Although interestingly that wording doesn't explore complex corporate structures, and 'undertaking' doesn't look like it's defined anywhere. Although if it was it probably wouldn't help, I read the definition of 'controller' and couldn't make any fucking sense of it at all. Bloody legalese.
Sadly in the UK the ICO seems reluctant to issue any fines, and seems to be suggesting that they'll never fully use the powers available to them.
I'd like to see a couple of companies properly spanked, maximum fines and/or prevented from data processing, just to demonstrate that it's taken seriously. Don't think it's likely though, excluding small companies that nobody cares about and that can be reconstituted in a few days.
That's not the case - as an example, the UK executives at financial services organisations have criminal liability for the behaviour of their companies and can be prosecuted for failing to obey the law.
When CRAs came under the FCA I do know two people that chose to move to an unregulated business; their colleagues generally celebrated, as the FCA merely expect you to run a business properly with some semblance of ethics.
However, there were a substantial number of other people that said, "Yeah, I'm now facing prison if we cock up. That's fine, I can do my job" and got on with it. Indeed, the UK has one of the strongest financial services sectors on the planet so there is clearly no shortage of people willing to work under that particular constraint.
Could easily have happened for a million other reasons
But it didn't. It happened because Google didn't like the contents of your documents.
I don't recall ever agreeing to let Google even fucking read my documents, let alone tell me whether they're "acceptable" or not. So fuck Google, no more Google Docs for me.
As with smoking, coffee is an ideal time to engage with others, build relationships, identify and solve shared problems and clear your mind enough that you'll take a fresh look at whatever the fuck you were working on.
Not strictly true. If you have a globally applicable product that must nonetheless comply with local data residency and access rules then cloud services let you deploy globally without needing a complex fragmented physical estate.
For regions with sizeable footprints there will be an inflexion point at which self hosting makes commercial sense. Even there I'd constrain the solutions to the same deployments used in the cloud, for dev and ops simplicity.
Had I been in Barcelona on the referendum day I would likely have been arrested for assaulting police officers. I'd also have a legitimate and well evidenced self defence defence if it went to court.
Ignore bitching if you want but that isn't the Spanish tactic. They're imposing political silence on a peaceful movement through abuse of the law and sanctioned violence. As I said, that bitching will rapidly turn non-verbal.
While I generally support self determination for geographic regions the law in Spain does seem to make the declaration of independence illegal.
What I still don't understand is the heavy handed response to the referendum. Declare that it has no standing in law and ignore it; by interfering with it using unnecessary violence then refusing any dialogue the Spanish have given the Catalonians no options.
I can only see this one getting seriously violent from here. Either that or Spain is going to need a few thousand extra prisons to keep up with the sedition charges.
Company of Heroes : no DRM, established a massive franchise.
Company of Heroes 2 : DRM, hated by most Company of Heroes fans.
The massive money makers will make money whether they have DRM or not. I actively avoid buying games that have obnoxious DRM; my steam library has 140 games in it that I haven't yet played, I'm in no rush to give money to publishers that hate their paying customers.
I do still buy games. I'm currently playing Divinity: Original Sin II, which is only a month old, has had massive sales and doesn't have any DRM (except maybe Steam; I can't tell).
Why wouldn't the pirated version include those benefits?
DRM tends to make the pirated versions better to play than the legitimate ones. I used to download 'no CD' cracks for games I'd bought as it made it easier for me to play them.
I was never taught to type, I just learned by playing muds and Angband. In Angband you get used to hitting shift a lot, and you use whichever hand works.
When programming I found I started just holding down right-shift for most UPPER CASE words, as it doesn't stop me hitting any of the other keys I want to use, doesn't slow me down and doesn't make me contort my hand.
Maybe I should be using that baby finger for another key instead. I do, e.g. the ' key. But I type @ with my right hand only, so go figure.
Maybe proper touch typing technique is just shit for programmers.
