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And on the post, an interesting conclusion: However... Caution. This guy is ruled by Common Law. Things are very different for people like me and Sarbian (and perhaps you? It's implicit that English is not your mother's language), we are ruled by Civil Law. On Common Law, a Contract between two private parties are law. Unless a felony or something like that is being committed, the Contract have precedence over Law. "Everything is allowed, as long is not explicitly forbidden". On Civil Law, a Contract between two private parties are subjected to law. A Contract can be invalidated if any part of it contradicts some obscure law. "Everything is allowed, as long it's previously granted by Law". On my country, I am not allowed to wave or short my lunch time. Even by willingly signing a contract where I have one hour for lunch, and then I can go home one hour earlier (or arrive one hour later), such contract can be contested as there's some law around here stating that I have the right of having two hours for lunch. Worse, I don't even need to go to the court myself, my Union can "do it for me, besides me". I would love to. But my failure would out my customers under liability - and someone in Europe goes for his SAS =P for this, they will go for mine later. :-) I would love to. But my failure on complying to GDPR would put my customers under liability - and if someone in Europe goes for their SAS =P due this, they will go for mine later. :-)

Thank you very much. I'll need some time to digest all that legalese. In the mean time, I'm afraid that I have to shutdown some services, and plain block the whole Europe from others until I have all this thing figured out correctly. I am paid to keep scammers and intruders from my customer's servers - but being the IP "Personal Information", I'm currently living a Kafkaesque situation: in order to shield my clients from an European intruder, I must first ask for permission from the freaking... guy... to record his "personal information" on my server's firewalls. #facePalm Or blacklist the whole shebang from Europe at once, as this way I don't take the risk of being sued by firewalling a script kiddie that lives there.

Hell. I just realized that my mailboxes and SMTP servers are huge GDPR uncomplying databases. =/ And now? Should I blacklist every mail from a European source? Are my dynamic IPs I had in the past a liability, in the case that IP ends up servicing an European tomorrow? (you know, IP Range Blocks do change "owners"). Must I spam every single IP that ever had sent me a email (and, then, are on my mailbox for legal reasons) asking for permission to withhold the data? If the #$@#$#!$ refuses, how in hell I can uphold my contracts without the emails as evidences? You know, emails uses IP Addresses and these are used as proof of authenticity. EDIT: And yeah, it's happening. =/ Wondering if I should do the same on my servers. EDIT2: For the concerned website owners. Yeah. I'm seriously considering jump ship on this.

How about Aviation Lights? This allows for different colors on symmetric placed lights. It would be another mod in your installment, and another part on your vessel (well, two), but it works and I think it worths. This doesn't solves the question you asked, but allow a new way to accomplish what you want.

Basically, yes. :-) However, until there, a lot of small people (like me) will have a very harsh time trying to avoid being stomped by a crying elephant. EDIT: And I hope that the damn elephant will at least use diapers while trying to stomp me!

One doesn't have the power to force other to do what the later doesn't want. But, boy, someones have the power to make that poor guy utterly and deeply regret not doing that. Once a Regulation passes, the mechanisms to enforce it are authorized - including commercial sanctions.

Insufficient. On the very link you posted: "THE IP ADDRESS (IN SOME CASES)". I'm not doubting you. But I need the exact law and text in order to make my own conclusions. It's about the "chain of thrust" - it's not enough to thrust you, I need to thrust the people you thrust in order to accept what you say without double (and sometimes triple) checking. On the last minutes I considered at least 2 ways to be GDPR "compliant" in appearance and still be able to collect such data. Worst. I'm considering the effects this will have on the fight for SPAM, SCAM and some other more serious CyberCrimes where the main (when not only) weapon is IP cross checking. This also explain some changes on some sites - they cannot rely, ostensibly, on IP to stop abuse or they will be GDPR uncomplying. Tons of annoyances in the near future. Hell, without IP tracking, some of my services are inviable as they can't uphold the load caused by the malicious accesses. I'm afraid I will not ever provide services for europeans, as I would have to increase my expenses and will not be able to be still competitive unless I spread the cost for every other customer I have. (and perhaps this could be the unspoken interest of this?) As a technician, I'm somewhat appalled that such Regulation has passed in the way it was being painted until the moment. If I was living in Europe, I would probably ban my kids of using Internet and Smartphones, as I just had loose the most efficient (but granted, not fail safe) tool to shield them. I stand corrected. You have way more ground on your arguing that I though. The arguing is not over yet, there're some more lines of research to be done. But yet, I was the one not up to date enough on the matter.

Citation needed, please.

