The fact that this topic sparks such a lively debate wherever it pops up is a good indication that the wording is ambiguous.
The tendency to use complex sentence construction in laws adds to the potential for confusion
Exactly. I'm no lawyer but I've had the misfortune of needing to look at parts of the US Code... it often is insanely convoluted compared to laws of some other nations. The other day I learned that the US has the highest number of lawyers per capita, and I wasn't at all surprised by that factoid. Laws by lawyers for lawyers.
As someone who has serious issues remembering and recognizing faces (an iPhone 3 with a broken camera would outperform me), I would like a device like this. Something that remembers faces of people I meet and pops up their name when it sees them again.
Personally I don't have an issue per se with police (or surveillance cameras) being equiped with face recognition software, or with roadside cameras equipped with ANR. The issue I have with these is their use cases, and the way the extracted data is used. And those uses always get expanded once the tech is in place. Police can be flagged automatically about criminals under an arrest warrant? Great. But the same tech can be used to grab people with outstanding parking tickets, or people critical of the government, or even completely innocent people who happen to be near a crime scene. ANR can be used to flag stolen vehicles... great. But it can also be used to track every citizen across the highway network, and you can be sure politicans will come up with good reasons for doing so.
We (some countries) already have decent privacy guidelines, and decent checks and audits in place on the way such sensitive data is used. But what we don't have is a check on use cases. We're not going to stop invasive technology like this, but we can push for much stricter rules on how it can be applied. Potential benefits should always be weighed against the right to privacy and potential harm to innocents, and those potential benefits should be tested; if they aren't realised, the use case should be invalidated. And negligence or misuse should be treated as a criminal case.
Play your cards right, you might actually get it. Quite a few engineers and scientists in Chinese politics. As opposed to us in the west: we get politicians who can talk, talk, talk all day, speak with authority, answer any question or glibly evade it, exude confidence and leadership... but with anything of substance ever leaving their mouths or even their brains. SLight off tpoic: that's what I liked about the press conference that Elon Musk gave. The guy is not a great public speaker and was frequently a bit flustered and lost for words... which, given the kind of people who don't possess those "deficiencies", speaks well of him.
Where I live, companies are crying about not being able to find good IT staff, but wages haven't gone up. A friend who is often involved in hiring IT staff complained about this, so I asked him: "What are you offering?". Not a lot, i.e. "market rates" which are what they are because pretty much every large company refuses to pay more to attract more talent. I pointed this out to him, and he explained they are pretty much bound to pay grades set by HR, which dictate that this apparently rare and desirable talent can't cost more than €70,000 anually, whereas a cookie cutter PM is easily worth €100,000
Maybe it's a matter of taste, but I think back then the good stuff tended to make it into the charts, whereas today the good stuff is to be found in the fringe. The "Top 40" radio shows where they'd play the chart in reverse order were actually worth listening to. Today's chart contains at best rather forgettable fluff, at worst it's crap that makes me switch stations.
DVD's and Blurays are still convenient for stuff (especially series) that aren't available on streaming services here. But that's more of a shortcoming of the streaming services... or rather, of the outdated regional licensing model. And that's where we need to go back to our (Dutch) old law: pirating content was allowed if there was no reasonable legal way to obtain it. "Reasonable" meaning on prevailing formats at comparable prices and conditions. Not selling your content here or holding out? Too bad, citizens may avail themselves of the material as they please. Now I don't condone piracy, but I do think it is a legitimate form of pressure on distributors to get their act together.
Yeah, I've heard the horror stories, especially from merchants getting locked out of their funds. By all accounts their support is terrible. But the service is pretty convenient for making quick payments. It's increasingly being accepted here my online merchants, and I frequently use it to order out for food or buy stuff online. It beats looking up and entering my CC details, or even using the ubiquitous direct debit system all banks here use for online payments (iDeal).
A lot of these tokens are simply scams tacked onto a coin instead
FTFY. Seems like a lot of these so called ideas don't peter out and die, they end when the founders liquidize their store of coins and run, I mean of course when the company is "hacked" and the coins are "stolen".
What’s so terrible about paying with PayPal compared to any other method that doesn’t involve trusting the merchant enough to receive your credit card details?
Agreed, awesome book series and very well adapted for TV. And I was pleasantly surprised by new arrival The Orville: not great but good, and fun to watch. Movie-wise it's been a run of disappointing big releases. Didn't care for the Last Jedi (though I did like Rogue One), Blade Runner 2049 was a suckfest, Logan was meh, the Arrival was decent but nothing special.
