Google shouldn't have to make intelligent decisions as to what needs to be removed.
Why not? Every other company which does business in the EU has to make intelligent decisions about how it implements the law, including those aspects which allow for a data subject to request deletion of personal data which was collected, stored, and processed without consent or legal necessity.
There were rifles in the US War of Independence, and both sides had them. But they weren't the main infantry weapon because of the slow reloading time.
What on Earth does that have to do with it? It's perfectly reasonable for the law to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens in matters like residence. I'll even grant that it's not unreasonable for it to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens in the question of who can vote - although that flies in the face of the professed reason for the US War of Independence; and as someone who lives and pays taxes in a country where I'm not a citizen it sometimes irritates me that I can't be fully involved in politics. But in basic matters of human rights like the right to the presumption of innocence, which is what this is about, nationality should be completely irrelevant.
I'm not a real physicist, but by coincidence I happen to be reading a good book about the LHC and the Higgs field at the moment. (The Particle at the End of the Universe, by Sean Carroll: highly recommended). The explanation given, as I understand it, is that what really matters isn't particles but fields: particles are what we perceive when a field has a concentration of energy in one* place. (* Except that we're talking quantum mechanics here, so the Gabor-Heisenberg-Weyl uncertainty principle applies).
When I wrote that line, what I really had in mind was a specific platformer-creation tool which was responsible for a rash of crappy games on Kongregate a few years ago, but I couldn't (and still can't) remember the name.
It really dawned on me that game programming just does not mean what I think it means.
Do you think it means AAA FPGs and RPSes? The vast majority of games are much smaller scale than that.
It's possible that the game programming camp is setting the children up with a point-and-click game dev engine (although I hope not); but it might well be giving them a framework like PyGame and a lot of help to get a couple of simple 2D games running. If it fosters the kind of experiences that my generation had growing up in the early days of home computers, it's a good thing.
Weekend hackathons, on the other hand, allow far more time than is necessary to get an alpha version of a simple game running. When I worked in the industry, I once put together an alpha for a word game in 2 hours. It wasn't optimised, it had one bug in the UI, it had placeholder graphics, and as we play-tested it we made major changes to the scoring system, but it was playable and enough fun to get the green light for further development.
The English don't even have their own word for "style of cooking", and use the French cuisine. But one area where English cuisine excels is desserts. A English restaurant will have two or three times as many desserts as a Spanish one, and they'll all be tempting.
Having RTFA (I'm sorry), they think that it's probable that way back when Charon's orbit around Pluto was elliptical enough to generate tidal forces which would have warmed its interior. They don't know whether the cracks exist, and if they don't find any then it puts an upper bound on the historical eccentricity of the orbit.
Don't you need to keep the original file and the code you used to transform it, so that you have an audit trail which shows how you got the current data?
Having the interest to look for the operating manual, read it, and test it, all with the aim of learning and having fun rather than under any obligation, seems rather close to the Jargon File definition of a hacker.
Only about 25 years ago. We'd had the family computer (Amstrad CPC6128, a gift from my Grandad) for a year and I was bored of all the games. The manual had a big chapter on BASIC, so I decided to make my own game. It was an absolutely rubbish game, but everyone has to start somewhere.
The original name is Greek. Petitio principii is a translation of the Greek into medieval Latin; given that most of the few people who learn Latin today learn the classical form, its use is an invitation to misunderstand. The English phrase circular reasoning, which you also use, avoids that problem.
US federal law has a concept of personal privacy too. Just look at HIPAA. So unless you see that as part of a slippery slope into censorship, your position needs a bit more exposition of where that slippery slope starts.
Bad decisions, maybe. Bad legislation? They've prorogued Parliament unusually early because they've run out of things that the two parties in the coalition can agree on. They might not manage to find any legislation to push next year.
Google isn't *publishing* information, it's just indexing information (web page) already available elsewhere (on 3rd-party webservers).
But the law isn't about publishing information, it's about processing information, and that is defined to include storing it. The meat of the ruling is that the fact that someone else has a good reason to process information isn't per se a good reason for you to process it.
If you have one software shop doing everything from embedded to client-side web then you need a bit more than 3 languages, but most places specialise to some extent. And even if the company isn't specialised, its individual teams or studios often will be.
I think you're in violent agreement with the post you're replying to. If you tell someone "Use a phrase rather than a word", they will come up with a grammatically correct sentence, which probably even makes sense at a semantic level. Tell them to use Diceware, and they're selecting randomly from a dictionary.
It's not quite that simple. You also have to avoid companies which might be bought out by an American or multinational company at some point in the future.
By the Amiga 500 they'd improved. All I had to do was put a rubber hot water bottle (filled with cold water) on the power supply to act as a heat sink.
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Why not? Every other company which does business in the EU has to make intelligent decisions about how it implements the law, including those aspects which allow for a data subject to request deletion of personal data which was collected, stored, and processed without consent or legal necessity.
