I agree 100%. I don't think the solution is to make women work more horrible jobs, but increase the quality of life for everyone by refusing to be exploited. One thing that people don't think about is that increasing the number of women in a particular field forces management to change their policies in ways that help everyone.
Says the pigeonhole principle. If the man is working 80 hours weeks he doesn't physically have time to do the work at home. Those situations are common for men, but women cannot afford to do overtime because they don't have a safety net to take care of the work at home.
You can get months off whenever you want for any medical condition you or your family might have. It's called FMLA and your employer is required by law to respect it. You probably won't get paid, but you can't get fired either. Maternity leave is the same in a lot of (most?) places. You can use your sick leave if you have any, but then you are taking unpaid.
The problem is that you are controlling for things that actually do matter. Why are women less likely to work long hours? Because if you have a family, it is societally expected that the wife will pick up the slack in order for the husband to work longer. Look at any "high powered" man with a family and you will find that situation. Even if the wife has a full time job, she still has to do the majority of the work at home. It is not acceptable for a woman to work more and a husband to do the house work, so there is no opportunity for them to do it (of course there are exceptions, but I am talking on the whole).
What you're not considering though is that, in order for that guy to be able to do 10 hours of unpaid overtime, he has to have a wife at home willing to do all the child care and house work, even if she also has a full time job. It is societally expected that women will do that for a husband, so they are able to do crazy things like that. Of course, he might not have a family, but that situation is not in the majority. Most men have families and their wife picks up the slack at home.
Kids are only a bigger obligation for women because society expects them to do the majority of care and household work, even when they have full time jobs. If that weren't true, then you would see dads having the same problem and working less hours.
What are you talking about? Of course the rate on Mt Gox has gone down, they are the ones imploding. Other exchanges are still trading at $500+ right now though.
So how then do you propose that we deal with the systemic inequality in the US caused by slavery? Like it or not, most people end up with very similar means to their parents. It sometimes happens that you can go from lower class to middle class or middle class to upper class, but those cases are the exception rather than the rule. Unfortunately, 150 years ago every black family in the US started out with a disadvantage. You can't possibly believe that it doesn't still effect our modern society. What do you do about that if not some kind of affirmative action?
There's a huge gap between what researchers know and what is actually done in practice. Academia knew about padding attacks on TLS for a decade before someone actually made it into an exploit that forced developers to fix their code. Using your example, we already have SHA-3 even though you say no one uses SHA-2 yet.
That is from over four years ago, which, in a field that moves as fast as cryptography, might as well be a lifetime. There have been at least five new generations of homomorphic encryption since then, to the point that it is trillions of times faster now than it was when he posted that.
That is preposterous and you know it. Your fixed costs (rent, utilities, etc) in any large city would be over 70% of your income. That's not including: food, transportation to and from your job (easily thousands of dollars per year), clothes, and medical expenses, because you won't have insurance on a minimum wage job. Your notion that unskilled jobs should pay less or else no one has incentive to become skilled is also ridiculous. One of the BIGGEST incentives is to not have to work a mind-numbing job and instead be able to do something creative or intellectually fulfilling.
True, but it would cost an obscene amount of money and/or be obnoxiously large. Fortunately you usually enter the pin on the small, bank issued card reader and not the POS, and it's much harder to put a hardware skimmer or malicious software on that thing.
Even without the PIN security, it is still better than magnetic stripe because you can't easily clone the card. You have to physically steal it, not do an attack like the Target one where they skimmed all the information from thousands of customers without them knowing.
lolwut? What does this have to do with chip and PIN? You can definitely do that now with magnetic stripe, because all the info is available and unencrypted (there is actually a product that will do it on purpose so you don't have to carry around as many cards), but it actually isn't possible with chip and PIN because it is a challenge response system. There are still some flaws with it, but it is better than the magnetic stripe cards by a long shot. Take your weird fear mongering somewhere else please.
With the machine that is given out by the credit card companies you need to pretty much touch it, but security researchers have shown that you can use higher powered equipment to read it from up to 15-20 feet away.
Chip and PIN cards use a challenge-response protocol so even if you skim all the information you can only make one charge before it becomes invalid. There is actually a microprocessor on the card that does crypto so the credentials transferred only allow a single authorized transaction. So if the charge goes through for the thing you were supposed to be buying, then you know you aren't getting scammed. Technically they could block the charge and do another one that gives the money to them, but that is a lot harder and more likely to be noticed.
They're almost all backwards compatible. I've never been to a place where I couldn't use the ATM. Sometimes vendors won't accept it because they only have the hardware for chip and PIN, but ATMs usually work.
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I agree 100%. I don't think the solution is to make women work more horrible jobs, but increase the quality of life for everyone by refusing to be exploited. One thing that people don't think about is that increasing the number of women in a particular field forces management to change their policies in ways that help everyone.
Yes, being single is surely an option, but most people are not single. I was speaking to those situations, which are in the majority.
