Comment Re: You can have my C (Score 3, Funny) 258
Well, would you be happier if we eliminated you instead of the language that allows you to introduce these vulnerabilities?
Well, would you be happier if we eliminated you instead of the language that allows you to introduce these vulnerabilities?
Yet as a society, we can definitely legitimately make that determination. And there's no way this Meta's idea will fly unless the EU seriously back off from the core ideas behind GDPR, which has been in force since 2016.
Arguably the biggest point of GDPR is to decommoditize personal data. It does this by mandating that all processing of personal data must have one of four lawful bases. The two relevant ones are:
1. Required directly for the performance of a service. This would mean, for example, that you are buying a medical service, and it is impossible to perform that service without that personal data. In this case, you do not need to ask for consent (as long as there is an agreement for you to perform that service). Many companies request your consent in any case to cover their bases.
2. Consent. Processing of personal information can happen with the consent of the person. The tricky thing here is that the consent needs to be voluntary and freely given. For that to be case under the GDPR, a declination must not disadvantage the person in any way that does not directly and immediately follow from not processing the data.
So it is permissible to show the same amount of less relevant ads without a consent, because that is a direct and necessary result of not profiling the user. It is not permissible to otherwise, for business reasons, to disadvantage the person who doesn't consent. Otherwise it would treat personal information as a commodity, something of value given in exchange for something else, and EU has just decided that is not in its view compatible with the right to privacy. (You must also allow consent to be withdrawn at any time without negative consequences.)
So what Meta could legally do is only sell ad-free subscriptions in Europe for $14/month, and not provide any free tier.
Or it can provide a free tier. But if it provides a free tier, it cannot require consent to use personal information as part of that. It can opt to show generic ads to those who do not consent to the processing of their personal information. Yes, that is less profitable. Europeans are crying crocodile tears. Meta loses the ability to do that which it should never have been able to do, use people's personal information without their consent. It's on Meta to find a business model that both respects human rights and is profitable for them. Or stop doing business if it can't.
This gives me a weird idea.
Many programmers have moved away from QWERTY. Now of course QWERTY is also pretty arbitraryâ"as is the mapping between glyph and sound or letter. Yet obviously to the world non-qwerty solutions seem weird.
Would it make sense to develop a font that is optimized for programming (and/or a specific vision deficiency) and that has nothing to do with how the glyphs normally look like, but is instead optimized to be as unambigous as possible in the context used? I.e. forget that 't' looks like a vertical line crossed by a horizontal one; just try to develop that works best.
No. You cannot require consent as a condition for a service. That's a very major point of GDPR. Consent must be freely given. This means that the person whose information is being processed must not be disadvantaged by declining. (You don't need consent to do the processing genuinely required by the service requested by the person whose information is being processed. Consent is only one or the four legal justifications for processing personal data.)
The question isn't whether we should replace filesystems, but rather if we should move core file system services *into* the filesystem. That is, should we embed all of the things that locate does into the filesystem? My answer would be "no" (I prefer single-task entities where possible), but making a filesystem "hook" wouldn't be bad (i.e., trigger X when a file is updated, where X might be an indexing operation). Perhaps we should standardize more metadata, where it is stored, and how it is accessed. There's nothing wrong with storing that *somewhere*. Whether it is the filesystem or elsewhere is a bit of an implementation detail.
What is
Hype.
"So why this hype? Because the cryptocurrency space, at heart, is simply a giant ponzi scheme where the only way early participants make money is if there are further suckers entering the space. The only âoeutilityâ for a cryptocurrency (outside criminal transactions and financial frauds) is what someone else will pay for it and anything to pretend a possible real-word utility exists to help find new suckers."
Ah yes, the disgusting and false refuge of Chinese (and Russian) apologists and propagandists to the worst abuses of authoritarians: âoethe US does it too.â
These abuses are not âoeallegedâ; they are happening, and they are not based on dubious âoeresearchesâ [sic]:
https://www.propublica.org/art...
There is a genocide happening in Xinjiang; one that is erasing an entire culture, language, religion, and history of a people.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
When Google killed Reader, I did, and never looked back.
My wife and I teach a homeschool co-op, so we have had to do a lot of searching for low-cost solutions for mixed-mode classes. The same results would probably work well for less in corporate offices.
From: Dr. Tara C. Smith
I've also seen this misrepresented already. "SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic & asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the DP but before disinfection procedures had been conducted"
Say it with me: *viral RNA doesn't necessarily mean live virus was present.* Now you're going to see "coronavirus can live on surfaces for 17 days!" over and over, but we don't know that based on this study and for those using live virus, it's much shorter.
...and while it sounds great, it's been a disaster for funding the needs of the educational mission of the university:
When Kwast says things like, "The technology is on the engineering benches today. But most Americans and most members of Congress have not had time to really look deeply at what is going on here. But I've had the benefit of 33 years of studying and becoming friends with these scientists. This technology can be built today with technology that is not developmental to deliver any human being from any place on planet Earth to any other place in less than an hour," the only thing he can be talking about that has a connection to reality is something like what SpaceX proposes with Starship:
Cobol programmers are down in the dumps.
