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Very detailed answer, thanks. You should consider turning it into an article about privacy awareness
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Because I have am absolute right to privacy. Unless I have explicitly granted access to some portion of my personal data, nobody else has a right to it for marketing or any other purposes. That includes for credit checks! My financial information was stolen or illegally shared with the credit bureaus. Privacy in Europe is taken much more seriously than in the US and they are lax about it. I have the same rights to privacy as the NSA - more because I am a private citizen and they are part of the government.
I am in the process of stripping out all of the spying in Windows 10 (in a test VM) before I will consider installing. I have removed ALL of the MS store apps, I have disabled everything in sight. Its really hard to rip out Cortana and Echo, but I am working on that. I will be blocking all of the spying urls that I can find. I will NOT be using a Microsoft Account or its cloud or even BitLocker - MS keeps keys for everything.
I don't use the cloud. Just give your data away. Perhaps the data will still be there when you want and perhaps not. When the government has a problem with someone else they can just shut down the entire cloud provider. They have done so and hundreds of people lost their data.
I use a local 16TB RAID 6 for data storage (backed by SSDs in RAID 1 for caching).
I use my own email server and all emails on the server are deleted as soon as they are downloaded. It is, unfortunately, not yet "collocated" at my home but it does not contain any personal information.
I don't use any "social" media whatsoever. I will post to forums such as this one, usually without exposing my name. Although that is a choice that I sometimes make because I know exactly what information is exposed.
I don't use a "smart" phone. I don't need to browse the web on a tiny screen and will not "text" when an actual phone call or voice mail message will do just fine. I want a small phone that comfortably fits in my pocket when walking - not a miniature laptop. As far as "texting" is concerned, why not just use an app to send Morse Code? Just about as efficient. My phone ONLY has phone numbers stored in it. That is information that (unfortunately) the phone company has anyway. I have a (rich) friend who was finally talked into getting a smart phone by his brother. A couple of months later he opened it up to discover that all of his data was being downloaded. He couldn't even turn the phone off. He finally got the battery out. It took him hours to freeze all of his accounts (including trading accounts) and a month to clear everything up. He took the phone to the garage, retired it with a sledge hammer and went back to a dumb phone. He was nearly wiped out and was only saved from that by chance.
There is a reason for privacy. You may not have anything to hide -- most of us don't. But, there is a lot about our lives that, in the wrong hands, could be a real problem. In my opinion, the only right hands are mine. Definitely, neither government nor large corporate entity counts as the right hands. I do NOT see a need to have a unique "advertiser id"!
I just believe that MY personal data is MINE and nobody else has an automatic right to it! Why is that such a difficult concept? Why are so many people laissez faire about privacy? Once lost, its not something you can get back. Why is there an attitude that large companies can do pretty much anything with your data? It clearly is NOT to my benefit!
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Mike Marynowski wrote: Why is everyone's "privacy" of such grave concern to them, in the case of anonymous usage data? Read this book http://www.futurecrimesbook.com/[^]
After the first two chapters, you'll want to throw away all your electronic devices and rip the wiring out of your house.
Of course, his job is to sell fear, but there is merit to what he is saying.
But basically we're already screwed when it comes to privacy.
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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to format SQL??? Really, does a large stored procedure have to be on as few lines as possible? I can't believe the author didn't just make it a single line and be done with. Oh, and as few spaces as possible.
Now I have to format it just so I can begin to get a to grips with why it isn't doing what it is supposed to be doing.
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This tool[^] might get you started.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thanks: have used that before and there are a couple of others.
However, not the point. I shouldn't have to do that to existing code. Messy, inconsiderate, lazy buggers.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: Messy, inconsiderate, lazy buggers.
Are you sure you're in the right line of work? Then again, you'll encounter that in any profession.
Marc
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Rubbish. Doesn't format it my way.
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It really is quite a good, flexible tool, with many options.
If the online options aren't good enough for you, fork over a few $$ and buy the full version, which has even *more* options.
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Very good.
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Format SQL? You'll be asking 'em to sort Alphabetti Spaghetti next!
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This is what I use:[^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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When I was learning to program (a long, long time ago), I was told that untidy code always contained more errors that tidy, well laid out code. If the programmer was too lazy to lay the code out neatly, what else was he too lazy to do.
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My experience shows that to be a universal truth. Every programmer I've ever met who wrote sloppily formatted code had sloppy logic as well. Unfortunately, the reverse is not true. Tidy code does not guarantee tidy logic.
In the terms our logician friends would use, tidy source code is a necessary but not sufficient condition to have tidy logic.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My experience has been that people who write messy code, don't really understand it --- they mostly just copy'n'pasted it from somewhere, and then hacked at it until it (sorta) worked. It looks like a black box, because they view it as a black box: data goes in, magic happens, data comes out and no one knows why.
Recently, I attended a lecture on functional programming in C#. Most of the audience was rather quiet and I was the only one asking questions. One line of code was like this:
return b => a => a + b;
After a bit of prodding, I got him to rewrite it as:
return (b)=>
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return (a) => { return a + b; }
}
And suddenly, the room came alive where finally everyone realized what the line was doing.
Truth,
James
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And then he realized that you write code for people, not compilers. compilers don't care (in most cases) about format, but good format aid in the understanding of the code by others, and yourself when you have to debug or maintain it.
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When I allowed Microsoft's SQL tools to re-interpret my code, they not only shoved it into as few lines as possible, but actually pulled apart the Boolean logic in moderately complex WHERE clauses and rewrote them with unnecessary repetitions of elements interspersed with extra AND's and/or OR's so that I couldn't even understand my own logic. Lots of guys like to use Microsoft's code generation tools, resulting in code like that, but they don't even try to look at the code, they just work from the code generation tool. So, maybe what you're seeing isn't even coded directly by a human. What I did is to take over the code, always formatted and saved it in a way that bypassed the code generation crap, and explained to the other developers how my code worked and why it was best to keep it formatted like I did, or they would never be able to understand and modify it.
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I always format my SQL, because I maintain the master in .txt or .sql files. Unfortunately, many systems reformat it for you - SQL Server among them. Which is otherwise far better than Oracle or DB/2.
That is one of the things I detest about most IDEs (especially Visual Studio). They reformat my carefully formatted code.
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I just downloaded this[^] which is free and integrates into VS and SSMS and appears to work pretty well.
You can configure VS/SSMS to do some basic formatting but I also keep everything as re-usable scripts stored in TFS.
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...and it made me laugh, anyway: Copy The Reindeer[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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But it says "copy", not "copy and paste"!
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah, that really made me laugh too!
All they achieved was copying the empty grid on the right onto itself.
It's obvious that ctrl+c must be written into the left grid and ctrl+v must go into the right grid where it already is.
And that's the whole of the joke really.
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Oh look, a VB programmer in the making!
Marc
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