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  • On the post: High School Student's Speech About Campus Sexual Assault Gets Widespread Attention After School Cuts Her Mic

    tracyanne ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2018 @ 04:31pm

    Talk about Spineless (the Principal that is)

    The sexual assault "speech" was about 1 paragraph out of the entire speech, making it almost a passing remark.

  • On the post: Top German Publisher Says: 'You Wouldn't Steal A Pound Of Butter… So We Need A Snippet Tax'

    tracyanne ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2018 @ 02:48pm

    Talk about Spineless

    The sexual assault "speech" was about 1 paragraph out of the entire speech, making it almost a passing remark.

  • On the post: EU Parliament's Own Website Violates The GDPR

    tracyanne ( profile ), 30 May, 2018 @ 01:36am

    The problem, then, is not so much the EU Website

    as the EU website using a 3rd party for it's analytics.

  • On the post: The GDPR: Ghastly, Dumb, Paralyzing Regulation It's Hard To Celebrate

    tracyanne ( profile ), 27 May, 2018 @ 04:45am

    Re: Re: Annoyance to the large incumbents, death to small enterprises

    None of the small e-commerce sites I worked on, as a software developer, ever required, that people dealing with that site, hand over the detailed data that the big players ask for, nor did they 'surveil' people with tracking cookies, and tracking pixels, or any of those other things the big corporates do.

    They gathered in only as much data as was necessary for the customer to purchase goods, and receive emails (that they could opt out of). Consequently I don't see much, if any, problems for them.

    The big corporates, like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, PayPal, Microsoft, Apple etc, I hope they choke on the GDPR.

  • On the post: The GDPR: Ghastly, Dumb, Paralyzing Regulation It's Hard To Celebrate

    tracyanne ( profile ), 27 May, 2018 @ 02:15am

    Cathy, I respectfully disagree.

    Speaking as someone who has spent considerable time and effort (and lost contact with people over it) attempting to keep my privacy, either by lying on forms, using numerous script blockers, and cookie eaters, and Add blockers (all of which, no doubt, slow down my already slow and miserly Internet connection)

    The GDPR is not Ghastly, Dumb nor Paralyzing, and it is definitely being Celebrated in this household.

    These Corporate entities have have made Billions off of the privacy of individuals, individuals who have litte to no power in the relationship. Individuals who are offered a take it or leave it "Free" Service, that they eventually pay for with lost privacy.

    Like a great many people I have received a large number of emails explaining to me what data is collected (way too much) and how it is used. I am then requested to give them blanket access to exactly the same data, as they have already collected... data I don't want them collecting, and which I see no need for them to collect, over and above what is needed for me to be a registered user.

    At no time am I given a choice, so far these sharks are attempting to maintain the Status Quo.

    Hopefully these Corporate entities will eventually be called to account, because of the GDPR. I hope it costs them dearly.

  • On the post: How Twitter Suspended The Account Of One Of Our Commenters… For Offending Himself?

    tracyanne ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2018 @ 09:23pm

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the coddled "safe space" crybaby generat

    I wouln't worry about it, every time I check out the voted down comments, they turn out not to be worth reading.

    Another JavaScript Refusnick

  • On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

    tracyanne ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2018 @ 01:28am

    Re: Re: Re: Re: Basically

    Actually the point I meant to make there was that because people are basically stupid, creating AI only roads (Railways) won't stop people getting killed by AI vehicles. Plenty of people already get themselves killed by trains, by simply ignoring the fact that trains don't stop easily, and ignoring signs warning them of the danger.

    But yeah it would probably be a better way to utilise AI vehicles.

  • On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

    tracyanne ( profile ), 29 Mar, 2018 @ 05:28am

    Re: Re: Basically

    Queensland actually, probably similar driving styles. I hope Arizonians don't have the same problem navigating roundabouts as Queensland drivers seem have.

  • On the post: Arizona Bans Self-Driving Car Tests; Still Ignores How Many Pedestrians Get Killed

    tracyanne ( profile ), 27 Mar, 2018 @ 04:17pm

    Basically

    the way I see the issue is this.

    You program the AI to respond, "obstacles"... like pedestrians, like a human driver would, that is driving with the assumption that pedestrians can and will get out of the way, probably resulting in the "occasional" fatality.

    Or you program the AI to slow or stop for every pedestrian, resulting in a vehicle that takes forever to get anywhere.

    Option three is to create Autonomous vehicle roads, banning pedestrians from them. basically turning autonomous vehicles into some analogue of a light rail system.

    Personally I'm not sure I would want anything to do with any of those options (there may be others, I can't think of). But if autonomous vehicles are to respond like human drivers, we might just as well have human drivers... at least it's easier to find someone to blame in the event of an accident.

    I don't see the point of option 2

    and Option 3 seems like a set backwards, to me, plus it would be rather expensive to build and there's no guarantee pedestrians still won't get killed.

    I guess I'm just a reactionary who doesn't like ceding control to computers.

  • On the post: Media Freaks Out About Facebook Changes; Maybe They Shouldn't Have Become So Reliant On Facebook

    tracyanne ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2018 @ 03:07pm

    I don't even have a Facebook account

    or a Twitter one for that matter.

