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  1. Re:No, you don't have an opt out. on France Cries Foul At World Cup "Spy Drone" · · Score: 1

    Well thank you for posting a link to someone who is trying to boil something quite complicated down to 3 columns.

    The actual law is:
     264 a. Den, som uberettiget fotograferer personer, der befinder sig pÃ¥ et ikke frit tilgængeligt sted, straffes med bÃde eller fængsel indtil 6 mÃ¥neder. Det samme gælder den, der ved hjælp af kikkert eller andet apparat uberettiget iagttager sÃ¥danne personer.

     264 a er ændret fra d. 01.07.2001 ved lov nr. 433 af 31.05.2000 (afskaffelse af hæftestraffen)

     264 b. (Ophævet)

     264 c. De i  263, 264 og 264 a indeholdte straffebestemmelser finder tilsvarende anvendelse pÃ¥ den, der uden at have medvirket til gerningen skaffer sig eller uberettiget udnytter oplysninger, som er fremkommet ved overtrædelsen.

     264 c er ændret fra d. 01.07.2004, jfr.  1.7 i lov nr. 352 af 19.05.2004

     264 d. Med bÃde eller fængsel indtil 6 mÃ¥neder straffes den, der uberettiget videregiver meddelelser eller billeder vedrÃrende en andens private forhold eller i Ãvrigt billeder af den pÃ¥gældende under omstændigheder, der Ã¥benbart kan forlanges unddraget offentligheden. Bestemmelsen finder ogsÃ¥ anvendelse, hvor meddelelsen eller billedet vedrÃrer en afdÃd person.

    On top of that, you can be punished for publishing pictures on the internet without consent (persondataloven)

    Now this law is primarily about non-public places, however, iff you are photographed on a public place you can request they do not take picture(s) of you, that is full frame, up close or zoomed etc. if you happen to be in the background and not primary focus of the picture some exceptions are granted. *HOWEVER* you are still not allowed to publish these pictures, unless they are in the interest of the public, e.g. public television shooting a segment - but again there are exceptions.

  2. Re:No, you don't have an opt out. on France Cries Foul At World Cup "Spy Drone" · · Score: 5, Informative

    You know how people know you are a true 'Murican?

    Did you miss the part about local laws? This drone was in Brazil and I'm talking about the laws I know, which is Danish law - if you take a picture in Denmark, they can ask you to remove it and you must comply.

    Just because you feel like your picture is important, doesn't mean some random stranger wants to be in on it.

    Also, if the subject happens to be a model by trade, they can by local law sue you for the damages to their brand, if the picture you took end up on the internet (there are some exceptions to this). Again local law.

  3. Re:A taste of things to come? on France Cries Foul At World Cup "Spy Drone" · · Score: 2

    Even if you are in public, local laws might prevent you from snapping away; usually people must have the ability to opt out of their picture being taken, which is pretty easy, when someone is pointing a camera at you, however, when a drone flies by, it's next to impossible.

    The other day I was stalked by a drone in a park, which I must say, is rather unsettling, don't really care about it taking pictures, but those propellers are aggressive and when the drone is only 2 meters from your head, you do start to wonder, just how good are those guys at handling it...

  4. Re:What's wrong with html and javascript? on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    The scary part is, you actually believe in this crap!(?)

  5. Re:What's wrong with html and javascript? on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    Well earning 1 million dollars over two decade span in this industry working as an consultant is actually pretty abysmal.

    And whats with the bow analogy? Are you saying that you are estimating wrong all the time, but you do so faster than anyone in the industry? Because going 200 mph, isn't that impressive, if it means you are going to crash horribly...

    Also, why do you believe using ; to debug helps your development 6 months down the line? I find comments and well structured code is the right path there. Also, explain to me, how you debug weird branched code, without stepping through frames (up and down) - and why would you ever pass on the ability to hot wire your code by manipulating the current scope using your debugger?

  6. Re:Java in an IDE on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 1

    If you are doing any serious Java programming, buy an IntelliJ license (or apply for a free OS license). It is miles ahead of Eclipse and NetBeans.

  7. Re:What's wrong with html and javascript? on Ask Slashdot: Best Rapid Development Language To Learn Today? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are you insane?

    There is no way your shot-gun approach to debugging is ever faster or better than dropping JS into a debugger; having something like intellij hook into your browser and debug your code running in an IDE is by miles better and faster than what you suggest.

    Especially if you are doing something difficult and not just trying to load an ajax request...

  8. Re:Please make it a mental one on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    The money saved on health care alone should be enough of an incentive, even for jerks like you, whom only care for yourself.

  9. Re:What about the shareholders? on Tesla Releases Electric Car Patents To the Public · · Score: 2

    Also, what most slashdotters seems to have missed, this is a good business decision - Elon knows that he is going to face competition from the major players in the car market - by opening up his patents on charging, he is gaming that the next batch of cars will support the system *his* cars are using.

    By being the defacto standard, he can ensure his customers will have access to charging stations, when the big guns starts putting them up around the world - if a competing standard is chosen, the Tesla might face difficulties selling in the future.

