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by ckastner 9y ago
Trip data can contain extremely sensitive information.
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by ckastner 9y ago
I already guessed a few days ago that this is probably the next step we will see from Google and Amazon after the Russian blanket ban on AWS and GCP IPs [1]. It was either that, or the Russian goverment backing off an extreme measure. [1]
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Aided by as many as 120 “forward-deployed engineers” This term popping up again made me curious. To my surprise, that's not just some overloaded nickname (what's cooler than styling yourself with a military or martial arts te
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by ckastner 9y ago
This isn't about EULAs.
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by ckastner 9y ago
Then you should back Panasonic, not Tesla, because they're the ones with the tech.
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by ckastner 9y ago
> "Hello, yes, Christian Kastner? Your website is down. Just thought you should know." This is a perfect example for one of a positive effects of the GDPR afforded to natural persons. I haven't been associated with that do
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by ckastner 9y ago
> So do you think it's good idea for Amazon / Google reputation to cease their service to any SaaS if kremlin dont like it? No, but I don't think that's how it would be spun -- I would exect it to be framed as a ToS v
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by ckastner 9y ago
If this is indeed a blanket banning of AWS and GCP, then I assume that Amazon and Google will soon remove Telegram. It might be immoral, but it's the fastest solution to the harm this causes to all other affected customers I can think
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by ckastner 9y ago
Note that since the issue is GDPR compliance, this should only be a problem for registrants who are natural persons. So if Whois data were only collected and published for corporations, there shouldn't be a problem. I always felt uncom
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by ckastner 9y ago
> The Model 3 output increased exponentially, representing a fourfold increase over last quarter. This is the fastest growth of any automotive company in the modern era. If this rate of growth continues, it will exceed even that of Ford
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Of course I agreed, but its all their fault because I didn't know what I agreed to This might sound counter-intuitive at first glance, but nevertheless can make sense, legally speaking. Let's begin with an extreme example
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by ckastner 9y ago
Intel's weasel-worded response [1] to Meltdown and Spectre appears almost comical in comparison to this response, which seems to be clear and straightforward. [1] https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-responds-to-s
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by ckastner 9y ago
They aren't going to struggle, their currently spectacular profits are just going to get somewhat more modest. This is what happened to the banking industry after the 2008 financial crisis.
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by ckastner 9y ago
This presents an interesting opportunity for the FTC. The amount of data being amassed by Facebook, Google and others has become exorbitant, and apparently has already been abused (some might even say weaponized) in a major election. If Fac
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Recitations in GDPR require systems to be designed with privacy in mind. Immutable structures like the Bitcoin blockchain or Merkle trees in other applications would seem to be fundamentally incompatible with some GDPR privacy requirem
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by ckastner 9y ago
A better negotiation position would have been my first guess, too. > The screens are far more difficult to produce than OLED displays, and the company almost killed the project a year or so ago [...] consumers will probably have to wait
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by ckastner 9y ago
A much better headline would have been "Googling for 695033 results in an internal server error". That actually sounds somewhat interesting, as opposed to the pointless transient noise generated everytime Gmail or GitHub go down f
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by ckastner 9y ago
> This is still very much sci-fi at the moment for anything flying above a 250 km earth orbit because atmospheric density decreases dramatically fast with altitude. One of my favorite takes on this concept was Poul Anderson's Tau Z
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by ckastner 9y ago
> But my point is that their article explicitly shows that those 3 points are pointless for users. It's pointless with that device. The 3 points are general advice, and changing a default password, for example, is definitely sou
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by ckastner 9y ago
It may be a bit ambiguous, but a reasonable interpretation exists (it's about a home, not all homes). Regardless, the headline may be poorly chosen, but the interpretation "the entire ecosystem is that bad" is not support
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by ckastner 9y ago
Those three points are explicitly meant to be "for users". Your counterarguments address implementation issues, but the advice given to implementors is consistent with your arguments: "No less important is that vendors should
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Don't think for a second that I'm saying anyone should get a pass, they shouldn't, but this to me seems like the equivalent of reviewing $3 luggage locks and talking about how insecure they are, then concluding that all
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by ckastner 9y ago
Was the product hype ever a "hype"? I thought it was the production hype that had investors worried.
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by ckastner 9y ago
No, it's just one person filing a lawsuit assuming that to be the case. This is priceless. Imagine Wright truly is a fraud. Then he's now being sued by another fraud, and he might have to settle a law suit with real money to avo
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by ckastner 9y ago
> So what‘s with the constitutional guarantee of ownership You still own the car, it's just worth less (most probably).
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by ckastner 9y ago
There's an entire Wikipedia article on alternative biochemistries [1]. Quoting that page, with regards to Si: However, silicon has several drawbacks as an alternative to carbon. Silicon, unlike carbon, lacks the ability to form chemic
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by ckastner 9y ago
EU member states will, in future. Articles 30 and 31 of the Fourth AML Directive, Directive (EU) 2015/849 [1], mandate that member states set up a register (= database) with BOs of all corporations and legal entities within their juris
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by ckastner 9y ago
> Okay, I don't want to come down too hard on this article, but I think it's nearsighted. Sure, it's true that _today's_ blockchains have many downsides the article brings up I read the article as a criticism of the
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by ckastner 9y ago
The privacy policy [4] does not appear to be linked from the homepage, but you can reach it through search. It's devoid of any meaningful content, though. The company appears to be a shell registered in Cyprus [5]. The address on an ol
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by ckastner 9y ago
He's calling himself a "co-founding shareholder" though, which appears to be undisputed. (Not that weasel-wording is much better than outright lying.)

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