Yeah the company i work for does the same thing. They have an opt-in program where employees can invest some of their wages to be matched by the company up to 4%.
The company we work with basically takes the money we give them and adds it to a large pool of cash. Then they do everything from money markets to CD's to trading gold with it (based on what you want)
At the end of the year we get a lengthy report of what we gained and lost.
@kiBytes Yeah it's pretty sweet. We can go online and check the numbers whenever we want too. Usually around June/July gold's value has skyrocketed, but by December it tanks again.
The last few years it has been steadily increasing. Usually a total of about 10-18% in gains. But it depends on how you are structured. If most of your money is in safe places like bonds or money markets you won't make much. But if you take the risk with gold you might make a ton
Since I'm so young i have 60% high risk, 30% medium risk and 10% in bonds and money market
We have a 401k program through the same company that works about the same. The only difference is that the 401k is post-tax and we can't touch it without hefty penalties.
> The improvement over OTP is where they make a small seed (a key) and use an expander called a PRNG to expand that key into what is essentially an OTP.
That's not "essentially" an OTP. That's a stream cipher.
How would they pass they key?
This gets to the root of where OTPs came from, and indeed how they got that name.
This is for correspondence during wartime with ships or other similar clients. When the ship leaves port, they head out with a pad of random data. When they receive an encrypted c...
Lots of sites these days, that don't deal with sensitive data, enable encryption. I think it's mostly to make (paranoid?) users feel safer. In cases where there is a user's account being logged in, their personal data accessed, I see how it can be useful.
But what if I'm just reading a news site...
Suppose you wrote a nonmalicious virus, just to see if you could do it; it only displays a box on the screen saying it has been installed successfully, and then deletes itself. Is that ethical behavior? Justify your answer with principles of ethics, not just your own opinions. Now suppose that to...
@Adnan Exceptions are much more powerful than goto, because they can go up several stack frame. They are more like C's longjmp().
At one time I used longjmp() to make my own exception framework in C (with the one needed property of exceptions in C: automatic release of memory blocks).
One way to say it is that return -1; is a kind of exception, but the bona fide exceptions range farther.
@Adnan Well, they are more well-mannered because they always jump to an outside block. The most dangerous goto are those which jump into a sub-block, and exceptions cannot do that.
Which is why I compare them with a return, not with a goto
And I don't like IDE anyway. What matters is that the developer understands what is going on.
When IDE become fully exception-aware, I simply fire the developers and hire chimps instead.
@ThomasPornin Of course, because the only thing developers do is exception handling.
@ThomasPornin Also, you're making the assumption that said software is developed by one developer, and one developer only.
Exception awareness as an IDE feature should at least tell me "Hey, scumbag dev. X added catch somewhere up the call chain of this method, so your global exception handler cannot handle the exception possibly thrown here".
@Adnan Actually you would get that with Java, but Microsoft removed it from C#.
In Java, the exceptions which do not derive from RuntimeException are under a strict declaration and propagation rule, and the compiler refuses to compile if you try to catch exceptions which cannot happen, or if you don't catch or declare exceptions which may happen.
@Adnan Java's method can be irksome. e.g. with String.getBytes(charset); you can have an IOException in case charset is not a recognized charset name. But you know that "UTF-8" is always supported (it is part of the spec).
So you have to put a spurious try/catch block for an IOException which cannot actually happen.
Basically, Java is stricter but a bit too strict at times.
C# unchecked exceptions more matches the sloppy programming methodology that leads to Python or PHP.
Sigh...Beer.SE is not going to make it. This was somewhat foreseeable, but disappoints me none-the-less.
I think I may be a bad omen for beta sites. I've been relatively active in two of them, Firearms, which was shut down, and now Beer, which will be, because I don't see it pulling out of the disastrously low activity funk that it's in.
interesting. I would guess it's a lack of advertising really... you need a certain critical mass to retain users because there's activity, and if you don't get that critical mass because people are on existing arms forums and don't know about SE...
@pacifist That certainly could be. I've been involved in a ton of extremely active firearms focused forums over the years. That said, the Q&A format is singularly restrictive as well. It puts a burden on SE sites to have a focus that forums don't.
I'm currently following/committed to three proposals, Locksmithing, Accounting, and Coffee, and of the three, I only expect Accounting to have the ability to generate enough questions and activity to become a fully-fledged SE site. If it can get the audience, which is the marketing problem again.
How would they pass they key?
This gets to the root of where OTPs came from, and indeed how they got that name.
This is for correspondence during wartime with ships or other similar clients. When the ship leaves port, they head out with a pad of random data. When they receive an encrypted c...