I would love too. But that's the trick: since you have allegedly given implicit consent on the matter, it's up to you to start things - and pay for it. Frankly, you would had more chances on winning the cause on Common Law countries. In mine, where the Civil Law rules, there's a Law about "Mass Contracts", and EULAs are considered a "Mass Contract" here. So, or I find something on the EULA that it's obviously against the Law (and then I can claim such clausule is "Null and Void"), or I have to acquiesce. Just like that. I suggest you research the European Law about such loopholes. You are Civil Law, just like my country. ----- POSTEDIT: The local term for such "Mass Contract" is "Contrato de Adesão". I don't have the slightest idea about what would be the correct translation to English.

Uninformed people jumping into unfounded conclusions due misguided information. :-) Caution when mentioning USA - they are Common Law, you are living under the Civil (Roman) Law. Lots and lots of differences. Never do what they do on your country just because they did.

But such Steam user had validated the Steam EULA, and the Steam EULA allows sharing such information with partners, TT2/Squad being one of them. Since KSP 1.0 doesn't have such "tracking mechanisms", there's no point on using it on the argument. But by downloading the newest version from Steam, you are obliged by the terms of the new version. I agree that ideally such terms should be stated on the product's first loading, making it cristal clear that by using the product you automatically accept the terms. However, since Microsoft managed to get away with that Stunt about agreeing with a EULA by opening an envelope while the EULA itself was inside that envelope... (sigh). It's enough to say that publishing the EULA/TOS by the time of the software publishing is enough.

Even by managing to somehow purse your cause on a Court of Law on USA, UK and others, there's Asia, Russia, Africa and some other Countries that European Courts simply can't reach. They can still track you, and sell back such information to anyone willing to pay.

So... Yeah... You have some ground on you claim. My knowledge of the current status quo leads me to the conclusion that the information posted on the link you provided are inaccurate or simplified too much in order to be used as is. Granted, I think I posted something from the same site myself. IP address is not personal data on UK, and they still are (for while, at least), member of EU. I also found that IP address can be personal information on certain circumstances on Europe. This last links appears to corroborate my thesis about the link you provided. So I advise you to restrict yourself to French hosted sites or to contract a VPN service.

Calm down, dude! You are almost paranoid! (I am paranoid, I know what I'm talking). :-) You bought KSP, right? By the Internet? Using a Credit Card? So, yeah. They know your full name and bank account linked to your credit card. :-) As well as the full name and the bank account of every single other KSP (legal) user. Including me. Bought it on Steam? Read the TOS - you authorized Steam to share this information to their associates. They also probably know how many licenses I bough, and whom I give it/them as gift. If you have a domain registered into your name and by any lack of luck you somehow associated your real name or the email you used to log in here to that domain (over a post on some other forum, on a commit on github, whatever), they can whois your domain and get yet some more data. As well as mine. I suggest doing `whois chateauversailles.fr` to see what info the `.fr` registar provides to everyone that asks for it. Your privacy concerns are legit, but somewhat misguided.

It happens due the amount of add-ons you have installed. Cut down the add-ons to the very minimum you really need to play.

Your IP is not your property. It was leased to you by your ISP. Whoever, the IP your ISP leased to you is not their property neither. ICANN assigns IP Range Blocks (google for IANA too) to third parties, and the leasing are cascaded until it reaches to you. So, in order to identify you, one need to get the IP, get the UTC time this IP was used, identify all the chain of responsibility of such IP, until your current ISP and ask him who was using it at that specific time. However, your ISP doesn't have the means to be absolutely and beyond doubt sure that you were using that IP at that time. The IP is assigned to a MAC (Medium Access Control) number that identifies your Modem (being it Cable, Satellite, optic fiber, whatever), but since such numbers are not strictly controlled by any authority, it's easy as hell to forfeit it (in fact, such "forfeit" is common practice on some home routers). Unless you are effectively paying for a fixed IP, chances are that every time you reboot your modem you will get a new IP. I already was leased about 3 or 4 different IPs only this year (I track it, as I need this info in order to update the DynDNS I implemented myself for my site), and since I (try) to account every IP it were leased to me, as I need this info for controlling the logs on my secure access (so I do not get false positives for valid access I did before my IP changed), I know that since I started my DynDNS, I had about a dozen different IPs already, So... NO. Your IP is not personal information.

Uninformed people jumping into unfounded conclusions due misguided information. They are asking you to track you due EU regulations over cookies, being cookies the only reliable (but not bullet proof, so it's not admissible as evidence on a court of law) of tracking someone on the Net.

