to sign a short agreement that you wont sue each other abput this and that none of you talks about this. you may have fucked up the latter point already.
a) My primary use for ubuntu one is to buy music from the ubuntu one music store. Its handy to haver everything you bought available on all laptops.
b) a second important function, which i dont use (i dont like my contact data in the cloud) is the synchronization with a mobile phone. There is no working built-in way in ubuntu which allows this.
c) for some time the service was very slow and syncronization was unpredictable, so i dont use it for serious stuff right now.
d) I would like a better integration in the desktop for start/pause sync for single folder or everything (if i am on my mobile AP i do not like to sync everything).
e) it lacks storage encryption (unless you use encfs on the top, and encfs has issues itself)
They are sometimes a little too convinced about themselves, especially when you raise questions about unexpected problems, even if the fundamental capability to do sth is there.
If you ask me if i understand the safety systems in a train and on the track, i can say "yes, sure". They are much simpler than most systems i work with.
If i ask if i would feel fit to make the decision to remove a single protective diode without understanding why it is placed there in such a critical system i can only say that i would rather not, unless speaking with the guy who placed it there.
I discussed estimations of possible consequences several times when designing software with Chinese and i have to say that their estimations on what is good to touch differed from mine.
No. Throttling data plans has nothing to do with a cartel.
The economic reality is that unlimited data plans cant exist. What could exist is an unthrottled plan for packets with a low priority TOS, and a capped (or usage based) one for high priority TOS. But that would acctually require that users think about what they are doing.
My last one specifically stated i would not be allowed to disseminate information without permission. So we always had a fill form which allowed to do that before we got another form to submit the paper. After that nobody could stop me from talking about this.
Re:git is simple to start with
on
The Rise of Git
·
· Score: 1
Yes. Could be otherwise your expectations get in your way, but that is exactly my point. If you are *not* a full time project responsible for a large project, then git may be enough.
For the most simple task, namley insuring yourself against loosing some version of some file in the process of editing it, git has incredible low requirements for understanding, infrastructure and a very good support for plain local operation.
I explained simple git usage in 10Minutes a colleague who never use a VCS before how to manage his files.
Whats the law behind that. Nobody can prevent a Journalist from talking to her and i doubt that if the paper was published under her official affiliation there is anything they can do about it. (since, if you go the permission to publish from your employer, what you publish is his position)
He likes that it would use Java. He did not necessarily like that people copy from Java and create and slightly incompatible platform. While the license to use the Java source code is open, the patents are only provided if you play by Suns rules.
If you have a system where a "good name" e.g. you pseudonym guarantees attention, especially if you have to work to be visible at all and attention to you is lost if you behave like an idiot, then the problem is quickly solved (i think slashdots moderation system works very well in that respect).
The point is that deindividualization works because doing things in an anonymous crowd lowers the fear of negative consequences.
Slashdot Mirror
anyway thats not a bad idea. In that case also an hijacked machine withing you own network plays a lesser role.
The point is: facebook would loose money. Germany is am important market and it is probably causing a lot os ressource use at fb. its in the own interest of fb to either server ads there or not serve them.
Well the discussion is moot. Facebook is ad-financed. Ads for Germany are sponsored by German businesses, i guess. If facebook is sued in court for doing something illegal, then businesses financing that would support a crime financially.
No business would risk the fall-out from this. They would be bashed in the classical media (which would enjoy it since the more they bash, the higher their own rates for ads will be...).
off peak power usage is a technology of the 60s-80s, e.g. for heating to use electricity used in industry during the daytime.
i always imagined a smart grid would mean that not everybody turns on at 2am but that you get even a little bit a better rate but letting the company decide when your car will be charged (e.g. sometimes between 1am and 8am).
As I recall the Sun/Microsoft suit prohibited Microsoft from having their own Java implementation,
Wrong. It prohibited them from having an incompatible implementation and calling it java, very similar the current case of oracle vs. google.
in the process against ms it was about the name. in the process against google its about the patents. However the core of both is: work for the platform and fall under special regulations for the platform or not.
Really. I use linux since 1995. The Desktop environments are a mess. Constantly changing. And if serious players (Ubuntu) decide to contribute they usually do not enhance old environments (e.g. gnome) but they start a terribly half cooked approach fitting one purpose.
Copy and past still does not work correctly (strangely enough this effects now also applies to some windows programs) . Good features go missing. Transporting configurations between systems is a mess. Icon positions are not stored in extended attributes.
If if compare the usability experience of the 1993 WPS on OS/2 and *any* modern Desktop Environment in terms of consistency, accessibility and general performance, WPS beats them all.
Well the problem is simple. If facebook offers such a service then it falls under the laws existing in Germany. If they offer the service to identify me personally against their database on photos which other people upload then they need my permission to do so.
The problem is that as long as facebook does not require any valid identification to get an account there, there is no way that would prevent the following: somebody uploads a photo of mine as his account photo and then asks facebook to look for him (that is, me) and then he or she can easily find out what i am doing even if i never touched anything there or my name is not mentioned. Very practical if you are an employer (applications in Germany still contain your photo).....
It should be noted how that works. In Germany every institution which processes personal data has to have a "Datenschutzbeauftragter" (Personal privacy protection responsible), ans this since the early 90s (as far as i remember). And there are one of these for each of the Countries in Germany.
