The jury is still out on the long-term consequences of those reforms.
Which jury? Where? Not around here (Europe) is it.
The long term consequences are known. Questions about the GDPR that everyone is waiting for include
Are these laws effective or will they need reinforced in some ways?
What other unintendedconsequences will occur?
How long will it take some countries (like the US) to catch up?
Certainly the GDPR has made additional work for people, including me. It has not brought out the orchestrated hostility I see from the USA. I have not seen anything in the press here against it. Perhaps our government and its tabloid press controllers don't want us to think too much about it so that they can water it down in a couple of years. That sort of thing is less succesful than it used to be. Corporate foulups with security will keep people aware of it.
What sort of changes might be needed? They may need to raise the maximum fines. What is $5 billion to the likes of Google? They may need to use more effort in getting top executives to actually turn up and not just send some underling. I'm not complaining though. So far, so good.
USB us a good example of this. I can charge a nice new tablet with a MicroUSB charger off a Motorola Pebl that I haven't seen for a decade. It's a bit slow but a handy spare.
The only proviso is that I don't own any Apple devices.
It is called the 'fast' lane because you are supposed to be there if you are maintaining a constant speed equivalent to the flow of traffic.
No it is not called that. It is called a lane. In free, fast moving, traffic it is for overtaking. In still or slow moving traffic, that rule seems to be ignored. What does the Highway Code say?
Its also interesting to watch the common trick of undercover traffic officers sitting in the center lane doing 10 under, intentionally annoying traffic, and then speeding up to the limit as someone tried to underpass them, to push that person faster, and then give them a double ticket for both underpassing and speeding. Its quite a common trick around here.
That sounds like inciting someone to break the law. That is a criminal offence in most places. From what I hear though, this is a fairly standard mode of operation for the FBI in the USA, so guiding people into breaking the law may be legal there.
... Windows fans, long abused by Microsoft, , will defend them vociferously, like the guy I was replying to who was saying that 'you get used to it". I guess that's true.
I would also include a lot of Apple enthusiasts when describing this sort of thing.
Windows 2000 was the first and last version worth installing. Microsoft almost got it right. Shame there was no 64 bit release.
Microsith has done its very best to make the world forget that Windows 2000 even existed. Like many of Stalins co-conspirators, it has been airbrushed from history!
I still haven't seen any smartphones with sharp corners.
I haven't seen seen any phone with sharp edges - smart, feature, dumb, car, wall, satelite or historical.
Have Apple lawyers considered taking out a suit on Mr AG Bell for using their ideas?
I would hope that it is as good as the previous Google Podcast app.
However, I suspect that it will be more complicated and harder to use than Google Listen which Google happily dropped for no good reason that I ever heard. With that history, potential users should be wary...
As it is prone to, Apple has decided that its customers are too stupid to do this. Yes, some will find a way by compiling code to do it but the inability to do that is not a definition of stupid. This sort of thing plays into the hands of totalitarian governments (EG Chinese, N Korean etc), over protective governments (US, UK etc) and criminal organisations (various TLA's for example)
Alternatively, is this just another case of "we know better than you what you want to do"?
An example. I am in a 3 lane road and overtaking a series of cars in the "slow" lane. There are faster cars going past me on the other side. Some dingleberry weaves between all lanes pulling into the space (perhaps 240 feet at 60 miles an hour) that people leave between themselves and the car ahead to get that extra few carlengths further.
They may pull in front of someone so close that they brake hard. This can cause the car behind them to do so as well. This can cause cause shunts, fender benders or whatever you like to call them. It has caused multiple pile ups too.
The way to reduce automobile accidents is to rid the road of drunk drivers and texting drivers. When you subtract those two causes, humans are pretty good drivers.
Maybe in 10 or 20 years your dream of self-driving cars will come true. They're just not good enough yet.
Do you go out much? Careless, aggressive, inattentive and plain bad drivers are really big problems. I have driven in the USA, Europe Africa and the middle east. In the west, we have better roads and that does encourage poor driving. Or perhaps it is the fact that we have ambulances and nice police officers to pick up the pieces (or whole bodies if needed).
Drunks and other idiots deserve whatever they get. I am more in danger from people who tailgate, overtake on the wrong side, cut in front of people and so on. Get them off the road and we will all be safer.
It is your big companies that are the most stressed by it.
Smaller companies that actually make things should have less problems. Yes there are rules but anywhere where production is more important than lawyers and accountants may even find that they are on the right track anyway.
I helped a small voluntary organisation become compliant recently. The most complicated thing was the form that was handed to all members that asked them if we could hold their data etc.
I come from one of the places that hast the highest % of "renewable energy" creation. The last figure I have is 104% of actual use and rising. (Orkney is VERY windy and we like wind turbines.) I doubt Apple would consider a datacentre up here but that's fine. Construction of these things makes a mess but employs few locals in the process. It leaves a large ugly blob that doesn't help the place look good and employs next to nobody afterwards,
I would be surprised if many people there are that upset. If there are any, they won't think about it for long. They still have a nice place to live.
