I think most JavaScript frameworks still use html forms for submission. I know Angular does. Preventing JavaScript from accessing a password field may have little ill effect and if the JavaScript framework has some legit reason to need to access a password field it could simply implement its own password masking, such as via these css properties: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58...
The tech giant likens its policy to stores allowing people to flip through newspapers and magazines before choosing which one to buy.
This analogy might carry more weight if there was a virtual store clerk eying you after you've been reading the same newspaper article for more than thirty seconds,
I started on Apple 2's in elementary school and then my dad got a Windows 3.1 computer at home which I used for about the same amount of time year over year. The only thing I did on either machine was play games, some of which had educational merit. The first time I used a computer for educational purposes was in middle school and those were Windows 95. In HS we only had Windows 98 machines. In college we used Ubuntu or Redhat linux exclusively, so I switched to using it on my own computers except when I played video games and even then I tried hard to use Wine but abandoned it eventually. Professionally I've only used Windows machines, sometimes interacting with Linux servers.
So, my story is that I have no brand loyalty but I use Windows because it's less of a hassle for every day use than Linux (found this out in college) and cheaper than Mac. I also think giving kids ChromeOS is not wise because no professional work environment is going to use ChromeOS; so they're training kids on an OS of limited usefulness in the workforce and college.
Constraining shady business tactics is a tax on the shady business and subsidy for the honest business? And you accuse me of ideological reasoning?
You also seem to be for constrained government but unconstrained business. Tell me how unfettered monopolistic business tactics lead to a healthy market.
That's great that they have various processes in place to counter review bias and train employees on counteracting bias but you're expecting us to take your word for it that these processes are perfect. The government has data leaked by an employee at Google that shows a significant disparity in compensation between men and women. They are requesting additional information from Google to disprove this but Google instead makes a PR blog post and somehow this proves there's no bias.
I'm not buying Google's PR blog post's assertions when the DOJ says something quite a bit different. https://www.theguardian.com/te...
If a calculation's input is biased, the calculation is biased. Based on Google's public statement on this topic, they have a giant blind spot in the form of employee evaluations which have been proven to be biased in favor of men.
Facebook provides seminars to their employees on combating bias in the workplace and they're so good my company suggested we watch them too, as they're freely available for all to see. I haven't seen something similar from Google.
Content providers on the Internet are effectively operating in a free market; there's millions of sites to choose from and they all get treated the same by our networks until the data reaches your ISP. ISPs are not operating in a free market due to all those government subsidies and regulations you're referring to, as well as the incredible up front cost for setting up a new broadband network in the US. Net neutrality is there to ensure that the Internet of content providers remains a free market by regulating ISPs in a way that prevents them from playing favorites with content providers.
Comcast and T-Mobile have already proven that they're not for free market content by favoring specific content provider's data over others, and Comcast went a step further by throttling traffic from content providers to extort money from them during contract negotiations. Comcast has also been caught blocking Internet ads they didn't like. How is deregulation going to change any of this?
He could hire a HS dropout who happened to learn CAD for minimum wage. Heck, one of my friends with an engineering degree was doing CAD work for $14/hr right out of college. Using extreme examples isn't helping your argument.
You're right that certain business models aren't viable when hiring American workers but should those businesses even be in the US? By enabling the limited number of businesses that cannot survive at American wages, we would enable exploitation by businesses which can.
Also, at minimum wage, the biggest cost of most businesses are going to be materials and shipping, not labor. The fast food industry is a perfect example of this because they keep claiming that raising wages will raise what they charge by a big amount but in actuality the wages are something like 3-15% of their operating expenses.
Do you have scientific evidence backing your claim or only require it of others? I hired someone to clean my apartment for a move out through Task Rabbit and paid them $250 for a day's work. They told me that they travel the world using apps like Task Rabbit in any city they choose and it is way better than the nine-to-five job they used to have. The nine-to-five job is not the ideal way to live one's life, it's just the social norm that people seem to love defending for seemingly legitimate reasons.
Why is removing workplace safety in your list? I was all for it until you put that one in there. Everything else is a net exporter of American wealth, measured in resources and dollars.
Immigrants attending an American University for four to eight years are on track for naturalization and easily qualify for green cards. The H1-B people I've worked with mostly went to school oversees and came here for a job that has better benefits and pay than their home country. They are also mostly slaves to their jobs because they only get two weeks to find a new job before their visa expires if they're fired or laid off; that means deportation btw. The company gets a lower paid, more agreeable worker from H1-B visas.
The corporations aren't genuine at all about their reasons for using H1-Bs in a vast majority of cases, and they're all pretending that they use them only for the extraordinary cases where they genuinely couldn't find local talent. The key piece missing in the CEO's statement is: "not enough local talent [for the best price]."
