Where you waited (usually) until after 7pm to make a "long distance" phone call. And when you received a long distance call from the operator, who would call you and tell you that you had a long distance call, you knew it was pretty bad if they "called long distance". Funny that you could make a "local" call in your neighborhood, but someone several miles away was considered "long" distance.

VeraCrypt is a particularly strong full-disk encryption, although you don't hear much of companies using it. However, BitLocker security issues keep getting mentioned and it looks like VeraCrypt fixed a number of theirs. However, code quality seems to be listed as unclear on some sites. Not sure how true that actually is though.

BestCrypt is another, but I'm not happy they permit fragile encryption schemes, as those could potentially be used by the software as standard for something important. Being commercial software, that wouldn't be easy to check.

BitLocker seems to be a typical Microsoft failure in terms of what it does, used only because it's Microsoft and that gives CTOs and CFOs someone to blame.

The "value" has nothing to do with the "crime".

You steal $1 tips I left on the table or my $2,000,000 million helicopter: same crime, same punishment.

The value of what one steals, has nothing to do with the sentence.

I steal your suitcase - I committed a crime called "theft", I get punished for theft. Not for what ever is in your suitcase. Or if the suitcase is empty.

Does not matter if I take your $2000 phone from your table in a cafeteria, or steal your $2,000,000 car in front of it: the crime is the same, and the punishment is the same.

At least in Germany.

On the other hand, if I wrangle an ice cream out of the hands of your little boy and run away with the $1 ice cream: it is robbery ... and not theft.

Perhaps you should read a bit further and consider -> how much time <- he is supposed to do.

Perhaps you should read a bit further and consider -> how much time <- he is supposed to do.

Did he rob the car? (Can you rob a car?)
Or did he burglar into a car?
Or did he steal from a car?

5 years for stealing is a bit harsh ...

5 years for robbery? ... in Germany minimum sentence for robbery is 6 years.

Why stealing and breaking into a car and damaging it is not the way ... robbery is a completely different caliber of a crime!

As astronaut Frank Borman put it, "a superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations which would require the use of his superior piloting skill".

The programmer's version of that would be "a superior programmer uses his superior judgement to avoid creating the bugs that would require the use of his superior debugging skill".

The risk in this scenario is that after a few iterations of people applying AI-generated "black box" modifications, users start reporting that the ancient app is crashing on them now and then, and nobody has the first clue why, or how to fix it... and since the crash isn't readily reproducible, you can't even do a "git bisect" to figure out which commit introduced the regression. Now you're left with two unappetizing choices: either live with the instability forever, or roll back all of the "blind" commits to the last known-stable version and never touch the codebase again.

It is up to you to read up on this.

Kind of sad that a bright mind -like yours- is missing the 6th Kondratieff, as in the digital industrial revolution that is happening right now under your fingertips.

I feel sorry for you.

oaky!

Why would an age verification app have all that data?
And how would another app be able to ask for it?

No idea what you mean with IP ... you mean IP address?

That changes every "few minutes" - who cares with what IP you activated the "age verification app" and with what IP it is challanged?

It is against the mod rules to mod down you disagree with.
I carefully take care not to fall into that trap.

Despite the fact that some idiots troll mod me - and make new fake accounts - which get mod rights removed instantly: I can mod nearly every day.

However I do not have anymore the 35 mod points I used to have 20 years ago.

Then read the rest of the comment you knee jerked answering too.

If every one "would pass" by answering everything correctly, then every one should pass.

Does not farking matter if everyone is 100% correct. What matters is if they are above the threshold to pass.

Actually from a teaching perspective: if you can not make a student pass, who managed to jump the inscription barrier, it is probably the teaching at fault.