More to the point, being abstracted from the machine-code level is the point of writing in a higher-level programming language.
Imagine the horror of writing a simple dialog box to enter a string in machine code. Maybe one in a ten million programmers has ever actually done that.
You should only even consider opening up the assembler manual if you are about to do something that's machine-specific and not supported by whatever higher-level language you're using for the bulk of your project.
Perhaps ruinevil was considering that there's value in understanding what operations processors can do at the the machine level, and I agree that there is, but it's easily overstated. 99.9% of the time, I don't care what low-level operations have to happen to make my higher-level program compute and I certtainly don't want to waste time thinking about it when I don't have to.
FCC rules aren't consumer protection laws at all. The comparable EU rules are 1999/5/EC (Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Directive), 2004/108/EC and 89/336/EEC (electromagnetic compatibility directives).
The nature of all of these laws is to regulate what electromagnetic radiation is allowed and what is disallowed. European rules are more extensive because they also regulate what kinds and amounts of radiation electronics must accept without malfunction.
These rules don't exist so much to protect consumers as to protect radio services so that operators can be reasonably assured that other radio users or electronics that unintentionally emit radio frequencies don't interfere with licensed or permitted users and that licensed users don't interfere with each other and thus make both systems inoperable in the presence of the other.
The bonus is that you can find airheads. Just looking around you will only tell you that they are women, not that they're also careless about their personal safety.
Because all borrowers end up indirectly paying for the cost of fraud. As is the case with many forms of financial risk, a lender typically insures against identity theft and credit card fraud. The cost of that insurance is factored into their interest rate and fee calculations and is passed on to the borrower.
Granted, insurance doesn't completely absolve the insured of all responsibility, in as much as a driver with car insurance would not think to be totally careless about driving. Lending institutions still have an interest in preventing fraud despite being insured. The point is that when fraud increases, or if there's a catastrophic breach (as in this case, opposed to isolated small-scale instances of ID theft), the associated financial costs eventually reach the borrowers.
That's a really basic problem with the system. Because they credit card industry can pass the costs on to their customers, they don't have any real incentive to fix the security problems. And the security problem is SEVERE. Anybody who gets your credit card number (including expiration date and "security code" which should be considered part of the card number) can make unauthorized charges. So at minimum, your credit card is exposed to every business you pay with that card -- for as long as that card is valid. If you use the card a lot, the account is exposed to hundreds of businesses, any one of which could have a dishonest employee recording card numbers.
The big fraud schemes are going to get stopped pretty soon because they look fishy even to the banks, but the bank isn't going to find every fraudulent transaction because many fraudulent buys look legit. A restaurant where you eat could charge you for another meal, or your waitress might buy herself a new pair of shoes. These could go unnoticed, so you need to cross check every purchase you make versus your bill. Because if you don't challenge it, you are paying.
And as wickerprints said, you're paying again even for the fraud the banks catch.
So how do we create an incentive for consumer credit to be made more secure?
Samurai isn't the right model for obligation to society at large. But what is?
I don't recognize any obligations I have to society at large. As long as my fist isn't impacting your nose, I shouldn't be any problem for you. I try to get along and cooperate with and support others when it's in my interest, as should you. I avoid and boycott bad behavior on the part of others, as should you. I don't think any more should be expected of either of us.
People who don't acknowledge any obligation to not fuck over the public are a problem. It sounds like you acknowledge that obligation. People who do work on large projects that could do serious harm to the public if things go wrong have a higher level of obligation.
On another note, believe me when I tell you that if your fist even comes close to my nose, it will quickly become a problem for you.
The first and most important engineering principle I learned - informally - was Murphy's Law.
It really should be taught as a formal discipline in all engineering schools, along with methods to assess and prioritize possible modes of failure and their consequences.
And one I forgot: Detect what language you are speaking and switch the audio to that language if it's available. If it's not English it can also attempt to verify your immigration status and put in a call to ICE.
Oh, hell, now that we're on spying ideas, there are some public-safety-relevant ones:
Detect assaults in progress and dispatch the police. Detect cries for help and dispatch the police. Detect snuggies and dispatch the fashion police.
but there is also potential for good And I claim the patents! (or at least establish the obviousness of the following applications)
Save power by detecting that all viewers have left the room and turning off the video.
Save even more power by detecting that nobody's watching in quite some time and turn off the set.
Save mindshare by telling advertisers that nobody is watching their stupid ads. (So they're motivated make more interesting ads.)
