The same kind of protagonists are performing the same schtick in the US and in Europe.
STEM is called MINT, skill gap is Fachkräftemangel, and H1B is called "blue card" (yes. someone mixed up work permit and permanent residency when looking for a catchy name)
Arguments are the same, debate is the same.
And it becomes slightly absurd when immigration officers at a US border somehow expect every other country but the US to be a 3rd world hole people would be happy to trade in for a McJob in the US of A. They can't even imagine that someone likes their job and their home country and actually WANTS to go home after their visit.
Exactly. And that's what you don't want to turn up if someone does a casual search with your name. On the other hand, he can't expect to have historical facts (like his foreclosure) purged from the historic archives. That was 1984.
And we ALL need to learn that a bankrupcy 20 years ago hardly effects his current financial situation.
But still putting that into the hand of one commercial search engine is the wrong way to do so. That "making hard to find" should also start at the source. My suggestion would be to have the newspaper archive use an additional robots.txt/metadata like X-ARCHIVE:True to indicate that this site may be indexed, but contains out of date information that should NOT show up unless someone does a specific archived/cached search request
PRO: Available to all search engines. You don't have to go to all serach engines to have something hidden from simple searches Historical information still available and easily searchable - if desired so Searching uiser knows in advance that he will receive outdated information
I absolutely agree that it's better that things should be forgotten in many cases for many reasons. I do wonder if the search engine is entirely the right place to do the forgetting. Search engines typically index content because it exists. Does right to be forgotten also give a right to have content taken down?.
In this case: Explicitly no. In a related ruling in the same case, the website with the archived newspaper article is explicitly covered by freedom of press and has NOT to take donw anything.
But removing the link from the search engine will at least make uncovering 20 year old sins of your youth as difficult as it was when you had to spend the time in a dead-tree newspaper archive.
1) Things that don't exist cant leak or get stolen
2) Computer security matters for everyone!
I now that #1 was the main point of the victim blamers. But it's simple and true. It's the victimblamers conclusion that is wrong that you shouldn't have (or create) anything.
Whoever did this was clearly hacking and "stealing" a huge bunch of personal data. Including, amongst others, photos including, among others, private photos, including, among others nude pictures.
Of course the net and all media are only intrested in those. Sex sells. That's still true. But from a legal POV, you should keep things in perpective. When someone mugs a person stealing his satchel containing a joint, doesn't make it a drug crime.
While surveillance itself is problematic, too, it wasn't a real problem before. I used to be comfortable with the fact that in some cases, police and FBI could wiretap phones and intercept email. So surveillance isn't exactly the problem either.
The "problem" is that this power has been heavily misused and that the trust that surveillance would only be directed to crime suspects is now lost. And people losing trust in police IS a problem.
Anxiety over US spying already broke lawfull access to data on cellphones for law enforcement agencies when Apple and Google declared that activating phone encryption will now be default.
I'm a bit amazed (well, then again, not at all) that no one asked what you actually want to DO with Google fiber. Who cares if you can't use its full speed over wireless when all you're doing on your PC is the usual/./FB/email-stuff.
Put a small server (probabkly those NAS based things that run full-blown linux) next to your fiber jack. Have it handle all those big downloads that actually profit from the external fiber speed. Run a network cable to your TV and if you're using a desktop machine, to that machine.
For everything else, use wireless. Your tablets cpu will be slower than even the wifi anyway already.
Reminds me of the late 90s/early 2000s when millions of accounts for a german online service (T-Online) have been stolen - by 3rd party tool for that service that offered additional services including up/downing your connection (which was essential for those high, minute based rates back then. Butso it had your password, of course)
It was a PITA to convince people to stop using that tool because it was so usefull.
Lights up your bedroom when you want to sleep at night. Oh yes, of course you could switch on the device to switch to the much darker gree power light....
No, common core should be about teaching HOW TO add.