You're right that they were over generalizing but I think there's no disputing that h1-b workers export more money than American workers. I think this is an important factor that is mostly ignored by people who are for free trade.
The effects of increased export of our money is substantial and each individual who does it, contributes to the problem.
Firefox on Android is awesome, what are you talking about? I switched to Chrome on desktop due to performance issues but kind of want to switch back for the synchronization features. Firefox mobile has a button for loading a native app when one is available or you can continue using the browser. There aren't performance issues like on desktop. It's super easy to create launcher links to your favorite sites. You can push a site to desktop with a button press. Really, Chrome on mobile is not close to Firefox, feature wise.
Since this is a browser feature and many sites have floating top bars, I think the browser is responsible, not the website. The browser feature that enables the float could easily accommodate the scroll feature properly. This would be preferable to asking every site to implement custom JavaScript for a minority of users.
Do you have media keys on your keyboard? There are browser extensions that enable them for sites such as YouTube. BrowserMediaKeys for Firefox is one such extension.
I'm not a game developer but I am a software developer and most things these days are easily integrated. I imagine that Unity and Unreal both have a plethora of off the shelf modules for doing DRM. Maybe I'm wrong about that but considering how many games have DRM it would be pretty absurd for this not to be the case. What's your experience with integrating DRM with your games in recent years? How long does it take?
Waste their time on shitty DRM which will be "kracked" on day zero -- DRM only hinders honest people -- it doesn't stop the pirates.
I don't think you understood my point. I used to be a pirate, back in the days when CDROM was all the rage and it took time to find the correct pirated copy of the game and sometimes I got viruses that required reformatting my gaming pc. I still did it, but looking back it was an incredible waste of time. Considering the sophistication of some of the cracks I used, I'm guessing it took a hacker a considerable amount of time breaking the DRM for the game as well. All this extra effort to play a game makes it less likely for people to circumvent legitimate ways of playing it. It's not about not knowing how but rather what one's time and frustration is worth.
So to sum all that up; if a game costs $20 and it takes several hours to get a pirated copy, why bother? If the game costs $50 then it might be worth it. And that goes for making the crack too. I don't think a hacker will bother breaking DRM on a game retailing for $20.
I'd reply to the rest of your comment but I think we have enough to converse about already.
The whole point of security isn't to make theft or intrusion impossible. The point of security is to make it difficult enough that it's not worth time circumventing the security.
This developer doesn't get DRM and I don't understand why people dislike it. Most of the games I buy have it and I don't even notice it except for a blurb on the loading screen. Maybe everyone complaining about it uses Linux?
Yes, Comcast charges more than a municipal but that's not the point at all.
I had Clear Wireless internet for several years and it was really fast except for 6 to 9 pm when everyone was watching Netflix. If I needed to make a video call during that time I'd fail because everyone's watching tv.
You should try signing up for an ISP with a guaranteed minimum bandwidth. They're very rare and incredibly expensive.
I work in tech and most of my projects have been rather mundane, miniscule improvements for existing services. The ones that really tried to make a difference never made it past prototype phase because the expected profits didn't exceed the cost and risk to go full production with the product.
If we want big ideas solving big problems we need to lower the risk of failure, and the cost of entry for bold, innovative and possibly disruptive products and services.
People refer to Tesla and Uber as disruptive companies but was mass producing an electric car or building a Taxi app that innovative or disruptive? Compared to what we're used to, it is, but compared to all the shelved prototypes and pitched ideas, they really aren't.
When it comes down to it, the people with the money aren't willing to risk losing it on a great idea when they have a guaranteed return on investment on a small improvement to a proven service or product.
Your response sums up perfectly, what's wrong with my generation. We do have power to change things we just don't have the will to put in the effort because we'd rather vent on the intent about the problems and then play video games or watch Netflix.
Don't like your computer at work? Complain about it, build a coalition of your peers, make it absolutely clear that you're not responsible for security breaches when your out of date virus scanner lets a Trojan in. You could also threaten to leave your job for a shop that has more competent IT management.
I once sent a bill to my manager and IT support for the time I spent dealing with them failing to fix my problem and then fixing it myself, discovering in the end that they caused it. A short time later the IT director was fired for gutting his department's budget to the point that it could no longer function properly.
You have real power to make a difference but the wealthy and entrenched actively fight to minimize your impact and your own perception of your influence.
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I think most JavaScript frameworks still use html forms for submission. I know Angular does. Preventing JavaScript from accessing a password field may have little ill effect and if the JavaScript framework has some legit reason to need to access a password field it could simply implement its own password masking, such as via these css properties: https://stackoverflow.com/a/58...
