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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Maybe due to the German fondness for cash? A few percent higher prices aren't as much of a deal when paying with credit card, the transaction works exactly the same, but when paying cash, it might look very different (up to "don&#
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> so long as the data is located and processed in France. ... you also have to ask for permission first. The main difference is that for a data processor in France it seems possible to get all the right contracts in place, while a US bas
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
> So it's mathematically interesting that the puzzle cannot be solved in a conventional manner, but it's also interesting that it can be solved by applying quantum concepts. I guess the question was: Is the "quantum office
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Simple: "high-level corruption" isn't part of Europol's mandate (see https://www.europol.europa.eu/about-europol ), so it's unlikely that they have data on that in the first place.
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
In the English speaking sphere people get hung up on "cookie laws" because the UK had a specific implementation of such a law in 1998 or so. GDPR and many of the non-UK privacy laws that preceded it in Europe didn't concentra
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
TPMs are notified about the system state along the boot process, so they can present the key only if the boot process looks like it's supposed to (and some of these attributes aren't even modifiable by the CPU but the side process
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> only TPM can be used for that which seems arbitrary. Smartcard readers can use any number of protocols (e.g. random USB readers implementing custom handshakes) until you finally get to the smartcard while TPMs have a select few number
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What's that, a gish gallop waiting to happen? They're not arguing to have found a global maximum and everybody everywhere should stop what they're doing and adopt this scheme, this is just reporting that there are unexpected
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> I gather Kingsway is relying mostly on its artists’ reputation for being willing to license for sampling on reasonable terms. I don’t see any guarantee that samples will be licensed, much less on any particular terms. There have been i
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I'm not sure the EU cares: http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/EU-GOOGLE-...
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> I mean, really, is anyone's privacy improved by having more javascript popups added to every single page? How about app stores implementing "privacy dashboards" where you can see what data an app collects and how it uses
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> The German rail infrastructure is so outdated ... If DB updates infrastructure, that's on their budget (and while 100% publicly held and lots of politicians involved, it's nominally private). If it breaks down so much that it
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The numbers making up that graph don't support or refute your claim because your claim is entirely unrelated. Since this isn't the only time that you're randomly switching the subject in replies, would you care to explain why
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Couldn't find national numbers, just lots of regional queries with hospitals: https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/panorama/corona-k... (2011-11-05) covers Eastern Germany: 2/3 of covid19 pati
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The problem described is: - scammers blasting sob stories at the security contact - real security researcher finding something, reaching out to security@ - real researcher ending up in the spam bucket - real researcher complaining that they
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
I was there, too, and I wasn't alone in my assessment: https://www.databasejournal.com/features/mysql/article.php/2... (to pick a contemporary example using that exact word) suggests that the 2003 releas
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
The quote was "database optimization features" and the scope was "MySQL as of 2002". Of course, even my old DBase II handbook talks about indexes - all that's old hat. MySQL had them, too. MySQL also used to have a
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I wouldn't bet on these indexes optimizing anything back then. MySQL was legendary that while implementing the necessary standards (to some degree) it was neither reliable nor efficient.
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> lack of database optimization features That's a perfection description of mysql as of 2002.
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In this particular instance "not allowed to publish" _definitely_ wasn't the problem, seeing how much crap had been published simply because it has "SARS-Cov-2" in its title. The research dynamics around Covid19 are
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That would require the graph on https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... to go down again. It doesn't.
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> about vaccines alone "ending" the pandemic The idea that vaccines "end" the pandemic was proposed when there was the hope or expectation that the vaccine campaign leads to a covid19-sterile population. My post and i
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"sterilizing" is just the "100% non-transmitting" case. > a growing body of evidence suggests that COVID-19 vaccines also reduce asymptomatic infection and transmission ( https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus
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That works exactly as long as such an US-aligned company doesn't enter the spotlight in some sanctioned entity related trouble. Had friends working export compliance for a larger US IT company, and they once (temporarily) blocked a lar
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The title is quite something. The part that made it here seems reasonable enough, as it can be understood as "higher D3 levels help in not dying as much as with lower D3 levels" which is possible. The other half is "a Mortali
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
> ALL works on the project are equally "illegal" (or at least many, they can't know which ones) Those whose authors aren't dead for 70 years (because we don't have the "pre-1978" loophole the US has). P
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
Urheberpersönlichkeitsrecht (what is called "moral rights" in English) is a subset of Urheberrecht. UrhG covers copyright and moral rights, some stuff at the intersection, and then some, but on the other hand lacking a few bits co
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by pgeorgi 5y ago
There's a German-language "Projekt Gutenberg"[1] as well, a long time maintained by the publisher Spiegel. They're the more popular project of that kind in Germany, so people probably didn't notice what Project Gute
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In this case Project Gutenberg blocked German IP ranges to try to avoid legal issues (and since they wanted to make a point didn't only block the material under debate but their entire site). That overblocking approach seems to be what
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§42 UrhG ( https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__42.html , english translation https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_urhg/englisch_ur... ) is probably core to what an author can do about th

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