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It doesn't have to. It would be ideal of course.

The point is that there are always stakeholders and product owners - it just makes that explicit. If the PO is acting as a proxy for the stakeholder (customer in this case) that's ok.

Of course the PO might be wrong... but with small iterations that should be found out quickly and adjusted for.
/s presumably — so yeah
I'm sorry my comment gave you such a bad impression of myself, and I can assure you that I am neither a stoned college freshman nor a vainglorious hipster. As an educator, I have seen the impact of cell phones on sustained concentration abilities, and it worries me.
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Well, if you're owner and manager, I think you've got the independence, adequately resourced and reporting about right.

If you're a sole proprietor and managing data at volume and sensitivity levels that a DPO is required, I hope you're an expert at protecting that data..
You may not have read a lot about the contentious history of Catholicism in the US. Until the 1960s, many Protestant Americans still considered Catholic Americans "not really American" because of their alleged allegiance to an extra-governmental power, the Church (and in particular the Pope). As recently as the 1950s Protestant-Catholic intermarriage was truly frowned upon in many parts of the country and Catholics were prohibited from joining various civic institutions.
I have an actual business, thank you. And I did my homework by talking to a lawyer about it. What I got from this talk is, that most of the stuff that is going around is pure panic mode.

Please, don't take my words as granted but talk to an actual lawyer. You'll probably even find a free session for startups somewhere in your city, at least in Europe.
Pretty crazy how much misery (and even death!) it would cure. There was also a "vaccine" targeting s. mutans, but there were some concerns about that having unwanted systemic effects. And there was a neutered version of the same bacteria, and a peptide, ...
Still no silver bullet, huh? Who would've thought?
Under the ridiculously broad scope of the CFAA, that doesn't matter. The CFAA can be (and has been) twisted to prosecute people that do anything to a computer system that they do not own if the system owner could even remotely perceive said action as harmful. It's been used in the past to prosecute security researchers for accessing publicly available websites because the website owners claimed that they weren't "meant" to be public, they were only publicly accessible to make it easier for the actually "authorized" people to access them.

Even doing something like an nmap or a simple ping against a server that you're "not supposed to" could put a target on your back from an overzealous prosecutor.

See https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/us-cyberc...
I remember one of the very first David Letterman shows, he had his dentist as a guest, reviewing the recent Warren Beatty movie Reds from the point of view of dentistry. Apparently it wasn't a very realistic movie.
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Yes, I'm saying that's a bad thing. Someone shouldn't have a right to come into my house and tear up a piece of paper in my drawer if I happened to write something about them on it.

The problem is that there's no justification for having the right to coerce other people just because they have information you gave them. If users enter names into your website, you're not allowed to run a statistical analysis of what names are most common on your website without asking. If people named Jane are more likely to eat ice cream, you can't target ice cream ads at them and help keep your site free, without asking them. Worse than just this kind of coercion of what you're not allowed to do, users can coerce you into taking time out of your day to expunge records about them. It's all entirely backwards.
Why are you trying to push your beliefs on whole country? Why not work on changing net neutrality laws in your state. This way in long run we'd have experiment comparing results in states with net neutrality laws (including different flavors) and without them.
But a lot more could if society encouraged dense housing.

There is a massive advantage as a society to build density as it creates more innovation as people and ideas mix.

Maybe your argument should be stated another way, not everyone can have a single family home with a yard.
My only personal experience of agile is scrum, so I will concede your point :-)
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> I read that and I don't see how it would be in the conflict of interest for probably the vast majority of cases

Being the sole owner and manager and being the DPO is clearly a conflict of interest.
He's not monitoring the data.

He's not handling sensitive personal data.

He doesn't need a DPO.

See also the derogation for micro companies:

https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals/no-13/

> To take account of the specific situation of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, this Regulation includes a derogation for organisations with fewer than 250 employees with regard to record-keeping.
Right, but arrests aren't the same thing as convictions. Innocent until proven guilty and all.
I guess that is what you get when the entire software engineering field turns to "Javascript and a distributed database" as a solution to everything. There is a lot more out there and people should spend the time learning it.
HDLs are fine. I've found the tooling around them to be quite atrocious (slow, buggy, opaque, gui-based) though.
Be it for synthesis, simulation, or even just compiler errors it's pretty bad compared to software.
What do we want a foundation to do?
The question is why cell carriers provide data on users' location without their consent. I don't understand how this can even be legal.

It is the same thing as if a bank would sell their customers' bank card numbers and SSNs.
In what country? I have heard that this is required in Canada, but I've never heard of it in the US.
Probably more interesting regarding their ethics is that they've seemingly declined to answer most questions about the demo. They've declined to answer whether or not Duplex records calls, they've declined to confirm who they called with it, they declined to confirm if they tested it in a state that recording the calls is legal...

