Oh, I agree the problem is not coding. But coding is *one* area where students would get to practice those skills. Additionally, the computer itself provides feedback for the students to help them determine the correctness of the solution. Programming can be a useful tool.
Yes, there are problems with education, but programming could be one of the steps towards fixing the issues. Something else could replace programming, but programming does have the advantage of giving you some ability to check your work without a teacher. Of course there are problems such as some students not being able to afford a computer or internet access to quickly be able to get references or help.
Honestly, I don't think learning the programming is, in itself, all that important. As you mentioned, the ability to synthesize is important. I just want people to have the skills that they could somewhat easily pick up programming if they desired. Not because I think the programming is important, but because many of the skills needed for programming are useful for other facets of life.
I worked as teaching assistant for the computer science at a college and I have to say that, for most people, programming is *not* something that they will just pick up. I worked the computer lab for the introductory programming course and the majority of the students had to work very hard to learn programming.
The point at which students initially had difficulty varied too. A surprising number had trouble with concept of a for loop. All of those students did make it past that though. What all of the students that had significant trouble with the course had in common, though, was the ability to generalize. They had problems with coming up with simple algorithms to solve simple problems. They could describe how to solve for very specific circumstances. Indeed, it seemed, most of the students could code a solution to a very specialize specific scenario, but, at least initially, not the general case. Many student improved greatly in this regard by the end, but a decent number still had issues (and I am only considering the ones that put forth effort in the course).
Most of the students having issues could somewhat understand logical concepts. They could debug simple implementation issues, and they could usually look at other people's working code and explain what the code was doing. These students lacked the ability to think abstractly and apply logic and their learning to new problems where the steps to solve the problem weren't laid out for them. I believe it is the same issue you see in middle/high school math classes where many students can manipulate equations just fine but have problems with solving story problems.
So, I do believe learning (proper) programming at an early age would benefit people. They would get more practice with thinking abstractly and have a venue for seeing practical and essentially immediate results.
Also, I don't thinking learning to program would have to supplant other courses. It could be be used in addition to other topics. For example, children could be give a code that performs math on single digits numbers and then modify to handle numbers with multiple digits. Imagine programming long division and handling remainders. I think implementing the code for this would allow children to understand numbers and math at a deeper level.
Ensuring programming was taught to everyone would have some benefits for employed programmers and to society in general, also. Right now, you see people in forums making comments about the sad state of some particular piece of software and how easy it should to fix an issue or how some problem should be easy to solve with a computer and why don't the programmers just code it up. People would come to realize the difficultly of creating a good program and what trade offs must be made for a program to be made quickly and relatively cheaply and perhaps they would decide for different trade-offs.
Looking strictly at specs can lead you astray in laptops, and unlike desktops, it is difficult to fix problems by replacing parts. Like others have mentioned you need to check the laptops out in person or, at the very least, read some reviews on the laptops you're interested in.
With your budget, you shouldn't try to investigate every possible option - the ratio of garbage to good is way too high. Start by going to some review sites and just picking the laptops with the best reviews and find the ones in your budget range with the specs you want. This should significantly narrow down the ones you need to research. Make sure you read the reviews though - you'll pick up on stuff that just looking at the typical specs won't tell you. Such as if the laptop has a crappy track pad (this is actually a fairly common problem). Is the battery run time short? You definitely can't trust the manufacturers on that spec. Does the keyboard feel good to type on? Does the monitor have good viewing angles? Does the monitor produce the proper colors? Does the laptop get hot? Is the SSD actually fast?
Macbook pros are one of the good options that would fit your constraints, although there are others( I hear that certain Lenovo and Sony models are quite good). Keep in mind that you can get refurbished macs that come with the same warranty as brand new macs at reduced prices from the apple website. You can also find new macs at reduced prices at various online sites. For example, Macmall.com is a reputable site that typically has good prices. You should also know that it is widely expected that Apple will be introducing at least one or more of the new macbook pros in June (expected at WWDC). They are rumored to have retina displays - even if you don't care about having the latest and greatest, if you can wait, you'll be able pick up the old models (the ones that are current at this moment) at reduced prices.
It would also be a good idea to remind your sister to be gentle with her laptop. It seems obvious, but I've seen people just drop their laptops onto desks or drop/toss the bag containing the laptop.
But it will probably be implemented in a way that won't. The computer programming should be able to enhance learning in other areas. They should use the programming in other classes, such as math and science, to put recently learned concepts to work. For example, teachers could assign a term project where students need to write a game that uses some physics concepts.
Additionally, this would test and strengthen skills that many are weak in - the ability to think logically and to devise and carry out a plan. Most of schooling really tests and enhances this shallowly, but writing a sufficiently complex program will truly exercise a student's mind in these areas.
If the programming is also taught as a tool to be used with other subjects, rather than a sole discipline that is divorced from the rest of schooling, then it truly could enhance education. But it will most likely be taught in such a way that programming will only ever be used in the programming class.
They're been been in business for at least several years and they have higher management? Then they should be big enough to absorb the loss of any one developer at any time. Otherwise, they're not really run right. And in that case you should want to leave because that indicates poor planning abilities and you may be forced to get another job in the future anyway when they close down due to their poor planning.
I think they're looking at the wrong place to solve the problem. In fact, they haven't identified the problem - they've identified symptoms and are trying to treat the symptoms. The problem is that many students are not equipped to handle somewhat advanced math. This is a problem with our educational system and our society. We need more people able to think abstractly and logically. I'd be surprised to find somebody who could be an excellent programmer who wasn't at least somewhat decent at math (able to do decently in college calculus courses, at the least), because the thinking skills required are common to both.
If the developer can create graphics for different settings, it should be trivial for him to adjust the graphics automatically for different underlying Apple hardware. With a much smaller amount of hardware to target and test against (on iOS) this is something the developer should do and not force the user to experiment with to get acceptable performance. To a lesser degree this should be possible on the Android platform also.
"...All there is is bullshit, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of bullshit on top of another. And what you do in life like when you get older is, you pick the layer of bullshit that you prefer and that's your bullshit, so to speak. "
- Bernie LaPlante (Hero)
So whose lawyer has the more preferred layer?
if the editor allows Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek, contributors are quite likely to type comments in Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek. the end-result is that every single damn programmer who wants to contribute must not only install Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek unicode fonts, but also they must be able to read and understand Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek. again: you've just destroyed the possibility of collaboration by terminating communication and understanding.
This is a project management issue. Many managers might think code is code and programmers are interchangeable, but it is important that programmers can communicate (and thus need to speak a common language). Besides, source code repositories could be adapted for this - just specify what subset of unicode is allowed, and disallow check-ins of files that contain characters outside of this subset.
then, also, you have the issue of revision control, diffs and patches. by moving to unicode, git svn bazaar mercury and cvs all have to be updated to understand how to treat unicode files - which they can't (they'll treat it as binary) - in order to identify lines that are added or removed, rather than store the entire file on each revision. bear in mind that you've just doubled (or quadrupled, for UCS-4) the amount of space required to store the revisions in the revision control systems' back-end database, and bear in mind that git repositories such as linux2.6 are 650mb if you're lucky (and webkit 1gb) you have enough of a problem with space for big repositories as it is!
Seriously? In this day and age, the amount of space required for source code should never an issue. Storage space is cheap. If people are serious about a project, getting adequate space for storing the code repository should never an issue.
but before that, you have to update the unix diff command and the unix patch command to do likewise. then, you also have to update git-format-patch and the git-am commands to be able to create and mail patches in unicode format (not straight SMTP ASCII). then you also have to stop using standard xterm and standard console for development, and move to a Unicode-capable terminal, but you also have to update the unix commands "more" and "less" to be able to display unicode diffs.
