See also "You Want More Choices and Information Than You Can Actually Process" by Susan Weinschenk: http://www.blog.theteamw.com/2... and _The Paradox of Choice_ by Barry Schwartz
You have assumed that the only application of programming is being a programmer that produces programs, so the only people that program are programmers. Programming is a tool that you can use to a task. Sometimes that task is produce the program itself, sometimes the program automates the actual desired task. I write programs all of the time but I am a circuit designer, not a programmer.
"Or here's a thought - they could use a sequence of garbage alphanumeric characters known only to you and the company you're dealing with. Heck, even the company wouldn't need to know it after the initial setup, they could feed the sequence through a secure hashing algorithm to generate a "fingerprint", and accept any password that generates a matching "fingerprint". Then the only person storing the mystery sequence would be the end user, making third-party social engineering completely impossible. Imagine, we could use such simple, relatively secure technology everywhere, and since the sequence is completely arbitrary you'd have the option of using different sequences in different places, making things far more secure than having everyone who deals with you use the same four digits."
Imagine an automated form, where you could enter an identifier and that alphanumeric string and gain access without even waiting for human intervention!
The real problem is that the kind of people who think there is no faith in the dollar are the kind of people who are trying to run bitcoin exchanges, i.e. people that have no idea what they are talking about. In that light the failures seem inevitable
I went to public schools in the US (upstate NY). The material wasn't even in the text books.
'Some languages even lack a direct translation for "no"'
It is interesting that you mention that specifically. Of the little bit of Croatian and Russian that I've seen, both Slavic languages, everything looks like double negative to me (a litteral no or not, then a negation of the verb)
"You never learned of subjunctive, conditional, imperative, indicative? All native english speakers I talk to said they did."
I am a native English speaker. In practice I was using them, but not in any well crafted way. I certainly didn't know what they were called or really why they were different, and knowing more about that pointed out some problems in my usage.
Dubs vs. subs come out differently because for a dub they are trying to match firstly the time that the speakers mouth is moving and secondly the actual shape their mouth is making. For a sub you're tying to match the reading time to the time that the next speaker starts.
This isn't even an announcement that a new version has come out... it is a pre-announcement that a new version is expected to come out at some point in the future.
"Why is there a foreign language requirement anyway?"
To unlearn things you "know" about language that just aren't so.
For example, in no English class that I took was any tense other than past, present, and future named. To learn what perfect, imperfect, and pluperfect versions of those tenses were for I had to take French and translate it myself back into English
Because the people ask for it. But only to be used against the bad guys. The fact that it gets used against everyone is just more evidence that the government can't do anything right.
"If you don't have it on you because you lost it, you can request new documentation from the government."
And I asked you how, but you refused to answer and just reasserted your position.
You are elderly, and born in a rural area where there was no hospital. The farm has been in your family for a century, so there's no mortgage records and the deed has never been updated with the current generation. The church with your baptismal records burned down 50 years ago. All of your older relatives are dead and all of your younger relatives have moved across the country so there's no one to vouch for you. How do you convince somebody in the government who you are so that you can get documentation to prove who you are to the government?
*This is not a theoretical problem*. When documentation requirements started increasing for driver's licenses within the past decade, the rural elderly turned out to be disproportionately impacted for exactly these reasons.
At least 99% of those people aren't worth tracking. The goal is to disrupt communication from the organizers to reduce the size of the protests in the first place. The easiest way is for people to voluntarily disrupt their own communications.
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"Deaf people don't listen to the radio you morons"
No one listens to the radio, since it is comprised of electromagnetic radiation.
"Someone tell me how more choices is a bad thing."
Because having more alternatives increases the cost of making a choice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
See also "You Want More Choices and Information Than You Can Actually Process" by Susan Weinschenk: http://www.blog.theteamw.com/2... and _The Paradox of Choice_ by Barry Schwartz
Reading Wikipedia (for all but the last item) is just about within the abilities of the typical Anonymous.
Expecting businesses to obey the law? That's crazy talk!
