If the data was in the US, not so much. The fact that the data was ALSO on non-US servers would not matter. I could imagine that Google has a LOT of duplicate information around the world, so that it can serve the customer as fast as possible. Just like Amazon has several warehouses and not just one.
Just curious. No flame bait. What do you need the 3D for? I have 3 screens and don't do anything 3D related. I just have the cheapest cards that I can find. I use NVidea as I like the nvidia-settings sofware.
I use three (differnt) cards. Each connected to a differnt monitor running in standard mode (no xinerame, no mirrors). Cheaper to have three cheap cards then one that could do all three easily. And by cheap I mean the cheapest that is available and for the connection that I need. Under 50EUR for 3 cards.
Not that hard of a question, I think. A company should NEVER have any say in what I do with my health, other then what is done by the law.
They should not even KNOW if I take vaccinations or not.
If the general public decides that not having a vaccination should be a reason to not give you a job, then put that into the law. The companies then follow that law.
I once had a cow orker who was told he could only keep working if he would take antabuse. They are NOT a doctor. They can NOT prescribe medication. One day he was fired because they said he did not take his medicine. He had a field day, because he was able to take them for everything he was able to.
So no, a company should NOT be able to decide on medical issues, except those provided by the law. And those are mainly directed towards the safety of the individual, not of the company. e.g. sleeping time for long haul drivers. Maximum hours work. Minimal hours of breaks. Not working when it is too cold or too hot. Providing free drinks at certain temperatures.
That said, they might encourage you to get e.g. flu shots. Where I work they will pay the flu shot for you if you want, but nobody can be fired if you don't. And never would they DARE to oblige you to go. That would be such a huge invasion in the privacy, that they know they would loose any lawsuit no matter how badly prepared you were and how much money they have. It would be the shortest trial ever. Judge:"What? Guilty! Next"
Many years ago I went to "Home of the future" in Belgium. At that time they thought it was extremely advanced that you could send an SMS to open your port, prepare your bath and what not.
Not only did they somehow need a triple server rack to do that (Windows NT was just out, for time reference), nothing actually worked.
We had a hilarious time. The fact that we were able to disconnect all the linked drives from the PCs running this shit from the PCs that were standing around in some failed Kiosk mode was an added bonus.
And we will have all the data, he continued. People who read 1984 know that people WANTED the way it happened. They GAVE away their privacy to big brother. Just as we are now giving it away to Google.
Unfortunately it is like giving away your virginity. You can't get it back. What is worse is that you don't have a real option. Others are giving it away in your name.
To those for whom the sound is important: I do not care if the sound is important to you. It is not important to everybody, yet everybody has to hear it. If sound is so important to you, have headphones on when you drive. Have an app that you can hear all the (fake) revs of the car next to you for all I care.
It should not be to hard to make a lot of noise inside of your car. Just buy a bluetooth OBDII device and write a program for any device (including a Raspberry Pi) that can produce sound.
But do not enforce what you want onto me when there is no reason to do so.
If your boss has only one customer, then he is not really the boss of a company. He is a manager of a subsidary with all the downsides and not many of the upsides.
I run my own DNS. I think it is strange that there is no easy DNS server available for Windows. And by basic I mean Install and forget (perhaps point your DNS to 127.0.0.1). So no additional settings. Just a very basic caching server for a single user.
I know I would love to have something much simpler then what is available now under Linux.
OTOH for me running a DNS server makes it easy to use domain filtering to filter out advertising domains (and facebook)
I hope that they will not block said content. I understand the fear for certain content. However I think it is better to allow it as it will otherwise go underground.
Real names are irrelevant on the Internet. I know people who in real life are not even known by their real name. I know a LOT of people who are not known by their real name in real life.
And having an alias does not mean you are anonymous, so please do not mix that up. Just like using a name does not always identify the real you.
Something that also added to using an alias is the fact that with more people there will be more people who have the same name. So using an alias solves this.
