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  1. Re:Wired on How WIRED lost $100,000 in Bitcoin (wired.com) · · Score: 0

    Hope you had fun at that party.

  2. Re:meanwhile, in the kitchen... on A Middle-Aged Writer's Quest To Start Learning To Code For the First Time (1843magazine.com) · · Score: 1

    The Economist's 1843 magazine details one middle-aged writer's (Andrew Smith) quest to learn to cook for the first time,

    Welcome to 'murica where cooking has been reduced to heat up prepackaged stuff.

  3. I went that way with Gentoo as my first Linux. It was more like 15 days than 15 hours, but I stuck through it and was rewarded with knowing every byte on my harddisk.

    And there is a certain beauty of starting with an empty harddisk and seeing grwoing and evolving from within itself.

  4. Really? Do we have to explain what full and half duplex is? Wasn't the internet and access to all the worlds knowledge supposed to make us smarter?

  5. Feel free to do so. Most users probably are happy to NOT make business with someone who is not willing to perform the simplest due diligence when it comes to data security. Your business decision.

    But leaves two questions open:

    First, what is with your US costumers? Won't the be able to sue you anyway if you have any kind of data breach or abuse like the facebook scandal or identity theft after the Target breach? If you don't protect their data, you may find yourself at the wrong end of a class action law suit, and if you do (and have documented that you're doing it) you're most likely already in compliance with GDPR.

    Second: Since when is geoblocking reliable? If that tool misses an EU user cause his ISP borrowed some rare IP4 addresses temporarily from a US ISP, you may get your $9 back, but still are in violation of the GDPR.

    But I absolutely understand where you're coming from.

  6. * Have a data deletion policy

    My site has records, and they will be retained forever - that's my policy.

    >

    And it's a valid policy under GDPR. So what was you point again? State that policy, make sure that users agree and enforce it. (it's your policy after all) and you're fine.

  7. You forgot the most time consuming item: compile a list of what data you store, where, why, how long and who has access to it.

    But for most "mom and pop" that list should have one item: Costumer name address and their shopped items.

  8. Re:Completely illegal on one side... on Man Allegedly Used Change Of Address Form To Move UPS Headquarters To His Apartment (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Halfway.... It could have been as brilliant as easy, hadn't he used his apartment adress without even one more layer of indirection.

  9. Re:And eventually... on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Sending an event invite does NOT help to find a time that's convinient to both of you. It's rather one party taking away the other partys control over their own time by setting a meeting and not caring about it's convinient. Yes, there are tools that are designed to help you with that and even integrate nicely into Google calendar (doodle.com, vyte.in) but again, the other party has to support them.

    And yes, scheduling an apointment through a website - that's exactly what Google assistant already does - like booking a table through open table.

    But if you have a look at the complete presentation of Duplex, they announced that they saw the need for that as 60% of buisnesses don't have any digital event scheduling interface yet but they don't want to unfairly prefer big businesses that can afford paying for an electronic booking service that integrates with assistant, so smaller businesses can take bookings from voice assistants, too.

  10. But why should that be connected to a twitter account?

  11. Re:And eventually... on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes. Why shouldn't what works for scheduling a meeting with colleagues in Outlook not work for scheduling an appointment with a plumber?

  12. Re:Telemarketers, Tele-SPAM and Robo-Calls, Oh My. on Google Assistant Will Call Businesses For You Via 'Duplex' (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    During the presentation, this was placed as a kind of bridge technology for businesses that don't have a digital reservation system yet. (OpenTable or whatever there is for hairdressers and doctors)

    So as soon as they have something electronic, in place to reserve timeslots, Duplex will be obsolete.

    Related question: Anyone else thought this would have been a fantastic April Fools story?

  13. Re:Darwin award nominee? on 'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead (livescience.com) · · Score: 2

    OK, I'm pulling that hypothesis out of thin air, but I'm trying to do so in an Ockham-complete way.

    1. Guy injects himself with probably inert liquid as dangerous as isotonic saline solution, but labled "untested drug"
    2. Guy grows more and more anxious fearing for possible dangers, but it's too late
    3. Guy is so afraid of what he may have done, starts to go insane. (Checkpoint 1: Reports of him loosing contact to the rest of his startup, irritating business descicions)
    4. Guy decides he needs to relax. In a fancy and expensive way as considered normal by Silicon Valley Standards
    5. Sensory deprivation makes the guy panic, doesn't find emergency exit, splashes and inhales salt water, rolls around and drowns.

  14. Which leads to the question if Betty Rubble was Homo N. or Homo S.

  15. They should have kept the north american colonies back then....

  16. That sheds an even worse light on chinese programmers than on chinese companies....

    It's a sad life if the best thing about your job is the gorgeous.... whatever an software developer motivator is.

  17. Re:Hows that going to work? on Eventbrite Claims The Right To Film Your Events -- And Keep the Copyright (eventbrite.com) · · Score: 1

    To satisfy Eventbrite, the promoter will have to get advance clearance from all rights holders.

    Yes. And he agreed to do so. So, if things land in front of a judge, he will be the one that neglected contractual obligations. (Unless your local jurisdiction has laws against unexpected or discriminatory clauses in TOS)

    So in your case, celebrity sues eventbrite, they take the organizer in regress.

    But in turn, I haven't heard of an event organizer who would not reserve the right to take und use photographs of their own events for PR. I guess events without that clause are running on a premium....

  18. Re:Edit Address Line Is Not Hacking on 19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    But it's not breaking and entering if the open door belongs to a store. Unlocked store doors usually are an invitation to enter and look around. Publishing something on the internet is usually more comparable to an open store door than an unlocked house door. In general

    However, here the knew that those documents were not there for public availability, so I don't mind if he gets sued and sentenced. However, whoever left the documents with personal data out in the open should feel severe consequences, too. Just because one side probably did commit some minor misdemeanor does not mean that the other party is free of guilt.

    If you don't lock your door you will have to face consequences, too. At least from your insurance. Over here, leaving your car unlocked is even fineable

  19. Re:OK, but what does Netflix Original mean? on Netflix Licensed Content Generates 80% of US Viewing, Study Finds (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    for example....?

  20. not quite. the long tail effect suggests that the majority of your content could never be bought, but you can still make a profit as there are no costs involved with keeping old content

  21. Re:no such thing as bad publicity on Facebook Data Collected By Quiz App Included Private Messages (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Who cares.

    Negative sentiments will fade away, brand recognition will remain. When they as for the worlds most valuable brands, they ask "What brands do you know" and not "Which brands do you like".

    There is no such thing as bad press Only no press is bad press.

  22. Re:Use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy? on President Trump Slams Amazon For 'Causing Tremendous Loss To the United States' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    And as the postal service is a vital part of the economy... shouldn't there be rates set that in the end MAKE money?

    And instead of complaining about "misusing" the postal service by delivering packages (after all, what else is their job then?), shouldn't he enforce those rates? I'm not from the US and don't have that much details, but shouldn't the USPS somewhere under the executive branch as the President?

  23. TOS on Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So technically she was in violation of GDrive TOS for 5 and a half years then.

    I'm no friend of Google snooping in your data that you entrusted them with, but with the threat of criminal prosecution for NOT doing it, I can't blame them for following the laws.

  24. Re:I can barely name any either on People Were Asked To Name Women Tech Leaders. They Said 'Alexa' and 'Siri' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Not according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  25. Re:I can barely name any either on People Were Asked To Name Women Tech Leaders. They Said 'Alexa' and 'Siri' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks for going back a bit further..

    Hedy Lamarr. Worlds most beautiful woman (well, according to MGM marketing) AND inventor of frequency hopping!