I worked for a market research company, and I know for a fact that leading questions are routine. Especially when something that seems "extreme" is concluded from the survey results, such as:
almost half of the respondents 48% admit that if they were fired tomorrow they would take company information with them and 39% of people would download company/competitive information if they got wind that their job was at risk.
But you are right that this does not mean for certain that your survey is unscientific. If you have confidence in it, by all means, post the questions, the selection criteria, and the means by which the results were calculated. That would silence the skeptics, I'm sure.
How exactly is "company/competitive" information defined in the survey? If I "download" the email addresses of my coworkers so that I could continue to communicate with them after I leave the company, would I be counted among those who stole "company/competitive information"? That information is harmless, and should not be lumped with the downloading of password lists, digital signature keys, financial data, and the like.
The survey entitled 'the global recession and its effect on work ethics,' carried out for a second year by Cyber-Ark
Speaking of professional ethics, who wants to bet that a survey sponsored by Cyber-Ark uses leading questions to produce results which bolster their business?
Wouldn't the complexities of programming it be handled by a compiler? If someone managed to write one
What you say is true, but the most important part, which you leave out, is that managing to write a compiler is crazy difficult for some instructions sets. x86 is not around today because it's technically superior; it's with us because the compilers for better architectures are just too damn hard to write.
The number of combinations in a 128b encryption key is roughly equal to the number of combinations in a 20 (random) character password, when typed on a US keyboard.
128b encryption is unbreakable even by military (2^128 is a cosmological number, and they only have astronomical computers;-)). But if you use 19 characters instead of 20, the possible combinations shrink by roughly 99%. Compound that for each less password, and you see that a 10-character password takes about 0.0000000000000000001% of the time it would take to break a 20 character password.
And if your password is made up of dictionary words, or simple combinations thereof, you're just plain fuct.
In fact, mimicking the human brain may be the least-useful thing the researchers could do. An exact simulation of the human brain would be a person--with emotions, desires, fears... and human rights! That is not useful. A brain with human problem-solving abilities (and inhuman math and logic abilities) but no emotions: that would actually be useful.
I've never heard of any cryonics system that works that way. From what I've read, they all freeze you immediately after death, with the assumption that a dead (but not decomposed) brain could be "rebooted" and continue function assuming certain future technology.
The cryonics companies in the US absolutely do not freeze people unless they have been pronounced dead already.
I don't think you're very good at risk analysis. The risk of you dieing without cryonics: 100%. Compare that to the chance that you're never revived. Doesn't take long, does it? Even with a one in a million chance of ever being revived, it's worth it because you have nothing to lose!
The government sells inflation-protected bonds. So instead of getting 4% on your money and taking your chances with inflation, you get 2% interest on top of whatever the inflation rate is (basically).
In my experience, Netbeans takes about ten times longer to load on a mechanical disk. If you call that negligible, you have a very strange definition of "negligible."
With a mechanical disk, you must wait on apps to load. With a fast SSD, they load as fast as you click. That is a huge difference. Your train of thought is never derailed due to disk waits.
There is no cure for net latency yet. This is irrelevant. My computer works as fast as I think, and I love that!
I bought a SATA SSD which can read and write at around 200MB/s. It was the greatest upgrade I've ever done, and for just $200 (less than my CPU or GPU). Now, I can't stand waiting for things to load when I have to work using mechanical hard drives.
If 200MB/s is that big a difference, 800MB/s is going to be... actually probably not that much better. My computer already feels "instant."
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I worked for a market research company, and I know for a fact that leading questions are routine. Especially when something that seems "extreme" is concluded from the survey results, such as:
But you are right that this does not mean for certain that your survey is unscientific. If you have confidence in it, by all means, post the questions, the selection criteria, and the means by which the results were calculated. That would silence the skeptics, I'm sure.
How exactly is "company/competitive" information defined in the survey? If I "download" the email addresses of my coworkers so that I could continue to communicate with them after I leave the company, would I be counted among those who stole "company/competitive information"? That information is harmless, and should not be lumped with the downloading of password lists, digital signature keys, financial data, and the like.
Who gave you the ability to decide that, the Pope?
Speaking of professional ethics, who wants to bet that a survey sponsored by Cyber-Ark uses leading questions to produce results which bolster their business?
Professors make an average of $100k according to the BLS. That's a lot, in any part of the world.
Congrats on birthing one of the worst analogies ever posted to slashdot.
Sprint frowns upon your omission.
I've gotta say, you are a perfect European stereotype. Tiny running shorts, pooping in the woods, then measuring it in units of "egg cup fulls."
Is that metric egg cup fulls, by the way?
What you say is true, but the most important part, which you leave out, is that managing to write a compiler is crazy difficult for some instructions sets. x86 is not around today because it's technically superior; it's with us because the compilers for better architectures are just too damn hard to write.
Uh... you're in the wrong place. This is where we bitch about IE, not Firefox.
Still no full PNG support, therefore still a dud of a product.
There are actually 95 typable characters on a US keyboard. (26 letters + 10 numbers +11 symbols) x2 (with shift key) + spacebar.
95^20 = 2^128, so if you're using fewer than 20 characters with your AES128 encryption, you don't really have AES128 encryption...
The number of combinations in a 128b encryption key is roughly equal to the number of combinations in a 20 (random) character password, when typed on a US keyboard.
128b encryption is unbreakable even by military (2^128 is a cosmological number, and they only have astronomical computers ;-)). But if you use 19 characters instead of 20, the possible combinations shrink by roughly 99%. Compound that for each less password, and you see that a 10-character password takes about 0.0000000000000000001% of the time it would take to break a 20 character password.
And if your password is made up of dictionary words, or simple combinations thereof, you're just plain fuct.
In fact, mimicking the human brain may be the least-useful thing the researchers could do. An exact simulation of the human brain would be a person--with emotions, desires, fears... and human rights! That is not useful. A brain with human problem-solving abilities (and inhuman math and logic abilities) but no emotions: that would actually be useful.
Outlaw moving money? Holy unintended consequences...
Actually, when you're dead, that money isn't worth anything to you.
I've never heard of any cryonics system that works that way. From what I've read, they all freeze you immediately after death, with the assumption that a dead (but not decomposed) brain could be "rebooted" and continue function assuming certain future technology.
The cryonics companies in the US absolutely do not freeze people unless they have been pronounced dead already.
I don't think you're very good at risk analysis. The risk of you dieing without cryonics: 100%. Compare that to the chance that you're never revived. Doesn't take long, does it? Even with a one in a million chance of ever being revived, it's worth it because you have nothing to lose!
The government sells inflation-protected bonds. So instead of getting 4% on your money and taking your chances with inflation, you get 2% interest on top of whatever the inflation rate is (basically).
Outlaw trust funds and the rich will move their money to a country which allows them.
GNOME uses vector icons.
In my experience, Netbeans takes about ten times longer to load on a mechanical disk. If you call that negligible, you have a very strange definition of "negligible."
With a mechanical disk, you must wait on apps to load. With a fast SSD, they load as fast as you click. That is a huge difference. Your train of thought is never derailed due to disk waits.
There is no cure for net latency yet. This is irrelevant. My computer works as fast as I think, and I love that!
Therefore, there exists no person X such that X knows this. QED.
I bought a SATA SSD which can read and write at around 200MB/s. It was the greatest upgrade I've ever done, and for just $200 (less than my CPU or GPU). Now, I can't stand waiting for things to load when I have to work using mechanical hard drives.
If 200MB/s is that big a difference, 800MB/s is going to be... actually probably not that much better. My computer already feels "instant."
So move to an OS which uses vector icons...