And adding large numbers by "carrying over in your head" isn't much more that doing exactly that: doing 2+2 first, carry over if needed and then add 20 + 20. You're just so used to it that you forgot to that you had to learn that too.
But to be fair: You can produce a decent (and potentially next-big-thing) app, if you can afford to lock yourself up for a few months without having to worry about paying food and rent. Unlike a new MS Office-killer or hardware plattform, you can get by with sheer luck instead of big investors if your project goes viral on social media.
Talent and hard work will reduce the amount of luck you need to hit it big, but you always will need that spark of luck, like being at the right place at the right time.
So you have students doing "public services" for all the wrong reasons. Which does a disservice to all those fields. In any group, it's better to have volunteers dedicated to whatever their group is doing (from drama to helping homeless) and NOT just find the easiest way to have it listed in their CV.
No standardized testing means people taking responsibility means people occasionally making mistakes means people occasionally being sued into bankrupcy.
As an IT guy, I love standardized anything, but at some point standardization just becomes a shield to hide from responsibility and accountability.
But why are they hiding from behinf that "shield?" It's the army of lawyers ready to sue the pants of everyone who has the guts to make a descision based on a personal impression and not based on standardized metrics.
Replace 'Asians' with 'Jews', and you'd sound exactly like a 19th century Harvard dean trying to figure out how to prevent the WASPs from running away.
Well, there's at least one difference: No 19th century Jew wrote a bestseller book promoting that unbalanced training-to-the-test as superior, typical jewish way.
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The same kind of protagonists are performing the same schtick in the US and in Europe.
STEM is called MINT, skill gap is Fachkräftemangel, and H1B is called "blue card" (yes. someone mixed up work permit and permanent residency when looking for a catchy name)
Arguments are the same, debate is the same.
And it becomes slightly absurd when immigration officers at a US border somehow expect every other country but the US to be a 3rd world hole people would be happy to trade in for a McJob in the US of A. They can't even imagine that someone likes their job and their home country and actually WANTS to go home after their visit.
Exactly. And that's what you don't want to turn up if someone does a casual search with your name. On the other hand, he can't expect to have historical facts (like his foreclosure) purged from the historic archives. That was 1984.
And we ALL need to learn that a bankrupcy 20 years ago hardly effects his current financial situation.
Agree.
But still putting that into the hand of one commercial search engine is the wrong way to do so. That "making hard to find" should also start at the source. My suggestion would be to have the newspaper archive use an additional robots.txt/metadata like X-ARCHIVE:True to indicate that this site may be indexed, but contains out of date information that should NOT show up unless someone does a specific archived/cached search request
PRO:
Available to all search engines. You don't have to go to all serach engines to have something hidden from simple searches
Historical information still available and easily searchable - if desired so
Searching uiser knows in advance that he will receive outdated information
CON: ?
I absolutely agree that it's better that things should be forgotten in many cases for many reasons. I do wonder if the search engine is entirely the right place to do the forgetting. Search engines typically index content because it exists. Does right to be forgotten also give a right to have content taken down?.
In this case: Explicitly no. In a related ruling in the same case, the website with the archived newspaper article is explicitly covered by freedom of press and has NOT to take donw anything.
But removing the link from the search engine will at least make uncovering 20 year old sins of your youth as difficult as it was when you had to spend the time in a dead-tree newspaper archive.
Thanks to a prior ruling (in the same case) the source is explicitly protected by press freedom.
After losing that round at court, that spanish guy who went broke years ago simply kept on sueing the next in line, which happend to be Google.
It's not even a law. It's a court ruling.
a law would at least give some legal foundation. Another court may decide in a few months that some other name should habe not e taken down.
Lessons learned:
1) Things that don't exist cant leak or get stolen
2) Computer security matters for everyone!
I now that #1 was the main point of the victim blamers. But it's simple and true. It's the victimblamers conclusion that is wrong that you shouldn't have (or create) anything.
Whoever did this was clearly hacking and "stealing" a huge bunch of personal data. Including, amongst others, photos including, among others, private photos, including, among others nude pictures.
