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I have a laptop with windows on it for ONE program: Fusion360, which apparently does not run on Wine at this time. Windows 10 is so much worse than Windows 7. it's become, like a "phone," a personal consumption terminal.

I remember when my old job blocked my installation of Tor. "Unwanted software detected." Why wouldn't a company want people browsing with Tor? The surveillance is increasing. Not as bad as China, but I hope I go to the grave with something more positive to say than "not as bad as China."
Google being a monopoly that applies biases to the results it shows (in a way that has no public accountability) is a significant problem -- as well as the fact they implement features which effectively take away revenue from websites by showing their content without giving them page views. That is (ostensibly) the justification for these kinds of laws. I think that they are flawed because they focus on further copyright extensions that I find draconian, but the problem itself I think is pretty obviously a real problem.
Yep, never make the mistake of buying counterfeit goods in Italy. Once saw a tourist having a very deep conversation with the police after picking up some sunglasses from a street-seller - not sure of the specific outcome, but it didn't look like a fun discussion to be having.
Is there anything good about this law? Is there any logical, coherent argument for what benefit it might provide to anyone?
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Much as I'm not a fan of Google, this comic and Chrome's release were a noteworthy moment on the geek-side of my life, similar to Google Maps and GMail.
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> Netscape never charged users. Perhaps you’re thinking of Opera.

No Netscape would officially cost you US$49 until 1998.
I'm worried not so much about the outcome of this decision (which indeed is bad), but more about the whole decision-making process and how often we'll see such uninformed decisionmaking in the future.
In other countries (for example the Netherlands) YOU take the loan, not your house. To make sure the bank won't be left holding the bag, you use the house you're about to buy as collateral.

In the occasion you stop paying, the bank will foreclose the house, but YOU are still liable for the rest of the loan. If you still don't pay, an official collection agency (not your bank, that would be a conflict of interest) will try to cut a deal, come and take your stuff and/or garnish your wages to pay of the loan. You can insure yourself against calamities like divorce and losing your job, for which the bank will give you a discount on the interest rate.

Mortgages are limited by what you can afford, so a predatory mortgage loan is practically an oxymoron.

Down payments are uncommon, especially for a first time buyer. The only money you need to bring with you is transaction costs (~5% : taxes, notary, financial advisor, etc.) and whatever you think you need for decorating.
Ask Brits who their MEPs are, see if they know (or have even heard of MEPs... modulo Farage for his infamy)
There are about 20 people or so who contribute on a frequent basis i.e. at least weekly.

But we have a very long tail of people who contribute less often.

You can see the commit frequency here:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/

Come hang out on the libreoffice-dev IRC channel if you have more questions
Servers still have to receive the standard minimum wage. If their tips don’t bring them up to that level, their employer has to make up the difference. Of course, not all employers follow the law, but that’s the requirement.
You can disable that very easily. And as far as I remember when I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 on my VM, it asked me whether I was ok with sending anonymous usage data (I believe the default choice was yes which is not ideal but was easy enough to turn off).
The youtuber who's claim to fame is making a video where he shouts 'Gas the Jews' repeatedly? I wonder why he wasn't listened to.
This will be hilarious: Russians buying EU VPN while EU citizens buying Russian (well, not necessarily ofc). Both to bypass each states stupidity...
It's already happening. chicagotribune.com leads to http://www.tronc.com/gdpr/chicagotribune.com/ for example. Not sure what to think about that.
It asks you if you want to opt-out the default is enabled.
I think this is spot-on. Laws like this are inherently unenforceable at a global scale, and therefore are selectively enforced. The enforcement agencies have limited resources and therefore will focus on politically strategic targets. This is a political weapon.

Unfortunately, the downstream effects will hurt everyone else.
About 10 years ago, newspapers got together to try and get Google to give them some money, for the content Google was indexing to populate their news search results.

Google's response was to give them better ways of de-indexing content. IE, a way to opt out. Take it or leave it. Naturally, few newspaper took leave it, preferring to get readers & no revenue than no readers and no revenue.

Since then, efforts have focused on turning that around. Give Google a take it or leave it option. Either shut down Google news or pay newspapers somehow. So far, Google have walked a couple of times, when such laws were passed locally.

