The rationale is in getting people to stop sharing user data with third parties in foreign countries. Google isn't the specific target of the corresponding legislation, it's just a high-profile target and I doubt we'd see a story about any other analytics service found in violation of EU privacy law.
Nobody cares about you getting detailed statistics about your users. Do so, if it helps improve your website.
The German privacy protection officials are just noting that GA means gathering personal data in the EU and sending it to a country with lesser data protection standards, which EU privacy law forbids. Enumerating which bits of personal data can be used to identify a person is not a good idea as technology changes faster then legislation does so the only sensible thing is to protect all of it.
I'd rather have a law that forces me to use on-server analytics than one that allows companies to send my data to spammers under some flimsy premise.
you might not be aware if you visit a site using Google Analytics
Except that for me the GA servers are exceedingly slow (unlike about everything else Google hosts) so GA added ten to thirty seconds of loading time to every page using it until I stopped at at the DNS level.
Or people will just use a self-hosted analytics package. I doubt that Google is the only company that ever thought of presenting usage data in a convenient manner.
Before the USA mandated paranoia for everyone, I rarely saw a policeman with as much as a handgun. Then again, I live in a rural area, so your cops are unlikely to ever see any reason to use one.
Great. Our fifteen minutes in the limelight and now we can't talk about it anymore? Screw you. We can shoot back since 5:45 whenever we want to. (Which, admittedly, is unlikely to occur again.)
Maybe once we see a cat brain simulation and not just a neural network that just happens to have roughly the same number of nodes as there are neurons in a cat's brain.
Actually, I'm not too keen about both KDE and GNOME and their respective interface guidelines. I have used KDE before switching to OS X and I have tried out various versions of KDE4, GNOME and even Enlightenment in VMs. None of them have resonated with me like the OS X UI does. It's a matter of personal preference, I'd say.
Plus, I never quite liked dpkg. Another personal preference thing.
It's trivial to come up with a program that can easily be determined to stop. In fact, this is true for any program that does stop and some that don't. We just can't do it with programs in general unless someone comes up with a universal machine that allows this, at which point the Turing machine would be supplanted.
This post is not an accurate representation of the views, ideals, personality, nor alignment of the user who posted it.
You do realize that posting out of alignment for too long will provoke an alignment shift? I just want to make sure you don't accidentally keep yourself from leveling up the way you want to.
Step 1: Get free netbook
Step 2: Strip it of interesting components
Step 3: Use free components in own electronics projects
Step 4: Prof-- er, break-even!!
Crowdsource. If you find that a certain UA string or cookie gives you a lower price on a website, you submit it to a database, which is accessed by a Firefox/Chrome extension. If you just want lower prices, install the extension and you're done.
There's too many crisises to still call them "crises". It's like fish and fishes. If you have lots of different fish you have fishes. If you have lots of different crises you have crisises.
Also, be careful or you could start a news media orthography crisis.
WASHINGTON - Yet another national crisis shakes the American people as the White House announced that America is in dire need of a break from all those national crisises. "It's really getting to me," a visibly aggravated Barack Obama told the press, "first we have yet another terrorist warning, then we're out of nuclear weapons to build nuclear weapon detectors and just this morning I had three more peak oil predictions on my desk." Obama then curled up into a fetal position, rocking back and forth, mumbling to himself: "No more crisises, please, make it stop!"
"If we look at the numbers, it's really clear that we're currently at a record crisis high," told us crisis expert Albert E. Backenhauer in an interview. "We've got the onslaught of national crisises an economic depression brings with it in addition to the ongoing wars on drugs, terrorism and consumers. If this keeps up and, say, the Super Bowl gets canceled because of persisting bad weather, this country might go tits up." He then looked at our reporter like a cow looks at an oncoming train and added: "Oh shit, now they're recursive!" before proceeing to jump out of his window.
The internet has yet to take a stance on this delicate issue, although seasoned YouTube pundit dirtysanchezlol offered a silver lining of hope by reassuring us that "everythings normal youre still all gay fags".
His family being Catholic, he had already been given his last rights.
"You have the right to die silently. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you on Judgement Day. You have the right to an attorney, although the judge is already omniscient so it's fairly pointless. If you cannot afford an attorney on Judgment Day don't worry, neither can anyone else. If you understand these rights as they have been read to you then say 'amen'."
