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Yeah, that's not really a good point. But the other two points stand and are two very good points.

If smaller players do not want to comply with EU regulations, it's fine with me (I hope I got your point, but I'm not sure). If you want to do business in a place, you have to follow the local regulations. I don't see the problem there.

I get that regulations make it more difficult for companies to enter a market, but if that means more protection for the user privacy (in this specific case), I cannot see how that could be a problem.

The fact that the EU might have more data protection than, say, the US, could also be an added value to a service. Case in point: protonmail. It's not EU-based, but they use Swiss privacy regulations as a selling point. Some people are willing to pay more for that.

Honestly, I believe that the market is big enough to make it worth it anyway. But if they decide to leave, that could be a win-win. "Worst" case scenario, some EU-based company replace them and becomes a tech giant. I mean, look at Yandex or VK in Russia.

Facebook (the website) is not rocket science. As for Google, replacing it could take time, but in the long run it's good to destroy their monopoly in Europe.

Since Amazon & others started to advertise it heavily. But it's not like people go crazy like in the US. It's more or less yet another random excuse to sell stuff. I would say that it's still mostly an online thing.

Yep, and also literally classist. The fact that those things don't actually matter is a good thing imho. When programming, a guy from a country you don't even know can be as good as your "rockstar programmer".

That's true. But if you want to look at it from the perspective of how laypeople use PCs, the discussion about security is totally different from a purely technical one.

Assuming you know better than installing adware or installing random chrome extensions, Chrome is the most secure browser out there.

Btw, regarding extensions, before Mozilla switched to WebExtensions, you could do nasty stuff like extension-reuse attacks.

I'm with you on everything, but atm the most secure browser is Chrome. Of course I mean "secure" as in "difficult to exploit".

If you are referring to the smart lights, if I recall correctly they used a side-channel attack to extract the keys used to decrypt/verify new firmwares in various models. So they basically abused OTA firmware updates to take control of the lights.

Assuming that devices don't have cryptographic issues, IoT security is still a mess. So yes firmwares are probably full of BO vulnerabilities. As for more recent techniques, I'm aware of some of them but I'm no expert so I can't comment properly :)

This would partially solve the issues but it would also limit the usage of cars as a service (as in, autonomous taxis vs owning a car). From my point of view car-sharing is one of the main selling points of self-driving cars.

As for the inter-vehicle communication, if it proves to be effective in improving security, I guess it will eventually be mandatory or at least "encouraged" by making your insurance more expensive if you disable them.

When I see news about self-driving cars I can't help but think about car DoS, ransomware and hijacking. Not that this doesn't apply to "normal" cars, but I suspect that "intelligent" cars will have Internet connection and, at some point in the near future, inter-vehicle communication in order to cooperate better. We already have a PoC smartlight worm.

They don't solve it in polynomial time.

Probably both. I think kana helps you process the words as sequences of "syllables" instead of characters. At least it did for me. I suppose that English speakers would get even more benefits because English pronunciation is often very far from how a word is written and sometimes doesn't make much sense.

Thanks for the pointers. I knew about the UK but I believe it is an exception in Europe rather than the rule, as of now. Of course I agree with you that probably most countries will try to get there, unfortunately. Then again, I can only read stuff written in my own language or English so I don't have the full view.

DES is also believed to contain a backdoor. And even if it only happened once, I still don't see how "Europe is farther down this path than the US is currently".

Is it? NIST has been putting backdoors in recommended encryption standards. USA State Department also classifies strong cryptography as a munition. As far as I know we don't do similar things in Europe (yet?), but I could be wrong.

Well I'm sure some people lost the respect for the guy after he jumped on the "vote for Hillary" bandwagon. But yeah, things like the Snowden interview, Net Neutrality and some other episodes are simply brilliant.

Killer use of Caps Lock and broken English. Proud of my country. On a serious note, I really do hope that we won't follow USA steps this time. But I'm afraid that the average person doesn't really care for or understand cryptography. Maybe a dickpic approach à la John Oliver could be useful as a way to raise awareness on the matter.

External mic I guess.

Didn't even think about the legal aspects :) How do you think tab websites manage it? There are some that have been around for quite some time.

I know how you feel. I studied piano as a child but I learned a bit of guitar by myself. I often find myself looking up tabs and then switch to learning by ear because not only they are wrong but also "stupid" (as in, use weird and difficult hand positions which don't make any sense). And yeah, pretty much all the main websites try to force you into paying for some service you don't want or need with popups and stuff that you would only see on a torrent search engine. I think the main problem is that most people use tablets/phones to look up songs and so they most likely use Apps or learn from YouTube videos. I find the latter option quite time inefficient.

I have been thinking about implementing a github-style website for tabs but it seems that the interest for tab sites is slowly fading away.

I tried "jk" but I hated seeing the cursor pause every time I used "j" to go down.

Unfortunately on my xenial it still crashes so often that it's basically useless. I had to put together a short video recently and, after checking out all the available options, I ended up using the free version of Lightworks. I didn't try Blender though.

Gimp is actually not that good for drawing. I guess that if simplicity is needed, Paint.NET (www.getpaint.net) is a good option.

EDIT: I mean drawing geometrical stuff. Of course it's good for general drawing.