Are there technical reasons why this would not be feasible?
there are good reasons why ASCII - the lowest common denominator - is used in programming languages: the development tools revolve around ASCII, the editors revolve around ASCII, the internationally-recognised language of choice (english) fits into ASCII. and, as said right at the beginning, the only reason why stupid obtuse symbols instead of straightforward words were picked was to cram as much into as little memory as possible. well, to some extent, as you can see with the development tools nightmare described above, it's still necessary to save space, making UNICODE a pretty stupid choice.
Those were good reasons in the past. Why can't we move past these reasons now, though?
Why should code be tied to text only anyway? I know there have been some experiments that never really took off, but even if we could expand programs to more than simple text just for comments that would be a huge help. A diagram or picture can often more accurately, and quickly, convey how a piece of code should work than a long piece of text. It would also be nice if we could reference non-code files from a code file. How about linking a class or method to a specification document (or part of it)? It would also be nice if you were alerted to check correctness of the linking code if the relevant section of the specification document changed.
We currently write source code as the compiler is the only consumer of the file that matters and that humans are some inconvenient aspect that we begrudgingly make the code accessible to. Thinking of people as first class consumers of source code may have a significant impact on programming.
Thought about this too but I thought it unlikely for the following reason: Most people wouldn't bother to check the registration of a site. Of those who would, it seems like if they went to the bother of finding out the sysadmin of the company they would go to the trouble of further investigation. This seems like it would defeat only superficial checking and therefore not much use to the scammer. Then again, maybe I'm over thinking it, since the company says it is sufficient to suspend him.
Your id was stolen by someone to create a website that infringes on the trademark for a company that you work for? First, it's odd that somebody would steal your identity for the purpose of creating a website. But secondly, the website is one that infringes on the trademark for your company. And then your company actively looks for violations on this stuff? I think somebody wanted you fired. Possibly it is your own company - after all, they didn't need much 'proof' to suspend you, did they? If your company is big enough to have a legal dept, it seems they can afford to be (and should be) a little more thorough. Hire a lawyer.
This seems to be a developer centric sentiment. There is fragmentation if either the user or the developer sees it as a fragmentation issue. From what I've read, most developers see it as a small see either no fragmentation or a small fragmentation user. From many user's perspective, there is a huge fragmentation issue. A lot of this really a marketing and/or support issue. When a user buys a brand new, recently released smart phone, they expect to get the top of the line OS features - unless they're specifically told they're not going to get those features. It's pretty ridiculous that you can buy a new phone with Android v1.6 when 2.2 is available and not have official support to upgrade the OS. People want to treat their smart phones like the computers they are, which means they should be reasonably upgradeable on the OS level, not cheap disposable cell phones. Remember, for most users, saying there is an unofficial way to upgrade the phone OS is the same as saying they can't upgrade the phone.
There are a lot of things to dislike about Apple, but at least they don't abandon their users once they have their money.
The best response is to cancel the transaction. The question about using an extra secure connection is unexpected. Either software would be set up for the special connection when you first set up an account, or some big announcement would be made on the website - it's highly unlikely a site would choose to surprise users in such a way. That fact that the author would think any choice he presented is valid shows that he is likely to fall victim to getting his own system rooted (at least, according to his own logic), since this transaction should just be terminated.
When you present knowledge in a readable form, the quality of the knowledge is intrinsically tied to its readability. The point of putting knowledge in a written form(or presenting it in any form to another person) is to communicate ideas. If its not readable its pointless. That being said, it is not that these wikipedia articles are unreadable, just that these particular ones are unreadable by the intended audience. The intended audience is not versed in theory and terminology, those that are already either a)know the material well enough to not need to refer to wikipedia or b) already have much better references. It the article wants to gradually introduce the terms and concepts or break the entry up in such a way that novices and experts could refer to different sections, that would be fine.
Unfortunately, many people like to show off their knowledge and don't really care about expanding other's people knowledge. Quite often, these are the same ones yelling at people to RTFM when those people ask questions. In these cases though, how are people supposed to RTFM?!
