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Comment Re:Golly that kettle is dark! (Score 4, Insightful) 73

The colonies fought a war to ensure that the USA is not subject to the jurisdiction of the UK. The UK may not regulate US entities without the consent of the US government

That's a non-sequitur. The USA is not subject to the jurisdiction of the UK, but US citizens physically in the UK are, and companies based in the US but doing business in the UK have to comply with UK law as it affects their operations in the UK or accept the corresponding penalties as the cost of doing business there.

Comment Re:So this is all way over my head (Score 1) 97

The one I'm most interested in is the Hadamard conjecture. So far all we've had is a dump of some matrices at sizes which were previously open. This is an area where some people were putting in some effort, although it's a while since the last progress - in 2004, a couple of researchers published a solution for size 428. What we really want is to know (a) how exactly these new matrices were found: was it just throwing lots of computational power at known approaches or is there a new idea? And (b) is there a proof of the conjecture or just some gap-filling in the databases of known sizes with solutions?

Comment Re:I wonder whether that is just the US version (Score 4, Informative) 160

GDPR, Article 4, clause 2, my emphasis:

‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;

So your premise is in direct contradiction with the letter of the law.

Comment Re:This isn't the EU. He's going to win. (Score 1) 314

The situation with Guantanamo Bay is also clearly unconstitutional. It's right there in the word "constitution": that document defines how the nation-state (or confederation, if you prefer the legal fiction that the individual states are nation-states) is made up, what it consists of. The essence of the nation-state is geographically invariant: what varies with geography is how much authority it has to impose its essence. The argument that the US constitution doesn't bind the actions of the US outside its formal borders is nonsense, and to apply that argument to a place which is undeniably de facto under US jurisdiction is enhanced nonsense.

Comment Re:We'll see (Score 1) 36

That street is a public space, and there are myriad laws and court cases allowing that to be photographed or otherwise recorded.

New legislation supersedes old legislation and jurisprudence unless that old legislation (respectively, the legislation the old jurisprudence is based on) is more binding (e.g. the constitution). Maybe it's time to start pressuring for new legislation which explicitly recognises an expectation of a certain level of privacy even in public spaces. There are places where your business' security camera isn't allowed to see the street in front of it: I live in one, although it's not in the USA.

Comment Re: Free Money, Free Housing and a Free Miele (Score 2) 92

In your haste to defend Morocco you've responded to a non-existent attack. GPP didn't say that migrants would be raped or killed in Morocco (although I suspect that your claims about the police's attitude to foreigners only really hold up for rich foreigners, not for South Sudanese with nothing but the clothes on their back and a phone because they gave everything else they had to the people smugglers). Migrants die in the Sahara, in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic every year trying to get to Europe or the Canary Islands.

Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 2) 92

Key word: "enclave". It's a small city separated from the rest of Spain by 200km (120 miles) of sea. I have a Spanish friend who thinks that Morocco is cozying up to the US with the goal of getting US support for it to invade Ceuta and Melilla: except for the Ceutans and Melillans, the main impact on Spaniards would be the propaganda it would unleash. It's not some kind of Maginot line which when breached leaves open a land route to the rest of the country. So what do you think would be a proportionate deployment of the Spanish army?

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