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Kent Sharkey wrote: Starting New Year’s Day, you may notice a small but momentous change to the websites you visit: a button or link, probably at the bottom of the page, reading “Do Not Sell My Personal Information.”
of course for them to remember your response you'll need to turn off your current anti-tracking protection meaning you'll get uberpwnd by the ones who gamble they can make more money than they'll end up paying in fines for ignoring it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Whhhhaaaaaaa? You mean the government didn't anticipate this? Madness! 
TTFN - Kent
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previous record: [my personal info]
new record: [my personal info
bool: DoNotSell = true]
new record with your selling preference is now sold to interested parties. 
Side question: Is there a way to block my website from being viewed in California? Kind of, if location == California then go away
or, if location == California then display tumbleweed
Exactly what legal power does a state have over people who are not residents of their state?
Where does this nonsense end? How many little accept/reject buttons are we going to add to websites?
“The palest ink is better than the best memory.” - Chinese Proverb
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littleGreenDude wrote: Where does this nonsense end? How many little accept/reject buttons are we going to add to websites?
Remember what browsers used to look like around 2000, with all the "browser toolbars" every site felt the need to add?
Or Word when all the toolbars were enabled. 6.4cm of screen height ought to be enough for everyone. 
TTFN - Kent
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littleGreenDude wrote: Where does this nonsense end? How many little accept/reject buttons are we going to add to websites?
It's actually simpler (and a Hell of a lot more user friendly) than what we currently have, where every site can make you wade through 15 pages of verbiage, and go as far as they can toward hiding the tools (note the plural) that actually accept choices -- tools that can take half an hour to do the job, at that.
I've long said that all I want is a "F*** off, you nosey b*st*rds!" button, which does it all in one go, without making me have to jump through intentionally complicated and hard-to-get-through hoops.
It's less work for the sites to implement, too, but they're happy to do all the extra deceptive work, because a fair percentage of people will just give up, and let them steal their personal information.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Interestingly, slate.com is one of the many sites that I have blocked either for not following or for taking the piss when following GDPR laws.
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I want the option of "you can sell my information if you give me a cut of the action."
("Dude," they'd reply. "Nobody wants your information, even if we pay them.")
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I’ve had never really come into contact with hardware programming, working mostly in python or C#, until a friend of mine asked me for some help with programming a simple controller for RGB strips using Arduino Nanos. It's hard?
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What? It takes a different set of skills to do something different than what you are used to? Who'd a thunk. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Seems like basically the same process to me
Quote from TLDR: Read your specification
Read the right specification
Check connections logic thoroughly
Plan your stuff
Split your hardsoftware into parts
Don’t hardwirecode everything
Prototype and test on breadboard
Ever heard of fuses? Handle exceptions so you don't get garbage input into the wrong parts of your code
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At a high level sure, most problems in general could be addressed with that list, at a lower level it's a largely different mindset, well at least for me it is anyway.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Personal details of nearly everyone recognised were freely available to download Party at Elton's house!
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This just in: 99.9% of people don't give a bugger.
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Report it to the Information commissioner. He / She / They can fine them up to 25% of their annual global income for a GDPR breach.
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“With this interface, our manipulators were able to mind control a rat cyborg to smoothly complete maze navigation tasks,” the authors write. Grocery stores: explained
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What a wonderful accomplishment by the team, in a field of study that can only benefit mankind, and which could never be used for anything other than to do good and improve society and the lives of their fellow men.
I seriously cannot see this technology ever being used for good or noble purposes. Those who invest in it will not have "doing good deeds" in their minds.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I seriously cannot see this technology ever being used for good or noble purposes.
I don't see how any nation would allow something worse than slavery, and agree to making cyborg-humans just to control them - there's easier and cheaper ways to do that already.
I think that people reacted the same way on the first rockets, while research for the space-race gave us a lot more than fast-travelling bombs.
The research gives insight in how the brain works; may not just help with diseases of the brain, but may also help with building brains from scratch.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: The research gives insight in how the brain works; may not just help with diseases of the brain, but may also help with building brains from scratch.
I very much doubt that funding for this will come from institutions interested in either of those things.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I very much doubt that funding for this will come from institutions interested in either of those things.
Those interested in mind-control have far cheaper ways at their disposal. Most funding is not by benign companies and investors, but from tax-payers and donations.
Investors only arrive if 95% of the research is done and there's a sure sign of profit to be had.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Quote: I don't see how any nation would allow something worse than slavery
Fat lot you know about nations. Slavery? Sure. More importantly, suppressing dissent if you can control minds.
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Greg Utas wrote: More importantly, suppressing dissent if you can control minds.
Like I already explained, there's cheaper and easier ways to do that. There's hardly any need for direct mindcontrol if you own the narrative or can decide what is acceptable to be learned and what not in schools.
Greg Utas wrote: Fat lot you know about nations.
Ha, as if you can determine what I do and do not know 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The internet has made it easier for people to rise above controlled narratives and schools, so I don't buy that argument.
My "fat lot" comment was uncalled for. But nations definitely "allow" worse things than slavery. In the 20th century, nations killed hundreds of millions of people, often their own citizens.
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Greg Utas wrote: The internet has made it easier for people to rise above controlled narratives and schools, so I don't buy that argument.
You don't have to; but similar to how the newspaper and tv is controlled, so the internet. People do not seek out news, but confirmation of what their neighbours tell them.
Greg Utas wrote: In the 20th century, nations killed hundreds of millions of people, often their own citizens.
This city is paved with reminders of exactly that. As for slavery, it still exists.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Greg Utas wrote: The internet has made it easier for some people to rise above controlled narratives and schools and even easier for many others to be fooled by controlled narratives and schools
FTFY
Internet is two side sharped sword
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Greg Utas wrote: The internet has made it easier for some people to rise above controlled narratives and schools and even easier for many others to be fooled by controlled narratives and schools the unschooled
FTFY
Internet is two side sharped sword
You missed a bit.
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