They seem incredibly dodgy for something they announced openly in front of thousands of people.
As recently as 1998 I had a preacher tell my Irish Catholic friend that she still had a chance to accept Jesus and be saved. There is still a feeling that Catholics are not really Christian in some circles, and that was an important factor in justifying the discrimination you mention!
The US didn't have that stuff a century ago either, and the birth rate was higher. You may wish for those things, but they aren't required. Some EU countries have those things, and their birth rates are even lower than the US birth rate.

Those things actually contribute to the problem. They drive up taxes, causing more families to feel that they need two incomes and overtime and a bit more waiting.
In the US, I will start a company that would partner with Doctors/Clinics/Hospitals where they would agree to transparent pricing for simple and routine services (like wellness checkup, simple procedure etc.). In return, the consumers will purchase a service from us (sort of insurance but I hate that word) for a much lower premium/fee per year (say something like 500 a year) where they pay the routine services out of pocket but we cover them for major procedures or catastrophic stuff (like cancer treatment). Each Participating doctor/clinic/hospital gets a cut of the premium that the consumer pays us.

This creates a win-win for all 3 parties. Consumers don't have to pay crazy health insurance premiums (which can be 15K easily for a family of 4 per year), pricing is transparent and even though they pay out of pocket for general services, the total they will spend per year will be MUCH less than average insurance premiums we pay today in the United States. Not to mention that insurance companies don't get to butt in every decision about which service should have been covered and which one not. Doctor gives a bill, patient pays it and all done. Probably will put some medical billing companies out of business too ? Doctors/clinics/hospitals get a cut of the premium from every consumer who participates effectively creating a huge pool/network.

Bonus feature: Our company will create a centralized platform where consumers can login and see their doctor visits and billing all in one place. No more individual health insurance websites or doctor billing websites. I can get a simple statement at the end of the year even if I visited 20 different doctors.

How we make money though with those lower yearly premiums will be a challenge. Btw, this was just a joke and a wishlist. I wish someone would do this.
I'm imagining simply replacing OpenVPN servers with WireGuard servers, retaining the VPN gateway model; one WireGuard instance acts as a routing gateway for any number of servers.
Man, what a shit idea of what religion is.
Theoretically being able to update your device and actually being able to update your device are two different things.

There's going to be a billion variants on every little IoT device in the future and all the best intentions and enthusiasm on the part of the free software community will not be enough to provide patches to all of them.

This is something that's the responsibility of the vendor, and the GNU software license could make that a requirement for using the software.

It's not about laws, it's about licensing. If they don't like the license they're free to use someone else's software.

Having inexpensive operating system software you can dump on a cheap device without license fees is both a great thing, and also what got us into this IoT hot mess.
Trains are a complicated problem space where a lot of impressive large-scale and small-scale engineering has been done over the course more than a century, but where you can still explain how stuff actually works at the layperson level. On top of that a fair amount of laypeople will interact with and even depend on a train on a fairly regular basis, in a way that is not necessarily true of other problem spaces; railroads have been romanticized in media for decades in a way that few other technologies have been.
Sure, I could go with two years. Even that's probably too long. But publicly announcing the tracking requests at the time they start? Announce to the suspect that they're being tracked? That's a bit of an unreasonable handicap to an investigation.

A warrant is not an unreasonable handicap. No warrant? No data. If you don't need the data bad enough to get a warrant, you don't need the data bad enough to get it.
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PII is not a GDPR concept. Most opinions (including the GDPR faq) will tell you IP is personal data.
Neither does the ICO answer the question if a sole owner can be the DPO nor does it help to determine if this case would require a DPO.

Anyway, how should the ICO be able to be more concrete then the GDPR?
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While I agree that violating the GDPR is much less likely to result in being pulled off a plane than running a company that allows people to gasp gamble on the internet, your characterisation of the problem as 'federal crimes' seems to suggest that there was something much more nefarious going on than simply allowing people in another jurisdiction to do something over the internet that is completely legal in the jurisdiction you are based in. I could be wrong, but according to my understanding, that's not the case.

The 'federal crimes', were precisely enabling US customers to gamble over their phone lines. That was enough to get a publicly traded company in a friendly nation categorised as 'organised crime'.

The other thing you mention about how it's not a criminal offense is something important a lot of people seem to be missing. If you're violating the GDPR and someone notices, the first thing that happens is that they work with you to try to correct the problem, not that they hit you with huge fines and laugh while twirling their mustaches.
Citation needed. I have seen absolutely zilch about the implementation of GDPR in countries like Hungary, Romania or Bulgaria. And they are members of the EU as well, you know.
>Even though no message traffic passes through Monal’s sever

Sounds to me like they are not a) processing b) collecting message data.
I don't often get those, though I did once have a dream-within-a-dream combined with sleep paralysis that was like seven dreams deep.

