...and I'm not talking about the streaming service. The cat is already out of the bag; the only question is whether we'll be smiling in front of, or behind, our victims' collective backs.
You can like it, or hate it, but you can simply not ignore Apple.
This highly depends on your perspective. For instance, I have no apple stuff, nor do any of their products excite me in a way that would suggest that'll change soon. So in that context, I can simply ignore apple.
However, from a business perspective, they're the 800 lb gorilla. What's interesting, however, is how easy it is for some of their target audience to ignore them.
The problem is that spreadsheets and databases solve different problems, yet they are related enough that folks confuse the two. Not unlike what you did. Spreadsheets represent the full MVC concept, whereas databases are usually just the M(odel), with some (C)ontroller capabilities.
From there, the problem becomes somewhat more obvious; Because applications like Excel provide more complete functionality ( or try to at any rate ), that's naturally what anyone who needs to model data wants to use. Aside from programmers, who has time to construct a full data modeling environment using the right tools?
There's an opportunity here for MS to "fill the gap" here; provide the function-rich environment of Excel and tie it to a database backend simply. Or perhaps, considering the mess that is Access, that opportunity exists for someone other than MS.
Bullshit. Terrorism is only peripherally related to government's interest in compromising encryption. Governments the world over are terrified of their citizens speaking freely, for whatever noise they make about "Freedom of Speech". It's about controlling the message, which they can't do if people are communicating outside of their control.
The problem with a lot of these cases and how the colleges are handling them is that they are not rape. Often it's a consensual encounter which later becomes "rape" because "reasons" ( regret, boyfriend found out, ect... ). In those instances, with the lower burden of proof and the systemic bias against the accused, it becomes virtually impossible to prove innocence.
This, incidentally, should be very worrisome to those concerned about legitimate sexual assault. False accusations that lead to severe consequences trivialize the impact of real crimes. The backlash from the above won't result in more protections for legitimate victims, but less as the integrity of the entire process is called into question. The phrase "Throwing out the baby with the bath water" comes to mind here.
Colleges should never have been involved in the process to begin with; if students felt assaulted, they should have been referred to law enforcement directly, and any punishment against the accused would follow the determination of guilt in a court of law.
I only care about if everyone had the same opportunity as everyone else. If there's a broken piece there, great; let's fix it and make sure everyone has the same opportunity to excel. I'm not seeing any system bias, btw. Sure, I see the symptoms all over the place, but I don't see the cause. It's beyond absurd to attempt to craft a fix to a symptom; it's the economic equivalent of homeopathy.
That the opportunities exist but are not being exploited does not indicate any action on my part. Ergo; it's irrelevant.
I can't help but feel you are purposefully misunderstanding the discussion here. I am not referring to legal courts of law. Those will, generally, have a much higher standard of proof ( although there are plenty of cases of false rape only being revealed after the accused spent years in jail ). I'm talking about college campuses handling sexual assault charges on their own, using a much lower proof requirement and, generally, denying the accused anything approaching due process, but with lifelong consequences for the outcome.
Yikes, you really don't have any clue what's going on, do you?
I'm not talking about men found guilty in a court of law. I'm talking about men found guilty by the kangaroo courts convened in colleges as a result of the Dear Colleague letter. Often these men are never charged with an actual crime, but they're tossed out or suspended based on little more than the word of their accuser. Sometimes years afterwards, and sometimes in the face of all contrary evidence. All in the pursuit of appeasing Title XI.
How old are you? Because you sound like a 50 year old dude trying to explain to us 20-30 years olds what sex is like in college. Graduated college 10 years ago, went to the two largest schools in Georgia, rushed a fraternity, and was never once scared of someone crying rape.
Your ignorance is not a solid basis for an argument. Want to try again?
Getting hysterical about it (crazy to go to college, really?) isn't going to help anyone.
