Foolproof in a sentence as a verb

There is no foolproof system. The same reactions are seen when sites go down.'

I believe if we want to use IT in the future, that this stuff's got to get pretty much bullet and foolproof. And without a credible threat it won't get there.

It is a hard problem and there's no 100% foolproof solution. As in your case, it's nearly impossible to detect click fault real time as the clicks streaming in.

If there was a foolproof way to make > 12% interest, the credit card company would have invested in it instead of investing in you. Pay off your debt.

Obviously, they don't work for everyone, and they aren't foolproof, but I'm of the opinion that they still have some merit.

Carfax is important, but its not foolproof, and its no substitute for a good mechanic's inspection. What I look for is a gap-free history with no dramatic changes in mileage, and no record of fleet ownership.

Other than locking up the code in a SaaS platform there isn't a 100% foolproof way to protect IP so why not embrace the copying and build a business model around reality.

Foolproof in a sentence as an adjective

There are plenty of reasons why a client-blockable overlay could lead to more profit than more foolproof implementations. Some of that strategizing was probably worthwhile.

Also the process wasn't foolproof even for people capable of dealing with technical issues[2]. It isn't polished enough to go in the play store IMO. I don't know WTF the cyanogenmod team was thinking, non-technical people messing with CM will just lead to negative press.

My colleague told him that he had no foolproof way to show that it was the other student that plagiarized the assignment and that the best method to prevent another zero being given was to not allow other students to plagiarize his assignment - if indeed this is what had happened. This solved the problem for that year ...

That's not foolproof, but it's going to foil 99%+ of these kinds of casual searches. Of course if someone really suspects you personally and wants to scrutinize your machine in detail, that's another story, but just random dragnet-type searches of machines at borders are laughably easy to foil, with dozens of different methods, so the stopping-terrorism justification doesn't seem plausible.

There's no necessity to be an authority or have a foolproof solution ready in order to make relevant statements; convincing people this should be some kind of requirement stifles ideas and prevents the advancement and improvement that "hey, there's something wrong here" can put in motion.

Work-sample tests aren't perfect hiring procedures either--nothing is foolproof, and every hiring procedure goes wrong with both "false positives" and "false negatives"--but you can improve your odds of hiring a good worker by using a work-sample test routinely whenever you are hiring. As a job applicant, you can select better rather than worse bosses and co-workers by aiming most of your applications at companies that explicitly use work-sample tests as part of the hiring process.

Foolproof definitions

verb

proof against human misuse or error; "foolproof this appliance"

See also: goofproof goof-proof

adjective

not liable to failure; "a foolproof identification system"; "the unfailing sign of an amateur"; "an unfailing test"

See also: unfailing