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by phicoh 8y ago
If I got it correct, that is not what is proposed. What is proposed is that you pay an amount of money to a collection agency and then get the right to publish those snippets. I think it is a bad proposal that will do more harm than good. B
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by phicoh 8y ago
There are quite a few similar rights. One example is that radio stations don't have enter agreements with individual rights owners to license songs. There is blanket fee. Similar payments are for playing music in bars, restaurants and
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by phicoh 8y ago
Agenda: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f... Documents: http://www.emeeting.europarl.europa.eu/committees/agenda/201... Relevant amendment: 746 ( http://
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by phicoh 8y ago
Note the text 'and an inalienable right to obtain an fair and proportionate remuneration for such uses' The idea is to make it impossible to give Google a free license. The best outcome would be if Google would refuse to link to a
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by phicoh 8y ago
Trading zones are hugely interconnected. It is not as if trading zones are just isolated islands that produce everything and where people never leave the trading zone. Just like any established economy benefits from free trade (though sligh
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With end-to-end encryption it is easy to tell: the free world is where end-to-end encryption is unrestricted.
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by phicoh 8y ago
On a 286 you do not have access to real mode when in protected mode. You need a 386 for that. A crazy trick that did work is to cause a triple fault in protected mode. That would reset the 286. Then there was a little bit of support from th
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by phicoh 8y ago
That's exactly the problem. Somewhere a programmer working on a compiler is coding an optimization that make a program run faster, but gives a different result from what the writer of the program intended. That's only useful if yo
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by phicoh 8y ago
The problem is in how the gcc (and to some extent clang) maintainers read the standard. If the C standard says: the following construct is undefined, then as a compiler writer you have two options: you try to figure out what is sensible in
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by phicoh 8y ago
I think there is an easy way kill this DAC concept. Have a tax on fossil fuels that in 10 years time ramps up to the cost of capturing CO2. The government will use this tax to buy services of companies that do this. Big companies can also
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by phicoh 8y ago
(Of course this anecdotal) I see no correlation which source code control software. What I think is key for open source is the quality of internet access we have these days. You can copy any repo without really thinking about it. The other
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by phicoh 8y ago
"With this new set of powers, we saw a Cambrian explosion of open source that coincided with git's adoption. [...] That's where GitHub stepped in, providing elegant, centralized solutions around all of these new problems.&quo
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by phicoh 8y ago
Privacy badger is quite specific in what it blocks. It blocks third party tracking cookies that track you across multiple domains. First party cookies are no problem. Third party cookies that are only used in one domain are no problem. Thir
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by phicoh 8y ago
If you allow a segway on the sidewalk, then suddenly lots of stuff can also use the sidewalk. Unless you specifically want to spell out that devices called segways are allowed and anything else isn't.
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by phicoh 8y ago
Segways go as fast as bikes, are about the same size as bikes, so it make sense to just apply the rules of bikes to segways. Of course they are motorized, so if there are special rules for slow, motorized bikes, then those should apply to s
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by phicoh 8y ago
That doesn't make any sense. The point of privacy badger is to prevent cookies that track you across different domains. Allowing tracking cookies just because a certain parameter is present is asking for abuse. If you are serious about
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by phicoh 8y ago
The real solution is for the captive portal is to signal that there is a captive portal. Unfortunately that has turned into an arms race: some operating systems switch to a different browser when they detect a captive portal. So captive por
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by phicoh 8y ago
They are mostly independent. Your privacy loss is by and large the sum (or max) of the privacy loss caused by DNS and TLS individually. For TLS, the threat model is relatively simple: only an on path attacker has access to a plaintext SNI.
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by phicoh 8y ago
They are completely independent protocols, with their own issues in this area. For the DNS, the specification for DNS over TLS is almost trivial. DNS over HTTPS is a bit more tricky because their are more possibilities, interactions with HT
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by phicoh 8y ago
Maybe it comes as a surprise, but there are places where if you generate industrial waste (even as a relatively small company) you have to be able to demonstrate that you get rid it in a responsible way. And if somebody complains with a loc
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by phicoh 8y ago
If you have a dialog where the only option is to consent then either that is not real consent according to the GDPR or the consent was not really needed. In the first, you may just end up with a database for full of data that you may have t
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by phicoh 8y ago
Even simple things are hardly self-driving at the moment. Take trains for example. No need to steer, have priority over anything else and basically can't brake. Yet, a limited (and mostly subway) trains are self driving. We have hardly
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by phicoh 8y ago
Similar laws have existed for many decades. In The Netherlands, privacy laws date back to the 1970s. At least my reading of the GDRP is that it tries very hard not be a big burden. If you are a small company or organisation and you collect
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by phicoh 8y ago
One thing I always found rather bizar is where ISPs break internet connections after 24 hours to force the customer to get a new IP address. And then the next step was where the home routers would disconnect after less then 24 hours to make
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by phicoh 8y ago
Due to the network effect, you may end up with lots of people using Facebook, but actually disliking the service. What you can see happening is that people treat Facebook more as a news feed then as a platform to communicate with friends. O
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by phicoh 8y ago
Just my impression: if this was Google, then yes. It is very hard to replace Google at this point in time. Facebook is on its way out. Due to the network effect, Facebook will stay relevant for a long time. But if Facebook would leave the E
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by phicoh 8y ago
The question is then who should reserve it? The IETF can ask for domain names for technical reasons, i.e. as part of internet standards. ICANN can allocate domains as gTLDs but doesn't have mandate/policy to reserve names without
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by phicoh 8y ago
In case people wonder why .home was not picked. One of the many issues here is that the current policy for the root DNS zone is that all new delegations from the root zone have to support DNSSEC. So they have to have DS records. Given that
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by phicoh 8y ago
There is a RIPE meeting this week. Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be an update regarding GDRP in the database working group: https://ripe76.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/db-wg/
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by phicoh 8y ago
So, a pedestrian makes an unexpected move where you have priority, the pedestrian falls and needs lengthy recovery. Then by default you are liable for all of the pedestrian's costs, even if it was not your fault. No ifs. Just any damag

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