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> Are you going to be paying people's fines when they rely on your advice?

Following my advice will substantially reduce the chances of people having to pay fines. That's a public service. If you want me to assume liability for that then you are clearly asking for more than I can give you.

But rather than trying to play word games with you I'd like to point to the track record of the various EU data protection entities and you'll see that on the whole they are doing a very good job.

Finally, as for paying people's fines, if you break the law you are liable for the fine, long before you will be fined (unless you are really making a mess of things) you will be warned so that you are able to come into compliance. If you ignore that and then you are fined you really have only yourself to blame.
sigh - nearly all true 8) The pasty is widespread across the entire south west of England. To be fair the Cornish one is what most people have heard of (including most Brits).

Nominally the modern Cornish version has a side crimp and the Devon version is a top crimp ("dinosaur"). Then there is the Somerset (I live in Yeovil) pasty which cashes in on the real thing!

My mum was from near Dartmouth and my step mum is from St Awful. I'm in my late forties and have eaten a lot of pasties of all shapes and sizes. The home made beast that overhangs your plate is the best. The pastry should be made with lard ...
It would be no skin of Google’s back to multiply these bug bounties by 10, and they should.
It's like asking "When was the last time Congress did something to help feet, instead of shoes?" It's a really weird thing to ask, because like shoes, corporations are a tool used by people. They cannot, therefore, be opposed to anything as such. They're merely mechanisms, tools, in the hands of their principals and agents.

You can suggest that certain uses of these tools are improper and that the agents who effect these uses should be restrained, punished, or otherwise legally addressed, but you don't phrase that as a punishment against the tool -- it is rather a punishment against the agents who manipulated the tool improperly.

Sometimes I wonder if the whole "corporation v people" thing is a propaganda tool intended to misdirect public anger off the robber barons themselves and instead put it onto a formless legal abstraction that can't be held accountable.
Two quick thoughts...

1. By not automatically hoisting that information there is a requirement for the developer to know those details for all transitive dependencies and handle those issues themselves. A task that was automated under dep (and in other languages) is now a manual task in vgo. I do not look forward to doing that when I import Kubernetes into a project as a dependency.

2. Writing a solver that can work over a rather large codebase (e.g., kubernetes) in a timely manner (as fast as those for other languages) can and has been done. Why are we trying to avoid satisfaction problems, whom do they benefit, and why?
Can you name the sect? I was raised as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew and this is not normative.
Since the maximum is 20 million EUR, a company-killing fine doesn’t have to be the maximum or anywhere near it for most businesses. Hell, a 100,000 EUR fine would take the vast majority of small sites and their owners into bankruptcy.
You are saying this, as if the decision to strip the population from their subsistence and working rights was made ONLY by local politicians. This is in fact a collusion between politicians and foreign investors. In this collusion, foreign investors have much more responsibility because, after all, local corrupt politicians have less opportunities than foreign capital owners, and therefore it is harder for them to make ethical decisions. Moreover, developed countries love to put all the responsibility of corruption in the hands of local politicians, as if they were really supporting in some way the non-corrupt ones, which is completely untrue as anyone from a third world country will point out.
Augmenting Human Intellect.
A Conceptual Framework by Doug Engelbart.

http://www.1962paper.org/

In 1962 Doug Engelbart published what may be the most important paper in computer history and in human augmentation.

This is where he laid out his concept of interactive computing and which would lead to him and his team to invent the mouse, word processing, email, and most of what we today consider personal computing. We still have far to go to live up to the dreams and ideas presented here:

Read Augmenting Human Intellect

http://www.1962paper.org/web.html

This presentation of the paper hosted and presented by The Liquid Information Company, makers of richly interactive text, inspired by and in dialog with Doug Engelbart whom we were honoured to make a webomentary on as well: Invisible Revolution, The Doug Engelbart Documentary.

You should also see the 1968 Demo this paper resulted in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
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I've shared this with anyone who will let me divert the conversation to Prolog. At work we have the Haskell folks, the Lispers who move everything towards Lisp, and I'm the one who moves every conversion towards Prolog, then I send the link to this. :-D
I suppose, I just don't understand where that line of thinking heads, in terms of an even theoretical resolution.

Yelp sues google for monopolistic practice. Restaurant federations sue yelp. We sue fb for giving us the willies. The lawyers do very well and there's a legal bubble. Peter Thiel automates lawyers, funded by google who by 2026 are sitting on the largest horde of cash ever stashed but technically bankrupt, pending legal appeals and fully tallied lawyer bills. Legal event horizon in 3.. 2.. shoes.

I don't think I speaking besides the issue (apart from the obvious bits). Are either of these companies accused of anything, formally? Murder may be a bit strong.
Yes, this is a real problem. In fact, it is the only problem with the GDPR that has no obvious solution - yet - for small businesses.
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You disable the account, which means it isn't active and therefore any employee action won't affect the company.
I think you're both making good points here but just to clarify:

I did not account for the interest that could've been earned on that $17k (which could conservatively be $1700, aggressively could've been another $17k).

I also did not account for the residual value of a 10 year old 120k mile Honda Fit, which is probably in the $5k range.
That's sort of what I was thinking, though I don't know how well I'll resist griping about GDPR there. :D

People's opinions on this regulation differ so dramatically that even when I read something in it that sounds pretty clear, I second-guess myself and worry that the courts will side with the worst-case interpretations.
To be clear, I am talking about contemporary individuals, not historical ones. Obviously Russell and Godel were excellent logicians and moved philosophy ahead considerably.
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The numbers are the MAXIMUM POSSIBLE fine, for the most serious, repeated breach.

Here's an organisation that lost video interviews of children who'd been sexually abused because the organisation sent unencrpyted DVDs via mail. This was a repeat occurance of a very similar thing they did before. They didn't get the maximum fine. https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/crown-prose...

Here's an organisation that lost half a million customers details (names, addresses, and telephone numbers) because they lost some unencrypted backup tapes. Again, they were not fined the maximum: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

Here's an organisation that is handling sensitive personal data - medical data - who had a legal obligation to register with ICO. They didn't. They didn't even get a fine. (Last para) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/u-k-healt...

We have countless examples of severe data breaches for dumb stuff, and the maximum fine is never ever applied.
Erm... Mexico was not a British colony. It was Spanish and by 1825 when those miners arrived it was already an independent country.
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Douglas C. Engelbart:
A Profile of His Work and Vision:
Past, Present and Future.

Prepared by Logitech, October 2005.

https://www.logitech.com/lang/pdf/Engelbart_Backgrounder.pdf
You don't have to think about it too hard, there's companies that will help you with the transaction. https://www.zerodium.com/
> “we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.”

That seems like a rather dangerous philosophy.
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"When issuing the reward, we'll take into account what you could have achieved with this access" makes me laugh.

How scary must that be for the Google team? You know you've messed up so badly and the person who is investigating is doing so blindly with no knowledge or accountability if he breaks something. Yikes.

Kudos to everyone for doing the right things. And great bounty- the average yearly income in Uruguay is $2000-$3000 USD per household. This guy just got awarded more than ten times that.
Rockets tend to get more reliable as they get older because designers find all the various failure modes and fix them. It's normal to have a couple of rapid unplanned disassemblies in your first ten or twenty flights. Ariane 5 did. Falcon 9 did. Basically everyone but ULA does. The only difference between the Ariane 5 and Falcon 9 is that the Ariane 5 has a lot more flights under its belt.
Yeah I recall Mehdi Hasan's article about this some 7 years ago:

"Wouldn't it be rational for Iran – geographically encircled, politically isolated, feeling threatened – to want its own arsenal of nukes, for defensive and deterrent purposes?" Pointing out the difference between America, and its allies, going to "war with non-nuclear Iraq" and their "diplomacy with nuclear-armed North Korea", Hasan concluded: "The simple fact is there is no alternative to diplomacy, no matter how truculent or paranoid the leaders of Iran might seem to western eyes." [0]

As for the OP's question... it was a dictatorship for 40 years driven not by good governance but by oil money. You either have a dictatorship that builds very strong institutions for a post-dictator rule, or you don't. And particularly the oil-dependent states forgo building the right institutions, because an oil-rich country doesn't need them. Without institutions and civil society a dictatorship erupts into chaos after the dictator dies, particularly if it happens abruptly.

