That class of cheap users represent class of customers that do not bring significant revenue and so can be seen as cost-cutting opportunity. If that happens, there will be nothing left to switch to. I'm already afraid that the next computer I will buy to replace my current machine (now ~7 years old) will not be able to boot anything but "approved OS" due UEFI and secure boot.
So first you say there is too much land in US and now you say there is not enough space? I guess the land has to come from the same place where Germany gets it from.
But if you think you're simply going to paper over a couple states with panels, ESPECIALLY in a timeline not measured in DECADES? You're hallucinating.
When I say to my boss "it's too much work and it is going to take long time" the canonical answer is "so why are you still standing here? you better hurry up and start working on it!".
And it's very EASY to sit back in a country like Germany (with a total area of 138K square miles) and preach about "what ought to be done" in a country like the US (with a total area of 3.7 MILLION square miles). Because hey, logistics is EASY, right?
But nobody is expecting US to cover all 3.7E6 square miles. How about you cover 13 most densely populated states. The is going to cover area of size of Germany with more population than has Germany. Deal?
Actually the problem is indeed you. You are spamming/. for years. Get a server and put your great software there. If it is worth anything, people will find it.
I would appreciate more if GDPR led to backlash from users and eventually to reduction of data collection or at least to raise of alternative services that do not collect so much data. But it does not. All we got are "I agree" buttons.
Over here (in Central Europe, latitude ~48 degrees) we had yesterday a report from a strawberry farm - they just had a 2nd harvest this year. This was plain outside farm, not a greenhouse. Normally this kind of strawberries is harvested in May. Nobody here remembers harvesting strawberries in November. Another report was about a guy having a second harvest of grapes. It's crazy.
strace does not tell you what process accessed the file specified by the filename (I think inotifywait can do that). Or what was the full commandline of process, that produced the event, and is now gone. And it is kind of difficult to track down the IP address and port from socket descriptor (though you can get much information from tcpdump).
The bank believes that it gave money to person A when in fact it gave it to person B because person B told the bank that he is person A. From the bank's POV, the bank gave credit to person A and thus expects that person A pays it back.
Oh. You mean that bank should ask the person asking for money for some proof of identity? Something that can be carried in a wallet. Something that is difficult to forge. Something with a person's picture. Something that can be verified against a central database. Something that is issued to everyone for free when they reach some legal age... crazy talk, isn't it?
Over here (in Europe) my ISP provides a set-top-box (STB). They usually rent it for about 2EUR/month on top of the normal service fee providing that you sign up for 2 year contract. Long time ago it used to be that after 2 years, the device became the property of the subscriber (nowadays they just prolong the rental indefinitely). That sums to 24*2=48 EUR for STB. The other option is to buy it outright for price of about 100 EUR, but they really do not like talking about it and push towards the rental option. Considering the complexity and terrible responsiveness, I would say that a hardware at level of RPi would do a better job.
The ISP also rents a Huawei wifi router with optical converter for about 2 EUR/month. The particular device type is not available on local market except from this ISP. I prefer to own the hardware so after learning that I cannot buy it here, I contacted Huawei and asked for a quote. They offered $63 per device, 5 pieces minimum plus shipping. Which is reasonable IMHO. This was in year 2015.
So my guess is that we talk about 50-100 per device. Of course cheaper for a big ISP due economy of scale.
the printed material was probably already outdated
This reminds me of my car manual: "if you have feature X, then pushing the button Y will do Z". How about they telling me whether I have feature X and they don't waste space in manual for features that do not exist in my model?
Thank you for once again showing the world what a pile of steaming bovine excrement the EU really is.
If you think that (for the sake of argument let' say a "significant part" of) the members of the parliament/senate/population/... reads and understands the legislation they vote on, you are delusional. That's true for EU, USA or any other large body claiming to be a modern democracy.
I don't get it. I assume that the "link tax" is covered by "Amendment 74 - Proposal for a directive - Article 11" which states:
Article 11
Protection of press publications concerning digital uses
1. Member States shall provide publishers of press publications with the rights provided for in Article 2 and Article 3(2) of Directive 2001/29/EC so that they may obtain fair and proportionate remuneration for the digital use of their press publications by information society service providers.
The bold part is the proposed change. I understand that as "information society service providers" (for example a blogger ?) should pay for use of material of the copyright holders (i.e. press publications). Aside from the vague definition of terms, that seems to be fair enough.
Subsequently then in it says:
2a. The rights referred to in paragraph 1 shall not extend to acts of hyperlinking.
How is that a "link tax" if it explicitly says that hyperlinking does not constitute "digital use" of copyrighted material?
I canâ(TM)t say that Iâ(TM)ve ever thought âoethese search results loaded too slowlyâ
I have, on the other hand, noticed that the DNS TTL for google.com is 300 seconds. Isn't that too low? Is it really necessary for a DNS server to check with google every 5 minutes?
