In the UK it is in effect compulsory to teach religion, there is even a National Curriculum for it, complete with exams etc. This has been true since 1948 and since then Christian observance has fallen off a cliff. On any given Sunday going to Church is about as common as listening to the Pet Shop Boys, remember them ?
We have a state religion, the Church of England which defines it's "worshipping community" as anyone who goes to church once a month, it would do if they were not sick, old, working or busy.
That's long fallen below the million mark. out of a population of 68 million.
The leader of the right Conservative Party (subtle name huh?) is a black woman who defines herself as 'agnostic' with a party platform that provides legal, safe and free, abortions to any woman that wants one.
Of course correlation is not causation, but I strongly suspect that those Christians pushing for the 10 Commandments and other compulsory religious observance, really ain't going to get what they hope for.
It's not just about encryption. As a developer I sometimes create a new file format, a good (bad) % of my professional life has being trying to work out how to read/write data formats that were *supposed* be be read/writable, but often took sweat to access.
How many different formats are there to store still images ? 1,000, 2000 ? "different" here means if my code tries to render it do I get the image, junk or a crash ?
Ditto text, every game saves in a different format, there are 15 different incompatible versions of Excel files, not encrypted but harsh to figure out.
This can be figured out, but it's a chunk of work per application and there are a *lot* of apps these days.
Also, what is a .XLS file ? Yeah I think it's Excel too, but you can't rely on that, I can choose to save my data with any filename extension I like.
How do you search Excel files for "interesting" content ? Or my own .xls format that I use for sharing IMs ?
By hand, really ?
This can only be done by hiring a *lot* of programmers and they will never fully catch up.
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In the UK it is in effect compulsory to teach religion, there is even a National Curriculum for it, complete with exams etc. This has been true since 1948 and since then Christian observance has fallen off a cliff. On any given Sunday going to Church is about as common as listening to the Pet Shop Boys, remember them ? We have a state religion, the Church of England which defines it's "worshipping community" as anyone who goes to church once a month, it would do if they were not sick, old, working or busy. That's long fallen below the million mark. out of a population of 68 million. The leader of the right Conservative Party (subtle name huh?) is a black woman who defines herself as 'agnostic' with a party platform that provides legal, safe and free, abortions to any woman that wants one. Of course correlation is not causation, but I strongly suspect that those Christians pushing for the 10 Commandments and other compulsory religious observance, really ain't going to get what they hope for.
It's worse than that Jim...
It's not just about encryption. As a developer I sometimes create a new file format, a good (bad) % of my professional life has being trying to work out how to read/write data formats that were *supposed* be be read/writable, but often took sweat to access.
How many different formats are there to store still images ?
1,000, 2000 ?
"different" here means if my code tries to render it do I get the image, junk or a crash ?
Ditto text, every game saves in a different format, there are 15 different incompatible versions of Excel files, not encrypted but harsh to figure out.
This can be figured out, but it's a chunk of work per application and there are a *lot* of apps these days.
Also, what is a .XLS file ?
Yeah I think it's Excel too, but you can't rely on that, I can choose to save my data with any filename extension I like.
How do you search Excel files for "interesting" content ?
Or my own .xls format that I use for sharing IMs ?
By hand, really ?
This can only be done by hiring a *lot* of programmers and they will never fully catch up.