Heavily as in 5% of GDP. Compared with the light dependance of 5.6% of the US. It's not the amount but where you spend it (much of the 5% was indeed spent on socialist hobbies, rather than on job creators like Enron) . BTW, the imported or homegrown rapists are generally not homeless, that makes it easier to find and prosecute them.

It is a bit weird, but it appears in the EU the situation on this data ownership is now: You can force the manufacturer to provide you with everything they have on you in a readable form (so you legally own a copy of your data) and you can subsequently force them to erase everything they have on you (so they don't own the original any longer).

Of course it does, but they may now try to obscure the data. That would get into the way of a nice story. By collecting data that can be related to a person the manufacturer will need to comply with the EU data directive. That includes things like the obligation to provide you with everything they have on you, the requirement to remove and forget data after its stated purposed has been achieved and the requirement of informed consent on the re-use of anything they are even allowed to collect etc. Especially large companies will be carefully monitored, because fines are extremely high, and seem to be a new source of revenue for the EU. If I were a cynic I would almost think this decision is intended as a bait for wannabe data-collectors...

I actually think Bing does very well. If you search for images of 'jews' without any context it, correctly, assumes you're a bigot looking for racist topics. That would also be my first guess from the search command. Good piece of coding, at least better than I would have expected.

Some do apparently.
https://gut.bmj.com/content/32...

Really, at least 500,000 users of google+? Did they all move over from facebook recently?

Obviously you are right. Unfortunately, Sturgeon's law applies to both employees and management. So the odds that good ones meet in a professional setting are slim.

You clearly don't know what 'friends' are. Talking to, or spending time with, actual people has nothing to do with Bill's concept of a friend.

No, windows 10 is still running the August release of 18.04 by default.

Coastal defence in The Netherlands is regulated by law. It is maintained at mean sealevel+36ft, whatever the rise. We're also nannies about getting shit done.

I think this happened on a much larger scale than just for the last generation. I've noticed that I'm way 'younger' in many ways than my parents were at the same age, and they were nowhere near as 'old' as my grandparents were at my current age. I guess the trend could be caused by the decline of life-threathening problems you encouter in your life-time.

I don't think Dubai is a signatory of the Antarctic Treaty. Seeing what has happened in the past onder the responsibily of non-signatories makes me think that this prohibition is not going to help.
http://adam.antarcticanz.govt....

Yes, that's what old programmers used to do: build and test with efence and valgrid, and recompile
https://linux.die.net/man/3/li...
http://valgrind.org/
Interestingly neither of these lang standing approaches (Hi Bruce) appears to be mentioned in the IEEE paper.
Peer review ain't what she used to be.

That's a relief
I only get 400k hits on searching for Scada vulnerability (vs. 7.4M for XP)

I think you made a smart choice to ask for advice here. /. is famous for its opinion on legal matters. Most posters are actually lawyers pretending to be geeks living in the basement.