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The Internet of Shit to the rescue.

It's hard to be worried about any new legislation coming out of a parliament that has been hard at work the last few years, showing that they wouldn't even be able to organise a piss up in a brewery.

I'm one of the ones that believe that Facebook should be better at policing there content. But they do pull down manifestos from mass murders and have been doing that for a long time. The first instances of that I'm aware of is the manifesto of the guy behind the 2011 attack on Norway. As soon as FB figured out who he was and what happened. His page and his manifesto went down, never to come back up again. I'm sure they did similar things earlier than that too, but that one I payed a lot of attention too, and remember like it was yesterday.

The picture in the article is a computer generated rendering, the real building looks better.

Although if you don't like the "Scandinavian" school of design. You are probably not going to like it anyway.

So something that maybe not everyone knows, is that the Norwegian Consumer Council, is the Norwegian governmental entity tasked with protecting consumers right.

I'm not a lawyer, but my take on this, is that this is a governmental agency in a GDPR country, triggering legal proceedings against Google for violating the GDPR.

It is going to be interesting to see how this pans out, and imo. this case is going to be a defining case on what the GDPR is in practice.

So how do you expect adults to be able make an informed choice if Google is using deceptive design and misleading information?

I'm sure most of the people here, have the know-how and information to make an informed choice. But wouldn't it be nice if people that aren't working in the field or have a degree in STEM could to?

> The big question for me is: why now?

The main reason this became a story is because the Saudis where caught red handed by Turkey, and that Turkey saw that they could use this to damage Saudi Arabia.

If you've been following the story, it is fairly clear that information coming out of Turkey has been timed to inflict the most damage to Saudi Arabia and disrupts its relationships with the west.

One of the challenges that men who have been sexual assaulted by women meet. Is that their stories are not believed or rejected, because some people believe that, "women can't do that to men". The parent posters have a tone, that at least to me. Indicate he might agree with that, and I'm fairly sure that is why he is getting the downwotes.

I've been using Intellij's Java to Kotlin conversion a bit lately, and the code it spits out is fairly decent Kotlin, and with a pass through on nullability and switching out Java types with native Kotlin types afterwards. It gets just as good as it would get if I hand translated my self, but it takes a lot less time.

I suspect that part of the reason that this works well, is that Java and Kotlin isn't that dissimilar. Doing automated conversion between Java and Scheme for example, would be a lot harder to get right.

Fair enough, but Canada is the only country outside of the USA you can get it. So this doesn't really change my point.

So far no Model 3 has been sold outside of the USA, so it is somewhat premature to worry about having saturated the market.

Sweden has a long history of being a neutral country, it spent the whole of the cold war as that, and is still not a member of NATO. They did departure that doctrine somewhat when they joined the European Union. But it is still very much alive.

Extraditing Assange to the USA over a political charge would have been a huge departure of the neutrality doctrine, I have a hard time seeing how any Swedish government would have survived doing something so blatantly un Swedish.

The UK on the other hand, is a country that boost it has a special relationship with the USA, and is imo. the European country most likely to extradite him. So it fairly weird he went there, if not getting extradited to the USA was the goal.

To a lot of people Assange is a hero, and I'll grant that I liked a lot of the early actions of Wikileak under him.

But to me, he is first and foremost someone that ran from a sexual assault investigation and has spent the years since that trying to evade justice. I have no regard left for the man after doing that.

Some will argue that he would not have gotten a fair hearing in Sweden, and that they would have extradite him to the USA. My impression of the Swedish legal system, does not line up with that. So I have to respectfully disagree with those that think that.

I wasn't arguing that there isn't significant drag in water, and to be able to win swimming competitions you need to care about that to. But I have a hard time accepting that swimming shorts, is to swimming as shoes are to running.

As a runner I want shoes to get more efficient and better. What is about todays running shoe that makes them acceptable, and that anything better is some form of cheating? I don't agree with what they did in swimming, those body suits where amazing, and that they got banned was really sad. But even if you agree with banning them. Shoes in running are a not comparable to full body swimming suits. Shoes are an central part of running, the swimming suit is not that in swimming. If you ban improvement on something so core to running as the shoes, what is left to innovate on?

I wonder what Google thinks about this. If these companies only use standard Android API's, and they get sued over that, that isn't good for Googles platform at all. A reasonable response from Google would be to change their terms for publishing to the Play store, if they don't say it already, that you aren't allowed to sue other app makers, if they only use standard API to interop with your app.

People have tried to have insurance against speeding tickets in my part of the world (Scandinavia), and those have been deemed illegal and stopped from paying out. I would expect a GDPR insurance would end up getting the same treatment. I can't guarantee that this would happen in all of Europe, but I do expect it would.

When it comes to getting the max fine at first strike. The GDPR is not the first law in the EU with teeth. There are strict laws about corruption, pollution and antitrust here as well. Do companies get dinged with max penalty from the start violating these laws, not that I've seen. Why should enforcement of the GDPR be different from the current laws?