What is the reason for all of the complaints? So what if comparing open source to mission critical proprietary is an apples to oranges comparisons. When attempting to better yourself to become the best possible you don't compare yourself against your peers - you compare yourself against your betters. It may be the case the OS(open source) can't use the same methods as mission critical PS(proprietary software), but it at least known that there a better defect rate is actually achievable in reality and is something to strive for.
Typical PS advocates could also make arguments for an apples to oranges comparison - we have constraints placed on us by customers and managers, we have to be concerned about making a profit, we have to beat others to market and so on (and yes OS advocates will make arguments against this - the point is everybody can make arguments about why a comparison is unfair - but a difference in quality exists regardless of fairness of comparison). In the end, it doesn't matter - typical OS is better and the typical PS needs to improve, just at OS needs to improve compared to mission critical PS.
What this article really enforces is the idea that no model is perfect (which should have been obvious to everyone but apparently isn't) and all of the models have room for improvement and the people using these different models should learn from each other.
...but I think one of the things that would aid in password security is increasing the max possible length of passwords. I can come up with a very long nonsensical phrase (even with nonsense words and numbers) that's easy to remember, but most password systems won't allow me to use a password longer than about 20 characters. In my opinion if you want users to use difficult to guess passwords, you should give them the ability to embed mnemonics in the passwords - 20 characters is usually too short for this.
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Many peope are asking what's the point? You only have to think about the repercussions of flying cars to see the point.
First, imagine what now happens to our transportation infrastructure. After the initial investment into the network for flying cars, the costs for the transportaion infrastrcuture would come down incredibly. We would either have no cost in maintaining roads or a substantially reduced cost - depending on whether it is economical to have semi's hover over the roads. The cost wouldn't go to zero, of course, since we still have to have computers and people to manage those computers to monitor the skies and traffic.
Second, imagine your job opporunities now. I travel an hour each way for my job now. It's about 60 miles each way. With a flying car that does over 300 mph, my possible job radius increases by 5 times! That means the total area I can look for jobs increases by 25 times! Additionally, if flying can be automated, it might be possible to extend this. If I can sleep during most of the trip, I can expand my job to home radius even more.
Third, this would just about eliminate passenger air travel within most continents. Even though air planes can travel faster that the roughly 350 mph being quoted for the flying cars, the associated over-head (checking-in, having to work on the air-lines schedule, etc...) would mostly or completely negate that advantage.
Next, imagine the effects upon retail businesses. Since people can now go over 5x as far in the same amount of time as with convential cars (perhaps even farther since traffic may be much more manageable), retail businesses have to be much more comptetitve. Instead of just competing with places within, say your city , you're now competing with businesses that are 300 miles away. You may have to compete with businesses from several cities! If you travel at over 300 mph, now stores up to 75 miles away can be considered the "neighborhood corner store".
Now consider the effect upon real-estate prices. Except for small islands with a dense population, it would be very hard to drive up real-estate prices based solely on proximity to areas containing many jobs. People won't mind living 100 miles away from work when it only takes them about 20 minutes for the commute. Thus the demand for property next to areas containing many jobs would severely decrease.
Because of all these effects, we could eventually see the population spread out more evenly thoughout the contintents instead oh having much of the land empty with a few areas densely populated (we would still have still have densely populated areas -just not as many and much less dense). This would also likely have a significant impact upon the environment-whether good or bad I can't say.
Lastly, because the population would be more spread out, it would force the communications infrastructure to expand to meet the new demands.
If a flying car with decent range and speed is made available at an affordable price to most people-it won't be an evolutionary step of the autombile-it'll be a revolution for the world.
Micosoft is in a unique position, though. Since they essentially own the desktop OS market, they can just release consumer versions of software with new file formats and package them with windows. After a year or two, businesses will have to upgrade their business versions of the same software to mantain compatibility with consumers and their smaller business partners who don't use business versions.
1. Find security bugs in operating systems
2. ??? ->write analysis comparity security among them
3. Profit! -> Take funding from Microsoft showing how Windows is more secure!
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Oh, I agree the problem is not coding. But coding is *one* area where students would get to practice those skills. Additionally, the computer itself provides feedback for the students to help them determine the correctness of the solution. Programming can be a useful tool.