Slashdot Mirror
That class of cheap users represent class of customers that do not bring significant revenue and so can be seen as cost-cutting opportunity. If that happens, there will be nothing left to switch to. I'm already afraid that the next computer I will buy to replace my current machine (now ~7 years old) will not be able to boot anything but "approved OS" due UEFI and secure boot.
So first you say there is too much land in US and now you say there is not enough space? I guess the land has to come from the same place where Germany gets it from.
When I say to my boss "it's too much work and it is going to take long time" the canonical answer is "so why are you still standing here? you better hurry up and start working on it!".
But nobody is expecting US to cover all 3.7E6 square miles. How about you cover 13 most densely populated states. The is going to cover area of size of Germany with more population than has Germany. Deal?
Easy solution: create an account.
Actually the problem is indeed you. You are spamming /. for years. Get a server and put your great software there. If it is worth anything, people will find it.
End users: no. MAFIAA/PHBs: yes.
I would appreciate more if GDPR led to backlash from users and eventually to reduction of data collection or at least to raise of alternative services that do not collect so much data. But it does not. All we got are "I agree" buttons.
Do people also have the right to refuse paying for repair of abuser's body caused by the poison they voluntarily took?
Over here (in Central Europe, latitude ~48 degrees) we had yesterday a report from a strawberry farm - they just had a 2nd harvest this year. This was plain outside farm, not a greenhouse. Normally this kind of strawberries is harvested in May. Nobody here remembers harvesting strawberries in November. Another report was about a guy having a second harvest of grapes. It's crazy.
Don't people use the same password everywhere?
strace does not tell you what process accessed the file specified by the filename (I think inotifywait can do that). Or what was the full commandline of process, that produced the event, and is now gone. And it is kind of difficult to track down the IP address and port from socket descriptor (though you can get much information from tcpdump).
How are they supposed to perform due diligence?
The bank believes that it gave money to person A when in fact it gave it to person B because person B told the bank that he is person A. From the bank's POV, the bank gave credit to person A and thus expects that person A pays it back.
Oh. You mean that bank should ask the person asking for money for some proof of identity? Something that can be carried in a wallet. Something that is difficult to forge. Something with a person's picture. Something that can be verified against a central database. Something that is issued to everyone for free when they reach some legal age ... crazy talk, isn't it?
Over here (in Europe) my ISP provides a set-top-box (STB). They usually rent it for about 2EUR/month on top of the normal service fee providing that you sign up for 2 year contract. Long time ago it used to be that after 2 years, the device became the property of the subscriber (nowadays they just prolong the rental indefinitely). That sums to 24*2=48 EUR for STB. The other option is to buy it outright for price of about 100 EUR, but they really do not like talking about it and push towards the rental option. Considering the complexity and terrible responsiveness, I would say that a hardware at level of RPi would do a better job.
The ISP also rents a Huawei wifi router with optical converter for about 2 EUR/month. The particular device type is not available on local market except from this ISP. I prefer to own the hardware so after learning that I cannot buy it here, I contacted Huawei and asked for a quote. They offered $63 per device, 5 pieces minimum plus shipping. Which is reasonable IMHO. This was in year 2015.
So my guess is that we talk about 50-100 per device. Of course cheaper for a big ISP due economy of scale.
Does this count?
This reminds me of my car manual: "if you have feature X, then pushing the button Y will do Z". How about they telling me whether I have feature X and they don't waste space in manual for features that do not exist in my model?
I was pretty sure that I have a relevant quote in my fortune database. Turns out I was thinking about No such thing as a stupid question.
But the first thing that grep from the fortune database brought me is relevant as well:
Whenever somebody asks a question starting "Why don't they...." - the answer is always "money". (R. Heinlein)
"Assumption is the mother of all fuck up's!"
If you think that (for the sake of argument let' say a "significant part" of) the members of the parliament/senate/population/... reads and understands the legislation they vote on, you are delusional. That's true for EU, USA or any other large body claiming to be a modern democracy.
I don't get it. I assume that the "link tax" is covered by "Amendment 74 - Proposal for a directive - Article 11" which states:
The bold part is the proposed change. I understand that as "information society service providers" (for example a blogger ?) should pay for use of material of the copyright holders (i.e. press publications). Aside from the vague definition of terms, that seems to be fair enough.
Subsequently then in it says:
How is that a "link tax" if it explicitly says that hyperlinking does not constitute "digital use" of copyrighted material?
I have, on the other hand, noticed that the DNS TTL for google.com is 300 seconds. Isn't that too low? Is it really necessary for a DNS server to check with google every 5 minutes?
So people get dumber just by breathing?
/me looks around
Yeah, sounds about right.
Instead??
Or maybe correlation does not imply causation?
Hah. Forget tulips. I heard that someone had a bridge in Genoa.
Would you kindly take of some of ours? We have surplus over here in central Europe.