Interesting. The complaint I hear most often in the UK is that there's too much emphasis on exam results in core subjects (english, maths, science) at the expense of art and humanities.
Though if I could read, I'd notice that it uses "Data from the 7th (2002–2004), 8th (2006), and 9th (2007–09) phases of the London-based Whitehall II civil servants study", i.e. before the current government policies.
Learning from someone who knows their subject much better than I do who has taken the time to condense a part of their knowledge into a well structured lecture is the thing I miss most when comparing university to work.
Though it would have a similar result, this is entirely unrelated to the calls to block porn by default in order to protect children using the internet.
The stated goal here is to make it harder for paedophiles find child-porn by searching for codewords in adverts on legal porn websites.
This still seems pretty short-sighted to me, if we're aware of these secret code-words, shouldn't we be attacking the source of the problem? If porn sites were blocked from search engines, wouldn't these disguised adverts just be placed elsewhere?
Even if I wasn't gaming, I'd still buy a desktop over a laptop.
If I'm doing a reasonable amount of work, I'd rather be doing it at a desk, with a good keyboard and monitor. If I'm just entertaining myself, I can probably get away with a tablet.
I can see the need for a laptop in some cases (for example, I very rarely want to work on the move or need to work in different locations frequently) but it doesn't meet any specific need I have. For me, the increased cost, increased difficulty in replacing parts, worse ergonomics and shorter life expectancy of a laptop is too high a cost for mobility.
I guess "cheating" makes for a better headline but this is an excellent way of taking notes in class.
With several people contributing to the same page of notes you can correct each others mistakes and don't risk missing an important point in the lecture because you were busy writing down the last important point.
Can you back up that claim? Is there evidence that APs with SSID broadcasts disabled are still used for location tracking?
Presumably if it isn't announcing it's SSID, your router is only broadcasting signals if someone is using the network. In this situation, can an observer distinguish between the AP and the client?
Furthermore, is an ordinary phone able to detect the existence of an AP which isn't broadcasting its SSID?
Only in the U.S. can you sell 2 million units of something and still be considered a failure.
Success or failure is determined not by copies sold but by profit made.
Profit depends on your costs. If your game was made by a few guys in a single office over a few months then your costs could be pretty low. Mirror's Edge was made by a large team over several years.
Profit also depends on income. Mirror's Edge dropped in price quickly after release and you could pick up a copy for about £5 now. Additionally it has been on sale on Steam and at other online retailers several times. Copies sold at a discount obviously provide less income.
So how to fail after selling 2 million copies? Make a hugely expensive game and make most of your sales at a huge discount.
I can't believe the US puts up with those sorts of prices!
My data contract costs £35 ($56) a month and is considered expensive.
Previously, I had a dumb phone on pay as you go. I used it infrequently (I mostly keep in touch with IM and e-mail) but I only used to spend about £5/month.
What is it about the US that keeps the price of mobile phones high?
If only the server is authenticated, then the client knows it it talking to the right person and both ends know that the channel is secure, assuming the client is verifying the certificate correctly.
In the Facebook case this is enough because the client will then authenticate using its username and password over the secure channel so that the server knows who it's talking to.
The bigger problem on the web is that many sites only use https for the login process so anyone able to interfere with the preceding unencrypted conversation would be able to present a fake login screen which did not use https or directed the credentials somewhere else entirely.
Assuming that the whole public key infrastructure is working correctly, SSL does prevent MITM attacks when only one end is authenticated. Assuming no-one has been able to obtain a forged certificate for the server and the server's private key has not been compromised, the client is able to be sure that it's speaking directly to the server. The server knows nothing about the client but generally this isn't a problem because once the client is sure that it has a secure connection to the server, it can authenticate itself to the server securely using another method such as a password.
Do remember that most "essentials" (i.e. food, rent, most utilities) are either exempt from VAT or are subject to a reduced rate of VAT (5%, which was not increased).
This scenario refers specifically to hiring freelance programmers to complete a project. You want one programmer (or small team) so you hire several to do the first milestone and then keep the one which works best.
Software engineering seems to have been globally exempted from very careful process and safety testing because business demands it.
Very few people will require a piece of software that is 100% correct when it costs 100 times more than the one that is 99.9% correct.
In banking, that expense is justified because of how much money will be lost if something goes wrong but in a lot of cases, it isn't. In this particular instance we have an internal piece of software which will be deployed to a relatively small number of vehicles which operates entirely passively. For these reasons I would expect that it was not engineered to the same standards which we require for medical therapies or banking software.
Where the hell are you playing to get a ping of 200ms? Unless it's BF:BC2, you're either playing on a server on another continent (or maybe east cost west coast) or there's a horrible amount of congestion in which case you'll also get dropped packets which will be much more noticeable.
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The only reason for all the popups is that the website you're reading wants to do a load of bullshit with the data they gather about you.
If you only use personal data to fulfil user's requests, there's no need to ask for consent.
Interesting. The complaint I hear most often in the UK is that there's too much emphasis on exam results in core subjects (english, maths, science) at the expense of art and humanities.
Though if I could read, I'd notice that it uses "Data from the 7th (2002–2004), 8th (2006), and 9th (2007–09) phases of the London-based Whitehall II civil servants study", i.e. before the current government policies.
The study is looking specifically at UK civil servants after seven years or so of government austerity policies.
I'm not convinced it's representative of the workforce as a whole.
Few people need to write a compiler but many will need to write a parser at some point.
...but I liked lectures...
Learning from someone who knows their subject much better than I do who has taken the time to condense a part of their knowledge into a well structured lecture is the thing I miss most when comparing university to work.
Though it would have a similar result, this is entirely unrelated to the calls to block porn by default in order to protect children using the internet.
The stated goal here is to make it harder for paedophiles find child-porn by searching for codewords in adverts on legal porn websites.
This still seems pretty short-sighted to me, if we're aware of these secret code-words, shouldn't we be attacking the source of the problem? If porn sites were blocked from search engines, wouldn't these disguised adverts just be placed elsewhere?
Just for a change, the article isn't about that at all. It's about paedophiles advertising through easily searched for codewords on porn sites.
Seems to miss the point that such adverts could easily made to look innocuous and placed elsewhere.
Even if I wasn't gaming, I'd still buy a desktop over a laptop.
If I'm doing a reasonable amount of work, I'd rather be doing it at a desk, with a good keyboard and monitor. If I'm just entertaining myself, I can probably get away with a tablet.
I can see the need for a laptop in some cases (for example, I very rarely want to work on the move or need to work in different locations frequently) but it doesn't meet any specific need I have. For me, the increased cost, increased difficulty in replacing parts, worse ergonomics and shorter life expectancy of a laptop is too high a cost for mobility.
I guess "cheating" makes for a better headline but this is an excellent way of taking notes in class.
With several people contributing to the same page of notes you can correct each others mistakes and don't risk missing an important point in the lecture because you were busy writing down the last important point.
Objecting to people recording your SSID broadcasts is like objecting to people on the street taking photos which include your house.
Can you back up that claim? Is there evidence that APs with SSID broadcasts disabled are still used for location tracking?
Presumably if it isn't announcing it's SSID, your router is only broadcasting signals if someone is using the network. In this situation, can an observer distinguish between the AP and the client?
Furthermore, is an ordinary phone able to detect the existence of an AP which isn't broadcasting its SSID?
It's adding $400M to the economy, that's got to count for something, right?
The only edit from the original submission appears to be to remove the link to the original Guardian posting. ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/06/john-naughton-apple-dominates-market )
Are they trying to prevent us from RTFA?
Only in the U.S. can you sell 2 million units of something and still be considered a failure.
Success or failure is determined not by copies sold but by profit made.
Profit depends on your costs. If your game was made by a few guys in a single office over a few months then your costs could be pretty low. Mirror's Edge was made by a large team over several years.
Profit also depends on income. Mirror's Edge dropped in price quickly after release and you could pick up a copy for about £5 now. Additionally it has been on sale on Steam and at other online retailers several times. Copies sold at a discount obviously provide less income.
So how to fail after selling 2 million copies? Make a hugely expensive game and make most of your sales at a huge discount.
I can't believe the US puts up with those sorts of prices!
My data contract costs £35 ($56) a month and is considered expensive.
Previously, I had a dumb phone on pay as you go. I used it infrequently (I mostly keep in touch with IM and e-mail) but I only used to spend about £5/month.
What is it about the US that keeps the price of mobile phones high?
It depends who needs to trust who.
If only the server is authenticated, then the client knows it it talking to the right person and both ends know that the channel is secure, assuming the client is verifying the certificate correctly.
In the Facebook case this is enough because the client will then authenticate using its username and password over the secure channel so that the server knows who it's talking to.
The bigger problem on the web is that many sites only use https for the login process so anyone able to interfere with the preceding unencrypted conversation would be able to present a fake login screen which did not use https or directed the credentials somewhere else entirely.
Assuming that the whole public key infrastructure is working correctly, SSL does prevent MITM attacks when only one end is authenticated. Assuming no-one has been able to obtain a forged certificate for the server and the server's private key has not been compromised, the client is able to be sure that it's speaking directly to the server. The server knows nothing about the client but generally this isn't a problem because once the client is sure that it has a secure connection to the server, it can authenticate itself to the server securely using another method such as a password.
Cue the grammar nazis...
It varies hugely from game to game.
Borderlands was £20 on shop.to at release while it was £27 on Steam.
Digital stores only tend to be cheaper when games are on sale or when a game has mostly sold out at physical retailers.
This is what happens when you let publishers dictate prices.
Alternatively "protecting your investment"
Do remember that most "essentials" (i.e. food, rent, most utilities) are either exempt from VAT or are subject to a reduced rate of VAT (5%, which was not increased).
So how the hell is a recent graduate supposed to get a job if everyone requires experience?
This scenario refers specifically to hiring freelance programmers to complete a project. You want one programmer (or small team) so you hire several to do the first milestone and then keep the one which works best.
Yeah, the summary could have been better.
Software engineering seems to have been globally exempted from very careful process and safety testing because business demands it.
Very few people will require a piece of software that is 100% correct when it costs 100 times more than the one that is 99.9% correct.
In banking, that expense is justified because of how much money will be lost if something goes wrong but in a lot of cases, it isn't. In this particular instance we have an internal piece of software which will be deployed to a relatively small number of vehicles which operates entirely passively. For these reasons I would expect that it was not engineered to the same standards which we require for medical therapies or banking software.
Where the hell are you playing to get a ping of 200ms? Unless it's BF:BC2, you're either playing on a server on another continent (or maybe east cost west coast) or there's a horrible amount of congestion in which case you'll also get dropped packets which will be much more noticeable.