While I understand it is unfashionable here to know what you're talking about before posting comments --- God forbid reading the fine article.....
The law specifies up to â600k for the most serious offences, the range being â300-â600k
The law was passed about 15 years ago, even before USers realized that instead of the freest were among the most oppressed/subject to surveillance in the world
The law was intended to STING, not KILL (actually, to be a strong deterrent) for spanish SMEs. To that extent, it has had wonderful performance --- I can only recall a handful of serious fines since it was passed by the Parliament. The fines haven't had to be increased since then, for everybody mostly "behaved"
This is Europe, where the newest GDPR is being implemented. Do you even have something comparable? Of those, Spain was the earliest (and most careful) in protecting its citizen's rights to Privacy. Most commenters can't even dream of this level of protection.
Again: this is Europe, not some poor South-American of African country. Our 2016' GNP was ~$1.25 TRILLION, or a bit less than half UK's, so not bad at all!. This means the "this is Spain" comment it totally out of place.
Because the LAW specifies the maximum fine to be â600k per class of offence (i.e. regardless of the number of violations -- this is not anglosaxon law)
So, this would amount to 3 x â400k ---- the range being â300k-â600k for the most serious offences
Admittedly, the fine amounts haven't been modified (i.e. increased) since the law was passed ~15yr ago.... but no sane spanish company would get itself in a position where it could be fined to this leves by AEPD (potentially getting ousted from any and all contracts with our Government as a result!)
MySQL was shit until Oracle bought it and immensely boosted it. Unexpectedly, Oracle saved MySQL.
Ahhh... I beg to differ. SkySQL's MariaDB and/or Percona might save it. Oracle could only kill it via complete stagnation.
Anybody remember how much it took from 5.5 to 5.6, and how much better MariaDB is than the latter?
/ Experienced former MySQL DBA(15 years) and PostgreSQL DBA/Consultant now, for good.
(still gotta keep some high-perf Marias due to Magento's sillyness)
Plus: Oracle fanboi-troll wannabe, why don't you reveal yourself? Scared to provide real arguments/credentials?
To begin with, Gibraltar is not a country (and never was). At most a highly dispute colony of the UK in former spanish territory.
Once again: editors, please check your facts (and update the posting ASAP!)
Yes, I'm a native spaniard, by the way.
My personal opinion is that Gibraltar is a full-blown anachronism kept there truly because of pride and economic interests --- it is in fact mostly used just as a tax haven. However british the gibraltarians might want to feel (because it is highly convenient for most of them), they end up crossing essentially daily to Spain in order to shop, enjoy themselves or even for business reasons.
Someone with more direct experience and more direct facts please expand on this.
And I agree completely regarding transaction support. That would really help.
After all you guys have got tired of joking about Hans Reiser, there is at least one thing he did foresee: the need for transactional interfaces (semantics in interaction) for Filesystems.
It was in Reiser4/5/6's design document, "future vision" at least five years ago.
You surely are a careless coder, then.
C/C++'s memory/pointer-related problems are due to careless/clueless programmers, not due to the language itself.
You clearly fail to understand the language, yet pretend to answer with authority. Do you use (or even know) the RAII idiom? that smart pointers have been there for years? Yes, I mean auto_ptr and shared_ptr. How about the Boost library (which is being included partly in C++0x).
Garbage Collectors are non-deterministic by nature; Therefore, they are a real no-no for real projects (think real-time systems or massive number crunching, where memory pools are common).
Indeed "Timofónica"( translates to 'scamfonica' -- a common joke here ) is a very irresponsible ISP... but we Spaniards are not natural spammers:
- Telefónica de España, former national Telco sells connectivity and IP space to almost everybody (well, except me and some other lucky guys =:)
Telefónica sells RFC1483 bridged ADSL network connectivity, which exposes your computer directly to the net.
As in every other part of the world, most of the installed base is Win9x/WinXP
As in every other part of the world, average user's computer literacy is somewhat limited; hence, M$ systems are invariably unpatched or lack recent patches.
Most people here use Outlook Express
Add all this up and you'll get a proper view of the situation:
Spammer sends remote-control trojan by email
Luser double-clicks mail or her unpatched OE does it for her
Computer with 24/7 Internet connection and static IP becomes a drone for the spammer
Slashdot Mirror
While I understand it is unfashionable here to know what you're talking about before posting comments --- God forbid reading the fine article .....
Most commenters can't even dream of this level of protection.
Because the LAW specifies the maximum fine to be â600k per class of offence (i.e. regardless of the number of violations -- this is not anglosaxon law) So, this would amount to 3 x â400k ---- the range being â300k-â600k for the most serious offences
Admittedly, the fine amounts haven't been modified (i.e. increased) since the law was passed ~15yr ago.... but no sane spanish company would get itself in a position where it could be fined to this leves by AEPD (potentially getting ousted from any and all contracts with our Government as a result!)
MySQL was shit until Oracle bought it and immensely boosted it. Unexpectedly, Oracle saved MySQL.
Ahhh... I beg to differ. SkySQL's MariaDB and/or Percona might save it. Oracle could only kill it via complete stagnation.
Anybody remember how much it took from 5.5 to 5.6, and how much better MariaDB is than the latter?
/ Experienced former MySQL DBA(15 years) and PostgreSQL DBA/Consultant now, for good.
(still gotta keep some high-perf Marias due to Magento's sillyness)
Plus: Oracle fanboi-troll wannabe, why don't you reveal yourself? Scared to provide real arguments/credentials?
Postgresql is ultra overrated, but it's loved by some. Kind of like sports teams, people always have to take sides.
Rather, Oracle is overrated.
Recently seen Postgres (9.4.4) give 40+% performance improvement over Oracle (11.2).
Plus, it can do *now* many things that Oracle can't.
(Senior Systems Architect & Admin + DB Performance consultant here)
To begin with, Gibraltar is not a country (and never was). At most a highly dispute colony of the UK in former spanish territory. Once again: editors, please check your facts (and update the posting ASAP!) Yes, I'm a native spaniard, by the way. My personal opinion is that Gibraltar is a full-blown anachronism kept there truly because of pride and economic interests --- it is in fact mostly used just as a tax haven. However british the gibraltarians might want to feel (because it is highly convenient for most of them), they end up crossing essentially daily to Spain in order to shop, enjoy themselves or even for business reasons. Someone with more direct experience and more direct facts please expand on this.
Like, say.... "Plonk!" ? (K-lined)
And I agree completely regarding transaction support. That would really help.
After all you guys have got tired of joking about Hans Reiser, there is at least one thing he did foresee: the need for transactional interfaces (semantics in interaction) for Filesystems. It was in Reiser4/5/6's design document, "future vision" at least five years ago.
> But, what was the original meaning of "beta" to begin with ? The second letter of the greek alphabet, obviously :-)
particle made of vibrating strings.
... which play "Dueling Banjos", obviously
You surely are a careless coder, then. C/C++'s memory/pointer-related problems are due to careless/clueless programmers, not due to the language itself. You clearly fail to understand the language, yet pretend to answer with authority. Do you use (or even know) the RAII idiom? that smart pointers have been there for years? Yes, I mean auto_ptr and shared_ptr. How about the Boost library (which is being included partly in C++0x). Garbage Collectors are non-deterministic by nature; Therefore, they are a real no-no for real projects (think real-time systems or massive number crunching, where memory pools are common).
Add all this up and you'll get a proper view of the situation: