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Nope. You can seek protection (patent) before publishing your results. See page 3 in the linked pdf. The paragraph begins with "misconceptions about open access.." in bold. :)

http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/gra...

Your choice of words offend me.

I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His jaws opened, and he muttered some inarticulate sounds, while a grin wrinkled his cheeks. He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.

Read the mdn post I link below as well and it should become clear.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/open...

It's very common to mix them up. We use civil law in Sweden but due to the influence of US movies and TV series it's common, in my experience, for people to think about laws in a US fashion.

Wikipedia has a good article [1] with a map showing the different legal systems in use throughout the world.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_legal_systems

This is not the same thing.

The problem is that your government wants to break all forms of encryption regardless of where or how they are used. Either they want something like a skeleton key or a method of bypassing the security altogether.

So they're not requesting a search warrant. They are requiring that you hand over the keys to your home or install a special door for them that is always kept unlocked.

Very nice. Well done and lots of information.

I'll be back. Particularly interested in the stuff about South American history because, well, I don't know much about it beyond the genocides and events connected to them.

That'd be nice. No more dual booting presuming they bring DirectX along. It seems far of though. Microsoft would have to give up a lot of lower level control.

Mmm.. the german governments funding of the Max Planck institutes seem to work well. As I understand it the Max Planck Society gets funding and then distributes that to projects meeting certain quality requirements.

I think they do mostly base research, the kind that private companies tend to avoid as there rarely is any direct profit to be had.

A win would give them a kind of master key to all encrypted data stored in the US, right? And I suppose also imply that no security may restrict the FBI regardless of how that security is implemented.

A bit half arsed though..

They could have signing certificates that automatically timeout and force publishers to update often and then charge for the certification. Publishers can always get a little extra by paying for the "editor's pick" feature. Oh, and also, because users despise long downloads why not have a normal and premium download rate for both publishers and end users.

And leaving an off switch in there... I think someone got a chair in the head.

In Brooklyn US Magistrate Judge James Orenstein was asked to issue an AWA to force Apple to break an iPhone password. He writes:

"It is thus clear that the government is relying on the AWA as a source of authority that is legislative in every meaningful way: something that can be cited as a basis for getting the relief it seeks in case after case without any need for adjudication of the particular circumstances of an individual case."[1][2]

Hopefully the Californian courts will agree.

[1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/brooklyn-judge-shreds-all-writ...

[2] https://www.eff.org/files/2016/02/29/applebrooklyn-2.29.16or...

Keep the same wage and shorten the working day instead. Gives people more time with family and to enjoy life in general.

Let machines pick up the slack.

There's so much mistrust and doubt that it's hard to see a solution that would satisfy all when it comes to communicating political processes with the public. Sure, we all might prefer for the process to be open, to have edits and additions recorded together with the "who" in some kind of revision system, but would we then trust those who maintain the repository?

If we do; who would then be trusted to read through the 600 page document and give an objective report on it's content? Because it has to be viewed in context, right? Not just a single paragraph used as click bait to up the advertising revenue. Who would we agree on should be considered a "real journalist"?

It's tricky. We fear what we don't know and distrust those who do.

A dreamy solution would be a system that allows politicians to comment on laws and voters to assign and re-assign points to those they agree with. Voters wouldn't decide laws but be able to show their support for different view points which we could graph over time and match against politicians votes.

But, yeah, internet voting is equally tricky.

“It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.”

You want a nice even spread to make sure that one generation of workers can train, and in some way pay, for the other. The worse your education system the more dependent on the older generation you are.

In Japan I think the problem is a slow rate of birth. So the fear is that the percentage of the population above 65 will increase until it breaks the economy.

I didn't realize Wall Street had to make sense. Is that a new rule?

What!? You saying we can't make absolute rules? We have to consider the context? Horrible person!

On that note.. those minimalist designs are quite hard for older or less tech savvy to understand at times. Not the www part of course but the designs in general. Something to consider when putting the customer first maybe..

