The EU's "E-Evidence framework" allows authorities in any member state to compel entities doing business in any part of the EU to produce and/or preserve communications data, completely by-passing cross-border barriers.
_e.g._ Victor Orban could have wiretapped any communication within the EU. Supporter by an EU directive
> Victor Orban could have wiretapped any communication within the EU. Supporter by an EU directive
Don't spread such bullshit FUD.
The E‑Evidence package contains multiple legal and procedural safeguards:
1. Judicial authorisation
2. Scope limits
3. Proportionality and necessity tests
4. Channels for challenge and review
5. Data-protection rules
6. Natinoal enforcements and remedies
Cross-border orders must be issued as European Production Order (EPO) or European Preservation Order (EPO‑PR).
The Regulation defines what can be optained and when. And wiretapping (i.e. content and traffic) is striclty limited to serious offences. Blanket mass surveillance is EXPLICITLY NOT POSSIBLE.
A judge is required for sensitive categories, e.g. wiretapping. And factual grounds must be provided demonstrating necessity.
The Regulation EXPLICITLY requires that orders be necessary and proportionate for criminal investigation
The member state where the service provider (or its EU representative) is established is notified when an EPO/EPO‑PR is sent, giving an additional oversight channel and the enforcing authority a role in examining objections.
The CJEU remains a backstop on top of national authorities.
Dithering as a mechanism to reduce/remove banding can be very impressive.
The color Next machines only had 12 bit displays, 4 bits per channel, but with careful use of dithering it was often indistinguishable from a 24-bit display (so called "true color")
There are so many ways to produce sierpinski gaskets.
It you specify n points and the pick a new point at random, then iteratively randomly select (uniformly) one of the original n points and move the next point to the mid point of the current point and the selected point. Coloring those points generates a sierpinski triangle or tetrahedron or whatever the n-1 dimensional triangle is called
I programmed this on my TI-83 back in the day and spent many hours watching it generate triangles during boring classes.
You can generate many other fractals (e.g. fern shapes) in a similar way, though the transformations are more complicated than “move halfway to selected point”.
FWIW, the Next color machines had 12bit (4096) color and in practice it didn't make much of a difference. I was using one fairly extensively in the late 90s (by which time 24bit was the norm -- albeit not yet ubiquitous) and for anything other that photo/video work it was perfectly reasonable. It's amazing how far a good dithering algorithm can get you.
Going to tell the Preface story tomorrow at work, I guess if your reading this you now know my HN handle ;) Not sure I will do the 'game' but that into was worth clicking the link.
> I guess if your reading this you now know my HN handle
No worries. A great philosopher once wrote:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what your HN handle is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by an HN handle even more bizarre and inexplicable."
I've also worked with engineers who have raced LMP. It's largely pay-to-play and this is one of those professions where if you're the right person, in the right place, at the right time, you might be able to afford it.
There are hundreds of billions of lines of cobol in production.
The IRS alone has approx 160 cobol programs, averaging 230kloc each.