The attacks on 11 September 2001 could have been prevented by the airliner passengers choosing not to remain in their seats and sending text messages or calling home, but instead putting down the would-be hijackers. Back in those days passengers were carrying knives, knitting needles, scissors, hairspray and assorted other items capable of being "weaponised." The Government has deliberately and with malice of forethought decided to overreact by curtailing the freedoms of the People.
The real world isn't a Steven Segal film and real people are not marines. A trained and vicious hijacker (or several) would generally be able to control the situation, and you can't realistically think it is reliable to leave security to normal folk to rising up. Pretty classy thing, blaming the passengers with your hindsight. Anyway, since in the actual situation they largely didn't go all kung fu on hijacker-ass, clearly taking weapons out of the situation rather than arming everybody is the only sensible way to go.
Well, either I'm an amazing programmer or I work with terrible iOS developers, but my experience (since Android 1.6, btw) has not been that. The teams have always been the same sort of size, and worked at roughly the same pace.
Actually this is a reasonable point. Bluetooth has been a pain between versions - audio recording too. Basically anywhere they change the underlying OS implementation and try to cover it up in the API.
It is literally a circular network connected to one CPU and a bunch of dumb nodes. Each node has a network ID. They can pass messages and only the nodes that are listening for it will get it.
I'd put real money on betting you've never done anything near hardware development...
Nobody who has done Android development is surprised to hear this.
I generally find the opposite, the ones crowing about fragmentation tend to be the ones who have no experience in development on Android (and indeed any non-iPhone platform) and handling perfectly pedestrian problems that we've been working with for all of programming history...
Different hardware and OS versions is standard standard, part of being a programmer...
Ever since the iPad 1 shipped, I've advocated a range of iPads in all the standard drafting sheet sizes, from A (8.5" x 11") to D (17"x22"). Direct manipulation on large, high-DPI displays would make for an amazing user experience for CAD.
Of course, if I spent the money that a 17x22" device would cost, there's no way in hell I'd settle for Android. I LIKE getting OS updates.
-jcr
And thus is the main disadvantage of iOS - you get what you're given, and nothing else...
I almost wonder whether Google are encouraging people to publicize Android vulnerabilities so they can say 'look, this isn't working, we need to be able to push updates to phones ourselves'.
If that was really what they wanted to do, they would've designed it that way in the first place. Windows manages to update itself across a wide variety of hardware without involvement from the manufacturers.
Windows is also highly limited on the hardware it can run on, and very restricted in what the manufacturers can do to improve the OS. One of the reasons Android is as widespread and good as it is is that there was alot of freedom in the early days for improvements to be made by manufacturers, which eventually got folded into the main stock builds.
Android seriously needs to focus on security updates now, but to lock down the manufacturers years ago would have seriously restricted its development.
If, for whatever reasons, an employer wants to know, what sort of a person you are with your friends — and they all will, once the positions they are considering you for reach a certain height, they'll find out. With private investigators, if need be.
And that makes it OK?
What you present to the employer being separate from your personal life is actually a really important part of how we function as a society.
Is it? How so? Can you cite any studies showing usefulness of such separation? Or how this separation changed over the years — for the betterment of society, or otherwise?
Well clearly I'm not going to have such studies to hand, not sure how you would study such a thing, but this one touches on similar subjects showing how there is inbuilt racism / nationalism in CV selection. That sort of problem is only going to get worse with the more information available.
Also, control all your friends so that they don't post any information online about you. Control Google and whoever's facial recognition algorthms from auto tagging you. Control all the stuff you have no possible control over, because I don't want to consider that possibly this new technology we've invented might have really bad consequences and I can't be bothered to do anything about it.
Are employers looking at Facebook also mostly a social thing? The problem isn't embarrasment, it's judgmental people with the power to affect your live.
Yeah, we'll get right on that. I'm sure that decision makers with no judgment will become a thing. Much better if they go by what you copied into your resume than by what you actually did in public.
And this is why we have privacy. That people have disconnected lives where they are one person at work and another with their friends, is fundamental to actually being able to be yourself, to be a fully rounded person. If we start being terrified that everything we do in public will be available to anyone to judge out-of-context or through their own prejudices, you effectively give up your freedom and we are forced to regress to the lowest common denominator for behaviour. What appears on the internet is not just what you put there, it's what other people post.
What you present to the employer being separate from your personal life is actually a really important part of how we function as a society.
I am a firm believer in free speech. The cure for bad speech (as the accusation apparently was) is not less bad speech but more good speech.
Fine, but doesn't there have to be consequences when someone just makes shit up about someone else? Especially when it's something that is such a powderkeg in current climate? We don't consider it reasonable that people prove a negative, so you're already on the backfoot if someone decides to start a rumour. With Twitter and Wikipedia, it's very easy for a rumour to get repeated so much it feels like the truth.
I don't think he will be disappointed. I think the purpose of the lawsuit is to send a message to Mr. Hadley's future political opponents to be careful what they say about him. In other words, this is intended to have a chilling effect on political speech.
Accusing someone of molesting children is political speech now? Sure...
Isn't it right that people are careful what they say about other people?
In IT you don't need German. English is more then enough. Even though the average salaries are a bit lower then in London you still get much better overall life quality. A pizza during lunch break costs 4 EUR here, a monthly public transport ticket around 80EUR, a decent flat outside of mitte (60m2) goes for 600-700 EUR.
I mean, yeah you might get by but aren't you missing out on actually living there? If you can't read / speak / interact with people without forcing them into your language? There is more to living in a place than cheap pizza.
This is how most bills are written. That is not a cynical but rather purely factual statement. The shock and surprise on TPP just makes you look ignorant.
...and you think that your position of aloof resignation, criticising those that would be unhappy with the situation, is *better*?
I can't help but think (and I know this is unpopular here) that this is exactly the sort of thing that needs properly regulating. You can't do anything in the world now without hundreds of pages of TOS and they aren't ever negotiable... you flippantly mention selfies, but *everything* has this problem (internet connection, mobile phone contract, all non-free software, all internet services, trivial or not). It's unreasonable to expect a mass movement of resistance, you have to be able to understand them first and they're specifically designed to make even that hard.
Say you sign up with a company when their T&C says they won't use your phone number for marketing, but then they change their T&C to state the opposite. Now they have your phone number. Are they bound by the T&C they stated when you signed up? But even if they are, what is a customer's recourse?
I imagine the legal route is: they can change the T&C and you have to agree *if you continue to use their service*. If you do not continue to use their service they don't have your agreement to the new T&C and therefore can't act on it.
Not absolutely convinced they are that accurate, but none of the rates I've seen show much difference between the two platforms and you'd expect them to be very different if fragmentation was a problem.
I'm not convinced these are particularly reliable, but if fragmentation was the bogeyman issue it's claimed to be then you'd expect these rates to significantly favour iOS, and they don't, or even tend the opposite.
Well, it depends on how you slice the data, but even from your interpretation of that data they are not wildly different, and if fragmentation was such a massive issue you'd expect Android development to be massively more timeconsuming / expensive, or a significantly higher defect rate. Neither seem to actually be true.
20 Years of write once and test everywhere! And now thanks to Android there are over 18000 distict Andoid platforms to test on too!! http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2...
What you call 'fragmentation' I call 'variety'. And since Android app crash rates are actually lower than iOS ones (ie a platform with much lower 'fragmentation') then it clearly isn't the problem that you think it is...
A problem with Java and C# is that it is possible to create memory leaks in those languages, but since people rely so much on garbage collection they don't think about it and get bit in the ass. Event handlers shared across processes are particularly dangerous.
I mean, yes, you can't get away with not knowing anything at all about memory management in Java, but singling out edge cases that are a problem vs the vast majority of cases where it's superior is sort of missing the point. Rather like saying that wearing shoes is a problem because you sometimes get a stone in them, far better that you should always go bare feet and constantly make sure you don't step on anything sharp.
I am tired of hearing languages are "easy to read". If a piece of code is well written and identifiers are well named anyone who is accustomed to the syntax or syntax that is SIMILAR will be able to read it. The point is that C style syntax have been what the majority of programmers have been used to so it has become a staple. However, if it was down to pure logic and an understanding of the English language Ada, Pascal, and (Visual) Basic would be the most readable.. and who here thinks that -- we've all been brainwashed by CS101.
Clearly a language can be easy or hard to read - Or do you think well-written Brainfuck is easy to read? Since programs are written by actual flawed humans who make stupid mistakes or have weird style preferences sometimes, it's generally a good idea to have a language syntax that doesn't let them shoot themselves in the foot.
That the request in the first place is immoral? That being tracked outside your job is a infringment on a normal wish for privacy? That you are having to jump through hoops (basically, lie) to keep your employer happy? What do you think will happen when they learn of your faraday bag and decide to adjust their expectations accordingly? (ie expecting that out of signal = you have switched off the phone) You'll be in exactly the same position, you've only 'bought' yourself a few months of freedom, at most.
The reason we have laws is to protect the weaker party from stronger parties. Employers are usually in a stronger position (there are always other employees, the employees have a pressing urge to eat) so agreeing to something does not just make it OK. If you are strongarmed, it's hardly a fair exchange.