Does "work with" mean you can stream audio to it using Airplay, or does it mean that I can ask HomePod to play An Die Freude through Spotify? The latter is what people want and expect.
A poetic expression of what in my view is Siri's biggest weakness: no 3rd party developer access. Apps cannot hook into Siri*, and there will be no 3rd party Homepod plugins similar to Alexa "skills" by the looks of things.
*) unless you're building one of six very specific types of apps, and not competing with Apple.
No one is pretending that Gulen is the good guy. Remember: he and Erdogan used to be real chummy until they had a falling-out. The point is: the 120.000 people in jail may or may not be Gulenists, and may or may not have thought about rising up, but the only reason they are in jail is for opposing Erdogan.
As another Dutchman, I believe this story is true and is being used as propaganda. I'm not a big believer in conspiracy theories about made up "narratives" involving several security agencies in such a high profile case. The story is plausible. I do however think that the timing of this news, in light of the upcoming referendum, is extremely suspicious. The prime minister has already pointed out that the results from this hack show precisely why the government needs wider powers to tap electronic communications.
We've seen many, many high profile and pretty sophisticated hacks from what your leader refers to as "shithole countries". Proof that you don't need a vast intelligence agency or the resources of a superpower to mount successful cyber attacks. (Disclaimer: I'm Dutch)
Not necessarily. Maybe he only managed to get at the victim's personal email and holiday pics. But if that victim happens to be the director of the FBI, you gonna have a bad time regardless.
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Laws (and a lot of other texts) don't need to be unambiguous when read out loud.
Much better not to mix lists and appositives, or use parentheses.
The highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela (an 800-year-old demigod) and a dildo collector.
Much clearer, with or without a comma before 'and'
The tendency to use complex sentence construction in laws adds to the potential for confusion
Exactly. I'm no lawyer but I've had the misfortune of needing to look at parts of the US Code... it often is insanely convoluted compared to laws of some other nations. The other day I learned that the US has the highest number of lawyers per capita, and I wasn't at all surprised by that factoid. Laws by lawyers for lawyers.
As someone who has serious issues remembering and recognizing faces (an iPhone 3 with a broken camera would outperform me), I would like a device like this. Something that remembers faces of people I meet and pops up their name when it sees them again.
Personally I don't have an issue per se with police (or surveillance cameras) being equiped with face recognition software, or with roadside cameras equipped with ANR. The issue I have with these is their use cases, and the way the extracted data is used. And those uses always get expanded once the tech is in place. Police can be flagged automatically about criminals under an arrest warrant? Great. But the same tech can be used to grab people with outstanding parking tickets, or people critical of the government, or even completely innocent people who happen to be near a crime scene. ANR can be used to flag stolen vehicles... great. But it can also be used to track every citizen across the highway network, and you can be sure politicans will come up with good reasons for doing so.
We (some countries) already have decent privacy guidelines, and decent checks and audits in place on the way such sensitive data is used. But what we don't have is a check on use cases. We're not going to stop invasive technology like this, but we can push for much stricter rules on how it can be applied. Potential benefits should always be weighed against the right to privacy and potential harm to innocents, and those potential benefits should be tested; if they aren't realised, the use case should be invalidated. And negligence or misuse should be treated as a criminal case.
Play your cards right, you might actually get it. Quite a few engineers and scientists in Chinese politics. As opposed to us in the west: we get politicians who can talk, talk, talk all day, speak with authority, answer any question or glibly evade it, exude confidence and leadership... but with anything of substance ever leaving their mouths or even their brains. SLight off tpoic: that's what I liked about the press conference that Elon Musk gave. The guy is not a great public speaker and was frequently a bit flustered and lost for words... which, given the kind of people who don't possess those "deficiencies", speaks well of him.
Awe-inspiring to watch those 2 boosters land in a flawless ballet of dust and fire. This is one for the history books.
