Well, in a proper database, you'd have a separate table for birthdays, and index into it using the employees ID from the employee table. This is McGuffin's Fifth Normal Form, or something. In this way, you get to replace the concept of NULL, with the concept of... er... not having an row. Which is different from having an entry containing NULL. Somehow. And THEN you get to write a function that is conditional on the existence of this row, rather than conditional on the presence of a NULL value, which is again, completely different.
They often just encrypt the avi file, and provide an exe called "MovieDecryptor.exe", or even "CodecInstaller.exe". Sometimes the movie is even nothing more than two hours of a screen showing a URL to visit. Very rarely, I suppose, they might try to exploit vulnerabilities in movie players though specially crafted AVI files, or whatever, but I suspect that's just simply too hard for most people. Especially when the exe files will catch plenty of downloaders.
I've seen the above methods used often, but I've never seen a file called *.avi.exe - not sure why, it seems like an even better method to me.
Yes. Plenty. And it's a far more pleasurable experience, not least because since our organisation dropped Exchange and Outlook and moved to google mail (lord save us....), we are left with exactly zero decent options for email from Windows. On a mac, Mail and Calendar integrate with the google stuff so well that I never have to use the browser-based versions at all. On Windows, what choices do I have? Everything I've tried so far basically sucks.
Safari has a 4.28% market share on the desktop, and a 14% share on mobile. I don't see how it's managing to hold back the web with market share like that.
Create apple ID accounts for your kids, and gift them apps if they need stuff. Create gmail accounts for your kids, so they can have their own email addresses. Put credit card information in neither, of course. Put two factor on everything, because kids always choose crap passwords, and make sure you store those passwords somewhere safe because kids can't remember anything. This makes life far, far, simpler. Having one account seems simple at first, but rapidly becomes a nightmare.
The idea of having my kids signed into my apple ID on their devices (which they have to have for school, by the way, before you start telling me that kids shouldn't own iPads etc) is a terrible one. A friend of mine managed to allow her kid to run up huge bills, precisely because she'd used her own apple ID on her kids ipad, and the kid bought $500 of in-game nonsense without her knowledge.
The issue isn't the removal of the headphone jack - they've been a terrible and unreliable piece of technology for decades. Professional gear doesn't use 3.5mm jacks, it uses 1/4" jacks, or XLR leads, or optical, or whatever. I don't use a 3.5mm jack on my work machine, I use a USB headset. Minijacks are fragile and crap. Even now, if you pop around to a non-techy person's house, and fancy putting some music from your device onto their stereo, the chances are that they won't have a minijack connector, and you'll be using bluetooth, or you'll be out of luck.
The issue is that it hasn't been replaced with something standard. The Lightning connector is an Apple controller digital interface, that no other device, not even their laptops, support.
I guess you're technically correct, but even those examples of 'simple' editors are actually extremely complex pieces of technology that perform a great deal of cleverness with the underlying data before they display it on the screen. Adding another layer that automatically creates the indenting that you prefer to see, before saving away in some standard format, wouldn't prevent any of those existing things working properly.
Using whitespace to express indentation is completely retarded in any case. Editors should be smart enough to display code using whatever indentation style you prefer, and should save files with minimal whitespace inserted. Thus people get to look at their code however they prefer, and no-one ever has to worry about merging whitespace-only changes, because there would be no such thing. Quite how we've got this far, without anyone ever bothering to do this, is quite beyond me.
Well, sure, but if everyone did this the whole torrent system would completely collapse. So, if they make uploading illegal, and actually manage to really catch people doing it on a large scale, then there won't be any torrents left.
The VPN solution is hard to workaround, but it does require someone to purchase a VPN server somewhere. Blocking access to 'unauthorised' DNS server would be straightforwards if the UK cared to spend the money on the filtering hardware. Hell, they could even require you to apply for some kind of licence before they permit VPN traffic to be allowed out of your home connection. The UK are deadly serious about trying to lock down the internet, and now that they've decided to leave the EU, I don't see how anyone can stop them if they decide to try hard enough.