Of course the net and all media are only intrested in those. Sex sells. That's still true. But from a legal POV, you should keep things in perpective. When someone mugs a person stealing his satchel containing a joint, doesn't make it a drug crime.
No. it hat 2 short inbetween. for SMS. Which is pretty logical, but scared the heck out of me when I heard it for the first time.
Increasing my STEAM capabilities is the best excuse to install Steam on my PC and spend the rest of the week gaming....
I had sympathy during the short time when they were known as "people eat tasty animals"
They COULD sell your data in the future, but they are unlikely to do so because what makes that data valuable is their exclusivity.
Actually selling them would make them worthless.
Absolutely.
And I'm not saying those who lost that trust are wrong.
While surveillance itself is problematic, too, it wasn't a real problem before. I used to be comfortable with the fact that in some cases, police and FBI could wiretap phones and intercept email. So surveillance isn't exactly the problem either.
The "problem" is that this power has been heavily misused and that the trust that surveillance would only be directed to crime suspects is now lost. And people losing trust in police IS a problem.
Anxiety over US spying already broke lawfull access to data on cellphones for law enforcement agencies when Apple and Google declared that activating phone encryption will now be default.
I'm a bit amazed (well, then again, not at all) that no one asked what you actually want to DO with Google fiber. Who cares if you can't use its full speed over wireless when all you're doing on your PC is the usual /./FB/email-stuff.
Put a small server (probabkly those NAS based things that run full-blown linux) next to your fiber jack. Have it handle all those big downloads that actually profit from the external fiber speed. Run a network cable to your TV and if you're using a desktop machine, to that machine.
For everything else, use wireless. Your tablets cpu will be slower than even the wifi anyway already.
Reminds me of the late 90s/early 2000s when millions of accounts for a german online service (T-Online) have been stolen - by 3rd party tool for that service that offered additional services including up/downing your connection (which was essential for those high, minute based rates back then. Butso it had your password, of course)
It was a PITA to convince people to stop using that tool because it was so usefull.
Sounds like a good idea at the first thought. But it begs the question, why it is allowed for commercial airplanes...
but that's not what this story is about.
But that's what news stories should have been about when killing people using remote controlled devices was news and not normal.
Even worse: The STANDBY LIGHT!!
Lights up your bedroom when you want to sleep at night. Oh yes, of course you could switch on the device to switch to the much darker gree power light....
No, common core should be about teaching HOW TO add.
And adding large numbers by "carrying over in your head" isn't much more that doing exactly that: doing 2+2 first, carry over if needed and then add 20 + 20. You're just so used to it that you forgot to that you had to learn that too.
But to be fair: You can produce a decent (and potentially next-big-thing) app, if you can afford to lock yourself up for a few months without having to worry about paying food and rent. Unlike a new MS Office-killer or hardware plattform, you can get by with sheer luck instead of big investors if your project goes viral on social media.
Talent and hard work will reduce the amount of luck you need to hit it big, but you always will need that spark of luck, like being at the right place at the right time.
So you have students doing "public services" for all the wrong reasons. Which does a disservice to all those fields. In any group, it's better to have volunteers dedicated to whatever their group is doing (from drama to helping homeless) and NOT just find the easiest way to have it listed in their CV.
No standardized testing means people taking responsibility means people occasionally making mistakes means people occasionally being sued into bankrupcy.
As an IT guy, I love standardized anything, but at some point standardization just becomes a shield to hide from responsibility and accountability.
But why are they hiding from behinf that "shield?" It's the army of lawyers ready to sue the pants of everyone who has the guts to make a descision based on a personal impression and not based on standardized metrics.
Replace 'Asians' with 'Jews', and you'd sound exactly like a 19th century Harvard dean trying to figure out how to prevent the WASPs from running away.
Well, there's at least one difference: No 19th century Jew wrote a bestseller book promoting that unbalanced training-to-the-test as superior, typical jewish way.