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by lagadu 9y ago
GDPR violations aren't something a troll can sue you over. All a troll would be able to do would be to raise a complaint with their national entity responsible for it, who analyzes the complaint and then takes action themselves if deem
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by lagadu 9y ago
Personal data is a big deal and should be treated as such. If you're hell bent on storing your user's personal data then you need to treat it as such. Your argument boils down to "I don't want to take special measures to
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by lagadu 9y ago
> The problem is what happens if a legal firm or an agency targets you. Nothing. GDPR enforcement is carried out by each country's regulatory authority; they're the only ones who can sue, target or take action against you for n
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by lagadu 9y ago
Your "unelected bureaucrats" are elected by popular vote every 5 years in the elections for the European Parliament. The other "unelected bureaucrats" in the council are elected by the governments that were elected in ea
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by lagadu 9y ago
Presumably because the regulator has nothing to do with the issue before a court determines that loot box providers fall under their jurisdiction.
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by lagadu 9y ago
> Renting in some place for a long time doesn't give you any leverage against another potential renters. That's just not true in most of Europe. Having lived in several countries now, the laws are usually very tenant oriented:
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by lagadu 9y ago
You're incorrect about what a democracy and a republic are. The US is both. A republic is a system where each head of state is chosen by the people in some form, not necessarily by voting (res - of, publica - public). Contrast with Mon
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by lagadu 9y ago
Not just assets: they have ISPs block access to fb, sure you can get around that but 99% of the population won't bother. Even worse: they can have central banks block payments to fb.
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by lagadu 9y ago
Unfortunately that is roughly as surprising as the sun rising in the morning.
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by lagadu 9y ago
> If felons were truly forgiven, they would have their right to vote restored. They wouldn't be denied a passport to travel abroad or denied a firearms license. Convicted felons of financial crime will be denied officer positions su
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by lagadu 9y ago
That would require that you provide a service within the EU and that you store personal data, neither of which you do in your example.
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by lagadu 9y ago
Specifically about Mass Effect: I think the difficulty here is that the ME universe is pretty vanilla by scifi standards. The good part about the games is how they present a big universe and fill it up with lore and characters for you to ex
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by lagadu 9y ago
One of my emails is a "one name" gmail address so I get a few of these fairly often. I've tried doing the good thing where possible and trying to get it changed by contacting the provider but I just gave up. If I get more tha
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by lagadu 9y ago
You really really don't. If it's done over email should we ban emails?
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by lagadu 9y ago
After it passes review and all stages of testing it's everyone's bug.
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by lagadu 9y ago
Depends on the type of fingerprinting used. The example I mentioned with the invisible pattern yes but if the fingerprinting is done via other means such as replacing some words on a post with synonyms for each user in such a way that each
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by lagadu 9y ago
Just have the background image have a pattern to it that changes by user: you can encode stuff in a uniform-looking background by making some squares be color (255,255,255) and others be (255,255,254) for example: it would appear to be unif
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by lagadu 9y ago
Spying is a big problem in Eve. At the most basic level a spy is able to take screenshots and copy/paste text to send back to the entity they're spying for. By watermarking both text and forum backgrounds the data effectively beco
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by lagadu 9y ago
Yeah, and without it around they'll have to move to far sketchier platforms or streetwalking. Good job making it worse.
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by lagadu 9y ago
Most monetary transactions involving victims of sex slaves involve money, should we remove it too? He's saying that this affects far more legitimate users than sex traffickers by multiple orders of magnitude, while at the same time not
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by lagadu 9y ago
It would: Monero is the de facto standard currency in the deep web nowadays, not bitcoin.
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by lagadu 9y ago
I use a little app called toggl to track my time. Works pretty well.
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by lagadu 9y ago
It's not their data, it's the company's data. They don't have access to the services with their personal accounts, only their corporate ones so any data that they pour in is professional work, which belongs to the compan
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by lagadu 9y ago
Whatever google can or cannot do with the data depends on their ToS but that is a problem for the company that contracts them to deal with as it's their data; not the users. Most importantly, virtually all PaaS and SaaS solutions (offi
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by lagadu 9y ago
You don't get it: this is enterprise software. People would login (and only have access) with their enteprise accounts, not their personal ones.
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by lagadu 9y ago
> if you ever see a pedestrian in your path and you are not able to avoid them, you were driving too fast, simple as that. That flies in the face of biology and physics. In the scenario where someone rapidly moves into the traffic from b
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by lagadu 9y ago
A modern car that makes skidmarks under heavy breaking is a car with a broken brake and safety system. Modern ABS brakes actuate fast enough that they don't leave skidmarks under maximum braking.
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by lagadu 9y ago
> What's the point left about self-driving cars then? The point of a self-driving car is unburdening the user from the task of driving it, allowing them to engage in other activities if they chose to do so. That it has the potential
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by lagadu 9y ago
Depends on the conditions. With moderate temperature and dry conditions every single corner on a highway can be taken at 120km/h on any modern car, the overwhelming majority of them can be taken far in excess of 200km/h depending
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by lagadu 9y ago
Current systems cannot know the exact speed of a car due to the mechanics involved: A speedometer's reading is measured on the gearbox, at the output but there are a myriad of little things after that including variance in the final dr

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