Comment Payback time (Score 1) 89
One could rejoice about payback time, since USA used unfair litigation against UE businesses for years. But I bet EU will carve out.
Comment Re:Reporting in 10 minutes? haha no (Score 1) 5
I agree 10 minutes is not enough to gather hard facts. Even 24 hours is often too short for that.
But I doubt it is designed as a prosecution tool. Do they really need that to proceed with unfair prosecution?
Comment Push back against 12 hours day (Score 3, Insightful) 11
[Unions are] pushing back on an effort by companies to get permission for 12-hour work days,
People refuse to spend their whole life, and even death, at work, and WSJ dares to call that business unfriendly.
Comment AI-generated? (Score 1) 34
Perhaps this is a biased report written by an AI with conflict of interest on the topic. Who knows?
EFF Proposes Addressing Online Harms with 'Privacy-First' Policies (eff.org) 32
Long-time Slashdot reader nmb3000 writes: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a new white paper, Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms , to propose an alternative to the "often ill-conceived, bills written by state, federal, and international regulators to tackle a broad set of digital topics ranging from child safety to artificial intelligence." According to the EFF, "these scattershot proposals to correct online harm are often based on censorship and news cycles. Instead of this chaotic approach that rarely leads to the passage of good laws, we propose another solution."
The EFF writes:
The EFF writes:
What would this comprehensive privacy law look like? We believe it must include these components:
- No online behavioral ads.
- Data minimization.
- Opt-in consent.
- User rights to access, port, correct, and delete information.
- No preemption of state laws.
- Strong enforcement with a private right to action.
- No pay-for-privacy schemes.
- No deceptive design.
A strong comprehensive data privacy law promotes privacy, free expression, and security. It can also help protect children, support journalism, protect access to health care, foster digital justice, limit private data collection to train generative AI, limit foreign government surveillance, and strengthen competition. These are all issues on which lawmakers are actively pushing legislation—both good and bad.
Comment Units (Score 1) 119
a doughnut-shaped "tokamak" vessel set to contain swirling plasma heated up to 200mC (360mF)
Please check your units basics. m stands for milli, that is on thousandth. M stands for mega, that is, one million.
I am confident no fusion will be achieved at 200 milli-celsius, and that we should read 200MC instead of 200mC.
Comment Who cares? (Score 1) 97
Perhaps TikTok users are too young to be interested by international relations?
Comment Re:"More people will vote in 2024 than in any ... (Score 1) 392
Electoral participation has been pretty low there in elections for the EU parliament.
It is hard to convince people to care for a parliament that cannot start a directive proposal, and do not vote the budget.
Comment Guthub Copilot (Score 1) 28
Copilot, like Github's Copilot? Did they forgot to register the trademark?
Comment Help with git itself (Score 1) 33
I wonder if that bot will be helpful for git rebase operations.
Comment Ok to be spied on (Score 1) 33
It is okay for Canada to be spied on, but only by US.
Comment Re:One question (Score 0, Troll) 262
Hamas started this and now everyone gets to play whether they want to or not.
Are you suggesting that because Hamas committed war crimes, then it is okay for Israel to do the same?
Comment Fuel shortage (Score 1) 262
We were told ISP went down because it exhausted its fuel
. How could they recover then, and how push US force Israel to help the move?
Comment Citizen vs resident (Score 1) 85
Any terms and conditions which restrict the legal rights and freedoms of an EU citizen (...)
I understand that laws protects residents, not only citizen.
Comment No switch (Score 1) 83
Scientists have been lazy on that front for decades. Even with Excel trashing their data, they kept using it. it is really amazing, and I wonder why Microsoft feels the need to fix the issue now.