I took a nap on the couch. Woke up on the couch, could not move. Woke up on the couch, could wiggle my fingers. Woke up on the couch, tried to roll over but woke up on the couch. Managed to roll off the couch onto the floor, but woke up on the couch. This continued til I managed to roll off and drag myself about a foot with my arms (my legs were still paralyzed), then I finally woke up on the couch, my whole body tingling, and wasn't sure I was really awake until I'd gotten up and gone about the rest of my day.

I dunno, maybe everything since then has been a dream and I never did wake up from that nap.
You are just browsing the new reddit wrong, stop spawning new tabs from the front page, just click on a thread, it is so mush faster than old reddit because it only load the content, not the whole markup.
He's like the ultimate Leonardo DiCaprio character -- Jay Gatsby, Frank Abagnale, and Jordan Belfort all in one.
I agree that's how it's used. And also think that this is likely not how Google wants it to be used. There's a music player hiding somewhere in YT, but without a nice interface and wasting amazing amount of global bandwidth for the video stream many people don't care about. (but turn up the quality to get a better audio stream) It's not a music service - it's a music video service with some music piggybacking on top in a silly way.
I definitely agree with the author. Agile is increasingly being used to justify having no plan and just getting devs to do whatever seems most important to a "product owner" each sprint without the real customer feedback that is an essential part of agile.

I blame scrum for commodotising and cargo-culting all the good stuff out of agile. I'm writing a blog series on the problems with Scrum here: https://www.lambdacambridge.com/blog/2018-05-how-scrum-destr...

Interestingly, DSDM, which the author uses, doesn't get much attention, but was there from the beginning of the Agile movement.
Presumably this client insisted upon this silly idea over your objections?

Because if this was _your_ idea then if I were the client I'd feel like I hired somebody who was totally incompetent when I find out this arbitrary name they picked for me is a dumpster fire.

You're quoting an _expired_ _draft_ document as if that's some sort of standard.
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Neanderthal skulls in on average were more massive than modern humans, not just jaws. That alone would explain it
I've seen teams trying to get bonus points for patching thousands of files with errors. All this was done instead of innovating or writing a better module in a more succinct language that tackles the problem directly. I'd rather see employees finding ways to make sure those errors and infractions can't happen - often requiring different programming languages and tools - instead of just patching the code.
It’s likely they also didn’t stress-grind their teeth 24/7.

Living in constant stress will destroy one’s teeth over time.

That, and longer life expectancy.
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That’s what “insurance” actually is— protection against unforeseen financial loses. The current idea of “insurance” is more of a health plan than a financial protection scheme.

Car insurance doesn’t pay oil changes because that’s a normal part of owning a car and thus should be budgeted for, but a crash isn’t — this insurance exists to make someone whole after a covered loss.
High recitivism might be related to the inability to get a real job once convicted. In the old days, only big corps had access to background checks. Now every tiny business has access for less than $20, online, instantly.

So you make a mistake, go to prison, then get out. With zero job prospects. Who is surprised that you reoffend? The options are homelessness, leeching off family, or reoffending.

Where, not long ago, you could get a decent job at a small or medium company that just didn't do background checks.

Speaking from real, if anecdotal, experience, with some family members and friends. One felony (even a non-violent one) is now a lifelong anchor.

There are still a few loopholes, like being a hairdresser, since those are typically contract positions where you "rent a booth" and are a small biz owner, but even the loopholes are disappearing. I have several friends and family members, good people, that ruined their life with one stupid weed/meth/whatever possesion charge.

If you can't tell this is a passion point for me. We're slowing going dystopian where one mistake kills your lifelong opportunity.

Europe seems so far ahead of us in the US on rehabilitation versus punishment. Crazy Puritan bullshit if you ask me.

There seems like some opportunity for someone to build a low cost small biz ownership option (window washing, hairdressing, maid service, janitorial services, pool cleaning, pet grooming, etc) option for these types of felons. I wish I had the time and fortitude. Maybe someone else does?
low reproductive rates are good for global quality of life and the environment. High reproductive rates should not be encouraged.
There are several like it in India.
Here are a few others I enjoyed very much:

Neral -> Matheran.

Kalka -> Shimla.

Siliguri -> Darjeeling
In fairness many Catholics don't accept Protestants as Christians either.
I disagree, and think you should get back to work.
"Being white"'s an interesting phrase to use, because I don't think Irish (or Italians at a different point) were considered white at the time they were being discriminated against here. It shows how much whiteness is socially constructed.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Intel came up with tools which help make use of the FPGA using higher languages like C.