So yes, Google could end Google news search.
Google should resolve this by conspicuously refusing to link to newspapers. There should be a banner saying "results from certain news sites are not available in your country", like the existing chillingeffects one.

(This dealt with an earlier local version of this in some European countries)
What do parents who understand the importance of child education do?

(1) choose a better school district, i.e. buy or rent housing in a more expensive location -- not applicable to poor parents

(2) read with their young kids; help older kids with homework -- requires time and a good enough living situation and enough education of the parents. Encouraging reading to kids is one of the top parent-education strategies being tried. The amount of help a parent can provide is limited by their own education level and time availability.

(3) Provide a stable environment where kids have good food, space to work quietly and access to books and computers -- this can be hard to impossible for the poor!

(4) transport kids to school every day -- most families in the US are expected to transport kids to neighborhood schools. For the poor, this means walking regardless of weather. In bad weather, attendence of the poor is way down, understandably.

(5) extracurriculars -- other than in-school sports, these typically require fees, parents to drive kids places, and parental time. Not possible for many poor families.
No, its opt out, default is yes.
YouTube, the company, will be fine. They'll just ban any content that triggers their enforcement systems. I'm worried about YouTube, the platform, and the bastion of free exchange of information and ideas that is has been until now. A response-type video or movie review will almost certainly be false-flagged by a system like this.

Of course, I agree with you that independent platforms are going to have a rough time. They either have to manually review all content themselves, not allow any user-uploaded content, or pay a company to do this for them.
Linux was always the clear choice if you cared more about control over the machine than other factors.
2.5. Educate people how not to have kids before they want to, and give them the supplies they need to make it happen.
Typical US news webpages have tens of trackers, it does seem a bit out of control tho.
Didn't Spain news media ram through some kind of link-tax laws to try and extricate money out of Google, and that's why we don't hear any news out of Spain any more?
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Here have all the freedom, but none of the consequences. We'll just tax more responsible people if you scree up. Huh... why are there suddenly so many freeloaders?
Frontpage came with the all the usual Office software in the bundle which meant that it was often found on most internet cafes PCs. I spent a year backpacking in 2000 and used Frontpage in those cafes to edit and update my travel website. I kept most of it on a floppy disk, and also used FTP. The internet cafes often had scanners too, so I was able to scan a selection of developed print photos to include in the site there.
Could it perhaps be done with executable signing? If an installer is signed as "Mozilla" perhaps, you might know you have a Thunderbird or Firefox install.
If you follow Julia Reda's blog (she's MEP), you can get tons of insight into this issue in the EU parliament:

https://juliareda.eu/2018/09/copyright-showdown/
That would then be misuse of a monopoly.
Interestingly, Farage wasn’t actually a part of that, BoJo wouldn’t let him join the official Leave campaign. So you can blame UKIP for lots of things, but not the bus.
I think it will change only when the world order changes, which may be soon. Many Western countries operate on untenable platforms in the long term that are designed to preserve existing order in the short term (uncontrolled creation of Fiat money, uncontrolled welfare programs). This just adds to the list and hastens the change.
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I made some groovy table-based sites by setting up the table layout with the FrontPage GUI and then editing the raw HTML it generated. It taught me HTML and opened the doors to web development for me. Same story using Visual Basic and my segway into programming.
ChromeOS allows the installation of Android apps which includes a variety of alternative browsers.
So now it's time, if you have news agregator or img/video upload site, to close it to Europe and if not, just ignore the new laws and see what happens next.
Yes, the comedian who almost went to jail in the UK for making a joke. A joke about how Nazis are bad, at that.
4chan and the other lesser *chans.
Not to marginalize this, but the number of core financial tenets are very short.
- spend less than you earn (2 sides of the equation here)
- avoid drugs & illicit activities
- avoid debt & long-term financial commitments: unpaid credit cards, mortgage, car lease, children, pets

Yes, children who are born into these problems will find it especially difficult to get themselves out of poverty.

Yes, i f you show me a single parent on minimum wage supporting multiple kids and family members, it seems guaranteed that they'll be in poverty.

However, the cause of their poverty isn't that they aren't making enough money. It's that their expense level is too high relative to their income.

Addressing poverty requires reducing the level of expenses relative to earnings. Let's start seeing both sides of that equation addressed.
As terrible as this is, I am actually even more shocked by this proposal:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/12/europe-to-push-for-one-hou...

