The reason this law was passed in the first place is because countries assume jurisdiction over what happens in their country, and also, over people and companies who interact with their citizens. That is the reason that gambling companies based in the EU can be fined for trying to sell their gambling services to Dutch citizens - where it is illegal - even when it's legal to do so in the country they have their headquarter in.
So, the EU as a whole is asserting that Google should not be able to provide information *about its citizens* to anyone, when requested to do so. And since Google is doing business in the EU, the EU has jurisdiction.(*)
Free speech however is a different matter. While Google would be liable for showing speech critical of the King in Thailand, they would not be so liable outside Thailand since that speech does not interact with Thai citizens.
The cases may look similar, but they are not: it's a jurisdiction issue, IMO.
Disclaimer: IANAL.
(*) It's well known that there have been cases where the USA claimed jurisdiction because one of the parties involved had used a US mail server, like gmail. So jurisdiction is what you have (or try to have) when the case touches remotely on one of your citizens or any asset based on your soil.
Yes, they can. There's nothing stopping a company from replacing an employee but its a lot more difficult for an employee to replace their employer.
Ever since I started working as a freelancer I found that it was suddenly the other way round. I avoid working too long for any one employer so I built up a rather large network of satisfied customers. That's what they are now: customers. Completely replaceable by other customers if I don't like their terms.
Well... apparently, not always. In 2010, "the National Transportation Safety Board had asked the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to install automatic fire extinguisher systems in the holds of cargo aircraft. UPS Airlines followed FAA regulations, which stated that pilots should depressurize the main cabin and climb to an altitude of at least 20,000 feet (6,100 m) upon detection of a fire so as to deprive the flames of oxygen."
In other words, the procedure was to climb to high altitude and depressurize the main cabin. For UPS Airlines flight 6, that didn't work out. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).
However, they had a whole container with thousands of Li-Ion batteries going up. That was the reason passenger flights are now banned from taking on such cargo. It's very dangerous. On july 29, 2011, another cargo flight (an Asiana Airlines B747) with a similar cargo was lost at sea after the pilot put out a mayday shouting "cargo fire" and "emergency". They were carrying Li-Metal and Li-Ion batteries in the hold as well.
Since then, recommendations are that: containers with batteries should be declared; such containers should be put in a class C hold or another hold with alternative fire suppression (not Halon because that is ineffective against Li-Metal fires) and people would have to be aware what to do in case of a cargo hold fire.
I'm not sure those recommendations are now mandatory.
"If the fire occurs in an airplane, the FAA instructs flight attendants to use water or pop soda. Water-based products are most readily available and are appropriate since Li-ion contains very little lithium metal that would react with water. Water also cools the adjacent area and prevents the fire from spreading. Many research laboratories and factories also use water to put out Li-ion battery fires."
This doesn't work on Lithium Metal batteries, so:
"When encountering a fire with a lithium-metal battery, only use a Class D extinguisher as water would react with the lithium metal and make the fire worse. With all battery fires, allow ample of ventilation while the battery burns itself out."
I translate that as "fumes will still kill every passenger on board, but at least we can recover the bodies."
My main requirements for my new phone a few weeks ago were: - should run Android - should not be worse than my old phone (in terms of performance, android version and storage) - should be smaller than my old phone (Samsung Galaxy S2)
I went with the Samsung S4 mini because it was on sale. But a lot of phones qualify. Just not the big flagship ones. Apparently they double as e-peens, so I predict that they will keep increasing in size until we get to size "ludicrous".
A shield strap would be nice on the bigger ones. Or they should make it like a gauntlet, like you see in some movies.
I keep seeing Informix pop up now and then, but I never meet anyone who actually uses it. The marketing blurb looks interesting though, but given that it's IBM, the pricetag is probably of the kind that "if you have to ask, you can't afford it".
I'm using SQL Server 2012 now (first time I ever used SQL Server for serious data loads) and I have to say it performs pretty good as a data warehouse for a moderate size organisation. We're loading 500 million lines and it seems to hold up well on a single mid-range server. Querying the whole set is not a pleasant experience if you do a full scan, but if the index is selective enough we get okay performance out of that as well.
Over the last decade most of my deployments were on Oracle but I think that for almost any business I know, SQL Server is a pretty good alternative. I'm not so impressed with the query performance but update/insert performance is much better that I know of Oracle.
However... if you need decent materialized views, or analytical functions, or really low-level control over the database, Oracle is still the first contender. Statistics are easier to manage on SQL Server, though.
However... the SQL Server pricing is not as low as it once was, and climbing steadily into Oracle territory. So unless Microsoft can keep the price down, it may not offer much of an alternative.
I have myself seen customers holding multiple Exadata units in their docking area, and never even open the package, although on paper, each unit costed several hundred thousand dollars!