I don't think downgrading is that hard, is it? I think you hold 'option' down when you select upgrade in itunes, and it opens a file chooser that lets you select an OS image that you can download from somewhere dodgy, like here: http://www.getios.com/index.ph... I have tried this, and it did work.
maybe they're trying to have a clean, unified API so that apps work across different phones and OS versions.
Why would such an API be part of the Google Play app again? I missed the part where you explained how that makes sense. Such an API already exists for tracking location, and it's that API that's controlled by the privacy settings. Why make another one, built into an application that most people would never consider removing, that's not controlled by an individual application's privacy settings?
I don't believe that it's even theoretically possible to anonymise this data, and still keep its utility. If you have location tracking data that's tied to any kind of identifier at all, even if there's no way of tying that identifier to an individual directly, you can still determine who it is by cross-referencing it with other data.
Even if you rotated the identifier every day, you'll probably find that an individual's motions throughout the day, coupled with other other ways of tracking a person (cellphone, CCTV, general knowledge about where a person lives and works) are unique enough to match up unambiguously in many cases.
Well, we did die without phones. Mobile phones have saved a great many lives over the decades since their invention. Smartphones, on the other hand, probably not so much. In principal I suppose they could lead emergency services to your location in case you couldn't give that information out due to incapacitating injury. But I've never heard of such a thing actually happening.
If they did that, they would end up charging as much as Apple do for their phones. This is the price you pay for cheap Android devices. It's a pretty simple equation really. Google want to sell ads, so they sell cheap phones (and more-or-less give away an OS to other phone manufacturers), and track as much of your online activity, and your real-world movements, as they possibly can.
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Well, in a proper database, you'd have a separate table for birthdays, and index into it using the employees ID from the employee table. This is McGuffin's Fifth Normal Form, or something. In this way, you get to replace the concept of NULL, with the concept of... er... not having an row. Which is different from having an entry containing NULL. Somehow. And THEN you get to write a function that is conditional on the existence of this row, rather than conditional on the presence of a NULL value, which is again, completely different.
They often just encrypt the avi file, and provide an exe called "MovieDecryptor.exe", or even "CodecInstaller.exe". Sometimes the movie is even nothing more than two hours of a screen showing a URL to visit. Very rarely, I suppose, they might try to exploit vulnerabilities in movie players though specially crafted AVI files, or whatever, but I suspect that's just simply too hard for most people. Especially when the exe files will catch plenty of downloaders.
I've seen the above methods used often, but I've never seen a file called *.avi.exe - not sure why, it seems like an even better method to me.
Yes. Plenty. And it's a far more pleasurable experience, not least because since our organisation dropped Exchange and Outlook and moved to google mail (lord save us....), we are left with exactly zero decent options for email from Windows. On a mac, Mail and Calendar integrate with the google stuff so well that I never have to use the browser-based versions at all. On Windows, what choices do I have? Everything I've tried so far basically sucks.
There will always be the homeless
Why would you believe that? Houses aren't even all that expensive.
The whole idea is the very definition of Hubris.
They do keep their proprietary OS from running on other hardware.
Do they do this actively, through cryptographic techniques etc, or do they do it just by not writing drivers for other hardware?
Safari has a 4.28% market share on the desktop, and a 14% share on mobile. I don't see how it's managing to hold back the web with market share like that.
the music is available to all users, etc, etc.
The kids strongly dislike the music I listen to, and the feeling is (somewhat) mutual.
Airdrop has never worked well for me
Me neither. What is up with that feature? It's a total disaster.
Most people are wrong.
Create apple ID accounts for your kids, and gift them apps if they need stuff. Create gmail accounts for your kids, so they can have their own email addresses. Put credit card information in neither, of course. Put two factor on everything, because kids always choose crap passwords, and make sure you store those passwords somewhere safe because kids can't remember anything. This makes life far, far, simpler. Having one account seems simple at first, but rapidly becomes a nightmare.
The idea of having my kids signed into my apple ID on their devices (which they have to have for school, by the way, before you start telling me that kids shouldn't own iPads etc) is a terrible one. A friend of mine managed to allow her kid to run up huge bills, precisely because she'd used her own apple ID on her kids ipad, and the kid bought $500 of in-game nonsense without her knowledge.