You have assumed that the only application of programming is being a programmer that produces programs, so the only people that program are programmers. Programming is a tool that you can use to a task. Sometimes that task is produce the program itself, sometimes the program automates the actual desired task. I write programs all of the time but I am a circuit designer, not a programmer.
I am SHOCKED that when you quote only the fee schedule all you see is the schedule of fees.
Shocked, I tell you!
If you didn't want to be raped, you shouldn't have been carrying a vagina.
"Or here's a thought - they could use a sequence of garbage alphanumeric characters known only to you and the company you're dealing with. Heck, even the company wouldn't need to know it after the initial setup, they could feed the sequence through a secure hashing algorithm to generate a "fingerprint", and accept any password that generates a matching "fingerprint". Then the only person storing the mystery sequence would be the end user, making third-party social engineering completely impossible. Imagine, we could use such simple, relatively secure technology everywhere, and since the sequence is completely arbitrary you'd have the option of using different sequences in different places, making things far more secure than having everyone who deals with you use the same four digits."
Imagine an automated form, where you could enter an identifier and that alphanumeric string and gain access without even waiting for human intervention!
You see, someone lost a URL in a bar...
It must be sad to hate science.
'So "You're like a child molestor" is ok, but "You are a fraud" is not? '
They are so different there are separate words for the rhetorical figures used.
The real problem is that the kind of people who think there is no faith in the dollar are the kind of people who are trying to run bitcoin exchanges, i.e. people that have no idea what they are talking about. In that light the failures seem inevitable
I went to public schools in the US (upstate NY). The material wasn't even in the text books.
'Some languages even lack a direct translation for "no"'
It is interesting that you mention that specifically. Of the little bit of Croatian and Russian that I've seen, both Slavic languages, everything looks like double negative to me (a litteral no or not, then a negation of the verb)
"You never learned of subjunctive, conditional, imperative, indicative? All native english speakers I talk to said they did."
I am a native English speaker. In practice I was using them, but not in any well crafted way. I certainly didn't know what they were called or really why they were different, and knowing more about that pointed out some problems in my usage.
Dubs vs. subs come out differently because for a dub they are trying to match firstly the time that the speakers mouth is moving and secondly the actual shape their mouth is making. For a sub you're tying to match the reading time to the time that the next speaker starts.
This isn't even an announcement that a new version has come out... it is a pre-announcement that a new version is expected to come out at some point in the future.
Did you try turning the internet off and on again?
It's how we engineers keep our supply of labor artificially low.
"Why is there a foreign language requirement anyway?"
To unlearn things you "know" about language that just aren't so.
For example, in no English class that I took was any tense other than past, present, and future named. To learn what perfect, imperfect, and pluperfect versions of those tenses were for I had to take French and translate it myself back into English
Because the people ask for it. But only to be used against the bad guys. The fact that it gets used against everyone is just more evidence that the government can't do anything right.
"If you don't have it on you because you lost it, you can request new documentation from the government."
And I asked you how, but you refused to answer and just reasserted your position.
You are elderly, and born in a rural area where there was no hospital. The farm has been in your family for a century, so there's no mortgage records and the deed has never been updated with the current generation. The church with your baptismal records burned down 50 years ago. All of your older relatives are dead and all of your younger relatives have moved across the country so there's no one to vouch for you. How do you convince somebody in the government who you are so that you can get documentation to prove who you are to the government?
*This is not a theoretical problem*. When documentation requirements started increasing for driver's licenses within the past decade, the rural elderly turned out to be disproportionately impacted for exactly these reasons.
It is a tiger-repellent asteroid.
AC said undocumented, not illegal immigrant.
Have you ever tried to bootstrap yourself into having documentation without starting with any documentation?
Acquiesce to the power, you mean.
At least 99% of those people aren't worth tracking. The goal is to disrupt communication from the organizers to reduce the size of the protests in the first place. The easiest way is for people to voluntarily disrupt their own communications.
If we're going to make an exhaustive list of theoretical obstacles, we're going to need a bigger internet.