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PFS: the endpoint we love and love to hate.

Are we in love with cyber insecurity?

Almost 40 years ago, as a student, I earned extra money by coding and testing programs for the administrative processes of a building hardware company. It was still the time of punch cards. In addition to coding programs in RPG3, I had to design sets of test data and describe the expected outputs to show the system designers and code reviewers that the test sets covered all the decision logic b...

Why are we afraid to love?

The crisis of the couple in today's society, increases the number of singles and causes difficulty in creating stable and lasting relationships over time. The last two censuses of the Italian population show an increase in the number of singles, especially among the young generation. From this figure we have tried to understand the causes of this phenomenon both from the point of view of sociol...

When will we learn to love complaints?

I have just made a complaint to an electricity company. We recently moved house, changed our supplier, and needed to pay off a small final sum to the company. Because of a glitch in their online payment system, it proved impossible to do this. After receiving a threat to send bailiffs round, I finally managed to speak to someone in the debts department, and paid the bill. I also suggested they ...

Why do we love medicines so much?

Humans love medicinal drugs; we cannot get enough. Worldwide, the amount of money spent on medicines annually is growing exponen­ tially and is expected to reach around uS$1 trillion in 2012. So far, there has been no satisfactory explanation for human ‘pharmo philia’, our powerful trop­ ism to medicines. Most studies that have attempted to provide an explanation have focused on classical suppl...