The issue isn't the removal of the headphone jack - they've been a terrible and unreliable piece of technology for decades. Professional gear doesn't use 3.5mm jacks, it uses 1/4" jacks, or XLR leads, or optical, or whatever. I don't use a 3.5mm jack on my work machine, I use a USB headset. Minijacks are fragile and crap. Even now, if you pop around to a non-techy person's house, and fancy putting some music from your device onto their stereo, the chances are that they won't have a minijack connector, and you'll be using bluetooth, or you'll be out of luck.
The issue is that it hasn't been replaced with something standard. The Lightning connector is an Apple controller digital interface, that no other device, not even their laptops, support.
That's what I did. With my mac. Any mac that has an optical drive is still one of those that contains user-upgradable RAM and HDD.
I guess you're technically correct, but even those examples of 'simple' editors are actually extremely complex pieces of technology that perform a great deal of cleverness with the underlying data before they display it on the screen. Adding another layer that automatically creates the indenting that you prefer to see, before saving away in some standard format, wouldn't prevent any of those existing things working properly.
Using whitespace to express indentation is completely retarded in any case. Editors should be smart enough to display code using whatever indentation style you prefer, and should save files with minimal whitespace inserted. Thus people get to look at their code however they prefer, and no-one ever has to worry about merging whitespace-only changes, because there would be no such thing. Quite how we've got this far, without anyone ever bothering to do this, is quite beyond me.
We have quite a large amount of code written in Python 2. It will never, ever, be ported to Python 3.
Well, sure, but if everyone did this the whole torrent system would completely collapse. So, if they make uploading illegal, and actually manage to really catch people doing it on a large scale, then there won't be any torrents left.
Torrents upload. People have been punished for that, I believe.
The VPN solution is hard to workaround, but it does require someone to purchase a VPN server somewhere. Blocking access to 'unauthorised' DNS server would be straightforwards if the UK cared to spend the money on the filtering hardware. Hell, they could even require you to apply for some kind of licence before they permit VPN traffic to be allowed out of your home connection. The UK are deadly serious about trying to lock down the internet, and now that they've decided to leave the EU, I don't see how anyone can stop them if they decide to try hard enough.
I don't think downgrading is that hard, is it? I think you hold 'option' down when you select upgrade in itunes, and it opens a file chooser that lets you select an OS image that you can download from somewhere dodgy, like here: http://www.getios.com/index.ph... I have tried this, and it did work.
maybe they're trying to have a clean, unified API so that apps work across different phones and OS versions.
Why would such an API be part of the Google Play app again? I missed the part where you explained how that makes sense. Such an API already exists for tracking location, and it's that API that's controlled by the privacy settings. Why make another one, built into an application that most people would never consider removing, that's not controlled by an individual application's privacy settings?
A friend of mine has a windows phone. The OS is fantastic, the design of the apps is really nice, the whole thing just seems really well thought out.
I'm sure though, if it had become as successful as full-blown windows, Microsoft would have found a way of cocking it up.
It won't be that power hungry forever. And then, this is how they'll do it.
I don't believe that it's even theoretically possible to anonymise this data, and still keep its utility. If you have location tracking data that's tied to any kind of identifier at all, even if there's no way of tying that identifier to an individual directly, you can still determine who it is by cross-referencing it with other data.
Even if you rotated the identifier every day, you'll probably find that an individual's motions throughout the day, coupled with other other ways of tracking a person (cellphone, CCTV, general knowledge about where a person lives and works) are unique enough to match up unambiguously in many cases.
Well, we did die without phones. Mobile phones have saved a great many lives over the decades since their invention. Smartphones, on the other hand, probably not so much. In principal I suppose they could lead emergency services to your location in case you couldn't give that information out due to incapacitating injury. But I've never heard of such a thing actually happening.
If they did that, they would end up charging as much as Apple do for their phones. This is the price you pay for cheap Android devices. It's a pretty simple equation really. Google want to sell ads, so they sell cheap phones (and more-or-less give away an OS to other phone manufacturers), and track as much of your online activity, and your real-world movements, as they possibly can.