Save sanity by telling channels that nobody is watching their stupid programs. (So they're motivated to not air such complete garbage.)
Eliminate remotes. TVs can respond to verbal commands or gestures to change the channel, turn off the TV, change the volume, search for shows, enter credit card numbers Okay, that's evil, but it's my idea. This would reduce the amount of time spent digging in my couch.
Feed back info to local news channels that tell them nobody's interested in their damned "human interest" fluff pieces.
Video calls to grandma. How can you not approve of video calls to grandma?
Detect that there are kiddos in the room and automagically block porn.
Detect that there are nekkid kiddos in the room and automagically block the distribution of kiddie porn.
Detect that there are kiddos in the room and target them with ads for stuff their parents hate but won't be able to resist buying when the ids whine for it. Okay, evil again, I know.
Detect that there are kiddos in the room and skip the viagra and liquor ads.
Detect that there are no pets or kids in the house and skip the ads for cat litter and kids' junk.
Detect that there are no women in the room and skip the ads for feminine hygiene products and other stuff that men don't even want to think about.
Detect that you are sitting on a threadbare couch and wearing cheap clothes from Wal-Mart and skip the ads for stuff you can't afford.
So we have this situation where we believe a non-lethal dosage of this pesticide ruins the bee's ability to navigate back home which is a very serious problem. The real issue is that there's no way to quantify this and study it prior to releasing or approving a pesticide.
That's not the case. It is absolutely possible to test bees for adverse effects with low, nonlethal doses before giving approval for widespread use.
It depends on what you're writing. A scientific paper should probably be as literal as possible. On the other hand, being able to say two different things with the same line of text works very well for say, a mystery novel.
Seriously, an automatic essay reader is just an invitation for students to cheat. Why bother writing if your teacher isn't going to bother reading?
Just download random essays from the internet. If an algorithm becomes commonly used, it will be reverse-engineered and automatic essay writers can be made, optimized so that every essay it writes receives an A.
Shenzhen alone has 10 million people. Zhengzhao has 8 million. These are cities where they already have factories. They just need to bring them in and out of the factories.
Training is not that much of an issue for the majority of the workers. Most of the jobs are low-skill. High levels of training are only necessary for engineers and supervisors.
First, the chance that you'll ever need a genetic therapy is small.
Second, the science of making stem cells out of adult somatic cells is advancing, so most likely, if sombody who's a baby now ever needs gene therapy, they will probably be able to do it with stem cells from the adult patient.
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More to the point, being abstracted from the machine-code level is the point of writing in a higher-level programming language.
Imagine the horror of writing a simple dialog box to enter a string in machine code. Maybe one in a ten million programmers has ever actually done that.
You should only even consider opening up the assembler manual if you are about to do something that's machine-specific and not supported by whatever higher-level language you're using for the bulk of your project.
Perhaps ruinevil was considering that there's value in understanding what operations processors can do at the the machine level, and I agree that there is, but it's easily overstated. 99.9% of the time, I don't care what low-level operations have to happen to make my higher-level program compute and I certtainly don't want to waste time thinking about it when I don't have to.
FCC rules aren't consumer protection laws at all. The comparable EU rules are 1999/5/EC (Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Directive), 2004/108/EC and 89/336/EEC (electromagnetic compatibility directives).
The nature of all of these laws is to regulate what electromagnetic radiation is allowed and what is disallowed. European rules are more extensive because they also regulate what kinds and amounts of radiation electronics must accept without malfunction.
These rules don't exist so much to protect consumers as to protect radio services so that operators can be reasonably assured that other radio users or electronics that unintentionally emit radio frequencies don't interfere with licensed or permitted users and that licensed users don't interfere with each other and thus make both systems inoperable in the presence of the other.
As an American, it infuriates me that the USA doesn't have comparable warranty requirements. We're getting screwed.
The bonus is that you can find airheads. Just looking around you will only tell you that they are women, not that they're also careless about their personal safety.
Because all borrowers end up indirectly paying for the cost of fraud. As is the case with many forms of financial risk, a lender typically insures against identity theft and credit card fraud. The cost of that insurance is factored into their interest rate and fee calculations and is passed on to the borrower.
Granted, insurance doesn't completely absolve the insured of all responsibility, in as much as a driver with car insurance would not think to be totally careless about driving. Lending institutions still have an interest in preventing fraud despite being insured. The point is that when fraud increases, or if there's a catastrophic breach (as in this case, opposed to isolated small-scale instances of ID theft), the associated financial costs eventually reach the borrowers.