There were rifles in the US War of Independence, and both sides had them. But they weren't the main infantry weapon because of the slow reloading time.
Spain's fences surround two cities. That's not quite the same as cutting a continent in half.
What on Earth does that have to do with it? It's perfectly reasonable for the law to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens in matters like residence. I'll even grant that it's not unreasonable for it to distinguish between citizens and non-citizens in the question of who can vote - although that flies in the face of the professed reason for the US War of Independence; and as someone who lives and pays taxes in a country where I'm not a citizen it sometimes irritates me that I can't be fully involved in politics. But in basic matters of human rights like the right to the presumption of innocence, which is what this is about, nationality should be completely irrelevant.
The courts decide what the law means, as well. That sometimes ends up in effect changing it, although from a strict legal point of view it isn't.
I'm not a real physicist, but by coincidence I happen to be reading a good book about the LHC and the Higgs field at the moment. (The Particle at the End of the Universe, by Sean Carroll: highly recommended). The explanation given, as I understand it, is that what really matters isn't particles but fields: particles are what we perceive when a field has a concentration of energy in one* place. (* Except that we're talking quantum mechanics here, so the Gabor-Heisenberg-Weyl uncertainty principle applies).
FWIW, the mass of the Higgs is less than that of the top quark, but considerably more than that of the other quarks.
When I wrote that line, what I really had in mind was a specific platformer-creation tool which was responsible for a rash of crappy games on Kongregate a few years ago, but I couldn't (and still can't) remember the name.
Do you think it means AAA FPGs and RPSes? The vast majority of games are much smaller scale than that.
It's possible that the game programming camp is setting the children up with a point-and-click game dev engine (although I hope not); but it might well be giving them a framework like PyGame and a lot of help to get a couple of simple 2D games running. If it fosters the kind of experiences that my generation had growing up in the early days of home computers, it's a good thing.
Weekend hackathons, on the other hand, allow far more time than is necessary to get an alpha version of a simple game running. When I worked in the industry, I once put together an alpha for a word game in 2 hours. It wasn't optimised, it had one bug in the UI, it had placeholder graphics, and as we play-tested it we made major changes to the scoring system, but it was playable and enough fun to get the green light for further development.
The English don't even have their own word for "style of cooking", and use the French cuisine. But one area where English cuisine excels is desserts. A English restaurant will have two or three times as many desserts as a Spanish one, and they'll all be tempting.
Having RTFA (I'm sorry), they think that it's probable that way back when Charon's orbit around Pluto was elliptical enough to generate tidal forces which would have warmed its interior. They don't know whether the cracks exist, and if they don't find any then it puts an upper bound on the historical eccentricity of the orbit.
Don't you need to keep the original file and the code you used to transform it, so that you have an audit trail which shows how you got the current data?
Having the interest to look for the operating manual, read it, and test it, all with the aim of learning and having fun rather than under any obligation, seems rather close to the Jargon File definition of a hacker.
Yes. A couple while I was still at school, some commercially published and some for the Java4k contest.
Only about 25 years ago. We'd had the family computer (Amstrad CPC6128, a gift from my Grandad) for a year and I was bored of all the games. The manual had a big chapter on BASIC, so I decided to make my own game. It was an absolutely rubbish game, but everyone has to start somewhere.
If there aren't clouds you probably won't see much anyway. According to SETI the estimated peak rate in London is 0.2 meteors per hour.
The original name is Greek. Petitio principii is a translation of the Greek into medieval Latin; given that most of the few people who learn Latin today learn the classical form, its use is an invitation to misunderstand. The English phrase circular reasoning, which you also use, avoids that problem.
US federal law has a concept of personal privacy too. Just look at HIPAA. So unless you see that as part of a slippery slope into censorship, your position needs a bit more exposition of where that slippery slope starts.
Bad decisions, maybe. Bad legislation? They've prorogued Parliament unusually early because they've run out of things that the two parties in the coalition can agree on. They might not manage to find any legislation to push next year.
But the law isn't about publishing information, it's about processing information, and that is defined to include storing it. The meat of the ruling is that the fact that someone else has a good reason to process information isn't per se a good reason for you to process it.
If you have one software shop doing everything from embedded to client-side web then you need a bit more than 3 languages, but most places specialise to some extent. And even if the company isn't specialised, its individual teams or studios often will be.
I think you're in violent agreement with the post you're replying to. If you tell someone "Use a phrase rather than a word", they will come up with a grammatically correct sentence, which probably even makes sense at a semantic level. Tell them to use Diceware, and they're selecting randomly from a dictionary.
It's supposed to say sherparification: it's based on the same principle as getting a Nepalese guide to carry your water.
It's not quite that simple. You also have to avoid companies which might be bought out by an American or multinational company at some point in the future.
By the Amiga 500 they'd improved. All I had to do was put a rubber hot water bottle (filled with cold water) on the power supply to act as a heat sink.