In terms of institutions and governance Libya was far from the jewel of Africa. It was never designed to last. It's more akin to someone living on creditcard debt for a few years before it all comes crashing down.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/nov/17/iran-w...
vgo was explicitly designed to balance out two needs: (1) the need to use known good versions of the dependencies, and (2) the need not to burden dependency consumers with meaningless constraints (especially with an upper limit on the version). This article shows* why the first need is important, but it does not give vgo the credit for satisfying it with its minimal version selection (and, indeed, for providing a more stable and hence reliable solution than maximum version selection), and it misses the value of the second need. In my experience, the upper limit on the minor version is most often arbitrary, and in some cases when it is not, a future minor version reverts the mistakenly introduced incompatibility. Therefore vgo approach has unique advantages over other version selection methods, and it should not be discounted for the lack of a feature necessary to provide them.

* The article says that "Prior to 1.4.0 there was one function of MaxMsgSize" which "had previously set the size on both send and receive" but it does not substantiate this claim, and it may be false since go-grpc 1.3.0 documents that "MaxMsgSize returns a ServerOption to set the max message size in bytes for inbound mesages" https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/v1.3.0/server.go#L166, and it has not changed in go-grpc 1.12.0 https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/blob/v1.12.0/server.go#L228 which strongly suggests that this is not a bug.
> There is an all-out, 24/7 war on your brain.

And so alarmingly many of the "trust the market" crowd with whom I've spoken simultaneously hold the position that if you've been taken advantage of by marketers who are leveraging the flaws in your brain against you, that's your fault.

I'm just, "Buh?"
I agree they would prefer to reduce expenses and increase profits however that's not what the long term outcome of medical automation is going to do. It's going to put them out of business.
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Can't it be argued that SCOTUS's positions:

1. FAA is less broad than NRLA

2. NRLA does not override anything in FAA due to it being overbroad and/or things in the FAA not being "common policy"

are false, and thus the law on the books is not being respected?

#1 appears to be false and #2 is based on their erroneous position in #1. NRLA is more targeted than FAA and came 10 years post-FAA, so the argument that things covered in the FAA were not "common policy" at the time NRLA became law and thus wouldn't be overridden by NRLA seem ridiculous to me
His bounty is equivalent to a year's salary for a very good senior developer in here. So I believe his point stands.
Let's face it, procedural is just plain easier to debug because you can more easily split it into digestible and dissect-able chunks: divide-and-conquer. Perhaps functional and logical CAN readily have such features, but nobody either figured how, or have not figured out how to explain how to do dissection to normal people. (This is sometimes a criticism of SQL also, but the added WITH clause helps break up big queries into multiple smaller ones.)

For example, with a procedural loop you can stick a debug statement in the middle to look at just about anything:

while (x=foo(y,z)) {
a = doStuff(x, z);
console.write("x={?},y={?},z={?},a={?}", x, y, z, a);
}
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One thing I don't like in the rails/ar mindset is that they hide behind ruby. Example, some ruby methods are provided by active record (projections) but others may not (.pluck). I prefer my queries predictable. Of course if you are a rails senior you already know all the gotchas and can be efficient.
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As a very minor point I think I like the names Mathematica uses a little better: instead of "gathering" and "gather", they are called "reap" and "sow", respectively.
I was pretty sure that it was for configuring network devices.
They now distribute Claudia's pasties at Proper Cup locations. Can confirm their beef one is pretty legit!
The democratic majority is not your friend unless you are part of it. Think about anyone convicted of socially reprehensible crimes. The information that you used to be a pedophile will certainly make your life a living hell when it is used for the good of the people.
I'll give you an example from real life: The Geocities archive that I re-hosted contained numerous so called geobooks, guestbooks filled out by the visitors of the geocities sites. These comments were usually pretty harmless but some people did really dumb stuff and under their own name.

Under the GDPR that would be PII and so the removal requests would arrive, whether or not the legal bar was met. I'd rather not have to argue in court whether or not my blog was purely personal even though I run it under my own name.

So even for a blog if you allow people to comment calculate in that they will ask for some of those comments to be removed. It's a relatively small burden because it won't happen often (with all the millions of Geocities sites it only happened a few thousand times over a decade), and it will stop people from complaining to the regulators. Better yet: monitor your comments and approve them selectively, if you drop the obvious dumb ones there is a fair chance that you'll never have a removal request.
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I have had this happen to me several times as well. This should be illegal
Arguably there might be culturally/socially more appealing topics and associated gameplay for different generations.
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I personally would refer you to any number of comments/articles (including my own) pointing out that law is not written like code. Law doesn't work in absolutes, we have judges for a reason. There has to be a law for enforcement of it to occur, and it has to be broad enough that it can't be evaded on technicalities (see the loophole in the EU "cookie law", which GDPR is specifically designed to close).