  10. Re:Sometimes I wonder about half-assing it... on Latin America Exhausts IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    mmm... just end them in CAFE:BABE:xxxx and start at 0, easy to remember :)

    Also, face:b00c... really? but I guess it makes it easy for them to remember.

  11. Re:I get enough flying priuses already. on Toyota Investigating Hovercars · · Score: 1

    Yeah, just like robbing a bank is ok, as long as you only take the small bills, I mean, it's designed for that right?

    Or only stabbing people a little, their blood vessels are elastic and can handle a small puncture....

    You sir, should not be driving if you believe that.

  12. Re:I get enough flying priuses already. on Toyota Investigating Hovercars · · Score: 1

    So you are saying, it's ok to break the law, as long as everyone are doing it?

  13. Re:Why keep Wifi on? on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 1

    Ahrem.. and anyone listening for your cell signal or any other electronic device you have, that will happily ping away its presence. Good for you for turning off WiFi, but trust me, it's not the only thing bad guys and good guys will be listening for. NFC, RFID, BT - if its broadcasting, someone will be trying to pick it up.

    (Yes, it is indeed close to impossible to listen in on your conversation, but the fact that your phone is communicating with a tower means there is a signal that can be fingerprinted to "you" - "you" being the device in your pocket; which interestingly can be used later to correlate data, when your surveillance network is big enough)

  14. Re:This is worthless. on iOS 8 Strikes an Unexpected Blow Against Location Tracking · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you are confusing standards with the real world.

    Your device is constantly beaconing to the entire world around it, what networks it knows - and it will often quite happily connect to annyone claiming to be that home network, enabling for all sorts of fun snooping attacks.

    Go lookup creepyDOL network and the presentation for same from Def Con.

  15. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 0

    So you are against licensed drivers, licensed engineers, licensed doctors, licensed electricians, etc.?

    But my gun is special, I'm special! 'Murica fuck yeah!

  16. Re:War of government against people? on America 'Has Become a War Zone' · · Score: 1

    How is it, you think that you can disprove something with the same argument, that you used to say can't be used for proving?

    I live in a Country where guns are banned, and you know what? Crime with guns are exceedingly rare; they are hard to come by and aren't needed - if you want to rob someone, chances are they aren't carrying any kind of weapon and will give up their cash without problems.

    Now obviously you paranoid 'Muicans will think that this is a bad thing, allowing yourself getting robbed - but truth is, we have lower crime rate than you guys *and* when someone does get robbed and choose to fight, they have a way better chance of survival than your gun shot victims.

    By the ways, those "statistics" you mention, they are from the same period of time, where lead was dropped from gasoline, which has been *shown* to cause aggression and violence.

  17. Re:Unbounded tape on Turing Test Passed · · Score: 1

    And do not even get me started on understanding things

    Well that's the gist of it, I'd say?

  18. Re:Wishful? Trade is a two-way street, is it not? on Fixing China's Greenhouse Gas Emissions For Them · · Score: 1

    Not only that, but how about cleaning up your own yard before yelling at the neighbour? The US has been adamant about doing anything about pollution and unlike China, they aren't heavily investing in sustainable energy.

  19. Re:Obama's police state? on US Marshals Seize Police Stingray Records To Keep Them From the ACLU · · Score: 1

    Can you elaborate other than claiming to be all knowing?

    As far as I can tell, the test where specifically using people, who knew they were inflicting harm onto someone else - to the point of making it look like the learner had suffered a heart attack, and they knew why.

  20. Re:Preventing Stingray from working on US Marshals Seize Police Stingray Records To Keep Them From the ACLU · · Score: 1

    Also, the placement of towers are usually optimal for covering the area, so if a Stingray device is located somewhere, it would be the same place as the current tower...

  21. Re:Poor experience for those that do have kinect on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Or just get them to do it themselves...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    (Be careful with soundlevel, it varies a lot and almost blew my ears off :-) )

  22. Re:That's not true and you know it. on Pirate Bay Co-Founder Peter Sunde Arrested In Sweden · · Score: 1

    It means, it's turtles all the way down.

  23. Re:"and climate change deniers tout that" on Shrinking Waves May Save Antarctic Sea Ice · · Score: 1

    And you just showed your ignorance in a marvelous combo.

    It's a misconception that people thought the world was flat - we have known it to be round since the ancient greeks.

    And predictions coming true? Well you are sort of correct, they aren't exactly coming true as actual events tend to happen a whole lot quicker and worse than IPCC predicts.

  24. Re:Encryption on PHK: HTTP 2.0 Should Be Scrapped · · Score: 0

    Lately PHK has become more and more derailed. If you ever follow him on his local Danish blogs, he has gone totally off the rail - claiming all sorts of weird things, from major conspiracies to some far fetched claims against the EU.

  25. Re:Why I Prefer Dumb Displays on Declining LG's New Ad-friendly Privacy Policy Removes Features From Smart TVs · · Score: 1

    There are 9 regions for DVDs, there are probably at least 5-10.000 network operators world wide and you need a profile for whatever operator you want to use.

    For countries with bad coverage (like the US), you are going to have multiple profiles and sim cards for a TV to ensure coverage (and even then, you are going to have a bad time).