I'm guessing they won't be welcome in any pubs there for a long time to come.....
You are working on the assumption that people in the area actually wanted the added traffic, pollution, destruction of a perhaps pleasant environment and so on.
Do people in the US actually give a s**t about their quality of life other than money? I would be interested what the local opinion is. Don't assume...
2 spaces and the Oxford comma! You one space kids with your missing commas can get off my lawn!
Please call it the Serial Comma. My, Oxford trained, English teacher was quite specific that putting a comma between the penultimate item and the "and" was wrong.
Goldman Sachs or the big finance industry in general will do the very opposite of lending legitimacy. It is like suggesting that Russian oversight lends legitimacy to a democratic election...
The "go live" date for the GDPR has been known for 2 years. ICANNs ignoring it for nearly 23 months is simply the uninformed arrogance that has made US businesses so disliked across the world. People who do business with US companies do so warily. They like to think that "other peoples" laws do not apply to them and they think that US laws do apply to foreigners.
(If you do business in country XXX, the laws of that country apply to you. The laws of the USA do not apply in XXX. If someone has signed a treaty, that applies but getting the USA to fulfil its obligations is not a given.)
If a change had been applied in the US that had given privacy to people in the US, how long do you think the rest of the world would have been given to comply? It would not have been the 2 years ICANN has had. I suspect it would have been between 50 days and a month.
More than 99% of our spam comes from domains with valid SPF records provided by European domain registrars. Fuck the Europeans and their GDPR - they're making it even easier for spammers.
Most of my spam comes, either from Russia or the USA. The Russians favourite seems to be either dodgy finance, breast expansion or penis extension. The US spam wants me to by my medicine from Canada but they suggest some iffy finance as well.
Russia, the market of people who want breast extensions and penis enlargement is pretty limited. As you have my name from somewhere, you will have noticed it is a male one. Males rarely want bigger moobs!
USA, please realise that sending things about buying medicine to the developed world is pointless as having a health care system is one of the things that makes somewhere actually be developed!
Both of you, Your financial spam needs work. FYI, I am over 12 - a common feature of people with email around here.
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I'd care more about your bitterness if you could spell 'feces' properly.
The correct spelling is faeces. He dropped one letter. You dropped another instead.
The jury is still out on the long-term consequences of those reforms.
Which jury? Where? Not around here (Europe) is it.
The long term consequences are known. Questions about the GDPR that everyone is waiting for include
Certainly the GDPR has made additional work for people, including me. It has not brought out the orchestrated hostility I see from the USA. I have not seen anything in the press here against it. Perhaps our government and its tabloid press controllers don't want us to think too much about it so that they can water it down in a couple of years. That sort of thing is less succesful than it used to be. Corporate foulups with security will keep people aware of it.
What sort of changes might be needed? They may need to raise the maximum fines. What is $5 billion to the likes of Google? They may need to use more effort in getting top executives to actually turn up and not just send some underling. I'm not complaining though. So far, so good.
Don't forget that when people get privacy in the USA, megacorps get it too. You will be less able than ever to keep them in check.
Electric power is electric power.
USB us a good example of this. I can charge a nice new tablet with a MicroUSB charger off a Motorola Pebl that I haven't seen for a decade. It's a bit slow but a handy spare.
The only proviso is that I don't own any Apple devices.
There might be something better but the old ones will still work,
It is called the 'fast' lane because you are supposed to be there if you are maintaining a constant speed equivalent to the flow of traffic.
No it is not called that. It is called a lane. In free, fast moving, traffic it is for overtaking. In still or slow moving traffic, that rule seems to be ignored. What does the Highway Code say?
Its also interesting to watch the common trick of undercover traffic officers sitting in the center lane doing 10 under, intentionally annoying traffic, and then speeding up to the limit as someone tried to underpass them, to push that person faster, and then give them a double ticket for both underpassing and speeding. Its quite a common trick around here.
That sounds like inciting someone to break the law. That is a criminal offence in most places. From what I hear though, this is a fairly standard mode of operation for the FBI in the USA, so guiding people into breaking the law may be legal there.
Microsoft has beta testers? I find that hard to believe...
Their beta testers are all the people "out there" with MS software on their computers.
... Windows fans, long abused by Microsoft, , will defend them vociferously, like the guy I was replying to who was saying that 'you get used to it". I guess that's true.
I would also include a lot of Apple enthusiasts when describing this sort of thing.
Windows 2000 was the first and last version worth installing. Microsoft almost got it right. Shame there was no 64 bit release.
Microsith has done its very best to make the world forget that Windows 2000 even existed. Like many of Stalins co-conspirators, it has been airbrushed from history!
I still haven't seen any smartphones with sharp corners.
I haven't seen seen any phone with sharp edges - smart, feature, dumb, car, wall, satelite or historical.
Have Apple lawyers considered taking out a suit on Mr AG Bell for using their ideas?
Important places will install wireless charging stations for important people.