Dang! Any chance you could get me a nice offer on those?
It's not just buggy as hell, it's also slow as molasses due to their insistence on using Java everywhere, and not particularly well-written Java at that. Add to that a really weird method of using the database and you have a horrible experience.
I like Apex and Oracle SQL Developer though. Still somewhat buggy, but at least they're free.
Actually, the last time this was debated here I brought up a similar point, and someone else pointed out that banks don't use ACID but mostly use eventual consistency for their transaction systems. That does cause them to lose (a lot of) money sometimes, but they write it off against the expenses of real-time ACID compliance.
Your complete ignorance of history, especially the history of white supremacy, is laughable. Black people weren't allowed to use the same seats, toilets, pools and rooms as black people. Does that strike you as a time when white people had a positive view of black people?
You and GP are debating different things. The social indicators for black people can be better than today *especially* in a situation of heavy discrimination. South Africa is a case in point: a colleague of mine was educated in South Africa by fantastic teachers, as a coloured/not entirely black kid from a middle class background. The biggest reason was that the smart folks did not get the chance for any of the really good jobs, or starting a company. So a whole lot of them became good teachers. Nowadays, most of the smarter people have real opportunities and the schools are left with whoever wants to get a low-paying job with no real qualifications or oversight.
Of course, another reason for the current situation is the high income disparity in the USA, that ensured that the minority that eventually did get opportunities would reap big rewards while the rest would have trouble to make ends meet every month. Nearly the same thing as we can see happening in South Africa nowadays, except it's going much faster there.
Well said. You did upset one of the people with modpoints though.
So I'll give my own take on this. GamerGaters or whatever moronic name you carry, you're just a bunch of stupid teens that spend too much time in your mom's basement. Get out and get some sunshine, and after a few years girls may look at you without getting scared, and then that whole childish attitude that's based in your own insecurity as a male, will just vanish. And you'll be a bit ashamed about yourself. But that's okay - we'll still be here and ready to welcome you back amongst the normal people.
If the police think that someone is in the process of being murdered they're going to respond quickly and aggressively.
Fortunately I live in The Netherlands, where police will happily wait outside for backup while people inside are tortured to death(*). A much more reasonable response that prevents a lot of unnecessary deaths!
Until they day you get accused by someone, and put in prison while trying to prove your innocence. Or if it happens to someone else who only got freed after a year when their lawyer finally gets round to lodging an appeal. Or when it happens to your son or daughter who should have been fined for jaywalking, but had the misfortune of encountering a judge who gets paid by the privatized prison company for each new client. We're not just talking about criminals - which may include people stealing a slice of pizza and Charles Manson, so the word is pretty much meaningless to me - but also a lot of people who'd never be in prison in any other country in the world in the first place. The mentally ill, for instance. Or the retarded - who get locked up a lot.
The prison system not just locks up criminals, it also creates criminals, and the more dehumanizing the treatment, the worse the monsters that come out. Even, or especially, if they were completely innocent to begin with. It has been a long standing observation that victims of torture (which is what we are discussing here) are more resilient to psychiatric damage if they were "guilty", i.e. worked for the resistance, or actually committed crimes. Not so the innocent - they get hit the hardest.
Just today I read a story about a leading member of the Lords Resistance Army on trial for war crimes. He started out as an innocent boy that got kidnapped. And turned into a monster. He slaughtered a lot of people before they caught him.
The prison system in the USA creates more monsters every day and thereby perpetuates itself to the point where it is both the biggest and most unsuccessful prison system in the world. It may also be the most expensive. So I would worry about prisoners undergoing torture. Because it's part of a huge problem the US society has to solve.
I'm not so sure that JS is crap. I started learning Javascript a few months ago and I'm actually much more impressed by the language than I thought I'd be. It has a lot of functional programming features that I like, it's easy to write and quite forgiving. There are some weird things I'd rather not have seen (like variable hoisting, although I understand why it's there), but in the main I've seen worse languages.
No-one can read Finnish. I have my doubts even about the Fins. I guess they just want to hide the fact that they decrypt the meaning of the message from scent signals in the paper, instead of the random text on the page. At least, that's my take. How they do it over the web, I guess we'll never know.
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Actually, that's not quite the point here.
The reason this law was passed in the first place is because countries assume jurisdiction over what happens in their country, and also, over people and companies who interact with their citizens. That is the reason that gambling companies based in the EU can be fined for trying to sell their gambling services to Dutch citizens - where it is illegal - even when it's legal to do so in the country they have their headquarter in.
