Dude, what is so hard here? It is an API. Do people typically customize an API for every user (as in application using the API) to limit the available calls only to what is needed? It is an interface. The data available in said interface is CLEARLY DOCUMENTED. Yes, technically Scrabble has access to the religion of its users. Yes, it could be storing this.
Seriously, what is confusing here? You have to agree when you add an application that it will be able to access your profile data. When you say 'yes, allow this', why would you be surprised that the application is then allowed to do what you just allowed?
Many years ago, on a certain presidential campaign (which one is not important; he didn't win), if you got a "personal" answer to your letter addressed to the candidate, chances are that I wrote it and "signed" his name with a machine that scrawled "his" signature with a felt-tip pen.
Well, looking at how low your ID is, I'm guessing it was William Jennings Bryan
On what basis are you saying that adoption from an orphanage is a replacement for an artificial insemination approach? They have completely different goals. In fact, the attitude of "any ol' kid will do" sounds a lot like treating humans as replaceable material.
Most people don't, which is why they need religion. As much as I hate many of the side effects of organized religion, I am not sure society as a whole would be better off without it. There are too many people who DON'T know how to use their brain independently.
Parent has it exactly right. This is likely another statistical half-truth. Tell us % of users reporting flaws and let's compare that to XP's first year.
Stop whining and configure your email client accordingly. You can "explain" things to your co-workers, but (a) it probably won't get through to them, (b) it would only last as long as your turnover rate, and (c) you're going to look like you can't handle his workload (or else the guy who's just complaining for no reason).
Avoid the issue and just handle it on your side. I totally sympathize with your situation (I'm a consultant, so I get it from my people and from the client, and we're not in the same location, which makes the email and uber-CC tendency worse), but just suck it up and find a way to still be productive.
Absolutely. Regardless of whether you agree with these guys, you know they aren't bullshitting you. The rest of the candidates ask you what you want to hear (polls) and then tell you exactly that. It has absolutely no bearing on what they're going to do during their administration (Bush against nation building, Bush for an amendment banning gay marriage, Bush [insert just about any campaign promise here]).
But we're too dumb to vote for the guy who tells us what he's going to do. We'd rather vote for the guy who tells us what we want to hear.
Same method, but the keys would be different. You'd have to get your hands on the keys in the Oracle wallet, which is in a file outside the database and should be backed up separately.
There answer is: it's not hard at all. If we can assume GE Money is using Oracle, it has had TDE (transparent data encryption) since 10g. All they have to do is alter a column, setting the 'encrypt' option, and suddenly its contents are stored on disk as encrypted. No application changes are required*, because Oracle unencrypts the data transparently as it is read from disk.
In this case, the stolen tape would include lots of plaintext data, but the sensitive data would be unintelligible. The only way to read the sensitive data is to retrieve the backup of the Oracle wallet also.
* as long as the encrypted columns do not require a range scan of an index (which obviously wouldn't work), but when are you range-scanning a credit card number or SSN?
Um, so everyone floods the steam on the first of the month. I think that won't go so well. They'd have to stagger the billing cycles and align the bandwidth allocation with the billing cycle start. This would be pretty complicated to do and would likely have significant (understatement of the year) ripple effects throughout their business.
People who aren't good at it reek of it. People who are good at it make a lot of money. The difference is incredibly clear in my profession, and people who can't do this don't last more than a few months.
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Would be helpful if you elaborated...
Theoretically it is against TOS for applications to store any of that data.
Dude, what is so hard here? It is an API. Do people typically customize an API for every user (as in application using the API) to limit the available calls only to what is needed? It is an interface. The data available in said interface is CLEARLY DOCUMENTED. Yes, technically Scrabble has access to the religion of its users. Yes, it could be storing this.