Error 0xC380 : "We're doomed"

(I think I misread the last post - I'm retesting things here. My post was deleted to prevent further confusion)

Yes, you have. :-) The images I linked works but I didn't tested without using ToolbarControl (as I made it a dependency) - so, there's a chance that the stunt is being applied by ToolbalControl, not exactly by Squad's code. Lots of things changed on 1.4.x series. You perhaps just had missed one of them.

Hint: make it a power of 2 width/height size. It helps on VRAM memory management and texture compression.

Language barrier on the bitting. =/ Arguments, when right, doesn't change anything. By arguing about the colour of the skies, you don't change the fact it is blue due the scattering from nitrogen and oxygen. Things will just go as it should do. But arguments, when wrong and prevalent, will eventually triggers a series of mislead actions. See that "Flat Earth" hysteria. In a way or another, the argument itself is not the problem. It's the people listening to the argument that causes trouble. Yeah. Almost it. I think you miss some minor points, but essentially, that's it. What is missing from your conclusions is: you can thrust people, it's companies that should not be thrusted. As a sad (and expensive) example, we have Apple. Since Job's death, my experience on MacOS had gone down the tubes. Epically. Jobs was the one that was keeping Apple on rails. It's the same on every company. About accusations, it's possible to accuse a innocent man for a true crime. If the crime wasn't committed yet, it's even easier to get away with that. Yes, once the company has all the agreements they need, sooner or later it will monetize it for sure. And this is not necessarily a bad thing, because we only have their services available due exactly this fact. It's a bad thing when such monetizing hurts us, the customers. So, when "accusing" a company of something that it might do in the future, ideally we take some cautions to prevent that the people that are part of the company today does get burnt in the process. We would be probably harming the very people that would help us to fix the situation. My best guess is to prevent mass editing/deleting of content. Appears to be a way to prevent automated abuse. Very annoying, but unfortunately needed. Yes, we have. It's only a single word, but it's the most powerful word in the World (pun not intended =P). It's "NO". Say 'NO' too few, and you are screwed. Say 'NO' too much, and they are screwed. Since nobody wants to be screwed, we must find that "sweet spot" where everybody can be happy (or at least, the less unhappy possible). I call this the "NO enough" point.

It just happened to me. I could not edit a post I just posted. However, consecutive posts were merged correctly, and old posts could be edited. Just that recently posted post had the issue. edit: And, also curiously, this time it worked. My best guess at the moment it's a glitch that only affects you once, and then is gone. If I would make a bet, I would bet that they added a feature to the site, and some flag need to be initialized, what just happens the first time you try to edit a post! (the last paragraph was merged, and this line was edited 3 times consecutively)

I think the problem is not exactly against my argument, because it is innocuous as an actor. If I'm right (and it's a big if), I'm just describing a fact, not influencing on it. But... If you mean "the problem with you being right", yeah. I agree. Companies needs money, or their employees won't eat. So, yeah. They will monetize somehow - directly or indirectly. It's the companies' nature to do it - they would not exist otherwise. It's up to us, knowing this, to "counter-act" somehow in order to reach an equilibrium. That said, companies are not living entities. They are a collection of living entities - people - and these people, besides being part of the company, are not the company. Once the people that wrote (or adopted) the EULA leave, the reason they had to choose such EULA are gone too. And forgotten. So, even by having the best intentions of the World, and firmly fighting against any abuse allowed by the EULA, these guys sooner or later will leave. They will get promoted, they will get fired or, sadly, some will pass away. And the people that will replace them will inherit the EULA, but not the reason and intents. "Stat rosa pristina nomine; nomina nuda tenemus." And its exactly there where the problem lays. I didn't reached the end of the video. Once I realized the (lack of) validable facts and useful opinion, I could not find the mood to keep watching this. I had intuited (and you confirmed it) that they would appeal to the mob as argument - frankly, a device commonly used by who know he had not valid arguments at hand. The problem with the finger-pointing is assuming that because someone is being finger-pointed, he's innocent. It's possible to slander a criminal. Finger-pointing is evidence of lack of arguments and proof, not evidence of innocence. Where I wrote "I think the problem is not exactly against my argument, because it is innocuous as an actor.", please read "I think the problem is not exactly my argument, because it is innocuous as an actor.". I'm currently unable to edit this post, even by posting it a few seconds ago. Curiously, consecutive posting is still being correctly merged. :-)

I write English more or less the way I write code: a fully functional and readable version only happens after a lot of commits. =D If the post editing is turned off on this site, I would be forever embarrassed by tons of typos, bad grammars and false cognates. =P