So, the EU as a whole is asserting that Google should not be able to provide information *about its citizens* to anyone, when requested to do so. And since Google is doing business in the EU, the EU has jurisdiction.(*)
Free speech however is a different matter. While Google would be liable for showing speech critical of the King in Thailand, they would not be so liable outside Thailand since that speech does not interact with Thai citizens.
The cases may look similar, but they are not: it's a jurisdiction issue, IMO.
Disclaimer: IANAL.
(*) It's well known that there have been cases where the USA claimed jurisdiction because one of the parties involved had used a US mail server, like gmail. So jurisdiction is what you have (or try to have) when the case touches remotely on one of your citizens or any asset based on your soil.
Yes, they can. There's nothing stopping a company from replacing an employee but its a lot more difficult for an employee to replace their employer.
Ever since I started working as a freelancer I found that it was suddenly the other way round. I avoid working too long for any one employer so I built up a rather large network of satisfied customers. That's what they are now: customers. Completely replaceable by other customers if I don't like their terms.
Well... apparently, not always. In 2010, "the National Transportation Safety Board had asked the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to install automatic fire extinguisher systems in the holds of cargo aircraft. UPS Airlines followed FAA regulations, which stated that pilots should depressurize the main cabin and climb to an altitude of at least 20,000 feet (6,100 m) upon detection of a fire so as to deprive the flames of oxygen."
In other words, the procedure was to climb to high altitude and depressurize the main cabin. For UPS Airlines flight 6, that didn't work out. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ).
However, they had a whole container with thousands of Li-Ion batteries going up. That was the reason passenger flights are now banned from taking on such cargo. It's very dangerous. On july 29, 2011, another cargo flight (an Asiana Airlines B747) with a similar cargo was lost at sea after the pilot put out a mayday shouting "cargo fire" and "emergency". They were carrying Li-Metal and Li-Ion batteries in the hold as well.
Since then, recommendations are that: containers with batteries should be declared; such containers should be put in a class C hold or another hold with alternative fire suppression (not Halon because that is ineffective against Li-Metal fires) and people would have to be aware what to do in case of a cargo hold fire.
I'm not sure those recommendations are now mandatory.
From http://batteryuniversity.com/l... (I looked it up because I was thinking the same as you did):
"If the fire occurs in an airplane, the FAA instructs flight attendants to use water or pop soda. Water-based products are most readily available and are appropriate since Li-ion contains very little lithium metal that would react with water. Water also cools the adjacent area and prevents the fire from spreading. Many research laboratories and factories also use water to put out Li-ion battery fires."
This doesn't work on Lithium Metal batteries, so:
"When encountering a fire with a lithium-metal battery, only use a Class D extinguisher as water would react with the lithium metal and make the fire worse. With all battery fires, allow ample of ventilation while the battery burns itself out."
I translate that as "fumes will still kill every passenger on board, but at least we can recover the bodies."
Sorry!
Replace US with USSR and DHS with FSB and I wouldn't have blinked twice at it - par for the course. And increasingly so for the USA, apparently.
My main requirements for my new phone a few weeks ago were:
- should run Android
- should not be worse than my old phone (in terms of performance, android version and storage)
- should be smaller than my old phone (Samsung Galaxy S2)
I went with the Samsung S4 mini because it was on sale. But a lot of phones qualify. Just not the big flagship ones. Apparently they double as e-peens, so I predict that they will keep increasing in size until we get to size "ludicrous".
A shield strap would be nice on the bigger ones. Or they should make it like a gauntlet, like you see in some movies.
I keep seeing Informix pop up now and then, but I never meet anyone who actually uses it. The marketing blurb looks interesting though, but given that it's IBM, the pricetag is probably of the kind that "if you have to ask, you can't afford it".
I'm using SQL Server 2012 now (first time I ever used SQL Server for serious data loads) and I have to say it performs pretty good as a data warehouse for a moderate size organisation. We're loading 500 million lines and it seems to hold up well on a single mid-range server. Querying the whole set is not a pleasant experience if you do a full scan, but if the index is selective enough we get okay performance out of that as well.
Over the last decade most of my deployments were on Oracle but I think that for almost any business I know, SQL Server is a pretty good alternative. I'm not so impressed with the query performance but update/insert performance is much better that I know of Oracle.
However... if you need decent materialized views, or analytical functions, or really low-level control over the database, Oracle is still the first contender. Statistics are easier to manage on SQL Server, though.
However... the SQL Server pricing is not as low as it once was, and climbing steadily into Oracle territory. So unless Microsoft can keep the price down, it may not offer much of an alternative.
I hadn't considered that, but it actually makes a lot of sense.
I have myself seen customers holding multiple Exadata units in their docking area, and never even open the package, although on paper, each unit costed several hundred thousand dollars!
Dang! Any chance you could get me a nice offer on those?