Xilinx is already pushing it's Vivado HLx which is pretty much that. I'm not aware of Altera's current offerings but they won't overlook this so easily.
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Just a personal risk I'm willing to take. I don't think they'll come for the small fish first.
>3) Look at your spiritual life...

This can not be overemphasized in my opinion. The natural result of Atheistic Naturalism is, to me, nihilism and its accompanying depression, so I would encourage an honest examination of your worldview and an openness to faith that provides a sense of purpose.
Probably never. This is a subset of Python that would break most libraries.

The author says that this is a research project, and adding the standard library (if possible at all) would be a humongus task by itself.
Thank you for your work uncovering this. Having entertained myself with something glib, let me offer something useful. Groups I encourage you consider reaching out to:

1. The National Security Whisleblowers Coalition
http://nswbc.org/contact_us.htm

2. The ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/contact-us

3. The EFF
https://www.eff.org/security

4. Your State Attorney General, Congressperson and U.S. Senators.
http://www.naag.org/naag/attorneys-general/whos-my-ag.php

5. Jennifer Valentino DeVries
https://jennifervalentinodevries.com/contact/

(Jennifer wrote a recent story for the New York Times about cell phone tracking abuse [1]. Krebs links to her story in his post.)

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/cellphone-trac...
A not for profit ride sharing platform, in the spirit of ghost.org .

Self driving cars are still years ahead, besides that, humans will still be needed for other kinds of gigs for some time.
Its certainly a problem that's specific to particular sects.

The sect of Osama Bin Laden was "Wahhabism", which is relatively rare outside of Saudi Arabia. And even then, the Saudi Princes who work with the USA are often pro-Wahabbism, so the USA can't even deride that sect (even if its the primary sect of Al-Qaeda). Because there's still "good guys" who follow that particular sect.

Note that the "Bin Laden" family was a very rich and entrepreneurial group of people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Laden_family) Some of them were huge investors in the US before their "black sheep" messed up their family name forever.

The Middle East is complicated. Like, super super complicated. Honestly, the bin Ladens in general (aside from the infamous one) should be welcome to the USA. A bit unfortunate about their "black sheep" sibling.

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Besides, if "Religion" was the problem, why did the USA DESTROY the only secular, maybe even atheist, group in the Middle East? (aka: Iraq Saddam Hussein and the Ba'athists).

Reason: the world is complicated. And thinking about it in terms of Religion only is a mistake. ISIS for example is a combination of yes, Wahhabism, but ALSO has the support of former Ba'athists.

And the Ba'athists believe in Secularism and secular law. They seemed to have joined in the ISIS fun not because of religious reasons, but because they wished to take over Iraq and saw aligning themselves with the fundamentalist Wahhabists as the best path forward and creating a unified Arab State.

So yes, we are fighting secular (arguably an atheist) groups in the Middle East. The world is a very complicated place. Yes, we have enemies some places, but Muslims exist across the entire world. You can't paint the issues of one region as a blight on all Muslims.

Even then: I'd imagine that we should welcome the many Iraqis who have helped the USA and are now getting targetted by ISIS in their country. We have friends in the region and we are turning them away with our immigration policies. We've turned our back on our closest supporters of that region, and I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of them have died because of their pro-US support or actions.

TL;DR: Immigration policy is hard.
Writing HDL isn't hard but doing it right(much like with C) I would argue is the tricky part.

The translation from Software -> Flip-Flops isn't nearly as natural and it's easy to try and apply SE techniques that while possible are totally unsuited for an FPGA.
Where in the law does it say they only do this when ignored? Surely if this were the case, they'd put it in the law like they did punishment limits. Or are you banking on subjective enforcement?
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> I don't see the value in large numbers of unskilled workers entering the US every year.
With a potentially large wave of automation coming, the US shouldn't straddled itself with lots of unemployable drivers, farm workers, etc.

Your argument is that the jobs these people do might be automated away so they shouldn't come here. Is that correct?

I would counter that many of these jobs can't easily be automated and that these workers are much more adaptable than you give them credit for. You just aren't going to see robots picking strawberries or hanging sheetrock on a large scale anytime soon for economic and technical reasons. Delivery drivers and dishwashers have very low cpaex vs robots that could do the same. These immigrants also start small companies at higher rates than native born Americans.

I guess I just don't get the rationale for keeping out low skill workers. The pay for goods an services, provide labor, start businesses, and generally do quite well.
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Japan is transitioning from traditional family-based care (which fails when children are absent or nonexistent) to government-funded social-safety-net care. USA has already made that transition (with Medicaid for nursing home care).