That's still a questionable condition you refer to as if I "sign" the contract while in Europe then it's under the conditions in Europe I sign it under.
This also means that purchases of services and goods from outside the EU still falls under EU V.A.T. regulation.
Faulty analogy, I have paid for the device and if I can't use it then the company commits fraudulent behavior and breaks the laws and purchase agreement.
I'm more worried about the cases on rural roads where the surface sometimes is soft and cars will get stuck severely on the road trying to drive where it shouldn't.
Block users and go out of business or at least cut down the operation would probably be the result.
Even businesses need a critical mass to operate and if you fall below a threshold you lose. But I suspect that most businesses will never even have a problem if they just follow the rules. The businesses that will suffer are all those pixel trackers and shit that are totally useless anyway.
It's not as simple as that - if you have operations in the EU even with servers elsewhere then you will still have problems with the GDPR.
We will have to wait and see what happens, but it will be challenging for those that tries to work around GDPR if they want to keep EU customers. It may also be that similar regulations comes into effect in the US as well.
I used to have HTC phones, but when I discovered that they suffer from two major flaws I left them. The flaws are that they are filled with bloatware and that the battery essentially can't be replaced because it's wrapped in the phone so badly that you damage stuff if you try to replace it.
I see it as a lot more important to make a good story than to actually "fulfill a quota" of actors and their cultural background.
Just look at Heimdall in Thor that has a black actor while nothing in the mythology states that - and some of the mythology even view the opposite. Nothing wrong with the actor himself, but it's still a bit annoying from the perspective of the background story and mythology.
If the story used don't say anything about race for a character, then be my guest and throw in the best qualified actor for that role regardless of skin color. Just don't make it awkwardly obvious that it's a forced cast.
I'm fully aware of that this was automount, but Autoplay is even worse.
It's also one thing to crash a computer another to inject malware. If it had been possible to inject malware through the automount then it would be really bad.
The GDPR is put into place because way too many companies are abusing the privacy of people.
It still has provisions to allow data to be used if it is properly anonymized. But the goal is to make it harder to have privacy-invading calls to individuals and abuse personal data.
Slashdot Mirror
Almost the only stuff I get on my gmail account is youtube notifications. I can imagine they think I'm a weirdo.
Resl trusted computing has never existed.
It just highlights that something worse could have been attached.
However it also highlights that there's a need to also be able to invalidate cryptocurrency obtained through illegal means.
I gave up on Skype just because I got a bad feeling about Microsoft owning it.
Time for something new. Or go back to classic means of communication like radio. There are so many ways to communicate these days.
That's still a questionable condition you refer to as if I "sign" the contract while in Europe then it's under the conditions in Europe I sign it under.
This also means that purchases of services and goods from outside the EU still falls under EU V.A.T. regulation.
And we have a limited amount of Helium that we can use - and waste it on party balloons, but Nitrogen don't run out while humanity is around.
Faulty analogy, I have paid for the device and if I can't use it then the company commits fraudulent behavior and breaks the laws and purchase agreement.
I'm more worried about the cases on rural roads where the surface sometimes is soft and cars will get stuck severely on the road trying to drive where it shouldn't.
The problem is that the car uses the docked/paired phone for communication in some brands.
Get a zap device instead. Like USB killer.
Time to make it the responsibility of the dealer to wipe all data.
Car manufacturers may also have to introduce a "Factory Reset" function that is easy to find. Especially in the EU now with GDPR coming.
This is also a reason why I don't sign up to a lot of online services and try to limit the Bluetooth interaction as much as possible.
I wonder what GDPR will do to the "telemetry" of Windows 10. EU citizens will have the right to know at May 25th. And no EULA can evade that.
Block users and go out of business or at least cut down the operation would probably be the result.
Even businesses need a critical mass to operate and if you fall below a threshold you lose. But I suspect that most businesses will never even have a problem if they just follow the rules. The businesses that will suffer are all those pixel trackers and shit that are totally useless anyway.
It's not as simple as that - if you have operations in the EU even with servers elsewhere then you will still have problems with the GDPR.
We will have to wait and see what happens, but it will be challenging for those that tries to work around GDPR if they want to keep EU customers. It may also be that similar regulations comes into effect in the US as well.
Recently I registered for a Fitbit and they had an added option that I had to select to opt out of data protection laws.
But they don't understand that laws in the EU trumps any user agreement. EULAs are null and invalid if they break the law.
If you filter me on location then you have enough information on me to fall under GDPR and you have to release your information on me if I demand it.
Catch-22 at its finest!
Give me a phone that runs VMS instead.
I used to have HTC phones, but when I discovered that they suffer from two major flaws I left them.
The flaws are that they are filled with bloatware and that the battery essentially can't be replaced because it's wrapped in the phone so badly that you damage stuff if you try to replace it.
Now I use a CAT S60 instead.
When I see stuff like this I feel that there's no point in "upgrading" from Windows 7.
I see it as a lot more important to make a good story than to actually "fulfill a quota" of actors and their cultural background.
Just look at Heimdall in Thor that has a black actor while nothing in the mythology states that - and some of the mythology even view the opposite. Nothing wrong with the actor himself, but it's still a bit annoying from the perspective of the background story and mythology.
If the story used don't say anything about race for a character, then be my guest and throw in the best qualified actor for that role regardless of skin color. Just don't make it awkwardly obvious that it's a forced cast.
I would use the cards for Seti@Home or similar instead.
Imagine how fun it would be to hijack a mining cluster to instead run Seti@home or something more useful.
I agree - where will the water go, and what will it be used for?
If it's just for cooling then it will most likely end up back in the lake.
I'm fully aware of that this was automount, but Autoplay is even worse.
It's also one thing to crash a computer another to inject malware. If it had been possible to inject malware through the automount then it would be really bad.
The GDPR is put into place because way too many companies are abusing the privacy of people.
It still has provisions to allow data to be used if it is properly anonymized. But the goal is to make it harder to have privacy-invading calls to individuals and abuse personal data.
The law is good, it's painful for ad networks though since with it you have the right to ask every ad network about what they know about you.
GDPR is a big issue for anyone collecting statistics like ad networks. Just look it up on wikipedia.
The impact on whois is really a marginal thing.