It's not "getting hysterical" to recognize a hostile and dangerous environment for what it is and steering clear of it. All that's needed is an accusation and a man can be kicked out of college. In many cases he's not even allowed to present evidence in his defense. That's the "college experience" for men now a days. Can't fault men for checking out of that; I won't go near a college either.
You are quite correct; I got the stat wrong. However, it doesn't detract from the overall point that it's bullshit.
What rape hysteria? Rape culture is where a rapist like Brock Turner gets a scant 6 months because the the judge says a prison sentence might have a bad impact on him.
*One* case does not rape culture make. Despite what you are led to believe, women are actually *safer* on college campuses than anywhere else. You often hear the 1 in 3 stat mentioned, but that stat is based on a piss poor study that's only quoted because it supports an agenda.
What's far more prevalent are the rape accusations, which is really no surprise when you think about it. Rape is a heinous crime, and folks that commit it are rightfully shunned and hated. However, what's happening is that the merest accusation can be enough to ruin someone's life ( men, not women incidentally ). As false accusers are rarely punished for their behavior, it creates a very effective tool for women to deploy against men. Think: Duke, Rolling Stones, Mattress Girl, and those are just off the top of my head.
In our culture of fear and snap judgments and "Dear Colleague" letters, you'd have to be crazy as a man to have sex on a college campus. Hell, you'd have to be crazy to even GO to college, seeing how an unsupported accusation would be enough to get you expelled. No, it's worse than that; not just unsupported, but an evidence refuted accusation can get you kicked out with no recourse.
Finally, you mention a rapist who got a light sentence. I agree that's wrong, but if you really want to be outraged about that I'd like to know your stance on the legion of women teachers who continually get suspended sentences or community service for sex with minors. It seems there's another in the paper every week, with kids as young as grade school.
Ironically, that may be where the real rape culture is; in our elementary and high schools.
As far as the younger generation not having as much sex; maybe the men are smarter than we were. They see that all the effort and time spent just increases their risk factor of having their lives ruined and are noping out. Smart.
Probably won't even move the needle. Look at it this way; The folks that want to abolish porn will see this and get excited for Trump. The folks that want to keep porn around rightfully realize that this is a meaningless gesture to placate the crazies ( regardless of intent ).
A QR scanner (or a bar code reader) are a lot more than just a camera. Its a camera plus some sort of processing unit and software to interpret/digitize the code and interface with the POS system including encryption, communication with the bank, etc. You can't just hook up an off the shelf camera to a POS system and magically be able to read QR codes and interface with the bank to provide authenticated and secure transactions.
Actually...that's precisely what you can do. The hardware for a QR system would be a camera..period. Point of fact, a lot of places already have the needed hardware. How POS vendors handle said camera is on them, but most of the work would be software in nature. Even then you'd reap the benefits of a far simpler system over chip/pin; you can rely on TLS/SSL libraries to secure communications with the payment processor, so all the POS system is responsible for doing is passing along the payment code, the pin, the amount and other data they already do for CC swipes. They wouldn't need to handle chip readers, the encryption between the card and the reader, then the reader to the terminal.
There will always be hold outs. I occasionally get stuck behind someone writing a check at the store, for instance. I agree; we'd need some way to gracefully handle those hold outs. However, I think the added functionality that would come from phone-based payments would ultimately win over society.
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Do you know what those bastards did last time I was in? They gave me a burrito...for free.
That shit could have anthrax sprinkled on it, and I'd probably still nom on it.
You are in a universe full of twisty little galaxies, all alike.
...and I'm not talking about the streaming service. The cat is already out of the bag; the only question is whether we'll be smiling in front of, or behind, our victims' collective backs.
You can like it, or hate it, but you can simply not ignore Apple.
This highly depends on your perspective. For instance, I have no apple stuff, nor do any of their products excite me in a way that would suggest that'll change soon. So in that context, I can simply ignore apple.
However, from a business perspective, they're the 800 lb gorilla. What's interesting, however, is how easy it is for some of their target audience to ignore them.