Hmm.. not sure. Doesn't look like my kind of interface really. but I would probably still give it a try. Just one thing... the word productivity is used a lot but I see only webpages and file searches. Where's the cad/cam interfaces, the triple log file tailing terminals.. How would you gesture or speak an image to Gimp?

Well, we need a higher visual acuity today then just a few decades ago. To tell the difference between lowercase l and uppercase I on our tiny screens if nothing else. So small errors in eye sight play a bigger role hence more ppl with glasses.

Yeah, people always seem to forget that most deserts have life. Then there's the clans of nomads that live in the Sahara. The need for, at least initially, military protection and patrols. Someone has to keep the power lines/pipes from being destroyed. And, of course, the countries surrounding the area aren't the most stable either.

The systems needed to control the automated surveillance drones coordinating the security teams would be interesting though.

A green energy solution would be nice but I have a hard time seeing covering Sahara in solar panels being it. To many variables, to big a project. Besides everybody want local solutions for national security reasons anyways.

>> "I think the past 263 years (since Franklin's kite experiment) have shown us electricity is a way of progressing

It would be more fair to give this honor to Faraday since he invented the electrical motor and other uses for electricity while Franklin proved lightning is electricity and invented the lightning rod. Having your house not burn down is beneficial to progress, in that you can spend less time building houses, but doesn't really fuel progress in itself.

I've always felt that Franklin steals the thunder by having a better, more dramatic story - the kite and all that. A genius in his own right though.

Yeah.. made me think, consider my presumptions, taught me and left me with a need to ask questions. That certainly was a good one.

The agreement that was in place allowed US businesses to self certify and then sign a voluntary list at the US Dept. of Commerce which made them untouchable in the EU.

Why? Well, because the agreement says so and because any legal proceedings would be in the US according to the agreement and enforced "primarily by the private sector". Because that makes sense right? Courts, lawyers and laws are so boring anyways...

This change means that EU countries can now question the claim and act if it's a lie. Since EU is moving to harmonize data storage laws among it's member countries there won't be any bureaucratic mess only a return of citizen rights.

[0] http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/eu/eg_main_018476.asp

[EDIT] Ah, yes, the data storage location thing. That's mainly a consequence of the NSA thingy. Thanks to that no US company can any longer fully claim that any data stored in the US can be kept private. It's kind of silly since everybody spies on everybody else but the US got caught.

Ah, yes, good old Jita. In Eve market bots aren't allowed though, they are considered unfair, so there is some difference.

No.

This only comes into effect if the data is at any time stored within EU jurisdiction.

US privacy regulations where not considered compatible with EU ones before the ruling either.

The agreement was that US companies sign a list with the US Dept. of Commerce that they considered themselves in compliance with EU regulations when handling EU citizen data and that would give legal immunity to them and their subsidiaries in the EU.

This ruling means that EU countries are now allowed to check if they are lying or not.

Sustained fine grained and fluid hand movement is more difficult to learn then drawing a sequence of geometric shapes and a lot more challenging to read. School should be about understanding ideas and the value of critical thinking. Using or requiring the use of an inefficient presentation method does not help with that mission.

I suppose the mass move away from cursive writing started with the printing press. By simplifying the symbols we gained a powerful tool to spread the ideas they convey. This has just become more true with the computer which, much like the printing press, has a much easier time with distinct disconnected symbols.

I believe it's more important to learn how to write and express your ideas using all available technologies then spending time learning the particulars of one.

The hammer doesn't need to be beautiful to build a beautiful house it needs to be efficient. Writing does not need to be elegant to convey a beautiful message.

I'm sure he sent them a notification about their new account on his website on which, if they create an account, they may or may not find information of value to them.

I've been thinking of something similar.

I'd get a few different signs from random organisations like doctor's without borders, red cross and some other popular ones and then I'll setup on the town square. Big ass signs and maybe a little pamphlet with the details. I'll let everyone know what a fantastic contribution to world peace I'm doing and that I will hand over all their donations as soon as the organisation they donated to gets in touch with me.

I'll just send the organisations a mail informing them that they now have a business relationship with me that I refuse to let them opt-out of. They probably won't mind...

Stop being stupid. Clear your database and implement opt-in.

Good effort