In software, the process of actually building something is instant, easy, free, and transient.
Then you should not use processes designed around the assumption that building something is slow, difficult, and expensive (which is not to say that you should not have processes).
> Tracking people without permission falls into the arena of > the legal.
It's your browser that accepts cookies and it is your browser that honors requests for them. Why is it the site operator's problem that you are using a browser configured to do so silently?
Once you start seeing cookies as a privacy issue, it becomes logical to also see them as an opt-in thing instead of an opt-out thing.
Which can already be handled entirely by the browser. There is nothing a site can do to stop your browser from asking for permission before accepting a cookie.
"Without permission? The site sends a cookie and your browser either accepts it and stores it away on your disk, or not. Whether or not your browser asks you for permission before accepting a cookie is entirely between you and your browser. The site operator is not reponsible for the fact that your browser may have been configured to accept cookies silently.
>...I applaud the effort to do something about it.
Why not just inform people and let them make their own decisions as you have?
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Wrong.
You're hilarious.
And there really is a tooth fairy, too!
> How does Linux prevent you from installing bad stuff onto
> your computer?
Bad stuff for Linux is in short supply. Malware authors seem to care only about the most popular platforms.
Switch to Linux.
> Linux: ~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/
"~/.macromedia/Flash_Player/#SharedObjects/ -> /dev/null" /dev/null".
works for me. I also have "~/.adobe/Flash_Player/AssetCache ->
That is not a difference of one thousandth. It is a difference of 33%.
The changing usage rate will also drive malware authors to concentrate on Win7.
Just hang on a few more years. That's coming. Why do you think they call it Android?
Didn't some CEO say that a few years ago? Anyone remember what became of his company?
Not if the stories are true.
...hiring a native speaker to edit their English language edition. Anyone who has successfully completed third grade could help them.
Because, as everyone knows, ten meter tsunamis are commonplace. Especially in Alabama.
...to be shown to whistleblowers who ask "How can I be sure one of your staff won't sell me out"?
Yes! They're tracking my usage! They'll use that data to bill me for every kwhr I use over my cap! There ought to be a law!
> ...there is radioactive material in your smoke alarm.
But none in this clock.
Then you should not use processes designed around the assumption that building something is slow, difficult, and expensive (which is not to say that you should not have processes).
> Most people don't know they exist.
Tell them.
> Tracking people without permission falls into the arena of
> the legal.
It's your browser that accepts cookies and it is your browser that honors requests for them. Why is it the site operator's problem that you are using a browser configured to do so silently?
Which can already be handled entirely by the browser. There is nothing a site can do to stop your browser from asking for permission before accepting a cookie.
> ...without permission...
"Without permission? The site sends a cookie and your browser either accepts it and stores it away on your disk, or not. Whether or not your browser asks you for permission before accepting a cookie is entirely between you and your browser. The site operator is not reponsible for the fact that your browser may have been configured to accept cookies silently.
> ...I applaud the effort to do something about it.
Why not just inform people and let them make their own decisions as you have?
> Some of us are embedded developers...
So publish an Arduino project. Or broaden your mind by working on something a bit outside your specialty.
Both answers are correct (and the interviewer was a fool).
Whether they did or not.
...as meaning that he wanted to see an illustration of that.
Yes.