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Yup - and guess what.
I absentmindedly left my Social Security number off of any of its contents.
And my bank account information.
And my health history (alas, I do have my health plan ID)
And it doesn't know where I am, where I've been, or what I've bought with its buy-stuff content.
And my keys aren't in my wallet - and the keys don't have my address on them!
And . . . (by now, you should get the picture).
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: you should get the picture
Yep...
- You're security conscious
- Maybe even a bit paranoid
- You think other people's security concerns are really corporate plots
- Maybe considerably paranoid
- You avoid technology (especially smart phones)
- Seriously paranoid
Pretty much makes you a paranoid delusional Luddite. 
Am I right?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Am I right?
Except about Security Conscious, no - basically wrong on all counts.*
The corporate plot's really no secret: make as much money as you can. That's the point of the business. It just so happens that they realize that personal information is very valuable and figured out how to harvest it; have enough computing power to correlate it; and then we're back to making money, again.
I don't avoid technology - but I also don't let it rule my life. Smart-phones? They own their users. Always having the phone in their face; texting at all times (even while driving!). They look at their little device strapped to their hip (feeling important) and keep looking at it hoping someone will validate them as a human being by texting them - or even a tweet. Micro$lut's Windows 10 even owns your computer for you! After you by the O/S, they tell you that they can access your PC whenever they want, download and modify the system, and you can't stop them. And A$$wipes, far and wide, buy into this.
So - you phone is pre-set to expose as much of your harvestable information as possible. Trying to disable it, assuming you even are even aware of it, can be quite a challenge as one goes down layer-after-layer (if they've even the wit to follow the path for setups).
So - back to the original premise: Apple's only concern for security is how it will impact sales and persist their phenomenal markups. If security and privacy were any concern to them at all, then their phone - and the applications they so strictly control - would all be opt-in for anything related to the user's privacy.
But guess what kitty - they don't do it that way. Shows you what your privacy's worth to them.
* A bit paranoid? Only a fool grins and walks into the lion's den.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Wow! Looks like I touched a nerve.
Good luck...
Mike slowly slinks off to call his broker. Time to buy shares in tin foil manufacturers.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Nah - not a nerve. If you look at me, historically, I will tend to spew on certain subjects. Especially earlier in the day when I'm fully alert.
And there's always the hope that in the tomb I'll 'hit a nerve' and have someone rethink their position. [It's rare].
It's the lounge (even though this really isn't the lounge) - enjoy: what else is it for?
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Just because he is paranoic it doesn't mean he is not being followed 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Just the final part of the iPlan.
Don't you want to have a safer device ? (whatever brand/OS you have).
I'd rather be phishing!
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I do have a safer device - and LG FlipPhone.
And I don't view my life through its little window.
Actually, all it does it send and receive phone calls.
Because that's all I'll let it do
(and, whilst my watchband is broken, I looked at it once, yesterday, for the time).
And if I lose the thing? US$20 and I'm back in business.
So, unless I lay back, hold it over my face and carefully drop it in my eyeball, it's pretty safe as it is.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I could have gone either into technical management or continued as a programmer. I chose programmer because it was easier. "Two roads diverged in a wood..."
Your mileage will vary (and I notice his site doesn't take comments)
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Codist article wrote: I chose programmer because it was easier.
Whatevs!
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Quote: "Two roads diverged in a wood..."
Actually, they were converging; you were just going the wrong way.
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the power to change exists at a level not available to you as a mere delivery device That's the most important point.
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It's a choice many of us have made. I chose to remain as a programmer because I enjoy it.
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I chose the BOFH road, drove a good mileage and then ran back as fast as I could. Which wasn't easy as everyone looking for a developer saw my CV and told things on the line of "hey, we see you have a good experience in system administration, we have an opening that...".
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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"I could have gone either into technical management or continued as a programmer."
"I chose programmer because it was easier."
How can coding, problem solving, designing, keeping up on technology... be easier than doing nothing or worse, getting in the way?
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With this extension you can author C++ code for Linux servers, desktops and devices. You can manage your connections to these machines from within VS. My head still hurts seeing those words in the same sentence
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The non-nullable type is the key new feature in Microsoft’s JavaScript superset Just in case it's your type
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Best practices and principles aren't rules. They're guides to the judgement of the programmer. Sometimes we forget that. They make good practices feel like underachievers?
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Peter Vogel (article author) wrote: Therefore, the correct answer to my question wasn't, "It violates the X best practice." The correct answer would have been either, "It will lead to this unfortunate result or to this problem down the line, which is worse than the problem you're solving," or, "Your code doesn't solve the problem. All it does is move the problem around -- and not in a good way." If the developer had wanted, he could've added, "That's the reason we have the X best practice."
That's everything you need to know.
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I hate them too! 
I also found out it was an excuse for not learning anything new!
modified 6-Apr-16 20:37pm.
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Yep, they're fine for thems what don't know what they're doing.
We who do know what we're doing will continue to perform on a higher plane.
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The title of the article is mis-leading. It should have instead read "I hate software developers who rigidly adhere to best practices"
He doesn't so much criticise best practices themselves, but those developers who rigidly adhere to them without necessarily understanding them.
While it's important to know when to use best practice, it's also important to know when not to use best practice.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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It just occurred to me why I don't pay any attention to other people's idea of best practices.
I'm really trying to get something done so its useful, efficient, expandable, and maintainable.
I'm not practicing - I'm doing.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Using booby-trapped USB flash drives is a classic hacker technique. But how effective is it really? A group of researchers at the University of Illinois decided to find out, dropping 297 USB sticks on the school’s Urbana-Champaign campus last year. How else would you get all the money someone stored on there? (Er, I mean, how else would you find out who to return it to?)
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On the other hand, I wouldn't even let someone plug their own SandDisk flashdrive into my box. It installed software automatically. Not on my box it doesn't.
By the way, contacting SanDisk (telling them of my stance), they said that that can be disabled by repartitioning the device. Sure - everyone that buys the thing repartition's it, first thing. I've neither bought a SanDisk device since, nor allow them on any system I control.
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