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Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads[^]
The fact that Samsung would have the audacity to do this. I'm sure there are others out there doing the same thing, where permission was granted, embedded within 15 pages of "agreement" text. I know Siri and the google version listen at all times, and they are collecting the data. I wonder if we can retreat from this nonsense... going back to a flip phone.
Funny, in a recent "I want to fix my own appliance" thread, I lamented on Samsung dishwashers. I wonder if it's listening?
Charlie Gilley
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"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Samsung's 'peeping Tom' smartphones can listen and watch what you do on the web while monitoring your emails to target you with ads
So if I pull up a couple of pron sites on the wifes samsung she would get hit with ads for penis enlargement and lonely girls in the area? Too bad she's on an iphone - otherwise I'd do it just for the laughs.
As for my own phone, eyes getting old, hardly ever surf on the phone except maybe to check the occasional sports result I may have missed (even then max once a month - usually coz visiting boring in-laws or at some distant aunties cousins wedding that I couldn't excuse out of).
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: So if I pull up a couple of pron sites on the wifes samsung she would get hit with ads for penis enlargement and lonely girls in the area?
So that's why I'm getting those adverts...
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Hasn't Samsung already backed out of the idea of adding microphones and cameras on their TVs, as a result of researchers finding out they were essentially running all the time and publishing their findings?
It's no coincidence they dropped support for Skype on their TVs, along with anything else that requires those devices...
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reaching for some tape for my laptop web cam... 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You mean you don't do that already? 
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Earlier this day i just ordered a Nokia 216.
I´m really looking forward to it.
  
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Me and the missus were at a large box store recently, we stopped in the exercise equipment department for about 10 minutes before heading to the clothing department. Within 2 minutes of exiting the store my wife receives an email with coupons for that stores' exercise equipment. She says "wow what a coincidence!", I say "I'm glad I have my $12 flip phone". Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
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jeron1 wrote: Her phones location accuracy is impressive.
It's more likely the store was spying on her phone.
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Quite possibly, in any case it's a bit disconcerting to me, to her not so much. We're very different in that respect.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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My phone? A Flip Phone!
My "Smart TV" has no internet access.
I'm going to go back to changing my MAC address, when browsing, more frequently.
You can keep most of the control away from THEM . . . easy habits to develop.
Or you can walk around with a dumb grin, let them do what they want . . .easy habits to develop.
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Why is there so much software like this?
Why do people still create software like this?
How do these systems still get created and implemented?
ComputerWorld -- Now THAT'S what we call a rounding error! | Computerworld[^]
Here are the snippets from the article:
Quote: "We were originally told the managers would adjust our clock in/out times if we deviated from our schedule,
Quote: Say I clock out at 4:37 p.m. -- it's rounded to 4:30.
"However, if I clock out at 4:38, then I register as getting eight minutes of comp time. Only we're not allowed to earn comp time...
Quote: "Why did they decide against having the managers adjust our times? It's too much work. It seems it takes the managers about an hour to process each person's timesheet.
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raddevus wrote: Why did they decide against having the managers adjust our times? It's too much work. It seems it takes the managers about an hour to process each person's timesheet
Huh? what does the software do then?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Lopatir wrote: what does the software do then?
Sits at the PC and plays Freecell.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Lopatir wrote: Huh? what does the software do then?
It saves time, of course.
Some people just don't get technology, I guess. 
You hit it right on with that one.
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raddevus wrote: Why is there so much software like this?
Why do people still create software like this?
How do these systems still get created and implemented?
A few other things you could replace "software\systems" with:
Children.
Governments.
Politicians.
[fill in with further more soapbox-appropriate words]
Marc
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Haha! Made me genuinely LOL!
~ G.B. Shaw When you find something funny, search it for the hidden truth!
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And here I was thinking this was going to be about floating point precision numbers.
Not sure if this was better or worse, but it's quite funny and sad at the same time (Schrödinger's joke?) / 
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I'll just be 5 minutes late in the morning and make up for it by leaving 5 minutes early... It zeroes out, right?
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I'm leaving my current employment at the end of July and I'm tasked with creating documentation for whoever has to maintain the project(s) that I have worked on. I have created some of my own documentation explaining how things work and fit together, but I'd like to create more than that.