Yes, there are problems with education, but programming could be one of the steps towards fixing the issues. Something else could replace programming, but programming does have the advantage of giving you some ability to check your work without a teacher. Of course there are problems such as some students not being able to afford a computer or internet access to quickly be able to get references or help.
Honestly, I don't think learning the programming is, in itself, all that important. As you mentioned, the ability to synthesize is important. I just want people to have the skills that they could somewhat easily pick up programming if they desired. Not because I think the programming is important, but because many of the skills needed for programming are useful for other facets of life.
I worked as teaching assistant for the computer science at a college and I have to say that, for most people, programming is *not* something that they will just pick up. I worked the computer lab for the introductory programming course and the majority of the students had to work very hard to learn programming.
The point at which students initially had difficulty varied too. A surprising number had trouble with concept of a for loop. All of those students did make it past that though. What all of the students that had significant trouble with the course had in common, though, was the ability to generalize. They had problems with coming up with simple algorithms to solve simple problems. They could describe how to solve for very specific circumstances. Indeed, it seemed, most of the students could code a solution to a very specialize specific scenario, but, at least initially, not the general case. Many student improved greatly in this regard by the end, but a decent number still had issues (and I am only considering the ones that put forth effort in the course).
Most of the students having issues could somewhat understand logical concepts. They could debug simple implementation issues, and they could usually look at other people's working code and explain what the code was doing. These students lacked the ability to think abstractly and apply logic and their learning to new problems where the steps to solve the problem weren't laid out for them. I believe it is the same issue you see in middle/high school math classes where many students can manipulate equations just fine but have problems with solving story problems.
So, I do believe learning (proper) programming at an early age would benefit people. They would get more practice with thinking abstractly and have a venue for seeing practical and essentially immediate results.
Also, I don't thinking learning to program would have to supplant other courses. It could be be used in addition to other topics. For example, children could be give a code that performs math on single digits numbers and then modify to handle numbers with multiple digits. Imagine programming long division and handling remainders. I think implementing the code for this would allow children to understand numbers and math at a deeper level.
Ensuring programming was taught to everyone would have some benefits for employed programmers and to society in general, also. Right now, you see people in forums making comments about the sad state of some particular piece of software and how easy it should to fix an issue or how some problem should be easy to solve with a computer and why don't the programmers just code it up. People would come to realize the difficultly of creating a good program and what trade offs must be made for a program to be made quickly and relatively cheaply and perhaps they would decide for different trade-offs.
Looking strictly at specs can lead you astray in laptops, and unlike desktops, it is difficult to fix problems by replacing parts. Like others have mentioned you need to check the laptops out in person or, at the very least, read some reviews on the laptops you're interested in.
With your budget, you shouldn't try to investigate every possible option - the ratio of garbage to good is way too high. Start by going to some review sites and just picking the laptops with the best reviews and find the ones in your budget range with the specs you want. This should significantly narrow down the ones you need to research. Make sure you read the reviews though - you'll pick up on stuff that just looking at the typical specs won't tell you. Such as if the laptop has a crappy track pad (this is actually a fairly common problem). Is the battery run time short? You definitely can't trust the manufacturers on that spec. Does the keyboard feel good to type on? Does the monitor have good viewing angles? Does the monitor produce the proper colors? Does the laptop get hot? Is the SSD actually fast?
Macbook pros are one of the good options that would fit your constraints, although there are others( I hear that certain Lenovo and Sony models are quite good). Keep in mind that you can get refurbished macs that come with the same warranty as brand new macs at reduced prices from the apple website. You can also find new macs at reduced prices at various online sites. For example, Macmall.com is a reputable site that typically has good prices. You should also know that it is widely expected that Apple will be introducing at least one or more of the new macbook pros in June (expected at WWDC). They are rumored to have retina displays - even if you don't care about having the latest and greatest, if you can wait, you'll be able pick up the old models (the ones that are current at this moment) at reduced prices.