I wonder what kind of lawyer your company consulted with. Are you sure they are experience with EU law? If they where American lawyers with no international law experience. Asking them would probably be as helpful as asking a Common Lisp expert about help with your Java application, if you are lucky it might work out, but probably not. In the same way not all programing languages are the same, nor is all law the same.

It doesn't have to be like that. I grew up on a Norwegian dairy farm. Killing calves is not something that my parents or anyone else in the business did. Female calves get to grow up and become milk cows, for male calves they are kept around until they are full grown and then get slaughtered for meat. There is a lot of places where this isn't the standard procedure, but it is an option.

I would really like to be a fly on the wall, when American diplomats are going to try to explain to its allies that them having a backdoor to all cellphones in the world is a good idea. Then capping it all of by coming up with a strategy of how to sell this idea to their electorate, which some places, have a very dim view of American privacy laws.

In addition if Google and Apple builds some backdoor into their products, any regime of any country which Google and Apple operates in will demand to get the same backdoor. How are they going to not give them that, they won't be able to.

I'm sure the Justice Department, and the FBI does not care about foreign implications of their wishes, but their are parts of the American government that has to. It is deeply naive to believe that something like this will fly on the international stage.

I'm not surprised at all.

If you look at GPS watches like Garmin tactix Bravo. It has a feature set, where some of the features, really only makes sense in a military/hunting setting. Although I wonder what kind of animal you are hunting if you start your hunting trip by doing a HALO parachute jump.

Garmin is not the only one making those kind of GPS watches either. I believe that Suunto has similar watches as well.

Obviously the soldiers should not be uploading their GPS tracks to Strava. But banning your non special forces soldiers from buying the same "civilian" watches that your special forces soldiers use. Sounds like a morale killer.

Qualcomm has enough assets in the EU to cover the fine. So if they don't pay, some legal process will start grinding, and at the end of that, the police will show up and take enough of these assets to cover the fine.

You really don't want to do this, who knows what they will take. It could be something that is important for running the company and this could wreak a lot of havoc.

The reason for the traction of unencumbered media codecs lately is that MPEG LA got greedy with the license terms for HVEC, and now the cost of licensing HVEC/H265 is more than a lot of big licensor's are interested in paying. This was not true during the H264 period, and the reason there wasn't nearly as much push for open codecs then. So in a roundabout way we can thank the shortsightedness of MPEG LA, for the coming era of open codecs.

I would never misspell on purpose. That was a "something" accident. But I do see it now, after you pointed it out.

Oh well, 20 years ago I would have been horrified being caught out posting something with spelling errors in public. Actually, I would probably not have posted in public at all. But at some point you just have to stop caring about trivialities like that.

So your argument is that your rich friend can hire people to prof read his writing. So everyone else can do that to?

That does sound like a solution that will work, but maybe not practical for everyone?

Your right about dyslexia adding challenges to being a programmer. I've worked with a couple of developers with dyslexia, and it is clear that being a slow reader is sometimes a challenge for them. But on the other hand, both of them are respected for their skills, doing well, and seem to be happy. So it is absolutely possible to succeed as a developer even if you have dyslexia.

I do know someone that works as a high school teacher and has dyslexia. You would think that, that would be a horror show. But as far as I know, that is actually a success story. Where it works well both for her, and the school.

We also have the Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg, which is dyslectic.

So I would be careful about telling people what they can and can't succeed at, even if they have dyslexia.

As I said earlier, getting someone to prof read your text, and catch all the problems is not as easy as you would think. Nor is getting a spell checker to catch all your errors.

I have to admit I thought I was done with getting graded on spelling in high school. I haven't seen anything on either side of the fence, in my carer to indicate that some spelling mistakes is enough to cost people an opportunity. But I'm sure your right and there are companies out there that does that. But I don't need to work in every company, only the good ones. So it hasn't been a problem for me so far.

> I consider it evidence of carelessness - I don't care if you can't spell, but I do care if you don't bother to run it past someone else who can for editing.

Getting someone to look over your stuff and looking for spelling errors sounds like a simple and easy fix doesn’t it? But in my experience that doesn't work as well as one would think, prof reading is a lot harder than it looks. After all it's isn't enough to catch some of the errors, you need to catch them all.

As someone that has close family members with dyslexia, and have struggled with spelling all my life. I have to say that seeing those challenges characterised as carelessness is infuriating. For a lot of people getting spelling right is easy, and that is great. But for some of us it is not, while prof reading and spell checkers might help, they are not a magical fix all. Some errors often sneak through, no matter what you do.

A good start would be to ban defence companies from doing business with them.

The number of hours a normal person puts on his car in a year is minuscule compared to what a average farmer would put on his tractor. Tractors are made to be used every day all day for years and years. If you did something similar with a car, you would quickly wear it out. The tractor we had on my parents farm when I grew up is still running and used, and it has to be at least 30 years old. It isn't used as much as when I was a kid but it is still in use. It has broken down a few times during that time, but nothing that couldn't be fixed. The cars we had at the same time are all worn out scraped a long time ago. I don't follow what happens in the farm field as much as when I lived on one, but John Deer is and was one of the popular brands, and afaik. it hasn't a worse or better reputation than any of the other brands.