I believe that using an alias is also great to separate Internet and Real Life. I can yell at a company where I work and they can not say customers would be confused if I were talking in name of the company.
And what does it mean? Is Lewis Caroll better or worse then Charles Dodgson.
And sure it worked just fine for two decades. The world worked just fine without it as well. Perhaps you don't watch any news, but the world has changed. What worked on the first two decades of Internet with people who were basically a small group does not apply to when billions of people are online of whom many have no idea what the dangers are of telling things to EVERYONE!
Why not make the same arguments for Office? Or for Windows?
If anything, they should perhaps make it easier for plugins to be linked. Yet do not forget that end-users are not their customers. Companies are. Be it big companies that buy licences directly or computer manufacturers.
At work I am not even able to install AdBlock, so why would I be wanting to use Chrome instead of IE? As an IT person, IE works for what it does at the job, so why would I want to add anything else (unless the CEO wants it). You can not really remove it, so why bother? And let the people use at home what they want.
If they show me ads about smoking, condoms, beer or PCs is completely irrelevant.
What is relevant is that the governement is selling your data. Even if the other company would trow everything in/dev/null they should NOT do that. I do not even care if it is legal or not.
Immigrants show up with cultural values completely at odds with the dominant culture and move into self-isolated communities.
They do not "Show up". They are second and third generation and were born here.
And about the communities, that is where many dropped the ball on BOTH sides. When I hear a lot of people speak, they will talk about 'them'. Also on both sides. If there is a job opportunity, we tend to select those that we feel most comfortable with if they both have identical qualities.
This means there is a disadvantage, especially for male Arabs in Europe. Perhaps it would be interesting in looking what is similar and not so much what is different.
Also look at a REAL separation between state and church. Why must I pay taxes that go to the Church?
Will this be easy? No, because most of the time people are conservative and do not want to admit that EVERYBODY should change. They need to admit that a mix of cultures is an enrichment, not something that will be bad for all.
But that means willing to change and not many people want to do that. And then you get situations of "Go back to your own country" and shut people out of society and they will not be happy and will try to push back.
People have been using mice with cables for a LONG time. In almost all the offices where I have worked, mice are wired.
Sure, you could just use a keyboard for that, but many people drag that around their desk as well. What you could do is use a special box and put the hardware in that. Oh wait. I just invented the PC.
There are basically three things that you need for desk PC. 1) The screen 2) The keyboard 3) The mouse
Having a PC in a screen is already done. You can go into a store and buy them. Having a PC in the keyboard is something I had with my C-64. So nothing new there Having the PC in the mouse is new.
Instead of moaning how bad of an idea this is, YOU make something that you think would work.
If a police officer walks by and he is able to look into your house because you did not close the window, it is legal. Right? If he needs glasses to see he uses a device to better see, there still isn't an issue, right? So this device is perfectly legal, right?
This is what you get when you think privacy is only about where you are. They will take it away, inch by inch. To me privacy is not about WHERE I am, but about WHAT I am. So it must include not only my home, but also my data, where I was when and what I was doing.
There will be reasons that this must be overruled. That is what due process should be for.
Privacy should be the first thing that you must defend. Without it all the other rights are useless. See how many amendments will keep standing if you take away privacy. And those that are not imediatly are gone will be easy to take away if the rest is gone.
On Sky Broadland Lite, I can use Skys On Demand service all day long with out exceeding my 2GB cap, but a few shows or a movie on Netflix would probably kill me for the month.
I don't think Net Neutrality means what you think it means.
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I use a trackball where there are more buttons. Using a mouse gives me personally more strain then using a mouse.
Using the scrollwheel as a middle button is not very precise as sometimes you will scroll before you paste.
So I have turned one extra button into the middle button for the paste. The middle button and the other extra button I use for volume control.
If the data was in the US, not so much. The fact that the data was ALSO on non-US servers would not matter.
I could imagine that Google has a LOT of duplicate information around the world, so that it can serve the customer as fast as possible. Just like Amazon has several warehouses and not just one.