Where I live, companies are crying about not being able to find good IT staff, but wages haven't gone up. A friend who is often involved in hiring IT staff complained about this, so I asked him: "What are you offering?". Not a lot, i.e. "market rates" which are what they are because pretty much every large company refuses to pay more to attract more talent. I pointed this out to him, and he explained they are pretty much bound to pay grades set by HR, which dictate that this apparently rare and desirable talent can't cost more than €70,000 anually, whereas a cookie cutter PM is easily worth €100,000
Maybe it's a matter of taste, but I think back then the good stuff tended to make it into the charts, whereas today the good stuff is to be found in the fringe. The "Top 40" radio shows where they'd play the chart in reverse order were actually worth listening to. Today's chart contains at best rather forgettable fluff, at worst it's crap that makes me switch stations.
DVD's and Blurays are still convenient for stuff (especially series) that aren't available on streaming services here. But that's more of a shortcoming of the streaming services... or rather, of the outdated regional licensing model. And that's where we need to go back to our (Dutch) old law: pirating content was allowed if there was no reasonable legal way to obtain it. "Reasonable" meaning on prevailing formats at comparable prices and conditions. Not selling your content here or holding out? Too bad, citizens may avail themselves of the material as they please. Now I don't condone piracy, but I do think it is a legitimate form of pressure on distributors to get their act together.
As a coworker in a gov't agency once asked: "Is this policy, or did somebody actually think this through?"
they apparently didn't have a procedure in place for issuing a "oops, our bad, ignore the last message" message on the system.
They did have a system in place to rescind the alarm, but the guy lost his password to that Twitter account...
1. Don't run into anything.
2. Don't take actions that might cause someone/something to run into you..
3. Stay under the speed limit.
Sounds a lot like Robocop's prime directives:
"Serve the public trust"
"Protect the innocent"
"Uphold the law"
Yeah, I've heard the horror stories, especially from merchants getting locked out of their funds. By all accounts their support is terrible. But the service is pretty convenient for making quick payments. It's increasingly being accepted here my online merchants, and I frequently use it to order out for food or buy stuff online. It beats looking up and entering my CC details, or even using the ubiquitous direct debit system all banks here use for online payments (iDeal).
I treat Flash itself as potential malware, and consider it to be compromised at all times. Thankfully, these days you hardly ever need it anymore.
A lot of these tokens are simply scams tacked onto a coin instead
FTFY. Seems like a lot of these so called ideas don't peter out and die, they end when the founders liquidize their store of coins and run, I mean of course when the company is "hacked" and the coins are "stolen".
What’s so terrible about paying with PayPal compared to any other method that doesn’t involve trusting the merchant enough to receive your credit card details?
Is acreage used for meat all that detrimental to insects? I would have thought that growing food crops is worse, what with all the pesticides.
Agreed, awesome book series and very well adapted for TV. And I was pleasantly surprised by new arrival The Orville: not great but good, and fun to watch. Movie-wise it's been a run of disappointing big releases. Didn't care for the Last Jedi (though I did like Rogue One), Blade Runner 2049 was a suckfest, Logan was meh, the Arrival was decent but nothing special.
How does one pronounce "azure"? I've heard AHZ-uhr, ey-ZUHR, Escher, as-YURE and a few others...
Does "work with" mean you can stream audio to it using Airplay, or does it mean that I can ask HomePod to play An Die Freude through Spotify? The latter is what people want and expect.
limited to bonzais and flower pots only.
A poetic expression of what in my view is Siri's biggest weakness: no 3rd party developer access. Apps cannot hook into Siri*, and there will be no 3rd party Homepod plugins similar to Alexa "skills" by the looks of things.
*) unless you're building one of six very specific types of apps, and not competing with Apple.
No one is pretending that Gulen is the good guy. Remember: he and Erdogan used to be real chummy until they had a falling-out. The point is: the 120.000 people in jail may or may not be Gulenists, and may or may not have thought about rising up, but the only reason they are in jail is for opposing Erdogan.
As another Dutchman, I believe this story is true and is being used as propaganda. I'm not a big believer in conspiracy theories about made up "narratives" involving several security agencies in such a high profile case. The story is plausible. I do however think that the timing of this news, in light of the upcoming referendum, is extremely suspicious. The prime minister has already pointed out that the results from this hack show precisely why the government needs wider powers to tap electronic communications.
We've seen many, many high profile and pretty sophisticated hacks from what your leader refers to as "shithole countries". Proof that you don't need a vast intelligence agency or the resources of a superpower to mount successful cyber attacks. (Disclaimer: I'm Dutch)
Not necessarily. Maybe he only managed to get at the victim's personal email and holiday pics. But if that victim happens to be the director of the FBI, you gonna have a bad time regardless.