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So... the electric company can't become a monopoly because you can spend the money and effort to create your own electric company? How can that not be said for anything anywhere that becomes an obvious monopoly?
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In addition to the non-cookie fingerprinting mentioned by others that can happen, there is a loophole in the GDPR cookie control legislation that allows "legitimate interest" cookies to continue to be placed and tracked when you click Reject All.
You have to edit your cookie preferences for the site (assuming they provide the option) and deselect Legitimate Interest cookies proactively in order to block them.
This recent write-up on Reddit alerted me to this information:
https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/14ddk4u/ysk_...
I have somehow never gotten around to throwing away the box of ancient floppies I've got in a closet from ages ago, and the Windows 95b (OSR2) installation disks I made were still in it, complete with custom color printed labels I splurged on.
https://i.imgur.com/iVNVleR.jpg
The media I copied from took up 28x 3.5" HD floppy disks. It's possible they were copied from what was originally a CD-ROM. I don't remember clearly anymore.
Note: I'm not trying to refute or correct your 13-disk figure, which was clearly a different installation set, and likely original Windows 95 rather than my OSR2, which came out around 1997.
Why can't somewhere.com have the public key for user@somewhere.com and serve it to other e-mail providers on request?
Letting one's provider hold onto the private key doesn't provide the same level of security as the user being the only one with it, but it's a helluva lot better than not bothering with encryption at all.
Private keys can also be protected with a password, right? So the provider could have a copy of the private key but not the password to utilize it. The user would just have to never forget the password as opposed to never losing their private key to a hard drive failure or whatever.
I am a layperson, so the answer is probably painfully obvious, but why can't e-mail have TLS-style key exchange, where the sender's server gets the public key from the recipient's server and encrypts the message with it before sending it over?
The recipient could keep their private key secure so that only their client could decrypt the messages, and take the risk of losing access to those messages if they lose their private key.
Or they could let their provider hold onto a copy of the private key so they don't ever have to worry about losing it, with the trade-off that the provider could decrypt their e-mails.
But either option requires zero user interaction on the sender's or recipient's part past "login and send" or "login and receive", while limiting decryption to the recipient and maybe their provider.
"Targeted" for me would imply that Windows is checking first to see whether Firefox is installed, and only showing the suggestion if so.
If this is just a general suggestion that gets pushed out to all Windows computers, then it's not so much targeted as merely questionable use of platform.
Plausible line of thought.
Though in this case mitigated by the split between .docx (macro-less) documents and .docm (macro-enabled).
Either file type can also be unzipped and have their contents inspected for anything suspicious.
Norton Utilities, XTree Pro Gold, and Borland Sidekick were the tits on MS-DOS.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7167193
Percussive Maintenance
(uncountable) (humorous) The use of physical concussion, such as a knock or a tap, in an attempt to make a malfunctioning device or person work.
Such is the difference between an emoji and an emoticon.
I think that for any size k less than the total size of the database, it is not anonymous.
Wouldn't that require that every field of every record in the database be globally unique?
If something as simple as gender is a field in the database, the best k you could get would be the lowest count of records of each existent gender option.
Authorities are looking to promote tourism at Dahshur, located about 17 miles south of central Cairo.
The site, which lies in the open desert, attracts just a trickle of visitors and is currently free of the touts and bustle of Giza.
The promotion of Dahshur is part of a wider push to boost tourism, an important source of foreign revenue for Egypt that dipped steeply after the country’s 2011 uprising before gradually recovering.
To replace punch-in/punch-out machines or sign-in/sign-out sheets, perhaps.
The fairness doctrine was hardly ever envoked.
I (a layperson) don't really follow this. It sounds to me like "while the rules were in effect, they were rarely broken".
an era when there were only 3 stations. But this situation is different.
Lots of station numbers, run by just a handful of owners:
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/07/07/who-owns-what-on-televis...
Agreed. Distributing actual EA assets and using EA-owned branding (and artwork?) seems to be the problem.
Simply running alternate servers, distributing patches to the game, and using their launcher without copyrighted artwork or branding (maybe a "not endorsed by or associated with EA" sort of disclaimer) would seem to be fine.
It's reminiscent of the EverQuest server emulation community. They distribute patches and run open-source server infrastructure, but forbid distributing copies of the EQ game itself, pointing people to legitimate acquisition methods.
I like the idea on some level, but could consciousness be separated from biological motivations like pleasure and pain?
That feels more like the idea of universe-as-computer than in the examples of conscious, living celestial bodies.
But how literal to the definition do you go before you cease to be reasonably practical? "Unlimited" is an abstract absolute concept. Nothing in existence can ever be unlimited, looking out to, say, the heat death of the universe.
In the end, it's a marketing term meaning "we don't arbitrarily set a numeric limit like 50GB", not that it can never possibly under any circumstances run into any kind of physical or practical limit.
Agreed. He removed the second B2B2 probability annotation as though it were a repeat of the first and inapplicable to the probability set, but that's not the case, and it shouldn't be removed. Apply lower-case to the younger boy in the probability sets and it's clear why. B2b2 is not the same occurrence as b2B2. Even though the day both were born on was "a Tuesday" doesn't mean both probability instances are referring to the exact same event. Except in the case of twins, which is outside the scope of the exercise.
Thanks. I like GDPR anyway. Makes me think God Damn Privacy Rules, and we're increasingly lacking in effective ones.
I feel like the challenging and political nature of Mr. Malamud's communications were a big misstep. Putting government representatives on the defensive turns an already difficult bureaucracy into a brick wall.
On the other hand, there's an opportunity for a sufficiently funded non-profit to cross reference official code books with judicial public records to auto-annotate the law with pertinent cases where it was used. What would be missing would be human-added value like brief descriptions of the outcome and how it is likely to apply to other legal cases.
On the other hand, if there's no way to machine-read the law, we have a questionable impasse.
Of course, acknowledging and appreciating differences differs greatly from enforcing differences.
It sounds like you would be better served with a Bluetooth proximity-based device like a Gatekeeper.
http://www.gkchain.com/gatekeeper.html
I haven't looked into the OTP functionality of it, since I decided to go with a YubiKey myself, but a friend loves it for hands-free automatic locking and unlocking of his computer as he comes and goes.
Exactly! How on Earth could you prove an offending image wasn't yours?
Subtitles are simply translations of speech or text into another language, and are generally (though not always) center aligned near the bottom of the frame.
And they wouldn't be outright blocked. They'd just be throttled to 128kbps and limited to only one open TCP connection at a time from that customer.
That's why you don't block; you flag. Let people make their own choices, but informed. Allow users to flag a link or post with tags such as Satire, Misleading, Controversial, Editorialized, Biased, Debunked, etc. Everyone else can still view the links and posts, but with some small indication of its trustworthiness. Though I feel like some tags, such as Debunked, should perhaps require a supporting link attached to a flag.
Or if the exact same intermediate files are being overwritten over and over again, wouldn't a RAMDrive be a good place for them?
That article could not keep straight whether it was talking about average lifespans or maximum expected lifespans, or maybe average maximum expected lifespans?
The only claim it managed to get across to me was that we can expect the end of the lifespan bell curve to get steeper and steeper as average lifespans continue to increase from better longevity, while maximum lifespans (and the number of people who reach them) increase at a much slower rate.