When the data is there, that means that it is not just a shell corps. That means they actually have a datacenter there.
Just curious. No flame bait. What do you need the 3D for? I have 3 screens and don't do anything 3D related. I just have the cheapest cards that I can find. I use NVidea as I like the nvidia-settings sofware.
I use three (differnt) cards. Each connected to a differnt monitor running in standard mode (no xinerame, no mirrors). Cheaper to have three cheap cards then one that could do all three easily. And by cheap I mean the cheapest that is available and for the connection that I need. Under 50EUR for 3 cards.
So I am curious what you need the 3D for.
If you do that 4 times in a row, the yes. there is a clear dfifference between a dangerous driver and somebody who had an accident.
And if you do not knwo that difference them yes, you should not be on the road anymore.
Not that hard of a question, I think. A company should NEVER have any say in what I do with my health, other then what is done by the law.
They should not even KNOW if I take vaccinations or not.
If the general public decides that not having a vaccination should be a reason to not give you a job, then put that into the law. The companies then follow that law.
I once had a cow orker who was told he could only keep working if he would take antabuse. They are NOT a doctor. They can NOT prescribe medication. One day he was fired because they said he did not take his medicine. He had a field day, because he was able to take them for everything he was able to.
So no, a company should NOT be able to decide on medical issues, except those provided by the law. And those are mainly directed towards the safety of the individual, not of the company. e.g. sleeping time for long haul drivers. Maximum hours work. Minimal hours of breaks. Not working when it is too cold or too hot. Providing free drinks at certain temperatures.
That said, they might encourage you to get e.g. flu shots. Where I work they will pay the flu shot for you if you want, but nobody can be fired if you don't. And never would they DARE to oblige you to go. That would be such a huge invasion in the privacy, that they know they would loose any lawsuit no matter how badly prepared you were and how much money they have. It would be the shortest trial ever.
Judge:"What? Guilty! Next"
Many years ago I went to "Home of the future" in Belgium. At that time they thought it was extremely advanced that you could send an SMS to open your port, prepare your bath and what not.
Not only did they somehow need a triple server rack to do that (Windows NT was just out, for time reference), nothing actually worked.
We had a hilarious time.
The fact that we were able to disconnect all the linked drives from the PCs running this shit from the PCs that were standing around in some failed Kiosk mode was an added bonus.
And we will have all the data, he continued. People who read 1984 know that people WANTED the way it happened. They GAVE away their privacy to big brother.
Just as we are now giving it away to Google.
Unfortunately it is like giving away your virginity. You can't get it back. What is worse is that you don't have a real option. Others are giving it away in your name.
Just to show how a 4x4 that goes offroad actually looks like: http://toms-worldcruiser.com/e...
To those for whom the sound is important:
I do not care if the sound is important to you. It is not important to everybody, yet everybody has to hear it.
If sound is so important to you, have headphones on when you drive. Have an app that you can hear all the (fake) revs of the car next to you for all I care.
It should not be to hard to make a lot of noise inside of your car. Just buy a bluetooth OBDII device and write a program for any device (including a Raspberry Pi) that can produce sound.
But do not enforce what you want onto me when there is no reason to do so.
If your boss has only one customer, then he is not really the boss of a company. He is a manager of a subsidary with all the downsides and not many of the upsides.
Do you not disagree that the opposite of denial of anti-climate change is contrary to not being a hoax?
I run my own DNS. I think it is strange that there is no easy DNS server available for Windows. And by basic I mean Install and forget (perhaps point your DNS to 127.0.0.1). So no additional settings. Just a very basic caching server for a single user.
I know I would love to have something much simpler then what is available now under Linux.
OTOH for me running a DNS server makes it easy to use domain filtering to filter out advertising domains (and facebook)
I hope that they will not block said content. I understand the fear for certain content. However I think it is better to allow it as it will otherwise go underground.
