I didn't say it won't resolve all bugs, I implied there will be less hassle developing applications which need to take care of a gazillion exceptions and what-ifs.
Mine. And my mobile provider's. As previously mentioned, different countries, different cultures.. Here, mobile subscriptions are really cheap, one of mine costs 5 EUR a month and you have free unlimited voice minutes to all landlines with very few exceptions, and thousands of international minutes, etc(*). So yes, people do call back most times because it costs them nothing. If I call someone and they don't answer, they call back almost without exception. The culture here is usually: texting is for things that can wait, phone calls are for things that can't wait, so if you have a missed call, you call back. Not all people do that, of course, but most do.
Now, when my mobile provider starts issuing warnings about this type of scam calls, you realize it's a problem and that people indeed do call back. Otherwise it wouldn't be an issue, would it?
No, I wouldn't. I might not be very knowledgeable in how banks work, but I know one thing for sure: personal card info is personal. Nobody from the bank will ever ask you for your PIN number or the three digits on the back of your card. Nobody, ever. If they ever do, change the bank because they are not handling your personal data professionally.
I don't know how things are in the USA, but in my country all banks allow you to change your PIN at the card issuer's ATMs, the card is mailed to you in a special envelope which makes it impossible to read the PIN number without compromising the envelope's integrity and you need to activate the card at a bank's ATM before being able to make any purchase. I have never heard of a phone purchase which requires you to give out your PIN or CCV to a human being. They might be a thing in other countries, though. If my bank calls me unexpectedly (only happened twice), they verify my identity through my equivalent of a SSN (here it's called Numeric Personal Code) where they ask me for half of it, then ask me for my first 4 and last 4 digits of my card. Never the whole number. If I express distrust, they tell me I can call them back or e-mail them at the phone number or contact e-mail provided on their main page, with instructions on how to reach that person afterwards (usually it's the department and the person's name), e.g. "I received a call from Jane Doe, private credit cards department".
With that being said, the phone scams here are simpler but very effective. You usually receive a call from an exotic phone number (Mauritius, Vanuatu, Gibraltar, etc). The phone rings once, maybe twice then stops. Most people are curious enough to call back... reaching a special line which costs 10 to 50 dollars per minute, where automated messages play back to you in your national language, telling you about issues with your bank account, guiding you through entering your card number, PIN, etc, all while sucking lots of money through your phone bill anyway. Now, if you actually answer the call, a prerecorded voice is going to tell you that there are issues with your account and instructing you to call back ASAP. Then the call ends. This costs them pennies because they rent entire trunks for cheap. One person calling back for a couple minutes covers a few thousand calls' worth from their side. I would have fallen for it at first because the nature of my job involves receiving the odd call from a weird country every now and then. Luckily, I don't call back unknown numbers because I'm busy anyway and if there's an emergency I know they will call again and again. Anyway, I developed a habit of quickly answering those calls and letting them play through. Lately, I only receive one a week, or less. I guess they will eventually stop because they would realize they are wasting their pennies on me.
You can create GUIs from within Excel through VBA. Also, Excel can connect to external sources as well. Point is you should use the best tool for the job. In some cases, Excel is king. in others, you need a different solution. you could also start with case A (Excel solution) and later it needs to be switched to case B (SQL, etc). Smart businesses do it. Others keep hammering at case A until it's a total mess.
Also, statistically speaking, taller people are usually better paid. But if salaries wouldn't have been confidential, then such situations wouldn't arise, or at least they would have been correctable.
Well, yes, until Unbox Therapy brought 9 phones together and half of them exhibited the problem. Remember, this only happens when the phone is charged through cable, not wirelessly, and when the cable is plugged in while the phone is idle. My guess is that very few people do that, and if they do and the screen doesn't lit up, they tap the screen to see what's going on, and then the phone starts charging. I would have not considered it as an issue, but a very small annoyance I could adapt to.
So the issue might be way more common, with the vast majority of users dismissing it as yet another weird feature they don't fully comprehend.
In my country, salaries are usually not disclosed by the employer and are considered confidential. No law against that, so there you have it. Also salaries are negotiated when you are hired, so she might have negotiated less aggressively, or the other fella might have pushed for a higher salary. Or their manager might have discriminated. I considered it a discriminatory thing because I believe in equal salaries for equal skills.
I just believe meritocracy should be enforced through proper methods, such as establishing objective skill metrics which should tell who is better equipped for a job without taking age, sex or color skin into consideration. The fact that candidate A is of this sex, that age or part of whatever minority should have zero weight in assessing whether that candidate is better fit for a job than candidate B. This law enforces irrelevant characteristics into the equation, therefore is contrary to my beliefs.
Situation 1: female co-worker discloses her salary to me. I witness her being discriminated, because I know of another male colleague with a similar function and less skill who is better paid, but I can't do anything about it because salaries are supposed to be confidential (in my country, at least). I can't fight against it, because it's based on proof obtained illegally, so-to-speak.
