This problem of data sharing was one of the things GDPR was supposed to prevent. I'm not suggesting that GDPR is the solution, but it's certainly a step in the right direction when it comes to making one (as a systems designer/developer/maintainer) think about data protection in a new light. GDPR has it's own problems, but it's quite clear that whatever data protection law you have in the US, it's not good enough.
No, he behaves like a man ready for a cushy job at a major telecom company when he finally gets kicked out of the FCC for some perceived criticism of Trump (real or otherwise).
Another solution is to emigrate to a country that has fair and sane (for relative values of sane & fair) employment law and a health system that is (mostly) free at the point of delivery.
And "the public" makes a lovely amorphous target who can't sue, and can't be sued. Making them the perfect bogey man, because nobody is "the public" so everyone will always assume that "the public" is "others".
Funnily enough, there are people in China, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy, South Africa, Japan, and Peru(*) who all say exactly the same about their own country.
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Nice idea, but then Trump would have gotten to appoint the WHOLE of the Supreme Court on day one. Not just the ones he can get past the too-stupidly-partisan-for-words Senate.
OMG, what a presumptuous anonymous fool you are. You have no idea what I get up to at the weekends; what arts I might be practising (two musical instruments for a start). Or for that matter, the incredible creative industries that work on these British Islands (yes, I'm British, I don't care if that means you can discard my opinions as 'irrelevant').
I must admit that I am in no way qualified to critique the artistic contributions of the commercial output of one movie industry over another - I wouldn't dare, as I don't understand the language spoken and sung in Bollywood movies for a start. Do you?
Okay, how many French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Czech, Italian, South African (and I don't mean District 9), Zimbabwean, Australian, Egyptian, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese or Swahili language movies have you seen? Care to judge whether their contribution to global culture is greater than the output of Hollywood?
But I would maintain that, with your blinkers on, you are equally unable to see that your criteria for "creative contribution" are inherently biased by your own culture. Look outside your borders and smell the (cafeinated, if you like) beverages from elsewhere.
"I think Americans are unique in this way, that is, they, uniquely, loved their system of government throughout their entire history."? Didn't you guys have something of a Civil War about that?
As for how hard D. Trump works, have you looked at the statistics (published by his own Whitehouse) about the amount his golfing trips have cost in terms of hours and dollars?
And as for 'leading the world in creative content' ... that's only in English, and really only because the US population is much larger than the sum of any other predominantly English-speaking country.
The Spanish, Portuguese, and, need I say, INDIAN, creative industries are also very, very active. Bollywood is cited as creating somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 movies per year. Hollywood produces less than half that.
That's before we even consider South America media production, or creative industries outside of cinema and music, with which the US seems obsessed, to the exclusion of the other arts.
Yes, the US does create a lot (sometimes I wonder how much is actually worth creating, but that's another story entirely), but to assume it's world leading because the MAFFIA say so? US blinkers off, please.
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IP addresses have been demonstrably shown time and time again to not map to a natural person anyway, so why on earth are they even included in the GDPR definition of 'personal data'. Yes, it's a badly written law, written by people who don't have a technical bone in their or their staff members' bodies. (Mind you, of course, if we let 'technical people' write the technical legislation, we'd all be screaming about regulatory capture)
By the time this comes in, the UK won't even be in the EU, so news sites in the UK should be fine.
The wider question for EU lawmakers is "how long do you think it'll take for your citizens to be so pissed off with you shutting them off from the wider Internet with your uninformed technophobia?"
I'm just waiting for some smart lawyer for the accused to realise that some of the evidence leading to his arrest was obtained unlawfully... that kind of technicality has never, ever, ever worked to get someone out of all sorts of dodgy scrapes with the law.
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Infrequent commenting is not a crime (nor a civil suit waiting to happen), it's long been known as 'lurking' and is tremendously common on lots of forums. Get a life, AC.