It would also be a good idea to remind your sister to be gentle with her laptop. It seems obvious, but I've seen people just drop their laptops onto desks or drop/toss the bag containing the laptop.
But it will probably be implemented in a way that won't. The computer programming should be able to enhance learning in other areas. They should use the programming in other classes, such as math and science, to put recently learned concepts to work. For example, teachers could assign a term project where students need to write a game that uses some physics concepts.
Additionally, this would test and strengthen skills that many are weak in - the ability to think logically and to devise and carry out a plan. Most of schooling really tests and enhances this shallowly, but writing a sufficiently complex program will truly exercise a student's mind in these areas.
If the programming is also taught as a tool to be used with other subjects, rather than a sole discipline that is divorced from the rest of schooling, then it truly could enhance education. But it will most likely be taught in such a way that programming will only ever be used in the programming class.
They're been been in business for at least several years and they have higher management? Then they should be big enough to absorb the loss of any one developer at any time. Otherwise, they're not really run right. And in that case you should want to leave because that indicates poor planning abilities and you may be forced to get another job in the future anyway when they close down due to their poor planning.
I think they're looking at the wrong place to solve the problem. In fact, they haven't identified the problem - they've identified symptoms and are trying to treat the symptoms. The problem is that many students are not equipped to handle somewhat advanced math. This is a problem with our educational system and our society. We need more people able to think abstractly and logically. I'd be surprised to find somebody who could be an excellent programmer who wasn't at least somewhat decent at math (able to do decently in college calculus courses, at the least), because the thinking skills required are common to both.
If the developer can create graphics for different settings, it should be trivial for him to adjust the graphics automatically for different underlying Apple hardware. With a much smaller amount of hardware to target and test against (on iOS) this is something the developer should do and not force the user to experiment with to get acceptable performance. To a lesser degree this should be possible on the Android platform also.
"...All there is is bullshit, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of bullshit on top of another. And what you do in life like when you get older is, you pick the layer of bullshit that you prefer and that's your bullshit, so to speak. "
- Bernie LaPlante (Hero)
So whose lawyer has the more preferred layer?
if the editor allows Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek, contributors are quite likely to type comments in Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek. the end-result is that every single damn programmer who wants to contribute must not only install Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek unicode fonts, but also they must be able to read and understand Kanji, Cyrillic, Chinese and Greek. again: you've just destroyed the possibility of collaboration by terminating communication and understanding.
This is a project management issue. Many managers might think code is code and programmers are interchangeable, but it is important that programmers can communicate (and thus need to speak a common language). Besides, source code repositories could be adapted for this - just specify what subset of unicode is allowed, and disallow check-ins of files that contain characters outside of this subset.
then, also, you have the issue of revision control, diffs and patches. by moving to unicode, git svn bazaar mercury and cvs all have to be updated to understand how to treat unicode files - which they can't (they'll treat it as binary) - in order to identify lines that are added or removed, rather than store the entire file on each revision. bear in mind that you've just doubled (or quadrupled, for UCS-4) the amount of space required to store the revisions in the revision control systems' back-end database, and bear in mind that git repositories such as linux2.6 are 650mb if you're lucky (and webkit 1gb) you have enough of a problem with space for big repositories as it is!
Seriously? In this day and age, the amount of space required for source code should never an issue. Storage space is cheap. If people are serious about a project, getting adequate space for storing the code repository should never an issue.
but before that, you have to update the unix diff command and the unix patch command to do likewise. then, you also have to update git-format-patch and the git-am commands to be able to create and mail patches in unicode format (not straight SMTP ASCII). then you also have to stop using standard xterm and standard console for development, and move to a Unicode-capable terminal, but you also have to update the unix commands "more" and "less" to be able to display unicode diffs.