As fas as i understand the west German strong movement and awareness for the issue arose in 1987 census, which caused a lot of work for the courts and polarized the population against government data collection. Before that the "Rasterfahndung" (a sieving of registration office and other data to find terrorism suspects) in the 1970s deepened the split between the different political views in Germany (IMHO prolonging the support for the terroristic "red army fraction" in the population). About former East Germany it can only be said that people who were spied upon all the time and having disadvantaged in life if saying privately the wrong thing may not feel very well about being tracked.
Last but not least one of the first large-scale usage of automated population databases (on Hollerith puchcards) in Germany was the organization of the Holocaust.
All these are good reasons that Germany should be extra-careful about data collections. And germans should be, too, but every time i stand in the shop at the cashier is am asked if i use a customer point card (which then would probably allow the company behind to correlate my buying of underwear with the books i buy).
I for my part can only say that i am lucky that i forbid even friends to put photos of me to an uncontrolled space in the Internet. There is only a
is one way to go to plain AVR devices. I like plain AVR C programming. you can get a simple MCU for $2/piece, so its realistic even for things where you need 10s of MCUs (or where the MCU is most likely lost).
I can easily imagine a situation where on an MCU with 64 bytes of ram, the additional counter you need to maintain not NUL terminated strings is an issue (e.g. when sending out data in an interrupt routine...).
All these endless loops which i created just to let some background threads executing....
for xp counting the machines on the internet is an underestimation. neither my vm nor the oscilloscopes in the lab nor the network analyser nor the cnc control panel will be ever on the internet.
no if it is dual licensed or they have rights to use it from some other fact (there are a lot of reasons i may imagine for this), then they may do this.
1 the dispute whether a pice of code written on your free time but used on your job is your copyright or your employers copyright is complicated. i woild argue that using/testing the code at work and then magically switching roles when leaving the door is prpblematic
2 it seems your former employer has not tried to sue you for gpling the code. i would recommend not to stimulate a legal test whether this was lawful but let them ignore the issue for some time (that would make their decision to gpl it a better legal fact since possible damages are not caused by you alone)
3 thay being said ot was probably stupid to mention it here. by this you did the maximum damage to your former employer. everybody pf relevance will now realize there is a free alternative. and your employer will realizw this too
4 it would be nice if people understand there is a difference between copyright and license. if i own code i can release it under any license i like.
5 the best for both of you, you and your employer would probably be to sign a short agreement that you wont sue each other abput this and that none of you talks about this. you may have fucked up the latter point already.
Performance/latency issues when exceeding a certain number (tried it on ubuntu 8.04-ubuntu 9.10) of enrypted files.
a) My primary use for ubuntu one is to buy music from the ubuntu one music store. Its handy to haver everything you bought available on all laptops.
b) a second important function, which i dont use (i dont like my contact data in the cloud) is the synchronization with a mobile phone. There is no working built-in way in ubuntu which allows this.
c) for some time the service was very slow and syncronization was unpredictable, so i dont use it for serious stuff right now.
d) I would like a better integration in the desktop for start/pause sync for single folder or everything (if i am on my mobile AP i do not like to sync everything).
e) it lacks storage encryption (unless you use encfs on the top, and encfs has issues itself)
Could it be that switching away from the standard choice preinstalled on your computer requires understanding on why you invest the time?
Could it be that you freedom in the job correlates with your intelligence?
Could it be that intelligent people earn more and have more mobile devices (e.g. opera)?
My hypothesis is that if you would install firefox as the default browser and put ie on expensice mobile devices, the picture would be reversed.
They are sometimes a little too convinced about themselves, especially when you raise questions about unexpected problems, even if the fundamental capability to do sth is there.
If you ask me if i understand the safety systems in a train and on the track, i can say "yes, sure". They are much simpler than most systems i work with.
If i ask if i would feel fit to make the decision to remove a single protective diode without understanding why it is placed there in such a critical system i can only say that i would rather not, unless speaking with the guy who placed it there.
I discussed estimations of possible consequences several times when designing software with Chinese and i have to say that their estimations on what is good to touch differed from mine.
No. Throttling data plans has nothing to do with a cartel.
The economic reality is that unlimited data plans cant exist. What could exist is an unthrottled plan for packets with a low priority TOS, and a capped (or usage based) one for high priority TOS. But that would acctually require that users think about what they are doing.
I am reading all my employment contracts.
My last one specifically stated i would not be allowed to disseminate information without permission. So we always had a fill form which allowed to do that before we got another form to submit the paper. After that nobody could stop me from talking about this.
Yes. Could be otherwise your expectations get in your way, but that is exactly my point. If you are *not* a full time project responsible for a large project, then git may be enough.
And thats it.
For the most simple task, namley insuring yourself against loosing some version of some file in the process of editing it, git has incredible low requirements for understanding, infrastructure and a very good support for plain local operation.
I explained simple git usage in 10Minutes a colleague who never use a VCS before how to manage his files.
Whats the law behind that. Nobody can prevent a Journalist from talking to her and i doubt that if the paper was published under her official affiliation there is anything they can do about it. (since, if you go the permission to publish from your employer, what you publish is his position)
He likes that it would use Java. He did not necessarily like that people copy from Java and create and slightly incompatible platform. While the license to use the Java source code is open, the patents are only provided if you play by Suns rules.
The currency in the web is attention.
If you have a system where a "good name" e.g. you pseudonym guarantees attention, especially if you have to work to be visible at all and attention to you is lost if you behave like an idiot, then the problem is quickly solved (i think slashdots moderation system works very well in that respect).
The point is that deindividualization works because doing things in an anonymous crowd lowers the fear of negative consequences.