Situation 2: Minority fellas can't get jobs because employers don't trust them. Authorities themselves turn a blind eye. What am I supposed to do, start a holy-one-man crusade? A decade ago I helped one guy I knew (minority) get hired as a first level support in the company I work for, now he's a manager and makes more than I do. He probably wouldn't have been hired if I hadn't vouched for him. he doesn't know it and I won't tell him because it was not a big deal. But yes, discrimination towards minorities is a thing.
Seriously now... I don't feel discriminated from that regard. I am starting to feel age discrimination, though, which is hellishly difficult to prove but the feeling is there, nagging me every time I interview for a job change.
Yes, I am a white male. Yes I have witnessed discrimination against women. Yes, I have also witnessed discrimination against men. Yes, I have witnessed discrimination against minorities too.
Yes, I do believe measures must be taken to eliminate discrimination.
No, I do not think laws such as this would fall under the measures to eliminate discrimination” category, nor that they would do any good.
Ok, but while this occurrence happens rarely, it can be downloaded and reposted thousand times by various people, for various reasons. Then it's like a cancer which moderators fight to eradicate. Then you have car accidents occurring while being on Facebook Live, security cam footage of horrible scenes being uploaded and so on. Imagine liveleak posted on Facebook a thousand times over and having to be removed.
I worked as a field cameraman between 1999 and 2000, for a local TV in a town 50,000 people strong. There was a gruesome event every day. Fires, suicides, car accidents, you name it. We were contracted by the police to record all of those on tape and hand them a copy for their records. Back then it was difficult for Average Joe to record a footage of what happened and even more difficult to digitalize it and upload it to whatever excuse of social media existed at the time. Now, and passersby can pull out their phone and start recording video straight to Facebook. It's amazing how often people prioritize their brief moment of fame against the obvious need to help the victims of the event.
I am not surprised. The browser is the gateway to everything online, so it's only fitting that companies fight tooth and nail over customers. Is it moral? Debatable. Is it expected? I would say yes.
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I didn't say it won't resolve all bugs, I implied there will be less hassle developing applications which need to take care of a gazillion exceptions and what-ifs.
One more reason to do away with that monstrosity called DST”.
Based on what evidence?
Mine. And my mobile provider's. As previously mentioned, different countries, different cultures.. Here, mobile subscriptions are really cheap, one of mine costs 5 EUR a month and you have free unlimited voice minutes to all landlines with very few exceptions, and thousands of international minutes, etc(*). So yes, people do call back most times because it costs them nothing. If I call someone and they don't answer, they call back almost without exception. The culture here is usually: texting is for things that can wait, phone calls are for things that can't wait, so if you have a missed call, you call back. Not all people do that, of course, but most do.
Now, when my mobile provider starts issuing warnings about this type of scam calls, you realize it's a problem and that people indeed do call back. Otherwise it wouldn't be an issue, would it?
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"you'd fall for it, too"
No, I wouldn't. I might not be very knowledgeable in how banks work, but I know one thing for sure: personal card info is personal. Nobody from the bank will ever ask you for your PIN number or the three digits on the back of your card. Nobody, ever. If they ever do, change the bank because they are not handling your personal data professionally.
I don't know how things are in the USA, but in my country all banks allow you to change your PIN at the card issuer's ATMs, the card is mailed to you in a special envelope which makes it impossible to read the PIN number without compromising the envelope's integrity and you need to activate the card at a bank's ATM before being able to make any purchase. I have never heard of a phone purchase which requires you to give out your PIN or CCV to a human being. They might be a thing in other countries, though. If my bank calls me unexpectedly (only happened twice), they verify my identity through my equivalent of a SSN (here it's called Numeric Personal Code) where they ask me for half of it, then ask me for my first 4 and last 4 digits of my card. Never the whole number. If I express distrust, they tell me I can call them back or e-mail them at the phone number or contact e-mail provided on their main page, with instructions on how to reach that person afterwards (usually it's the department and the person's name), e.g. "I received a call from Jane Doe, private credit cards department".
With that being said, the phone scams here are simpler but very effective. You usually receive a call from an exotic phone number (Mauritius, Vanuatu, Gibraltar, etc). The phone rings once, maybe twice then stops. Most people are curious enough to call back... reaching a special line which costs 10 to 50 dollars per minute, where automated messages play back to you in your national language, telling you about issues with your bank account, guiding you through entering your card number, PIN, etc, all while sucking lots of money through your phone bill anyway. Now, if you actually answer the call, a prerecorded voice is going to tell you that there are issues with your account and instructing you to call back ASAP. Then the call ends. This costs them pennies because they rent entire trunks for cheap. One person calling back for a couple minutes covers a few thousand calls' worth from their side.
I would have fallen for it at first because the nature of my job involves receiving the odd call from a weird country every now and then. Luckily, I don't call back unknown numbers because I'm busy anyway and if there's an emergency I know they will call again and again. Anyway, I developed a habit of quickly answering those calls and letting them play through. Lately, I only receive one a week, or less. I guess they will eventually stop because they would realize they are wasting their pennies on me.
