Europe is dozens of countries, each with their own laws. So which ones are you referring to?
sndrtj
joined 2 years ago
This is stupid.
Is there a non-shitter link?
ZDF is a major broadcaster in Germany.
That neck enlargement is wtf.
With your username, you'd do great in the Netherlands
Interestingly this phone number complaint only shows up among techies and especially Americans. You guys don't get to keep your phone number? I've had the same number now for 20 years here in Europe, it may as well be synonymous with my identity.
In fact, I'd say the phone number requirement, or at least option, actually promotes adoption in parts of the world. I wouldn't have been able to get my mother to use Signal if it didn't work with a phone number, for instance. She's not gonna make an account just for a chat app. Phone number she already has.
I got into programming via, I kid you not, Second Life.
Wanted to animate some objects with the built-in scripting language. Turned out I was pretty good at it.
Fast forward 15 years and I'm having a decade-long career in software.
None. The statement is false. The law didn't change. What did change was the enforcement thereof.
What's absolutely scummy is that "laws are changing in your region" is not what happened. The law hasn't significantly changed. What has changes is that the regulator is finally enforcing the law.
I don't agree with the one you're replying to, but trademark is usually bound to a sector. I'm pretty sure Pepsi trademarked all sectors known to mankind, but many companies don't do that. If I start a bakery called FooBarBaz I can trademark that just fine even if there's a software company called FooBarBaz that trademarked the name only for software.
To all the naysayers: if the claims hold up this will be super useful for some industries. Example, I worked at a human genomics lab for diagnostics. By law we were supposed to retain raw data for a whopping 120 years. With a couple terabyte per individual for a WGS, the storage and backup costs were very much non-trivial.