"Tech-savvy" is pretty fitting for us Unix-using youngsters. I explicitly put "style-conscious" as a separate group. Not everyone buys Macs because they're shiny; some people buy them because OS X is a Unix with nice features (like Grand Central) and an excellent GUI. And that's the people I referred to with "tech-savvy".
What about digital goods? Is there any incentive to create, say, the next Photoshop if everyone can immediately copy it to their heart's content? Movies? Those are damn expensive to make, even low-budget ones (10.000 bucks is a plausible figure if you want to make a trash movie).
Copyright isn't inherently evil it's just been stretched out to a point where it's harmful. Reduce copyright to a few years (let's say 15), non-extendable, and you keep a clear incentive to create while cuting out the "Disney owns popular culture forever" nonsense.
Actually, I haven't seen any way in which the Magic Mouse's gestures differ from Apple's trackpad gestures, save for them using one finger less. If you can use an Apple trackpad under OS X you can use the Magic Mouse.
And this is relevant... how? The GP complained about the article comparing Microsoft's prototypes to Apple's finished product. Yes, of course Microsoft has shipped mice before. That doesn't change the fact that Microsoft does not have a multitouch mouse on the market right now and most likely won't for another few months.
Apple is heavily using multitouch. Everyone who has a newer Apple notebook or an iPhone or iPod touch knows how to use multitouch interfaces. (And, for that matter, Microsoft and Google are also using it for their handhelds so it will most likely become a common smartphone feature in the future.) Apple's market consists of Mac users and tech-savvy or style-conscious young people who are likely to quickly learn how to use the Magic Mouse.
Microsoft is toying with the concept but it's unclear whether they will actually ship a meaningful product. They can do whatever they want, although they will most likely also embrace multitouch. They can rely on the next point.
Multitouch has one advantage over regular interface technologies: It's intuitive by design. Pinch to make things smaller. Rotate to rotate them. Swipe to scroll. It's very easy to get the hang of it and much less abstract than "right-click to open a context menu".
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The rationale is in getting people to stop sharing user data with third parties in foreign countries. Google isn't the specific target of the corresponding legislation, it's just a high-profile target and I doubt we'd see a story about any other analytics service found in violation of EU privacy law.
Nobody cares about you getting detailed statistics about your users. Do so, if it helps improve your website.
The German privacy protection officials are just noting that GA means gathering personal data in the EU and sending it to a country with lesser data protection standards, which EU privacy law forbids. Enumerating which bits of personal data can be used to identify a person is not a good idea as technology changes faster then legislation does so the only sensible thing is to protect all of it.
I'd rather have a law that forces me to use on-server analytics than one that allows companies to send my data to spammers under some flimsy premise.
Except that for me the GA servers are exceedingly slow (unlike about everything else Google hosts) so GA added ten to thirty seconds of loading time to every page using it until I stopped at at the DNS level.
Reduced GA usage can only improve the web.
Or people will just use a self-hosted analytics package. I doubt that Google is the only company that ever thought of presenting usage data in a convenient manner.
Before the USA mandated paranoia for everyone, I rarely saw a policeman with as much as a handgun. Then again, I live in a rural area, so your cops are unlikely to ever see any reason to use one.
Great. Our fifteen minutes in the limelight and now we can't talk about it anymore? Screw you. We can shoot back since 5:45 whenever we want to. (Which, admittedly, is unlikely to occur again.)
Maybe once we see a cat brain simulation and not just a neural network that just happens to have roughly the same number of nodes as there are neurons in a cat's brain.
Actually, I'm not too keen about both KDE and GNOME and their respective interface guidelines. I have used KDE before switching to OS X and I have tried out various versions of KDE4, GNOME and even Enlightenment in VMs. None of them have resonated with me like the OS X UI does. It's a matter of personal preference, I'd say.
Plus, I never quite liked dpkg. Another personal preference thing.
It's trivial to come up with a program that can easily be determined to stop. In fact, this is true for any program that does stop and some that don't. We just can't do it with programs in general unless someone comes up with a universal machine that allows this, at which point the Turing machine would be supplanted.
Ah, Overrated. The downmod choice of people who know nobody agrees with their opinion anyways.
Then why is this in YRO and not in Hardware?
