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I'd like to point out how this law is hurting the web.
When the onus is on the developer to ask a user for permission, the user is forced to trust the developer. For example when a website asks me if they can store cookies in my browser, and I say no, there is no easy way of me knowing if that site is actually listening to me.
Wouldn't it be cleaner if the burden was on the browser to ask us for permission?
In iOS for example, the operating system asks you if you'd like to grant an app access to your camera... not the app itself! Imagine we had to blindly trust an app to not use our camera, without any help from Apple. Mayhem!
Instead, the EU mandates that developers ask permission. Developers place a stupid looking div filled with legal jargon on their homepage. We roll our eyes and click accept. Good actors (who respected our privacy in the first place) continue to respect our privacy. Bad actors continue to ignore it.
1) In Banksy's video they claim they put the shredder in a few years ago – how could a battery last that long?
Theories:
a) (reddit) the painting is plugged in to an electrical outlet to power on board lights. This cannot be true because the painting is easily removed at 51s, and the light is a spotlight, not built in.
b) there are two power supplies, one long lasting battery powering the receiver and a more powerful one powering the motors. When the receiver detects a signal it could turn on the other system to shred the painting. I have a hard time believing a sim module / wifi card could be powered for that long, so I'm assuming its some other sort of low power receiver. We also know a person in on the whole thing was there as the timing had to be perfect. I guess this is technically feasible.
2) The blades seem to be pointed in the wrong direction (https://youtu.be/iiO_1XRnMt4?t=5)
Theories:
None that I can think of or know of!
Any thoughts??