AnssiH

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by AnssiH 8y ago
There were three separate issues, and they have now been addressed by Google: 1. App bundling. 2. Selling Android forks. 3. Payments for exclusive installation of Google Search. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-1
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Nope: > The decision also requires Google to refrain from any measure that has the same or an equivalent object or effect as these practices. http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-18-4581_en.htm
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by AnssiH 8y ago
In this case, though, Google is alleged to be dominant in "general internet search services, licensable smart mobile operating systems and app stores for the Android mobile operating system" (per EC press release: http:/&#x2
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by AnssiH 8y ago
I found the subtitle ("Timed Text") style guides interesting, with instructions ranging from e.g. "When Americans "love" or "hate" something, it is enough to "like" or "dislike" in Finn
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> What does mp3 purchasing from Amazon look like from other countries ? Just a vastly different catalog ? The same catalog but with DRM files ? For Finland and most other countries, it is not possible to purchase digital music (or movies
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Teletext is still active in Finland: Yle: http://yle.fi/tekstitv MTV: http://www.mtvtekstikanava.fi/ Some random picks from a previous comment of mine: Pollen map: https://yle.fi/aihe/t
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by AnssiH 8y ago
You can move to Finland, they don't ask for donations here. In fact, trying to donate gets you a "Thank you for your interest" page: https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Landi... The le
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by AnssiH 8y ago
That's how it works in Finland in lukio (upper secondary school between 9th grade and university), we picked the courses ourselves and left/entered campus on will. Looks like the course-based system was introduced in 1982. And per
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> and now they want to mess with something as fundamental as a hyperlink. Unless I'm missing something, basic hyperlinking seems to be excluded from the scope of the new directive, and it is instead targeting services that reproduce
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Note that you quoted the special "Consultation" procedure instead of the ordinary legislative procedure where EP has more power. According to the page, the consultation procedure "is applicable in a limited number of legislat
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> IOW, US states are allowed to disregard the observance of DST, but they can't change their time zone without federal congressional approval. Interestingly, that seems to be the exact opposite of EU where countries can choose their
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by AnssiH 8y ago
FWIW, I don't think we have ever run gas lines to individual homes in large scale here in Finland, and we are obviously in a heating-needed region. Natural gas is 7% of the total energy consumption here ( https://www.stat.fi&
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> For smaller and not well-known streamers, it may be more difficult to obtain justice... Currently, yes, but that is, as far as I understand it, something this directive actually makes better. Article 13(2b) requires "effective an
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by AnssiH 8y ago
It is not the latest version. Compare it to today's amendments: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Here is a PDF of the amendments adopted today: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//... The most controversial articles 11 and 13 are included in their entirety.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> you may as well have a blanket no-question ask removal policy The directive (Article 13(2b)) requires the service providers to provide an "effective and expeditious" complaint mechanism for unjustified removals with human rev
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> For all it's worth, it seems to make things worse. Actually, adopted amendment 160 reads: > Members States shall ensure that online content sharing service providers referred to in paragraph 1 put in place effective and expedi
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by AnssiH 8y ago
I think at least the intent is to avoid smaller businesses being hit too much. If the PDF ( https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Se... ) posted elsewhere in this discussion is accura
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by AnssiH 8y ago
.es and .it are the other two full retail sites in Europe.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
The second link should have been https://music.amazon.com/ .
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Actually, Prime Video and Amazon Music Unlimited are widely available in Europe: https://www.primevideo.com/ (worldwide) https://music.video.com/ (several dozen countries, including Finland, Sweden, Poland,
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by AnssiH 8y ago
I think the availability of digital authentication methods significantly varies by country. E.g. here in Finland TUPAS ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUPAS ) is used by both government sites and private companies. It re
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by AnssiH 8y ago
Add /us to the URL so it works outside US: https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key_kit Otherwise users get redirected to the regional stores that do not have it available.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
The x86-on-ARM emulation has already been in production for a while, has it not? The various Snapdragon 835 powered Windows laptops use it AFAIK.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the parent only meant that the "Malfunction 54" error should not have been ignored, not that the operator should have somehow avoided the race condition in the first place.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
I don't usually see any header. Example: https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/techcrunch.com...
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by AnssiH 8y ago
By the way, this is a relatively recent change made in July 2017 (License version 10). Before that there was no "noncommercial" restriction, and the free license allowed commercial use as long as you installed it yourself (i.e. no
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by AnssiH 8y ago
There are way too many M2M users of 2G to close it down, at least in the Nordics. E.g. electricity meters in Finland commonly use GPRS. 3G will probably be closed before 2G.
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> The turbo button was linked to a turbo LED or MHz display on the system case, although the indicated MHz was not always accurate. On my 486 system the display said "486" with turbo on and "66" with turbo off, which
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by AnssiH 8y ago
> today I should just pay money to eBay, they take their cut and send the rest to the seller That is exactly what they've been planning for a while: https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments&#x2F

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