Are there technical reasons why this would not be feasible?
there are good reasons why ASCII - the lowest common denominator - is used in programming languages: the development tools revolve around ASCII, the editors revolve around ASCII, the internationally-recognised language of choice (english) fits into ASCII. and, as said right at the beginning, the only reason why stupid obtuse symbols instead of straightforward words were picked was to cram as much into as little memory as possible. well, to some extent, as you can see with the development tools nightmare described above, it's still necessary to save space, making UNICODE a pretty stupid choice.
Those were good reasons in the past. Why can't we move past these reasons now, though?
Why should code be tied to text only anyway? I know there have been some experiments that never really took off, but even if we could expand programs to more than simple text just for comments that would be a huge help. A diagram or picture can often more accurately, and quickly, convey how a piece of code should work than a long piece of text. It would also be nice if we could reference non-code files from a code file. How about linking a class or method to a specification document (or part of it)? It would also be nice if you were alerted to check correctness of the linking code if the relevant section of the specification document changed.
We currently write source code as the compiler is the only consumer of the file that matters and that humans are some inconvenient aspect that we begrudgingly make the code accessible to. Thinking of people as first class consumers of source code may have a significant impact on programming.
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Thought about this too but I thought it unlikely for the following reason: Most people wouldn't bother to check the registration of a site. Of those who would, it seems like if they went to the bother of finding out the sysadmin of the company they would go to the trouble of further investigation. This seems like it would defeat only superficial checking and therefore not much use to the scammer. Then again, maybe I'm over thinking it, since the company says it is sufficient to suspend him.
Your id was stolen by someone to create a website that infringes on the trademark for a company that you work for? First, it's odd that somebody would steal your identity for the purpose of creating a website. But secondly, the website is one that infringes on the trademark for your company. And then your company actively looks for violations on this stuff? I think somebody wanted you fired. Possibly it is your own company - after all, they didn't need much 'proof' to suspend you, did they? If your company is big enough to have a legal dept, it seems they can afford to be (and should be) a little more thorough. Hire a lawyer.
This seems to be a developer centric sentiment. There is fragmentation if either the user or the developer sees it as a fragmentation issue. From what I've read, most developers see it as a small see either no fragmentation or a small fragmentation user. From many user's perspective, there is a huge fragmentation issue. A lot of this really a marketing and/or support issue. When a user buys a brand new, recently released smart phone, they expect to get the top of the line OS features - unless they're specifically told they're not going to get those features. It's pretty ridiculous that you can buy a new phone with Android v1.6 when 2.2 is available and not have official support to upgrade the OS. People want to treat their smart phones like the computers they are, which means they should be reasonably upgradeable on the OS level, not cheap disposable cell phones. Remember, for most users, saying there is an unofficial way to upgrade the phone OS is the same as saying they can't upgrade the phone. There are a lot of things to dislike about Apple, but at least they don't abandon their users once they have their money.
The best response is to cancel the transaction. The question about using an extra secure connection is unexpected. Either software would be set up for the special connection when you first set up an account, or some big announcement would be made on the website - it's highly unlikely a site would choose to surprise users in such a way. That fact that the author would think any choice he presented is valid shows that he is likely to fall victim to getting his own system rooted (at least, according to his own logic), since this transaction should just be terminated.
When you present knowledge in a readable form, the quality of the knowledge is intrinsically tied to its readability. The point of putting knowledge in a written form(or presenting it in any form to another person) is to communicate ideas. If its not readable its pointless. That being said, it is not that these wikipedia articles are unreadable, just that these particular ones are unreadable by the intended audience. The intended audience is not versed in theory and terminology, those that are already either a)know the material well enough to not need to refer to wikipedia or b) already have much better references. It the article wants to gradually introduce the terms and concepts or break the entry up in such a way that novices and experts could refer to different sections, that would be fine. Unfortunately, many people like to show off their knowledge and don't really care about expanding other's people knowledge. Quite often, these are the same ones yelling at people to RTFM when those people ask questions. In these cases though, how are people supposed to RTFM?!