The purpose of having an iPhone is to indicate you are important!
I would hope that it is as good as the previous Google Podcast app.
However, I suspect that it will be more complicated and harder to use than Google Listen which Google happily dropped for no good reason that I ever heard. With that history, potential users should be wary...
As it is prone to, Apple has decided that its customers are too stupid to do this. Yes, some will find a way by compiling code to do it but the inability to do that is not a definition of stupid. This sort of thing plays into the hands of totalitarian governments (EG Chinese, N Korean etc), over protective governments (US, UK etc) and criminal organisations (various TLA's for example)
Alternatively, is this just another case of "we know better than you what you want to do"?
An example. I am in a 3 lane road and overtaking a series of cars in the "slow" lane. There are faster cars going past me on the other side. Some dingleberry weaves between all lanes pulling into the space (perhaps 240 feet at 60 miles an hour) that people leave between themselves and the car ahead to get that extra few carlengths further.
They may pull in front of someone so close that they brake hard. This can cause the car behind them to do so as well. This can cause cause shunts, fender benders or whatever you like to call them. It has caused multiple pile ups too.
The way to reduce automobile accidents is to rid the road of drunk drivers and texting drivers. When you subtract those two causes, humans are pretty good drivers.
Maybe in 10 or 20 years your dream of self-driving cars will come true. They're just not good enough yet.
Do you go out much? Careless, aggressive, inattentive and plain bad drivers are really big problems. I have driven in the USA, Europe Africa and the middle east. In the west, we have better roads and that does encourage poor driving. Or perhaps it is the fact that we have ambulances and nice police officers to pick up the pieces (or whole bodies if needed).
Drunks and other idiots deserve whatever they get. I am more in danger from people who tailgate, overtake on the wrong side, cut in front of people and so on. Get them off the road and we will all be safer.
GDPR only helped big companies ...
It is your big companies that are the most stressed by it.
Smaller companies that actually make things should have less problems. Yes there are rules but anywhere where production is more important than lawyers and accountants may even find that they are on the right track anyway.
I helped a small voluntary organisation become compliant recently. The most complicated thing was the form that was handed to all members that asked them if we could hold their data etc.
I thought he was one of the alligators.
There are LOTS of places they could build this.
I come from one of the places that hast the highest % of "renewable energy" creation. The last figure I have is 104% of actual use and rising. (Orkney is VERY windy and we like wind turbines.) I doubt Apple would consider a datacentre up here but that's fine. Construction of these things makes a mess but employs few locals in the process. It leaves a large ugly blob that doesn't help the place look good and employs next to nobody afterwards,
I would be surprised if many people there are that upset. If there are any, they won't think about it for long. They still have a nice place to live.
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I'm guessing they won't be welcome in any pubs there for a long time to come.....
You are working on the assumption that people in the area actually wanted the added traffic, pollution, destruction of a perhaps pleasant environment and so on.
Do people in the US actually give a s**t about their quality of life other than money? I would be interested what the local opinion is. Don't assume...
Oxford trained != well trained
Perhaps not, but very close at least. More likely "Oxford Trained = Very Very well trained".
My message was, don't blame this on Oxford.
2 spaces and the Oxford comma! You one space kids with your missing commas can get off my lawn!
Please call it the Serial Comma. My, Oxford trained, English teacher was quite specific that putting a comma between the penultimate item and the "and" was wrong.
Goldman Sachs or the big finance industry in general will do the very opposite of lending legitimacy. It is like suggesting that Russian oversight lends legitimacy to a democratic election...
The "go live" date for the GDPR has been known for 2 years. ICANNs ignoring it for nearly 23 months is simply the uninformed arrogance that has made US businesses so disliked across the world. People who do business with US companies do so warily. They like to think that "other peoples" laws do not apply to them and they think that US laws do apply to foreigners.
(If you do business in country XXX, the laws of that country apply to you. The laws of the USA do not apply in XXX. If someone has signed a treaty, that applies but getting the USA to fulfil its obligations is not a given.)
If a change had been applied in the US that had given privacy to people in the US, how long do you think the rest of the world would have been given to comply? It would not have been the 2 years ICANN has had. I suspect it would have been between 50 days and a month.
More than 99% of our spam comes from domains with valid SPF records provided by European domain registrars. Fuck the Europeans and their GDPR - they're making it even easier for spammers.
Most of my spam comes, either from Russia or the USA. The Russians favourite seems to be either dodgy finance, breast expansion or penis extension. The US spam wants me to by my medicine from Canada but they suggest some iffy finance as well.
Russia, the market of people who want breast extensions and penis enlargement is pretty limited. As you have my name from somewhere, you will have noticed it is a male one. Males rarely want bigger moobs!
USA, please realise that sending things about buying medicine to the developed world is pointless as having a health care system is one of the things that makes somewhere actually be developed!
Both of you, Your financial spam needs work. FYI, I am over 12 - a common feature of people with email around here.
This is good. I just wish there was an alternative to Android for people unwilling to pay the gullibility tax.