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No, that's not what I'm saying.
What I'm saying is that designing games to appeal to the vulnerable - and children are that - is much the same as charging 4000% APR on a "pay day loan" designed to scrape the last vestiges of money away from the poor. It's immoral, unethical, and downright reprehensible.
Yes, the kid is to blame, as is the mother, as (perhaps) is iCompany for allowing a security flaw like that to be possible (assuming mummy is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, which I doubt), as is the credit card company. But the developers shoulder the main blame for deliberately crafting a game to do just that.
And I thought EA was bad with their DLC model ...
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OriginalGriff wrote: as (perhaps) is iCompany for allowing a security flaw like that to be possible (assuming mummy is telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, which I doubt)
Tested during lunch on a coworkers phone as explained here[^]
In short, don't allow TouchID to authorize sales on someone elses phone.
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If you're vulnerable it's the job of your protectors to keep you safe.
The protector in this case is the parent. Not the game developers.
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In the Netherlands you could challenge the sale in court; not just because the parent didn't authorize the sale, but because the sales are based on misleading the customer.
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Quote: "It was hard to be too angry with her because she didn't really know what she was doing and she didn't understand.
"We are really angry, but she is innocent. She said she thought it was free.
"She does look sorry. She looked white when we spoke to her about it and she started crying.
Oh, she looks sorry. I guess that makes it alright.
Without getting into the technical details...she managed to reset the payment settings. She must've known something or she wouldn't have done that.
Quote: Her iPad has been confiscated and she has been banned from using iTunes games as punishment.
What about paying back the money? Clearly the parents are going to have to pay back the debt, but the kid needs to pay back the amount to her parents. She's 8--she's going to need to do chores for a long, long time to come. But she shouldn't be let off the hook. (No, I don't have kids. Yes, that's exactly what I'd be doing.)
Quote: "However, we empathise with Ms Phillips' situation, so we have made arrangements not to charge any interest on the transactions.
How benevolent of the credit card company.
Quote: I thought it must have been fraud at first. But then I saw the transactions were all from Apple and I just thought 'oh my god'.
"oh my god, this confirms it is fraud".
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This is not how you comment software, Terrence. This is just not how you do it.
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Pull request: Denied
Reason: How about you read the comment guidelines, Burgess?
On a different note, what on Earth code are you reading that has to do with "Intrinsic Ultracontractivity and Probability"?
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It's the C version of antlr - a very early version before it was rewritten in java
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You wouldn't want to look at some of my comments. Would make a sailor blush!
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I've had a few of those, but my favorite was a troll of myself? future devs? I won't repeat it here and spoil it
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A lot of mine is of the chastising nature or to put it Simpson like DOH! (But in language suitable for a Marine)
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I googled that. "Instrinsic Ultracontractivity and Probability" by Burgress Davis.
WTF are you getting into there, miss codewitch? Contagion research?
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I'm not sure that's the right paper. This is a parser generator.
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My thought was maybe the probability equations were somehow useful in parsing. Because yea, Purdue TR90-30 is a paper relating to heat kernels.
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Maybe they reuse numbers. The paper Terrence referred to was pretty old judging by the other comments, though that would be strange if they did.
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The paper's from 1990, but maybe the numbers don't distinguish between departments so there's a TR90-30 from the CS department too or something. No clue, but now I know heat kernels are a thing
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haha, well maybe he mistyped the comment. I don't know. this source is decades old - very late 80s in some places.
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Yeah I found his thesis but it explains the theory of the code, but not the code itself, which is rather convoluted.
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I've got them both. They aren't going over the bits i need them to cover. Instead they're introducing new algorithms.
What I need is a paper on an existing algorithm before i try to extend it.
Whoops I got confused over which thread this was. Thought it was my other rant
please disregard
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There is an Ockham's Razor hypothesis: often, in the academic world, what matters is passing the orals, and getting the advanced degree by whatever means. All the code has to actually do is exhibit some functionality: the effort goes into the thesis, and getting the thesis committee members to sign off on it.
Most likely, the author knew the likelihood of any reviewer actually examining his code was low. That may account for his "teasing" remark you cite.
I can speak from personal experience on this: I was awarded a Master's degree from UC Berkeley after returning from a year-long 1975~76 fellowship for study in India with a 200+ page thesis with 200+ footnotes. None of my committee actually read it ! I remember with delight my meeting with the key person on signing off that the thesis was kosher in terms of methodology: he picked up the thesis, appeared to be weighing it, and said: "well, as long as I don't have to read this ..."
I was kinda disturbed by this: both happy I was getting the degree six-months early, and, disappointed no one read the tome I literally sweated blood to write
Of course, as Bob sang: "I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now."
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modified 10-Feb-20 6:13am.
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Quote: 200+ page thesis with 200+ footnotes. My thesis was only 85 pages, including some short code listings, and no-one read that either! "That looks like enough work. Here, have a PhD!"
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hi Forogar, I am kind of long-winded My project was a collection of academic research, field notes, interviews, case studies, etc. Humanities/sociology/psychology. No code, for me, in that incarnation.
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