GDPR is actually surprisingly light on concrete technical rules. This isn't PCI compliance where they specify the number of letters that must be in your passwords and what version of TLS you need to use. GDPR creates a framework of general principles you need to adhere to in the best way you know how. (Good laws need to be written this way, since technology changes over time.)

It is not in the EU's best interest to punish you for a minor oversight when you are largely a well-behaving corporation, it's in their best interests to encourage you to fill in any gaps when needed.
It's worth reading Beyond Snowden which is written by Timothy Edgar, a former ACLU lawyer who got hired into the Obama administration as a PCL advisor and eventually worked at the NSA.

He gives a lot of insight into how things actually work with a deep understanding of the issues and the difficulty around these policy tradeoffs. The organizations do take oversight seriously, but there's still a risk of 'turn key tyranny' and there are improvements that can be made.

It's possible to have security and civil liberties, but you need effective policy and it can't happen in secret.
The only thing is that I'm running the site myself. That's why I was thinking of moving the content to a blog host that would manage the back end for me. But maybe even moderating the comments myself would make me the processor or controller. If every blogger on Tumblr or wherever is subject to GDPR that way, wow is the web in trouble.
The Russians had a go at Finland in 1939.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
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Don't you feel dishonest when you keep mentioning the 20m because "that's in the law", but missing out the "proportionate" that's also written into the law? Since you'll never ever mention this, here's all the mitigation that's written into the law.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

--begin--

Administrative fines shall, depending on the circumstances of each individual case, be imposed in addition to, or instead of, measures referred to in points (a) to (h) and (j) of Article 58(2). 2When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to the following:

the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement taking into account the nature scope or purpose of the processing concerned as well as the number of data subjects affected and the level of damage suffered by them;
the intentional or negligent character of the infringement;
any action taken by the controller or processor to mitigate the damage suffered by data subjects;
the degree of responsibility of the controller or processor taking into account technical and organisational measures implemented by them pursuant to Articles 25 and 32;
any relevant previous infringements by the controller or processor;
the degree of cooperation with the supervisory authority, in order to remedy the infringement and mitigate the possible adverse effects of the infringement;
the categories of personal data affected by the infringement;
the manner in which the infringement became known to the supervisory authority, in particular whether, and if so to what extent, the controller or processor notified the infringement;
where measures referred to in Article 58(2) have previously been ordered against the controller or processor concerned with regard to the same subject-matter, compliance with those measures;
adherence to approved codes of conduct pursuant to Article 40 or approved certification mechanisms pursuant to Article 42; and
any other aggravating or mitigating factor applicable to the circumstances of the case, such as financial benefits gained, or losses avoided, directly or indirectly, from the infringement.

--end--
You'd have to work pretty hard to get a 100,000 euro fine.

That's the kind of fine that would be imposed after thumbing your nose at the regulators and continuing in your ways after being warned and the violation being a particularly bad one.
There's really no such thing as a victimless crime, because there's no such thing as an act that affects only the actor. Drinking alcohol has an impact on others, smoking cigarettes has an impact on others, same with gambling and so on. You can separate based on "collateral effects", but the whole thing is a continuum and we draw the lines arbitrarily.

I dislike this line of reasoning because it leads us naturally to the conclusion that vice taxes (etc.) are the best we can do because some people are very incorrigible and many people are a little incorrigible. While I think we'll never eradicate "vices", I do think most of them have root causes and the most effective thing would be to treat those. If we think Behavior X is unhealthy to the self or societally damaging, sure taxing it is a way to balance out the damage to society, but that does nothing for the person. If we spent time fixing smoking, for example, we'd save so many lives and so much money that it's kind of bewildering that we haven't done it.

I do think legalization in general is better than criminalization -- but only because the US criminal justice system is deeply harmful. It would be better if we treated the more serious users of vices instead of imprisoning or aggressively taxing them.
And why shouldn't kids play in the dirt, eh?
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The mutation is already present. Per the article, the proposed trigger is an immune system that hasn't been desensitized to common environmental pathogens during early childhood.
Where do you work? Sounds neat!!
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