Having one hour to remove offending content, draconian fines and no, absolutely no exceptions for small content providers would, I think, end the internet as we know it in Europe. I see no way to host any kind of content under such jurisdiction and surely all non European content providers would just block the EU rather then take on a task that even giants like facebook and google can barely manage.
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Well, look at Voss cheering there.
I'm sure his bank account will benefit.
Same goes for the right owners who will sue people. I mean, they need to get along in the 21st century and if you are to lazy or old, suing people is the only way left.
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As a EU researcher, reader and author, I ask: does this reform affect my use of arXiv or say figshare? Until now I don't have a clear answer.
No, I mean when it comes to the lowest of the low jobs, like hotel maid in terribly run bad hotel or garbage man, illegal immigrants represent almost a majority.

I don't have exact figures so I'm using 50% like "about half". I suspect though that it's only about half because some of them managed to legalize themselves, and in reality in these very bad jobs there's actually even more than that.
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College libraries are sometimes open to the public. They're usually a bit nicer than regular libraries. My favorite place to go is a local coffee shop.
Ha, good point, there was even a whole anti-trust case against them by the US government in 2001.
Google’s end goal is that the only way to monetise content is by one of their ads. That’s not a world good for either democracy or journalism or any artistic work.
I may be naive in saying this, but I believe the law is made with good intentions in mind. The real problem lies in the laws it relies on, namely the extremely stringent copyright laws and the weird fair use.

> Much of YouTube content is (perfectly legal) remixes, responses, or criticisms of other YouTube content that embeds part of the referenced video in their own video.

As weird as it sounds, you are wrong. In a short summary:

1. Fair use is a very small exception to some very broad rights.

2. Fair use almost definitely does not apply to most youtube content : if you use content other people made (video games or music immediately come to mind) you are infringing copyright holder rights.

3. If you rely on fair use rights, then you might find yourself in trouble.

What's even worse is that right holders can pick and choose who to bust, and they don't need to be consistent about it. So even if they rarely go after small groups, they can still shut down bigger ones.

I have a childhood friend who is now a copyright lawyer and I sometimes jokingly ask him whether something is copyright infringing. Other than yes, the most frequent answer I get is "I don't know, it depends. Both sides have arguments so ultimately it's down to the judge." It's just bad law. The only difference between then and now is that now we have the technology to actually enforce it.
Read the comment I replied to. It explains that the passwords are not hashed at all. They are not sent in an email and then hashed.

I was talking about the practice quoted in that comment of not hashing passwords.

Edit: To be clear it doesn't say it explicitly, but it says that the cleartext password is sent periodically and the only way to do that is to not hash it.
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I believe most Europeans don't know much or anything about the EU, because our states retain a lot of power, so we already have enough to deal with.
> This problem was originally reported on the SQLite users mailing list. It took considerable effort to reproduce the problem and then boil it down to the repro script shown above.

The resulting script for reproducing the bug is indeed concise, but I almost want to read about the starting point, and how much of a struggle it was to investigate and deduce the factors behind this bug.
I think the newspapers forgot that Google doesn’t need them.
Oh, wow, didn't know about those (still on Win7 on my gaming desktop). I really don't know how people can stand all these notifications, I can barely stand the actually useful ones.
If this is being done across the board, that won't be a problem.
The whole thing really makes me furious beyond words. I shouldn't be that aggravated, but unfortunately I am. I feel like this is really the opposite of progressive and will leave the EU even further behind the US and China. Meanwhile, people who don't understand how the internet works are deliberately breaking it to save their out-dated business models instead of embracing the new.
Just imagine how easy it's going to be to screw over other websites, just by making an account, uploading material that could in some way be construed as violating copyright but passes the filter because it cannot be perfect, and then reporting the site to one of the bodies responsible for upholding this directive.

Hell, just by doing that you could probably end any potential upholding of this system really fast.
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It is taught in schools all over the EU, but the EU is a "new" thing.
> The fact that they show people's content without giving them page views

Are you talking about AMP?
No minimum wage is able to remove poverty. Set it too low and it has no effect, since it will be below the price you are able to get on a free market. Set it too high and fewer jobs will be available, and thus less people are able to earn money to fight their poverty.
> The problem is that Google is without question a monopoly

This is just false. bing.com exists. news.ycombinator.com exists. reddit.com exists....