You need to hold down shift for the _ anyway, so SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT is easier to type by just holding down shift (turns out with my baby finger on my right hand) than pissing about with CAPS LOCK and shift.
It sends a very clear message that modern politics is failing to meet the needs of around half of the voting public, and change is required.
Not too dissimilar to the Brexit vote really. Dissatisfaction reached tipping point and people voted for something that they knew would hurt because it was still superior to the status quo.
I'd go so far as to suggest that pink cupcakes are the definitive colour. I tend not to eat cupcakes at all, but if I do I'm well up for one with delicate baby pink icing on it.
Took me 3-4 hours and it was pretty clearly a made up example scenario.
One element did need a proper computer science type algorithm to do something mathematical. I threw in a 'good enough' solution that would suffer a stack overflow with too much data, added documentation stating that and telling them which function to rewrite to fix that if they really cared.
Their test data set had no issues and completed sub-second even with the horribly sub-optimal code. So even if they did want to apply my solution to real-world data they'd have been buggered anyway.
(Wrong language for the problem; you could solve that shit in about three lines of R these days)
Slashdot Mirror
Nope. "20 million Euros or 4% of the undertakingâ(TM)s total annual worldwide turnover in the preceding financial year, whichever is higher"
-- https://publications.parliamen...
Although interestingly that wording doesn't explore complex corporate structures, and 'undertaking' doesn't look like it's defined anywhere. Although if it was it probably wouldn't help, I read the definition of 'controller' and couldn't make any fucking sense of it at all. Bloody legalese.
Sadly in the UK the ICO seems reluctant to issue any fines, and seems to be suggesting that they'll never fully use the powers available to them.
I'd like to see a couple of companies properly spanked, maximum fines and/or prevented from data processing, just to demonstrate that it's taken seriously. Don't think it's likely though, excluding small companies that nobody cares about and that can be reconstituted in a few days.
That's not the case - as an example, the UK executives at financial services organisations have criminal liability for the behaviour of their companies and can be prosecuted for failing to obey the law.
When CRAs came under the FCA I do know two people that chose to move to an unregulated business; their colleagues generally celebrated, as the FCA merely expect you to run a business properly with some semblance of ethics.
However, there were a substantial number of other people that said, "Yeah, I'm now facing prison if we cock up. That's fine, I can do my job" and got on with it. Indeed, the UK has one of the strongest financial services sectors on the planet so there is clearly no shortage of people willing to work under that particular constraint.
Could easily have happened for a million other reasons
But it didn't. It happened because Google didn't like the contents of your documents.
I don't recall ever agreeing to let Google even fucking read my documents, let alone tell me whether they're "acceptable" or not. So fuck Google, no more Google Docs for me.
It takes 30 seconds to get a cup of coffee
You're doing it wrong.
As with smoking, coffee is an ideal time to engage with others, build relationships, identify and solve shared problems and clear your mind enough that you'll take a fresh look at whatever the fuck you were working on.
Well done. You translated my pseudocode into some bugged monstrosity that obviously wasn't going to work.
If the result is 1.5000000000000000000008 and displayed as 1.5 then use some common fucking sense and round it to 1.5 then square that.
Fucking imbecile.
I've, erm, encountered a German company called Meo too.
meo.de if you're feeling curious.
Not strictly true. If you have a globally applicable product that must nonetheless comply with local data residency and access rules then cloud services let you deploy globally without needing a complex fragmented physical estate.
For regions with sizeable footprints there will be an inflexion point at which self hosting makes commercial sense. Even there I'd constrain the solutions to the same deployments used in the cloud, for dev and ops simplicity.
How about (in pseudocode)
if round(result) squared = initial number then result = round(result)
Curious that programmer mode has that precedence but really it just validates "Always use brackets"
Had I been in Barcelona on the referendum day I would likely have been arrested for assaulting police officers. I'd also have a legitimate and well evidenced self defence defence if it went to court.
