I think that you hit the nail on the head! There is unfortunately no incentive to be honest. It's the same as in politics. If you are honest then you get no votes because you make no promises (that you know that you cannot honour) and when they find out that your opponent lied then they assume that everyone lies which rubs off on you.
Or sports for that matter, what good is it to compete without steroids when all that will happen is that people will assume that you take it anyway and if you don't you will have a disadvantage towards the ones who actually do.
The big question would be how we as a society can move from this absurd reality into a world where honesty actually would pay off. I don't know.
While the PIN is stored on the card it cannot be read externally since you cannot read that part of memory using the pins on the card. AFAIK when you enter the pin on the terminal it sends it to the card together with the amount and then the card creates a one time key for that amount signed with the cards internal secret key if the pin matches what it has stored inside and this one time key is what it sends to the terminal and which it in turn sends to VISA/Mastercard/... so yes the chip+pin is way more secure than the old magstripe and the chip+signature.
That's a common problem among all professions, can be brilliant in your field but look like a complete idiot outside of it. Which is why rocket scientists shouldn't debate whether 9/11 was due to controlled demolitions or not.
I'm not sure that it's Samsung, HTC, LG etc that is complaining here since TFS mentions that the complaints are made by "mobile application makers". Could be that TFS has gotten it wrong or it could be that it's actually app makers that have made the complaints and not the hardware makers.
It's ok for you no like C the language but nothing that you brought up has anything to do with portability. All those integer types and all those string types can be used on all platforms. Where you see complexity I see freedom and where you see simplicity I see constraints, but that is just subjective opinions which we are both entitled to have without the other being either right or wrong. What matters is that it has nothing to do with portability what so ever.
bot no one mentioned LAN:s, of course multicast works well on LANS, most of the stock trading systems that I connect to use multicast to distribute their data. No one is supposng to switch LANs to use IPv6 and since multicast does not work at all over the Internet there is no change if we change to IPv6 on the Internet either. The point is ofcourse also moot since multicast works just fins in IPv6 as well..
The problem is just that several years down the line when these "liberated" ip addresses are used up people will still be just as close to imlement IPv6 as they are today so it will just delay the inevitable and not create a vacuum in which IPv6 could be implemented in full scale.
Frankly I don't see the big problem, my cheap ass Internet router is IPv6 compatible, all current operating systems including mobile phones are IPv6 compatible and so on. At work we run dual stacks on all our server with any problems what so ever, we even get IPv6 addresses from Verizon in one of our sites (imagine that!).
How is not the primitive types in Java fixed? To me as a C coder writing portable code it's actually a good thing that uint64_t is an unsigned 64 bit integer regardless of platform, how in the world can that be seen as a portability problem?
- I grant you that big- and little-endian is a problem for code that moves data between systems, but that is why there is the ntohl() and htonl() functions and why you always define what endian the communications protocol has (if you move binary data)
- String and Text encoding is similar to how it works in Java, if you have to read an external file in Java you have to convert it to the internal unicode format. Having worked with both languages in this respect I cannot see any difference to be honest
- Compiled binary is of course a given, I thought that we talked about code and not binaries.
Of couse I'm new, I have only been coding for 33 years now;) Don't confuse me with someone who hates Java, I wrote the first JVM for the Amiga in 680x0 assembler back when SUN first presented the language.
What should I think about? C does not have any platform specific parts as part of the spec just like Java. C can use platform specific parts, which is also true about Java. Regarding your sink you wrote yourself that it has no house-specific parts so what is your point with that example? Do you somehow believe that your sink needs porting?
C does not have platform specific pieces either. There are of course shared libraries (what you call frameworks) that might be platform specific but that has nothing to do with the language just like you can do with for example com.sun.jna.win32 in Java.
I would think that it would be way more frequently with us that does not have English as a native/first language. Just like how 100% of all C64/Amiga demos back in they day from Europe always spelled "coming" as "comming". Or how "bass" is always both spelled and pronounced "base" in most songs.
Probably, I don't think that they can eject me for something that I don't have considering that I'm neither a US citizen nor have English as a first spoken language.
Apparently most of the have been fixed a long time ago, the rationale behind the 185 number is that the account was compromised back in September 2013 and according to the user history he had looked at 185 bugs during that time frame.
Also the particular study in TFA does not seam to have used a placebo group at all. And the previous study (the PROUD study) gave all in the placebo group the real drug after 12 months.
Thanks for the first informative post to this article!
Myself I first also scoffed at the idea of a SmartWatch and thought that I never would use one. But then my employer gave us all a Moto360 as Christmas present last Christmas and I have now noticed that when I walk outside and have forgot the watch I really really miss it. Every time the phone pings that there is a mail or sms to read I look at my arm and realise that the watch isn't there at the moment:)
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I think that you hit the nail on the head! There is unfortunately no incentive to be honest. It's the same as in politics. If you are honest then you get no votes because you make no promises (that you know that you cannot honour) and when they find out that your opponent lied then they assume that everyone lies which rubs off on you.
Or sports for that matter, what good is it to compete without steroids when all that will happen is that people will assume that you take it anyway and if you don't you will have a disadvantage towards the ones who actually do.