Real names are irrelevant on the Internet. I know people who in real life are not even known by their real name. I know a LOT of people who are not known by their real name in real life.
And having an alias does not mean you are anonymous, so please do not mix that up. Just like using a name does not always identify the real you.
Something that also added to using an alias is the fact that with more people there will be more people who have the same name. So using an alias solves this.
I believe that using an alias is also great to separate Internet and Real Life. I can yell at a company where I work and they can not say customers would be confused if I were talking in name of the company.
And what does it mean? Is Lewis Caroll better or worse then Charles Dodgson.
And sure it worked just fine for two decades. The world worked just fine without it as well. Perhaps you don't watch any news, but the world has changed. What worked on the first two decades of Internet with people who were basically a small group does not apply to when billions of people are online of whom many have no idea what the dangers are of telling things to EVERYONE!
Are they voting on Climate Change? That is sooo stupid.
They should vote against gravity so we can have our hoverboards.
Do you want to give Karma: Insightful. Don't you want to give Karma: Funny.
To me insightful always wins over funny.
Why not make the same arguments for Office? Or for Windows?
If anything, they should perhaps make it easier for plugins to be linked. Yet do not forget that end-users are not their customers. Companies are. Be it big companies that buy licences directly or computer manufacturers.
At work I am not even able to install AdBlock, so why would I be wanting to use Chrome instead of IE? As an IT person, IE works for what it does at the job, so why would I want to add anything else (unless the CEO wants it). You can not really remove it, so why bother? And let the people use at home what they want.
If they show me ads about smoking, condoms, beer or PCs is completely irrelevant.
What is relevant is that the governement is selling your data. Even if the other company would trow everything in /dev/null they should NOT do that. I do not even care if it is legal or not.
I care about the fact that they share your data.
They do not "Show up". They are second and third generation and were born here.
And about the communities, that is where many dropped the ball on BOTH sides. When I hear a lot of people speak, they will talk about 'them'. Also on both sides. If there is a job opportunity, we tend to select those that we feel most comfortable with if they both have identical qualities.
This means there is a disadvantage, especially for male Arabs in Europe. Perhaps it would be interesting in looking what is similar and not so much what is different.
Also look at a REAL separation between state and church. Why must I pay taxes that go to the Church?
Will this be easy? No, because most of the time people are conservative and do not want to admit that EVERYBODY should change. They need to admit that a mix of cultures is an enrichment, not something that will be bad for all.
But that means willing to change and not many people want to do that. And then you get situations of "Go back to your own country" and shut people out of society and they will not be happy and will try to push back.
People have been using mice with cables for a LONG time. In almost all the offices where I have worked, mice are wired.
Sure, you could just use a keyboard for that, but many people drag that around their desk as well. What you could do is use a special box and put the hardware in that. Oh wait. I just invented the PC.
There are basically three things that you need for desk PC.
1) The screen
2) The keyboard
3) The mouse
Having a PC in a screen is already done. You can go into a store and buy them.
Having a PC in the keyboard is something I had with my C-64. So nothing new there
Having the PC in the mouse is new.
Instead of moaning how bad of an idea this is, YOU make something that you think would work.
I would. I am lousy at playing games, but I really like watching others play. And I am not alone
If a police officer walks by and he is able to look into your house because you did not close the window, it is legal. Right?
If he needs glasses to see he uses a device to better see, there still isn't an issue, right?
So this device is perfectly legal, right?
This is what you get when you think privacy is only about where you are. They will take it away, inch by inch. To me privacy is not about WHERE I am, but about WHAT I am. So it must include not only my home, but also my data, where I was when and what I was doing.
There will be reasons that this must be overruled. That is what due process should be for.
Privacy should be the first thing that you must defend. Without it all the other rights are useless. See how many amendments will keep standing if you take away privacy. And those that are not imediatly are gone will be easy to take away if the rest is gone.
They just sold it to the highest bidder. Capitalism at its finest.
I don't think Net Neutrality means what you think it means.