You can create GUIs from within Excel through VBA. Also, Excel can connect to external sources as well.
Point is you should use the best tool for the job. In some cases, Excel is king. in others, you need a different solution. you could also start with case A (Excel solution) and later it needs to be switched to case B (SQL, etc). Smart businesses do it. Others keep hammering at case A until it's a total mess.
good luck sharing that with non-technical people.
Also, statistically speaking, taller people are usually better paid.
But if salaries wouldn't have been confidential, then such situations wouldn't arise, or at least they would have been correctable.
I have. It completely sucks. It's weird, requires lots of money and paperwork, takes ages and then there's the yearly fee.
Well, yes, until Unbox Therapy brought 9 phones together and half of them exhibited the problem.
Remember, this only happens when the phone is charged through cable, not wirelessly, and when the cable is plugged in while the phone is idle. My guess is that very few people do that, and if they do and the screen doesn't lit up, they tap the screen to see what's going on, and then the phone starts charging. I would have not considered it as an issue, but a very small annoyance I could adapt to.
So the issue might be way more common, with the vast majority of users dismissing it as yet another weird feature they don't fully comprehend.
1. Romania. Salary disclosure is optional, so most companies choose to restrict it.
2. I never said discrimination works one way.
In my country, salaries are usually not disclosed by the employer and are considered confidential. No law against that, so there you have it.
Also salaries are negotiated when you are hired, so she might have negotiated less aggressively, or the other fella might have pushed for a higher salary. Or their manager might have discriminated. I considered it a discriminatory thing because I believe in equal salaries for equal skills.
I just believe meritocracy should be enforced through proper methods, such as establishing objective skill metrics which should tell who is better equipped for a job without taking age, sex or color skin into consideration.
The fact that candidate A is of this sex, that age or part of whatever minority should have zero weight in assessing whether that candidate is better fit for a job than candidate B. This law enforces irrelevant characteristics into the equation, therefore is contrary to my beliefs.
1. Can they do that legally?
2. Can this be avoided by changing your facial expression while the phone is shoved in your face?
1933 called, it wants its Nazis back.
Situation 1: female co-worker discloses her salary to me. I witness her being discriminated, because I know of another male colleague with a similar function and less skill who is better paid, but I can't do anything about it because salaries are supposed to be confidential (in my country, at least). I can't fight against it, because it's based on proof obtained illegally, so-to-speak.
Situation 2: Minority fellas can't get jobs because employers don't trust them. Authorities themselves turn a blind eye. What am I supposed to do, start a holy-one-man crusade? A decade ago I helped one guy I knew (minority) get hired as a first level support in the company I work for, now he's a manager and makes more than I do. He probably wouldn't have been hired if I hadn't vouched for him. he doesn't know it and I won't tell him because it was not a big deal. But yes, discrimination towards minorities is a thing.
Seriously now... I don't feel discriminated from that regard. I am starting to feel age discrimination, though, which is hellishly difficult to prove but the feeling is there, nagging me every time I interview for a job change.
Shit. So did I.
Yes, I am a white male.
Yes I have witnessed discrimination against women.
Yes, I have also witnessed discrimination against men.
Yes, I have witnessed discrimination against minorities too.
Yes, I do believe measures must be taken to eliminate discrimination.
No, I do not think laws such as this would fall under the measures to eliminate discrimination” category, nor that they would do any good.
Ok, but while this occurrence happens rarely, it can be downloaded and reposted thousand times by various people, for various reasons. Then it's like a cancer which moderators fight to eradicate.
Then you have car accidents occurring while being on Facebook Live, security cam footage of horrible scenes being uploaded and so on. Imagine liveleak posted on Facebook a thousand times over and having to be removed.
I worked as a field cameraman between 1999 and 2000, for a local TV in a town 50,000 people strong. There was a gruesome event every day. Fires, suicides, car accidents, you name it. We were contracted by the police to record all of those on tape and hand them a copy for their records. Back then it was difficult for Average Joe to record a footage of what happened and even more difficult to digitalize it and upload it to whatever excuse of social media existed at the time. Now, and passersby can pull out their phone and start recording video straight to Facebook. It's amazing how often people prioritize their brief moment of fame against the obvious need to help the victims of the event.
Also, I very much doubt that much illegal content gets uploaded to Facebook, were it should be pretty easy to identify who did it.
You'd be surprised...
I am not surprised. The browser is the gateway to everything online, so it's only fitting that companies fight tooth and nail over customers.
Is it moral? Debatable. Is it expected? I would say yes.
I've read "the height of hillary".
Big rock coming our way, discovered by that facility. Silence needs to be kept, FBI will do the job.
Speaking of which... it's much simpler to make electricity than fuel.
Are you aware of the fact that the vast majority of fuel stations can't manually pump out the fuel in case they run out of power?