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Comment Re: python et al (Score 2) 266

by ColdCat (#58767846) Attached to: Python Passes C++ on TIOBE Index, Predicted To Pass C and Java

There's a reason why the Linux kernel is written i C and not C++.

Linux is not written in C it's in GNU C with extensions. This "non standard" C is needed and it add some things that are free in C++ like comment, inline, asm, atomic, thread local, lot of extended types... and even some non C++ but non C standard anyway.

Comment Saas vs cash (Score 1) 341

One major problem. When your company have some financial difficulties, like an big customer not paying. Saas cut service really fast, so do you prefer your app monitoring, your website, your internal chat, your sales tools, your support tools, your backup or your build machines ? You have to choose fast and choose what to cut for undetermined time.

Comment It's gradual process (Score 1) 168

by ColdCat (#57994846) Attached to: Paris Will Make Public Transportation Free for Kids
Few years ago School kids pass work only between residential zone to school usually same zone.
Then School Pass start working unrestricted on weekend ( all zone from 1-7 ) ( for many it was huge because going to Paris from suburbs cost much, same to go to Disneyland which is was zone 5 )
Then all zone over 5 became zone 5
Then Zone all merged to only one ( prices increased for user of only zone 1-2 but decreased for everyone else )
Then this free pass for every kids, even without school pass.

Comment Great code, useless but great (Score 1) 653

by ColdCat (#57522263) Attached to: SQLite Adopts 'Monastic' Code of Conduct
When there is only 4 people who commit to the repo, and 1 guy alone do 2/3 of the job you can put every Rules of conduct it doesn't matter. Opensource project are always maintained by very few people, if you want to enforce code of conduct to creator/principal maintainer they will leave and the project will die.

A working 'code of conduct' could only be pushed by the top, not by external people who never work on the codebase.

Submission + - Hilton Paid a $700k fine for 2015 breach. Under GDPR, it would be $420 million (digitalguardian.com)

Submitted by chicksdaddy
chicksdaddy writes: If you want to understand the ground shaking change that the EU's General Data Protection Rule (GDPR) will have when it comes into force in May of 2018, look no further than hotel giant Hilton Domestic Operating Company, Inc., formerly known as Hilton Worldwide, Inc. a.k.a. “Hilton.”)

On Tuesday, the New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman slapped a $700,000 fine on the hotel giant for two, 2015 incidents in which the company was hacked, spilling credit card and other information for 350,000 customers. (https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-announces-700000-joint-settlement-hilton-after-data-breach-exposed)

Schneiderman also punished Hilton for its response to the incident. The company first learned in February 2015 that its customer data had been exposed through a UK based system belonging to the company, which was observed by a contractor communicating with “a suspicious computer outside Hilton’s computer network.” Still, it took Hilton until November 24, 2015 — over nine months after the first intrusion was discovered — to notify the public.

That kind of lackluster response has become pretty typical among Fortune 500 companies (see also: Equifax). And why not? The $700,000 fine from the NY AG is a palatable $2 per lost record — and a mere rounding error for Hilton, which reported revenues of $11.2 billion in 2015, the year of the breach. That means the $700,000 fine was just %.00006 of Hilton’s annual revenue in the year of the breach. Schneiderman's fine was less 'brining down the hammer' than a butterfly kiss for Hilton's C-suite, board and shareholders.

But things are going to be different for Hilton and other companies like it come May 2018 when provisions of the EU’s General Data Protection Rule (or GDPR) go into effect, as Digital Guardian points out on their blog. Under that new law, data “controllers” like Hilton (in other words: organizations that collect data on customers or employees) can be fined up to 4% of annual turnover in the year preceding the incident for failing to meet the law’s charge to protect that data. (http://www.eugdpr.org/)

What does that mean practically for a company like Hilton? Well, the company’s FY 2014 revenue (or “turnover”) was $10.5 billion. Four percent of that is a cool $420 million dollars — or $1,200, rather than $2, for every customer record lost. Needless to say, that’s a number that will get the attention of the company’s Board of Directors and shareholders.

Submission + - France to review food whitener additive, titanium dioxide, for health risks (reuters.com)

Submitted by Eloking
Eloking writes: The French government has ordered a review of the safety of titanium dioxide as a food additive after a scientific study released on Friday found health effects in animals that consumed the substance.

Titanium dioxide is widely used in industry as a whitener, notably for paint. It is an ingredient in some foods such as sweets and known as additive E171.

France's National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and partners in a study on oral exposure to titanium dioxide had shown for the first time that E171 crosses the intestine wall in animals to reach other parts of the body, INRA said.

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