I don't know about anybody else, but I give quite a big fuck about the civil rights of any innocent person not involved in the murder, but accidentally involved in the investigation through no fault of their own.
In fact, I actually give a fuck (but perhaps not quite such a big one) that even the actual murderer be found guilty through due process and not trial by social media. Not for their own benefit, but for the benefit of society as a whole, for if we cannot rely upon proper due process for one person, how can rely upon it for ourselves. (Yeah, fantasy, I know - there is already a lot of evidence of cops, prosecutors, jurors and judges being willing to put aside due process for-the-win!)
Even so, he's still not guilty yet. As members of the public we're not in a position to make a judgement on 'the preponderance of [published] evidence' - that's for the courts and a judge & jury of his peers.
The only problem is that the 'media' as a whole seem to be taking this as a 'guilty' verdict on Mr De Angelo. He may be guilty, he may also be not guilty; as the article states, DNA evidence is not infallible.
So now Apple are happy to put the keys in a potentially leaky bucket. Perhaps they want to provide the perfect example of how 'smart encryption with back doors for warranted, legitimate, legal access by police & government' actually means: as secure as a wooden shed in hurricane.
I actually found myself finding the 2nd apology to be real, and without any need for sarcasm. It sounds like it's been written by someone who truly understands the offences caused, and has a genuine desire to improve the culture of the bus company.
But... good luck with that, when you're starting from such a low position.
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GDPR has it's own problems, but it's quite clear that whatever data protection law you have in the US, it's not good enough.
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I must admit that I am in no way qualified to critique the artistic contributions of the commercial output of one movie industry over another - I wouldn't dare, as I don't understand the language spoken and sung in Bollywood movies for a start. Do you?
Okay, how many French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Czech, Italian, South African (and I don't mean District 9), Zimbabwean, Australian, Egyptian, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese or Swahili language movies have you seen? Care to judge whether their contribution to global culture is greater than the output of Hollywood?
But I would maintain that, with your blinkers on, you are equally unable to see that your criteria for "creative contribution" are inherently biased by your own culture. Look outside your borders and smell the (cafeinated, if you like) beverages from elsewhere.
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(Broad sweeping statement warning!) The money is not the motivator for most creators; for most creators it's a need to create that drives them.
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Didn't you guys have something of a Civil War about that?
As for how hard D. Trump works, have you looked at the statistics (published by his own Whitehouse) about the amount his golfing trips have cost in terms of hours and dollars?
And as for 'leading the world in creative content' ... that's only in English, and really only because the US population is much larger than the sum of any other predominantly English-speaking country.
The Spanish, Portuguese, and, need I say, INDIAN, creative industries are also very, very active. Bollywood is cited as creating somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 movies per year. Hollywood produces less than half that.
That's before we even consider South America media production, or creative industries outside of cinema and music, with which the US seems obsessed, to the exclusion of the other arts.
Yes, the US does create a lot (sometimes I wonder how much is actually worth creating, but that's another story entirely), but to assume it's world leading because the MAFFIA say so? US blinkers off, please.
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Re: Masking one octet is a pathetic excuse for "anonymization"
Yes, it's a badly written law, written by people who don't have a technical bone in their or their staff members' bodies.
(Mind you, of course, if we let 'technical people' write the technical legislation, we'd all be screaming about regulatory capture)
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The wider question for EU lawmakers is "how long do you think it'll take for your citizens to be so pissed off with you shutting them off from the wider Internet with your uninformed technophobia?"
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In fact, I actually give a fuck (but perhaps not quite such a big one) that even the actual murderer be found guilty through due process and not trial by social media. Not for their own benefit, but for the benefit of society as a whole, for if we cannot rely upon proper due process for one person, how can rely upon it for ourselves. (Yeah, fantasy, I know - there is already a lot of evidence of cops, prosecutors, jurors and judges being willing to put aside due process for-the-win!)
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Not guilty yet
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Leaky bucket
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Real apology
But... good luck with that, when you're starting from such a low position.
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