The tech giant likens its policy to stores allowing people to flip through newspapers and magazines before choosing which one to buy.
This analogy might carry more weight if there was a virtual store clerk eying you after you've been reading the same newspaper article for more than thirty seconds,
I started on Apple 2's in elementary school and then my dad got a Windows 3.1 computer at home which I used for about the same amount of time year over year. The only thing I did on either machine was play games, some of which had educational merit. The first time I used a computer for educational purposes was in middle school and those were Windows 95. In HS we only had Windows 98 machines. In college we used Ubuntu or Redhat linux exclusively, so I switched to using it on my own computers except when I played video games and even then I tried hard to use Wine but abandoned it eventually. Professionally I've only used Windows machines, sometimes interacting with Linux servers.
So, my story is that I have no brand loyalty but I use Windows because it's less of a hassle for every day use than Linux (found this out in college) and cheaper than Mac. I also think giving kids ChromeOS is not wise because no professional work environment is going to use ChromeOS; so they're training kids on an OS of limited usefulness in the workforce and college.
Airline pilot's don't command that great of a salary. Private jet pilots on the other hand...
Constraining shady business tactics is a tax on the shady business and subsidy for the honest business? And you accuse me of ideological reasoning?
You also seem to be for constrained government but unconstrained business. Tell me how unfettered monopolistic business tactics lead to a healthy market.
That's great that they have various processes in place to counter review bias and train employees on counteracting bias but you're expecting us to take your word for it that these processes are perfect. The government has data leaked by an employee at Google that shows a significant disparity in compensation between men and women. They are requesting additional information from Google to disprove this but Google instead makes a PR blog post and somehow this proves there's no bias.
I'm not buying Google's PR blog post's assertions when the DOJ says something quite a bit different. https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Studies of this issue account for amount of experience when comparing sexes.
http://www.epi.org/publication...
If a calculation's input is biased, the calculation is biased. Based on Google's public statement on this topic, they have a giant blind spot in the form of employee evaluations which have been proven to be biased in favor of men.
Facebook provides seminars to their employees on combating bias in the workplace and they're so good my company suggested we watch them too, as they're freely available for all to see. I haven't seen something similar from Google.
Content providers on the Internet are effectively operating in a free market; there's millions of sites to choose from and they all get treated the same by our networks until the data reaches your ISP. ISPs are not operating in a free market due to all those government subsidies and regulations you're referring to, as well as the incredible up front cost for setting up a new broadband network in the US. Net neutrality is there to ensure that the Internet of content providers remains a free market by regulating ISPs in a way that prevents them from playing favorites with content providers.
Comcast and T-Mobile have already proven that they're not for free market content by favoring specific content provider's data over others, and Comcast went a step further by throttling traffic from content providers to extort money from them during contract negotiations. Comcast has also been caught blocking Internet ads they didn't like. How is deregulation going to change any of this?
He could hire a HS dropout who happened to learn CAD for minimum wage. Heck, one of my friends with an engineering degree was doing CAD work for $14/hr right out of college. Using extreme examples isn't helping your argument.
You're right that certain business models aren't viable when hiring American workers but should those businesses even be in the US? By enabling the limited number of businesses that cannot survive at American wages, we would enable exploitation by businesses which can.
Also, at minimum wage, the biggest cost of most businesses are going to be materials and shipping, not labor. The fast food industry is a perfect example of this because they keep claiming that raising wages will raise what they charge by a big amount but in actuality the wages are something like 3-15% of their operating expenses.
Do you have scientific evidence backing your claim or only require it of others? I hired someone to clean my apartment for a move out through Task Rabbit and paid them $250 for a day's work. They told me that they travel the world using apps like Task Rabbit in any city they choose and it is way better than the nine-to-five job they used to have. The nine-to-five job is not the ideal way to live one's life, it's just the social norm that people seem to love defending for seemingly legitimate reasons.
What if OP gets a small business loan in Scenario A?
Why is removing workplace safety in your list? I was all for it until you put that one in there. Everything else is a net exporter of American wealth, measured in resources and dollars.
Immigrants attending an American University for four to eight years are on track for naturalization and easily qualify for green cards. The H1-B people I've worked with mostly went to school oversees and came here for a job that has better benefits and pay than their home country. They are also mostly slaves to their jobs because they only get two weeks to find a new job before their visa expires if they're fired or laid off; that means deportation btw. The company gets a lower paid, more agreeable worker from H1-B visas.
The corporations aren't genuine at all about their reasons for using H1-Bs in a vast majority of cases, and they're all pretending that they use them only for the extraordinary cases where they genuinely couldn't find local talent. The key piece missing in the CEO's statement is: "not enough local talent [for the best price]."