Says the pigeonhole principle. If the man is working 80 hours weeks he doesn't physically have time to do the work at home. Those situations are common for men, but women cannot afford to do overtime because they don't have a safety net to take care of the work at home.
You can get months off whenever you want for any medical condition you or your family might have. It's called FMLA and your employer is required by law to respect it. You probably won't get paid, but you can't get fired either. Maternity leave is the same in a lot of (most?) places. You can use your sick leave if you have any, but then you are taking unpaid.
I think he meant that it had a good texture when you bite into it. Like it didn't fall apart or was soggy or something.
The problem is that you are controlling for things that actually do matter. Why are women less likely to work long hours? Because if you have a family, it is societally expected that the wife will pick up the slack in order for the husband to work longer. Look at any "high powered" man with a family and you will find that situation. Even if the wife has a full time job, she still has to do the majority of the work at home. It is not acceptable for a woman to work more and a husband to do the house work, so there is no opportunity for them to do it (of course there are exceptions, but I am talking on the whole).
What you're not considering though is that, in order for that guy to be able to do 10 hours of unpaid overtime, he has to have a wife at home willing to do all the child care and house work, even if she also has a full time job. It is societally expected that women will do that for a husband, so they are able to do crazy things like that. Of course, he might not have a family, but that situation is not in the majority. Most men have families and their wife picks up the slack at home.
Kids are only a bigger obligation for women because society expects them to do the majority of care and household work, even when they have full time jobs. If that weren't true, then you would see dads having the same problem and working less hours.
The house was full of illegal guns and drugs and he frequently brutally beat her. Pretty sure she knew exactly what she was doing.
What are you talking about? Of course the rate on Mt Gox has gone down, they are the ones imploding. Other exchanges are still trading at $500+ right now though.
Only because there are a lot more white people than black people. By percentage, african americans are three times more likely to be in poverty.
So how then do you propose that we deal with the systemic inequality in the US caused by slavery? Like it or not, most people end up with very similar means to their parents. It sometimes happens that you can go from lower class to middle class or middle class to upper class, but those cases are the exception rather than the rule. Unfortunately, 150 years ago every black family in the US started out with a disadvantage. You can't possibly believe that it doesn't still effect our modern society. What do you do about that if not some kind of affirmative action?
There's a huge gap between what researchers know and what is actually done in practice. Academia knew about padding attacks on TLS for a decade before someone actually made it into an exploit that forced developers to fix their code. Using your example, we already have SHA-3 even though you say no one uses SHA-2 yet.
It doesn't expose any information about the plaintext. It exposes an interface which lets you manipulate the plaintext. Not the same thing.
That is from over four years ago, which, in a field that moves as fast as cryptography, might as well be a lifetime. There have been at least five new generations of homomorphic encryption since then, to the point that it is trillions of times faster now than it was when he posted that.
That is preposterous and you know it. Your fixed costs (rent, utilities, etc) in any large city would be over 70% of your income. That's not including: food, transportation to and from your job (easily thousands of dollars per year), clothes, and medical expenses, because you won't have insurance on a minimum wage job. Your notion that unskilled jobs should pay less or else no one has incentive to become skilled is also ridiculous. One of the BIGGEST incentives is to not have to work a mind-numbing job and instead be able to do something creative or intellectually fulfilling.
That's an easy one, you cannot trip and accidentally rob a bank. That requires intent and malice aforethought.
Not quite. You enter the PIN on the small card reader device issued by the bank, it is never given to the POS.
True, but it would cost an obscene amount of money and/or be obnoxiously large. Fortunately you usually enter the pin on the small, bank issued card reader and not the POS, and it's much harder to put a hardware skimmer or malicious software on that thing.
Even without the PIN security, it is still better than magnetic stripe because you can't easily clone the card. You have to physically steal it, not do an attack like the Target one where they skimmed all the information from thousands of customers without them knowing.
lolwut? What does this have to do with chip and PIN? You can definitely do that now with magnetic stripe, because all the info is available and unencrypted (there is actually a product that will do it on purpose so you don't have to carry around as many cards), but it actually isn't possible with chip and PIN because it is a challenge response system. There are still some flaws with it, but it is better than the magnetic stripe cards by a long shot. Take your weird fear mongering somewhere else please.
Yes, I said we already have RFID (you call it contactless) even without chip and PIN so it is completely unrelated.
With the machine that is given out by the credit card companies you need to pretty much touch it, but security researchers have shown that you can use higher powered equipment to read it from up to 15-20 feet away.
Chip and PIN cards use a challenge-response protocol so even if you skim all the information you can only make one charge before it becomes invalid. There is actually a microprocessor on the card that does crypto so the credentials transferred only allow a single authorized transaction. So if the charge goes through for the thing you were supposed to be buying, then you know you aren't getting scammed. Technically they could block the charge and do another one that gives the money to them, but that is a lot harder and more likely to be noticed.
They're almost all backwards compatible. I've never been to a place where I couldn't use the ATM. Sometimes vendors won't accept it because they only have the hardware for chip and PIN, but ATMs usually work.