You do realize that posting out of alignment for too long will provoke an alignment shift? I just want to make sure you don't accidentally keep yourself from leveling up the way you want to.
Step 1: Get free netbook
Step 2: Strip it of interesting components
Step 3: Use free components in own electronics projects
Step 4: Prof-- er, break-even!!
Crowdsource. If you find that a certain UA string or cookie gives you a lower price on a website, you submit it to a database, which is accessed by a Firefox/Chrome extension. If you just want lower prices, install the extension and you're done.
I still see a distinct lack of you-provided food around here. Make it snappy, can opener slave!
Where's my food? I asked for food more than one minute ago and there's nothing here yet. I am outraged.
Okay.
Give me food. Now.
There's too many crisises to still call them "crises". It's like fish and fishes. If you have lots of different fish you have fishes. If you have lots of different crises you have crisises.
Also, be careful or you could start a news media orthography crisis.
WASHINGTON - Yet another national crisis shakes the American people as the White House announced that America is in dire need of a break from all those national crisises. "It's really getting to me," a visibly aggravated Barack Obama told the press, "first we have yet another terrorist warning, then we're out of nuclear weapons to build nuclear weapon detectors and just this morning I had three more peak oil predictions on my desk." Obama then curled up into a fetal position, rocking back and forth, mumbling to himself: "No more crisises, please, make it stop!"
"If we look at the numbers, it's really clear that we're currently at a record crisis high," told us crisis expert Albert E. Backenhauer in an interview. "We've got the onslaught of national crisises an economic depression brings with it in addition to the ongoing wars on drugs, terrorism and consumers. If this keeps up and, say, the Super Bowl gets canceled because of persisting bad weather, this country might go tits up." He then looked at our reporter like a cow looks at an oncoming train and added: "Oh shit, now they're recursive!" before proceeing to jump out of his window.
The internet has yet to take a stance on this delicate issue, although seasoned YouTube pundit dirtysanchezlol offered a silver lining of hope by reassuring us that "everythings normal youre still all gay fags".
"You have the right to die silently. Anything you say or do can and will be used against you on Judgement Day. You have the right to an attorney, although the judge is already omniscient so it's fairly pointless. If you cannot afford an attorney on Judgment Day don't worry, neither can anyone else. If you understand these rights as they have been read to you then say 'amen'."
"Tech-savvy" is pretty fitting for us Unix-using youngsters. I explicitly put "style-conscious" as a separate group. Not everyone buys Macs because they're shiny; some people buy them because OS X is a Unix with nice features (like Grand Central) and an excellent GUI. And that's the people I referred to with "tech-savvy".
What about digital goods? Is there any incentive to create, say, the next Photoshop if everyone can immediately copy it to their heart's content? Movies? Those are damn expensive to make, even low-budget ones (10.000 bucks is a plausible figure if you want to make a trash movie).
Copyright isn't inherently evil it's just been stretched out to a point where it's harmful. Reduce copyright to a few years (let's say 15), non-extendable, and you keep a clear incentive to create while cuting out the "Disney owns popular culture forever" nonsense.
Actually, I haven't seen any way in which the Magic Mouse's gestures differ from Apple's trackpad gestures, save for them using one finger less. If you can use an Apple trackpad under OS X you can use the Magic Mouse.
And this is relevant... how? The GP complained about the article comparing Microsoft's prototypes to Apple's finished product. Yes, of course Microsoft has shipped mice before. That doesn't change the fact that Microsoft does not have a multitouch mouse on the market right now and most likely won't for another few months.
They don't need to.
Apple is heavily using multitouch. Everyone who has a newer Apple notebook or an iPhone or iPod touch knows how to use multitouch interfaces. (And, for that matter, Microsoft and Google are also using it for their handhelds so it will most likely become a common smartphone feature in the future.) Apple's market consists of Mac users and tech-savvy or style-conscious young people who are likely to quickly learn how to use the Magic Mouse.
Microsoft is toying with the concept but it's unclear whether they will actually ship a meaningful product. They can do whatever they want, although they will most likely also embrace multitouch. They can rely on the next point.
Multitouch has one advantage over regular interface technologies: It's intuitive by design. Pinch to make things smaller. Rotate to rotate them. Swipe to scroll. It's very easy to get the hang of it and much less abstract than "right-click to open a context menu".