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> Brexit, without the whole concept of targeted ads and the data collection that goes with it would have not been possible. However nobody mentioned all the people that didn't both…

It hurts the non-scummy businesses as well. So the regulation causes problems for people that haven't done anything wrong. A lets be clear here. People aren't dying, it mostly ads …

Adtech will die once people start paying for things on the internet. When that will be who knows.

Alex Jones is a meme. Everyone knows he is a nutcase. As for danger, the mainstream media is just as bad. In the UK we are having people Milkshaked, including veterans. https://www…

"I happen to know quite a lot about GDPR because I dealt with it at a client I was previously working with," There we go. You already done the time investment at someone else's exp…

The problem is any regulation is that it increases the startup costs for smaller businesses. So as more regulation comes in it will just end up cementing the large players in place…

The whole fake news / conspiracy stuff gets me. I find conspiracy theories to be almost like some sort of sci-fi / fantasy lore. I love watching stuff like Ancient Aliens, I know i…

You miss the point. The system is going to collapse anyway and long term thinking is needed

And then the immigrants stay and get old and there is increased strain on the strained social systems. Most immigration systems in Europe assumed that the immigrants would go home …

I stole them from Code Project :D

Totally disagree and I am rather dismayed by people conflating their bad experiences with people over-engineering with these principles. They are like anything else a good they are…

I don't like car analogies. A software engineer is like a plumber you link up lots of small components, weld them together and then the data flows through the application (at least…

> White collar crime is still crime. Oh comon. We know that most of the fanatics would like to see Gates in Chains. > Anyway, I think we've seen the whole repertoire by now, whatab…

Yeah. There are quite a few ways to do it. You can even get TCP/IP stack and a Web browser running (though things are very slow and many sites do not work). https://www.youtube.com…

I've done the same with my Amiga 600 / 1200 with a PCMCIA Ethernet Card and Miami. http://www.retro-commodore.eu/network-installation-on-the-am...

The author uses the more complicated definitions of the SOLID principles. These are much simpler to remember: * Single responsibility principle - A class should have only a single …

TBH this is the pareto principle at work. Sure you can get a car roughly driving around the city autonomously (there are basic self driving cars back in the 1950s that drove on a w…

Crimes. Lol that is it. I know you are one of those. Crime means things like murder, burglary, rape, assault. The language you are using sounds like “for their crimes against the s…

> So, to summarize: vendor lock-in is a thing and the best way to get there is to create closed stuff that open source then has no chance to properly deal with. You can use this to…

> What's next? Chauvanism is the reason we believe that men can lift heavier weights than women? I know you are joking to make a point but there are actually people that believe th…

So you link a biased source against Microsoft to prove that Microsoft were conspiring with the council. They're reason to exist is to make Microsoft look bad.

Yes different file formats are big deal. I've run into problems with just Doc files if they have forms embedded. I've had to deal with quite a lot from different councils in the UK…

That is a flat out lie. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/13/munich_committee_sa... > Hübner said the city has struggled with LiMux adoption. "Users were unhappy and software e…

It will be either one of these or a combination of these. * Windows has been approved by management to be the only OS allowed on the computer network * The software for showing the…

There are studies that say that EVs are worse than Diesels as well. http://brusselstimes.com/business/technology/15050/electric-...