The problem is that spreadsheets and databases solve different problems, yet they are related enough that folks confuse the two. Not unlike what you did. Spreadsheets represent the full MVC concept, whereas databases are usually just the M(odel), with some (C)ontroller capabilities.
From there, the problem becomes somewhat more obvious; Because applications like Excel provide more complete functionality ( or try to at any rate ), that's naturally what anyone who needs to model data wants to use. Aside from programmers, who has time to construct a full data modeling environment using the right tools?
There's an opportunity here for MS to "fill the gap" here; provide the function-rich environment of Excel and tie it to a database backend simply. Or perhaps, considering the mess that is Access, that opportunity exists for someone other than MS.
Bullshit. Terrorism is only peripherally related to government's interest in compromising encryption. Governments the world over are terrified of their citizens speaking freely, for whatever noise they make about "Freedom of Speech". It's about controlling the message, which they can't do if people are communicating outside of their control.
They're using terrorism to push this agenda.
The company does amazing work to keep its iPhones and iPads ahead of competitors, performance-wise.
Um....
So...you're trying to convince me of your position...but this isn't a debate...and you're acting juvenile and ignoring the realities of the situation.
And that's meant to convince me? Of what, precisely?
It's possibly worth noting at this point which of us is relying on personal experience and name calling to support their position.
The problem with a lot of these cases and how the colleges are handling them is that they are not rape. Often it's a consensual encounter which later becomes "rape" because "reasons" ( regret, boyfriend found out, ect... ). In those instances, with the lower burden of proof and the systemic bias against the accused, it becomes virtually impossible to prove innocence.
This, incidentally, should be very worrisome to those concerned about legitimate sexual assault. False accusations that lead to severe consequences trivialize the impact of real crimes. The backlash from the above won't result in more protections for legitimate victims, but less as the integrity of the entire process is called into question. The phrase "Throwing out the baby with the bath water" comes to mind here.
Colleges should never have been involved in the process to begin with; if students felt assaulted, they should have been referred to law enforcement directly, and any punishment against the accused would follow the determination of guilt in a court of law.
It's irrelevant.
I only care about if everyone had the same opportunity as everyone else. If there's a broken piece there, great; let's fix it and make sure everyone has the same opportunity to excel. I'm not seeing any system bias, btw. Sure, I see the symptoms all over the place, but I don't see the cause. It's beyond absurd to attempt to craft a fix to a symptom; it's the economic equivalent of homeopathy.
That the opportunities exist but are not being exploited does not indicate any action on my part. Ergo; it's irrelevant.
There is in effect no difference and the purpose is exactly the same
You'll want to educate yourself as this statement betrays a profound ignorance on the topic
http://thelibertarianrepublic....
http://time.com/3222176/campus...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
If you take away nothing else from the above, you must acknowledge that they are lowering the burden of proof. That's hardly "no difference".
I can't help but feel you are purposefully misunderstanding the discussion here. I am not referring to legal courts of law. Those will, generally, have a much higher standard of proof ( although there are plenty of cases of false rape only being revealed after the accused spent years in jail ). I'm talking about college campuses handling sexual assault charges on their own, using a much lower proof requirement and, generally, denying the accused anything approaching due process, but with lifelong consequences for the outcome.
Again; Not legal courts of law. Campus courts.
Yikes, you really don't have any clue what's going on, do you?
I'm not talking about men found guilty in a court of law. I'm talking about men found guilty by the kangaroo courts convened in colleges as a result of the Dear Colleague letter. Often these men are never charged with an actual crime, but they're tossed out or suspended based on little more than the word of their accuser. Sometimes years afterwards, and sometimes in the face of all contrary evidence. All in the pursuit of appeasing Title XI.
How old are you? Because you sound like a 50 year old dude trying to explain to us 20-30 years olds what sex is like in college. Graduated college 10 years ago, went to the two largest schools in Georgia, rushed a fraternity, and was never once scared of someone crying rape.
Your ignorance is not a solid basis for an argument. Want to try again?