Most of my code has comments and so far I have tried several documentation tools, but I'm not too happy with the kind of documentation they produce. A list of classes and methods is maybe Ok for API documentation, but isn't really going to help someone get to grips with the project. I'd like to have some class diagrams and it would be really nice to have some UML diagrams or maybe even some flowcharts.
For those of you that have done technical / developer documentation, how did you go about it? Any suggestions for tools to use?
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Jacquers wrote: Any suggestions for tools to use?
Your brain.
Seriously. Specialized tools are limiting. Document:
- your design decisions
- the problem(s) your code solves
- the problem(s) your code created
- 3rd party / service / whatever dependencies
If it's complicated code:
- a high level architecture diagram can be useful, but class diagrams are sort of not. Instead, diagram the interaction between objects is probably more useful
- workflows are better than classic flowcharts, which can be too low level. Who needs to actually see triangles for "if" statements?
Visio (or similar), Word (or write in HTML or markdown). Create a table of contents!
Why not specialized tools? Because those often have a steep(er) learning curve, and maintaining something with a specialized tool is sort of a mental blocker for people. The ability to take a drawing or a text/wiki/etc. annotate it with notes (particularly as the new guy learns things and wants to make notes) is soooo much more useful.
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
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Yeah, this is probably the best option overall for getting something useful out. I'd still like to use a tool to generate some of the flows and diagrams though, it's a pretty big project.
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The most important thing is to :
1. give just the amount of information the (receiving) person needs.
2. provide a way for the person to get more information when the information from #1 leads them into thinking about deeper issues.
But, how do you do this?
I believe that is where (a few) UML diagrams come in.
It has taken me years to understand this, but I'll try to explain.
A good example to start out with is the Use Case Diagram which is often considered (especially by developers) as so abstract that it might even be useless.
However, the use case diagram shows three important things:
1. scope
2. high level view of functionality the system provides
3. system boundary
With a proper Use Case Diagram you can immediately get a feel for how large (scope) the project is and an idea of what it does. You also see a boundary and other systems (actors) which may use the system.
People at higher levels (Project Manager, Sales) may never need more than the Use Case Diagram. They just want to know what the system does.
That diagram _should_ lead the viewer to ask more questions.
I wish there were a way to include images here.
Suppose we have a Use Case diagram like the following:
ATM example[^]
A customer can make a deposit.
How does that work?
Now, you are going to want to create a flow of some sort.
This will be an behavioral diagram which shows how things work.
[ Customer clicks Start button]
[ Customer selects Deposit choice]
[ Customer chooses type of deposit (cash or check) ]
You'll use the activity diagram something like the following:
Activity diagram[^]
Now, more details are beginning to become apparent.
But, the developer wants to know what the structures in your program look like.
For example, is there a deposit object? Now you need a Class diagram (structural document).
After that, the developer wants to know how the Deposit object interacts with the Account object to store and update the amount that is in the Account.
For that, you'll show more detail in a Sequence diagram which shows (behavioral) interactions between the objects as functionality runs.
For this you want a sequence diagram:
sequence diagram[^]
A Key To Understanding Documentation
Keep in mind that each document really only explains things from one viewpoint.
Generally those viewpoints can be broken down into two categories:
1. behaviorial
2. structural
Each of these items allows the particular viewer to dig further and further into the amount of detail they need.
It's how it all adds up to actually present your ideas.
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Sounds like that would make life way to easy for the next dev 
When I worked in the support department at a previous company I had to fix code that I usually had no idea of how it worked because it was written by the dev team and then just passed on to support. I just had to start by looking at the code and debugging. Although it sucked it did teach me good debugging and problem solving skills.
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I have a particular activity diagram for a specific service (in prod) which shows each flow and possible errors.
The software we use (Enterprise Architect[^]) allows me to generate an image of my diagrams and I've posted it to the Intranet.
(NOTE: the tool is fantastic and you can get it for a very reasonable price -- but the learning curve is huge -- extremely overhelming at times.)
My support team can get an error code back, look it up on the activity diagram and know exactly where in the code the failure occurred and know how to resolve it.
It actually saves me so much time and it creates more of a team atmosphere since everyone can actually see exactly what is going on in the code.
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