That's a really basic problem with the system. Because they credit card industry can pass the costs on to their customers, they don't have any real incentive to fix the security problems. And the security problem is SEVERE. Anybody who gets your credit card number (including expiration date and "security code" which should be considered part of the card number) can make unauthorized charges. So at minimum, your credit card is exposed to every business you pay with that card -- for as long as that card is valid. If you use the card a lot, the account is exposed to hundreds of businesses, any one of which could have a dishonest employee recording card numbers.
The big fraud schemes are going to get stopped pretty soon because they look fishy even to the banks, but the bank isn't going to find every fraudulent transaction because many fraudulent buys look legit. A restaurant where you eat could charge you for another meal, or your waitress might buy herself a new pair of shoes. These could go unnoticed, so you need to cross check every purchase you make versus your bill. Because if you don't challenge it, you are paying.
And as wickerprints said, you're paying again even for the fraud the banks catch.
So how do we create an incentive for consumer credit to be made more secure?
There will always be assholes who will push the limits of any kind of decency.
So we wll always need courts to rein them in.
Samurai isn't the right model for obligation to society at large. But what is?
I don't recognize any obligations I have to society at large. As long as my fist isn't impacting your nose, I shouldn't be any problem for you. I try to get along and cooperate with and support others when it's in my interest, as should you. I avoid and boycott bad behavior on the part of others, as should you. I don't think any more should be expected of either of us.
People who don't acknowledge any obligation to not fuck over the public are a problem. It sounds like you acknowledge that obligation. People who do work on large projects that could do serious harm to the public if things go wrong have a higher level of obligation.
On another note, believe me when I tell you that if your fist even comes close to my nose, it will quickly become a problem for you.
The first and most important engineering principle I learned - informally - was Murphy's Law.
It really should be taught as a formal discipline in all engineering schools, along with methods to assess and prioritize possible modes of failure and their consequences.
Duty to one's master an loyalty until death is a recipe for all kinds of corner cutting and neglect of wider obligations.
Samurai isn't the right model for obligation to society at large. But what is?
In a democratically controlled system of government, there is no excuse for the existence of unpopular laws.
Now we can have this out in court.
And one I forgot: Detect what language you are speaking and switch the audio to that language if it's available. If it's not English it can also attempt to verify your immigration status and put in a call to ICE.
Oh, hell, now that we're on spying ideas, there are some public-safety-relevant ones:
Detect assaults in progress and dispatch the police.
Detect cries for help and dispatch the police.
Detect snuggies and dispatch the fashion police.
but there is also potential for good And I claim the patents! (or at least establish the obviousness of the following applications)
Thus no patent.
How big would this thing need to be to get a human being to the moon in under a week?
They're going out of business anyway.
So we have this situation where we believe a non-lethal dosage of this pesticide ruins the bee's ability to navigate back home which is a very serious problem. The real issue is that there's no way to quantify this and study it prior to releasing or approving a pesticide.
That's not the case. It is absolutely possible to test bees for adverse effects with low, nonlethal doses before giving approval for widespread use.
More likely we'll get a panic and a grossly inappropriate reaction. Tar and feather some chemists!
Monsanto bees!
It depends on what you're writing. A scientific paper should probably be as literal as possible. On the other hand, being able to say two different things with the same line of text works very well for say, a mystery novel.
Or a politician.
Seriously, an automatic essay reader is just an invitation for students to cheat. Why bother writing if your teacher isn't going to bother reading?
Just download random essays from the internet. If an algorithm becomes commonly used, it will be reverse-engineered and automatic essay writers can be made, optimized so that every essay it writes receives an A.
Where's your evidence?
There are many other contract manufacturers in China.
There are many other contract manufacturers NOT in China.
This exemplifies something is really detest about Slashdot. Asking for evidence to support claims get modded down.
Is this just a shouting match?
Shenzhen alone has 10 million people. Zhengzhao has 8 million. These are cities where they already have factories. They just need to bring them in and out of the factories.
Training is not that much of an issue for the majority of the workers. Most of the jobs are low-skill. High levels of training are only necessary for engineers and supervisors.
IMO, you'd probably be wasting your money.
First, the chance that you'll ever need a genetic therapy is small.
Second, the science of making stem cells out of adult somatic cells is advancing, so most likely, if sombody who's a baby now ever needs gene therapy, they will probably be able to do it with stem cells from the adult patient.
They're saying Facebook, Google and Twitter are paragons of data security???