And you sound like someone who hasn't been paying attention to how men are treated in college and beyond when it comes to sex and family law.
Do some research. It's horrifying.
A valid point.
Getting hysterical about it (crazy to go to college, really?) isn't going to help anyone.
It's not "getting hysterical" to recognize a hostile and dangerous environment for what it is and steering clear of it. All that's needed is an accusation and a man can be kicked out of college. In many cases he's not even allowed to present evidence in his defense. That's the "college experience" for men now a days. Can't fault men for checking out of that; I won't go near a college either.
You are quite correct; I got the stat wrong. However, it doesn't detract from the overall point that it's bullshit.
What rape hysteria? Rape culture is where a rapist like Brock Turner gets a scant 6 months because the the judge says a prison sentence might have a bad impact on him.
*One* case does not rape culture make. Despite what you are led to believe, women are actually *safer* on college campuses than anywhere else. You often hear the 1 in 3 stat mentioned, but that stat is based on a piss poor study that's only quoted because it supports an agenda.
What's far more prevalent are the rape accusations, which is really no surprise when you think about it. Rape is a heinous crime, and folks that commit it are rightfully shunned and hated. However, what's happening is that the merest accusation can be enough to ruin someone's life ( men, not women incidentally ). As false accusers are rarely punished for their behavior, it creates a very effective tool for women to deploy against men. Think: Duke, Rolling Stones, Mattress Girl, and those are just off the top of my head.
In our culture of fear and snap judgments and "Dear Colleague" letters, you'd have to be crazy as a man to have sex on a college campus. Hell, you'd have to be crazy to even GO to college, seeing how an unsupported accusation would be enough to get you expelled. No, it's worse than that; not just unsupported, but an evidence refuted accusation can get you kicked out with no recourse.
Finally, you mention a rapist who got a light sentence. I agree that's wrong, but if you really want to be outraged about that I'd like to know your stance on the legion of women teachers who continually get suspended sentences or community service for sex with minors. It seems there's another in the paper every week, with kids as young as grade school.
Ironically, that may be where the real rape culture is; in our elementary and high schools.
As far as the younger generation not having as much sex; maybe the men are smarter than we were. They see that all the effort and time spent just increases their risk factor of having their lives ruined and are noping out. Smart.
I need my safeplace! SOMEONE TAKE ME TO MY SAFEPLACE!
In all seriousness, I sincerely hope future historians look back on this time with a sense of amusement and incredulity.
Probably won't even move the needle. Look at it this way; The folks that want to abolish porn will see this and get excited for Trump. The folks that want to keep porn around rightfully realize that this is a meaningless gesture to placate the crazies ( regardless of intent ).
A QR scanner (or a bar code reader) are a lot more than just a camera. Its a camera plus some sort of processing unit and software to interpret/digitize the code and interface with the POS system including encryption, communication with the bank, etc. You can't just hook up an off the shelf camera to a POS system and magically be able to read QR codes and interface with the bank to provide authenticated and secure transactions.
Actually...that's precisely what you can do. The hardware for a QR system would be a camera..period. Point of fact, a lot of places already have the needed hardware. How POS vendors handle said camera is on them, but most of the work would be software in nature. Even then you'd reap the benefits of a far simpler system over chip/pin; you can rely on TLS/SSL libraries to secure communications with the payment processor, so all the POS system is responsible for doing is passing along the payment code, the pin, the amount and other data they already do for CC swipes. They wouldn't need to handle chip readers, the encryption between the card and the reader, then the reader to the terminal.
There will always be hold outs. I occasionally get stuck behind someone writing a check at the store, for instance. I agree; we'd need some way to gracefully handle those hold outs. However, I think the added functionality that would come from phone-based payments would ultimately win over society.
A camera is specialized or niche? Because that's all the hardware most places would need to handle QR.
Whatever the number, I'm betting it's still higher than the number of places with chip-and-pin setups.
But even if we had to start from scratch; what would we need? A generic camera, right? Those can be sourced inexpensively without batting an eye.