Seriously, what is confusing here? You have to agree when you add an application that it will be able to access your profile data. When you say 'yes, allow this', why would you be surprised that the application is then allowed to do what you just allowed?
http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?doc=fql
Many years ago, on a certain presidential campaign (which one is not important; he didn't win), if you got a "personal" answer to your letter addressed to the candidate, chances are that I wrote it and "signed" his name with a machine that scrawled "his" signature with a felt-tip pen.
Well, looking at how low your ID is, I'm guessing it was William Jennings Bryan
On what basis are you saying that adoption from an orphanage is a replacement for an artificial insemination approach? They have completely different goals. In fact, the attitude of "any ol' kid will do" sounds a lot like treating humans as replaceable material.
Most people don't, which is why they need religion. As much as I hate many of the side effects of organized religion, I am not sure society as a whole would be better off without it. There are too many people who DON'T know how to use their brain independently.
Maybe some of the memory optimizations will creep its way into the main codebase.
Honestly, I am glad I asked the (genuine) question, because reading the replies seems to clear things up.
I would start looking for another job, if I were in that situation...
How can you make the assessment that IBM is in the wrong by introducing the 15% reduction without knowing the salary range in question?
Parent has it exactly right. This is likely another statistical half-truth. Tell us % of users reporting flaws and let's compare that to XP's first year.
i for one...
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Stop whining and configure your email client accordingly. You can "explain" things to your co-workers, but (a) it probably won't get through to them, (b) it would only last as long as your turnover rate, and (c) you're going to look like you can't handle his workload (or else the guy who's just complaining for no reason).
Avoid the issue and just handle it on your side. I totally sympathize with your situation (I'm a consultant, so I get it from my people and from the client, and we're not in the same location, which makes the email and uber-CC tendency worse), but just suck it up and find a way to still be productive.
Good luck,
Five bucks says Portal sweeps the awards.
IANAL, but I'm 99% sure this is binding.
I'm not sure how they can do this, since as far as I can tell they "released" these design patterns a while ago.
Please add the following requirements:
* Women
This will be the toughest feature to implement.
Absolutely. Regardless of whether you agree with these guys, you know they aren't bullshitting you. The rest of the candidates ask you what you want to hear (polls) and then tell you exactly that. It has absolutely no bearing on what they're going to do during their administration (Bush against nation building, Bush for an amendment banning gay marriage, Bush [insert just about any campaign promise here]).
But we're too dumb to vote for the guy who tells us what he's going to do. We'd rather vote for the guy who tells us what we want to hear.
Same method, but the keys would be different. You'd have to get your hands on the keys in the Oracle wallet, which is in a file outside the database and should be backed up separately.
Absolutely. And we've had this ability since the 70s (Diffie-Hellman, anyone?).
There answer is: it's not hard at all. If we can assume GE Money is using Oracle, it has had TDE (transparent data encryption) since 10g. All they have to do is alter a column, setting the 'encrypt' option, and suddenly its contents are stored on disk as encrypted. No application changes are required*, because Oracle unencrypts the data transparently as it is read from disk.
In this case, the stolen tape would include lots of plaintext data, but the sensitive data would be unintelligible. The only way to read the sensitive data is to retrieve the backup of the Oracle wallet also.
* as long as the encrypted columns do not require a range scan of an index (which obviously wouldn't work), but when are you range-scanning a credit card number or SSN?
It would also change our fundamental understanding of who commits actions (like crimes). Can you prove "I" occupied that body at the crime scene?
Um, so everyone floods the steam on the first of the month. I think that won't go so well. They'd have to stagger the billing cycles and align the bandwidth allocation with the billing cycle start. This would be pretty complicated to do and would likely have significant (understatement of the year) ripple effects throughout their business.
Man is a wolf to man. homini is dative (indirect object).
Who are you referring to? The companies whose idiot employees who put their retirement money 100% into their own company's stock?
People who aren't good at it reek of it. People who are good at it make a lot of money. The difference is incredibly clear in my profession, and people who can't do this don't last more than a few months.
And we are willing to do this. Please send us your account number and mother's maiden name.