corpMaverick

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by corpMaverick 9y ago
"What I will argue is that when looking at a public policy problem, the best place to create liability is where it will have the desired impact. If the goal is to stop ransomware attacks, raising the costs of paying ransoms beyond what
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by corpMaverick 9y ago
How long until paying ransom for a cyber attack becomes a crime ?
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by corpMaverick 9y ago
Politians should be the first to worry about privacy. 1 - They are not guaranteed to always be in power. 2 - They will be the first to be targeted. 3 - They have the most to lose. I just don't understand why they don&#x27
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by corpMaverick 9y ago
ORMs (i.e. Hibernate) try to hide the database. You change the objects and they are magically saved. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20863150/in-the-context-o...
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by corpMaverick 9y ago
I spent years trying to hide the database. Now days I just embrace it. The database is there. Tables and rows are as real as invoices or purchase orders. The database will still be there after my programs and I are gone. I use OOP to constr
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by corpMaverick 9y ago
> “The way Dutton explained it was ‘Don’t think about it too much, just go and do it. Don’t think too much in your mind.’ It was my subconscious mind telling me how to do that task and to avoid hitting the chairs. Remind me the "Use
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by corpMaverick 10y ago
Exactly. Programmers are seen as a low status. Many of us did it despite that because we really liked it. Or perhaps we were so socially clueless that we didn't noticed it. Women in general are better at getting those social clues. An
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by corpMaverick 10y ago
We always believed that we will move forward. But we shouldn't take that for granted. Regression is also a possibility.
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by corpMaverick 10y ago
> I'd rather be broke and happy. Hard to be happy if you are broke.
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by corpMaverick 10y ago
I have this exact line too. Author unknown.
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by corpMaverick 10y ago
Even if it was possible to guarantee that the machines were not hackable. What is stopping a undemocratic candidate to cry foul. It is just too easy to blame it on the technology. People do it even for paper systems where it is evident eve