I hate to see young people haven't paid any attention in their basic physics classes!nsaspook said:
This is why I refuse to watch The Trump Show on the nightly news.fresh_42 said:
Reporter Valiery Portlock and impersonator even Worsluckberkeman said:
Although the "fine print" says "Updated Jan 10, 2019; Posted Dec 02, 2014", I can't see that anything new has been added in the last 5 years.fresh_42 said:
He's almost 90 and still doing research? Wow!OmCheeto said:
Yes, but https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/beaverton-man-wins-battle-to-change-yellow-lights/ is invisible in the EU, which is why I looked for an alternative.OmCheeto said:
Is that the right to be forgotten?fresh_42 said:
I guess so. Those things happen if a bunch of jobless bureaucrats make laws about things they have as much knowledge of as da Vinci had of an A380. Similar damage is currently done in several countries by abandoning net neutrality. We have reached a stage at which technological developments outrun political personal of ancient Athens.WWGD said:
I hear google gets tons ( hundreds of thousands) of requests over the last frw years for them to remove info about themselves( the people).fresh_42 said:
I can imagine. But this doesn't mean that I understand it. It's like those people drinking diet coke or eating fat reduced cheese. Either you don't drink or eat it at all, and there may be reasons for it, or you accept that coke has sugar and cheese has fat. If you don't want to tell the world who you are, then just ... ... shut up.WWGD said:
This isn't the right to be forgotten, it's the right to privacy. You need to offer an opt-out for all the data collection done for "behavioural advertising", since it turns out to be personally identifying even when anonymised. A few US sites seem to implement this by saying "your custom is important to us... go away".fresh_42 said:
Then it's the cookie annoyance, not much better. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to ask for acceptance each time you want to read something. I hate this extra click.Ibix said:
I like being able to turn off tracking cookies. However, I have to say I don't see why they didn't just require browsers to set "do not track" as default on machines intended for/downloading from the EU and add legal consequences to companies that don't respect it.fresh_42 said:
Your agency in Oregon has a stuck-up problem, ( or had one )OmCheeto said:
I don't understand why you have to get the acceptance of someone who chooses to save a piece of information (the cookie) on his/her computer. The website can send as many cookies as it wants, it cannot force anyone to save it, the browser does.fresh_42 said:
This is exactly what usually happens, only that the little pop-up isn't so little and covers the entire page, and in some cases, site owners preferred to code the one liner "if EU then BLOCK" instead. The website asks you to accept cookies. It's annoying. I have to clean the cookie stack anyway from time to time, even if I would always choose the "no" option, because I'm not surfing exclusively on EU sites and even then, I often want to read the site regardless of the cookies. It's annoying. And it is senseless. It's like shopping a load of "normal" food and plus a fat-free yoghurt on top and pretending it is healthy. Ridiculous. If you don't want to get wet, don't go swimming! Nobody is forced to surf on the internet. Buy a newspaper instead!jack action said:
Hear, hear!fresh_42 said:
Not really, because the management of the decision you took is left to the website owner. If it was done at the browser level, once you accept or not a cookie from a given URL, the decision is stored in your browser, easy peasy, you will never be asked again.fresh_42 said:
I am impressed even more by the determined kindness of the Stranger. One's wallet contains much of a modern person's identity and 'pocket money' in the form of rf chips and magnetic strips along with government issued licenses and ID cards.Tghu Verd said: