but if new cards include both the token and the chip, then a compromised ATM can simply use the old-style authentication token to perform a fraudulent transaction

If an ATM that usually gets 5% mag-stripe transactiosn, suddenly gets 100% mag-stripe transactions, it would properly ring some bells at the credit card company.

My sig still holds. MS-Windows (and the machines it typically runs on) is like Budweiser. Cheap, but not worth the price. Once you get used to the good stuff, it's hard to go back to the shit peddled as "The King of Computers."
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Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.

Unless you think that Microsoft does not really produce software (just markets their wares as such), your sig is way off.

Any time a company says "Minimum X-X years industry experience etc." they're trying to scare people off.

But do they scare the right people off?

Which type of person applies for a job that he, on paper, is not qualified for? People who do not think rules apply to them? People who go for quantity in applications, rather than quality (and may not even have read the requirements properly)? Or are they left with people who don't mind exaggerating? Which might be the same people who gives overly optimistic estimates.

On the other hand, they might just get people who has a realistic view of how the world works. And in many corporate environments you cannot always go by the rules, as then you will get nothing done. But you cannot expect collage graduates to know that, so you you might just get the ones who would exaggerate in any environment.

OK, I had plenty of weasel words in this post, as I am not confident about the answer myself. But I am definitively not sure it is a wise strategy either.

I am with you on this one. Especially, since the bad behavior had decades to build up. What I do not get, is why the British don't just pay the MPs a fixed amount for the expense of maintaining an extra home. If they use less, they stuff it untaxed in their pocket. If they use more, they take it nondeductible from their pocket. Seems fair to me. After all, if you want your second home to be a small castle, should you not pay for it yourself? I have heard about this case, only from our local reporters (a live in Denmark, Scandinavia) and they talked of different remedies proposed. And all I could here, was more and more bureaucracy. And sure, in the beginning this is going to work. Especially, since politicians are scared shirtless now. But in 30-40 years, when the case is almost forgotten and the bureaucrats have gotten lazy, they are going to have similar scandal again.

Who is being compelled against their will to contribute? While each individual may contribute to their ability, it is on a voluntary basis.

Some will contribute according to their ability, but it would be more apt to say that each contribute according to the minimum of desire and ability.

Few people ever seems to answer my question, which is if you want these companies and their policies destroyed, why is it better to download than to not use their products at all?

Because some people want their cake and eat it too. They want to see the new movie and they want to see the record company policies destroyed. Put in other terms, if you really do not intend to buy a movie, then downloading the movie is not hurting anybody. It is victimless crime.

But frankly, I think people downloading movies illegally has a lot more to do with wanting things for free, than with politics.

Yes, that's right, you need to understand a rigorous mathematical construct in order to write a "Hello World" program.

That is just wrong. You do not need to understand the math behind monads to use them. The part of your program that needs side-effects can be programmed like it was an imperative language. Will it help you, if you learn all the details about monads? Sure, but you do not _have to_ learn all the details.

If you still think you have to learn a bundle of math to do IO in Haskell, then look at a Haskell tutorial. You will see that they can teach you plenty of IO, without explaining the math behind monads.

And I am sure this hello world program do not need much explaining:

module Main where

main = putStrLn "Hello World"