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godzilla82
9y ago
Exactly. Side question: If you really believe something, do you feel the need to rationalize it?
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9y ago
So, are you suggesting to buy domains even for isolated networks? And then for this to work you need to connect to the internet just for DNS lookup?
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9y ago
I don't have data to back it up. But this simply is not correct. Social norms have changed over the last few decades and that alone means the percentage of working women have gone up. Very few of the women of my age group are housewive
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9y ago
Its "easy" because VoIP providers are not held accountable. Force them to "KYC" and it would not be so "easy".
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9y ago
So, as per the author, sites should first check if the user exists and then check the password? Why? What if the username belongs to someone else?
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9y ago
I have a feeling you dont have much experience on working on other peoples code. You have just bundled all kinds of issues into a bucket of "buggy piece of poorly written code". Some of these are outright security vulnerabilities
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9y ago
Get a snug helmet and put your phone inside against your cheek!
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9y ago
Don't the credit card companies do a credit check or is your tax information sufficient to know your credit worthiness? If a credit check is done, do you know which identifier the credit rating agencies use?
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9y ago
Is it only used by businesses? Don't you have to provide the SSN for your driver's license? If the government is using it as an ID across it's departments, then it is an ID.
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9y ago
But are you, as the customer, ok with having a personal relationship with a banker? Also, in a court of law, how would you define personal relationship?
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9y ago
Those examples are for getting a phone or electricity connection. For a loan, you would have to give bank statements, income tax return proofs etc. And if that is not sufficient, you need to get your property apprised by "authorized&qu
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9y ago
Those checks you talk about, involve using SSNs at some point. Also, these checks are not scalable. I think, because you have not lived within a system without an id mechanism, you have no idea of the set of challenges you face as a busine
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9y ago
> it should also be the responsibility of the individual to do due diligence How? ask them to carry a copy of their address proof and id proof? As an individual, do you feel ok to have copies of your id and address proofs in the hands of
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9y ago
>one time social security numbers were the only globally unique identifier in common use. And now do you have other mechanism s? If you do, you should be using them, if you don't, then scrapping the only one is not a solution. Askin
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9y ago
Sorry you are wrong. SSNs and other identity mechanisms are an infrastructure provided by the government to facilitate business. It Should never be the responsibility of individuals/ business to validate identity. If there are flaws in
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9y ago
Sorry you are so wrong. What do you consider infrastructure? I have lived in the bay area and in Bangalore, I have no idea how you can even compare them in terms of roads, city planning, utilities agencies, Civic agencies etc. I think the e
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>the country faced pressure to comply with international traffic customs regarding traffic lights. It seems weird that a country would face such pressures. Is there a UN body that enforces such rules?
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I hate this attitude you have towards "some young people". Are we supposed to assume that you have sufficiently grown up just because you make this comment? If not, you dont have any right to judge others. Now coming back to your
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9y ago
Optimal for whom? May be it does move to optimality, but not for humans, so human science does not find it.
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Have you never felt frustrated looking for a pen and not finding one when you need one. The frustration increases when you do find a few pens and none work. the price of the pen is determined by the demand and supply but it's value at
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9y ago
Are the products of your "local economy" sold locally. If not, then you have no right to claim protection.
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I think students want to study in US (or are willing to pay to study in US) is because after completing education there, they are eligible to find work there. I dont think students want to spend great sums of money studying overseas, becaus
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My experience with all the certified security consultants is that they refuse to put any effort to understand the end risk of a security vulnerability on the product that is being audited. For e.g. for many sites, it doesnt make sense to im
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10y ago
Can you please explain. Which REST concept cannot be implemented? I think the problems that REST/SOAP solve,is that the "levels" that you speak about, have already been implemented by someone else. I am talking of serializati
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10y ago
Newbie question .. can some one please help me understand the attack scenario. if I, as the attacker, want to inject malicious code/binary into a git repo, then I need to write my malicious code/binary in such a way that the resul
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10y ago
Actually it depends on the type of visa. If you are on a tourist visa, you are not allowed to work. You forgot to mention US may be because it's your home country, but it is illegal to work in US on a B1 visa. Edit: also, if you are in
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10y ago
But the amount of memory required for plain text source is very small compared to the memory allocated to render the page.
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Well, many countries were parts of the British Empire for more than 100 years, including India, China etc. It would be wrong to assume that would cause ethical similariy between Britain and these countries.
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10y ago
Exactly. Especially if you consider the total IT workforce in a place like Bangalore. It is not rare for 100 candidates to show up for walk in interviews even at small IT companies.
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10y ago
Do you think the people who got selected into a company like Twitter, had language issues or were incompetent? If you are not from India, I can assure you that you cannot possibly comprehend the size of the population, and the resulting com
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