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The attacks on 11 September 2001 could have been prevented by the airliner passengers choosing not to remain in their seats and sending text messages or calling home, but instead putting down the would-be hijackers. Back in those days passengers were carrying knives, knitting needles, scissors, hairspray and assorted other items capable of being "weaponised." The Government has deliberately and with malice of forethought decided to overreact by curtailing the freedoms of the People.
The real world isn't a Steven Segal film and real people are not marines. A trained and vicious hijacker (or several) would generally be able to control the situation, and you can't realistically think it is reliable to leave security to normal folk to rising up. Pretty classy thing, blaming the passengers with your hindsight. Anyway, since in the actual situation they largely didn't go all kung fu on hijacker-ass, clearly taking weapons out of the situation rather than arming everybody is the only sensible way to go.
Well, either I'm an amazing programmer or I work with terrible iOS developers, but my experience (since Android 1.6, btw) has not been that. The teams have always been the same sort of size, and worked at roughly the same pace.
Actually this is a reasonable point. Bluetooth has been a pain between versions - audio recording too. Basically anywhere they change the underlying OS implementation and try to cover it up in the API.
It is literally a circular network connected to one CPU and a bunch of dumb nodes.
Each node has a network ID. They can pass messages and only the nodes that are listening for it will get it.
I'd put real money on betting you've never done anything near hardware development...
Nobody who has done Android development is surprised to hear this.
I generally find the opposite, the ones crowing about fragmentation tend to be the ones who have no experience in development on Android (and indeed any non-iPhone platform) and handling perfectly pedestrian problems that we've been working with for all of programming history...
Different hardware and OS versions is standard standard, part of being a programmer...
Ever since the iPad 1 shipped, I've advocated a range of iPads in all the standard drafting sheet sizes, from A (8.5" x 11") to D (17"x22"). Direct manipulation on large, high-DPI displays would make for an amazing user experience for CAD.
Of course, if I spent the money that a 17x22" device would cost, there's no way in hell I'd settle for Android. I LIKE getting OS updates.
-jcr
And thus is the main disadvantage of iOS - you get what you're given, and nothing else...
I almost wonder whether Google are encouraging people to publicize Android vulnerabilities so they can say 'look, this isn't working, we need to be able to push updates to phones ourselves'.
If that was really what they wanted to do, they would've designed it that way in the first place. Windows manages to update itself across a wide variety of hardware without involvement from the manufacturers.
Windows is also highly limited on the hardware it can run on, and very restricted in what the manufacturers can do to improve the OS. One of the reasons Android is as widespread and good as it is is that there was alot of freedom in the early days for improvements to be made by manufacturers, which eventually got folded into the main stock builds.
Android seriously needs to focus on security updates now, but to lock down the manufacturers years ago would have seriously restricted its development.
If, for whatever reasons, an employer wants to know, what sort of a person you are with your friends — and they all will, once the positions they are considering you for reach a certain height, they'll find out. With private investigators, if need be.
And that makes it OK?
What you present to the employer being separate from your personal life is actually a really important part of how we function as a society.
Is it? How so? Can you cite any studies showing usefulness of such separation? Or how this separation changed over the years — for the betterment of society, or otherwise?
Well clearly I'm not going to have such studies to hand, not sure how you would study such a thing, but this one touches on similar subjects showing how there is inbuilt racism / nationalism in CV selection. That sort of problem is only going to get worse with the more information available.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ru...
Also, control all your friends so that they don't post any information online about you. Control Google and whoever's facial recognition algorthms from auto tagging you. Control all the stuff you have no possible control over, because I don't want to consider that possibly this new technology we've invented might have really bad consequences and I can't be bothered to do anything about it.
Are employers looking at Facebook also mostly a social thing?
The problem isn't embarrasment, it's judgmental people with the power to affect your live.
Yeah, we'll get right on that. I'm sure that decision makers with no judgment will become a thing. Much better if they go by what you copied into your resume than by what you actually did in public.
And this is why we have privacy. That people have disconnected lives where they are one person at work and another with their friends, is fundamental to actually being able to be yourself, to be a fully rounded person. If we start being terrified that everything we do in public will be available to anyone to judge out-of-context or through their own prejudices, you effectively give up your freedom and we are forced to regress to the lowest common denominator for behaviour. What appears on the internet is not just what you put there, it's what other people post.
What you present to the employer being separate from your personal life is actually a really important part of how we function as a society.
I am a firm believer in free speech. The cure for bad speech (as the accusation apparently was) is not less bad speech but more good speech.
Fine, but doesn't there have to be consequences when someone just makes shit up about someone else? Especially when it's something that is such a powderkeg in current climate? We don't consider it reasonable that people prove a negative, so you're already on the backfoot if someone decides to start a rumour. With Twitter and Wikipedia, it's very easy for a rumour to get repeated so much it feels like the truth.