    If you aren't already sending me a news feed, then I either don't find your content interesting, Informative, or in any other manner worthwhile... or maybe I've never heard of you... probably because you use Facebook.

  • On the post: Utah Senator Wants To Revive The State's 'Porn Czar' Office To Combat The Threat Of Women's Magazines

    tracyanne ( profile ), 16 Oct, 2017 @ 02:48pm

    Re: Re: Re:

    Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that he even actually existed.

  • On the post: Members Of Congress: Court Was Wrong To Say That Posting The Law Is Copyright Infringement

    tracyanne ( profile ), 06 Oct, 2017 @ 03:58pm

    Re: The issue isn't quite so cut-and-dried

    Copyright is a Government Granted Monopoly. It is NOT a birthright.

    Therefore the Government can (and does regularly) decide to what extent that Granted Monopoly can apply.

    Therefore the Government can decide that any or all content can be locked up for ever and a day (which it effectively is right now, under current Copyright law) or that any or all content must be made publicly available as Public Domain.

    How a content creator deals with making money from their works is not, strictly speaking, the Governments concern.

  • On the post: EFF Resigns From W3C After DRM In HTML Is Approved In Secret Vote

    tracyanne ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2017 @ 10:40pm

    Re:

    You probably shouldn't either.

    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080306/003240458/if-intellectual-property-is-neither-intellectual-property-what-is-it.shtml

  • On the post: Music Industry Is Painting A Target On YouTube Ripping Sites, Despite Their Many Non-Infringing Uses

    tracyanne ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2017 @ 03:37pm

    Re: Simple solutions for simple minds

    quote:: It is, after all, my computer and it is under my control.

    Unless and until the corporation that owns your Operating System decides to toe the Hollywood line, and build code into the OS that takes that control away.

  • On the post: Australian Prosecutors Want To Make It Illegal To Refuse To Turn Over Passwords To Law Enforcement

    tracyanne ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2017 @ 11:47pm

    Re: How about this

    I've been experimenting with encfs, but encfs V 1.x has some serious issues, in that the File meta data can be seen unencrypted, which means at the very least important information about the files can be guessed. V 2, will apparently fix that.

    As a means of transparently encrypting/decrypting it works well, and I can keep some important information regarding the encryption hidden by removing the config file from the encrypted directory, and symlinking it back in... the symlink never gets copied to the cloud.

    But I'm now experimenting with cryfs, which also encrypts the file metadata, and as such seems like a better choice. In it's current 0.x version, while file security is covered, it has some minor issues related to file integrity, but it looks very promising.

  • On the post: Australian Prosecutors Want To Make It Illegal To Refuse To Turn Over Passwords To Law Enforcement

    tracyanne ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2017 @ 03:25pm

    Re: How about this

    There's a couple thing there I didn't think of, Mostly in the legal realm. So I'll have to have a bit of a rethink there.

    I've already looked at including files that contain random "noise", randomly generated characters, that are then also encrypted, by the encryption process, as a tool to make it more difficult to brute force decrypt. Not sure how well that would work though.

    As for:

    "Also if the files stored in the accounts contain headers particular to the encryption software installed on your computer."

    That's not an issue, there are no headers, and any related files needed for encryption, are either on the decrypted side, and never go to the Cloud, or are provided by Sym Links, and therefore never go to the cloud.

    Decryption can only occur on a computer that has all the elements in place, which can be an OS installed on a USB key.

  • On the post: Australian Prosecutors Want To Make It Illegal To Refuse To Turn Over Passwords To Law Enforcement

    tracyanne ( profile ), 01 Aug, 2017 @ 01:20am

    How about this

    I always encrypt my data prior to sending it to the cloud. This process consists of setting up a transparent Encryption/Decryption Directory, using FUSE (for those who don't use Linux it's File system in User SpacE) .

    It works in such a way that I can move or copy a file to the Unencrypted Directory, and the appears in the Encrypted Directory in an encrypted form.

    The Encrypted Directory is the local directory for the Cloud Service, such as, for example Google Drive, what appears in it is what is uploaded to the Cloud.

    To work it requires two passwords, one for Google Drive, and one for the Encrypted File System.

    No if I give the Police my password to Google Drive, they can then access, my account on Google drive, but all they get is encrypted files.

    So I can later claim I gave them my password, and any problems they are having dealing with the "corrupted" data are theirs.

  • On the post: Wisconsin Senator Johnson Calls Net Neutrality 'A Slogan,' Laments The Lack Of 'Fast Lanes'

    tracyanne ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2017 @ 02:35pm

    Correction

    A Vagina is a part of the female anatomy, a Cunt is a type of person, so you are correct, he is not useful at all.

  • On the post: Wisconsin Senator Johnson Calls Net Neutrality 'A Slogan,' Laments The Lack Of 'Fast Lanes'

    tracyanne ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2017 @ 02:39pm

    It seems to me

    Based on the fact that ISP can already prioritise things like medical diagnosis, that what the Corporates would really like is to be able to charge a premium for such necessary services, rather than just provide fast lanes for them.

  • On the post: How The Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things

    tracyanne ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2017 @ 02:04pm

    Re: Re: Death Of Net Neutrality Could Hamstring The Internet Of Things

    Yeah problems with Internet connection dropping out, my Service Providers Bad.

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