MongoDB is a document database. If I wanted a document database to story the company data I would have switched to Lotus Domino a long time ago.
It's not just buggy as hell, it's also slow as molasses due to their insistence on using Java everywhere, and not particularly well-written Java at that. Add to that a really weird method of using the database and you have a horrible experience.
I like Apex and Oracle SQL Developer though. Still somewhat buggy, but at least they're free.
Actually, the last time this was debated here I brought up a similar point, and someone else pointed out that banks don't use ACID but mostly use eventual consistency for their transaction systems. That does cause them to lose (a lot of) money sometimes, but they write it off against the expenses of real-time ACID compliance.
For the majority of cases where MariaDB is sufficient, you'd probably get away with using MSAccess in the background.
It's something like a unicorn: a mythical creature that doubles as strawman for discussion purposes.
Your complete ignorance of history, especially the history of white supremacy, is laughable. Black people weren't allowed to use the same seats, toilets, pools and rooms as black people. Does that strike you as a time when white people had a positive view of black people?
You and GP are debating different things. The social indicators for black people can be better than today *especially* in a situation of heavy discrimination. South Africa is a case in point: a colleague of mine was educated in South Africa by fantastic teachers, as a coloured /not entirely black kid from a middle class background. The biggest reason was that the smart folks did not get the chance for any of the really good jobs, or starting a company. So a whole lot of them became good teachers. Nowadays, most of the smarter people have real opportunities and the schools are left with whoever wants to get a low-paying job with no real qualifications or oversight.
Of course, another reason for the current situation is the high income disparity in the USA, that ensured that the minority that eventually did get opportunities would reap big rewards while the rest would have trouble to make ends meet every month. Nearly the same thing as we can see happening in South Africa nowadays, except it's going much faster there.
Pretty much every CEO I'm aware of has driven their company into the ground. Otherwise you probably wouldn't be aware of them.
AND selling us all out to Russia. So I've heard. On some blogs.
Well said. You did upset one of the people with modpoints though.
So I'll give my own take on this. GamerGaters or whatever moronic name you carry, you're just a bunch of stupid teens that spend too much time in your mom's basement. Get out and get some sunshine, and after a few years girls may look at you without getting scared, and then that whole childish attitude that's based in your own insecurity as a male, will just vanish. And you'll be a bit ashamed about yourself. But that's okay - we'll still be here and ready to welcome you back amongst the normal people.
If the police think that someone is in the process of being murdered they're going to respond quickly and aggressively.
Fortunately I live in The Netherlands, where police will happily wait outside for backup while people inside are tortured to death(*). A much more reasonable response that prevents a lot of unnecessary deaths!
(*) True story: http://www.mamjo.com/forum/ind... (Dutch)
Until they day you get accused by someone, and put in prison while trying to prove your innocence. Or if it happens to someone else who only got freed after a year when their lawyer finally gets round to lodging an appeal. Or when it happens to your son or daughter who should have been fined for jaywalking, but had the misfortune of encountering a judge who gets paid by the privatized prison company for each new client. We're not just talking about criminals - which may include people stealing a slice of pizza and Charles Manson, so the word is pretty much meaningless to me - but also a lot of people who'd never be in prison in any other country in the world in the first place. The mentally ill, for instance. Or the retarded - who get locked up a lot.
The prison system not just locks up criminals, it also creates criminals, and the more dehumanizing the treatment, the worse the monsters that come out. Even, or especially, if they were completely innocent to begin with. It has been a long standing observation that victims of torture (which is what we are discussing here) are more resilient to psychiatric damage if they were "guilty", i.e. worked for the resistance, or actually committed crimes. Not so the innocent - they get hit the hardest.
Just today I read a story about a leading member of the Lords Resistance Army on trial for war crimes. He started out as an innocent boy that got kidnapped. And turned into a monster. He slaughtered a lot of people before they caught him.
The prison system in the USA creates more monsters every day and thereby perpetuates itself to the point where it is both the biggest and most unsuccessful prison system in the world. It may also be the most expensive. So I would worry about prisoners undergoing torture. Because it's part of a huge problem the US society has to solve.
I'm not so sure that JS is crap. I started learning Javascript a few months ago and I'm actually much more impressed by the language than I thought I'd be. It has a lot of functional programming features that I like, it's easy to write and quite forgiving. There are some weird things I'd rather not have seen (like variable hoisting, although I understand why it's there), but in the main I've seen worse languages.
The EU is not a lawless wasteland - although it may seem like it on some days :)
For those of you, who can read Finnish...
No-one can read Finnish. I have my doubts even about the Fins. I guess they just want to hide the fact that they decrypt the meaning of the message from scent signals in the paper, instead of the random text on the page. At least, that's my take. How they do it over the web, I guess we'll never know.