You're right that they were over generalizing but I think there's no disputing that h1-b workers export more money than American workers. I think this is an important factor that is mostly ignored by people who are for free trade.
The effects of increased export of our money is substantial and each individual who does it, contributes to the problem.
Firefox on Android is awesome, what are you talking about? I switched to Chrome on desktop due to performance issues but kind of want to switch back for the synchronization features. Firefox mobile has a button for loading a native app when one is available or you can continue using the browser. There aren't performance issues like on desktop. It's super easy to create launcher links to your favorite sites. You can push a site to desktop with a button press. Really, Chrome on mobile is not close to Firefox, feature wise.
Cars are sold across state lines and all of them are composed of internationally sourced parts.
Since this is a browser feature and many sites have floating top bars, I think the browser is responsible, not the website. The browser feature that enables the float could easily accommodate the scroll feature properly. This would be preferable to asking every site to implement custom JavaScript for a minority of users.
Do you have media keys on your keyboard? There are browser extensions that enable them for sites such as YouTube. BrowserMediaKeys for Firefox is one such extension.
There, I fixed the title for ya.
Making the game better (which benefits everyone)
I'm not a game developer but I am a software developer and most things these days are easily integrated. I imagine that Unity and Unreal both have a plethora of off the shelf modules for doing DRM. Maybe I'm wrong about that but considering how many games have DRM it would be pretty absurd for this not to be the case. What's your experience with integrating DRM with your games in recent years? How long does it take?
Waste their time on shitty DRM which will be "kracked" on day zero -- DRM only hinders honest people -- it doesn't stop the pirates.
I don't think you understood my point. I used to be a pirate, back in the days when CDROM was all the rage and it took time to find the correct pirated copy of the game and sometimes I got viruses that required reformatting my gaming pc. I still did it, but looking back it was an incredible waste of time. Considering the sophistication of some of the cracks I used, I'm guessing it took a hacker a considerable amount of time breaking the DRM for the game as well. All this extra effort to play a game makes it less likely for people to circumvent legitimate ways of playing it. It's not about not knowing how but rather what one's time and frustration is worth.
So to sum all that up; if a game costs $20 and it takes several hours to get a pirated copy, why bother? If the game costs $50 then it might be worth it. And that goes for making the crack too. I don't think a hacker will bother breaking DRM on a game retailing for $20.
I'd reply to the rest of your comment but I think we have enough to converse about already.
The whole point of security isn't to make theft or intrusion impossible. The point of security is to make it difficult enough that it's not worth time circumventing the security.
This developer doesn't get DRM and I don't understand why people dislike it. Most of the games I buy have it and I don't even notice it except for a blurb on the loading screen. Maybe everyone complaining about it uses Linux?
That's also shared infrastructure... Sheesh.
Yes, Comcast charges more than a municipal but that's not the point at all.
I had Clear Wireless internet for several years and it was really fast except for 6 to 9 pm when everyone was watching Netflix. If I needed to make a video call during that time I'd fail because everyone's watching tv.
You should try signing up for an ISP with a guaranteed minimum bandwidth. They're very rare and incredibly expensive.
I work in tech and most of my projects have been rather mundane, miniscule improvements for existing services. The ones that really tried to make a difference never made it past prototype phase because the expected profits didn't exceed the cost and risk to go full production with the product.
If we want big ideas solving big problems we need to lower the risk of failure, and the cost of entry for bold, innovative and possibly disruptive products and services.
People refer to Tesla and Uber as disruptive companies but was mass producing an electric car or building a Taxi app that innovative or disruptive? Compared to what we're used to, it is, but compared to all the shelved prototypes and pitched ideas, they really aren't.
When it comes down to it, the people with the money aren't willing to risk losing it on a great idea when they have a guaranteed return on investment on a small improvement to a proven service or product.
Your response sums up perfectly, what's wrong with my generation. We do have power to change things we just don't have the will to put in the effort because we'd rather vent on the intent about the problems and then play video games or watch Netflix.
Don't like your computer at work? Complain about it, build a coalition of your peers, make it absolutely clear that you're not responsible for security breaches when your out of date virus scanner lets a Trojan in. You could also threaten to leave your job for a shop that has more competent IT management.
I once sent a bill to my manager and IT support for the time I spent dealing with them failing to fix my problem and then fixing it myself, discovering in the end that they caused it. A short time later the IT director was fired for gutting his department's budget to the point that it could no longer function properly.
You have real power to make a difference but the wealthy and entrenched actively fight to minimize your impact and your own perception of your influence.