I don't think he will be disappointed. I think the purpose of the lawsuit is to send a message to Mr. Hadley's future political opponents to be careful what they say about him. In other words, this is intended to have a chilling effect on political speech.
Accusing someone of molesting children is political speech now? Sure...
Isn't it right that people are careful what they say about other people?
In IT you don't need German. English is more then enough. Even though the average salaries are a bit lower then in London you still get much better overall life quality. A pizza during lunch break costs 4 EUR here, a monthly public transport ticket around 80EUR, a decent flat outside of mitte (60m2) goes for 600-700 EUR.
I mean, yeah you might get by but aren't you missing out on actually living there? If you can't read / speak / interact with people without forcing them into your language? There is more to living in a place than cheap pizza.
If you like "high culture", have money, and don't mind crowds then London is great. If you prefer other things not so much.
You don't live in the London I live in.
Though I'll grant you the crowds.
This is how most bills are written. That is not a cynical but rather purely factual statement. The shock and surprise on TPP just makes you look ignorant.
...and you think that your position of aloof resignation, criticising those that would be unhappy with the situation, is *better*?
I can't help but think (and I know this is unpopular here) that this is exactly the sort of thing that needs properly regulating. You can't do anything in the world now without hundreds of pages of TOS and they aren't ever negotiable... you flippantly mention selfies, but *everything* has this problem (internet connection, mobile phone contract, all non-free software, all internet services, trivial or not). It's unreasonable to expect a mass movement of resistance, you have to be able to understand them first and they're specifically designed to make even that hard.
Say you sign up with a company when their T&C says they won't use your phone number for marketing, but then they change their T&C to state the opposite. Now they have your phone number. Are they bound by the T&C they stated when you signed up? But even if they are, what is a customer's recourse?
I imagine the legal route is: they can change the T&C and you have to agree *if you continue to use their service*. If you do not continue to use their service they don't have your agreement to the new T&C and therefore can't act on it.
http://www.techradar.com/news/...
http://bgr.com/2015/02/13/ios-...
Not absolutely convinced they are that accurate, but none of the rates I've seen show much difference between the two platforms and you'd expect them to be very different if fragmentation was a problem.
I'm not convinced these are particularly reliable, but if fragmentation was the bogeyman issue it's claimed to be then you'd expect these rates to significantly favour iOS, and they don't, or even tend the opposite.
http://www.techradar.com/news/...
http://bgr.com/2015/02/13/ios-...
Well, it depends on how you slice the data, but even from your interpretation of that data they are not wildly different, and if fragmentation was such a massive issue you'd expect Android development to be massively more timeconsuming / expensive, or a significantly higher defect rate. Neither seem to actually be true.
20 Years of write once and test everywhere! And now thanks to Android there are over 18000 distict Andoid platforms to test on too!! http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2...
What you call 'fragmentation' I call 'variety'. And since Android app crash rates are actually lower than iOS ones (ie a platform with much lower 'fragmentation') then it clearly isn't the problem that you think it is...
A problem with Java and C# is that it is possible to create memory leaks in those languages, but since people rely so much on garbage collection they don't think about it and get bit in the ass. Event handlers shared across processes are particularly dangerous.
I mean, yes, you can't get away with not knowing anything at all about memory management in Java, but singling out edge cases that are a problem vs the vast majority of cases where it's superior is sort of missing the point. Rather like saying that wearing shoes is a problem because you sometimes get a stone in them, far better that you should always go bare feet and constantly make sure you don't step on anything sharp.
I am tired of hearing languages are "easy to read". If a piece of code is well written and identifiers are well named anyone who is accustomed to the syntax or syntax that is SIMILAR will be able to read it. The point is that C style syntax have been what the majority of programmers have been used to so it has become a staple. However, if it was down to pure logic and an understanding of the English language Ada, Pascal, and (Visual) Basic would be the most readable.. and who here thinks that -- we've all been brainwashed by CS101.
Clearly a language can be easy or hard to read - Or do you think well-written Brainfuck is easy to read? Since programs are written by actual flawed humans who make stupid mistakes or have weird style preferences sometimes, it's generally a good idea to have a language syntax that doesn't let them shoot themselves in the foot.
Am I missing something?
That the request in the first place is immoral? That being tracked outside your job is a infringment on a normal wish for privacy? That you are having to jump through hoops (basically, lie) to keep your employer happy? What do you think will happen when they learn of your faraday bag and decide to adjust their expectations accordingly? (ie expecting that out of signal = you have switched off the phone) You'll be in exactly the same position, you've only 'bought' yourself a few months of freedom, at most.
The reason we have laws is to protect the weaker party from stronger parties. Employers are usually in a stronger position (there are always other employees, the employees have a pressing urge to eat) so agreeing to something does not just make it OK. If you are strongarmed, it's hardly a fair exchange.