Ignore bitching if you want but that isn't the Spanish tactic. They're imposing political silence on a peaceful movement through abuse of the law and sanctioned violence. As I said, that bitching will rapidly turn non-verbal.
While I generally support self determination for geographic regions the law in Spain does seem to make the declaration of independence illegal.
What I still don't understand is the heavy handed response to the referendum. Declare that it has no standing in law and ignore it; by interfering with it using unnecessary violence then refusing any dialogue the Spanish have given the Catalonians no options.
I can only see this one getting seriously violent from here. Either that or Spain is going to need a few thousand extra prisons to keep up with the sedition charges.
What about fake scat films involving chocolate mousse?
I'm going to create a twitter account and report any account that ever used #punchanazi for advocating and encouraging violence.
That should help them.
Aren't you in the UK? You should be more careful with libel laws, unless you have actual evidence that Milo sets mobs on people.
Peter Tatchell outed people against their will, has he been banned from Twitter?
I hate DRM and I'm delighted Denuvo is no longer fit for purpose.
I do acknowledge that they created a product that had a remarkably long lifespan for its market. That's impressive.
If only their engineers could turn those talents to good use instead.
Company of Heroes : no DRM, established a massive franchise.
Company of Heroes 2 : DRM, hated by most Company of Heroes fans.
The massive money makers will make money whether they have DRM or not. I actively avoid buying games that have obnoxious DRM; my steam library has 140 games in it that I haven't yet played, I'm in no rush to give money to publishers that hate their paying customers.
I do still buy games. I'm currently playing Divinity: Original Sin II, which is only a month old, has had massive sales and doesn't have any DRM (except maybe Steam; I can't tell).
Why wouldn't the pirated version include those benefits?
DRM tends to make the pirated versions better to play than the legitimate ones. I used to download 'no CD' cracks for games I'd bought as it made it easier for me to play them.
I was never taught to type, I just learned by playing muds and Angband. In Angband you get used to hitting shift a lot, and you use whichever hand works.
When programming I found I started just holding down right-shift for most UPPER CASE words, as it doesn't stop me hitting any of the other keys I want to use, doesn't slow me down and doesn't make me contort my hand.
Maybe I should be using that baby finger for another key instead. I do, e.g. the ' key. But I type @ with my right hand only, so go figure.
Maybe proper touch typing technique is just shit for programmers.
You need to hold down shift for the _ anyway, so SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT is easier to type by just holding down shift (turns out with my baby finger on my right hand) than pissing about with CAPS LOCK and shift.
But that's the programmer in me.
I've noticed that as an American assumption, especially here on Slashdot.
Shit, my last employer had an IT department that ran the data centres.. and 70 development teams that wrote software but didn't live in IT.
It makes no sense to me. Which industry are software developers in? What are the prequisites of a Chartered IT Professional?
Not to mention how few people in non-programming IT roles do a job that good software engineers couldn't also do, if they chose.
What the fuck? Why not just fix the one broken key?
It sends a very clear message that modern politics is failing to meet the needs of around half of the voting public, and change is required.
Not too dissimilar to the Brexit vote really. Dissatisfaction reached tipping point and people voted for something that they knew would hurt because it was still superior to the status quo.
I'd go so far as to suggest that pink cupcakes are the definitive colour. I tend not to eat cupcakes at all, but if I do I'm well up for one with delicate baby pink icing on it.
For walking maps I've found this site to be excellent in the UK:
https://www.mapometer.com//
Other regions may vary.
Took me 3-4 hours and it was pretty clearly a made up example scenario.
One element did need a proper computer science type algorithm to do something mathematical. I threw in a 'good enough' solution that would suffer a stack overflow with too much data, added documentation stating that and telling them which function to rewrite to fix that if they really cared.
Their test data set had no issues and completed sub-second even with the horribly sub-optimal code. So even if they did want to apply my solution to real-world data they'd have been buggered anyway.
(Wrong language for the problem; you could solve that shit in about three lines of R these days)