What is the reason for all of the complaints? So what if comparing open source to mission critical proprietary is an apples to oranges comparisons. When attempting to better yourself to become the best possible you don't compare yourself against your peers - you compare yourself against your betters. It may be the case the OS(open source) can't use the same methods as mission critical PS(proprietary software), but it at least known that there a better defect rate is actually achievable in reality and is something to strive for.
Typical PS advocates could also make arguments for an apples to oranges comparison - we have constraints placed on us by customers and managers, we have to be concerned about making a profit, we have to beat others to market and so on (and yes OS advocates will make arguments against this - the point is everybody can make arguments about why a comparison is unfair - but a difference in quality exists regardless of fairness of comparison). In the end, it doesn't matter - typical OS is better and the typical PS needs to improve, just at OS needs to improve compared to mission critical PS.
What this article really enforces is the idea that no model is perfect (which should have been obvious to everyone but apparently isn't) and all of the models have room for improvement and the people using these different models should learn from each other.
...but I think one of the things that would aid in password security is increasing the max possible length of passwords. I can come up with a very long nonsensical phrase (even with nonsense words and numbers) that's easy to remember, but most password systems won't allow me to use a password longer than about 20 characters. In my opinion if you want users to use difficult to guess passwords, you should give them the ability to embed mnemonics in the passwords - 20 characters is usually too short for this.
Many peope are asking what's the point? You only have to think about the repercussions of flying cars to see the point.
First, imagine what now happens to our transportation infrastructure. After the initial investment into the network for flying cars, the costs for the transportaion infrastrcuture would come down incredibly. We would either have no cost in maintaining roads or a substantially reduced cost - depending on whether it is economical to have semi's hover over the roads. The cost wouldn't go to zero, of course, since we still have to have computers and people to manage those computers to monitor the skies and traffic.
Second, imagine your job opporunities now. I travel an hour each way for my job now. It's about 60 miles each way. With a flying car that does over 300 mph, my possible job radius increases by 5 times! That means the total area I can look for jobs increases by 25 times! Additionally, if flying can be automated, it might be possible to extend this. If I can sleep during most of the trip, I can expand my job to home radius even more.
Third, this would just about eliminate passenger air travel within most continents. Even though air planes can travel faster that the roughly 350 mph being quoted for the flying cars, the associated over-head (checking-in, having to work on the air-lines schedule, etc...) would mostly or completely negate that advantage.
Next, imagine the effects upon retail businesses. Since people can now go over 5x as far in the same amount of time as with convential cars (perhaps even farther since traffic may be much more manageable), retail businesses have to be much more comptetitve. Instead of just competing with places within, say your city , you're now competing with businesses that are 300 miles away. You may have to compete with businesses from several cities! If you travel at over 300 mph, now stores up to 75 miles away can be considered the "neighborhood corner store".
Now consider the effect upon real-estate prices. Except for small islands with a dense population, it would be very hard to drive up real-estate prices based solely on proximity to areas containing many jobs. People won't mind living 100 miles away from work when it only takes them about 20 minutes for the commute. Thus the demand for property next to areas containing many jobs would severely decrease.
Because of all these effects, we could eventually see the population spread out more evenly thoughout the contintents instead oh having much of the land empty with a few areas densely populated (we would still have still have densely populated areas -just not as many and much less dense). This would also likely have a significant impact upon the environment-whether good or bad I can't say.
Lastly, because the population would be more spread out, it would force the communications infrastructure to expand to meet the new demands.
If a flying car with decent range and speed is made available at an affordable price to most people-it won't be an evolutionary step of the autombile-it'll be a revolution for the world.
Micosoft is in a unique position, though. Since they essentially own the desktop OS market, they can just release consumer versions of software with new file formats and package them with windows. After a year or two, businesses will have to upgrade their business versions of the same software to mantain compatibility with consumers and their smaller business partners who don't use business versions.
Boy, that guy better be careful going to the bathroom!
1. Find security bugs in operating systems 2. ??? ->write analysis comparity security among them 3. Profit! -> Take funding from Microsoft showing how Windows is more secure!