> The fact that they show people's content without giving them page views..

This is just false. Google shows at most an excerpt (that is defined by the publisher) or a headline (on news.google.com). Unless you're talking about AMP, but that's a decision made by the publisher too.
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> Much of YouTube content is (perfectly legal) remixes, responses, or criticisms of other YouTube content that embeds part of the referenced video in their own video.

That actually isn't legal in many countries and is e.g. why regional wikipedia sites don't show movie posters.
Is that true, nationally? (I’ve heard conflicting things, and on my phone this is awfully hard to verify)
What I don't understand is how companies with hundreds of deployments are still fine with crap like this? You can't disable updates. Computers are rebooted without asking. It's ridiculous.
If everyone has their own centralized platform then perhaps there can be a mechanism that lets them share their personal data with others in a crowdsource way. Or better yet, perhaps everyone's platform can be parts in a large map reduce.

By the way, so many people will have the same problems, so it seems possible that solutions to common problems can be shared.
Two points:

1) You could argue whether the EU Parliament has democracy deficits or not. I assume it has (based on the legislation process itself with involvement of the Committee, but also based upon unequally weighted votes of citizens from different countries).

2) However, the most important point is that this law is considered as a "techie niche" by the vast majority of citizens. Also, EU topics as such suffer from a very narrow attention in the general public. Having said this, it is far easier for lobbyists to place such an initiative "under the radar" than it would be to lobby in 28 countries. In techie speak, a centralized entity like the EU is more or less a single point of failure for the unavoidable "bugs" of a democracy.
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This decision is one of the many reasons why Europe will never reach the likes of Silicon Valley, no matter how much money will they sink down the "technology" hole (not that the US doesn't have its fair share of dumb legislators, because it has). This continent is a mess in terms of IT, with a few exceptions (London, Berlin, Dublin, some spots in Eastern Europe).
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To prevent factories from avoiding low worker wages by producing in an area where those abusive salaries are allowed by the government, or even are the pervasive wages.

I would have no problem with producing locally where it makes sense, but not to avoid minimum legal standards for wages (or for that matter for other things like environment).
Including Edge - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....
It's worth noting that this is not a law in the commonly understood sense. It's an EU directive, which requires member states to achieve a required outcome, but leaves the legal implementation up to the individual state. It'll be interesting to see how the member states interpret the language and what legal framework will be used to enforce it.
This is somewhat true, but are national legislatures really any better? There's nothing quite like Brexit to convince me that my local legislature is completely refusing to listen to me (or anyone with any sense) at all on even the most basic issues.
It looks to me, they are getting desperate
UK here - I've definitely had concerns about some items but recently I ordered a Apple headphone adapter that was definitely advertised as "Genuine Apple" and clearly wasn't when it arrived - it works, but in a direct comparison with a part known to be from Apple you can see the differences.

Not at big deal as it was a cheap part - but it was the final straw.

NB I'm not anti Amazon by any means - I'm a long time Audible subscriber, use my Kindle pretty much every day and I pay for Prime Video. Wouldn't buy anything electrical from them again though.
Counterstrike boxes contain purely cosmetics. I can't get wound up about that. You can even buy the thing you actually want on the open market.

CS:GO is not a game using lots of shitty in game mechanics/restrictions etc to drive people to spend money in order to play/compete. Same with Dota2.
It might be fruitful to combine two approaches, like for example VigNAT authors did

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> A library of data structures that keep all the “difficult” state, which we then formally prove to be correct—this takes time and formal methods expertise, but can be amortized if the library is re-used across multiple NFs.

> Stateless code that uses the library, which we automatically and quickly verify using symbolic execution.

> The challenge lies in combining the results of these two verification techniques, and for that we developed a technique we call “lazy proofs”

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From the starting point? Absolutely. That's essentially equality of opportunity in a nutshell. What you do with what you've got from a relatively equal starting point is up to you.
Internationalism on the left was going to force the world to become leftist by having a border between leftist and other governments. THAT border was going to have huge import taxes.

So no, I think not revisionist at all.
This is another area where the arbitrariness of the 18 year majority limit is exposed: 18 year olds are not neurologically adults. That doesn’t happen until like 25-29.