The big question would be how we as a society can move from this absurd reality into a world where honesty actually would pay off. I don't know.
While the PIN is stored on the card it cannot be read externally since you cannot read that part of memory using the pins on the card. AFAIK when you enter the pin on the terminal it sends it to the card together with the amount and then the card creates a one time key for that amount signed with the cards internal secret key if the pin matches what it has stored inside and this one time key is what it sends to the terminal and which it in turn sends to VISA/Mastercard/... so yes the chip+pin is way more secure than the old magstripe and the chip+signature.
Exactly this! There are amazing amounts of work that people do manually that could be performed much fast with a simple script.
That's a common problem among all professions, can be brilliant in your field but look like a complete idiot outside of it. Which is why rocket scientists shouldn't debate whether 9/11 was due to controlled demolitions or not.
Indeed, I have relatives that makes good money off of television shows that "teach" people how to rebuild their kitchens and homes.
I'm not sure that it's Samsung, HTC, LG etc that is complaining here since TFS mentions that the complaints are made by "mobile application makers". Could be that TFS has gotten it wrong or it could be that it's actually app makers that have made the complaints and not the hardware makers.
It's ok for you no like C the language but nothing that you brought up has anything to do with portability. All those integer types and all those string types can be used on all platforms. Where you see complexity I see freedom and where you see simplicity I see constraints, but that is just subjective opinions which we are both entitled to have without the other being either right or wrong. What matters is that it has nothing to do with portability what so ever.
bot no one mentioned LAN:s, of course multicast works well on LANS, most of the stock trading systems that I connect to use multicast to distribute their data. No one is supposng to switch LANs to use IPv6 and since multicast does not work at all over the Internet there is no change if we change to IPv6 on the Internet either. The point is ofcourse also moot since multicast works just fins in IPv6 as well..
It's not like multicast work on the Internet in IPv4 either since it's blocked hard at the ISP level.
The problem is just that several years down the line when these "liberated" ip addresses are used up people will still be just as close to imlement IPv6 as they are today so it will just delay the inevitable and not create a vacuum in which IPv6 could be implemented in full scale.
Frankly I don't see the big problem, my cheap ass Internet router is IPv6 compatible, all current operating systems including mobile phones are IPv6 compatible and so on. At work we run dual stacks on all our server with any problems what so ever, we even get IPv6 addresses from Verizon in one of our sites (imagine that!).
How is not the primitive types in Java fixed? To me as a C coder writing portable code it's actually a good thing that uint64_t is an unsigned 64 bit integer regardless of platform, how in the world can that be seen as a portability problem?
- I grant you that big- and little-endian is a problem for code that moves data between systems, but that is why there is the ntohl() and htonl() functions and why you always define what endian the communications protocol has (if you move binary data)
- String and Text encoding is similar to how it works in Java, if you have to read an external file in Java you have to convert it to the internal unicode format. Having worked with both languages in this respect I cannot see any difference to be honest
- Compiled binary is of course a given, I thought that we talked about code and not binaries.
Of couse I'm new, I have only been coding for 33 years now ;) Don't confuse me with someone who hates Java, I wrote the first JVM for the Amiga in 680x0 assembler back when SUN first presented the language.
That is because the flu is not the same virus, each new outbreak is from a new strain.
What should I think about? C does not have any platform specific parts as part of the spec just like Java. C can use platform specific parts, which is also true about Java. Regarding your sink you wrote yourself that it has no house-specific parts so what is your point with that example? Do you somehow believe that your sink needs porting?
C does not have platform specific pieces either. There are of course shared libraries (what you call frameworks) that might be platform specific but that has nothing to do with the language just like you can do with for example com.sun.jna.win32 in Java.
The reasoning is probable: because of lawyers.
I would think that it would be way more frequently with us that does not have English as a native/first language. Just like how 100% of all C64/Amiga demos back in they day from Europe always spelled "coming" as "comming". Or how "bass" is always both spelled and pronounced "base" in most songs.
Probably, I don't think that they can eject me for something that I don't have considering that I'm neither a US citizen nor have English as a first spoken language.
Can one actually loose an American Citizenship?
Apparently most of the have been fixed a long time ago, the rationale behind the 185 number is that the account was compromised back in September 2013 and according to the user history he had looked at 185 bugs during that time frame.
Is 2.7% really a statistically significant value in a group of 1000 individuals?
Also the particular study in TFA does not seam to have used a placebo group at all. And the previous study (the PROUD study) gave all in the placebo group the real drug after 12 months.
Thanks for the first informative post to this article!
Myself I first also scoffed at the idea of a SmartWatch and thought that I never would use one. But then my employer gave us all a Moto360 as Christmas present last Christmas and I have now noticed that when I walk outside and have forgot the watch I really really miss it. Every time the phone pings that there is a mail or sms to read I look at my arm and realise that the watch isn't there at the moment :)
So why do you not go and collect the Amazing Randi One Million dollar price then? Must be easy money for someone as sensitive like yourself.
Atleast it was "complex" homeopathy. Wonder what that means though, even more diluted than normal perhaps?
Sounds more like your workplace is full of idiots than full of men.