They have unquantifiable lack of gains (which they are calling losses), so they are saying they're forced to hurt everyone indiscriminately to make up for it? It's hard to have anything but animosity toward people like that.
Still holds up if you change "companies" to "government".
The answer is yes.
The bug is that you have an education where help is needed from outside.
The feature is that programs like these can be used as a tax deduction and/or a way to influence.
Having companies have influence in schools is something that is bad, as far as I can see it. When I was young, representatives of TetraPack came to the schools to explain to the kids how their package was better than bottles. Yep, throweing was away better than keeping it.
I was too young to doubt adults, so I believed them. No doubt that many other kids did the same. The goal was that the kids would talk at home how they learned about this great new way of throwing away things was better than old fashioned glass. (Better for the enviroment as well, somehow)
So kids where used directly to influence.
I do not trust companies about the information they give me as an adult. They have been lyinh and cheating enough for me not to trust them. So I certainly not trust them in educating these small humans.
Having government have influence in schools is something that is bad, as far as I can see it. When I was young, representatives of government came to the schools to explain to the kids how the drug war was good for people. Yep, imprisoning drug users was better than allow people to use drugs.
I was too young to doubt adults, so I believed them. No doubt that many other kids did the same. The goal was that the kids would talk at home how they learned about this great new way of performing cavity searches in airports to check for drugs was better than old fashioned allowing people to do what they want. (Better for the enviroment as well, somehow)
So kids where used directly to influence.
I do not trust government about the information they give me as an adult. They have been lyinh and cheating enough for me not to trust them. So I certainly not trust them in educating these small humans.
It's simple: people just don't like the rich, so nothing they do with their money will make people happy. About the only thing people want to see is the rich being forced, by government, to have their wealth confiscated.
Anything else is seen as "vain" or "futile" or "just an attempt to deflect attention" from something.
I am not surprised in the slightest that apps crash more frequently on iOS than Android devices. It is an order of magnitude more difficult to automate app testing on iOS than Android. You cannot emulate an iOS device like you can an Android device (no, the Simulator doesn't count - if it requires a special build, it doesn't count), and Apple's OS updates frequently break test automation. You also cannot simply programmatically control actions and read screen state on iOS without extra signing steps in iOS 10, which is why most third-party testing services don't offer iOS 10 devices in their testing labs.
Developers and testers simply test iOS less (even though they almost certainly spend more time on it).
Simply put, there is no such thing as a truly secure phonecall.
Any "easy" solution coming out of or running through the USA needs to be "insecure" thanks to CALEA - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - but even if this were not an issue, the endpoints can still be bugged and systems hacked.
You may be able to get a fair part of the way there by setting up your own infrastructure (ie something which runs over a VPN and/or ZRTP) - Maybe look at Silent Circle for an ?easy? partial solution to your woes.
Truth. The thing most people forget is that the NSA and similar organizations use brute-force decryption as a last resort. As the FBI has demonstrated very publicly several times over the last year that hacking the endpoint is the preferred method of intercept (after CALEA) because it's so much easier.
Windows Phone, iOS, and Android (yes, including Black Phone) all have so much surface area and so many insecure third-party dependencies that it's all but impossible to lock them down. So if someone really wants in, you're going to get hacked no matter which phone or app you're using.
Hell no.:-) C is by far the most portable language. Really, my main point was just a warning that there aren't many libraries that were written with absolute, architecture-independent portability in mind, and the key take-away from that should be: add third-party dependencies very cautiously, and test the shit out of your code.
Yes, we were parsing packet data, so every time we'd need to do something like get some value (like the length) out of the packet data, we'd need to ensure we weren't making byte alignment assumptions (in addition to endianness assumptions...).
Unless you mean the actual dereference, like this:
uint32_t foo(uint8_t *byte_array) {
return &(uint32_t *)byte_array;
}
... because the above code will cause problems if the address of byte_array isn't word-aligned on some (like PIC32 and PIC16) MCUs.
Within the last year, working with a team writing libraries that needed to work on PC, ARM, and PIC architectures (that specific problem happened only on the PIC24 and PIC32 MCUs).
Also worth mentioning that not only does C run on the most different processors, C is the most portable between languages.....that is, if you write a library in C, it can be used in basically every other language.
There can actually be surprising gotchas regarding portability. Good examples:
- dereferencing pointers to multi-byte values can cause errors on some processors when the pointer address isn't word-aligned, but will work just fine on others
- you can't make any assumptions around native word sizes without risking portability issues. This means being very explicit with your types (including <stdint.h> and being super careful about explicitly casting while bit shifting
-... you get the point
That's definitely not to say that you *can't* write portable code, just that C libraries may not be as plug-and-play as you'd like, often in surprising and dangerous ways.
In all seriousness, arguments along the lines of "very few people are competent C programmers" in my experience can be generalized to "very few people are competent <insert any programming language here> programmers". Yes, C is a more challenging language because it requires very strict discipline to do well, but 8+ years in the industry has shown me that good coders are the exception.
My condo association just signed papers to get Fiber access in each unit before the end of the year. While I can't speak for the rest of the community, Comcast will definitely lose me as a customer, and almost certainly a few others as well.
Fiber would have to cost a LOT more than Comcast before I'd consider NOT switching.
I know genetic engineering is still a little green, but this situation appears ripe for genetic experimentation. Call me a fruit basket, but I think it's time we peel back the shroud around genetic engineering and produce new varieties of disease-resistant bananas and diversify that genetic tree.
I replied to another comment later in this discussion sticking up for my former employer against this hit piece.:-)
Further, I said that (I'd imagine quite a few current and former Amazonians feel compelled to say something.) in response to the implication that current employees are being compelled by the company to speak up, and to the implication that them speaking immediately after the article was written is equivalent to "working on the weekend."
I don't even work at Amazon anymore and feel compelled to stick up for my former employer after this hit piece. It really got under my skin (kudos, NY Times trolls!), so I'd imagine quite a few current and former Amazonians feel compelled to say something.
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They have unquantifiable lack of gains (which they are calling losses), so they are saying they're forced to hurt everyone indiscriminately to make up for it? It's hard to have anything but animosity toward people like that.
Found the statist!
One of those is a challenge actually worth figuring out.
It would have been at least two...
... and the people who manage them are Dependency Manager Manager Managers.
We don't have "Software Engineers" anymore - we have Dependency Manager Managers.
The answer is yes.
The bug is that you have an education where help is needed from outside. The feature is that programs like these can be used as a tax deduction and/or a way to influence.
Having companies have influence in schools is something that is bad, as far as I can see it. When I was young, representatives of TetraPack came to the schools to explain to the kids how their package was better than bottles. Yep, throweing was away better than keeping it.
I was too young to doubt adults, so I believed them. No doubt that many other kids did the same. The goal was that the kids would talk at home how they learned about this great new way of throwing away things was better than old fashioned glass. (Better for the enviroment as well, somehow)
So kids where used directly to influence.
I do not trust companies about the information they give me as an adult. They have been lyinh and cheating enough for me not to trust them. So I certainly not trust them in educating these small humans.
Having government have influence in schools is something that is bad, as far as I can see it. When I was young, representatives of government came to the schools to explain to the kids how the drug war was good for people. Yep, imprisoning drug users was better than allow people to use drugs.
I was too young to doubt adults, so I believed them. No doubt that many other kids did the same. The goal was that the kids would talk at home how they learned about this great new way of performing cavity searches in airports to check for drugs was better than old fashioned allowing people to do what they want. (Better for the enviroment as well, somehow)
So kids where used directly to influence.
I do not trust government about the information they give me as an adult. They have been lyinh and cheating enough for me not to trust them. So I certainly not trust them in educating these small humans.
It's simple: people just don't like the rich, so nothing they do with their money will make people happy. About the only thing people want to see is the rich being forced, by government, to have their wealth confiscated.
Anything else is seen as "vain" or "futile" or "just an attempt to deflect attention" from something.
I am not surprised in the slightest that apps crash more frequently on iOS than Android devices. It is an order of magnitude more difficult to automate app testing on iOS than Android. You cannot emulate an iOS device like you can an Android device (no, the Simulator doesn't count - if it requires a special build, it doesn't count), and Apple's OS updates frequently break test automation. You also cannot simply programmatically control actions and read screen state on iOS without extra signing steps in iOS 10, which is why most third-party testing services don't offer iOS 10 devices in their testing labs.
Developers and testers simply test iOS less (even though they almost certainly spend more time on it).
Simply put, there is no such thing as a truly secure phonecall.
Any "easy" solution coming out of or running through the USA needs to be "insecure" thanks to CALEA - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - but even if this were not an issue, the endpoints can still be bugged and systems hacked.
You may be able to get a fair part of the way there by setting up your own infrastructure (ie something which runs over a VPN and/or ZRTP) - Maybe look at Silent Circle for an ?easy? partial solution to your woes.
Truth. The thing most people forget is that the NSA and similar organizations use brute-force decryption as a last resort. As the FBI has demonstrated very publicly several times over the last year that hacking the endpoint is the preferred method of intercept (after CALEA) because it's so much easier.
Windows Phone, iOS, and Android (yes, including Black Phone) all have so much surface area and so many insecure third-party dependencies that it's all but impossible to lock them down. So if someone really wants in, you're going to get hacked no matter which phone or app you're using.
Hell no. :-) C is by far the most portable language. Really, my main point was just a warning that there aren't many libraries that were written with absolute, architecture-independent portability in mind, and the key take-away from that should be: add third-party dependencies very cautiously, and test the shit out of your code.
Yes, we were parsing packet data, so every time we'd need to do something like get some value (like the length) out of the packet data, we'd need to ensure we weren't making byte alignment assumptions (in addition to endianness assumptions...).
Unless you mean the actual dereference, like this:
... because the above code will cause problems if the address of byte_array isn't word-aligned on some (like PIC32 and PIC16) MCUs.
uint32_t foo(uint8_t *byte_array) {
return &(uint32_t *)byte_array;
}
Within the last year, working with a team writing libraries that needed to work on PC, ARM, and PIC architectures (that specific problem happened only on the PIC24 and PIC32 MCUs).
Also worth mentioning that not only does C run on the most different processors, C is the most portable between languages.....that is, if you write a library in C, it can be used in basically every other language.
There can actually be surprising gotchas regarding portability. Good examples:
That's definitely not to say that you *can't* write portable code, just that C libraries may not be as plug-and-play as you'd like, often in surprising and dangerous ways.
Personally, I like Ruby.
In all seriousness, arguments along the lines of "very few people are competent C programmers" in my experience can be generalized to "very few people are competent <insert any programming language here> programmers". Yes, C is a more challenging language because it requires very strict discipline to do well, but 8+ years in the industry has shown me that good coders are the exception.
My condo association just signed papers to get Fiber access in each unit before the end of the year. While I can't speak for the rest of the community, Comcast will definitely lose me as a customer, and almost certainly a few others as well.
Fiber would have to cost a LOT more than Comcast before I'd consider NOT switching.
I think I found the right link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
It seems like the only linked article is relevant to the Slashdot story immediately preceding this one...
I know genetic engineering is still a little green, but this situation appears ripe for genetic experimentation. Call me a fruit basket, but I think it's time we peel back the shroud around genetic engineering and produce new varieties of disease-resistant bananas and diversify that genetic tree.
Free government funded...
Just to clarify, did you mean free or did you mean government-funded?
This is the most insightful/funny comment I've read on any discussion board in a very long time.
Yep, plus Windows Vista/7 UAC, and pop-over ads that require people to click "x" before being able to read content on the screen...
Come to think of it, clicking past warnings and pop-ups is actually quite pervasive.
I replied to another comment later in this discussion sticking up for my former employer against this hit piece. :-)
Further, I said that (I'd imagine quite a few current and former Amazonians feel compelled to say something.) in response to the implication that current employees are being compelled by the company to speak up, and to the implication that them speaking immediately after the article was written is equivalent to "working on the weekend."
I don't even work at Amazon anymore and feel compelled to stick up for my former employer after this hit piece. It really got under my skin (kudos, NY Times trolls!), so I'd imagine quite a few current and former Amazonians feel compelled to say something.